Liv wept as she hugged her frail cousin, who was sitting in a wingback chair in her room at the nursing facility. Peggy was dressed in a housecoat with her white hair awry.

"It's been so long!" Peggy cried as she clung to Liv. "Where have you been?"

"I'm sorry," Liv said, soothing her cousin's hair. "I've been where I couldn't get away to see you before now. I've missed you so much!"

Liv leaned back on her haunches and gathered Peggy's gnarled hands in hers.

"I heard you got married?" Liv gently asked. Peggy gave her a sad smile.

"Yes. You probably don't remember Andrew. He was one of the hundreds of men Steve rescued during the war," Peggy replied, her eyes clouding up again.

"Andrew was a good man. He gave me two children before he died of brain cancer," she added. Liv nodded, having noticed Peggy's son and daughter in the photo frames throughout the room. There were younger children pictured, too, so Liv assumed Peggy also had grandchildren.

Peggy pulled her hand from Liv's and touched Liv's face.

"I've missed our adventures together," Peggy said. Liv half-laughed and half-cried.

"I hear you've had many of your own since," Liv replied, referring to SHIELD.

"After we lost Steve, Howard and I worked hard to keep HYDRA at bay," Peggy answered, wistfully staring over Liv's shoulder, briefly lost in thought.

"You disappeared," Peggy accused Liv, her gaze now trained on Liv. "Where did you go? We searched that HYDRA base and couldn't find you. Nathaniel never did give up hope that you'd be found …"

Stunned, Liv stared at Peggy. She had just assumed everyone knew that she and Bucky had gone down with Steve into the ice. And how was she supposed to explain now that they had been recovered alive 70 years later?

"Bucky and I got lost and couldn't find our way back," Liv lied. "Some nice folks took us in as we recovered."

Peggy cocked her head as if trying to decipher what Liv told her.

"Bucky was that Soldier you were seeing?" Peggy hedged. Liv grinned and held up her left hand for Peggy to see.

"We got married," she said. Peggy gave her a slight smile and then frowned.

"Did Nathaniel approve?" she asked. Liv looked down at the thought of her older brother. He had been so protective of her. She hadn't inquired about her family, assuming they were dead and probably forgotten about her.

"We haven't made it to Texas to see them," Liv lamented.

"Well, they will be happy to see you," Peggy reassured her, grasping Liv's hands in hers again. "The twins are running the ranch you know. Quite the pair, they are. They remind me of you."

She pointed to one of the photos on the mantel of two lean middle-aged women dressed in western wear, hands resting on belt buckles, and ropes slung over their shoulders.

Liv gasped at the sight. She had nieces who were physically twice as old as she!

"Amelia came to visit me during one of their business trips," Peggy proudly told her. "Alana didn't come since she was coordinating some type of event that had to be handled on site."

Tears welled up in Liv's eyes once more. Her family was alive.

"How is Nate?" she whispered, almost afraid to ask.

"Still kicking or so I've heard," Peggy retorted. "I haven't seen him in years but the girls tell me he is as ornery as ever." She started coughing so Liv reached for the water glass nearby.

Once the coughing fit ended, Peggy stared at Liv, confused.

"Liv. You came back!" she said. Liv smiled and nodded, hiding her sorrow at her cousin's slipping mind.

Liv sat on the park bench outside the nursing facility and contemplated the fact that her brother was still alive.

Did she dare reach out to him? Was he suffering like Peggy was? Would the twins accept her?

Someone eased onto the bench next to her. Nat was dressed in a hoodie, jeans, and running shoes with her hair pulled back in a ponytail.

Liv gave her a sad smile as she twisted her wedding band.

She wasn't surprised to see the Russian spy. Bucky had noticed Nat tailing them the other day. She assumed Fury wanted to keep tabs on two super soldiers who were still learning modern day customs.

"I don't know what I was expecting to find," Liv finally said after they sat there in silence for several minutes.

"Are you glad you saw her?" Nat asked. Again, Liv wasn't surprised that Nat knew who she was seeing and why she was here.

"Yes," Liv replied. "I never thought I'd get to see her again."

"But?" Nat prodded.

"She told me my brother is still alive. I have twin nieces. I'm not sure if I should go to Texas and see them or just let them continue to believe I'm missing in action or dead," Liv said.

Nat sympathetically nodded.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"I'm not sure," Liv replied. "Part of me desperately wants to see them but part of me doesn't want to disrupt their lives as they know it. I'm the same person from 70 years ago, literally. I've missed so much …"

Liv glanced at Nat.

"What would you do?" she asked.

The redhead gave her a half-smile but didn't answer.

"I can fly you to Texas whenever you want," Tony told Liv. Nat had mentioned that Tony could help get Liv connected with her family if she wanted to see them, so she had gone straight to Stark Tower after leaving the nursing facility. "Pepper will probably go with us. Her and Lana have been friends for years."

Liv couldn't hide her surprise.

"Pepper knows my nieces?" she asked.

"Sure," Tony responded, as if it was the stupidest question he'd ever heard. "She met Lana at some fundraiser. When Lia and Lana come to town, the three of them always get together."

"I usually try to be busy. They are a pair of shrewd broads," Tony flippantly added.

Liv glared at him and punched him hard in the shoulder.

"Owww!" he said, rubbing it.

"That's my family you're talking about," Liv growled, not really mad at him.

"Obviously. They act just like you," Tony muttered.

At that comment, Liv smirked. If they left that type of impression on an egomaniac billionaire like Tony, she had to meet the twins.

She only hoped Nate would be lucid enough to recognize her. Seeing Peggy had been a balm to her soul; but at the same time, a small part of her had wished she hadn't known Peggy was alive. The vibrancy and vitality that had been the woman who was like a sister to her was gone.