The car ride back to the apartment was quiet. Project Insight had not gone over well with Steve. She didn't blame him, there was just something off about it. She went to go up to her apartment with Nat, but Steve took her wrist, leading her to his apartment. He opened the door and tossed his keys in the bowl on the table.

He leaned against the kitchen counter, sighing before turning to her. "You knew didn't you. About Project Insight." He stated. She walked over to the couch, leaning on the arm.

"I only found out last night. In theory it seems like a good idea, but something doesn't feel right about it to me." Steve shook his head and was about to say something, but Cassidy walked up to him, taking his hands in hers. "Look I don't trust Alexander Pierce as far as I can throw him, guys a scumbag. But Nick? I trust Nick with my life, and I believe he's trying to do good here.": She told him.

He nodded, pulling her against his chest. If she trusted Fury, then he should too.

"Hey, I thought we could go to the Smithsonian today, check out the Captain America exhibit. What do you say?" She asked, looking up at him. He gave her a small smile. He'd been dreading going, but he knew how much Cassidy wanted to.

"That sounds like a good idea."

The exhibit was pretty busy, just like she figured it would be. Everyone wanted to see all about Captain America. They walked up to a picture of Pre-Serum Steve with statistics on it. The recording talked about how he was denied from enlisting because of all the health problems he had. There were kids measuring themselves next to the photos of Steve before the serum, and Cassidy caught one little boy staring at them. She tugged on Steve's arm and he looked at the boy and held a finger to his lips smiling, and the boy just nodded his head slowly.

Steve stopped to look at the portrait of the Howling Commandos with their uniforms and Cassidy wandered off down a hall to a different part of the exhibit. She stopped when she saw a monument to Bucky. He as so handsome. Beautiful eyes and a jaw that could cut glass. There was a video playing below the monument and a choked sob got caught in her throat.

Steve and Bucky were standing together, laughing like everything was fine in the world. There wasn't audio, but Cassidy tried to picture what his voice sounded like. She reached a hand out and placed it on the screen next to Bucky's smiling face, jumping only slightly when she felt Steve's hand on her shoulder.

"I didn't know they had this in here." He said softly.

Cassidy found her voice again and leaned into Steve. "It's beautiful. You must miss him so much. I miss him and I never knew him." She told him. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. "You would have loved him, and he would have been crazy about you. You're a lot alike. Definitely would have teamed up on me." He said with a chuckle.

The last part of the exhibit was an interview clip from Peggy Carter. She knew from Steve and stories she'd read that he loved her before he went into the ice. She talked about the time he save over a thousand men from Hydra's control, including Bucky and Peggy's soulmate, who she later married.

When they left the Smithsonian, they started to drive home but Cassidy had a better idea. She pulled up to the retirement home she knew Peggy was living from Sharon. Steve glanced at her with a confused look.

"Go see her. I bet she'll be happy to see you." She told him.

"How did you know where she was?"

Cassidy shrugged her shoulders. "I have my ways. Now go, I'll see you at home okay?" Steve leaned in and kissed her softly, before getting out of the car and going inside.

She took a long shower when she got home, and when she finally got out, she noticed she had a missed call from Nick. She called him back a few times but he didn't answer. Frowning, she was about to go upstairs to see if Nat had heard from him when she heard the window open.

She froze and listened to footsteps stumble around the living room. She threw her clothes on and grabbed the gun she kept under the sink she prayed Steve didn't know about. Slowly moving down the hallway, she heard the radio turn on. What the hell?

She turned the corner, gun up aimed to shoot when she saw it was Nick. "Jesus Nick, what the hell are you doing here?" She said, entering the living room and making her way over to Nick. When she got closer, she noticed the blood and bruises on his face. She slid to her knees in front of him, placing her gun on the floor next to knee.

"Nick…what the hell happened to you?" She asked. He shook his head and she whipped hers around when she heard someone come through the window at the end of the hall. She reached for her gun but relaxed when she saw it was Steve.

"I don't remember giving you a key." He said. Nick grunted and Cassidy tried to help him sit up.

"You really think I'd need one?" Nick replied. "My wife kicked me out."

Cassidy turned her head to look at him. That was a code for something bad. Nick wasn't married.

"I didn't know you were married." Steve told him, while Cassidy slowly stood, taking her gun with her to check out the window. If Nick had been followed there, they needed to be careful.

"There's a lot of things you don't know about me."

"I know Nick. That's the problem." Steve said, flipping on a light, freezing when he saw the state Nick was in. Cassidy turned back to Nick, moving to get a first aid kit from under the kitchen sink while Nick turned the light back out.

Cassidy came back into the living room and kneeled in front of Nick. He had his phone out with the words 'Ears everywhere' typed out.

"Sorry I had to do this but I had no place else to crash." Nick lied,

'Shield Compromised' was the next message he typed. Cassidy glanced back at Steve with a worried look on her face.

"Who else knows about your wife?" Steve asked. Cassidy's hands were shaking as she got out gauze and bandages from the kit, searching for the bottle of antiseptic spray.

"Just my friends." Nick said, getting up and walking toward Steve. Cassidy followed, taking some gauze and pressing it to his cheek.

A gunshot rang out and Nick was on the floor. Cassidy reached for her gun but it wasn't in her pocket, she had left it by the med kit on the floor. She went to grab it but Steve pulled her back in the kitchen after he dragged Nick in there. Nick shoved a flash drive in his hand, telling him not to trust anyone.

There was a bang on the front door and Cassidy heard Sharon's voice ring out.

"Captain Rogers?"

"Sharon, were in here!" Cassidy yelled, earning her a shocked look from Steve. Sharon rounded the corner, gun raised.

"I'm Agent 13 of Shield Special Service." She told Steve. "I'm assigned to protect you."

"On whose orders?" Steve asked.\

She looked down at Nick on the floor then to Cassidy, who was barely keeping it together at this point. "His." She said.

She pulled out a walkie from her pocket. "Foxtrot is down and unresponsive we need EMTs."

"Do we have a 20 on the shooter?" The voice replied.

"Tell him I'm in pursuit." Steve told them before he jumped out the window.