Carol took in a sharp breath, her whole body screaming in pain. She found herself unable to move much, as all around her were Anthony, Steve, and Thor, who all looked as bad as she felt.

Thor's arm was underneath her head as a makeshift pillow, his other over her hips. She dared not move, because she did not want to wake them, but-

"Carol? Are you-" Thor stopped and gave the same reaction to waking up as she did. He looked so sad, and she could not figure out why...after all, they were finally free of the mad tyrant that hunted them down relentlessly. Slowly, Thor moved her hair away from her face and back behind her shoulders. His fingers shook as he ghosted over bruises shaped like fingers on her neck. "I'm so sorry..."

She squinted painfully, realizing that was why her neck hurt so much, and her head was pounding.

"It's ok..." From her expression, he could see she was not lying, however it might take a while before they would truly be able to recover from this. So much had happened in the past few weeks, it was hard to believe they survived it all.

"Come here..." Thor sat up, hiding how much it hurt quite well, but his eyes betrayed him and he looked down at his wound. "It's fine...I promise, it's stopped bleeding, I just..." He hugged her gently and kissed her forehead.

"Let me see..." She pushed back slightly, checking to see that it had in fact started to heal, but she would have to go inside and treat for infection.

"Are you two ok?" A small voice averted their attention. Anthony slowly righted himself up and yawned. He rubbed his head, feeling subtle pain, and a ringing was still in his ear, but...

"All things considered..." Thor smiled. "Thank-you, Anthony..."

"No, don't do that..." Anthony sighed. "I just wished I could've done more to-"

"Hey..." Steve was awake, and interrupted him. He grunted as he seated himself, his muscles were still shaky. "We are only here because of you...you've saved us so many times, and most importantly...you brought us all together..."

He shook his head, not in the mood for a rebuttal, and brushed Steve's messy hair. "It's not my fault you are nothing but trouble..."

"You've known that about us since day one..." Steve smirked. "But, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if we just took it easy for a while."

"A relaxing trip does sound nice...it's been a while..." Carol thought. "How's Greece this time of year?"

"Far away..." Steve dreaded being on the road, but he was ready to get out of here for good, away from the horrible memories. "...but I'm ok with that..."

"As long as we're together...I don't care where we go..." Anthony smiled.

"Aye..." Thor agreed.

Anthony stood on top of the highest point of Notre Dame, gazing over the city. It was still peaceful up here, the breeze relaxing him, and the birds sang on this beautiful day.

"Anthony?" Steve approached with a book in his hand. "You ready?"

"Honestly, I don't know..." Anthony sighed. "This prison was also my home...it's beautiful, it's mysterious, dangerous, especially...and so much fun to climb..." They laughed.

"You know, we can always come back...we can do whatever we want..."

"I know...I guess, now that I have the freedom to do that, it scares me...all my life I've been told what to do for every second of the day, and...now what?"

"I don't know..." Steve answered. "But that's the fun of it, I guess..." He scratched his head, trying to come up with what to say. "I made you something...it's sort of a hobby of mine, and Notre Dame is so beautiful, I actually started doing this before we really met, uh...here..."

Steve handed Anthony the little book, and he opened it to the first page. "Wow...Steve...it's..." Rough sketches of Notre Dame herself were filled in the book, even the bells were featured, and he could not help but tear up. "These are beautiful."

"I'm sorry I was in a bit of a hurry each time...I tried to pick out everything this morning, and, well...like I said, we can come back, and I'll take more time to get the details of the-" Steve was silenced with a kiss, and he wrapped his arms around Anthony.

"Thank-you, Steve...just thank-you for everything..."