I was lucky enough to get some extra computer usage so I decided to hop to it on the next chapter! Here you go! (Still haven't decided, leaning towards Romanogers again)

Steve decided to visit Maria in SHIELD's medical bay the following afternoon. As he stepped through the doors, he was met with a surprising sight. Maria, with her arm in a sling, was standing there, waiting for him.

"Before you apologize to me, Steve, I want to know for sure that you apologized to Romanoff." she said abruptly. Steve was caught off guard, but he shook his head. Maria stepped closer to him, her eyes blazing. "Don't argue over this. It's pointless and the past is behind us now. You need to repair your relationship with her, or you'll regret it for the rest of your life."

"I'm going to. I just need to figure out how to do it." Steve told her. Maria stepped away again.

"Good."

"Are you alright?" Steve examined his friend closer. Her eyes were a less vibrant shade of blue and her face was paler. Dark circles were under her eyes and there was a stiff, awkward way in which she moved with her right side.

"As good as I can get. I plan to accompany you to Russia in March." she replied crisply. "You need an agent with you with a quicker way of communicating last time. I'm skilled and I can get the job done. Someone needs to keep you in line."

"But your arm-"

"It's fine. They sealed the artery up permanently. I'll lose circulation in my right arm but I'll still be able to use it. I'm not supposed to use my arm in any strenuous activities such as climbing a mountain or doing the parallel bars in gymnastics. I'll be doing no Romanoff-esque stunts. Not like I did those anyway." Maria told him. Steve could see by the set in her jaw that she was determined to get back in the field.

"You were dying yesterday, Maria. Take a break. Relax. You don't have anyone who's telling you to get moving." Steve tried to say.

"People die everyday, Steve. It's luck that I'm here now, and I'm taking the chance that I've been given and I'm using the time I have left." Maria insisted. "Don't worry about me. I'll keep up with you all. Maybe even beat you to the mark."

"The time you have left?" Steve echoed.

"Meaning my life span. It's going to be shorter now that I have one less source of oxygen. If I tear the seal off I'll die." Maria said, her voice irritatingly calm and in control. "I faced death yesterday. I even saw my mother at one point. I've come to terms that I won't see as many days as the rest of the people in this building. I'm using this gift and I'm going to rid the world of some evil. Isn't that all I need to ask of you?"

"I'm asking you to save your life." Steve responded. Maria would not die if he could prevent her from going. She was his best friend and he would not let her end her life sooner than necessary. "Stop being a martyr and start being a normal, selfish human being. You can't save the world all the time."

"I'm not asking your permission."

"I don't care. I'm the leader of the team in question, and I will not let you accompany us to Russia." Steve shouted back. People were beginning to look oddly at the pair- one furious SHIELD agent in a sling, and one super-solider from WWII.

"If you think I'm a liability, what about Romanoff and her flashbacks?" Maria said. "She's more likely to kill herself than I am."

"Romanoff is a trained assassin, and she doesn't have an artery that could kill her if she does one push-up too many." Steve spat back. "I will not let you go." Maria's eyes flashed a furious ice-blue. It was startlingly similar to the ice that Steve had been in for many, many years. It made him think of the sacrifice he had been willing to make for the army. That same sacrifice was similar to what Maria was asking. How could he stop a soldier from doing what she was meant to do?

"If I let you, I'll never forgive myself if you kill yourself on this mission." Steve said slowly.

"If I die, I'll make sure that you know that it wasn't your fault." Maria replied, her voice softening a fraction. "I still have three months. Maybe by then Romanoff will be cured and I'll be healed. Steve snorted.

"I'll believe that the day when pigs start to fly."

That night, Pepper and Tony

"I worry about all of them. Steve and Nat in particular. They had an argument over Maria, you know." Pepper said that night as she was sitting up in bed, talking softly to Tony. He looked over at her, his chestpiece casting an eerie light over their bedroom. The lights were out and the only source of it was from the floor-to-ceiling glass that showed the New York City buildings around them and his glowing sustenance.

"They'll be alright. Steve is a gentleman, and he'll apologize soon enough for what they argued over." Tony reassured her. Secretly, he wondered what really was going on between Hill, Rogers, and Romanoff. It seemed that every time something bad happened, Steve and Natasha were there. This time, Hill had been caught in the crossfire and had suffered grievous consequences.

"Maria isn't alright, Tony. It's her arm that we're talking about!"

"Fury said that they sealed it off and she'll retain the use of her arm. He told me that she'll lose some of her circulation and her motor control, but she's always been fine shooting left-handed." Tony tried to tell his wife.

"This isn't about war and battles, Tony. Her whole life has revolved around the use of her arm. How will she be able to draw easily? Hold something steady for long periods of time? Do pull-ups on a bar? Do all the flips and things that's required in SHIELD. Write! It's like her right arm is reduced to the coordination of a senior citizen. How do you think she feels, with that now making her older before she wanted to be?"

"Her coordination will be just fine. Fury said that she's been shooting with her right occasionally and she was only a centimeter off the bulls-eye. He said she was upset about it." Tony tried to but in again. "Why don't we talk about us, instead of worrying about the other Avengers?"

"The Avengers is part of you, and they're part of me, too. I want the baby to be happy around these people. Realize that they are who he/she is going to be associated with."

"Yes, exactly." Tony said. "Which is why I want her to be named Stephanie Marie Natalia Stark." He could see Pepper's eyes go up. More, he could imagine them.

"You mean you're going to name her after a soldier, an assassin, and a SHIELD agent. You do realize you just named all the kinds of people that you generally dislike for our child. I was thinking more like Emily Elizabeth Stark."

"If she comes out screaming, her name is Stephanie Marie Natalia Stark. If she's quiet, we're naming her Emily Elizabeth Stark." Tony said finally. "How's that?"

"What if the baby is a guy?"

"Then it's Clinton Bruce Stark." Tony said immediately. "And I'm assuming you wanted a name like Anthony Matthew Stark."

"Wow, Tony, I didn't think you knew me that well." Pepper said, her voice slightly amused.

Stephanie Marie Natalia- variants on Steve (I know it's a stretch) Maria and Natasha.

Emily Elizabeth- Emily Van Camp= Agent 13/Sharon Carter, Elizabeth Olsen= Scarlet Witch. Not that they know about that, of course.

Clinton Bruce Stark is somewhat self-explanatory.

Anthony is Tony's real name, and Matthew is a generic guy's name that I think that Pepper would like.

You guys can vote if it's a boy or a girl, and which name? Just so you know, if it's a guy, same rules as the girls. Tony's name=crying and Pepper's=quiet. Thank you all!