"You know, you could've just been honest.", Steve smirked as she rolled her eyes. "First of all, where's the fun in that? And secondly, that's not a yes or no.", Peggy teased as she made sure to show off her leg, raising it out of the water as another way of enticing him to enter.

"Yes, I will join you.", Steve said as he shook his head and started stripping. Peggy smiled, "Good man.", purring lightly in both sympathy and admiration, "You've been trying to wank off while I was gone, huh?", watching Steve walk forward as he closed the bathroom door, with his rod clearly hard and tight.

Steve sighed, "Tried my best between missions, but it isn't the same without you, my beloved.", as he stepped up the two steps, walked in, and groaned as the warm water met his body, and then smiled lovingly, "You are the only woman to make me like this.", swimming a bit to meet Peggy, enveloping her in his arms.

"Aw, I'm sure there was some lovely French girls who must have been happy to have you help liberate them.", Peggy chuckled as Steve rubbed the back of his neck.

"Well, yes and no in some ways, for much of the time, the frontline was fairly slow, so we had to fight for many of the villages, but certainly once the breakout was happening there were quite a few mademoiselles who did approach and give us a warm French welcome.", Steve explained. "Though some of the troops had some fun with them, I, more or less, was moving from fight to fight.".

Peggy smiled, "Keeping to your morals, that's my Captain.", before nuzzling his neck, "Erskine was kind enough to be careful with Susan's blood sample before he got rid of it on my request. He found out that her conception actually happened on Christmas Day.", with a chuckle.

"Seriously? Wow...", Steve shook his head. "I was sure it was the first time we did it.", with a surprised, thoughtful look. "Apparently not... I guess what Erskine says is true in some ways, about the Quantonium?", Peggy replied.

Steve blinks, "So, the Quantonium is alive within us and listens to us somehow, then...", before feeling a bit of buzz, and he rubs his chest with a hand, "I felt that...Did you feel something?".

Peggy nods, "Yeah, through it's like a buzz, but not a headache buzz...We never felt pain when we were given the extra...I guess the first day was only of the fact to make sure that we were compatible with the Quantonium.", before feeling another buzz, "Okay, it's alive for sure...Strange, I ain't mad or anything as it feels like an old friend just helping us...Does that make sense, Steve?".

Steve nodded, "Of course. It only hurt the first time because we stopped being human and became something... different. Still mostly human, but there's a part that's just alien to this whole world in many ways.".

Peggy nodded, "And we only just acknowledged it now. Our Quantonium...if you're okay with it?", and she felt a faint buzz, and she asked, "You only appear in buzzes when you need to, huh?", feeling another buzz.

Steve smiled, "That's good, because I am sure it knows when to come or not, hmm?", and there's no buzz for the Quantonium realizes that Steve is now thinking something else. "Peggy, nothing now?".

Peggy shook her head, "Nope...", before noticing Steve's look, "Oh...I see.", smiling coyly as she takes ahold of his rod, encasing it in her hand, "Enough waiting, huh? Make me yours, luv.".

"Yeah, I think we better do this now before Susan can interrupt us.", Steve chuckled as Peggy nodded. "I'm sure the Quantonium will keep her asleep long enough for us to at least get all this energy out of us.", Peggy kissed him on the lips.

Steve purred softly, "Couldn't agree more.", before leaning into nibbling on her skin as he grabbed Peggy's ass, lifting her up as Peggy moaned, guiding him quickly, and without even hesitance, Steve then pushed into her, glad the water is easing the friction and the slight pain as Peggy gasped out in pleasure when Steve started to thrust hard yet slow.

"Oh, I missed this so much...", Peggy moaned out as Steve kissed her again. "You and me both, Peggy.", he chuckled as he kept pushing further into her.

Peggy mewed out loud as Steve went to lick and caress her breasts with his mouth while pushing deeper as he lowered Peggy slightly more, hitting her G-spot, and Peggy cried out in pleasure, "Steve!".

Steve growled as he swam with his legs, to the wall, and pinned her against the wall of the tub, halfway in with her back and head arching on the higher wall of tile, thrusting harder than before, hitting her G-spot as Peggy's cries of pleasure became louder.

"Oh, this always feels so good...", Steve said as Peggy nodded. "I think it feels even better for me.", Peggy laughed. "Guess it's compensation since I'm the one that has to give birth.".

Steve chuckled softly, "True, and ever since I saw Susan for the first time, I realized that my secret dream is coming true...As you know, Bucky has four sisters, and well, I always wanted to have a big family...As you know, I was born on July 4th...4 has been my lucky number ever since...But it's up to you...After all, it's your body, Peggy...Plus, I think Susan has to understand sooner or later that she can be a big sister...She's sharp as a whip, that one...", with a smile.

"Let's get this war to be over before we start really considering any other children, alright, Steve?", Peggy smiled before she nodded. "But I don't mind having a few more around if you want that answer now."

Steve's heart swelled happily as he kissed her lips again, murmuring, "You have no idea how that makes me happy...And yes, I agree about waiting to consider more children, my queen. Right now, and all through the war to the end, all this lovemaking is fun and happy, hmm?", before thrusting deeper.

Peggy purred as she gasped and mewed, "Oh, yes. Fun lovemaking is perfect right now.", before crying out, "Please, Steve!".

"I will.", Steve answered to her cry as he started to thrust harder than he had before as he was slowly starting to reach his limit with her.

Mews, groans, moans, cries, grunts, and growls filled the bathroom as Peggy and Steve continued on for several minutes with Peggy occasionally dipping a finger to warm the water back up, turning on her fire power slightly.

Finally, at the edge, Peggy begged Steve, "I'm almost there, luv! Faster!", and Steve murmured into her ear, "As you wish, my queen.", grabbing her hips closer as he thrusted faster, feeling the edge himself as well.

A minute later, Peggy cried loudly in ecstasy, "Steve!", as she came, and a second later, Steve followed by, crying out as he came, "Peggy!", filling her up fast.

The two of them held on for another good thirty seconds before they were finally spent and collapsed in the tub, though their heads were above the waterline.

"You weren't... kidding... about being pent up...", Steve panted. Peggy panted as she smiled at him, "Can you blame me, luv? Two months, I have been stuck here...Between feeding Susan, catching up on sleep, meals, and drills, I barely found a moment on the weekends for myself.".

"Sorry I couldn't help with that, but I was needed everywhere in Normandy... had to crush those new King Tigers the Germans deployed near Caen a few weeks ago. Nasty tanks but quite flawed in some ways; too complicated to fix in the field compared to our Shermans and a bit too slow at times.", Steve said.

"So, I've heard, but at least it's just another tank we can easily kick around. I was more concerned about those buzz bombs. They've been hitting London with dozens of them. I actually took out a few before they hit their target.", Peggy explained.

"Yeah, I was stunned to find out about them too. One of them got lucky in terms of where it was targeting and struck the Thunderbolt; didn't destroy it but that thing's pretty much out of action for months.", Steve sighed. "At least we don't really need it much now since we're taking back almost all of France.".

Peggy kissed him warmly, "And soon, we will win the war. After all, we're taking back France, so we can rescue France's neighbors, and we will bottle the Nazi down to the roots. I just know it!".

Steve smiled brightly, "Look at you, borrowing my optimistic faith...I love you, Peggy.", kissing her passionately. Peggy sighed as she cradled his cheeks, enjoying the kiss, and then pulled back slightly, "I love you too, Steve. Let's get out of here, and cuddle in bed...I miss your cuddling hugs.".

Steve chuckled, "Sounds perfect to me.", helping Peggy get out of the tub-pool, and headed out the bathroom to put on their pajamas, and Peggy smiled at Steve lovingly as they tucked into bed, with Steve spooning her, "And don't worry about Susan...She would be asleep four-five hours at best...After all, she knows that night is for sleep most of all.".

"That's good to know, she's been pretty good about not keeping you awake during the night?", Steve said. "Not often, I think she's smarter than she gives off, she's not a normal baby for sure, which is a relief for me since I don't know if I could handle being up all night because of her.", Peggy replied.

Steve chuckled, "Susan is truly ours...", kissing Peggy on the temple, "Good night, my queen.", closing his eyes as he buried his nose in her hair.

Peggy whispered, "Good night, my king.", with a content smile as she fell asleep, feeling warm and wonderful as she intertwined her hands with his hands around her belly.

Indeed, as planned, the next few weeks happened similarly, with Peggy assisting Steve in the mornings, with either Erskine or Phillips looking over Susan, and in the afternoons, Steve returns to spend time with his daughter, and in the evenings, the family's all together, eating dinner, reading stories, listening to the radio, dancing, and lovemaking times when Susan's asleep.

Of course, there were unique moments that happened, like Susan learning how to eat solid foods in mushed style slowly, how to roll over, how to crawl during the time of her parents being there to witness it all...And rarely, there are frustratingly scary yet good moments when Erskine or Phillips were watching her...

One of those moments happened on a late September day, with Peggy and Steve out on duty in the morning as usual, and Erskine, having important science stuff to do, handed Susan to the colonel to watch over her.

Phillips had noticed that Susan had been slowly warming up to him, but not quite there in the way of earning her respect like Steve said, and Phillips had to admit that Susan's growing intelligence is remarkable as she enjoyed playing with army toys, often pointing to them when she asked for it.

Phillips couldn't help but admire the young baby. He was mostly married to the army life and didn't have much of a chance for a family through the years and yet, here was Susan who obviously was reaching to his heart figuratively.

Between checking on Susan in her playpen and looking at the papers on his desk, it was a normal morning as much as previous times, with amused smiles when Susan did something to call his attention, and with simple explanations when Susan wanted a story, it was routine when Phillips noticed that he needed to grab one of his maps from the room next door so he could compare notes from reports.

Phillips got up from his chair, moving around the desk, earning Susan's attention, and she babbled, and Phillips smiled softly as he grabbed the bottle from the cabinet table, and replied, "I forgot something. Here's your bottle if you're a bit hungry. I'll be right back, okay?".

Susan smiled gummily, clapping her hands, and Phillips knew that that was her way of acknowledging his words, and Phillips left the bottle in her playpen as Susan was currently playing with a toy army truck, and got up to head to the next room.

Phillips sighed as he quickly wanted to take care of what he needed to do as to not take much of an eye off of Susan. He'd rather not end up somehow have something bad happen to her while he looked away and face the wrath of her parents. Susan obviously was a smarter baby than normal ones, but at the end of the day, she still was one.

Susan happily played with her toy army truck, figuring that she'd drink soon, humming a nonsensical song that only made sense to her in baby language, and looked up when a knock came, and the door opened, revealing two army officers coming in, stiffly and respectful, "Colonel Phillips?".

Susan shrugged, figuring that it was officers talking to Phillips again about something called war, turning her attention back to her toy army truck. She knew war was bad, but she was kept from most of it except for the reels that starred her parents.

The two officers saw the baby before Phillips called out. "I'm in the next room, gentlemen, just go through there.". The men shrugged before they looked back at the baby once more as she continued to play, both of them having their own private thoughts at the situation before marching into the next room with Phillips.

Phillips were looking through the map storage shelves when he heard the two officers, and now turned around to face them, "Ah, Khelps and Sanders. Make it quick, gentlemen. I am not in the mood for long term reports.".

"Well, sir, it's mostly just those last-minute reports for the upcoming operation.", Khelps explained as he placed the folders on the table. "Right... Monty's big plan to end the war by Christmas.", Phillips huffed as he sat down to look over the documents.

Once the Falaise Gap had been closed, the Allies pushed hard with their victory. Forces landed in the south for Operation Dragoon and blitzed northwards to link up with Patton's 3rd Army that was driving towards Alsace where the old Maginot Line and German borders were. Meanwhile, the US 1st, Canadian 1st and British 2nd Armies liberated Paris and drove towards Luxembourg, Belgium and finished clearing out much of the German forces in their path, pushing most into small pockets along the Channel ports like Calais and Dunkirk.

With the recent liberation of Antwerp and the quick clearing of the Scheldt estuary, the largest port in Europe would be open soon for the Allies to pour in their supplies and keep the drive going.

However, Field Marshal Montgomery was planning a major coup de grace in order to win infamy by having an operation to cross the infamous Rhine River of Germany and bypass the Westwall defenses. Using the Airborne troops that hadn't been used since D-Day, land at several cities in Holland: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, seize critical bridges along a main road that the British XXX (30th) Corps would roll armor down and get Allied troops across the Rhine at Arnhem.

"His plan has some issues obviously.", Sanders added. "The intel that it's only old men and young boys as part of the German units guarding much of those areas while the Dutch resistance claims that two SS Panzer divisions are refitting in Arnhem alone.".

"Which if Carter and Rogers jump with the airborne won't matter much; they'll smash any armored vehicle the Germans throw at us with ease.", Phillips reminded.

Khelps nodded, "Yes, sir. We were said to deliver those last-minute reports, and when you're ready after editing the reports to help Montgomery, we are willing to send them back.".

Sanders replied, "And Montgomery would appreciate it if you could do it under 12 hours or less, sir!", with a nod.

Phillips raised an eyebrow, "Urgent, then. Very well, inform your unit chief that I'll be done with the edited reports within 5 hours. You are dismissed, gentlemen.". Khelps and Sanders saluted him, and left the room, closing the door partly, figuring that Phillips will organize the reports from most important to less important.

Khelps glanced at the baby, "Does it look familiar to you, Sanders?", and Sanders nodded, "It's the spawn of Carter and Rogers. No way that Phillips would volunteer taking care of a freaky baby...I mean, he's practically married to his work, and I never, ever heard of him having a family at all...Is Phillips playing grandfather for this brat?".

"Why else is it here? Of course, he is." Khelps scoffed. "That little freak just sits around the damn army command rather than being in a nursery or a freakshow.".

Susan was busy, playing with blocks as she drank her bottle when she heard footsteps closer, and looked up, and frowned as it wasn't Phillips coming out yet, but the two officers, and refocused on building her blocks when she heard the conversation, and with every word, tears filled her eyes as she clearly understood the delegatory words. After all, Peggy had encounters with some judging people on the strolls she and her mother had.