A/N: Sooo, this next chapter sort of covers my favorite scene from the movie, which is why when I was typing it ran kind of long. So I decided to just divided the following chapters into two parts. I probably won't do this often, but for today you get two chapters.
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Katie always thought it was strange how emotions could make themselves manifest physically of their own accord.. She tried sleeping, but it seemed her mind wanted to stay awake. When they finally made it to Jersey for some reason she got nervous. They were moments away from possibly finding out what Shield was hiding and she was nervous. Her mind went to all the possibilities and none of them put her at ease.
The moment they pulled up in front of the camp, everything seemed to get quiet. No one said a word as they stepped out of the truck and walked toward the gated building. Katie glanced over to Steve who couldn't tear his eyes away from the dilapidated building, his shield gripped tight in his hand. She figured that seeing this place, seeing where it all started for him must have been strange.
"How you doing Steve?" Katie asked walking along side of him.
"It's still a little strange" Steve said looking up to the building. "I remember being here like it was yesterday, but here it is ninety years later" he looks back down to Katie. "I guess I will always be a man out of time"
"The file came from these coordinates?" Natasha asked looking back to Steve and Katie.
"Yeah" Steve replied with a nod as he looked back up to the building. "So did I"
"So, how are we going to get on the other side?" Katie asked looking to the tall gate. Both Steve and Natasha look back at her as if it were obvious. When she finally did catch on she turned back to the fence and let out a sigh.
"Don't worry" Natasha said walked up to the gate and beginning to climb. "If you fall, I'm sure you'll die on impact"
"Thanks for those reassuring words" Katie said walking over to the fence.
"Don't worry, I'll be right behind you" Steve said and Katie gave him a nod.
"Just don't get distracted by the asses and I'm sure I'll make it over this fence alive" Katie said as she began climbing the fence. Steve stood there a moment a little shocked by her words before shaking it off and climbing the fence. He found himself trying not to look above him as he did.
The camp was big, and they soon found themselves losing daylight as they searched for whatever they should be finding.
"This is a dead end" Natasha said holding up her cell phone looking for any sign of life the could've been here. "Zero heat signatures, zero waves, not even radio" she looked over to Katie. "Whoever made the file must have made a router to throw people off"
"Possible" Katie replied letting her eyes scan over the camp.
"Or you got it wrong" Natasha said and Katie turned to the woman. "Which is also possible, seeing as you did suffer a head injury recently"
"Natasha-" Steve said his tone full of warning.
"What is your problem?" Katie asked angrily as she stalked toward the woman. "I have done nothing but try to make sense of all of this and all you seem to want to do is bitch and throw around these snide remarks"
"Guys can we not do this now" Steve said walking between the two women. "I get we're all a little tired and frustrated, but-" Steve eyes caught something that shouldn't be. "That's not suppose to be there" without further explanation the man just walks off. Katie and Natasha share a look before following after him.
"Mind sharing with the rest of the class, Steve?" Katie asked as they walked over to one of the buildings.
"Army regulations forbid the storing of munitions within five hundred yards from the barracks" Steve said. "This building is in the wrong place" They walked to the door all searching for a way to open it, when suddenly Steve sent his shield into the lock.
"Who needs a key anymore" Katie muttered as Steve pushed open the door. They walked down stairs, not able to see anything in the darkness. Once they stepped off the last step, they just stood for a moment before Steve found a light switch. The lights flickered on and their eyes went straight for the emblem painted on the wall in front of them.
"This is SHIELD" Natasha said out loud.
"No" Katie replied sarcastically. "What was your first clue?" Natasha turned a glare to the woman.
"Hey, can we focus" Steve intervened once again. He had the feeling he was going to be doing this a lot. "Let's just look around" And so they began to search the ancient bunker.
"This must be where Shield started" Katie said walking up to the emblem on the wall. She shook her head before turning spotting a door. She walked over, Steve and Natasha behind her in to a room. They all stopped and looked up to the pictures that hung on the wall.
"Hey, is that-" Katie looked back to Natasha and Steve.
"Stark's father" Natasha replied.
"Howard" Steve said looking to the picture before looking to the one of the woman beside it.
"Who's the girl?" Natasha asked. Steve simply looked at the picture before turning and walking away.
"Agent Margaret Carter" Katie whispered turning to the one. "But everyone called her Peggy." A look of realization hit Natasha as she glanced over to Steve.
"Wait, how did you know that?" Natasha asked looking back to Katie.
"Hey, you guys gave me the key to all your important files and thought I wouldn't look" Katie replied with a shake of her head before walking over to see what Steve was doing. Katie looked over his shoulder to see wind blowing from behind a book case.
"If you're already working in a secret office..." Steve said before reaching out a hand and pushing the book case to reveal something hidden. "Why do you need to hide the elevator?"
"Maybe not everyone had secret elevator agent status" Katie said looking to the elevator. "Can I get some light here" Natasha pulled out her cell phone and shined it on the lock key pad. "It's old"
"Can you crack it?" Steve asked and both Katie and Natasha looked over to him. "What?"
"Don't say crack" Katie said with a slight shake of her head before turning to Natasha. "May I?" Natasha begrudgingly places her cell phone in Katie's hand. "So SHIELD phones are tricked with some very cool shit-" she looked over Steve. "Sorry for my language Captain, I mean some nifty doodads" she looked back down to the phone as she began typing away. "But they had their limitations, which is why my bright ideas, when it came to them, was welcomed with open arms. Some I started, and didn't quite finish." she turned the phone to the key pad and they all watched as the phone seemed to scan for fingerprints finding the patterned type. Once it found the correct code, Katie reached out and entered the code and soon the doors were sliding open. They all stepped on in silence and once the doors slid closed they felt the elevator move.
"You know you could've just done without the whole back story" Natasha said and Katie glanced over to her. "It was unnecessary and a waste of time"
"Well your face is unnecessary and a waste of time, but do you hear me complaining?" Katie asked.
"Guys!" Steve snapped once again coming between the women. "This stops now. We're a team and that means the bickering and petty insults stop right now" Both women continue to stare at one another before turning to Steve. "I don't know what this is about, but right now we have bigger problems, so how about whatever issues you two have we put them on the back burner, got it?"
"Got it" Katie muttered glancing over to Natasha before turning to face the doors.
"Got it" Natasha replied turning away as well.
"Good" Steve said letting out a tired sigh. The elevator ride was once again silent, until they felt the elevator stop and the doors slide open.
"More dark rooms" Katie muttered as they walked inside. The moment they walked further inside lights flickered on and it seemed that they stepped through time as they looked to the ancient looking equipment. "psychedelic" Katie walked over to the one of the computers.
"This can't be the data point" Natasha said walking over as well and glancing around the room. "This equipment is ancient"
"Not everything" Katie said looking down to a USB port. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the drive from he pocket before plugging it into the port. Soon all the devices came to life. They all looked around to see if something would happen, then suddenly a robotic voice spoke.
They all turned to the computer in front of them.
"Initiate system?" the voice asked.
"And an AI to boot" Katie said walking over to the computer and typing. "Y-E-S" Katie said before looking back up to the screen. "Do you want to play a game" she says playfully before turning over her shoulder. "It's from-" neither look to be in the joking mood so she just shakes her head. "Never mind" Katie takes a step back as something begins forming on the screen. Soon a pixelated face appears.
"Rodgers, Steven. Born 1918" the accented voice says before the camera atop of the screen moved toward Katie. "Chambers, Katherine. Born 1981." The camera moved again, this time aimed at Natasha. "Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984."
"Freaky" Katie mutters looking to the camera.
"It must be some kind of recording" Natasha guessed.
"I am not a recording, fräulein" The recording replies. "I may not be the man I was when the Captain took me prisoner in 1945, but I am." Suddenly a photo appears on the computer screen on the side of a man.
"You have got to be kidding me" Katie mutters as she tilts her head to the picture.
"Do you know this thing?" Natasha asked.
"Arnim Zola" Steve replied as he walked around the computer to see if this was really happening. "He was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years"
"Actually he's Swiss" Katie corrected turning her eyes back to the pixelated figure on the screen.
"Correct you are Ms. Chambers, and Captain Rodgers look around, I have never been more alive"
"Want to tell us how that is?" Katie asked.
"In 1972, I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind however was worth saving on two hundred thousand feet of databanks" The scientist recounted. "You are standing in my brain."
"I'm not sure if I'm impressed or freaked out right now" Katie said looking at the wiring of the computers trying to figure out how this was possible.
"How did you get here?" Steve asked.
"It was Operation Paper clip" Natasha said and both Katie and Steve look over to her. "After World War II, SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic value"
"Of course they did" Katie said turning back to the computer. "And it would seem Zola's value extends way past his life span, though inviting the enemy in your house seems like a very stupid thing to do"
"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own."
"Case and point" Katie said pointing to the screen.
"HYDRA died with Red skull" Steve pointed out still trying to make sense of what was happening.
"Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place" Zola replied, the HYDRA emblem flashing on the screen. Katie turned away, the pieces slowly falling into place.
"I can't believe this" Katie muttered.
"We don't know anything yet" Steve said turning back to Zola. "Prove it"
"Accessing archive" Zola's voice says and they all turned to listen to the story none of them thought they would ever hear.
Tony Stark was not a man who took rejection well. He usually got what he wanted in a timely fashioned. At the moment that wasn't happening.
"Search it again!" Tony snapped.
"Sir, I have searched all of SHIELD's databases that I have access to and there is no mention of Mr. Banks in any of them" JARVIS replied and Tony groaned in frustration.
"There has to be something" Tony said standing to his feet.
"Tony, I think it's time we did what we've been avoiding" a voice says from behind him. Tony turns to see Bruce standing at the doorway. "We're not going to find anything, because SHIELD won't let us. That's never been a problem for one person"
"We tell her and you know what she's going to do" Tony said turning back to the hologram in front of him. "She's going to storm in there and that's what they want"
"You know what I don't get" Bruce says walking beside Tony. "Why?" Tony looked over to the man waiting for him to elaborate the question. "Why do they want her so bad?"
"I don't know" Tony said turning back to the screen. Suddenly a thought crossed his mind. "What if it isn't her they want?" he turned back to Bruce. "I mean they sent someone to find her father, what if he was the one they wanted?"
"I'm not following" Bruce said.
"What if Martin had information they wanted, but was killed before they could get it" Tony replied.
"And now they think that Katie may know what it is" Bruce added and Tony simply nodded. "They've put a lot of effort into this, whatever they're looking for, must be big." Tony looked to the computer as well. "Still doesn't change the fact that she may be the only key to getting Matthew back" Tony looked back over to his friend.
"I know" Tony sighed running a hand through his hair. They both turned at the sound of the dinging elevator and soon Clint walked into the room. "Tell me you got something"
"Nothing" Clint said with a shake of his head. "Everyone back at HQ is moving carefully. With Pierce in charge, no one knows what the hell is going on. Any luck accessing SHIELD'S files?"
"None, they've change up their security since our last B&E. There's no way around it" Tony replied. They all stood in silence just staring up to the blinking "ACCESS DENIED" message.
"We need Kat, don't we?" Clint asked breaking the silence.
"It would look that way" Tony sighed.
Katie turned her back and closed her eyes as Zola's words continued playing in her head. Sometimes the truth was a hard pill to swallow and right now, Katie's brain was just racing.
"The new HYDRA grew." His voice said now making her skin crawl. " A beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed."
"That's impossible, SHIELD would've stopped you!" Natasha interrupted.
"Would they?" Katie asked turning back to them. Natasha and Steve both looked over to her. "C'mon you can't tell me this doesn't make just an ounce of sense"
"All this time, somebody would've know something" Natasha said turning back to the screen.
"Accidents will happen" Zola's voice taunted and suddenly them images of deceased SHIELD members appeared. The faces of Howard and Maria Stark appeared, along with Director Fury. Katie clasp a hand over her mouth when a picture of her father appeared on the screen. " HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum." In anger Steve slams his shield into the screen cracking it, only for Zola's face to appear on another screen.
"As I was saying" his voice says.
"I can't be here right now" Katie said shaking her head. For so long she wanted to know the truth behind her father's death and she thought she knew, she thought she had the answers, but she was now realizing that she didn't.
"Hey" Natasha says and Katie looks over to her. "Remember" It may have only been one word, but Katie didn't miss it's meaning. She had to remember who she was and that she was in control of her emotions. Katie took a deep breath and looked over to Zola's face.
"What's on the drive?" Steve demanded.
"Project insight required insight, and so I wrote an algorithm" replied Zola.
"What kind of algorithm?" Katie asked coming along side Steve.
"The answer to your question is fascinating. " Zola replies. "Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." They all turn just as the doors begin sliding close. Steve throws his shield in an attempt to stop it, but it's no use.
"Not good" Katie says turning to Steve as he catches his shield. "What now?"
"I got a bogey" Natasha says looking down to her phone. " Short range ballistic, thirty seconds tops"
"Who shot it?" Steve asks.
"Does it really matter!" Katie snapped looking for cover.
"Shield!" Natasha answered anyway.
"I'm afraid I have been stalling Captain" Zola's annoying voice taunts.
"Natasha, the flash!" Katie calls and Natasha quickly grabs the USB and pockets it. Steve turns noticing a grate in the floor and reaches down and picks it up, tossing it aside.
"Katie!" Steve calls for her to come over to him. He quickly turns as Natasha jumps into his arms. The last thing he sees before the explosion is Katie running in his direction.
They were lucky. That was the single thought Steve had as her carried a barely concious Natasha down the tunnel that was under the grate. The moment he saw the faint glimmering of light, he knew that he'd found their salvation. He pulled Natasha out of the tunnel and looked around to see that they ended up just outside the camp grounds. His eyes went back down to the tunnel in hopes that Katie had made it, that she was right behind him, but as he stood there, no one came out.
"Katie!" Steve called his voice slightly echoing.
"What's going on?" Natasha's voice nearly startled him. He turned to see the woman trying to stand to her feet.
"Hey, easy" Steve said helping her to her feet.
"Where's Sparrow?" Natasha asked noticing the woman's absence. Steve looked over to her and shook his head before looking back down into the tunnel. "No" Natasha attempted to go back down the tunnel but Steve caught her arm. "She doesn't die like that" she turned her eyes to Steve. "Not after all of this, she doesn't just die in a hole" Steve had to physically pull her away from the tunnel. "Let me go!"
"Natasha stop!" Steve said grabbing her arms and looking down to her. The woman was exhibiting emotions he'd never seen in the seemingly stoic woman. "She's gon-"
"Anybody there!" a familiar voice echoed and both Steve and Natasha quickly ran over to the tunnel. "Steve! Natasha!"
"We're here!" Steve called back.
"I'm stuck!" Katie called back. "Between a rock and a hard place literally!" Steve let out a chuckled before throwing down his shield.
"I'm coming!" Steve called as he climbed into the tunnel. Natasha waited for only a few moments until Steve came back out, an arm around Katie as he helped her out of the tunnel. The moment Katie laid eyes on the woman, a big smile crossed her face.
"What?" Natasha asked.
"You like me" Katie sang as she pulled from Steve's grasp. "Steve told me what you said" Natasha glared over to Steve before turning and walking off toward the the spot where they'd park the truck. Katie and Steve stood and watched the woman retreating. "You do know that if either of us mention this, she will kill us"
"I'm aware" Steve replied before wrapping an arm around Katie before following after Natasha. They walked over to Natasha who was standing in front of the hole in the ground where they're truck used to be.
"Looks like we're walking" Katie said pulling from Steve's grasp. He was about to protest but she held up a hand. "I'm good" and so they began walking along side the road. They'd been walking for a while before they happened upon a bar. And said bar had a parking lot full of cars. "Alright Captain, do your magic" Katie said nearly pushing Steve toward the lot. "I don't think I can walk much longer."
The ride to DC was silent. It wasn't done purposefully. No one had any words after all the information they'd just received. Now it was all a matter of trying to make sense of it.
"Where are we going to go?" Katie asked breaking the silence as they crossed the state line back into DC. "Everyone's trying to kill us"
"Not everyone" Steve said glancing back to her. Both Natasha and Katie share a look before looking over to the Captain. "I know someone who might be able to help us"
That's how they ended up parked outside of Sam Wilson's house. Apparently he was a friend of Steve's who he often seen while jogging.
"You jog?" Katie asked her feet propped out of the window as they waited for Sam to come back. "Why, I mean can you even get into anymore shape?"
"It's therapeutic" Steve replied glancing over to Natasha who remained quiet as she glanced out of the window. Steve turned back to Katie. "Isn't there something you like to do that relaxes you?" Katie smiled about to reply but Steve held up a hand. "On second thought, don't answer that" Steve shook his head before turning back to Sam's house. "Katie, about your father-"
"Nope" Katie said turning to look out the window. Right now she was doing well with bottling up her emotions and didn't want to mess up a good thing. Just then Katie spots Sam just as he was running into the back door of his house. "There he is" They all stepped out of the car and walked toward the house when Natasha's phone began ringing. She pulled it from her pocket and looked down.
"It's Stark" she said before handing the phone to Katie. "I doubt it's me he wants to talk to. Take it, and we'll fill in Sam" Katie nodded before taking the phone and watching Steve and Natasha walk to the man's front door.
"You found me again, Mr. Stark" Katie greeted.
"It's not Tony" Clint spoke.
"Bart, what are you doing at Tony's place?" asked Katie as she turned to see Steve and Natasha step inside the house.
"I didn't know where else to go since going back to HQ isn't an option" Clint said. "Did you find out what's on the flash?"
"Almost, an attempted murder sort of interrupted us" Katie said.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, it's just-" Katie sighed with a shake of her head. "Bart, we may not have found out what's on the flash, but we did find out something. Something I'm not comfortable saying over the phone"
"Where are you, I can come to you?"
"There are eyes on Tony and probably you at the moment. Right now it's not safe" Katie said. "Look as soon as we figure out the next play I will call you to keep you in the loop"
"Alright"
"So what's been happening since we've been gone, anything new?" Katie asked and Clint didn't say anything. Though the silence seemed to be answer enough. "Bart, what's going on, did something happen?"
"Yeah" Clint said clearing his throat. "I'm just not sure how to tell you"
"With words is usually effective" Katie replied. Clint was once again silent which on fueled Katie's nerves. "Bart, you're freaking me out, just say it"
"It's Matthew, Kat" Clint said and Katie froze. "He's missing. We're not exactly sure-"
"SHIELD has him" Katie said as a statement, not a question her voice taking on a different tone. This one low and very serious.
"We think so" Clint replied. "Listen Kat-"
"When?"
"Uh, maybe twenty-four hours" Clint replied. "Kat, before you do something-"
"Twenty four hours?" Katie asked. "And I'm just now being informed about this?" she shook her head as her fingers began twitching at her side. Her heart was pounding in her chest at the thought of her little brother in danger because of her.
"We wanted to be sure, we-"
"You do not keep these things from me!" Katie snapped. "I don't care about what you need, because what I need it to know where my damn brother is!" she ended the call and everything in that moment stopped. She closed her eyes trying to take deep breaths hoping that it would help, but images of what could be happening to her brother flashed into her mind. That's when she felt it. Her blood running cold as the thoughts kept coming. She snapped open her eyes and turned to Sam's house climbing the stairs and just opening the door, not bothering with wasting anytime knocking or even waiting for an invitation.
"Who are you?" Sam asked turning to Katie who stood there looking around the room, as if searching for something.
"She's with us" Steve said noticing the look on Katie's face. "Something's wrong?"
"Do you have a computer?" Katie asked turning to Sam.
"Uh, yeah." Sam replied. "Why?" he looked over to Steve and then Natasha wondering what was going on right now.
"How protected is it?"
"Protected?" asked Sam with a shrug. "Normal I guess."
"That's not good enough" Katie muttered turning and heading right back out the door.
"Katie, wait!" Steve said almost running to catch up to her. He grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him. This close he could see her pained expression. "What's going on, what did Stark say?"
"It wasn't Tony, it was Bart" Katie said looking up to Steve's eyes. She would never say out loud, because it would sound weird, but she like Steve's eyes. They were honest and that was rare, especially with the people she found company with. "Matthew-" she shook her head. The words were playing over and over in her head, but for some reason couldn't just come out of her mouth. "My brother is missing" She turned back to Steve. "SHIELD has him"
"Are you sure?" Steve asked.
"Was I there when it happened, no" Katie replied before looking over his shoulder to Natasha who was walking over. "But ask our resident SHIELD savant here. In the middle of us trying to discover what SHIELD is hiding under their bed, my little brother disappears, is that coincidence or capture tactic" Steve turned and looked over to Natasha awaiting an answer as well. The assassin simply let out a sigh and looked back to Katie.
"Most likely she's right" Natasha said.
"Thanks and good day" Katie said before turning but Steve quickly grabbed her arm, but she snatched it away. "Will stop doing that"
"Yeah, as soon as you start using that brain of yours!" Steve replied. "If your brother is being held by SHIELD, then you waltzing in there to get him is what they want. It's a trap and I may not know much about this time, but I think voluntarily walking into a trap is still considered stupid-"
"Idiotic" Natasha asked.
"And you're neither" Steve said looking to Katie. "Look, I know you're worried about your brother, but if their intentions really are to capture you, then they won't hurt him"
"Yes they will" Natasha said and Katie looked over to her. "She knows they will. They know she knows they will, which is what they're hoping will fuel her rage and cause her to storm the castle"
"We have to play this smart" Steve said looking to Katie. "If what they don't want is for us to uncover Zola's algorithm, then that's what we do"
"Or we push too hard and they kill my brother" Katie said with a slight shake of her head before turning to Steve.
"Do you trust me?" Steve asked and Katie let out a sigh as she turned away from him. "I know things are not going the way we thought they would, but we are a team." She turned back to him. "Just give us a chance to fix this the smart way"
"What's the smart way?" Katie asked.
"That's what we were about to figure out" said Natasha before turning and heading back to the house. Steve looked back to Katie who simply gave him a nod before following him into Sam's house.
At first she thought a shower would at least make her feel better, but it didn't. Her head was still in that place and she didn't know how long she could hold on to rationality. They were in the kitchen, Steve, Natasha and Sam talking, while Katie only half listened as she stood by the window a mug of untouched coffee in her hands.
"So..." Natasha says glancing over to Steve. "The question is, who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?"
"Pierce" Katie says not turning to either of them. She had her suspicions of the man, and knew that there was something up with him, but it wasn't until this moment that she began to realize what it was.
"Who just happens to be sitting in the most secure building in the world" Natasha said.
"I wouldn't say the most secure" Katie muttered looking down to her cup. "A little time and I could get you in through the front door"
"What we don't have is time" Steve said and Katie turned back to him. "Look we know he's not working alone. Zola's algorithm was on the Lumurian Star."
"You know who else was on that ship?" Katie asked sitting her cup on the table and walking over to them.
"Jasper Sitwell" Natasha said.
"I should've known there was something up with that little shit" Katie muttered. "He kept his head so far up Pierce's ass, I'm surprise he can even walk"
"So the real question is, how do three of the most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?" Steve asks glancing over to Katie and then over to Natasha.
"The answer is ,you don't" Sam answered unexpectedly. They all turned to him waiting for an explanation when he suddenly tossed on the counter in front of Steve. "Call it a resume" He wanted in and apparently he had the credentials to back it up. Katie had once again zoned out as she turned back to look out the window. Her mind no longer thinking of what could be happening to Matthew, and now developing a plan in case all of this goes south.
"Where can we get our hands on one of these?" Steve asks and Katie glances back over to him. She walks around the counter and looks down to the photo. Her eyes widened at what she saw.
"The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall." Sam replied and Katie looked over to him. Steve simply looks over to Natasha who shrugs.
"Shouldn't be a problem" Steve says before looking to Katie who shakes her head and drops the file back on the counter. "Katie-"
"It's time" Katie said turning to Steve. "All of this, it's good, it's calculated, makes tons of sense, but it takes time. Matthew does not have time."
"What do you think will happen?" Natasha asked and Katie looked over to the woman. "You trade yourself for him and they just let him walk?" Natasha walked around the counter and planted herself in front of Katie. "I know emotions cloud logic, but right now you have to fight it and think. There's only one way we get your brother back and that's finding out how deep this goes"
"Katie, she's right" said Steve. Katie turned away when a thought came to her. She turned back to Steve and nodded.
"Right, you're right" Katie said turning to Natasha. "You should be going to Fort Meade" she looked over to Sam. "Where's your computer?" Sam just lifted a hand and pointed in the other room. Katie nodded and walked into the other room.
"She's up to something" Natasha said and Steve looked over to her.
"We'll keep an eye on her" Steve said before looking over to Sam. "You're going with Natasha"
"Aright, let me grab my jacket" Steve said turning back to Natasha.
"Watch her" Natasha warned before turning and head outside. Once Sam left as well, Steve walked into the other room to find Katie sitting behind Sam's computer.
"What are you doing?" Steve asked watching as Katie typed furiously.
"Accessing Sitwell's calender" Katie said as she stopped typing and read the screen.
"I thought you said Sam's computer wasn't safe" Steve said walking behind her. "Won't they track this"
"I'm using a ghost function, allowing me temporary access" Katie said grabbing a pen and paper and writing down the address. "Lunch with the Senator Stern" Katie said writing down the address, before typing again and letting the screen shut off. She stood to her feet and handed Steve the paper. "We know where he's going to be so just have Natasha and Sam meet us there" Katie was about to walk past Steve but he caught her arm.
"I can see it you know" Steve said and Katie turned to him with a look of confusion. "So much stuff being thrown at you and you're holding it in. You're cracking and sooner or later its going to break you"
"If I haven't broken by now Captain, I don't think it's going to happen" Katie said pulling from his grasp. "We're wasting time we don't have, so let's stop with all the touchy feely crap that's happening" And with that Katie stalked off.
A/N: It's happening. They're messing with her family and that only brings a different side to Katie. She's angry and like the captain said she's "Cracking"
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