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Claimer: I only own the character Elizabeth Jones (Lowri Jones and any other names she uses) and her story past, present and future.

Recap

"What did you do before the war, Ri?" Steve asked.

Lowri sat back and dropped his hand as she looked up at him, slightly startled at his asking. He has never asked that before, he just went a long with her.

"Is it alright if I ask that?" Steve asked hastily upon spotting her startled look. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"No, no, it's okay. It's just that you've never asked me before." Lowri said, "In fact, no one has."

"Strange. Would have thought that the media would have interviewed you or something." Steve said but Lowri shook her head.

"No. No media has come knocking down my door." Lowri joked. "Okay, how much do you wanna know?"

"As much as you want to tell me, Ri." Steve said warmly, "You can tell me everything right from the start, or you can tell me something from a decade ago."

"Okay." Lowri said, she looked down at the floor and swallowed. "I think I should tell you everything. I've held everything back to myself all these years, no one knows the full story and I've held so much back from you."

"With good reason, Ri." Steve said slowly. "You haven't told anyone to protect yourself."

"And with all these threats gone, I don't need to protect myself anymore, do I?" Lowri asked, she smiled up at Steve, she squeezed his hand tighter and then released his hand as she turned her body to face him. His other hand fell from around her shoulders and he leant back on the bench.

"Am I finally going to hear your origin story?" Steve teased. Lowri nodded her head in reply and smiled playfully at him.

"Yes, well, actually I'm not sure if I can tell you myself." Lowri said, Steve looked at her with narrowed eyes and they searched hers curiously. "I have it written down. Bruce thought it was best for me to write down things I wanted to tell you, and well, I have a journal."

"A journal? What sort of stuff have you written in there?" Steve asked.

"All sorts of stuff." Lowri answered, she stood up and looked down at him. "I'll be right back."

Lowri gave Steve a warm smile before she tugged his jacket around her tightly and headed for the lift. She quickly headed down to her room and she grabbed her leather bound journal before making her way back up to Steve.

He was where she left him, still sat on the bench and he smiled when Lowri approached him, holding the thick leather bound journal in her hands.

"I had a lot to write about, most of it is about you. Some of this is about the stuff that Hydra put into my head and some of it is my real memories. But, there's also my story in here. Hence why it's so thick. I've lived a long life." Lowri said, "And I think it's time you read it."

Lowri sat down next to Steve and offered him the journal. Steve looked down at it and then he looked at her.

"You want me to read your journal?" Steve asked.

"Yes." Lowri said, "You can take as long as you want."

Steve opened the journal to the first page and he smiled at the handwriting. He looked back up at her with a genuine smile on his face.

"Thank you, Ri, thank you for this." Steve said. He looked down again and read the first extract, Lowri's introductory passage, explaining why she had chosen to write in the journal. "Tony was driving you that crazy?"

"Yes, he was. Pass that here." Lowri said, she held her hand out for the journal, which Steve handed over to her. Lowri flicked a few pages in and then paused when she came to the part she wanted. "This is the start, my start."

The two pages she was looking at was of her family tree. Steve moved closer to her and looked down at the family tree.

"You were one of ten children?" Steve asked in disbelief.

"Yes, five brothers and four sisters. It was crazy growing up." Lowri replied, she smiled to herself. "By the time my younger sister was born, my eldest brother was courting his then wife."

"Whoa. Lowri isn't your real name?" Steve asked, he looked up at Lowri sharply and with wide eyes. "Evelyn."

Hearing Steve say her real name made her warm on the inside, as if hearing him say it woke something up inside her.

"Yes, wait, I mean no. Lowri isn't the name my parents gave me, but it is one of my middle names." Lowri explained.

"So, your real name is Evelyn Lowri Lucinda Jones?" Steve asked, he looked up at Lowri with a wondering smile on his face. Lowri nodded her head once. "Why haven't you reverted to your original name? Evelyn is so lovely and sweet. And…"

Steve trailed off and Lowri looked at him curiously. Was he blushing?

"What is it, Steve?" Lowri asked, she leant forward slightly and he tried to avoid her eyes.

"Evelyn was the name that I decided I would name my daughter, if I ever had one." Steve replied. He looked Lowri in the eyes with a soft smile on his face and Lowri felt drawn in deeper. Something very pleasant was brewing in her gut and it was a very good feeling. "I think it's a really beautiful name."

Lowri felt her face flush and Steve dropped his eyes to the journal again. Lowri bit down on her bottom lip as she looked up at the night sky. Sometimes being with Steve could be overwhelming.

"Brits are really odd." Steve remarked, Lowri brought her eyes back down to look at Steve with a curious look. Steve smiled when he looked up at her and he saw her look. "They captured you when you stopped a fire. That is odd. You did something good."

Lowri thought that Steve was joking but then she realised that Steve was completely serious. It dawned on her that though he is from a different time, he is now used to her fire skills but he doesn't think like those of the 19th century.

"Oh, Steve." Lowri sighed, "Imagine this, it's 1837 and a raging fire mysteriously extinguishes itself." Lowri began, "And you see a young woman stood at the front of the crowd with a stupid look on her face, proud because she got rid of the fire and because that was her first time doing so with a fire not of her own and she probably looked guilty because she was always nervous if someone found out about her. Huh, no wonder I was arrested."

"That makes sense now." Steve chuckled, he dropped his eyes to the page once more. "At least they tried to amend their actions by offering you protection."

"It was the least they could do." Lowri replied, she smiled. "After all that torture, they owed me. They gave me this large underground bunker to practise in. Uh, do you remember the SSR base in London?"

Steve looked up from the book and narrowed his eyes at her carefully.

"Yeah." He said, he leant forward slightly.

"My underground base was below that. The SSR base used to be the old British Secret Service Headquarters." Lowri said, Steve's eyes widened and she smiled. "It was very odd being back there."

"I bet." Steve said slowly, he dropped his eyes back to the book. Lowri pressed her lips together and she knew she had to speak soon. She knew what was coming up in her journal and she knew it would sound better coming out of her mouth.

"Steve, can you stop reading, please?" Lowri asked, "This next part is something I should tell you myself."

Lowri's voice had changed from her calm and relaxed tone to a tighter tone, indicating stress and nerves. Steve looked up straightaway from the book and closed it on his lap, he looked up at her with a patient look on his face. Lowri admired his trust for her.

Steve waited for Lowri to say something and it was clear that he would wait patiently. Lowri wasn't exactly sure how she should tell Steve her news, but she knew she had to tell him herself. He can't simply read it in her journal.

"I was once naïve. A silly, young, naïve girl who had no idea what the real world was like beyond the little village I grew up in or how it worked. I was alone in the world and I had to make my own way, and I was very trusting. I lost all my money to a man who offered me refuge. I eventually learned not to be so trusting but I was fanciful. I could do whatever I wanted with no restrictions from family and I could see who I wanted." Lowri said, she looked into Steve's eyes. "You are not the first man that I fell in love with."

Steve's eyes widened as Lowri spoke the last few words. Even she couldn't believe that it was possible for her to have loved another man before him, yet it had been her who had lived through it. Lowri focused on her breathing to keep calm.

"His name was Thomas Robert Hall. He was an ordinary man with no special skills whatsoever other than his unbelievable charm. He was very rich and he was a part of Queen Victoria's court. He was a gentleman. We met by complete accident, I was working a market close to Buckingham Palace, uh, by working I mean patrolling. He was making his way to a meeting with a friend of his, but when he saw that I was in a bit of trouble, he called the meeting off." Lowri caught sight of Steve's look and she hastily tried to explain further. "The man I was following turned rather nasty, but Thomas and I managed to get the upper hand." Lowri added. "He loved me for who I was. He knew my occupation and he was fine with it. He didn't know about the fire thing or the age thing as even I didn't know about that yet."

"Why didn't you tell him about the fire?" Steve asked in a strained voice. Lowri knew this was hard for him.

"His life was already in danger because of the Queen. He was always a target and if I told him my secret, he would have been in even more danger." Lowri said, she looked down at her hands. "We were married for eleven years. When I realised that I wasn't aging, I left without a goodbye. It's all in the journal."

Steve was silent for a few seconds and when Lowri looked up, she saw that he had his eyes on the closed journal on his lap. Slowly, he looked up at her and all Lowri saw in his eyes was pain.

"I am so sorry, Steve." Lowri said quietly. "I know it's hard for you to hear this part of my life. Thomas died many years ago and I've let him go. I should have told you sooner but I wasn't sure how to tell you."

"It's alright, Ri." Steve said slowly, "You didn't have to tell me anything."

"I know, but I felt like I should tell you. Like we shouldn't have any secrets between us." Lowri said, "Okay, you can read on."

Steve dropped his eyes to the journal but he didn't open it up.

"You know what, I think I'll read this tonight." Steve said, he looked up and locked eyes with her. "It's getting quite chilly up here and I don't want you to get too cold. And it looks like there's a lot in here. If that's okay with you."

Lowri nodded her head swiftly and smiled.

"It's more than okay with me. You can take your time to read it, digest what's in there." Lowri said.

"There won't be any more secret husbands in there?" Steve asked jokingly.

"No more secret husbands." Lowri confirmed. "Alright, let's head back down to the party. I kinda want to see what sort of state everyone is in downstairs."

Lowri and Steve got to their feet and made their way back over to the elevator together.

"What state do you think Tony is in?" Steve asked as they waited.

"Drunk off his ass, I'm guessing." Lowri replied, "Unless he's somehow sobered his act up."

"He hasn't changed, has he?" Steve asked as the elevator doors opened and they stepped in.

"Not much." Lowri replied.

As the doors closed and they began their descent, Steve looked down at Lowri with a soft smile on his face.

"Thank you, Ri." Steve said, Lowri looked up at him with her eyes narrowed.

"For what?" Lowri asked slowly.

"For trusting me." Steve said, "This is nice. Just us."

"This is the closest I've felt to you in a long time, Steve." Lowri admitted. "And you don't know that much about me. It's time that you do."

Steve reached for her hand with his free hand and he gave it a squeeze comfortingly.

"I'm just glad that you can talk to me again." Steve replied. Lowri smiled back at him.

"Here's the plan for the rest of the night." Lowri said, she squeezed his hand gently. "I'll get the drinks in and you find us seats. Does that sound good?"

"Sounds good." Steve said with a smile. "But I'm gonna take this down to my room first."

Lowri nodded her head swiftly as the doors opened on the main floor. The music was loud and people were partying.

"We'll need strong drinks to deal with this lot." Lowri said, she nodded her head towards the room and then smiled up at Steve. She dropped his hand and then stepped out of the elevator, she turned to look back at him as the doors closed. Steve's smile was warm and welcoming, then he was gone from her sight.

Lowri headed straight to the bar to order their drinks and as she waited, she tugged the sleeves of Steve's jacket down over her hands. Despite the calm the roof had offered, it was cold up there. The party was loud and boisterous, indicating that it wasn't going to start slowing down any time soon.

"So, where did you sneak off to?" Maria asked as she stepped up beside Lowri and leant heavily against the counter. The way she moved made Lowri think she was intoxicated, by a fair bit.

"Are you drunk?" Lowri asked humorously.

"When you disappeared, I didn't know what to do with your ridiculously strong alcoholic drink so Tony dared me to down it. So, I did," Maria replied.

"Wow. You are drunk." Lowri said with a smile. "You're crazy. No one in their right mind would drink what I drink."

"Ah, who cares? I'm off duty." Maria said, waving Lowri off.

"With Tony, you're never off duty. He's like a toddler, someone's always gotta look after him." Lowri said, "And Pepper isn't here to do that job… but you're very drunk so I doubt you'll be picking his ass up from the floor when he gets too drunk to find a chair."

"Meow." Maria laughed. "So, where did you go? Was you with Rogers?"

"Yes. I was with Steve. We went up to the roof for some air because he could see that you were interrogating me." Lowri said with a smile, she took hold of the drinks and ordered another for Maria.

"I thought I was too drunk?" Maria asked as the bartender turned away to make Maria's drink.

"You're off duty." Lowri replied, she stepped off with the drinks in her hands and at that moment, Steve joined her.

"This way, I see Sam sitting alone." Steve said quietly into her ear. Lowri followed him towards one of the upper levels with a bunch of chairs surrounding a table.

Steve took his drink of her as they got to the top of the stairs, then he stepped to the side to let Lowri pass in front of him.

"Hey Sam." Steve said, alerting Sam of their presence. Sam looked up and smiled at them.

"There's my favourite couple." Sam said, smiling knowingly as he leant back in his chair.

"Hi Sam." Lowri said with a warm smile as she sat down and put her drink on the table. "Are you enjoying the party?"

"Yeah, it's a good party. Good vibes." Sam replied. Steve sat down beside Lowri and they bumped legs. "You missed Maria Hill getting up on a table and dancing to Mamma Mia."

"Really? How drunk is she?" Steve asked with a laugh.

"She drank one of my drinks." Lowri said slowly. Both Steve and Sam turned their heads to look at Lowri. "I know, she's crazy."

The conversation flowed easily and soon they were talking about Steve's missions in Europe during WW2 and when he was leading the Howling Commandos.

"You remember the one from Poland, right?" Steve asked, looking up at Lowri quickly.

"Was that the one where the media team followed you out there and almost got themselves blown up on a mine and Dum Dum Dugan had to save them?" Lowri asked.

"Yeah." Steve said, he smiled fondly. "We gave the bombs to Jacques. Best and worst decision."

"Yeah. I watched a few of the films they put together. I'm pretty sure that one of them shows a compass." Lowri said as she leant back in her seat and took another sip of her drink. Steve's eyes widened and he glanced down at the floor quickly.

Sam caught onto it quickly.

"What's so important about a compass?" Sam asked, he narrowed his eyes as he looked at Steve and then at Lowri for an answer.

"Steve had a compass with a photograph of me inside the cover. Somehow, he left it open when they were tracking some Hydra members and it was recorded. An entire room of my superiors saw it." Lowri replied with a smile, she glanced at Steve and then looked down at the table as she put her drink back down on the table. "But, I'm not sure where he got that photograph from as I had the only copy in existence. Though, I must admit that I mislaid it."

Steve looked up at her with a mischievous look.

"Where do you think it went?" Steve asked with a smirk.

"Did you root through my desk and steal it?" Lowri asked scandalously and she laughed. Steve laughed as he shook his head and he looked up at her.

"No, no, no." Steve said, he leant back and laughed. "A certain James Montgomery-Falsworth had slippery fingers." Lowri smiled as he spoke. "He saw how badly I took your rejection and he stole a photo from your desk the night before we left for the first mission. And I've still got that compass. They found it with me."

"She rejected you?" Sam asked wildly, turning his gaze on Steve and then he looked at Lowri with a sharp look instantly. "You rejected him?" Sam let out a laugh as gestured at Steve. "How and why could you ever reject a specimen like him?"

"I had good reason to." Lowri said with a small smile. A small twinge of jealously nibbled at her stomach and she tried to ignore it. "I found him kissing another girl less than twelve hours after we kissed for the first time." She had long forgiven Steve but the memories seemed fresh in her head and it did hurt.

Steve looked at Lowri with the apologetic look and he refused to break eye contact with her.

"You did what?" Sam asked, wheeling his eyes to Steve who nodded slowly, still keeping his eyes on Lowri.

"One of the girls from America threw herself at me because she wanted to say thank you for saving the men in Austria. And Ri caught us." Steve said, then he broke eye contact with her as he dropped his eyes to the floor.

"He saved over four hundred me from a Hydra work camp. They marched for three days with no provisions or contact with any of us. We were all worried what had happened, and there was no proof of aerial reconnaissance of them at all. The officers were getting very antsy." Lowri said.

"It got to the point where Ri was about to have a dishonourable discharge for helping me." Steve said.

"And I would have taken it." Lowri said, Steve looked up at her. "I helped and I would have had to face the consequences."

"Lowri Jones being discharged from the military dishonourably?" Sam asked, teasing Lowri.

"Yes. The situation was rather dire and the Colonel was rather angry with me." Lowri said slowly.

"You guys certainly had a lot of fun back in your day." Sam asked with a smirk.

"Back in our day?" Steve asked.

"Are you insinuating that we're past our time?" Lowri teased. Lowri turned her head and looked at Steve with a smile on her face. "I think he's jealous. Those days were the best."

Steve looked at her up and down slowly, as if taking her in again for the first time.

"Yeah, they were." He agreed.

"So, tell me more about your adventures together." Sam said, leaning forward and breaking Steve's look from Lowri.

"Uh, we didn't really have any adventures together." Lowri said, she took up her drink and took another sip. "Steve did all the adventuring with the Howling Commandos and I stayed behind the lines, working admin and bossing people around."

"What?" Sam asked quickly. "Is that even possible for you to sit back and let someone else go out in the field?" Lowri pulled a face at Sam and put her drink down.

"Surprisingly so. Women weren't allowed anywhere near to the frontlines, nor to fight, unless you were a nurse or an officer like me." Lowri said, she bit down on her bottom lip. "It wasn't until late 1945, after Steve died, that I got the chance to go out into the field. Firstly, with the Howling Commandos and then in 1946 with the SSR Agency, and even then, I had to beg and barter."

"But you and Peggy decided to join the army and help take down the Hydra base in the alps." Steve said slowly.

"Yeah. Because Chester knew that he needed as many people as he could get and he knew that I had a slight fighting chance. Plus, he almost drove that car over the edge of a cliff and I fell. He had a bit of a surprise when I started flying." Lowri said, she leant forward. "I kinda showed off back then. I showed off real good, even Dum Dum was impressed."

"Did you tell the Howling Commandos too?" Steve asked.

"I served with them for a few months, I told them all on the first night but I swore them to secrecy." Lowri said with a small smile, she knew the subject of her strange abilities were a sore subject for him. "They called it my magic when we were around civilians and others who didn't know, in private, they called it my magic fire."

"Of course, they did." Steve laughed, he glanced at Sam, who seemed very lost. "Dum Dum Dugan was one of the Howling Commandos I recruited and served with." Steve said proudly. Lowri remembered the struggles Steve had faced when he came to terms with being the leader of one of the greatest tag-team in the war. "There was a group of us going from Hydra base to Hydra base and taking them down before the Red Skull, the original leader of Hydra got there."

"And Dum Dum was a lovely man, he was this huge bear but he was protective of his team, and me." Lowri said, "Slightly mad but completely sane at the same time."

"Completely." Steve laughed.

The conversation moved from the war-time antics and onto Sam's antics whilst he was on tour. It seems as though the general gist of the army hasn't changed since the war. Sam described parts of his tours with enthusiasm and it made Lowri miss working with the army.

Halfway through the conversation, Lowri shrugged off Steve's jacket and draped it on the back of the armchair.

As the party died down and people retired for bed, more people joined the table and the conversation expanded out to the others.

Maria and Rhodey joined them first after Sam left, then Dr Cho floated over and sat in the other free armchair and fell asleep. It was nearing three in the morning when the rest of the guests began leaving.

Clint joined them and sat on the floor with Maria, deep in discussion about some old S. H. I. E. L. D. thing, Nat and Bruce joined the group and sat close together.

Thor joined them and Steve was sat beside him, Lowri moved so she was beside Steve, Rhodey and Tony were sat opposite, teasing Lowri and as the conversation moved to Thor's hammer, which was resting on the table, everyone was relaxed.

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