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Chapter 3

After dancing and having a nice dinner, Steve and Peggy decided to sneak away and make their way back to Howard's manor. When Steve took her hand, she smiled up at him. Even after spending the night with him, she feared that she would wake up and realize that it was all just a dream. If this is just a dream, I never want it to end, thought Peggy as Steve helped her into the taxi that he had called. When she beckoned for her to follow him, he gained a cute blush in his cheeks as he followed her.

When they got out of the taxi and payed the driver, they made their way inside the manor. Steve then willingly let Peggy press him against the wall as they started to passionately kiss each other. While they were in the midst of kissing each other they started to run their hands over their bodies. Peggy knew that this night would end in her bed and it excited her.

"Marry me," moaned Peggy softly. After she realized what she had said, she looked down and blushed. She didn't know why, but she feared offending him since it was usually the man who proposed to the woman, not the other way around.

Steve them put his fingers under her chin and made her look up. Instead of looking mad or offended, he was smiling. "Peggy, I was planning on proposing to you tonight because I want to spend my life with you, but I love that you take this sort of initiative. I fell in love with you because you are so strong and independent," said Steve before he kissed her.

When they pulled away, Peggy smirked as she knelt and took his hand. "Steven Grant Rogers, will you marry me," said Peggy before she kissed his hand.

"Yes, I will marry you," said Steve as he helped her up. Steve then pulled a ring box out of his pocket and when she opened it up there was a ring that had a diamond on it, considering it was a simple and old fashioned ring, she guessed that it was the engagement ring that his mother had. She then put the ring on her finger and held her hand out to Steve.

"It is beautiful," said Peggy truthfully as Steve took her hand. Peggy then led Steve up the stairs to the room that she was staying in. They started to kiss again, but this time they started to remove their clothes. When they were down to their underwear, Steve paused.

"Are you sure that you want to do this, if you are not ready we can wait until the wedding night," said Steve.

As a response Peggy placed her hand on Steve's chest. Under the palm of her hand and the thin material of the the undershirt she could feel his heart beat. "Steve, I love you very much. I want to be your wife and I want to do this tonight," said Peggy. After they got of their underwear, Peggy led Steve to the bed and they spent most of the night making love to each other.

Howard Stark could hear the sounds of soft moaning and the creaking of the bed when he came home with the other guests of the party. He guessed that when Steve and Peggy had secretly left, Steve was putting his plan to propose to her in action. He could also guess from the sounds that the proposal was a success. But that wasn't going to stop him from jokingly asking him how did he like his first taste of "fondue."

While Howard was shrugging out of the coat, he noticed that Peggy had left her coat lying on the ground. After putting his coat on the coat rack, he knelt down to pick it up, he noticed something sticking out of the pocket. He reached over and pulled out the vial of Steve's blood.

I thought that I had lost this, how did Peggy get this, thought Howard. He then correctly guessed that Jarvis had found a way to take it from him and give it to Peggy. At first Howard thought that he was going to be angry at them, but he could only understand why they did this. Howard was wanting to profit off of the blood that had willingly given to his country to help it. It took awhile to realize that he deserved being hit by Peggy when she found out. He rarely admitted his mistakes and this was one of them.

But now he saw a chance to make things up to Peggy and Steve through this vial of blood. Since Steve was a super soldier, he would have a very long life and he would never age. The same couldn't be said for Peggy who would age like a normal human for now. But now there was a chance that he could help Peggy get that long life and youth that Steve had. Howard then ran to his lab to start his work while hoping that he could finish it in time for the wedding.

When they were done, Steve held Peggy in his arms while they discussed their future together. They both agreed that Peggy would continue her work at the SSR until something better came along for her. Steve also wanted to continue his work as Captain America in some way or another.

"Where should we have our wedding," asked Steve.

"It will probably have to be in England, my parents would never forgive me if it was anywhere else," said Peggy with a smile.

"England it is," said Steve.

All of this talk of weddings made Steve think of Bucky. Ever since they were kids, Steve and Bucky had agreed to be the best man at the other person's wedding. With Bucky dead, Steve couldn't have Bucky be his best man. He would probably ask Howard, but it wouldn't be the same.

"What's wrong my darling," asked Peggy.

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about," said Steve. Ever since it happened, Steve blamed himself for Bucky's death. Peggy just responded by placing her hand on Steve's cheek and he leaned into the hand.

"Steve, no matter what you believe, it wasn't your fault and Bucky would never want you to feel this way," said Peggy. Steve was impressed at how she could guess what thoughts Steve had about Bucky.

"Thank you, I will try to think that way more often," said Steve as he hugged Peggy and started fall asleep.

Natasha kept her eyes on the cryo freeze tube as a pair of guards started to defrost the Winter Soldier. Even with her enhanced strength, she couldn't break the handcuffs they had put of and they were only able to put them on her because another pair of guards had their guns pointed at her. What are these made of, thought Natasha.

When Natasha saw that the Winter Soldier was defrosted and out of the tube, she blushed when she saw that the Winter Soldier was nude. She also flinched when she saw that he must have lost his left arm since the one he had was made out of metal. One of his guards then handed him a set of black training clothes a lot like the ones that she had on except it had the left sleeve cut off to most likely make training and movement easy for him.

When the Winter Soldier saw Natasha, he turned his attention to her. He watched her with interest in his eyes. After that he reached forward with his hand made of flesh and touched her cheek. She then leaned into the hand which made him watch her with more interest. She blushed when the Winter Soldier leaned forward and kisses her softly on the lips.

"He likes you," said one of the guards with a smirk on his lips. She could guess that part of keeping the Winter Soldier loyal was to seduce him. She was sickened by that thought, but she had to admit that if it hadn't been for the fact that she was being forced into this, she would probably end up liking the Winter Soldier and find him very cute.

When the Winter Soldier pulled away, the guards shoved the same type of handcuffs on the Winter Soldier that Natasha had on. Both Natasha and the Winter Soldier were then led out of the room and taken to a training room.