A/N: Hey guys this is it the last two chapters. There are end notes at the very end please read if you are so inclined.

21. the unnamed chapter*

It wasn't odd for Steve to see himself on the cover of a magazine or a paper he was Captain America, but he still found it very interesting to see Steve Rodgers on the cover of the Times rather than Captain America. The fact that he had his arm around Phil as they sat on a park bench was even weirder… He had not realized that his interview would include a photo shoot, but Phil had convinced him that it was the right thing. Pepper had of course thought it was the right thing too, but she had, had little luck convincing him it was a good idea.

They had decided to hold the article for the Sunday paper, and he had been assured that the article would make its way across the world the moment the Times hit the stands. That idea almost terrified him, the whole world knowing his personal life, his love life, but he reminded himself that this was necessary, that if they didn't the world would never stop giving Phil a bad name when they didn't even know his name.

Tony pulled him out of his musings as the coffee pot started making loud beeping noises, and Tony started smacking it. Steve turned looking at the clock, 11:48, how could this man just be getting up? The machine beeped again, and Tony went to pull it apart. Steve knew this would not end well even before JARVIS chipped in, "Sir Miss Potts will be upset if break her coffee pot."

"Not now JARVIS."

"Sir you will regret disassembling the coffee pot."

"JARVIS there is no coffee, how do I get up without coffee?"

"Sir, I am unable to answer that, but Miss Potts—"

"Here have mine, Pepper really hates it when you destroy household appliances," Phil said from the door. Steve wondered why Phil was there, as he watched him walk over to them and hand Tony a cup of coffee.

"Didn't you have to work today?"

"Pepper doesn't hate it when I take things apart," Tony said over him.

"Yes she does, and Fury sent me home when he finally managed to see the paper. He was having a fit, Hill is taking care of it," he added at Tony's flash of anger, "so we should just enjoy my afternoon off."

"Should we get lunch then?" Steve asked realizing that Phil might just have some free time.

"You want to go out today?"

"I thought maybe we'd go to the diner? We never have any trouble there. Then see about watching one of those movies you keep telling me about?" Steve wasn't really in the mood to watch a movie, most of the movies from this era annoyed him, but Phil had been going on and on about some movie when he had seen him the other day. And with the trouble from Fury today, and the look Phil's face, the tiny bit of worry that was seeping through his mask of calm control was enough to tell Steve today was the day to do something Phil wanted.

"I think I can manage the diner, a good cup of coffee sounds amazing," Phil replied.

"Yeah this is crap where did you get coffee this bad?"

"SHEILD never has good coffee unless we have company, and considering we are a super-secret government agency that only happens when the world ends."

"True," Tony conceded. Steve tilted his head towards the door, and Phil nodded. He found Phil grabbing his hand as they got to the elevator, just before they called out a goodbye to Tony.

Lexi had been smiling when they made it to the diner, and didn't even ask before she brought them coffee. Her demeanor towards Steve had been consistently getting nicer. Steve was sure the morning edition had helped the situation.

By the time she had dropped off their food Phil was telling him about his morning, it had started with a small nuclear problem in some Soviet Satellite Country Steve had never really heard of, and it had continued to issues with a company mass producing a copy of Starks 'Jericho', which Phil had to explain to him, because Steve didn't know what that meant. He nodded politely and let Phil continue; "When we finally got an operative in there to confirm it they got made, and we had to do an extraction with full tactical. Fury was in a horrible mood, and we had a pile of other cases to look at including checking out odd activity in middle east. But coffee made the top of the priority list and that is when the everything hit the fan. There was a copy of the Times in the break room, and Fury was just… It did not go well," Phil finished dejectedly looking down into his omelet.

"Hey, don't worry about him, we will figure it out I promise," Steve tried to reassure Phil, but realized he wasn't having any luck. Leaving his food and his coffee, he stood up and slide into the other side of the booth next to Phil. His arm wrapped around the smaller man pulling him into his side. "Phil, how do I help? How do I fix this?"

"You don't its something I am going to have to figure out. I have known Fury for a long time, and we are just going to have to get past this difference in opinion. It is something I have to deal with Steve, but its nice to know you want to help," Phil said mumbling the last few words into Steve's shoulder.

"I always want to help you," Steve answered into Phil's ear, making the man blush. When Phil seemed to have calmed down, Steve could never really tell, but he had quit blushing, Steve pulled his food over and began to eat.

*there is nothing special about this chapter I just didn't have a good title so the unnamed chapter it is…