Cassidy came to shortly after, coughing, trying to catch her breath from all the smoke. Nat was still unconscious. Steve helped her up and started looking over her for injuries.

"Steve, I'm okay, help Nat, we need to get out of here." She told him, pushing his hands away. He lifted Nat off the ground and they ran. They found another car and Steve hotwired it, telling Cassidy he knew a place they could go.

It didn't take them long to get there, Nat had woken up shortly after they started driving. They got out of the car and walked up to a small house. Steve knocked on the door and the man from the park they'd met the other day opened it up.

"Hey man." He said. Steve had told them a little about Sam on the way over. Former military, worked at the VA now.

"I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low." Steve told him.

"Everyone we know is trying to kill us." Nat said.

Sam sighed and stepped aside to let them in. "Not everyone."

They shuffled into the kitchen and Sam jerked his head toward the hallway. "The shower's down there, I might have something to fit you Cap, but no ladies' clothes here unfortunately." He told them.

Nat smirked. "What, fine man like you isn't strapped down yet?"

Sam laughed. "Sadly no, I have not met my lovely soulmate yet, but that hasn't stopped me from looking."

Steve insisted Cassidy use the shower first, and the hot water was the most amazing thing she'd felt. She got out and wished she had something else to put on, grumbling as she threw on the clothes she came in. She ran her hands through her damp hair and opened the door, letting Nat in.

Steve was sitting on the bed when she came out, and he smiled up at her, holding his hand out for her. She let him pull her over to the bed, sitting on it, while Steve checked her over for injuries again.

"How are you feeling sweetheart?" He asked. She shrugged and looked down.

"Like the organization my parents and I have given our lives to is a total lie. I don't know how to really feel. Nick was murdered because he found out something he shouldn't have, and we were almost killed last night for the very same reason." She told him. Steve put a finger under her chin, tilting her head up to look at him.

"We're gonna be okay, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you, or to Nat okay? Do you trust me?" He asked. She nodded closing her eyes and resting her head against his.

"Of course, I trust you Steve."

Nat came out of the bathroom and Steve went in, kissing Cassidy on top of the head. She wondered if there would be enough hot water left for him. Nat plopped down on the bed beside her, toweling her hair dry, a blank expression on her face.

"Nat, talk to me." Cassidy said.

Nat sighed and looked over at her friend. "Everything we've worked for, everything we stood for. It's a lie. I thought when I joined Shield, I'd do some good. Turns out I just traded the KGB for Hydra." She told her.

"Listen to me Nat. We were following Nick, under his orders. I believe in every part of my body that Nick was doing the right thing. He was a good man Nat, and he wanted to do good in this world, to save people. If you believe anything, believe that." Cassidy told her.

Nat nodded and gave her a small smile. "I do believe that. I trusted Nick with my life, just like you and Barton." Cassidy smiled at her, looking up when Steve came out of the bathroom. He hadn't put his t-shirt on, but kept his tank top on, and with his wet hair, Cassidy wanted to jump him right there.

"Everything okay out here?" He asked, Cassidy jerked back into focus and smiled at him. "Yeah, were okay."

"Hey, I made breakfast…if you eat that sort of thing." Sam said from the doorway.

They settled around the kitchen table where Sam had laid out pancakes, bacon, eggs and toast. Cassidy hadn't realized how hungry she was. Sam was a good cook, which was more than she could say for Steve.

"So, the question is, who at Shield could launch a domestic missile strike?" Nat asked, taking a sip of orange juice.

"Pierce." Cassidy growled. She was going to kill him. He was the reason for all of this.

"Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world." Nat said, standing up to pace.

"But he's not working alone. Zola's algorithm was on the Lumerian Star." Steve told her. She thought for a minute, a lightbulb going off in her head.

"So was Jasper Sitwell." Cassidy's head shot up.

"So, the real question is, how do the three most wanted people in Washington kidnap a Shield officer in broad daylight?" Steve asked.

Sam came around the table and placed a file folder down. "The answer is you don't."

"What's this?"

"Call it a resume." Sam told him.

Nat and Cassidy came around to stand beside Steve, looking through the files. "Is this Bakhmala?" Nat asked, picking up one of the pictures. "The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you? You didn't say he was a pararescue." She said, gesturing to Steve.

"What'd you use, a stealth suit?" She asked. Sam shook his head, pulling another folder out. This one said Falcon on it. Opening it up, Steve looked from the file back to Sam.

"I though you said you were a pilot?"

Sam chuckled. "I never said pilot."

"I can't ask you to do this Sam." Steve said, sighing. "You got out for a good reason."

"Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in."

Steve smiled and looked back down at the file. "Where can we get our hands on one of these things?"

Cassidy waited in the car while Sam, Nat and Steve procured Sitwell. Sam had been able to go and get her and Nat some clothes, they weren't as comfortable as her Shield suit, but it would have to do. She turned the gun over in her hands. She still couldn't believe this had happened. That her life had turned out this way.

Her soulmate was Captain America, her other soulmate she'd never meet, Shield was Hydra, Nick was gone. All she had left was Nat, Steve and Clint.

The car doors opened and Nat slid in on her right, Sitwell on her left. Same got in to drive, Steve taking the passenger.

"Insights launching in 16 hours." Nat told Steve as they were driving down the highway. "We're cutting it a little bit close here."

"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNS scans and access the Helicarriers directly." Steve replied, agitation evident in his voice.

"What? Are you crazy?" Sitwell asked. "That is a terrible, terrible idea."

There was a thud on top of the car and the back window was busted out, a metal arm coming in and dragging Sitwell out. Cassidy realized what was happening, crawling up into Steve's lap in the front seat, and pulling Nat into the floorboard between his legs. She was thankful this car was bigger than average. She pulled out her gun and shot through the roof of the car a few times, trying to land a hit.

Steve thrust the car to a stop, throwing the shooter in front of them. The man flipped and ground his metal fingers into the pavement, skidding to a stop. A truck slammed into them from behind, and Cassidy lost her gun under the seat.

"Nat my gun!" She yelled, watching as Nat shoved her hands under the seat to look for it. The man flipped up onto the roof before they ran him over, and as hard as Sam tried to stop the car, it was no use. The man reached through the windshield and yanked the steering wheel from the column.

"Oh shit!" Sam yelled, the car still barreling down the highway. The car went sideways and they knew it was going to flip. Steve used his shield to brace against the door and told everybody to hold on. Cassidy grabbed onto Nat and she grabbed Sam's hand just barely as Steve busted the car door open and they flew out of the car, landing on the pavement, Sam and Nat skidding to a stop.

The man lifted a gun and shot at them, Steve barely had enough time to push Cassidy out of the way before it hit his shield, blowing him over the highway, onto the street before.

"Steve!" Cassidy screamed, running over to see if he was okay. The man was raising his gun again, and she had no choice but to jump, a parked car breaking her fall.