Chapter 5? Yeah well a lot of things were going on since I last updated. Firstly, I wasn't doing so well in some of my classes in this semester and had to take a break from the internet and really study and write final essays. Then Christmas came around and that is just….don't ask. Christmas Eve I felt a sore throat coming on which later in the break turned into my sinus's dripping and stuffy nose and constant coughing which I still kind of have (except the sore throat). I worked on Wednesday, day care stuff, and didn't realize until Saturday morning that I go pink eye (symptoms started to show when I woke up on Thursday). Then back to Friday night I was going out to my car at my firehouse because I need to grab something and it had snowed earlier but melted away by then. I tried turning toward my car, you know to get to a door, but I kept going, sliding into one guys truck and falling hard on my knee which knocked something out of place because it hurts…again (some ligament or muscle or something, it's not broken or I wouldn't be walking). So that's how my break has been going so far and why I haven't updated in almost a month. Sorry for the rant but you guys deserve an explanation. Anyway…..onwards!

*Steve POV*

When Jarvis walked in Howard promptly stood, throwing his napkin on his plate and walking out of the room.

"Maybe we should skip the dessert," Jarvis said putting the cover back on the trays.

"I think that will be best," Peggy said getting up and following the way Howard went.

"I believe it to be best if we now return to our rooms," Thor said standing up.

"Yes," Skye replied standing as well, "Thank you for the meal Jarvis."

"Why thank you Miss Skye," Jarvis said wheeling the dessert cart out.

I get up as well and offer Skye my arm to walk her back to our room. She blushes but loops her arm through mine and we make our way back to our rooms. When we finally get into the room Skye lets go of my arm and runs over to the bed and jumps onto it.

"It has felt like forever since I slept on such a comfy bed," she sighed.

I chuckled as I started to take off the clothes I wore to dinner. When I was just in my boxer briefs I walked over to the bed and pulled back the covers and climbed into bed.

"Skye," I softly called to her.

"Hmm?" came a reply

"Why don't you change into some pajamas and then hop into bed," I said closing my eyes.

I heard a sigh and felt the bed dip slightly as she moved to the edge and get off the bed. After a rustle of clothes I felt the bed dip again and I reached out my arms for Skye to come closer to me. I felt her come closer to me and wrapped my arms around her, pulling her close. Bad idea Steven. As soon as I felt her bare skin I groaned and felt my buddy stir down below.

"Something wrong Captain?" Skye asked me with a hint of humor in her voice.

"I still can't believe what you do to me," I groaned out before rolling on top of her and kissing her.

Before anything could continue further I rolled back over to my side and pulled her close. She snuggled up to me and soon I heard her breathing even out and I found myself following her close behind. That is when the nightmare hit. I was standing between two groups of people. On one side there was my team from the war, the Howling Commandos and Peggy. On the other side was my new team, the SHIELD agents, and most importantly Skye. As soon as I started to walk towards Skye I heard clicks of guns. I turned around and saw that my old team all had their guns out and pointed them towards the Avengers. As I was about to tell them to stand down when they let loose a flurry of shots until their clips were empty. I looked down to see where I was hit but the strange thing was, I wasn't. I quickly spun on my heels back towards the Avengers only to find them all on the ground in a large puddle of their blood. I quickly ran over to Skye and cradled her in my arms.

"Steve," she whispered out before I saw the light go out of her eyes.

"NOOOOO!" I screamed out.

I looked back towards my old team to find only Peggy standing a few feet in front of me.

"You will stay with us forever," she said.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed out waking myself up.

I sat up in bed breathing hard which in turn woke Skye up, ready to face danger. When she saw there was none she quickly hugged me.

"Steve," she whispered, "Let's just lay for a while. I am right here and nothing bad is going to happen."

I nodded and laid back down for a while with Skye in my arms. It wasn't the first time I have woken up from a nightmare. I constantly have ones where I am still trapped in the ice. Ones where I lose Skye, and after Wanda got into my head, ones where I never left the 40's. However ever since Skye started to stay with me, the nightmares have lessened considerably. Soon we both fall back into a dreamless sleep.

When I wake up the sun is just barely coming out. I see that Skye, like usual, is still asleep. I swiftly get out from underneath her and go over to the closet to try to find clothes to run in. The best thing I could find was a pair of pants that could pass off as sweat pants but there were no shirts that looked like I would ruin them by running in them so I decided to go shirtless. I quickly dress and make my way down stairs. There were not any sneakers or running shoes in the closet so I decided to go barefoot and stick to grassy areas. As I opened the front door I heard, "pst!"

I turned around to see Bucky, also barefoot and shirtless, and in the same pants as me.

"You coming along?" I asked.

"Of course," he replied grinning.

We ran out around the house and through part of the woods that wasn't too rocky. By the time we came back to the mansion it was about 8 o'clock. Bucky and I made our way to where we heard voices and came into the dining room where everyone was sitting and getting started with their day. Thor was talking to Jarvis and demanding Pop-tarts. Skye, Natasha, and Clint were talking, Tony and Bruce were talking as well as Peggy and Howard. Wanda and Angie were lightly conversing till Angie turned to see who was walking in and dropped her fork.

"Oh my god!" she said loudly making everyone look at her and then to where she was looking at.

I my team just saw me and Bucky and went back to what they were doing. However, Skye and Peggy were staring at me blushing while Angie was staring at Bucky.

"I think we should go change first," I mumbled to Bucky before turning around and heading up the stairs.

I changed into the most comfortable clothes I could find in the closet and made my way back down. I went and sat next to Skye and quickly filled my plate with food.

"So I vote that those who are not working on finding a way back home spend this time training," Natasha said out of the blue.

"I second that," Clint said.

"I third it," Skye said giggling.

"I fourth it," Bucky said chuckling at Skye.

I just started laughing along with them.

"I can bring alone some of the SSR," Peggy suggested, "They definitely need practice."

"That's fine," Natasha said, "You have anywhere in mind?"

"I think I can help with that," Howard said getting up and gesturing everyone to follow.

We followed Howard along a series of hallways till we reached a wall with a bookshelf. Before anyone could make a comment Howard went up to a book, The Art of War, and pulled it down. The bookshelf swung open to reveal a large gym with a lot of inventions in it.

"I usually store my non dangerous inventions here but we can go and store them somewhere else," Howard said starting to move around his inventions towards another wall that opened up.

Once the inventions were all moved into the other vault we started to set up mats and other training exercises.

"Please excuse us but we should get back to working on a way home," Tony said walking out with Banner and Howard.

"And I should go get the SSR agents," Peggy said grabbing a hold on Angie's arm, "And you have work."

"But English!" Angie complained, "I wanna see them work out!"

Bucky started chuckling after they left the room before continuing his sniper shooting range. Natasha was setting up dummies in one corner of the large mat area that covered the center of the center of the gym and I was setting up boxing bags on another corner that had poles above it. Clint was setting up an archery range and trying to find and make targets that could move. Skye and Wanda were setting up an area where they could control the movement of objects as well as an area for meditation for Banner and Skye. We knew that Tony would not need a practice area because he would either box or be in the labs. Once we were all finished we went back to our rooms to change into our gear. As we came back, Peggy was walking in with some SSR agents.

"Should have known that Stark would have a secret gym in his house," Agent Thompson said.

"I figured that our fighting styles are different so I thought we could spare separately at first and then mix it up," Natasha said talking to Peggy.

"That sounds fine," Agent Thompson replied stepping forward in front on Peggy.

Natasha glared at him before turning back to us, "So who is first?"

So the whole I third it, I fourth it thing came out of my explorer post when we would vote on stuff. For the record the explorer post is for junior firefighters. And there was this one guy that kept saying 'I third it' or 'I fourth it' and I don't know, it was really funny.

Sooo I hoped you guys liked it!

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