Hello! :) I'm back with the second chapter, hope you'll like it!

Thank you so much for the reviews! It cheers me up to write, I didn't know how many people were interested in this story until now. I'm very surprise! I can't be happier right now! (And I hope the story didn't disappoint you, I know it can be a little slowly but in the next chapter Summer and Steve finally meet! Just wait for it :) )

[August 1944]

They needed every soldier, one man could be the difference between losing or winning the war –or at least that's Bucky said. Steve wasn't sure about that. He chose his team properly, making sure he trusted every man. Recruiting new members without knowing them better could be a risk for the mission. "We need more members, Steve." Bucky said to him with tired eyes, they were sat at the bar trying to convince the other. "How many soldiers Red Skull have at this moment? Ah?" The answer was clear: Johann Schmidt had millions of followers. The number of soldiers of Hydra couldn't compare with the Steve's group. "Talk to Phillips, maybe he can send you some men…"

"I'll think about it."

The following day someone nocked to his door very early in the morning. After dressing himself Steve opened the door while yawing. Bucky was there with a big smile in his face, next to him there was a young boy –who had blue eyes and a dark blond hair. "Say hi to our new member, Cap." Bucky announced and hit the shoulders of the young boy with excitement. "I met him yesterday at the bar." He whispered to the Captain with a mischievous smile in his face. "He was losing a fight against two bullies. Guess what I thought at that moment." Steve looked at him with disappointment; the young boy was practically a teenage. He had his whole life… Their mission was too dangerous for that kid. "Yes! Little Steve! Haha!" Bucky messed up the hair of the young boy. "What do you think? Cool, right?"

"Can I talk to you for a moment?" Steve smiled to the young boy, he was so shocked and nervous to meet the real Captain America Steve felt afraid he could faint. "Alone." Steven emphasized and the two boys separated from the young one. "He's just a kid!" He complained and pointed to him.

"He is." Bucky shrugged his shoulders with indifference. "But he's brave enough for our team." Steve didn't doubt about his bravery, he doubted about his age. He was really young; he could live a thousand experiences before see the cruelty of war… "He reminds me of you, Cap." The young boy was taller than he was and stockier, Steve didn't see his old himself at all. "Just give him an opportunity…"

"What's your name, kid?" Steve asked to the boy and he jumped with surprise. Captain America was talking directly to him! He swallowed his own saliva and tried to be calm. Don't faint now, don't faint now –the young boy said to himself over and over again.

"Aaron, sire," The young boy answered talking for the first time. "Aaron Strauss"

[Present day]

Judith looked at her niece feeling so proud of her –and thanking her brother to be alive to have the opportunity to saw her growing up so fast. Winnifred Strauss was doing her Chinese homework and her only doubt was why everyone in the textbook asked for the library. That didn't make sense at all. I'd ask for anything but the fucking library –she was thinking when suddenly the phone started to ring. Judith picked up instantly with a smile in her face. "Judith's talking."

Winnifred returned to her homework. She knew Judith was expecting a call from her new boyfriend –a man called Phil who worked for the post office- so maybe now was the time to go out to take some fresh air. "Yeah, it's me. No, no, I'm her aunt…" The young girl stopped in the middle of the living room. Her aunt's voice sounded worried, something happened. "The hospital…?" The skin of Judith's face turned pale. Something really bad happened –but at that moment Winnifred couldn't imagine how bad the situation was. The phone ran from Judith's hands to the floor, a silent invaded the room and none of the Strauss girls could say anything. Winnifred was too afraid to ask and Judith to shocked to answer. "Take the car, Fred." Judith said finally without seeing her.

Aaron was the first to arrive at the hospital; he felt his knees failing when asked for his child in the reception. The secretary looked at him for a moment; she opened the mouth but could make any sound –the name of his daughter appeared next to the word deceased. "Mister Strauss?" Aaron turned around to see a doctor coming –the doctor was a young woman with dark hair, her eyes were an open book and Aaron knew exactly what was going to say. "I'm really sorry, we did everything we could but…" Aaron felt his world crashing down and he needed to lean on the wall to not fall down. "She was dead when arrived to the hospital, we couldn't do miracles."

A miracle? Aaron thought without seeing the doctor. A miracle was his sister stilled alive when the doctors said there was nothing to do. He pressured his lips feeling powerless, the medicine was so undeveloped… But he was different, for the god's sake he did a miracle! "Can I see her, doctor?" Aaron asked in a whisper trying to seem devastated for the new, the doctor sighed and touched his shoulder trying to conform him. "It's not recommendable, Mister Strauss, she's… You should remember her like the last time you saw her."

"I know but I need to see her." The doctor nodded with sad eyes and walked with him through the hospital corridor, they stopped in front of a door –it had a sign, it said morgue. "Are you sure…?" Aaron said yes with his head and took the doorknob with decision. "I'll be waiting here." The woman said knowing he wanted some privacy to say goodbye to his daughter. "Thanks, doctor." And he closed the door behind him.

The morgue was cold –maybe because it helped to hide the smell of the dead bodies, and Aaron waited a minute in the entrance to adapt himself –the cold wasn't the only inconvenient, the smell of the decomposition reminded him the time he was in the war (how many putrefied cadavers he saw in the trench). There was only one metal stretcher. A sheet covered a body and Aaron had to take it off to make sure it was Summer. And it was. The girl had her eyes closed like she was dreaming in peace, but the gray color of her skin indicated the condition of her lifeless. Her brown hair was so full of dried blood that seemed ginger for a second. Aaron's hands started to shake when he saw the wounds of the car crash: her leg was totally broke –he could see the bones making its way through the skin, and there was a lot of bruises that indicated she had intern hemorrhages. Maybe this time it was impossible to make a miracle.

Alex Reid, the doctor, took advantage of the situation –she had enough time to go out to make a call, it wasn't enough coverage over there. She went to the first floor near to the cafeteria –it wouldn't be a crime to take a break from her work, she needed caffeine to keep moving, and dialed a number Alex had memorized for so long. She made a promise long time ago and now was the time to make it real. At the third call he picked up the phone –oh, his voice sounded like time hadn't passed. "You still have this number, cool." She said before he could say anything but hello?. "Listen to me, this is not a friendly call, understand?" Alex took the coffee from the machine; it was too warm to drink it now. "Understand." He said calmly like he didn't care about her angry mood, Alex grinded her teeth to stop herself to say something she could regret later. "She's here."

"Who?" He asked confused needing more information, Alex sighed looking at his coffee. She had the obligation to tell him, or at least said that to herself. "Summer Strauss, her daughter." Then it was a silent nobody wanted to break but Alex finally started to talk. "She's dead, I couldn't do anything for her." Again there was a silent, say something please she begged for herself and wished to see his face at that moment. "I'm sorry, Clint, if you…" But suddenly he interrupted her. "What about Lynette? Is she there?" Alex made a face, her again. She didn't know why he was so obsessed with that woman –she was too old for him! "No, she's not. Only her father is here."

"Let me know if Lynette shows herself." He hung out after saying that and Alex needed a moment to get her calm back –she wanted to smash her phone to the wall like it was his face smashing.

Aaron threw up his breakfast into the wastepaper basket. Alex was right, he shouldn't be there watching the dead body of his daughter. The door opened and he thought it would be the doctor but was wrong. "I thought you were stronger, Aaron, but you still been too much apprehensive." A voice sounded making Aaron jumping with surprise –he cleaned his mouth with a Kleenex. The voice belonged to a small man who covered his face thanks to the shadow of a gray hat, but Aaron didn't need to see him to recognize him.

"What are you doing here, Zola?" The small man took off his hat and smiled. Aaron looked at him trying not to seem astonished for his presence, Doctor Arnim Zola looked the same even it passed thirty years of his last meeting –he didn't change a bit. "I'm not in the mood right now for your madness." Zola made a face feeling offended; he took a step forward to be near to Aaron.

"I'm here to help you, my friend." And his eyes moved to Summer's body. "I heard you needed a miracle."

When Alex returned to the morgue she found it empty. Aaron Strauss wasn't there and so was the dead body. She froze without knowing what to do, she could be fired if her boss noticed she lost a body. Alex turned herself around, she was enough responsible to take the fault of her mistake. But then when she left the morgue a woman appeared in front of her. "Forget it, forget it all." The woman said but his lips didn't move at all –Alex heard her voice clearly in her head, it wasn't her imagination. "Forget what you see." And suddenly the worry faded away; in fact she couldn't remember why she felt worried.

"I'm sorry, this is a private area. You shouldn't be here." Alex said to the woman in front of her. The patients or/and the familiars weren't allowed to enter the morgue without supervision. The woman smiled to her and turned around to make her way back to the first floor, Alex saw her leaving and when she was far enough to see her Alex turned around to see the morgue again. Something happened there but couldn't remember what.

The woman left the hospital without talking to anyone else, her work there was over she should return to the lab as Aaron commanded. "Good girl." His companion said when she entered to the car. Ben Scott, number 4, smiled to her. They were a good team, no one could stop them. Jake Carlton, number 5, didn't agree with him but didn't say anything. She wasn't a good girl at all and worked better alone. "The cat's got your tongue." Ben joked. "What is in your head, Jackie?"

"Dead people should stay dead."

Sullivan woke up the instant Ben and Jackie entered to the room carrying a giant back plastic bag, he stood up but didn't move because Aaron was looking directly to him –Sully wasn't a prisoner anymore in exchange he should obey like a dog. A man he didn't meet before crossed the lab and opened the plastic bag, his heart stopped at that moment –well, if that could be possible because now was immortal. Summer, his Summer, was there laying in the table totally dead. "You're a monster…" He whispered looking at Aaron and felt his anger growing up.

"Don't, Bomer, stay calm." A voice sounded inside his head and he knew Jake was using her power to calm him down. "She died in a car crash, if you want to blame someone… Blame Tony Stark." Aaron said while he was putting electrodes in Summer's head, the other man got close to Sullivan –he was bringing a syringe with him.

"I need your blood, kid." Zola said to him and invited Sully to sit down in a chair, he shook his head to say no. "I thought she was your friend…" He moved his head to see the dead body of Summer, Sullivan couldn't look to that direction anymore. His heart broke every time he does. "And friends help each other, right?" Aaron nodded his head, he agreed with the new Doctor. "You're the only one who can save Summer." Sully sat down obedient and offered his arm to Zola, who smiled with triumph.

"Can you bring her back?" He asked with fear and Zola looked at him through his glasses, the doctor nodded without hesitate and concentrated again in the blood he was taken. "But she's dead… What happens with her soul?" Zola started to laugh loudly and Aaron followed him.

"Sullivan, my friend, the soul didn't exist. Everything is electricity. The brain, with his neurons, works thanks to it and also does the heart. It's not the soul, it's…" He paused and Sully was going to open his mouth to complain but quickly Aaron proceeded. "Electricity…" He looked up to catch Zola's attention. "Phoebe Book." Number two could bring the electricity to Summer –only her could regulate the perfect dose. "Five." He turned around to look for Jacquelin, the girl was next to Sullivan trying to make sure the blond boy wouldn't escape. "Bring Two, we need her."

Ben was helping with the physic work, Aaron and Zola weren't exactly strong men and the machines were too heavy to be carried by them. He didn't understand at all how this was going to work but fortunately Ben wasn't the brain of the group. "If this work out, Aaron…" Ben heard Zola even he whispered to make sure only Aaron could hear him, they were so close to him. "We'll bring him back."

Phoebe couldn't believe what her eyes were seeing –at that moment she didn't care about the handcuffs Jake put it on her. Summer was dead –her gray skin, her wounds, the blood in her dead body and hair… She needed to avoid the image; Phoebe felt teardrops in her eyes but tried to hold them to not seem weak. "What do you want from me, monster?" Aaron half-closed his eyes with offense –Sully named him monster too, why didn't they see the perfection of his work? He got close to her; Phoebe was shaking with terror in her eyes.

"I need your help, Phoebe." The girl shook her head no and took a step back. "I need your help just one more time, only one…" Phoebe looked behind him; Zola was injecting a red serum in Summer's arm. Little by little all the wounds she suffered started to disappear, even the gray color of her skin turned pink. "Surprised?" Aaron guided her to be close to the table. "The only problem is the electricity, Book, but with your abilities we could..."

"What if I can't control it?" Phoebe asked worried, she only used her power once and that time her ex-boyfriend died electroshocked. "What if I kill her instead of…?" well she was actually dead, she couldn't be deader Phoebe thought and pressed her lips, that wasn't the point.

"You can see it like this: if you don't help us," Zola got close to her, it was obvious he knew how to convince people easily. "our next guinea pig will be Jack Book." He looked at Aaron with a smile in his face. "Your innocent brother, Phoebe, will be perfect, right Aaron?"

The waiting was unbearable. Slowly Summer opened her eyes. Phoebe smiled but she had to step back to sit down, was exhausted –too much concentration, she felt blood trickled out her nose. Sully got close with two strides to stay behind Aaron, his expression illuminated every time Summer blinked full of life again. He wished to run next to her and hug her, but something in his belly stirred with angst –Something in her eyes indicated to him that wasn't his Summer. The girl sat up in silent watching nowhere while no one dared to talk to her.

"Incredible." Zola whispered and took a step forward –like to be closer made it more real. "Incredible." He repeated it excited. He couldn't believe Aaron did the impossible; he brought someone back to the death. "Strauss…" It was precisely, now they know it worked out, to start a new project. Bringing him back was the reason Zola offered his help to Mister Strauss. His thought were interrupted when Summer cried out and covered her ears with her hands, her face expressed pain and agony.

The light. The metal. Pepper's voice. The salad savor of the blood in her mouth. The ambulance were so far… Darkness. The man who found her. Don't leave me. His eyes. His sad eyes. He knew it. He knew it she was going to die. Summer cried out again with fear. The crash. The bus. Dead people. She raised her voice to shut up the voices in her head. The blood. Hey, sleepy beauty, open your eyes for me. She shouted loudly.

"Summer!" Sully was the first to react; he got close and held her by the shoulders to calm her. When their skins touched something inside Sullivan started to fluid –a power that didn't belong to him. He moaned with pain; something was sucking him. Summer shut up instantly and looked at him with indifference. Sully saw her empty eyes, she wasn't Summer. "Sum, please…" He moaned again and tried to stay away from her but couldn't separate his hands from her skin. He felt he was going to faint, his energy was stealing in a way he couldn't explain. "Sum…"

Aaron took a syringe with decision, it contained a powerful sedative, and charged at her without hesitate. Summer saw him before he could reach her, she dropped Sullivan and dodged the attack. Thanks to the ballet she was agile enough to be a problem. Sully fell down to the ground trying to breath. Summer jumped from the table and stood up, her legs failed and she found herself in the ground in front of her ex-best friend.

Zola reached for a couple of gloves, it was obvious the power of Summer was active with the touch of the skin. The experiment was failed, they needed to get rid of Summer –she was officially dead for the system so it wasn't a big deal. He took the gun Ben carried with him.

"You promised." Summer whispered lowly and Sully looked up to see her face. "You said you took care of me." He stood in silent without knowing what to say. Yeah, he actually did that promise. "I'm fine, Sully, there's nothing wrong with me… I'm fine… Please… I'm fine…" Sully saw Aaron behind her again, he was holding the syringe again –he put a finger in his lips asking Sully for silent. "I'm…" A shotgun interrupted her.

Phoebe didn't waste the time, she took advantage of the chaos to run away -making sure Ben or Jacquelin didn't follow her. When she had run five blocks a car stopped in front of her but wasn't Aaron or Zola, she felt her heart beating really fast. What about now? What is going to happen now? Phoebe concentrated herself, she'd use her abilities in case it'll be necessary. "Phoebe Book?" A woman left out of the car, she wore a black suit that contrasted with her red hair. "I'm Natasha Romanov."

"I'm sorry but I think I'm not in the mood to be nice." The ginger smiled in a strange way. "What do you want from me, Natasha?" She asked with sarcasm, everyone wanted something lately –and usually was something to do with her new abilities. "Shield is interested in you."

"Oh fuck." Sully woke up two hours later, he spitted out the bullet to the ground. He was quickly enough to step in between Summer and the bullet. "Maybe I'm immortal but it fucking hurts." He stood up and realized instantly he wasn't in Aaron's lab anymore. "Did I wake up in Narnia?" The place was practically in ruins and some vegetation entered through the windows –the fresh air leaked from the little holes making the place colder than actually was in the beginning.

"Help me, Sullivan." Aaron asked and the blond put his attention in him. The scientist was building something –Sully couldn't say what was that, outwardly seemed a metal coffin but he wasn't sure. "It's too heavy for me." Sully helped him to carry the coffin inside another room, a dark and filled of dust one. "Now bring Summer before she wake up." Aaron pointed the coffin. "It's like an incubator; it'll keep her alive while she's sleeping… Summer is dangerous… Or maybe her powers are… Until I'll find out how to help her we need to keep her sedated. Understand?" Sully nodded slowly.

"I understand… But… Why this place? What happens with the lab?" He asked confused and Aaron held his shoulders, the Strauss was serious and worried at the same time. "Do me a favor, Sullivan, protect her. Protect her from Zola."

Before Aaron left, he opened his notebook and wrote: Summer Strauss – Number six. Ability: Absoption of memories, skills and powers through skin-to-skin contact. (Aaron had the feeling Sullivan would be dead if he wasn't immortal). State: sedated.

[A year later – post Avengers ]

Director Fury looked at them. Tony wasn't concentrate in the conversation, his attention was in the menu the cafeteria offered –it was a bad idea making the reunion in that place. Bruce was in the middle trying to stay calm but he seemed nervous, he didn't expect Shield call them so early. Steve was the only one concentrate in the mission –he truly was a soldier. Fury sighed and put nine reports in the table. "This is the reason I called you." He took the first one and showed to the guys. "What's this?" Tony asked confused. "Your new boy band?" Fury raised one of his eyebrows; he wasn't in a mood for jokes.

"Aaron Strauss." He pointed to his report, there was a photo in it and information about his past. Steve didn't need to read it, he knew who Aaron was. "He was one of my soldiers, I thought he was dead." He explained carefully, Bruce listened to him but Tony yawned bored. "Well, he's alive." Fury said with sarcasm. "Very alive. We think he's implicated in some experiments… He created a serum capable of gave people extraordinary abilities. This is Judith Strauss, his sister, Agent Coulson was looking after her but…" A silent involved them but now Phil was dead, Fury moved his head to leave the sad thoughts out of his mind. "She could be the patient zero." Bruce took the report about her and started to read it, it was incredible. The serum made her sane. "You don't need to worry about number one, Matthew Lee, he's dead."

"Wait." Tony took the next report, the one who belonged to the experiment number two. "She's my Pikachu." A photo of Phoebe, the new secretary of Pepper, was in the report –there wasn't a doubt, it was her (that could explain why she could control electricity, Phoebs turned on and off the lights of the tower with a blink of an eye). "Did you know that?" Fury didn't say a think and Tony pressed his lips angry. Too much secrets in Shield. But one think was true, he trusted Phoebe –she wasn't a threat.

"She killed Matthew, Tony." Steve said after reading Phoebe's report, Tony ignored his comment and looked at Fury with disappointment. Shield sent Phoebe to spy him a year ago (Tony knew it but he appreciated Phoebe enough to let her stay with him and Pepper at the Stark Tower) and now they're saying she was dangerous. "I think you're confused, Phoebe is not an experiment." Tony complained looking through the window of the cafeteria. "I'm bored and I'm going to leave."

"It's your decision, Stark." Fury sighed, it was a hard work dealing with Tony's personality. "Sullivan Bomer was a close friend of the family, the boy disappeared without a trace… The police couldn't find his body, we think Aaron got him prisoner. Jacquelin Carlton and Ben Scott…"

"I know her." Steve interrupted him pointing one of the report, it belonged to Summer Strauss –the deceased daughter of the scientist. "I met her once in a cafeteria…" His eyes catch the status of the girl. "She's dead…?" Fury moved his head, they weren't sure about that because Aaron stole the body from the morgue. "But no one can resurrect the dead."

"Well Frankenstein did." Tony said with sarcasm but the Director saw the sadness in his eyes –his auto destruction. He knew Tony was implicated in the car crash where Summer died, the Stark blamed himself for that every day of his life. "Apparently Aaron Strauss can make de impossible…. Possible. Where is he now? Why did you want to find him now? Why not when this started? It was a year ago…"

"Natasha discovered something about a seventh experiment." Fury looked directly to the Captain. "I'm not sure you wanted to hear this, Captain."