Chapter 2

Steve's Torment and Reflections


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SHIELD Headquarters

New York City, New York

United States of America

2011

Captain Steven Rogers of the United States Army's 107th Division's Howling Commandos had just woken up to be experiencing a living nightmare. And if he did, he would've wished to be able to live the rest of his life out with Peggy. He hadn't expected to survive the crashing of the Red Skull's plane into the Arctic Sea's below-zero temperature, only to have 'lived' about seventy years. He last remembered talking lightly, for the purpose of not upsetting the romantic love of his life , about needing her to give him a raincheck for her proposed date. He could sense her great sadness and he could feel his own sadness too.

He'd first encountered her at Camp Lehigh, Pennsylvania when she'd appeared on the field, introducing herself as the agent in charge of operations for the Strategic Scientific Reserve, which their designated unit of Project Rebirth candidates was part of. Steve had never met a female military officer before, but boy when he first set eyes on her he did he think she was a pretty, classy dame. He felt very sorry for her that she had to experience the disrespectful, irreverent harassing of one Gilbert Hodge, all due to her gender. He'd observed Hodge going so far as to imply that he could and wanted to make some amorous moves on her, seemingly without regard for whether she was interested or not. But she wasn't the type of lady to just take it, and he'd been full of admiration when she let the oversized bully have it by socking him right in the face.

He most genuinely thought Peggy was irreplacable to him. Unlike all the women he'd previously met in his life, Peggy actually saw past his major physical limitations and liked him before he became a superhuman, gaining incredible strength compared to ordinary mortals. She'd realized Steve was virtually incomparably courageous, virtually incomparably altruistic, and had a keen (military and otherise) mind, which contrasted with his perhaps underdeveloped body. This qualities, besides the greatly enhanced strength over a regular human being, were what him the. He knew that SHE, more than many other people, was responsible for helping him believe in himself and achieving the Captain America feats that he'd become legendary for. Steve thought that she was perfect for him and that she thought he was perfect for her. He'd been really excited that a gal he thought so well of seemed to feel the same way, a fact that she'd sonfirmed completely when she kissed him for a good few seconds in the back of speeding vehicle.

Right now, Steve didn't think he could continue living a meaningful life at all. He was truly a broken man. The Red Skull had already cost him a continued life of comradery with Bucky, and now he'd cost him a lifetime of deep mutual romantic love with Peggy. Steve would continue being Captain America, but between missions in this foreign new century, he planned to shut himself in his room and not concern himself with any other matters.

Any time now, he was about to furiously barge right into the SHIELD director Colonel Fury private office and demand he hand over the information on Peggy's and condition that Steve had asked to see soon after the designated agency personnel defrosted him. They'd insisted he "calm himself down thoroughly" before they allowed him to view the information "which he may become even more upset to know."