Where Am I?
(Steve POV)
Steve opens his eyes and sees that he's in a white room. He sits up, looks down and he has an IV in his arm and he's wearing a hospital gown. He rips off the VI that's attached to him, goes into the bathroom, turns on the faucet and runs water on his face. He looks in the mirror and sees that he has a beard and his hair is longer then it ever has been in his life. Also in the mirror he sees a bullet wound in his shoulder, he touches it. He pulls the gown down in front of him a bit and sees two other bullet wounds on his chest. "What's going on?" He whispers to himself. He hears the other door open and a woman starts speaking another language, he can tell she's panicking a little bit by her tone, she must be concerned since he wasn't in the bed.
He steps out slowly, preparing for the worst but as he does it's just a nurse, she has a shocked but relieved look on her face. "Where am I? Do you speak English?" He asks as she keeps speaking another language, he recognizes that its German. She puts her finger up saying just a minute, he nods in agreement as she walks out.
After a few minutes a man in a suit walks in, "Captain Rogers, you're finally awake." He spoke confidently.
"Who are you? Where am I?" He asks quickly. Steve is prepared to fight if he needs to, he doesn't trust this guy.
"Your in Germany, you've been in a coma for two weeks." He answers, "I'm Agent Lewis, CIA."
"Why am I in Germany? What happened to me?" He again asks quickly and little aggressively.
"What do you remember Captain Rogers?"
"Um...I just defeated Schmidt, the plane I was on was headed to New York, I had to crash it and...talking to Peggy." He answers slowly trying to remember everything.
"You don't remember anything else?" The agent asked confused. "...Captain...you were found and thawed in the ice in 2011...that was 5 years ago, it's been over 70's since you crashed that plane." He told him gently.
He breathes heavy and looks around absolutely confused. "What?" He has to sit down, he's trying to take it all in. "Did it work? Bringing down the plane? Is everyone safe? Where's Peggy?"
"...Whoa one question at a time, yes you saved millions of lives that day...and I'm sorry, Agent Carter past away over 2 years ago...I was told you went to her funeral."
"I did?" He couldn't remember anything. "What else happened?"
"After you were unfrozen you saved New York from space aliens, formed a team named The Avengers, joined Shield but then they got disbanded because of corruption with Hydra and saved a city called Sokovia from an army of robots." He explains.
"I did all that? Seriously? Where is my team then?"
"The Avengers broke up...we don't know what exactly happened but...you guys disagreed on the Accords...it was a legal agreement that you couldn't do anything without approval from the UN first and only what they told you to do, if you didn't agree you had to retire and if you did anything without approval or if you didn't sign the accords and continued to go on your own missions you would be arrested...you didn't sigh it...you've been on the run for 2 years."
"That doesn't sound like me..." He's confused and getting angry. "Your lying."
"No, I'm not...lets just say the world is not like it use to be."
"So why am I here? Why haven't you arrested me then if I'm a fugitive?"
"Because somehow you sent us a recording of Secretary Thaddeus Ross being a Hydra spy...he was the one that created the accords, the second we found out the truth the accords were immdiately disbanded which meant you were no longer a fugitive." He told him, "I don't know how he got to you but he beat you, shot you and dumped your body in the river, a fisherman found you and brought you to this little hospital. One of the doctors recognized you, knew you were a fugitive and called us, we have just been waiting for you to wake up and tell us more what you know." He explains.
"But I don't remember any of this?"
"I see that." He said a little annoyed at the situation. "I'm guessing your memory must have reset from being in that freezing water." He guessed.
"You don't have any clues to where he can be? This Ross guy?"
"No...there's a warrant for his arrest." He informed him. "That's why we have been waiting for you to wake up...I know you can't remember anything or him but would you help us find him?"
"Yes." He quickly agreed.
"Good, now we can't let anyone know your alive, we can't risk Ross finding out, he thinks your dead and we're going to keep it that way, we need to make sure that it goes public that your dead because he's going to get suspicious soon if a body doesn't turn up. We'll keep you here in Germany, he tried to kill you here for a reason and we're going to find out why," He told him.
"Okay, let's do it." Steve nodded his head.
"Now, are you sure you don't want to concentrate on getting your memory back?"
"I will deal with that later, what's more important is to bring down Hydra."
"I'll get you some clothes and find a place for you to stay." Lewis said with a smile
Two weeks later Lewis called Steve to tell him that they got authorization to check out a ship that use to belong to Shield. They walk inside the ship and it does look familiar, he walks up to Lewis.
"What is this place?"
"We think that you helped stop Hydra from hijacking this ship." He told him. Steve suddenly got flashes of a little girl smiling up at him "you saved us" he heard in his head, "It use to be one of Shield's and was turned into a transportation and tourist ship, they took 20 of them hostage."
"I saved them." He quietly said.
"What? You remember?"
"No not really but just that I have been here before." He responds.
"If that's true and you really were here then you saved all 20 people that night, we didn't know who it was at the time but...it makes sense that it was you."
"Come on, let's check this place out." Steve commands looking around. They look through the whole ship to see what they could find, they looked through the computer, trying to find anything that could have been missed before. "They wanted this ship for a reason." Steve confidently said.
"Whatever it was that was here...it's gone." Lewis disappointingly replied, they walk off the ship and start to leave. "Steve?' He hears behind him and turns to see a man he doesn't recognize.
"Sorry, do I know you?" He asked him.
"It's Patrick, you don't remember me?" He asked confused.
"I'm sorry, no."
"I helped you find Hydra bases when you were down here." He explains.
"You did?" He asked half confused but also half relieved, they finally got some sort of break, Patrick nodded, again confused. "Where are these bases? Do you still know the locations?"
"Yeah...what's wrong with you? Why don't you remember?"
"It's a long story...Ross tried to kill me that caused me to lose my memory somehow." Steve explained, "no one can know I'm alive right now, it's not safe for anybody."
"Got it, your secret is safe with me. I'll send you that intel." He informed him.
As Steve walked away Lewis stopped Patrick from leaving, "seriously, keep this between us." He sternly demanded.
"Wait, what about Natasha? Does she know?" Patrick suddenly realized.
"No, we're not telling anyone, everyone thinks he's dead and it's going to stay that way until we find Ross."
"But she could help him get his memory back." Patrick replies getting a little angry, "don't you want his memory back? It could help with finding Ross"
"I did at first...but I quickly saw how invested he is and now I am not to concerned with him remembering his past right now, all his focus has been on Ross and nothing else, that's where I want it to stay...I don't want him distracted right now. Once we get Ross and Hydra then I will help but not until then, you got it?"
"Yeah...sure, your secret is safe with me." Patrick clearly didn't agree with this decision. "Good." Lewis replied as he walked away and met up with Steve.
4 Months Later
Steve hasn't left Germany, it has been difficult not knowing anything since he woke up but he hasn't really tried. He doesn't really want to remember, worried he won't like it, I mean there was a reason why he almost got killed in the first place and he really doesn't want to know why. All he is focused on is finding the man that almost killed him and finish bringing down Hydra. Right now that's all that matters.
He is sleeping having a dream, the same dream he's had several times now but doesn't understand it at all. He's on some sort of Island and he sees a woman from behind walking in the sand, telling him to follow her, he doesn't know why but he listens. He never sees her face, every time she turns her head to look at him her long strawberry blond hair covers her face and can only see her green eyes and through them can tell she is smiling. She's wearing a white tanktop with a pale pink thin flowing skirt that showed off her legs, she's not wearing shoes. She stretches her arm out bringing it behind her and reaches out for him to take her hand, he can't reach it how hard he tries. When he is finally about to take her hand someone else stops him by putting their hand on his shoulder, "Steve?" He hears behind him and as he turns around he sees that it's Peggy, she's smiling. "Peggy?"
"Come with me Steve?"
"But...your dead." He softly sighed.
"No...I'm here, WE can stay here and be together." She smiles, reaching out her hand for him to take.
He looks at Peggy's hand and then turns his head back to the woman and she's walking away and will look back at him every now and then. Even though he can't see her face he knows she's sad that he didn't take her hand. He looks back at Peggy then again back at the woman, for some reason he can't leave this woman. She continues to walk farther away and began to stop looking back at him. "Wait!" He shouts out to her, she doesn't stop walking, she keeps going. "I'm sorry," he tells Peggy.
He begins to follow the woman and leave Peggy behind. "Find me." The woman whispers in the distance, it was as if she was whispering it right in his ear.
He suddenly shoots up in bed sweating, completely out of breath. He dashes into the bathroom to wash his face and the back of his neck in the sink. He looks in the mirror, he's had this dream many times but this one was different, Peggy has never been in it, usually he would wake up right before he reached for the woman's hand, none of this made sense. "Who is she?" He mouths to himself in the mirror. "What am I saying? It's just a dream." He exhales right before laying back down and tries to go back to sleep but can't, it's always hard for him to sleep at night. When he's finally drifting off he gets a phone call, he answers and it's Lewis.
"We got something." Is all he said.
"I'll be right there." Without no hesitation.
Now you know what Steve has been up too. Will he be able to remember? Can you just guess what his dream is about and who the woman is?
