a/n: Anything you recognize is my creative version of Marvel property. Ellie is all mine

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Would I walk through fire just to be you, be with you baby
Would I cross an ocean just to hold you, yea
Would I give up all I have to see you smile, to see you smile
Would I walk through hell and not think twice

~ Baby I Would by O-Town

*~*~* May 8th, 1945- Osterreich (Alps)*~*~*

"Are you sure about this Rogers?" Dum Dum asked as he looked around the forest, holding his gun at the ready, and then looked at Steve.

"Yes, I think this is going to work" Steve told them as he climbed aboard this new motorcycle, fastening his shield to his back.

Steve started the motorcycle and drove off down the dirt road. After about four kilometers, a group of Hydra motorcyclists joined him. They shot at him, and thankfully, their shots bounced off his shield. Rounding a corner, he looked down at the controls Howard had told him about, flipping a switch, then hitting a button, a line shot out attaching itself to the trees on each side of him. Clothes lining some of the motorcycles behind him.

He hit another button and flames shot out of the back of his motorcycle. Two more cycles pulled out in front of him and Steve sped up to go in between them. He pulled the pin on one of their grenades and drove off, one of them exploding behind him.

Steve moved his shield to the front of his motorcycle as the bunker ahead of him started firing at him. He fired back as a tank came out and blew it up with one shot. Driving up the front of the bunker, he flew through the air landing hard but continuing as he swerved through people shooting at him.

Hitting the last button, he jumped off the motorcycle, holding his shield. He threw the shield as someone charged him and his motorcycle hit the entrance to the base, blowing up.

He fought and knocked out at least two people before two men with flame throwers surrounded him with flames. When the flames stopped, he was surrounded by Hydra soldiers. They tied his hands behind his body and led him into the base.

"Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say you do it better than anyone" Schmidt said as he walked over to him, "But there are limits to what even you can do, Captain. Or did Erskine tell you otherwise?

Steve stared at him as he stood across from, "He told me you were insane."

"Ah. He resented my genius and tried to deny me what was rightfully mine. But he gave you everything. So, what made you so special?" Schmidt asked him.

"Nothin'. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn" Steve said with a cocky grin.

Schmidt punched him in the jaw, slapped him then punched him in the stomach, knocking him to his knees, coughing and breathing heavily, "I can do this all day"

"Oh, of course you can. Of course. But unfortunately I am on a tight schedule" Schmidt said as he took out his pistol and aimed it at his face.

There was noise outside the window they were next to.

"So am I!" Steve said pulling the two soldiers holding him, in front of him as Schmidt shot, causing them both to disappear.

The Commandos crashed through the windows of the lab, shooting.

Falsworth saw the shield lying on the ground and picked it up, "Rogers! You might need this!"

"Thanks!" Steve said as he ran through the door and looked around before deciding to go towards the right.

Through his comms he heard Morita say, "We're in! Assault team, go!"

Then Phillips reply, "Move out!"

He ran down the hallway and turned another corner to see Schmidt in front of him. He put his shield in front of him to block Schmidt's shot. Schmidt ran further away from him so Steve threw his shield and it bounced off the wall toward Schmidt.

As he went to go around the turn, he was confronted by a Hydra soldier with a flame thrower. He ducked into a doorway trying not to get scorched.

A machine gun sounded and the man with the flame thrower blew up so that Steve could come out. He saw Peggy standing with the machine gun that had just saved him.

"You're late" Steve told her as he got close to her.

"Weren't you about to…"

"Right" Steve said as he ran off grabbing his shield and going through a door.

Steve came out into the docks as Schmidt started moving in his plane. Steve ran past some soldiers, knocking a few out, running as fast as he could but was unable to catch the plane taking off.

A car roared up next to him, "Get in!" Phillips yelled.

Steve jumped in the passenger seat and Phillip drove as fast as he could after the plane.

Steve pulled himself up so that he was straddling the door, "Keep it steady!"

"Wait!" Peggy yelled pulling on his uniform so she could kiss him, "Go get him"

Steve looked at Phillip.

"I'm not kissing you" Phillips told him.

Steve strapped his shield to his back and climbed out to the front of the car. The propeller hit his shield, forcing him face down on the hood.

Just before they reached the edge of the runway, Steve jumped onto the landing gear. Steve glanced back to see that Phillips had prevented them from falling off the edge with an evasive move. He rode the landing gear as it settled inside the plane.

Once inside the plane, he saw bombs with one labeled 'New York', "Ellie" Steve said in shock.

He hid in the rafters as Hydra soldiers came through the area he was in. He kicked one over and jumped down. He fought three of them and one tried to run away. Grabbing one of their knives, he threw it, hitting the soldier running.

Injured he ran over to the bomb marked 'Chicago' and hit a button on the panel causing it to open up and hopefully land in the ocean. The soldier flew out of the open hatch.

Steve hit two more soldiers and threw another out of the open hatch.

A soldier climbed into the bomb labeled New York and Steve ran over as another soldier jumped onto it. The bomb dropped and the Hydra soldier steering the plane tried to shake Steve and his fellow soldier off. The plane began to ascend and the soldier he was fighting flew off into the propeller.

Steve held on and opened the window, ejecting the pilot. Steve climbed inside and flew the bomb back over to Schmidt's plane. Crashing it into the rear of the plane, he got out and grabbed his shield.

He opened a door to see a glowing blue light and a chair. Behind him he heard the sound of a Hydra weapon and turned around shielding himself.

"You don't give up, do you?" Schmidt asked.

"Nope!" Steve said running at him.

They fought going back and forth until Steve rammed Schmidt into the pilot controls causing the plane to start to plummet. They continued to fight as they were thrown around in the air.

Schmidt reached the controls and turned autopilot on.

"You could have the power of the gods! Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations!" Schmidt yelled shooting at him again, "I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!"

"Not my future!" Steve yelled as he jumped to his shield and flung it at Schmidt hitting him and throwing him into the cube's console.

It lit up blue and Schmidt walked over to it, "What have you done?" He asked as he picked up the cube.

The cube lit up and sent a stream of energy into the top of the plane, projecting pictures of space.

Suddenly the energy started to engulf Schmidt and he slowly disappeared into a burst of light.

As the light dissipated, the cube hit the ground, eating away at the metal to fall through out of the plane.

Steve picked up his shield and took off his helmet as he sat down in the pilot's chair. He looked over the controls and saw the guidance was aimed right at New York City. Looking out the windows in front of him, he weighed his options.

He keyed the radio knowing that Morita's plan was to take over Hydra's control tower to monitor their radio, "Come in. This is Captain Rogers. Do you read me?"

"Captain Rogers, what is your…" Morita said as Peggy came on the radio.

"Steve, is that you? Are you alright?" Peggy asked sitting in the chair Morita vacated.

"Peggy! Schmidt's dead." Steve told her messing with the controls.

"What about the plane?" Peggy asked.

"That's a little bit tougher to explain" Steve told her.

"Give me your coordinates, I'll find you a safe landing site" Peggy told him.

"There's not going to be a safe landing" Steve told her.

Phillips looked down and motioned for Morita to follow him.

"But I can try and force it down" Steve told her.

"I'll get Howard on the line, he'll know what to do" Peggy told him.

"There's not enough time. This thing's moving too fast and it's heading for New York" Steve said, "I gotta put her in the water. I can't let it get to New York and to Ellie"

"Please, don't do this. We have time. We can work it out" Peggy begged him.

"Right now I'm in the middle of nowhere. If I wait any longer a lot of people are gonna die. Peggy, this is my choice. Peg… tell Ellie that I am sorry" Steve told her as he put his compass with her picture in it on the controls as he steered the plane down, "Peggy?"

"I'm here" Peggy said.

"I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance" Steve told her as he cleared the clouds and could see the ice below.

"Alright. A week, next Saturday, at the Stork Club" Peggy said with tears in her eyes.

"You got it" Steve told her.

"Eight o'clock on the dot. Don't you dare be late. Understood?" Peggy told him.

"You know, I still don't know how to dance. Buck, he never taught me" Steve told her.

"I'll show you how. Just be there" Peggy whispered.

"We'll have the band play somethin' slow. I'd hate to step on your…" Steve said as the line went to static.

"Steve? Steve? Steve?" Peggy cried.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, near Iceland, the German plane started heating up the ice beneath it.

Steve had been knocked out and had slid from the pilot's chair. In his unconscious state, he looked above him to see a light with a person standing in front of it.

"Hey Punk"

"Buck?" Steve asked squinting.

Bucky nodded as he sat down next to Steve, "I'm here"

"How?" Steve asked confused.

"I told you I'd be with you til the end of the line… well this is it" Bucky told him.

"We can't do this to her" Steve told him.

"She's tough. Ellie will get through this. Our baby will help her" Bucky told him.

"Is… it painful?" Steve asked, "Dying?"

Bucky shook his head, "Just like falling asleep"

The plane melted through the ice and was immersed in the water below.

Steve gasped in water and with Bucky by his side, went to sleep.

*~*~* May 9th, 1945-England*~*~*

Howard looked at Peggy as she came through the door, "I was just heading out. I'm flying to New York. I don't want her to find out from someone else"

Peggy nodded, "She is in Brooklyn. Probably at the Barnes home"

Howard hugged Peggy, "I'm sorry Peg"

"He died doing what he always wanted to do. Saving people" Peggy told him.

*~*~* May 10th, 1945- Brooklyn*~*~*

"Thanks Jarvis" Howard said as his butler drove him through the streets of Brooklyn, New York, "It hasn't gotten out about Steve and I just want his sister to hear it from me before she finds out"

"Yes Mr. Stark, I agree. It will be quite the shock" Jarvis said as he turned the corner and went down a street, "This is… here this is the address you gave me"

Howard sighed as he looked up at the house, "Here goes nothing"

Howard climbed out of the car and pulled his sunglasses over his face, walking up the steps, knocking on the door.

He put his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels.

The door opened and a young woman answered.

"Hello" She said.

"Is this the Barnes residence?" He asked.

Her eyes widened, "you're Howard Stark"

"Hello… is Ellie with you guys by any chance?" Howard asked.

"Yeah, she is taking a nap. Come in" The girl said.

Howard entered the house and looked around seeing pictures of Barnes, Ellie and Steve growing up.

"I'm Becca by the way, did you know my brother?" Becca asked.

Howard nodded, "I'm sorry for your loss. He was a great man. Um… where is the room she is napping in. I'll wake her up"

Becca led him to the bedroom and opened it for him.

"Thank you" Howard said keeping the door open.

Ellie was lying on her back in a tank top and a pair of men's shorts, with her hand lying on her belly. Before he left, Peggy told him Ellie's news. Looking at her, he could see the swell of her stomach.

As if she could tell someone was staring at her, she opened her eyes, "Steve?"

"No… it's Howard"

Ellie sat up rubbing her eyes, "Howard, what are you doing here? Did Steve send you here to get me now that we won?"

"No, but I came here on my own. Ellie, Schmidt didn't surrender when Germany did. He was planning on bombing here in New York, Chicago and other cities here in the USA" Howard told her.

"You stopped him right?" Ellie asked.

"Yes, actually Steve did… but to stop him he had to take over the plane midflight. There was nowhere to land" Howard told her, "So he landed it in the water… somewhere in the Arctic Ocean"

Ellie's brain was still sleepy and it took her awhile to process what he said, "You guys were able to find him in time…right?"

"Steve didn't give us his coordinates before he crash landed" Howard told her, "I'm organizing a team to search the area that we think he may have crashed in"

Ellie let out a gut wrenching sob that made Bucky's sister come running.

"What happened?" Becca asked.

Ellie sobbed, "Steve's dead"

"No" Becca said shaking her head, "No… he can't"

"I'm sorry…he said that as he put her down. Tell Ellie I am sorry" Howard told her.

Ellie sobbed against Becca as she sat next to her, "Why?"

"He saved so many lives. Just with the bomb that was aimed for here alone" Howard told her.

Ellie sat up and looked at him shocked, "Oh my god… he sacrificed himself for me"

Howard nodded.

*~*~* July 4th, 1945- Brooklyn*~*~*

Peggy Carter stepped out of the taxi and thanked the driver. She walked up the steps and knocked on the door.

The door opened, "Hello"

"Hello, you must be Mrs. Barnes, Peggy Carter ma'am. Is Elizabeth home?" Peggy asked.

Winifred gave her a sad smile, "Yes but… she really isn't in the mood for visitors"

Peggy mentally figured how far along Ellie would be. At the beginning of May, she was about 18 weeks from what Ellie figured. That would put her nearly 30 weeks along. She would definitely be showing by now.

"I know… I know it was Steve's birthday today. I had to see her" Peggy explained.

"Come in" Winifred told her.

"Thank you ma'am. My condolences to you as well" Peggy told her.

"Thank you" Winifred said giving her a small smile as she led her to the bedroom and she knocked, "Ellie honey, you have a visitor"

"I'm not taking people today"

"Elizabeth, it's me" Peggy told her.

There was a squeak of springs then the door unlocked.

Peggy tried not to gasp as she saw Ellie. Her blond hair lay limp and straight on her head. Her face held a dark and sunken appearance. Her eyes were dull and what Peggy noticed the most was her flat belly.

"Peg" Ellie said as she threw her arms around her.

"Oh Ellie" Peggy said hugging her back.

Ellie let her go then walked over to the bed and sat down.

Peggy walked into the room and sat down next to her, "What happened besides the obvious?"

"Three days after Howard told me that Steve died… I was in church, in the middle of services and I had… this indescribable pain" Ellie told her, "Next thing I know, I was waking up in the hospital. I lost the baby. Doctor said it was from the stress. I know I was supposed to go back to work but… I couldn't bear leaving this room. Right here is my last remaining reminder of Bucky"

Peggy pulled her to her rubbing her back, "It will be alright"

"Peg, will you train me?" Ellie asked.

"For what?" Peggy asked.

"Everything… you can do so much more than me" Ellie told her.

"I know who to ask" Peggy told her.

a/n: And we have reached the "beginning" of Ellie's journey on her own. Please read and review, tell me what you think and what do you think she will do. Thank you for reading!