I hope you like this chapter, I'm really sorry if Steve's POV seems rushed but we have pretty much all seen the movie so why rewrite what we already know, enjoy!

Chapter 7

Alex's POV

"That's the last of them." I say loading the last of the boxes into the truck.

Today is the day the we move to D.C for the next six months. Clint and Natasha flew out yesterday and Steve and I are driving out today with the box's.

"You sure?" ask Pepper.

"Yeah." I say

"If you forgot anything just call and I'll ship it to you." she says.

"Thank you Pepper." I say hugging her.

"You guys sure you don't want us to come down there and help?" ask Tony.

"I think we can manage." says Steve hugging Tony.

"And Clint and Natasha got there okay?" ask Bruce.

"Yeah, they say there place is great so we shall see." I say.

"Drive safe guys." says Tony.

"We will, thanks guys. See you soon, don't get into too much trouble." I say.

The three of them wave to us as we get into the truck and drive off.

"I miss Tony and his snarky comments already." I laugh.

"Six months, that's it." he says grabbing my hand.

"That could go by really fast or really slow." I say.

"We'll have fun." says Steve smiling at me.

"At least we have Clint and Tasha."

"There is always that."

The four hour drive goes by slow and by the time we pull up to Clint and Tasha's place I'm exhausted. From all the packing the last few days the stress is starting to catch up with me. I have a slight headache as well but I push it off. We quickly unload Clint and Natasha's stuff at their apartment and then drive over to where Steve and I's apartment is. We get our stuff unloaded before plopping down on the couch.

"Now we just have to unpack it all." I sigh.

"Later?" Ask Steve putting an arm around me.

"Later." I agree.

"Should we order food?"

"Go for it."

"You okay?" Ask Steve.

"Headache." I feel Steve put his hand on my forehead. "What are you doing"

"You're warm."

"I don't get sick."

" Mhm, where is the thermometer?" Ask Steve getting up.

I sit up and look at him. "Don't bother looking for it I'm not sick."

"Found it." He says grabbing it out of the box. "Open." he says sitting back down next to me.

"This is pointless."

"101."

"It's wrong."

"Keep telling yourself that but you're sick."

"ugh." I put my head on his chest.

"You going to let me take care of you?"

"I don't really have a choice do I?"

"Nope."

"Then why are you asking."

"Trying to be nice."

Two hours later I'm barley awake on the couch and Steve is unpacking boxes.

"Just wait until tomorrow." I say.

"I need to get something done, all the boxes are bugging me."

"Alright, I'm going to bed though."

"Love you." He says kissing my head.

"Love you too." I say smiling.

When I wake up the next morning I feel a thousand times worse than I did last night. My throat hurts, my head is pounding, and my body doesn't want to move. I put my pillow over my head and five minutes later I feel Steve sit on the bed. He starts to lift the pillow off my head but I slam it back down.

"Don't even think about it Rodgers." I grumble.

"So you're not feeling better?"

"Nope."

He lifts the pillow off my head and I glare at him. "If looks could kill." He says smiling.

"I can make that happen." I say.

"You're feisty when you're sick."

"Arguably worse than Natasha." I mumble.

"Do you want anything?"

"Coffee."

"You got it."

He leaves and I sit up and redo my ponytail before taking some medicine and picking up my phone. I have a message from Natasha so I call her back.

"Hello?" She ask picking up the phone.

"Hey." I say.

"I was just checking in, you don't sound good."

"I'm sick."

"Oh that's fun." She laughs.

"Yeah well if you want in just come over I could hook you up."

"Tempting but I think I'll wait."

Just then Steve walks back in and hands me my coffee. "Thank you."

"Steve?" Ask Tasha.

"Brought me coffee."

"Tasha?" Ask Steve.

"Checking in, you know what I'm just putting you on speaker." I say into the phone.

"You guys need anything?" Ask Natasha.

"Nope. Where is Clint?" I ask.

"On a run, left me to unpack." She laughs.

"But you're so good at it." I laugh.

"That's what he said before he left." She says.

"I was supposed to meet him." Says Steve.

"You just remembered didn't you." I laugh.

"Yeah..."

"He'll get over it, serves him right for leaving me here." She laughs. "I'm gotta go but I'll talk to you guys later, feel better Alex."

"Bye Nat." I say.

I hang up the phone and take another sip of my coffee before setting it on the nightstand and leaning on Steve's shoulder.

"Unpacking can wait right?"

"Sure, half of its done anyway."

"You're the best."

"I try."

Two days later I'm back to normal and everything is unpacked. Steve is in a meeting and Natasha and I are training new recruits much to our dislike. Clint got sent on a mission and should be back tonight.

"Go again." I say to two of the agents sparing. "You can't wait for your opponent to attack, you need to act fast."

Natasha is across the room with two others and rolls her eyes at me, they just don't listen.

Это фигня" I mutter under my breath.

"You want to try that in English?" I hear someone say behind me. I turn around to see Steve and I smile at him.

"This is bullshit, they never listen."

He comes and stands next to me. "How'd you two get stuck with this?"

"They thought brining us in would whip them into to shape, no such luck." Just then the one I was critiquing gets thrown on the mat...again...by a girl. He thinks he will win cause he's a guy. "You're done, help me out here Cap." I saying walking into the mat.

"You sure?"

"Get your ass out here." I look to the agents. "You can't always rely on your muscle and strength. Captain Rodgers over here is obviously much bigger than I am but that does not mean he beats me every time."

"You ready?" Ask Steve.

"Always am." I smirk.

Steve comes at me and I dodge him before kicking him to the ground. He gets back up and grabs my arm and slams me to the mat. I kick his leg out from under him and falls right next to me. He turns over to roll in me and puns me but I slip out from under him and push him to the ground before sitting on him. By this time everyone has stopped what they are doing and they are looking at us. I get off of him and he gets up and no one says a thing. Natasha is smirking in the corner.

"And that is why you can't rely on strength all the time, class dismissed." They all leave and I let out a sigh of relief. "Thank god that's over."

"I might actually kill one of them." Groans Natasha.

"You guys done?" Ask Steve.

"Yeah, why?"

"I want to take you somewhere." He smiles.

"Natasha you good?" I ask.

"I'm fine, I need to go home anyway. You guys have fun."

The two of us leave and walk down to the parking garage to Steve's bike.

"How was the meeting?" I ask on the elevator.

"Fine, boring."

"Sounds about right." I say kissing him. "Where are we going."

"Well first we are going ask to the apartment but then we are going to see Peggy."

"Really?"

"Yeah, figured it's time for you guys to meet each other since we are engaged and all."

"You might be right." I laugh.

"When am I not." He smirks.

"Well..."

"Ouch."

"I love you."

"I love you too." He laughs.

An hour later we are walking into the nursing home were Peggy is, I'm not going to lie I'm a little nervous.

"When's the last time you saw her." I ask grabbing his hand.

"Right before you joined the team, we have talked on the phone though, she knows about you."

"All good things I hope." I say nervously.

"Of course." He stops and looks at me. "She is going to love you besides I don't need her approval. I just want you to meet her, she is important to me and you are too." He says kissing my head.

"Let's do this." I say smiling at him.

"That's my girl."

We take the elevator up to her floor and when we walk into her room she is sitting in the chair by the window. She looks up and smiles at me.

"You must be Alex." She says.

"Yes." I say shyly.

"I've heard lots about you, it's nice to finally meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too."

"Steve why didn't you bring her sooner?"

"Been a little busy." He laughs rubbing his neck."

We sit there talking for two hours. Peggy tells me stories about Steve and I tell her about my family or at least what I remember. When we are done I'm sad to leave. Walking out to the parking lot I have a huge smile on my face.

"Hey smiley what gives?" Ask Steve.

"I really liked her." I say.

"I can tell, I'm glad you liked her. Now what do you say we go get some dinner."

"Sounds great."

I'm starting to actually like D.C.

Steve's POV

Two months in D.C and things are going well. We get called on different missions which keeps us busy so busy intact that I feel like I never see Alex. We try to talk on the phone but it doesn't always work. I get home late one night after being gone for a week to see Alex asleep in bed already, the part I find cute is that she is hugging my pillow. I kiss the top of her head before taking a shower and get ready for bed. When I open the bathroom door my pillow is back in its place. I lay down and Alex wraps her arms around me.

"Welcome home." She says kissing me.

"Did I wake you up?"

"I heard the shower running, I missed you."

"I missed you too, how was your mission with Tasha?"

"It was fine, we got back earlier."

"At least we have the day off tomorrow which means we can spend the whole day together." I say.

"Those plans better include sleeping in."

"Of course."

"Good, I'm going back to sleep now." She mumbles.

"I love you." I whisper.

" я тебя люблю тоже." She whispers.

I love when she speaks in Russian. She usually only does it when she is angry or really tired but I still love it.

A few days later the two of us are sitting in the kitchen when her phone rings.

"I'm so done with this." She says before picking it up. "Agent Hayes...how long?...I'll be in as soon as I can." She hangs up and drops her phone on the table before putting her head in her hands. "I'm leaving for two weeks with Clint."

"We just got back."

"I know but I can't say no I wish I could but I can't."

"I'm sorry."

She looks up at me and smiles. "It's okay, I chose the job. I guess I should go pack."

She gets up from the table and I quickly clean up before going into our room to see her just throwing stuff in a bag.

"Need some help?" I ask.

"No but thank you."

Her mouth says one thing but I know she is frazzled. I grab her bag of guns out of the closet and grab the gun from under her nightstand and put it in there before packing too much amo in her bag. She zips up her other duffle and looks at me.

"Thank you." She says.

"No problem, you ready?"

"Yeah."

I grab her bags and load them in the car and we both get in. We drive over to Shield and Clint and Natasha are there when we get there.

"You ready to go?" Ask Clint.

"Yeah." Says Alex. She turns and looks at me. "I love you." She says kissing me.

"I love you too, be careful."

"Always am, you too."

"Of course."

She goes to say bye to Natasha and I look at Clint.

"Take care of her."

"You got it Cap, you got Tasha?"

"Of course."

"Thank you."

"Never a problem." I say.

"You ready to go bird brain?" Ask Alex.

"Yes..."

"Bye soldier." She says kissing me one more time.

"Bye."

The next day I'm out for a run. There is only one other person out running, I keep passing them.

"On your left." I say for the third time. The guy just laughs. When I'm done I go up and introduce myself.

"Sam Wilson." He says.

"Steve Rodgers."

"I figured since you just ran three miles in about an hour."

"Slow morning." I laugh.

My phone beeps just then and it's Natasha telling me she is picking me up. Two minutes later she pulls up and I get in the car.

"Can't run everywhere." I laugh.

"Of course not." Laughs Sam.

I get in the car and Natasha smirks at him.

"You're such a flirt." I laugh as she drives away.

"It comes naturally."

"Heard from Clint?"

"No, they are probably fine. I try not to worry."

"I try doesn't mean I succeed."

Things start to go downhill from there. Two days after our mission Fury shows up in my apartment telling me Shield has been compromised. We are talking through his cell phone.

"Hydra has compromised Shield."

"What about agents out in the field?"

"I assume you mean Hayes and Barton, I personally moved them to a safe house that no one knows about. Both are pretty beat up but are being looked after."

"What do we do."

"Just act natural."

The next day he is killed in a car crash. Natasha and I find a flash drive with stuff on it pertaining to Hydra but shield turned on us. Saying we went rogue and can't be trusted so we go under cover. After going to a hydra base that explodes the only place I know to run to is Sam.

"We need a place to crash." I say when he answers the door.

"Come on in.

Natasha and I get cleaned up before sitting in the living room with Sam.

"Steve the guy who shot me, was that..."

"It was Bucky." I say still miffed that my best friend is alive. Alive but brain washed.

"What's going on?" Ask Sam.

"Shield was taken over by Hydra." I say.

"And you two are wanted?" Ask Sam.

"Yup." Growls Natasha.

"Well who is Hydra and who is Shield?"

"The only ones we know for sure are Nat's husband Clint and my fiancée Alex and our handler Maria. But Maria doesn't have much leeway right now and Alex and Clint are off the grid, they were on a mission. All I know is that they are in a safe house somewhere."

"So this is all going to hell."

"Pretty much." Says Natasha.

"I'm here to help." Says Sam.

"You can't be serious." I say.

"I haven't known you long but I know a good guy when I meet one. We gotta stick together so yes I'm here to help."

"Guess we better think of a plan then." Says Natasha.

How do I get myself into these situations?