Whew! I am sorry for some of the delays everybody. I am getting ready to begin all of my research papers while working part time, so I'm a little tired these days. I still find time to write, though and love it.

I won't lie, I have some fiction I am writing again, which is awesome because I stopped writing ages ago thinking I sucked. But because I've been feeling so great about my writing on fanfic, and because you all send me great reviews, I am not only in the process of creating a new Grimm fanfic, I am also in the process of writing two new fictions! So awesome! If you want to read excerpts from my fiction or know what I'm writing about and my style, let me know. I'm interested to see if it's any good.

Thanks for being patient and I hope you enjoy the bonding between Sadie and Steve.

"What are you doing here?" Tony asked as he let Steve in.

Tony looked him over, "You look like you're caught up to speed on our latest trends." He remarked.

"You look like you haven't decided on one." Steve smirked. Tony grumbled about being woken up by a 90 year old child.

Steve chuckled.

He was wearing what the kids these days called American Eagle Outfits. He preferred this brand. The clothes represented America and were somewhat close to his style from the 40's. He'd take it.

He finally cast aside khakis and wore jeans instead. And although he was attached to his plaid shirts, he found people were less likely to stare at him if he wore it as a jacket instead over a t-shirt. Today though, he played it simple with a t-shirt and his signature leather jacket.

He followed Tony into his house and looked around, "Impressive place." He said.

"Yeah, it's okay; it's been remodeled a few times, but can't complain." Tony said leading him to the kitchen.

"Sorry to wake you up." Steve said.

Tony shrugged, "So what brings you around here? Please tell me it's not some stupid SHIELD thing again."

Steve took a seat at the table while Tony made coffee, "Actually I've been roaming around, and trying to…make sense of everything and my journey's brought me here."

Tony nodded, "Nice of you to wanna visit me."

Steve grinned, "Actually it's more a visit for Sadie than anything."

Tony narrowed his eyes, "Tryin' to steal my kid? Get in line, too many people have tried and failed on that end."

Steve laughed, "Nah, I feel bad I missed your party, thought I'd stop by instead."

Tony nodded, "You missed quite a shindig. Barton pissed off Romanov."

Steve laughed, "Wouldn't surprise me."

"Good morning Tony, please tell me that's coffee!" Pepper said coming down. Tony didn't turn around in time to warn Pepper that Steve was here.

He heard a shriek and caught a glimpse of slender legs running away. He had a feeling she had only come down in her lingerie.

Steve blushed and glanced at Tony awkwardly.

"Get your own." Tony threatened.

"Get my own what?" Steve asked.

Tony rolled his eyes.

Sadie sat with everybody at the table and ate her pancakes. Nobody questioned her about last night. She was relieved it was forgotten. She'd lied and said she slept better but the truth was she hadn't slept a wink after the nightmare. She felt tired, but shrugged it off and pretended to be just fine.

"Ethan used to wet his bed." Polly told her to make her feel better.

"MOOM!" Ethan whined, "She's so embarrassing!"

"Polly be nice, Ethan, use mature language around the girls." Shanna said, cooking more pancakes.

The girls giggled, making Sadie feel better.

One by one the girls started leaving, thanking Polly for inviting them.

Sadie was glad she was the last one to leave; she didn't know if her dad would pick her up or Pepper.

She groaned when she heard her dad come inside, thanking Shanna and Harley for inviting Sadie and apologizing for the nightmare scare.

He came in and Polly grinned at him, Ethan stopped playing his video game and stared in shock.

Sadie grabbed her stuff and hugged Polly, "Thanks for inviting me."

"You're welcome! See you on Monday!" she said and glared at Ethan, "You tell anybody you're a dead man!" she threatened and winked at Sadie.

Tony led her to the car but didn't say anything. She crawled in and he sped off. They were silent for a while until he started driving every which way and eventually brought up what she knew he'd been skirting.

"You've been having nightmares a lot lately." He mentioned.

"So. I said I was fine, let it go." She said, looking out the window.

He sighed, "Sade's, it's either you tell me or you tell a shrink."

She looked up, shocked.

"Pepper thinks you need to see a doctor. And I'm starting to think you need to as well." He admitted.

"I'm not seeing any more doctors!" she said, indignantly.

"Then spill. What's going on?"

"I don't want to talk about it. It's over. I'm done." She said, sitting back.

"Sadie-"

"I said I'm DONE!" she screamed and ignored him.

He sighed and decided he was obviously getting nowhere. He finally just gave up and drove home.

…..

Sadie walked inside, feeling annoyed. She had every intention of going to her room to be alone until she saw Steve sitting at the table chatting with Pepper.

Sadie smiled widely and ran to hug him.

"STEVE!" she squealed and he reached down to hug her, "When did you get here?" she asked.

"This morning." He said, as she sat down, "How was your first sleepover?" he asked.

Sadie smiled and giggled as she told him about all the cool stuff that had happened and Pepper was impressed at how patiently he listened as she jabbered on about her new school, her bike, and dancing.

Tony finally came up and shook his head at Pepper. She frowned and knew that meant Sadie was going nowhere with the nightmare thing.

Pepper excused herself and knew she had no choice but to call Dr. Hill for a Psychologist.

Sadie finally took a breath and asked Steve where he'd been and what he was doing.

Tony listened in and listened as Steve recounted his days riding on his motorcycle exploring America. He'd been to different libraries, stayed in a million different places, checked out the museums and cities hoping to find some things that hadn't changed. He had also been learning and catching up on technology, music, and culture, hoping to make sense of everything he'd left behind. It wasn't easy, but he found he was enjoying the journey. It was helpful in many ways, though it was proving difficult in other areas. Libraries were now packed with computers and fewer books, museums were using more technology than actual people, kids were using slang Steve didn't understand. It became a culture shock when he visited new places, realizing how different parts of the country were and how many different kinds of people lived here.

Sadie was intrigued by his adventures and was very amazed at how much one person could miss after being gone for so long. She thought she'd had it rough being out for two months before getting her chest piece, but Steve had years to catch up on.

He finally took a sip of his lukewarm coffee and asked her how her new bike was.

"Daddy and I are gonna put on hand brakes." She said proudly, "I have trouble pedaling backwards to stop it, it confuses me."

He nodded, "If you're not too busy today, I should teach you my favorite past time."

"What's that?" she asked.

"Baseball."

"I've never played!" she said, excitedly.

Tony rubbed his eyes, he really wanted to talk to Sadie about her nightmares and maybe get her handbrakes installed today, but maybe she just needed a day to forget everything.

He shrugged, "Don't wreck the house." He ordered and Steve led Sadie outside.

…..

All Steve could do was use a baseball and glove he'd brought and find a stick thick enough to use as a bat. They played in Tony's enormous driveway and Sadie had fun trying to swing at the ball. Steve decided to show her a few pointers with the bat, letting her be the pitcher, only he ended up breaking a window to Happy's car, causing both him and Sadie to hightail it inside.

Sadie giggled and her Dad came upstairs then and raised his eyes at Steve, "If you're going to show my daughter how to play a sport, don't use such cheap crap." He said and led them downstairs and had Jarvis make a holographic baseball setting, to which each of them ended up playing for two hours, causing Tony and Steve to fight over the score for another hour after that.

"Sir, I believe Captain Rogers hit a home run and is indeed safe by .56 seconds." Jarvis said.

Steve grinned, "This is better than a referee at a game." He smirked.

Sadie giggled and rubbed her eyes, realizing the events from yesterday were finally catching up to her.

Tony noticed it and gestured to Steve to look at Sadie.

Steve smiled, "Tired Sadie?"

She quickly perked up, "NOPE!" she grinned.

He laughed, "I think I am, all those years in ice can really do a number on your sleep cycle."

She shook her head, "I'm okay." She smiled.

"I remember when I was a sick little nerd, always being tired and needing sleep. Then they made me some super soldier and I realized how much I missed taking naps and getting rest cause all of a sudden I was busy 24/7." He said, pretending to yawn.

Sadie smiled and shrugged.

"I think I'm gonna take a rest, how about you?" he asked her. She shrugged and again and finally nodded.

Tony was impressed. Not even Pepper, Bruce, or even Rhodey had been able to calmly broach the issue of naps with Sadie before without pissing her off.

He watched as Steve led her upstairs and felt a pang of jealousy. It was short-lived however as he decided to continue with her bike. He'd one up Steve, that's for sure. His kid was gonna have a killer bike!

….

Steve left Sadie on her bed to take a nap and noticed a book on her shelf. He opened it and found her baby pictures inside. He frowned as he looked at all the surgery ones.

He could remember the argument he had with Tony on the Hellicarrier about how Sadie deserved better. From the looks of things, she had gone downhill pretty bad until Tony saved her life.

He heard her mumbling in her sleep and moving around. He looked over and narrowed his eyes, watching her struggle and pant. Kala whined on the floor.

She began crying and he didn't know how to help her without scaring her. He could remember having night terrors as a kid from all the bullying and he knew it was better to let them come out of it than to wake them up and confuse them.

Sadie moaned and started crying for her dad and yelling the word 'no' to some guy named Parker.

Steve sat and waited for her to come out of it.

She gasped for breath and sat up, clutching her chest and choking on her sobs.

He rubbed her back, "Take it easy, Sadie, let it out."

She sucked in some ragged breaths and finally let them out.

She looked tearfully at Steve and rubbed her eyes.

"Who's Parker?" he asked. He noticed she got paler as he said the name, her eyes became darker and fresh tears were forming, "Did he hurt you?"

She nodded, "He took me from my daddy and hit me."

Steve nodded and listened.

"He used a belt…Daddy won't wear them around me because of it."

Steve thought back and realized that Tony never did wear belts, not that he needed to but it caused him to look down and breathe a sigh of relief that he hadn't worn one today.

"Heather told me to take a pill so I wouldn't feel anything…but I didn't. And I should have." Sadie cried.

"He did more than hit you, didn't he?" Steve said, calmly.

Sadie sobbed quietly and nodded, "I haven't told anybody. I don't want Daddy to look at me funny."

"He won't. You're still Sadie."

"He did something really bad…and I let him."

"You're right, he did do something bad, but that is not your fault." Steve said sadly, wishing to God he could find the asshole and tear him a new one, "You know, when I was fighting in the war, I saw a lot of people who were hurt in the villages I helped save. Some of them were women, much older than you. Nazi's had hurt them the same way. They felt the same way you do."

Sadie looked at him, "Did they have nightmares and cry?"

He nodded. Truth be told, he'd never really met with many of them, but had seen the damage that had been done. Women had been beaten and bruised, their pride taken away and he saw what it did to them. It gave him nightmares all the time.

"Daddy says I have to talk about it." She said sadly.

"You're telling me about it." He commented.

She sat up and realized what she'd done. She looked embarrassed.

"Don't be embarrassed, Sadie. Do you feel any better?" he asked.

She thought about it for a minute and suddenly it didn't feel so bad to know that women older than her could have the same problems and still feel the same way.

"Steve?" she asked, "Do men still hurt women today? The way Parker did with me."

He nodded sadly, "Unfortunately, when I woke up, things were very different…but there were still some things that hadn't changed and that is one of them."

"When will the nightmare stop? Did any of the women tell you?"

"Honestly, I couldn't tell you. But I think you're on the right track telling somebody. Maybe you should talk a little more with your dad about it. I'm not exactly a wiz at this sort of thing."

"Daddy isn't either." She said, looking down.

"I wouldn't know about that…rumor is he gets more women in his bed than-" he stopped himself before he said anything else as Sadie's face grew nervous.

"Has daddy…hurt anybody…in that way?" she asked.

"NO! No! Of course not!" Steve said, wanting to punch himself, though he wouldn't know if that was true or not, "I meant that he knows more about sex and that sort of subject."

Sadie grew nervous, "Daddy won't hurt me." She said, more to herself than to him.

"Exactly! That man took on Thor and me at the same time. And yet, he became the biggest sap once you came into the room." He laughed, remembering how tough Tony was on the Hellicarrier and through the battle, one-upping everyone and making snide comments to belittle them all. Yet as soon as Sadie was around, he turned into Father of the Year.

"Daddy loves me." She smiled.

"Who wouldn't?" he chuckled.

She frowned, "How come I could tell you and not my daddy?" she asked, suddenly feeling odd about the whole thing.

Steve sighed, "Not sure, but maybe now that you've told me you can tell him too."

He thought back and remembered Bucky, his childhood friend. He told Bucky more secrets than anyone in his family. Bucky was like his brother and they weren't even related.

"Some people you just feel better about telling a secret to." He admitted.

She shook her head, "I don't want daddy to find out. Please don't tell him!" she begged.

He glanced at her apologetically, "Sadie, I can't keep something like that from your dad. I'll try not to say anything, but if he asks me, I have to tell him the truth."

Sadie looked down, sadly.

"Honestly, I think he already knows."

She gasped, "You think he does?" she cried.

He nodded, "Dads can tell when their kids are in trouble." He smiled.

She looked around her room and rubbed her eyes again, deciding to get up.

"Steve, can you stay here forever?" she asked.

He laughed a little, "I can't, I have some business I still have to take care of. Places to go and people to see."

"Will I ever see you again?"

"I promise you will." He smiled.

…..

Tony sat at the kitchen table, his head in his hands. He wanted so desperately to go into the room where his daughter was crying and telling Steve everything, but not him.

He felt like the crapiest father in the world for not getting to the bottom of everything sooner. Now he really wished he'd killed Parker instead of just throwing him around the house and banging him up good.

He prayed he was suffering in prison the way he made Sadie suffer. The thought of him being used by some creep in jail brought a satisfied grin to Tony's face.

Steve and Sadie came out and Sadie looked a little nervously at her dad. He could tell she was wondering if he'd heard everything.

"I thought you two were back outside?" he said, feigning ignorance and Sadie looked relieved.

Steve, however, smiled knowingly and walked towards the table.

"Sadie, hun, did you still want to go with me to the store?" Pepper asked, coming out.

Sadie nodded and ran to go grab her jacket.

Tony was relieved. He had a bone to pick with Steve before he left.

Once the girls left, Steve sat down and waited for Tony to say what was really on his mind.

"I guess I don't have to ask why my kid is having nightmares." Tony said.

Steve nodded, "Don't beat yourself up, Stark, I failed quite a few people myself. And the majority of them are dead."

Tony looked up at him sadly, "You ever fall in love?"

Steve nodded, "Peggy…"

"Who?" Tony asked.

"Her name was Peggy. I promised her we'd go dancing when the war was over." He said sadly, "There were so many things I would have said to her, to tell her how I really felt."

Tony glance around for a minute. Where had he heard that name before?

"She was incredible." Steve said, reminiscing while Tony only half listened, "British dame, real sassy, but killer with a gun." He laughed.

"Whoa! Wait! Aunt Peggy?" Tony said aloud.

"What?" Steve asked.

"My dad would drag me and my brother to England all the time to visit some older chick who made us call her Aunt Peggy." He said, "I always thought she was nuts, to be honest. Always talking about finding the right dance partner and shit." He mumbled, "Her house smelled like soup and we both found her gun collection under her bed. We thought she was preparing for the end of the world or something."

"You know Peggy?" Steve asked.

"If you and I are thinking of the same Peggy, then…yeah." Tony said.

"She's alive?" Steve breathed.

"She'd be in her 90's now, but she might have died since I last saw her. I'll check it out." Tony said.

Steve was stunned from hearing this. Then again, it made sense. Howard Stark and Peggy were close friends, maybe they did keep in touch after he'd died.

Tony got up to go search for his Aunt Peggy's information.

"Tony…" Steve said.

Tony turned.

"Thanks." Steve said, smiling.

"Just returning the favor." Tony said, smiling back.