THIS CHAPTER IS SHORTER THAN THE LAST ONE BECAUSE SOMEHOW LAST CHAPTER BECAME INSANELY LONG AND IT FRIGHTENED ME SLIGHTLY.

I do not own MARVEL

The morning after the disastrous day, Peggy woke up around the same time that Steve did. Usually, she woke up after him because he went for an early morning jog. This time, she was going with him and together they got into their jogging clothes before heading out. Just after they started moving, Sam joined the jog. He stayed at Peggy's pace, while Steve set out on his fast pace.

The jog was only planned to be around the parameter of the building, around the pool and track. It was a decent jog, one that would get them ready for the day without tiring them out.

Sam thought Steve wouldn't start though, but was proven wrong when they were passed the first time. "Oh your left." He said as he passed the two and left them behind. Sam gave a huff of annoyance as he half-heartedly glared at the back of Steve's head, then at the spot where he disappeared behind the buildings walls.

"What was that about?" asked Peggy as she looked over at the man then back at where Steve disappeared.

Sam answered with annoyance threaded into his voice. "You'll see in a minute." Then he muttered something about speed demons that Peggy didn't understand. After a few minutes she heard footsteps coming up behind them one again.

"… On your left." Steve announced as he lapped them one again. Peggy stared after him with a raised eyebrow, obviously not impressed.

This went on for the hour that they were jogging. Lap after lap they'd hear On Your Left, and Peggy was getting tired of it.

There were footsteps, "On you-"Steve started.

"On our left, we know." Sam and Peggy said in union as they sat under the tree that was producing a nice amount of shade. Steve stopped and looked down, sending them a cheeky grin.

Peggy gave him a tired look. "Really Steve, must you say that you're on our left every time you pass us? We know your bloody position!" Peggy almost whined. Steve rolled his eyes, the grin never leaving his face.

"It bugs him," Steve said nonchalantly. "So it had been said, so it must be done."

"Over, and over again…" muttered Sam as he faked an annoyed look at Steve. The larger man just laughed before holding a hand out to help Peggy up. And while Peggy hated it when people helped her, wanting to prove herself, she knew that she didn't need to now. Well, not really. Plus, the look on Steve's face was too adorable. So, she let him pull her to her feet and he continued to hold it as they started to walk back to the building.

"Hey, what about me!?" Sam called after them. Steve chuckled, but never replied as they walked into the building with Sam walking being them.

While he was on the island or when he was in the city, after his jogs Steve would always make Alice one of her favourite breakfasts, then he'd go and have his shower while the girl ate. Yet, this morning Alice wasn't in her spot in the kitchen, or even watching television in the living room. Actually, she wasn't on any floor that he had been on. She couldn't have been mad at them still though, she gave an apology note and everything!

Plus, she, he and Peggy still needed to have a little conversation about how her attitude had been the last few days.

Peggy followed him upstairs to their room, and then the two showered and got dressed for the day before heading out. The first stop was Alice's room.

"Alice," Peggy whacked her knuckles on the door softly. "Darling, it is time to come out and join the world." There was no answer though and Peggy was left in an unsettling silence. Peggy frowned at the closed door before she opened it carefully. She was expecting to see Alice all dressed for the day sitting someone playing and ignoring her, because that made the most sense. Yet, she was met with an empty room and an unmade bed.

"Steve," Peggy called. "Is Alice with you?" she walked out of the room and reclosed the door so the room would be undisturbed. Then, she started to check the other rooms on their floor.

"No." Peggy could hear the frown that was coming through his words and then the murders of him talking to someone else, probably asking if they had seen Alice.

Peggy heard footsteps, too heavy to be Alice's, and turned to see Anna walking over to her. "I have not seen Alice either, Ms. Carter." Anna said with a frown as she walked down the stairs behind Peggy. "I have not seen her since last night."

"I haven't either." Peggy admitted. "Usually I'd check on her at least once in the night, but I'm afraid I slept all night."

Peggy's frown deepened as she realized that she could have known where Alice was by now if maybe she had checked on her. Ten minutes later she, Anna, Howard, Natasha (whom Steve had been talking to before when Peggy heard murmurs) and Steve all met in the downstairs communal living room.

"She isn't here, anywhere." Howard announced to the room before sighing.

"Maybe she went off to one of the training rooms around here? You got a lot of them." Angie suggested. Then, as though she got a brilliant idea, her eyes lit up. "Why don't you ask JARVIS? He seems to know just about everything."

Anna gave her a questioning look. "Why would he know where young Alice is, he was with me throughout the whole night." Anna frowned at the thought of them asking her husband who would obviously be as clueless as they were.

"I meant the computer." Angie gave the woman a dirty look, Mr. Fancy wouldn't know where Alice was. If he did he would have told them already.

Steve took the initiative on asking the AI. "JARVIS, have you seen Alice anywhere today?"

"The real question should be, is she anywhere inside the parameter?" Peggy added

The computer man seemed to need a couple of minutes of deliberation. To everyone who were waiting for his answer, it felt like hours before he answered.

"Miss Rogers is not in the building or on the grounds around the building. Would you like me to bring up the last footage of Miss Rogers?" Peggy felt her system go cold and felt her blood drain out. It felt like it all left her system, leaving her with a cold sensation. She looked over at Steve who had also turned pale, and realized that at the moment he was probably thinking just about the same thing as her. She felt herself nod, and in the back of her mind wondered if JARVIS could see that.

JARVIS turned the television on and they all turned to watch as video footage played out before their eyes. Alice was outside, and the time stamp said it was 5:50am, half an hour before they had gotten up for their run. Alice was throwing a ball for Potter. She seemed tired. About a minute in, someone came and grabbed her, then ran off. They could see her fighting to get free before she went off frame.

"Who the hell was that?" Howard asked when Steve said nothing. It was as though his vocal chords were frozen. Peggy glanced over at him and saw that he looked angry, a look that she had never seen on him before. Now she was pretty angry too, someone had run off with her daughter, but she was much better at hiding it than he seemed to be.

"I'd say by the band on their arm, and the tattoo on their neck that they are affiliated with hydra." The AI responded in his usual monotone like voice. "Shall I contact Mister Stark and tell him to come into the room?"

"Yes, please do." Steve replied.

Everyone stood in the room as a large amount of tension started to build. This was not good, the youngest person in this facility, who usually had a large amount of people watching her, had somehow been taken. If that had happened, what was to say none of them would be as well?

About five minutes later Tony walked into the room, looking like he had just rolled out of bed. He was closely followed by Pepper, who as usually looked ready for the day.

"We have a huge problem." Angie spoke for everyone as she pointed at the screen on the wall. JARVIS replayed the footage for the two newcomers to watch. By the end, Pepper had a look of horror on her face, while Tony had an oh shit look.

"Shit. Tony finally said.

Peggy was discovering that every time Alice disappeared, whether that be by being kidnapped or from a time bending device, she got more and more anxious. If her mother would have been alive she would have called it a mothers intuition, if her grandmother would have been alive she would have said Margret, you are going soft.

She was worried about Alice's whereabouts, and concerned about what lead Alice to be outside so early in the morning in the first place. It hadn't even been six o'clock yet, and even during the day she wasn't allowed outside without someone there. Granted, the child, if she were there that is, would have argued that Potter was a someone.

They all sat around the dining room table trying to devise a plan. Nobody ate breakfast, nobody was hungry. Potter sat by the door whining for his owner that wouldn't come walking through. Peggy also felt herself glancing at the door, waiting for her daughter to run in, laughing. Alice would have then run onto her lap and hugged her, telling her some absurd story of what she had just done.

It didn't happen though, the door stayed closed and the dog continued to whine.

Peggy had a feeling though, that Potter knew something they didn't. Like the identity of the person who took Alice (because while everyone called it a him Peggy wasn't going to cross out a her). Potter would let them know if the person was in sight.

All the Avengers were around the table, along with Howard who insisted on helping. Angie, Jarvis and Anna had left the room. They wanted to help but knew that they should leave it for the people in the world of saving the day.

Peggy looked across the table at Steve, whose jaw was set and locked. He was mad, because while his face looked passive, she could see it in his eyes. Why wouldn't he be, though? Their child had been stolen from right under their noses in their own back yard.

"We need to figure out why they took her before we can determine who it is that took her." Bruce explained logically. That made the most sense, figure it out one step at a time. Easy…ish.

"We already know that is was somebody from hydra." Tony pointed out in a bored voice.

"Then we should find out where they're based." Howard said.

"They have bases all over the world… they took all of SHIELDS. It is like trying to take a needle from a haystack." Natasha rubbed her temples, trying to ward off an oncoming headache.

Everyone felt defeat on their shoulders, and Peggy felt a stinging in her eyes that she willed to go away. She had cried enough tears yesterday for a long time, yet the little girl was going to bring more out of her.

"Where are Alice's files? Maybe that will help," Howard suggested and as soon as he popped the p a virtual screen appeared in front of him with Alice's file, waiting to be read. Howard went right to work. Yet, even though they knew that Alice would be found everyone was still on edge.

Peggy looked at Steve again, and saw that he looked even angrier. They were doing everything that they could. Seeing him that angry though, made her more upset.

"What about her tracking device?" asked Bruce suddenly as he looked up from the paper file that was in front of him? "Didn't you put one on everyone?"

Tony seemed to realize this too, while still looking slightly awkward at the looks he got. "JARVIS, pull up Alice's location."

"You're tracking my child?" Steve fumed as he glared at Tony. Tony shrugged and muttered sorry, yet he did not seem to be sorry at all. To add to the glare, Steve also scowled at him.

Tony, being Tony, completely ignored the captain as he zoomed in on the child's location on a map of the girls. "Alice is on a place over the Atlantic Ocean, heading towards Europe." He announced.

"Let's go then." Steve said as he stood up and looked around at everyone.

"Steve, we need to think about this before we act." Natasha cautioned him as she looked up. "They expect us to just go after her like a bunch of amateurs. We've all been compromised by her."

"They'll hurt her!" exclaimed Steve with anger. "I will not sit by and watch my child in danger." He looked over at Peggy, expecting her to agree with him right away.

Peggy sighed and gave him a guilty look. "I hate to do this, but I agree with Natasha. They want us to go after right away. They're waiting for us to come, and if we wait a little while, a day or so at the most, we can surprise them." Peggy explained to him. "Besides, we can't just go and attack a plane. It will all out of the sky, and that will do more harm than good."

Steve looked at her as though she had grown two heads, how could she agree with everyone else? "She is my daughter and I say we go right now!" Steve's voice was strained, he obviously didn't want to yell at her. Yet, Peggy wanted him to right now. She was angry, he was angry, bottling it up would do them no good. And while Peggy knew that he meant well about trying to find the child right away, his attitude was bordering on Alice's and it was getting on her nerves.

"Steven Rogers, Alice is my daughter also," Peggy said as she heard her voice break. She did not want that to happen, and while she hardened the look on her face, her voice gave her away. "We are not going after her right now. If we do they will hurt her more, and that is an order, do you understand me?"

"You can't tell me what to do, Agent Carter." Steve said.

"I'm above you Captain, and you will do what I tell you." Peggy yelled in her drill sergeant voice.

Without a word, she turned and fled from the room so nobody would see the tears that were starting to spill. And instead of going into her and Steve's bedroom, she went into Alice's. From her perch on the child's bed, she heard the door to their bedroom close.