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Chapter 6

Beginning of History

The one downside to having to get rid of Jupiter was that Tuck, Marcus, and herself couldn't all stay in their private bunks anymore. If the damn thing was still running, the other downside would've been that they couldn't actually use their jet. But since it was dead, the only thing they could do was take everything useful from her that they could, and leave nothing that could change the course of history. They ended up destroying her before they left in the truck that Phillips had provided them.

Arriving at Camp Lehigh was strange. At least this time Anna didn't have to sneak in. She drove up to the gate, showed the newly provided SSR badge they had given her, and they allowed her access after instructing her which two tents to report to.

After dropping off Tucker and Marcus, Anna parked the truck, making sure it was completely secure and locked so nobody could get inside, she grabbed her back and went inside her own tent. There were two cots set up, one of which already had some personal belongings set up.

So I guess I have a roommate, Anna concluded as she made her way to the empty bed.

A little while later, after Anna had sorted her things where she wanted them (which was really just putting her bag under the bed. They were only going to be at Camp Lehigh for a week anyway. Plus, if there was any word on their traitors, then she had to be ready to move in a moments notice.

There were footsteps right outside her tent. Anna turned just as Colonel Phillips, and one other individual walked in.

A figured brunette with part of her hair pulled back stepped in. A bit of a shocked look on her face when she saw Anna. It didn't appear that she was upset to see her, it was just a very familiar look because she recognized how young Anna appeared. It was something she was very much used to.

The woman beautiful woman before her was none other than Agent Peggy Carter, the legend herself. Carter was one of the most prominent agents that the Strategic Scientific Reserve had ever had, not just during WWII. She was actually the one that saved Dr. Erskin from Hydra, and it was because of her Project Rebirth ever took place. Without Carter, they wouldn't have had Captain America. She was even the one that managed to create SHIELD after the SSR. It was no wonder it was called SHIELD with how her relationship with Steve went…

To say she was the best director SHIELD had ever had would be a dishonor to the woman.

"Agent Carter, this is," Phillips paused, it almost looked like it pained him to say Anna was an agent, "Agent Anna Carr. She'll be rooming with you. She'll be working to find two highly dangerous fugitives, though she's willing to assist with anything related to Project Rebirth." That was about all he could say, and being there was clearly uncomfortable for him. "I'll leave you two to get acquainted."

Carter came in slowly, and sat gracefully on her bed. She was debating what question to ask first, it seemed. "So, where are you from?" Carter asked.

"New York, but I've lived all over," Anna said.

"Is that so?" Carter asked, she genuinely sounded intrigued.

"Yes, Ma'am. England, Russia, Italy, France, California…"

"My, you have gotten around," Carter said.

Anna chuckled. "Yeah, I guess you can say that," she said. "It's nice to meet you though. Honestly, I've heard a lot about you, Agent Carter, and just for the record, you're a big inspiration."

"Thank you," Carter received, though she seemed a tad uncomfortable with the compliment. "It's refreshing to have someone so-"

"Like minded around?" Anna finished for her. "Trust me, I get it."

"I like you, Agent Carr," Carter said.

"Oh please, call me Anna," she insisted.

"Well, Anna, I'm about to go address the candidates for Project Rebirth, if you care to join me," Peggy offered.

"Now that, I've gotta see," Anna said.

Anna followed Peggy out of their tent, and through the camp. It was weird being there again, and no breaking in, to be honest. She was a little jumpy that someone might shoot her thinking that she was breaking in again. She's just walk a bit closer to Agent Carter…

Eventually, the two got closer to a group of men halfazerly standing in a line, and an officer with a box of clipboards joined them. They shatted with one another as they waited for their SO to come over and address them. And that SO was Agent Carter. Anna smirked. This was going to be great. Watching the Agent Carter in action. It'd be legendary.

"Recruits, attention!" Peggy ordered.

Near the middle of the line was the smallest recruit. His clothes and helmet were far too big, and he looked so out of place. But he stood as tall as he could, and tried to be the best he could be, which was heartwarming. Anna smiled, and when Steve saw her and furrowed his brow in confusion, sent him a friendly wink.

"Gentlemen, I am Agent Carter," she introduced. "I supervise all operations for this division."

"What's with the accent, Queen Victoria?" one of the men asked. "I thought I was signing up for the US Army."

What a disrespectful little asshole, Anna thought with a glare. Nobody speaks to the Agent Carter that way! Nobody!

"What's your name, soldier?" Carter asked professionally.

"Gilmore Hodge, Your Majesty," he answered with that cocky smirk of his. Anna was just glad Bucky's smirk wasn't as creepy as his…

"Step forward, Hodge!" she ordered. He did so, but not before looking to a couple of his other soldiers with a smirk. "Put your right foot forward."

Again, he did what he was told. But there was a smart ass comment to go along with it. "Hm. We gonna wrassle?" he asked. "'Cause I got a few moves I know you'll like."

What a fucking perv! Anna gaped. It was no surprise when Agent Carter decked him one right in the nose. Anna had to cover her mouth, and try to pass her laugh off as a cough, as Hodge fell back onto the ground.

"Agent Carter!"

Anna and Carter turned to the familiar voice of Phillips. Anna nodded in greeting and crossed her arms over her chest. He was hopping out of a jeep with an older man in a suit, with a nice hat on. Her mouth fell open. It was Dr. Erskine. The Dr. Erskine. God, she was in total history geek heaven!

"Colonel Phillips," Peggy greeted.

"I can see that you are breaking in the candidates," he observed. "That's good." Phillips joined them, putting his hands on his hips. "Agent Carr," he greeted with a nod. She just returned it as he turned to address the soldiers. "Get your ass up out of that dir and stand on that line at attention til someone come and tells you what to do," he ordered.

"Yes sir!" Hodge said, getting back in line as he tilted his head back to try and stop his nose from bleeding.

"General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons, but they are won by men," Phillips quoted. "We are going to win this war because we have the best men." Philips hesitated as his eyes landed on Steve. He glanced over to Erskine to see if he was serious before going back to his speech. "And because they are gonna get better. Much better. The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man. At the end of this week, we will choose that man. It will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier. And they will personally escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of hell."

This is gonna be one interesting week...

"Physical files are such a pain," Marcus groaned as the three headed towards the canteen.

It was finally lunch time, and the three were starving. Anna knew what to expect from the food in this time period because of how big of a dork she was, but the other two were in for a rude awakening when they got slop thrown on their plate. After living off Anna's modern concoctions from their periods food, they were not going to be impressed…

"Hey, at least it's something to go on. We have access to everything they have on Hydra," Anna said. "Locations, known associates, the works. It's a lot more than we had before. I'm a history buff, but I don't have an eidetic memory."

"I do," Tuck muttered.

Anna and Marcus rolled their eyes. "Well, what good did that do us? You didn't read all the crap on WWII," Marcus said.

"Not interested," Tucker shrugged.

"If it's not mechanical, there's no interest. It's no surprise his only lay had been from a-"

"I really don't want to hear the end of that…" Anna interrupted.

Marcus opened the door for and Anna, then Tuck walked in, followed by the "polite" SHIELD agent. After getting stares and cat calls from various observers scattered around the canteen, the group got their food and took the farthest seat in the back. Anna wanted the most seclusion she could get so they could continue talking business.

"So, have you guys found anything yet?" Marcus asked, stuffing his face with the food. His expression was displeased, but food was food to him. He'd eat pretty much anything. "'Cause I've found jack shit."

"Not yet," Tuck answered.

"It's only been half a day though," Anna said. She was being as optimistic as she could. The boys needed it, and if she kept thinking that way, maybe she's actually start to believe it too. But Anna was a realist. So doing this for them was extremely difficult for her. But she'd it as long as she could. "We'll find them. It's just a matter of time."

"Time is something we don't have," Tuck muttered.

"Debby Downer," Anna accused.

"Amen to that," Marcus said.

Anna had eaten worse in Russia, but the food there at Camp Lehigh was a very close season to being the worse food Anna had ever eaten in her entire life. She was almost tempted to start making food for them again, this time in the truck. She worried too much about starting a fire, but it was almost worth that risk.

The door opened, and Steve walked in. There were several snickers from a couple of men in the middle of the canteen, right next to the aisle. As Steve walked by, one of the men stuck their foot out in the way of Steve. Steve, however, did not see it and the result ended up with Steve sprawled out on the floor. This ended with a majority of the occupants laughing at the tiny man.

Embarrassed, Steve quickly got up and grabbed his food. He looked around for an empty place to sit alone. Anna sat up straighter and waved to Steve for him to join her and her men, which confused most people there. Why would one of the only two women on base go after the scrawniest punk there? It was a very obvious answer, at least, to Anna it was.

"Hey, Steve," Anna greeted once he was sitting with them. "You've met Marcus. This is Tucker. Tuck, this is Steve."

"Hi," Steve introduced. Tuck just nodded back. Steve only pushed his food around, a bit lost in thought.

"How are you holding up, Steve?" Anna asked.

"Well, I'm still breathing…" he muttered, glancing back over to the table where the guy had tripped him.

"Hey," Anna said, "If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you're already above them. Don't let those guys get to you. You're ten times the man they are."

"Thanks, Anna," Steve muttered. "Can I ask you something?"

"Why am I here?" Anna asked, knowing that that was his question. Steve nodded. "I work for the SSR."

"What do you do, exactly?" he asked cautiously.

"That's a bit more complicated to explain," Anna answered. "Just know I'm here to help with whatever I can."

"Well, I guess it's nice to have a friendly face," Steve said with a small smile.

"Yeah," Anna said. "So Bucky shipped out? I take it he doesn't know about Project Rebirth?"

"No," Steve answered. "We parted at the Stark Expo last night."

"Yeah, he told me that," Anna said. "I ran into him so I accompanied him for a while."

"He talks about you alot, you know," Steve said.

That was intriguing. Anna knew he flirted with her a lot, but she didn't know he actually talked about her a whole lot to his best bud. It was one thing for him to talk about her after the first time they had meet. After all, she was a complete stranger, and she had gone out of her way just to try and make him feel better. But why continue to talk about her. They had only seen each other a grand total of four time, and one of which Steve hadn't been aware of until Anna just told him.

So it really spiked her curiosity. "What did he say?" Anna asked.

"That's you're nosy," Marcus said. Tucker rolled his eyes and smacked him on the back of the head. "Ow! I'm just being honest!"

"He was really disappointed that he couldn't go out with you last night," Steve informed her. "It's not everyday he gets turned down. And it's even less it's someone he really wants to go out with."

But he doesn't even know me! Anna thought. She new better than to say that outloud though. It was inconsiderate. "Well, Bucky's interesting too." That he was. Anna just couldn't wrap her head around the workings of Bucky Barnes.

"I'm glad you're here though," Steve said. "It's nice to have a friend."

"Of course," Anna said. "And I'll always be here for you, Steve. Don't ever forget that."

Agent Carter had asked Anna to accompany her while they observed the candidates on their first run. It was a stretch of five miles, and Carter, Anna, and their driver would be parked half way to see how they were doing. Carter had some paperwork to fill out, but for the most part, she had just invited her to go there to get to know the only other female Agent.

It wasn't everyday Carter got another woman like her to work with, so there were a lot of questions she wanted to ask.

"Tell me a little about yourself, Anna," Carter piped up, glancing up from her paperwork.

The breaking of the silence caused Anna to glance up from a file with some small maps with known Hydra locations marked in red. She was still working on finding O'Hagan and Dadney, while Tuck tried to fix the containment unit Anna had broken. Marcus was on retrieval duty. Whatever Tuck needed for repairs, Marcus was sent out to get.

"Uh," Anna muttered, just like most people do when asked that. There was so much she could tell, but her mind went black. "I'm a cancer?" she offered, partially as a joke.

Carter took it as such, and laughed. "What type of work do you do, exactly?"

"Primarily covert undercover work, but recently I've done more covert team missions. Recover, extraction, you know, things like that," Anna said. "I've dabbled in a bit of everything. Then again, I've had more than enough time to. I was kind of born into the field."

There wasn't any time for Carter to respond, because after Anna finished, the candidates started to come into view and earshot. "Pick up the pace, ladies! Come on. Double time! Come on, faster. Faster! Move! Move!"

There was no way they wouldn't have heard the drill sergeant. His high, obnoxious voice was ear piercing. Anna could barely take ten minutes of listening to him yell. She would die if she had to listen to him a whole run. She could just feel the migraine coming.

"Squad halt! That flag means we're only at the halfway point. First man to bring it to me, gets to ride back with Agents Carter and Carr! Move, move!"

Anna didn't really care about the others. After all, Steve was her friend, and he was all she had to focus on as of right now. He was a bit of a ways behind the group, standing hunched over with his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breathe. For a small asthmatic, he wasn't doing too bad right now, but like the Sergeant said, this was only the halfway point.

"Come on, get up there. That's all you've got? This army's in trouble. Get up there, Hodge. Come on, get up there. Nobody's got that flag in seventeen years. Now fall back into line. Come on, fall in! Let's go, get back into formation.

As the rest of the men got back into formation, all defeated and tired, and longing for the company of a woman, Steve continued to pant as he walked up to the flagpole, and examined it. Anna smirked. You could just see a plan forming in that blonde head of his.

"Rogers, I said fall in!"

Steve just bend down, took the pins out of the base of the pole, which allowed for it to tip over. The metal clanged against the dirt ground, and the camp flag rested there at foot level. Steve walked over, unclipped the flag and handed it over to the Sergeant.

"Thank you, Sir," he added before he hopped into the back of the jeep. He tipped his helmet to Peggy and Anna, and the driver started the car.

"Nice going," Anna complemented, handing over her canteen of water.

"Thanks, I'm dying."

"I can see that," Anna laughed.

Younger Steve is a riot, she thought, shaking her head as they headed back to camp.

So no luck finding the traitors so far, but in the meantime, we get to enjoy her interacting with everyone! Hope you liked the first meeting with Peggy. Hope you guys liked it, let me know what you thought in a review.

Thanks to the following for their reviews on the previous chapter:

abstract0118- You'll just have to wait and see.

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FelixFelici02- And there will be so many more feels to come, I assure you of that. When I sit here planning things out I actually tear up and cry...So you have that to look forward to!

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