*DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything but Arabella* {This is the beginning of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.}
Steve ended up talking Bella into visiting him in D.C. She needed a break from the school so she ended up agreeing. She had also started picking up his early rising every since the Chitauri attack. So with her getting up earlier during her visit, Steve finally convinced her to running with him. She surprised herself by actually having fun, considering she avoids running as much as possible and is only going a bit slower than Steve, by passing a guy who complains every time she does. "On your left." She hears Steve say to the man. She giggled a little breathlessly before stopping for the day. She ends up hearing Steve say the same thing to the same man about two more times before the guy stops close to her and sits by a tree to catch his breath. Steve finally stops his running close to the guy. Bella walks over to them smiling to Steve. Steve smiles back to her before turning to the guy. "Need a medic?" Steve asked him.
"I need a new pair of lungs. Dude, you just ran like thirteen miles in thirty minuets." The guy said pointing to Steve before turning to Bella. "And you did like eight."
"I guess we got a late start." Bella said smiling slightly
"Oh, really. You should be ashamed of yourself. You should take another lap." He pauses for a minuet. "Did you just take it? I assumed you just took it."
"What unit are you with?" Steve asked him.
"Fifty-eighth, Para-rescue. But now I'm working down at the VA. Sam Wilson." The newly introduced Sam said.
Steve gives Sam a hand so he can get up. "Steve Rogers"
"I kind of put that together. Who are you?" Sam said aiming the question towards Bella.
"Arabella Rose. I go by Bella though." Bella said after the question.
"It's nice to meet you." Sam said to Bella. Bella smiled in turn.
Sam turned towards Steve. "Must have freaked you out coming home after the whole defrosting thing." Sam said.
"It takes some getting used to." Steve said slightly smiling towards Bella, who returned it. "It's good to meet you, Sam." Steve says as they turn to leave.
"It's your bed, right?" Sam suddenly said.
"What's that?" Steve asked turning back around.
"You're bed, it's too soft. When I was over there I sleep on the ground and used rock for pillows, like a caveman. Now I'm home, lying in my bed, and it's like." Sam slightly trails off looking for the right word.
"Lying on a marshmallow. feels like your sinking right to the floor." Bella suggests. Both of the guys look at her. "What? I know sort of what it feels like. You learn stuff on the streets." Both of them nod and slightly look away.
"How long?" Steve asks Sam.
"Two tours. You must miss the good old days, huh?" Sam says in reply.
"Well, things aren't so bad. Food's a lot better, we used to boil everything. No polio is good. Internet, so helpful. I've been reading that a lot trying to catch up." Steve said giving a quick glance towards Bella who didn't see the look.
"Marvin Gaye, 1972, 'Trouble Man' soundtrack. Everything you've missed jammed into one album." Sam suggested to him.
"I'll put it on the list." Steve says pulling out his list. Bella gives a small laugh at the notebook she gave him when his list got too extensive for either one of them to remember. Just before she could comment on the notebook she was interrupted by Steve and her phones. 'Mission alert. Extraction imminent. Meet at the curb :).' said the text.
"It was nice to meet you, Sam" Bella says shaking his hand.
"Alright, Sam, duty calls. Thanks for the run. If that's what you wanna call running." Steve said joking at the end before they shake hands also.
"Oh, is that how it is." Sam says jokingly.
"Oh, that's how it is." Steve says continuing the teasing. Bella and Sam laughs.
"Okay. Any time either of you wanna stop by the VA, make me look awesome in front of the girl at the front desk, just let me know." Sam says and Bella gives a small smile.
"We'll keep that in mind." Steve says and Bella nodded along with what Steve said.
"Okay." Sam says. Just as he says that Natasha pulls up in her car and rolls down the window.
"Hey, fellas. Either one of you know where the Smithsonian is? I'm here to pick up a fossil, and a teacher to tell people about it." Natasha said cheekily.
"I'm a Math teacher. Not science." Bella says indignantly.
"That's hilarious" Steve says not long after Bella.
Bella and Steve walk over to her car and get in, Sam gives Natasha and her car an appreciative look. "How you doing?" He says to her. Bella giggles at him.
"Hey." Natasha says with a small smile.
"You can't run everywhere." Steve says to Sam.
"No, you can't." Sam says shaking his head a little. He watches as Natasha quickly pulls away and drives off.
*********TIME SKIP*********
Flying over the Indian Ocean the trio are with SHIELD agents, led by Brock Rumlow. "The target is a mobile satellite launch platform: The Lemurian Star. It was sending up their last payload when pirates took them, ninety-three minutes ago." Rumlow says.
"Any demands?" Steve asks in Captain mode.
"A billion and a half." Rumlow says
"Why so steep?" Bella asks also in superhero mode.
"Because it SHIELD's." Rumlow replies.
"So it's not off course, it's trespass." Steve says.
"I'm sure they have a good reason." Natasha says defending the place that she works in.
"You know, I'm getting a little tired of being Fury's janitor." Steve says with Bella nodding along.
"Relax, it's not that complicated." Natasha says.
"How many pirates?" Bella asks.
"Twenty-five, top mercs, led by this guy. Georges Batroc." Rumlow says. He shows them a photo of Batroc on the monitor. "Ex-TGSE, Action Division. He's at the top of Interpol's 'red notice'. Before the French demobilized him, he had thirty-six kill missions. This guy's got a rep for maximum casualties."
"Hostages?" Steve asks.
"Uh...mostly techs. One officer, Jasper Sitwell." Rumlow replies. He pulls up Sitwell's photo on the monitor. "They're in the galley."
"What's Sitwell doing on a launch ship?" Bella asks Steve shrugged before giving orders.
"Alright, Bella and I will sweep the deck and find Batroc. Nat, you'll kill the engines and wait for instructions. Rumlow, you sweep aft, find the hostages, get them to life pods. get 'em out. Let's go." Steve says as he and Bella walk to the back of the aircraft.
"STRIKE, you heard the Captain. Gear up!" Rumlow commands his team. As they are getting ready to dive off the jet Steve says into his radio.
"Secure channel seven."
"Seven secure." Natasha says before turning to Steve "You do anything fun Saturday night?"
"Well, all the guys from my barbershop quartet are dead, so... I was going to show Bella around D.C."
"Coming up by the drop zone, Cap, Tsunami." Rumlow says.
"I was gonna say you could ask out Kristen, from statistics, she would say yes." Bella giggled as Natasha said that before turning and getting ready to jump.
Bella and Steve smile at each other and jump out of the jet before Natasha says anything else.
"Was he wearing a parachute?" a STRIKE agent says.
Rumlow smiles. "No. No, he wasn't." Rumlow says.