Bruce Sharon and tony looked up when Beth walked into the lab, for a second tony looked nervous because he knew the kind of temper his sister could have when she wasn't kept in the loop.
Especially if it had anything to do with Steve.

But then he was confused because she walked over to her lab space and put on her suit "where are you going?" he asked she glanced back at him and then she grinned.

"I have some people I need to talk to; I might just know where to find a hydra base"

Sharon turned and tilted her head "we've had JARVIS searching for the past hour, wouldn't he know before you" Beth smiled at the woman "jarv might be smart but the guy I'm going to see is off the grid even to him"

The woman pushed back her hair "no one's off the grid" she smirked "Wanna bet?" tony shook his head "you really going to that guy?" she grinned "come on bro he's not that bad"

Her brother made a face "you just don't like him because he doesn't let you play with his toys" her brother pouted "just who are you going to see?" Sharon finally asked tilting her head and she smirked tilting forward and pressed a finger to her libs "every girls got to have a few secrets"

Turning away the visor of her helmet went dark "I'll be back by tomorrow morning at the latest" Bruce's word of be careful was lost to the sound of the repulsers on her boots firing "Jarvis?" she questioned as her visor lit up with faint blue lines "yes ma'am?"

"You know where were going" she smirked again "of course ma'am, plotting course now"

A thick blue line appeared on her visor and she tilted her body to follow it "what would I do without you buddy" silence reined for a minute and she didn't expect an answer then "crash and burn ma'am"

She laughed for ten minutes straight.

Within three hours she sat at a table drinking tea was a dark haired man that looked to be in his forties, his black hair only disturbed by a patch of white at his temple.

"Tell me miss stark what do you need me to do?" she looked up from her steaming mug to Stephen Vincent strange and smiled slightly "as if you don't already know" he smiled a little himself "oh I know, you only ever come to me when you need something found, but I like to be asked"

She set down her cup of tea and pulled a piece of paper out of her jeans, she had removed the suit upon entering the house, when asking a sorcerer for help, especially one like strange, it was best not to offend or otherwise piss them off.

That and it was more comfortable "I need to find a hydra base with this machine installed in it" he took the paper and looked at it she had done a rough sketch of the machine and jolted down a detailed description of what it did.

A very detailed description.

"of course shouldn't take more than a few days to find it" he set down the paper "you're going to have to do better" he looked up surprised at her, normally if she had to come to him to find something shed give him the basic look and function, or a sample, or just enough details for him to find it then he'd tell her how long and shed leave.

This time she wasn't because it was more important "what do you mean?" he didn't seem upset but he did seem intrigued "I have 48 hours to find this or someone I care about is going to die"

"Captain rogers?" he guessed she nodded slowly "I thought something might be different about this, so what's so wrong with the super soldier that he could die in 48 hours" she looked down and begged for forgiveness mentally before looking back at strange "we raided a hydra base and took a machine from their lab, that machine"

She pointed at the paper "I was trying to figure out what it did when it fired some kind of energy blast, captain Rogers took the hit for me and it affected his genetic code, attacked the serum and reverted him to his old body"

She looked at the cup in her hands "the machines programing was corrupted and we destroyed it before we knew, a friend gave him a formula that reactivated the serum in his genes, in 48 hours the change will be irreversible and his condition will rapidly get worst as his genetic code continues to deteriorate"

He tilted his head to the side then pushed back his hair when it fell into his face "and you don't want that to happen, because you owe him" she huffed and took a drink of her tea "you know me better than that strange" he leaned forward chin on his hand "then do tell, why put yourself at risk coming to me with all the enemy's I have both in this world and the next"

"because I love him" and that was the truth, she said it with unflinching, no pause, no hesitation, he seemed surprised by her honesty and how fast she answered him then he started laughing and she looked at him confused "a stark finds their true love in a man out of time, priceless"

She tilted her own head in confusion "what do you mean?" he shook his head "just a thought" her lips twisted "ummmhmmmmm" he smiled disarmingly at her then picked up the paper "I'll start on this now"

She nodded "thank you Stephen I owe you" he shook his head as he walked up the stairs "don't worry about it this ones on the house, and don't thank me yet, I haven't found it!" he stopped at the top of the stairs and grinned down at her "yet"

She chuckled as he disappeared then settled in for a possibly long wait.