"I have to go," Steve informed Elizabeth when he saw her walking back from the bathroom, her eyes looking down into her clutch as she fished around inside of it, checking to make sure her keys were still in her bag. She looked up as soon as Steve spoke to her and her mouth fell open slightly; worry coursing through her veins as she did so.

"What's happened?" she asked him and he began to think about what to say to her. Did he tell her? Did he just come clean and allow her to know? No, it wasn't the time. He didn't want to tell her at some party and then have to up and leave without giving her the explanation which she deserved.

"It's the boss," he simply said. "I need to go and sort something out."

"You're a soldier, Steve," she reminded him. "You don't just get deployed out the country and sort something out."

Steve placed his hands onto his hips, glancing around the room as he felt her continue to stare at him, her beady eyes sizing him up, trying to deduce if he was telling her the truth.

"I work for a special department," he whispered, his voice sounding rather convincing as he watched her blink profusely and she nodded once at him. That seemed to make sense. She had heard of places with special departments, she just never thought of them as being something which Steve would work in. "I'm really sorry, Lizzie."

"No," Elizabeth forced a smile onto her face. "It's fine. I'll just go down and call a cab home."

"You don't have to go-"

"-No offence, Steve," Lizzie smirked, "I don't think that I could handle this if you weren't with me."

A tight quirk of his lips told Lizzie that he was slightly happy by her answer before he spoke again. "Okay. I'll walk down with you and make sure you get a cab."

"Thanks," Lizzie spoke softly, allowing her arm to be wrapped around Steve's as he led her to the elevator and past all of the milling guests who continued to stare at them. Lizzie didn't pretend not to know why they stared. He was Steve Rogers. He was too stunning looking for his own good. She often wondered why he showed an interest in her sometimes. He surely had more beautiful girls running around after him other than her. But, he stuck by her as if she was the only person who he had in the world. She didn't know what they had. Friends was right. She just didn't know if she cared for him more than a friend should care. It was strange, really.

"Do you know when you'll be back?" Elizabeth asked Steve and he shook his head at her, his hair moving around his face as he made the motion and Elizabeth had to attempt not to look disappointed at watching him. Since when had she become so attached to a guy? Maybe some time apart would be best. She could get over the crush she was developing and she had space. Or it could maybe be worse than she thought. She wasn't too sure just yet.

"I'll come around as soon as I come home," Steve promised her, hailing a cab successfully as it pulled up and he opened the door for her. She stood on the other side of it, continuously looking at him as he stared back, wondering what was wrong with her.

And then he noted something rise up in her eyes. It was something which he had seen multiple other times before. She was scared. The worst part was that Steve knew she was scared for him. The lie suddenly hit him then. It wasn't just himself who would be affected by his alias. It would be Lizzie.

"I will be back," he promised her and she nodded, forcing herself to smile and not be so worried about him. He was a soldier. She was sure he could handle himself and didn't need her to be panicking about him. "You don't need to worry about me, Lizzie. You're the one who needs to stay safe."

Lizzie snorted once at hearing him.

"Come on, love. We don't have all day!" the driver shouted.

"Shut up!" Lizzie snapped back. "I'll pay you for the extra two minutes if it worries you that much!"

Steve looked at her as she glanced back at him, nodding sternly to herself, realising that she needed to go before her emotions betrayed her and knowing her that was going to happen the way she was feeling at the moment in time.

"See?" Lizzie checked with him, encouragingly smiling in his direction. "I can easily take care of myself. It's you who needs to be careful, okay?"

"I'll see you later," Steve said to her and she agreed with him, wondering how to say goodbye. But, she simply crawled into the cab and waved simply to Steve as it drove away.

...

"What do you mean he escaped?" Steve was the one to snap as soon as they all met on top of Stark Towers. He didn't have time to go and get his suit, deciding that he'd get it when he needed to. Instead he'd simply sat on the ledge of the building, watching as the rest of them stood around Fury.

"I mean that he escaped, Rogers," Fury barked back and Tony shook his head at hearing that, moving around the rooftop with his suit still intact. But, he didn't really know how to react to the news which he'd just heard. He had thought that it was all over. Apparently not. "It's quite self explanatory, isn't it?"

"It's quite ridiculous," Stark commented simply, rolling his eyes as he did so. "So they just let him out of Asgard, did they? Where was Thor during all of this?"

"We don't know," Fury replied. "All we know is that Loki is out in Earth again and we don't know where."

"And the tesseract?" Dr Banner wondered, pushing his glasses further onto his nose as he did so. He'd been staying in New York at Stark Towers, deciding to do some research on disease in Tony's state of the art lab. It made sense to him. He was trying to control his inner demon and he was doing a good job.

"They never destroyed it." Fury shook his head and Stark chuckled loudly when he heard that, patting Fury on the back quickly.

"Great job!" he spoke clearly. "So you mean to say that he's got the tesseract too? And what can Thor do right? What part of you thought that giving him the tesseract was a good idea?"

"We all agreed on it," Natasha butted in, glaring at Stark. "We don't know what Loki has got planned up his sleeve. We need to hunt him down before he can do anything rash."

"So what?" Steve wondered, standing up tall and folding his arms, his eyes roaming around the people who were stood on the roof as he took control. He found it odd in some way. He was able to command a group of people yet he struggled to talk to a girl and tell her how he felt. He doubted any of it would really make sense to him. "We now have to go out and find Loki again?"

"That's exactly the plan," Fury nodded and Steve shook his head, turning back to look over NY whilst Tony moved around, thinking about what they had just been told.

"And we have no idea where he is?" Tony checked and Fury shook his head.

"All we know is what Thor told us. He's escaped and we don't know where about on Earth he will be. But, if he had the tesseract then we know it can't be good."

"No," Tony said in a drawl, sarcasm escaping his voice as he did so. "What do you mean it can't be good? I'd consider this the best news ever if you hadn't interrupted my party and caused the Cap to miss out on his chance to get laid tonight!"

It was then when everyone's eyes turned onto Steve who surveyed them all and shrugged softly back at them, not really understanding what Tony was saying if he had to be honest.

Barton arched a brow and looked over to Natasha who shrugged at him whilst Banner coughed softly and Fury had his lips set in a firm line before looking back over to Steve.

"And what exactly have you told Miss Meyer?" he wondered and Steve shook his head. He knew that they had done a background check on Elizabeth and he wasn't particularly impressed with that. In fact, he considered upmost rude if he had to be honest. He just didn't feel the need to mention it.

"Nothing to do with S.H.I.E.L.D. if that's what you're worried about," Steve promised Fury. "Elizabeth doesn't know about anything and I intend to keep it that way until I see fit."

"Until you see fit?" Fury checked with him, his voice low and commanding as Steve nodded once, not seeing what his problem was. "You're not to see fit, Captain. And that's an order."

"Why shouldn't the gal know?" Tony interrupted their staring contest. "Pepper knows all about me-"

"-You're not a seventy year old man," Fury snapped back at him. "Rogers isn't supposed to be here. If I had my way then no one would know your secrets. You decided to go into the limelight, Stark."

"He doesn't want the limelight," Stark complained, motioning to Steve. "Look at him. I'm guessing he has most girls fawning all over him – not as many as me, but that's not the point – and he tends to just sit in his apartment most days until she's finished working so he can see her. One person won't hurt."

"And what happens when this one person tells another person?"

"She wouldn't do that," Steve interrupted, his hands balling into fists by his side as he looked at Fury, anger coursing inside of his veins as he did so. "Elizabeth is an honest woman."

"I don't want her to jeopardise what you have, Rogers," Fury informed Steve who shook his head, knowing full well that Elizabeth wouldn't do that to him. He knew her and had undoubted faith in her. It was her who lacked faith in everyone else. "If word were to get out that you were Captain America then things would never be the same again."

"I'm well aware, sir," Steve promised him. "I know that it won't come to that."

"If this girl means so much to you then you can tell her after five months, understood?"

"But-"

"-This isn't up for negotiating, Rogers. You've known her all of five minutes. You don't know her that well. Get a chance to do that and then we will see about you telling her your little secret."

"Fine," Steve said through gritted teeth before continuing to complain under his breath.

...

Elizabeth paid the cab driver before climbing out from the yellow vehicle and pulling her keys out from her bag, twirling them around her finger and walking into the flat, looking around the empty street as she went. She pushed the door open and climbed the steps up to her flat, the light in the hallway dimly lit and flickering as she noted a tall man stood at the end of the corridor near her door. Hesitantly, she slowed down, her eyebrow arched as she did so.

"Hello," she spoke softly, looking at him with wonder as his eyes turned to look onto her.

"Miss Meyer, isn't it?" he spoke, his voice ice cold and Elizabeth nodded, wondering if he was the elusive landlord. It would make sense. She hadn't seen him in the entire time that she had lived in the flat.

"Yeah," Lizzie confirmed. "I don't think that I've seen you around here."

"You haven't," he nodded once, pulling the scarf down the lapels of his coat as his mouth picked up into a grin and his eyes flashed dangerously in her direction. She continued to look worried at the expression and she nodded.

"Right, well," she coughed, "if you don't mind then I'll just be going in."

"Actually," he spoke quickly, standing in front of her door to stop her from entering. "I do mind. A lot, if it is all the same to you."

"Who are you?" Lizzie snapped at him, pushing her hair behind her shoulder as she looked at him.

"I'm a God," he told her and she finally noted where she'd seen him before. He'd been on the news a few weeks before. She'd seen him. But it couldn't be him. It just couldn't.

"I think you should go," Lizzie demanded him, pushing past to get to her door before she felt his hand on her shoulder, pushing her backwards and she stumbled, falling to the ground. Her rightful place. Quickly, she stood back up, her cheeks puffing out and turning red with extreme rage at what had happened.

"Seriously?" Elizabeth checked. "Get the hell out of here!"

"Who do you think you are, mortal?" he hissed at her. "You have no power over me. Believe me, I would not be here unless I had to be."

"What are you talking about?" Lizzie hissed and he chuckled.

"I'm talking about your soldier," he informed her. "The man from out of time. I need to have my revenge and I know the perfect way to do it."

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