Hello audio monkeys! Almost midnight here in San Diego so I'll make this brief. Finished the first chapter. Now need to write the second chapter. Talks a little bit about what Wanda and Steve are going through and talks a little bit about the Civil War. Enjoy!

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Chapter 1: The Roads We Travel

Thirty days later

Location: Outside City of Atlanta, GA

"Looks like we hit a car jam." Wanda looked at Steve with a confused expression and looked back towards the scene. The freeway is filled with cars, full of desperate people trying to get into the city for safety. Steve told her some SHIELD agents were trapped within the city and couldn't get out. They were on a recon mission for loyal HYRDA agent Brock Rumlow aka Crossbones. Wanda remembers him. They fought him during the whole Civil War almost a year ago. Steve almost lost his life, Tony almost killed Steve's best friend and a couple of good agents who they worked personally became causalities. Steve took it personally. Wanda was heartbroken as the loss that fateful day. Her life has been turned upside down since the year of the Civil War. They meet new heroes along the way. Daredevil, Power Man, Jessica Jones, Black Panther, Storm, Tigra, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, The Fantastic Four and many others. She wonders if any of them are safe and alive. The thought of them being the undead made her sick to her stomach. She shook her head of her depressing thoughts and focused on the task. Keeping the children safe, her little brothers and sister. She must keep them safe. No matter what. "Wanda?" Steve's voice snapped her out of her thoughts and looked at him with a startled look. "You still with me?" She nodded and rubbed her forehead with the palm of her hand.

"I'm sorry, I'm just a little out of it." Wanda whispered to him and lightly shook her head. "It's been a long drive that's all." Steve nodded understanding what she's feeling. She lost Clint and Laura, the closest thing for her as parents. Though, she still has Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel, but it's still not close enough to fill that void in her heart. He knows she's thinking the same thing. She hears him let out a light sigh and put the truck in parked. Wanda looks behind the seat to see Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel fast asleep. A twitch from the corner of her mouth slightly twitched upwards. She felt Steve's hand gently rest on her thigh and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. He was gently rubbing her thigh to comfort her and to keep the nerves at bay. Voices of others started to surround the freeway, people started getting out of their cars to see what was going on and mothers staying behind to attend to their children. Wanda sighed, leaned her head back against the head rest and closed her eyes.

"I'm gonna start asking around." She felt herself nod without opening her eyes. "See what's going on." She cracked her eyes open to look at Steve and a sigh escaped her lips. "Stay here with the kids. Keep the doors locked and don't unlock them until I come back." She nodded, reached for his hand and light squeezed it.

"Don't take too long." Wanda whispered to him. He gave her a small smile, leaned towards her and gently placed a kiss on her soft red lips. She kissed him back very eagerly not knowing if this would be their last. The kiss lasted for five seconds when Steve pulled away.

"I'll be back in ten." He whispered to her then she took her hand that was resting on Steve's and cupped his cheek adoring him with admiration.

"Make five." With that, Steve opened the door and got out of the truck. He closed the door and Wanda locked the doors from the inside. She watched her lover disappear into the crowds of people as she pulled out a glock 17 firearm. Wanda sighed in relief knowing she can protect herself and the kids. Though she does have her powers, but doesn't want to risk anyone knowing who she is. Steve included. There both staying low key, telling anyone they run into that they are married with two kids and an 18 month newborn. The people they have run into have believed the story, but there were some that didn't believe them and almost took advantage of them. Especially with Wanda's powers.

Though, they were able to get out of the situations easily, but they still have to be on guard especially with the children. Wanda will do anything to keep Steve and the children safe. It's what Clint and Laura, her adoptive father and mother would have done. Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel are now her responsibility. They are her children now and she will do anything to protect them.

Steve Rogers has been walking down the freeway to talk to any of the hundreds of survivors for answers. He got nothing. No one seems to know what's going on at the entrance of Atlanta. The army stopped letting people in the city hours before they arrived. Steve knew it was a mistake to be in this traffic jam. However, he wanted to go into the city to save those loyal agents. He had lost communications with them a week ago. Are they still alive? How will they get out of the city if they can't even get in it? A hopeless sigh escaped his lips and started to turn around to walk back to the truck where his lover and the children are waiting for him to return.

Steve desperately want to get those agents out of the city and bring them back to the New Avengers facility, but he knew those loyal agents would want him to keep going on their journey. Even if it means leaving them behind. They were trained to take on whatever is thrown at them, but a zombie apocalypse. He knew they would want him to continue on. Steve doesn't like leaving good men and women he's worked with behind. However, in some circumstances some agents don't come back alive. The thought that entered Steve's mind made him feel very grim and sorrow of sadness. He stopped in his tracks and took one last glance at the city of Atlanta. His bright blue eyes stared the lightened up city, buzzing with scared survivors being protected by the U.S. Army, saying goodbye to those loyal agents that he was honored to work with.

"Stay strong, agents." The words whispered against his lips. "Stay alive." With that, he turned around and made his way back to the love of his life and her children she cares deeply about. As he walked by various cars and survivors, a smaller body collided with his legs and made an oomph sound. Steve looked down and saw a little boy with dark brown hair, blue eyes, pale peach skin with freckles scattered on his cheeks. The boy was wearing a brown shirt and tan Khaki pants, white socks and old run down sneakers. Steve kneeled down to the boy's height and gave him a small smile. "It's not safe to run around like that." The boy nodded and gave him a fearful look. Before Steve could say another word, a woman's voice rang through the air.

"Carl!" The boy and Steve snapped their heads forward and saw a woman who looks to be in her mid thirties running towards them. Steve stood up as the woman with long brown hair with a panic look runs up to the boy name Carl.

'Must be the boy's mother.' He thought to himself. She put her hands on his shoulder and kneeled in front of him. "I told you to stay with Carol and Sophia." Her stern voice rips through the air and boy Carl's bottom lip began to tremble.

"Sorry mom." The boy whispers and his mother, but her face softened and pull her boy into a bone crushing hug. Steve smiled at the moment as he pictures it being Wanda with Cooper and Lila while holding baby Nathaniel to her chest. The moment was interrupted by the woman clearing her throat to get his attention. He looked at the woman who was now standing up with the boy in her arms.

"I'm sorry if we caused you any trouble." Steve just gave a small smile and shook his head.

"No trouble at all ma'am." The woman smiled at him and shuffled her feet a little. "Um, I need to get back to my wife and kids. They must be wondering where I am." The woman's face slightly fell as he mentioned Wanda as his wife and the kids as their kids. He knows she must have found him very attractive, but he was already taken. Steve only cares about one woman and that is Wanda Maximoff-Barton. Before he could take another step away from the mother and her boy, his ears perked up when he heard the engines of what appears to be military helicopters. He looked to the darkened skies and saw six military helicopters flying towards the city. His smile grew wider at the thought of reinforcements, but that smile disappeared as he watched those helicopters released missiles on the city. Steve's eyes grew wide of shock as he watches the city of Atlanta burn to the ground.

Wanda's eyes were slowly closing, but jerked awake at the screams of panic and fear. Her eyes were wide and looked behind the back seat to see Cooper and Lila wide awake and Nathaniel loudly wailing of being woken. She watched Cooper take of his seat belt and crawled over to his baby brother. He starts to soothe with him with comforting words to keep him calm while Lila looks in the diaper bag for some baby food. Wanda sighs in relief knowing she has help from her brother and sister. She looks back at the crowded freeway of cars and what she saw was a shock to her. The city was on fire. Screams of people filled the night skies, running away from the burned city, cars trying to find their way out of the traffic jam, but only to be bumping into one another and the snarling of the undead started to make their appearance on the freeway.

"Oh my god." The words fell from her red lips as she watches people running away from the undead. Some were able to break their way into the cars and started feasting on the unlucky ones. The men started shooting the undead, but the noise just attracted more of them. Wanda had no time for panicking. She must focus on the kids' safety, but her mind thought of Steve. He was still out there looking for answers and probably was making his way back to her when this all started. She also realizes that he has no weapon on him, but highly doubts that. After all, he is Captain America. Shield or no shield he was able to defend himself.

Though, she cannot help, but worry about his safety and hoping e doesn't do anything stupid that would get himself killed. Her grip tightened on her gun and her finger resting on the trigger if any of those rotten corpses would start breaking into the truck. A loud thud made her yelp in surprise as she raised her gun to the driver's side of the truck.

"Don't shoot!" A familiar voice reached her ears, eyes widened in relief then turning into anger that she almost shot Steve. She quickly unlocks the car and scrambles into the driver's seat, shutting the door and locking it.

"I could have shot you!" She shouted at him.

"And thank god you didn't!" He shouted back. Their argument was short lived when a corpse started banging on the window on Steve's side of the truck. "We need to get out of here!"

"What was your first thought!?" Wanda snapped as Steve turned on the engine of the truck and put it in drive. Steve stomped his foot on the pedal and the truck went full throttle on the corpse. She looked at the back seat to see if the children were okay. "Cooper seat now!" The boy didn't hesitate and threw himself in his seat and buckled up. "Cover yourself up with the blankets!" Both Cooper and Lila immediately covered themselves up with blankets along with Nathaniel so they wouldn't have to see the horror right out their own windows. Wanda looked back in front as Steve started to drive away from the traffic jam and following other vehicles that made it out safely. "Why are we following them?" She asked.

"They found another road that leads away from the city." He spoke with a firm voice. Her eyebrows furrowed together in confusion.

"What about the agents?" She questioned and he didn't answer right away. The silence confirmed of what his mind was going through. The agents would have wanted him to move on their journey without them. If they didn't make it out of the city in time of the attack then they would be dead in seconds. Wanda closed her eyes as a tear runs down her face and pressed her red lips in a thin line.

"They would have wanted us to go on." She heard him whisper and she merely nodded. Upon opening her eyes, she noticed that they were driving on the dirty road that lead somewhere near the woods. The cars in front of them had started to stop and make a huge circle around a small quarry that they had just entered. Being the last vehicle to arrive, Steve parked right behind an RV, put the truck in park and turned off the engine. People started getting out of the vehicles and started migrating in the middle of the dirt quarry. Wanda glanced at Steve with a questionable look.

"I don't like this Steve." She looked back at him and showed him fear in her eyes. "Something doesn't feel right." Indeed something wasn't right. The aura around the people seemed to be good, but a few has a glimpse of darkness inside of them.

"I know, but we need to figure out what happened and why." Wanda nodded and reached for his hand. Steve gently grabbed hers and laced their fingers together. He lightly squeezed her hand for comfort and she squeezed back. They would need to be on high alert. Not letting their guard down for anything. The group seems like a nice bunch, but if Wanda says is true about some having a glimpse of darkness, then they were not going to take any chances of trusting the group. Only time will tell.