AN: Thank You guys for all your votes and reviews. It's actually amazingly tied in votes right now from the multiple sites that I've posted this story on.

So this first story is going to be Steve/Tony with hints of Bucky but purely platonic. And the sequel I have planned is going to be Steve/Tony/Bucky

Steve laid into the punching bag he didn't even attempt to hold his punches and the only reason the bags held out for as long as they did was probably thanks to Tony. He flinched just thinking about their resident genius and it only made him hit that much harder.

He wasn't mad at Stark. He didn't know if he'd ever been mad at him, desperate, scared, probably a little irritated (but then again Tony seemed to be an expert at drawing that out of him.)

No. Steve felt guilty.

He felt like he shouldn't even be there in the Avengers compound, what right did he have to Tony's hospitality?

He knew that he wasn't the only one at fault, Tony wasn't innocent either but he could still remember the utter betrayal on Tony's face and the fear. His fist finally cut through the material and he was forced to stop his tirade of punches.

He watched the sand fall onto the floor and sighed.

There was a small sound behind him and he looked back not moving from his spot. Wanda was standing behind him with a water bottle in hand looking nervous.

"I know you don't want to speak to me, but Agent Hill has been in contact with us and she wants to speak with you privately." She spoke hesitantly. Wanda was aware that Steve was still angry at her, but she'd been the unfortunate one to answer the call from Maria Hill.

Steve did not want to speak to fury either, he didn't really want to talk to anyone.

Well, that wasn't entirely true, he wanted to talk to Tony, he had since he'd gotten back but Tony was an expert at avoiding him.

But if he knew that if he ignored Fury the man would simply show up in person. He nodded to Wanda and she fled from the room leaving the water bottle behind as a peace offering. She'd been doing that since they'd gotten back… since he'd learned the truth she'd kept from him.

Steve couldn't bring himself to forgive her yet. Still, he picked up the cold bottle and drink it down. He was sweating and that was a sure sign that he had been down in the gym for far too long.

"Fury."

The man in question sat behind his desk fingers steepled in front of him.

"Captain." Fury replied smoothly "I need you to come in."

"I don't work for SHIELD anymore."

"SHIELD doesn't exist anymore." Fury said back. Steve gave him a look letting him know that he didn't believe that for a second. "I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important."

"I'm guessing you're not going to tell me now?"

"It's a delicate matter, I need you here in person for this." Steve looked like he wanted to tell Fury no, but he owed him. Without Fury Steve and the others would still be in Wakanda. Fury could see the hesitation "trust me Cap, you're going to want to be apart of this."

Steve sighed but nodded.

Fury ended the transmission. Getting Steve to show up was the easy part explaining the situation was going to be the hard part.

~1947~

"What can you tell me!?" Jack Thompson was at the end of his rope with the scientists of the SSR. It had been over 24 hours since Peggy, Sousa, Stark, and Stark's butler had vanished into the rift and so far no one was able to get him any definite answers.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know anything concrete about the rift. All I have is what we figured out before this." Dr. Samberly tried to explain he looked bone tired but Thompson refused to allow him to rest. Dr. Wilkes was with him but the man had even less hope than Samberly.

"What's the point. Look I've told you already zero matter consumes everything. If they went through that portal…" Wilkes trailed off not able to say it allowed.

"No." Thompson shook his head "They ain't dead."

"How can you be so sure."

"I just know. Marge doesn't go down that easy."

"You've lost plenty of agents. I don't want to believe it either but no ones ever came back from the rift."

"You did."

"Because it needed me, I was the carrier."

"So maybe they're the same."

"It's not likely."

Jack threw a chair against the wall and the scientists all flinched as the New York chief stalked out of the room.

Wilkes collapsed into another chair. He didn't want to believe it either, but the facts… there was no other conclusion he could come to. Samberly continued flipping through their notes and the ones they'd confiscated from Whitney's room. He'd already read them twice but Samberly seemed desperate not to give up. Wilkes wished he had the man's hope.

"Are we really trusting these people?" Howard slid up beside Peggy his voice low.

"You just don't like them because they won't let you near anything." Peggy said dryly "Truthfully it's hard to believe anything. I saw L.A. Howard you saw it but maybe part of me still believes it's a very elaborate hoax."

"If I hadn't seen the technology with my own eyes I'd be inclined to believe you peg."

"To answer your question no, I don't trust them," Peggy answered seriously.

"We're arriving," Coulson said pleasantly and he'd not shown any sign of distrust but if Dottie had told Peggy anything and Coulson had admitted freely that he was an agent. Whether his claim was true and he was on their side was yet to be seen. And Peggy didn't take anything at face value.

"Jarvis." Peggy addressed the man softly as they began to land "I'm going to need a rather decent distraction."

Steve paced inside Fury's office as he waited for the director. The entire building seemed to be almost empty which was kind of a shock, but it just meant that whatever had concerned the man was serious enough to be kept incredibly discrete.

He wondered what could be so important.

The last time he'd spoken to Fury in person the man had been in Wakanda dragging them all back to New York. He remembered the former director ranting about how he'd told them 'not to fuck this up and that it was the first damn thing they'd done.'

A lot of painful truths were dredged up that day.

Steve didn't like to think about it. It wasn't easy for him to admit he was wrong. But he'd more than messed up. It was a tough pill to swallow.

Steve was getting really tired of waiting around and he still didn't trust Fury. He looked around the room and slipped out the door. He wasn't going to wait for Fury to lie to him.

Fury watched from another room. It wouldn't take long now.

"Are you sure this is the best way to handle this situation."

"Honestly? I don't have a damn clue."

Whatever Steve had imagined was nothing compared to the truth of the matter. He wasn't prepared… not for this…

She'd heard his heavy footsteps and hid from view but his advanced hearing had picked up her gasp and god if he didn't know that voice. No one said his name quite like she did.

"Steve?"

Peggy was dreaming. She had to be. She could believe time travel, rift generators, and Zero Matter. But this…

Neither could find the words.

"Is this real?" Steve finally found his voice.

"I wanted to ask the same thing," Peggy replied. She didn't know when she'd moved closer but she was within arms reach of him and he was there his warmth and the blue of his eyes just as she remembered him. Her hand touched his cheek and he twitched under her touch.

"Steve." The question in her voice was gone.

Steve leaned into her touch. Her eyes were the same, he'd thought he'd seen them for the last time only half a year earlier but now she was here in front of him like a dream young and as vibrant as he remembered.

"I don't understand." His voice sounded choked with emotion.

"You're not the only one." Steve and Peggy jumped apart. Fury looked between the two.

"Fury what-?"

"We registered some strange readings with Jane Foster's equipment. It wasn't a complete match but enough to warrant some looking into."

"Time Travel that's what they've told us."

"Time Travel." Steve should probably sit down but his legs wouldn't move "I feel like I should give you another ten dollars." Steve told Fury though his eyes had never left hers. "Did you say 'We'."

"Howard is with me and Jarvis."

"Jarvis?" He was confused by that as he knew JARVIS but that didn't seem right.

"He's Howard's butler," Peggy informed him and that was something. Steve had never thought of Tony's AI as a real person despite its very real personality, but he hadn't thought too much into it either. He was beginning to realize that he overlooked too much when it came to their resident genius. "This feels so surreal. Like I might blink and you'll be gone again."

"I'm not going anywhere."

Peggy really wanted to believe him.

"I thought you were dead." She told him. "Your plane went down… how did you… How are you here?"

"I froze, the serum kept me alive Peg, they found me 5 years ago and thawed me."

Peggy rose a hand to her mouth in shock and horror. "You were alive in the ice all this time." She'd always assumed that Steve had died, but god he was alive. Now back in her time, he was there under the ice alive. "I'm so sorry."

"You couldn't have known Peggy." Steve tried to assure her but Peggy just shook her head. Steve knew that look he had it every time he looked at Bucky.

"What about Tony?" Steve pulled Fury aside after his introduction to Howard. He'd explained again and the inventor had taken everything in stride after had Peggy had slapped him a few times to prove to him that he wasn't hypnotized again.

"I'd like to keep him away from this."

"This is his father." His voice got quieter as he spoke that bit.

"Exactly my point. They didn't exactly get along."

"I won't lie to him." Steve refused "Not again." He was not about to make that mistake again.

"Steve."

"No, I'm bringing him in on this. He has the right to know. You're the one who wanted us here to work things out 'get our shit together' as you said."

"Stark is a loose canon. This needs to be handled delicately."

"He'll find out. He always does and I'm not going to wait for that to happen."

AN: I hope you really like this chapter because it was probably the hardest chapter I've ever written. Trying to get the reactions right without info dumping. God, I spent hours just staring at my keyboard.

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