Author: Black Dragon on the Rocks/animealam

Rating: T

Pairing: Mentions of one sided Steve/Peggy, Past Tony/Pepper, Clint/Laura (mentioned)

Summary: Steve Rogers had many secrets, some of which a few people from his past found out. Like the fact he was no where near 24 when he enlisted, or that he was a wizard. A powerful and well trained one.

There was, however one secret he protected above all else, he was a Time Traveller born in the year 2000. A future where, as far as he knew, there were no wizards anymore.

Depressed and overwhelmed by his loses and finding himself back to a future where he had no one, Steve sought a permanent way out, only... it did not work quite like he was expecting. Instead of the teenager he was, he ended a four year old.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers or Harry Potter, I'm just borrowing them. They belong to their respective owners.

Warnings: Suicide Themes, Triggers for suicide, Time Travel, Dimension Travel, Younger Steve, DeAged Steve, DeAged Harry, Wizard Steve, Parent Tony, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Abuse, Abusive Dursleys, Bad Ginevra, Violence.

Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Jarvis, Thor, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Pepper, Happy, Rhodey, Original Characters, mentions of Bucky, mentions of Peggy Carter, mentions of Howard Stark, mentions of Colonel Phillips, mentions of the Howling Commandos.

Timeline: Pre Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger, Avengers, Post Avengers, Pre Iron Man 3, Harry Potter Post TDH. I'm using the MCU timeline as a reference.

Author's Note: Oh my God! I really was not expecting the response to this fic that you guys had. It's absolutely amazing!

Thank so much to everyone who had commented, followed, and favorited the story.

For those who asked, this was never intended to be a one shot. I really can't write one to save my life... well, I did write only one, an Inuyasha fic, which is posted on ff . net under the user alandrem (in case any of you have ever read my Inuyasha fanfiction).

Anyway, the response to SAS was so great that I decided to post chapter two earlier, though it won't be the norm. I planned a two weeks interval between chapters to give me a chance to write more chapters, and work on my other fics. Not just the posted ones, but also the others I have and which are over 25,000 words.

This chapter is short, and might be the normal lenght for this story. The first one was so long because I needed to get a few things explained and dealt with.

Total size without notes: 3,351

Keys:

"Speaking aloud."
'Thoughts'
Magic (Spells, Potions, Items)
«Language»Foreign language.«/Language»


Chapter 01

The past two months, Tony had kept himself busy with the reconstruction of the tower, repairing his older Iron Man suits, and building several others. After what he saw when he crossed the portal, Tony knew Earth was going to need a lot more than six Avengers to protect it should any of their outer space neighbors come knocking at their door.

Tony had already been dealing with a lot of things. He still was not recovered from Afghanistan, Stane's betrayal, and the palladium poisoning. Then he added sacrificing himself to protect New York City from their own government's idiocy. It added stress to an already stressful situation, and his relationship with Pepper had not survived it.

She knew about his issues, so Pepper had not entered a relationship with him with her eyes closed. Unfortunately, she never understood just how much his experiences in Afghanistan had truly changed him.

Tony had not hidden it from her, even if he did not let the rest of the world see it. He was not willing to step down from being Iron Man. How could he after seeing just how large the Chitauri fleet had been?

They thankfully broke up on relatively good terms. Early enough to avoid causing each other irreparable damage. It still hurt, and being as good as he was at dealing with 'feelings'—meaning not at all—Tony did as was the norm for him. He buried himself in the tower's reconstruction and his work in the lab.

For her part Pepper chose to move out of the penthouse, moved all the way to Malibu. Stark Industries Headquartes were located in Los Angeles, so it made sense for the CEO to live there. Pepper actually owned a house over there, as she had always been as sensible with her money and investments, as she was with his or Stark Industries.

The distance was because Pepper believed it was healthier for the both of them, and he had to grudginly admit it was, even if he did not like it. Specially because he had prepared a floor at the tower for her. Pepper did not outright reject it, and in fact would use it when she had to travel to New York City on Stark Industries business, but it would not be her home on a permanent basis.

Tony really should have seen their romantic relationship was not going to go anywhere, even before it started. The interest had been there, as was the love, but having his eyes opened in such a brutal way in Afghanistan had changed him way too much.

Being Iron Man came to be an integral part of who he was, a vital part. Unfortunately Pepper had never approved of him being Iron Man, She hated it actually, and she had dropped hints about him quitting the super hero gig every now and then. When she thought she could get away with it without a fight.

Tony had not wanted to see it. He was actually a pro at deluding himself, at not seeing what he had not wanted to. Instead, he made excuses in his mind for her disapproval. The encouragement he got before the whole Loki debacle—the only time she had actually done so—had been a one time thing. He had to thank Agent for it, because he had been the one to ask for his assistance, and because he truly looked worried about the situation.

It was after the Battle of New York when Pepper finally said the words aloud, no longer hinting at it. She did not even give him a week to somewhat recover from the battle. He had been hurt a bit more than he admitted. That had probably been the worst row of their eleven months old relationship—lasting so long with a partner had already been a record for Tony, one he was not surpassing with her, because it was over the same day.

Pepper actually demanded he quit being Iron Man and an Avenger. He had done his duty, saved New York City as well as the world. There were other heroes now to take the mantle of protectors, and they should be enough to keep everyone safe. There was no need for Tony to keep risking his life.

Unfortunately for their relationship, he was not willing to stop being a super hero. There were still a lot of his guns still out there, in the hands of terrorists, hurting innocents as well as those he had designed them to protect.

Besides, he knew more than anyone five Avengers—four really, since Thor was off world, and there was no guarantee he would be back—were not enough. Not even close. They had been VERY lucky that day.

Besides, Tony had not been lying when he said he WAS Iron Man. It was never just the suit but who he became after Afghanistan, and his need to atone for his mistakes, for the death and destruction the weapons he created brought upon innocent people. Learning what his weapons were actually being used for had changed him too much, even if he did not show it often, preferring to keep his masks in place.

After the break up Pepper still remained CEO of Stark Industries, it was something Tony was not willing to change. She still was someone he truly trusted, besides Pepper did an excellent job, and understood where he wanted to go with the company.

Tony remained the Director of the R&D Department, the major share holder, and a member of the board with controlling interests, so Stark Industries was still his. He just did not manage it anymore.

Bruce had remained at the tower as well. He was enjoying having his own lab, and the freedom to once again do science to his nerdy heart's content. He was also enjoying a respite from being hunted by General Ross. Tony was not sure what Fury did, but the crazy bastard had left Bruce alone, at least for the time being, which was good in his book.

Besides, the Hulk had gotten great publicity for his work against the Chitauri. He was a favorite with the kids now, which puzzled Bruce no end, and made Tony laugh. He had also kept track of the other Avengers, Romanoff and Barton had gone off the radar for a month, but they got back to work at SHIELD.

Tony offered them room and board at the tower whenever they were in New York, and the ninja assassin twins had dropped by three times so far and stayed a couple of days at most. Barton told him his accommodations sure beat the small rooms SHIELD provided for their agents.

Thor was still in Asgard, and Tony did not expect him to be back anytime soon. They had to repair the Bifrost first, which he now knew was what Asgardians used to travel to other realms. While he could not keep an eye on Thor, Tony kept an eye on Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, and Foster's intern—a young woman named Darcy Lewis.

With the others somewhat accounted for, only Rogers was left. To his immense shock, and against all odds, the Capsicle had gone completely off the radar. He had simply vanished without a trace the day Thor and Loki left with the Tesseract.

Tony would have expected the disappearing act from both Barton, Romanoff, and even his Science bro, but not from a guy from the forties. Because from what he read in the Cap's file, he practically had no knowledge of technology or the 21st century. The fact he could not find the Capsicle, not even with face trace, was driving him insane to be truthful. But he was not the only one on the same boat. Fury was as well.

As Tony had expected, SHIELD had bugged just about everything the Cap owned, which happened to have been provided by the spies. From his apartment, to clothes, to his bike, to the man himself. Although the bugs they placed in him shorted out for some unexplainable reason as soon as the Cap had regained consciousness.

The soldier had not set foot in his apartment since Thor went back to Asgard. Rogers had not touched the bank account SHIELD set up for him. The bike had disappeared, and the Capsicle had not taken anything from the apartment except for his shield. The only gadgets he aparently kept were those Tony gave him, but he had not used them.

Tony had hard wired JARVIS to the Stark-Phone, and Stark-Pad he gave Rogers—they were from his personal stock, not the commercial version. He would have tracked him with them, but the man had not turned either gadget on even once since he got them.

He had underestimated the soldier once again, well not just him, Fury and his pesky spies had as well. Clearly the Capsicle was quite resourceful, smarter, and more adaptable than they had given him credit for. As proven during the battle, not everything good about Rogers came out of a bottle.

He was getting worried though. Such a complete disappearance was practically impossible in modern times. Not even Bruce had been able to completely disappear. SHIELD always knew where he was. Neither had the ninja assassins been able to completely go off the radar.

He had known—or at least strongly suspected—Barton and Romanoff were somewhere in the Midwest because that was when JARVIS lost them, and found them a month later . He also knew where they were sent during their missions, but no Rogers so far.

Tony had gone through the full file SHIELD had on Captain America, not the small bits the pesky spies had given them for the Avengers Initiative, and it only added to his... concern. He could tell the Capsicle had definitely NOT been fine after he was thawed, although he had hidden it well. Perhaps too well for the assholes keeping watch on him.

From the reports he read, Tony wondered just how stupid some SHIELD agents were. Rogers had been acting like nothing was wrong, like he had not just awakened sixty-six years in the future. Like he had not lost everyone and everything he cared about. That was not normal, and the Capsicle's behavior supported that conclusion.

The agents reported he was adapting faster than expected, was taking to technology well, went out running about twenty miles every day, and tended to spend most of his nights at the gym pounding on punching bags. He broke at least three every night. To them he seemed to be adjusting well. Idiots! They should be left to Natashalie's tender mercies.

After reading the reports, and comparing his experience with the nuke, to crashing a plane in the Arctic, Tony realized Rogers was still in shock, and probably suffering from a mild to severe case of PTSD. Much like he himself was, even if he did not admit it to anyone but JARVIS.

Expecting to die, hell actually being dead for a few moments, left him quite messed up. Rogers was probably the same—he had practically committed suicide when he decided to crash that plane after all—but was clearly a better actor than anyone gave him credit for, because he managed to keep a normal facade.

"Sir," JARVIS voice brought him out of his reverie. Tony had been checking one of his new Iron Man suits designs before he got lost in thought.

"What is it, JARVIS?" He asked curiously.

"Captain Rogers turned on his Stark-Pad two hours ago," he began.

"Why didn't you inform me earlier, J?" Tony frowned. "And where is he?"

"I have located Captain Rogers here in New York City, at a cheap ill reputed motel in one of the worst areas in Brooklyn. He is apparently alone. I was going to inform you right away, Sir, but I found strange the reason why the Captain turned his tablet on in the first place, so I chose to observe."

"What's he doing in a motel? He has an apartment in the nice part of Brooklyn; and what's he doing with his tablet that got you curious?" He frowned. It was decidedly odd... unless the Capsicle knew there were electronic bugs in his apartment. After being off the radar for two months, Tony was not putting it past the younger/older man.

"Captain Rogers began writing a letter. One he clearly plans to e-mail you. It is scheduled for delivery early in the morning."

"He's sending me an e-mail?" He kept frowning. What the hell was Rogers up to? "Do you have access to the motel's cameras?"

"I have," JARVIS confirmed. "The man who checked into room 201 matches the Captain's height, and similar build although he is much thinner, at least forty pounds thinner." His creator frowned and looked concerned. "However I can not use face recognition."

"Why not?" What could the Cap have done to defeat face trace?

"He is wearing a cap low over his face, large dark sunglasses, he carefully located each camera, kept his head down, and has apparently a very artistic tattoo on the left side of his face. It is done in dark ink, and the shadows make it impossible for me to..."

"A tattoo?" Tony interrupted. His eyes had widened at JARVIS' words, because that clearly pointed out to the Cap knowing how to beat face trace. The tattoo though... That did not sound like the man. "It can't be Rogers, JARVIS. Perhaps someone stole the Stark-Pad?" He could not wrap his mind around the idea of Rogers having a tattoo, and on his face to booth.

"You hardwired me to the gadgets, Sir, and they activate through finger print recognition. Let me assure you Captain Rogers is the person who activated it." He sounded rather indignant. "I also suggest you put on a suit, and get to his hotel room as fast as possible. The letter he is writing is a very long suicide note and his Will."

"WHAT?" He was shocked, but wasted no time in going to the penthouse and the spinning rims. "What the hell? Why would Rogers do something like that?"

"In the letter the Captain explains he lied in his enlistment form about his age. He was thirteen, nearly fourteen years old when he enlisted. He has just turned sixteen this week," JARVIS informed his creator.

"Fuck, JARVIS, he's a kid!" Tony exclaimed shocked.

No wonder the boy was so messed up as to think suicide was the only option, when there were always other alternatives. He should know, as Bruce had not been the only one wishing to push up the dasies, Tony had been there himself a few times.

"Besides, however did the Capsicle manage to fool so many people into believing he was in his mid twenties?" Well, he had looked twelve before the Super Soldier Serum. But Rogers acted like an adult, heck, he appeared to be the most mature and responsible amongst the Avengers, with the exception of Natashalie, and perhaps Bruce.

"The letter also states Captain Rogers was born in the year 2000. Apparently he is a wizard, the only one born after what he calls The Extinction."

The information about the existence of something called the Wizarding World was amongst the encrypted files obtained from SHIELD, as they had been part of the SSR's archives. So Sir and Doctor Banner were aware of them, and what they had been capable of, at least as much as the wizards had been willing to reveal to the SSR. Magical humans ceased to exist after late December of 1944. They had all died in a flash of blue-green flames. Except for Captain Rogers it seemed.

"What the fuck, JARVIS?" He asked shocked. "That can't be right. The wizard part while strange I can believe, but he can't have been born in the year two thousand. He'd be twelve years old now, not sixteen! And if he was indeed born then, how the fuck did he end in the 1940s?"

"It seems Wizards had an apparatus which allowed them to Time Travel, usually no more than twenty-four hours," JARVIS explained. "Captain Rogers accidentally activated one such contraption, but this one was capable of travelling back years, while escaping from an abusive house hold.

"He had been severely injured by his foster parents, and miscalculated something he calls Apparition, which he explains is a way to teleport."

"The Capsicle can teleport?" That was... amazing, but... why had he not escaped the plane before it crashed?

"Apparently, Sir. I am cross referencing the information he provides in his letter, and indeed Frank and Melissa Mason were arrested the day of the invasion. They are charged with the murder of nine of their foster children, and the disappearance of a tenth.

"There was an anonymous call made from a pay phone in the disaster area of Manhattan, very close to the tower actually. This person reported they heard a child screaming in pain and begging for his life at the Mason family home.

"The child in question was a prodigy, who won the Maria Stark Foundation grant twice in a row when he was four and five years old. He is the creator of the programming language used for the Stark-phones' operating system."

"What? But... that's too young!" He exclaimed in shock. That was... more than He had been able to do at that age. Then added, "what else can you tell me?"

Normally it was adults who won the Maria Stark Foundation's Grant, with the rare teenager, but a child so young? Who also created a whole programming language? He found it amazing. Tony was already in the suit, and had taken off in the direction of the motel. He really hoped to arrive on time to stop Rogers.

"The mother died shortly after the child won the second time. The boy's name is listed as Steven Grant Rogers Cahill, and in his case, Rogers is not his surname. His parents were Joseph and Sarah Cahill, who were clearly hardcore Captain America fans.

"The child was home schooled by tutors paid by the grants. He has a bachelor from an online University in Applied Web Technologies with a Minor in Strategic Intelligence, and a Master in Cyber Security.

"He was offered several scholarships, one of them by your alma mater, Sir. The foster parents at the time, a Nichols family, rejected them. Young Mr Cahill was moved too many times, mostly because he was a very sick child... the same list of illnesses as Captain Rogers. But there was always the suspicion of abuse."

"Do we still have time?" God, the Capsicle was abused as a kid? His mind was reeling with the information.

He could barely believe Rogers was a genius. Somehow it was easier to think he was a wizard, because he had not seen any signs of the soldier understanding technology. So the Capsicle was clearly a superb actor. Then his mind came to a screeching halt.

If Rogers was a wizard, why had he not used magic to fight Loki? They had needed all the advantage they could get. Then the Time Travel also added to the information overload. An eleven year old, and badly hurt kid had ended in the 1940s. How the hell did he survive?

"He has stopped writing, Sir, but we might still have time. Captain Rogers explains he could not use magic during the Tesseract crisis, which incidentally is what wiped out all of his kind, because he had no wand. He also feared he would be experimented on by SHIELD."

"A valid fear," Tony admitted.

He would not put it past S.H.I.E.L.D. to kidnap the Capsicle, and keep him hidden just so they could experiment on him. He knew more than one scientist, as well as at least one high ranking military asshole, were after Rogers in hopes of replicating the Super Soldier Serum.