Chapter Six:

One Year After The Snap

The compound was unusually quiet, the smell of ash still in the air even after a year of Thanos, whatever few Avengers had been left, they had gone their separate ways trying to find a piece of normalcy in this world. Aside from Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff who had decided to stay at the compound and work their way around, try to find anything unusual in space, anything unusual happening on Earth. They couldn't leave this job even if they tried to and believe them they tried.

They had been trying to find any signs of the missing people, any leads, but sadly they haven't came up with anything, especially with Okoye, Rhodey, Rocket and Carol Danvers searching every inch of the galaxy. That was until Carol had came back to Natasha with some weird news about an explosion in space that was close to Earth.

"Carol did you find any leads? Anything that you can find that can help us track down Thanos?" Natasha asked as she was now pacing the floor, she could feel that Carol was being very impatient with her and her pacing but this was something that could help them!They needed answers!

"Whatever this was..it's gone now..it was a very powerful explosion Natasha..whatever..whoever this was..they could be alive..on Earth right now..this could be dangerous.."Carol didn't like the fact that there was someone else with tremendous power on Earth, who knows what side they could be on.

Natasha was left speechless for the first time in months, she felt as though she knew this person, someone who could do a powerful explosion like that?. She just couldn't put her finger on it. "Thank you Carol..I will let you know if I find any leads.."She said softly "And let me know if you find..."Carol's eyes softened as she knew that Natasha was still looking for Clint Barton. "Will do."

Once the two hung up, she collapsed in her chair, how did she manage to take this job?, why did she take this job? Because the Avengers..this place it was her family, her home, she would do anything to bring her family back, even if it meant searching the galaxies not matter how long it took.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Natasha looked up to see Steve, he was always a constant to her, had been since the day they met, she couldn't picture a life without him. "I think we have a lead..it's a small one..but it can change everything Steve." The soldier smiled at her, her heart skipped at the sight of the smile.

"Well that's definitely good news..I even have some greater news.."Steve moved closer to her, his hands on her shoulders. "Daniel Sousa is alive."Steve said as he placed the picture down in front of her, Natasha's eyes widened as she looked at the picture. How the hell was Daniel Sousa alive?, he died centuries ago..

"This doesn't make any sense..how did you even get this picture Steve?"Steve looked at her sheepishly. "I may have been doing some research, plus I was out for my morning run when I saw him..I didn't want to approach him yet..because maybe it had been a mistake but then I saw him again..and well..he's alive..somehow. And with this girl."He pointed to the girl who was holding hands with Sousa.

"He's loyal to Shield..always has been..but this girl..we don't know her..he could be getting taken advantage of..and he doesn't even know it.."He murmured as he was honestly worried about Sousa, he had met the guy once, he seemed like a genuine fellow. "What should we do then?.."Natasha asked as she looked up at Steve.

"Bring them in.."Steve said firmly, if they had managed to survive the snap, then they must have some answers, some way to bring them back, especially this girl whoever she was.

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"So this is the modern diners huh?...it's kind of quiet."Daniel said to Daisy as the two of them walked hand in hand. "Excuse me..what happened here?."Daisy asked as she noticed something was off, why didn't Coulson tell them about this?, whatever this was it didn't settle with her.

The waitress looked up from her pad, Daisy felt as though the wind was knocked in her throat. Natasha Romanoff. She never thought she would imagine seeing her ever, Daniel looked at Daisy seeing the look on her face had him worried.

"Daniel Sousa if you could move away from the girl, we would like to take her in for questioning."Romanoff said as she placed the pad down. "We don't want any trouble." Daisy's eyes widened. The Avengers, something happened to them...what happened while they had been away from Earth?

"There's no need to be afraid of us."Daisy was sure she was going to die again..Captain America in the flesh. "We just want to talk."Sousa took a step closer to Daisy.

"Daniel...you know you can trust me." He stopped in his defense, his eyes meeting Daisy's, giving her a nod, he knew that he could trust Steve Rogers, the man had saved him once after all, and Peggy always had always been so happy to tell him about stories Steve.

"Let's go somewhere more private.."Natasha said as she grabbed a hold of Daisy who was still in shock that they had met Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers in just one day. So much for breakfast.

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