Hello! Here we go again with another chapter! Yay! I decided to change the rate to M-rated, hope you don't mind :)

[FLASHBACK. Germany, November 1944]

No one followed him, he made sure it. Find the real hideout of Red Skull could be a hard adventure but fortunately the villain was searching for him. After being far enough for Steve's group a couple of German soldiers surprised him in the woods, Aaron raised his arms in peace and smiled. "I believe your boss is searching for me, guys, it wouldn't be a good idea to shoot me… He'd be mad." But none of the soldiers were carrying a weapon –or not a least one he could see it, they were there to guide him to the hideout. One of them, the tall one, putted a bandage on him to cover his eyes. "This is unnecessary, guys."

Guiding himself with the movements of the car was a hard work, he totally lost the way when the car entered into a place that smells like a mix of salt and gunpowder. The soldiers helped him to go out of the car and Aaron let himself guided by the two men through the corridors –with every step the smell of salt disappeared to transform it into oil and smoke. "Out." A voice said and the two men left him, he heard a door closing quickly. It was the moment to uncover his eyes. "Nice to see you again, Mister Strauss." Red Skull was in front of him, next to him was Zola –his beloved right-hand man. "As I thought you're returning to me."

"Well, you left me no choice I guess." Aaron complained without hesitation, his eyes shined with fierce. He wasn't anymore the soldier they took for their purposes, the weak boy was gone and now a new man was in front of them. Red Skull rose to his feet trying to impose his control but Aaron leaned his head to the right as an answer –not feeling intimidated at all. "What did you do to me in the lab?" He asked directly –there wasn't a time to waste. "I'm only going to ask you once."

"You stupid man." Zola spited trying to defense his boss but Red Skull smiled with evil. "We ca—"

"Shut your mouth, Zola." Johann Shmidt interrupted his partner and took a step forward to be closer to Aaron. "We gave you a new life, soldier, a better gone." The man with the red skull moved his head to indicate Aaron to follow him to the next room; Zola opened the door when they were close enough. "But I'm afraid the effects are fading away as we're taking." Aaron took a general look to the room. It was full of posters and tables with notes everywhere, as he saw there was only one thematic: Captain America and his abilities. "We're trying to copy the formula but Dr. Erskine died with the secret of it."

"What do you mean? I'm like Cap?" Aaron blinked confused –he didn't feel taller or stronger just a little bit better, couldn't fine the exactly words to describe why he felt it this way. Maybe that would explain why he hadn't any wounds in his body even he was hurt in the fight before Red Skull kidnapped him. "I don't understand…"

"Sure you don't." Zola whispered with disgust. "You didn't receive any radiation, that's why your abilities aren't that bigger." The professor explained to him and pointed one of the blackboards they had full of equation Aaron didn't understand at all. "I-We just wanted to test only the serum, but I think we already failed with the formula… Uh… You only took his ability of human healing."

"But that's fading away, right?" Aaron looked to Red Skull confused –so if the ability wasn't permanent and he hadn't exactly an extraordinary brain to work with, why they kept him alive? "So why do you need my help?" Johann laughed with sarcasm and the American soldier crossed his arms waiting for an answer.

"I don't need your help, you need me." He corrected his statement and Aaron smiled changing his expression to a playful one –yeah, sure he needed him. "Also you have a relation with Rogers that will be interesting for us…"

"So you need my help." For obviously reasons, Aaron couldn't stand the Captain –he was perfect, how someone could be so moral? It freaked him out. He always complained against Aaron's ideas because they were too cruel –well, they weren't by Aaron's point of view. What the hell, it was a war… They didn't fight with flowers! "What do you need?"

"His friend." Red Skull said taking him by surprise, did he hear him well? The villain wasn't asking for a brutal murder, no, he wanted the friend. "Alive." Aaron leaned his head to the left confused. "Give him to me and he'll destroy The Captain."

[Stark Tower, actual day]

The Stark Tower had everything she could imagine and more, finding that there was an entire gym in one of the floors wasn't exactly a big surprise for the two experiments but got excited anyway. Tony let them to use it without questioning, anything could possibly be wrong with that petition –or at least that was what the man of iron thought at that moment. Summer was the first one to enter, there was a lot of machine she was sure never saw them before. Sully, who still standing in the middle of the door, blinked totally confused.

"Why did you ask for this?" He asked trying to pointing all the torture machines that filled the gym, Summer ignored him and putted a couple of gloves in her hands –she needed to make sure that wasn't another accident like the other day. "It's this some kind of revenge?" Sullivan looked at her trying to beg for misericord but his friend was ready to fight the punching bag. "I don't like gyms!" He complained dragging the feet. "I prefer another type of physical exercise." Then a perverted smile was formed in his lips. "That could be cool."

"What are you whispering?" Summer raised one of her eyebrows while hit the punching bag –it didn't move at all… The girl grumped totally offended and tried to punch harder but it only swung two centimeters more or less. Sully laughed and sat down to see the show. "You should be training too."

"I'm immortal, baby, I don't need to fight back." Summer gave him a withering look but forgive him instantly to face again the evil punching bag.

Sullivan knew perfectly that Summer's intentions of training were instigated for what happened in her date with Steve. She didn't say too much about it, but Sully got the enough information to imagine she started to worry about his father's intentions. Ben, experiment number four, showed at the date with the thoughts of taking her back to the lab; he mysteriously banished after the girl touched Steve's skin by accident. She didn't talk about what she saw in his memories –and that was two days ago…, but after the accident the Captain didn't come to the tower again. Never mind, the fact Ben showed himself maybe could be first signal of Aaron's returning; they couldn't be sure if the scientists wanted his daughter back or what.

"You should punch harder." Sully said and the girl stopped to look directly to him. "Take a rest." He clapped the sit next to him and moved his head to indicate her to go sitting with him. Summer doubted but her muscles begged for a rest, she was exhausted even it didn't pass fifteen minutes since she started. "What are you worried about, Sum?"

"Nothing, everything is fine." She said instantly with a sarcasm face. "Sully, please, this isn't exactly heaven to me. Since I woke up I had to face a lot of things… My memories are gone and I don't know who's my friend or my ally anymore."

"I am your friend." Sullivan added with a calm voice and Summer sighed nodding with her head. "And the Avengers are our allies, they're helping us in a lot of ways… See Tony, he's being really nice leaving us a place to stay." But the girl didn't seem agreed with him, her eyes were looking at nowhere with an expression of sadness. "What's going on, Sum? You can tell me… Is because Ben? He said something to you?" Oh, that asshole… Sully knew the ex-police would take any advantage to confuse Summer, and now Number Four already saw the magnitude of Summer's abilities and how to use them by his purpose. "I hope you didn't believe his words."

"He said he still love me." Sully made a face –oh, she couldn't believe that! Not after what happened with that narcissist egocentric moron, he broke her heart in million pieces because she wasn't enough for him… And now he was claiming to love her again? Yeah, that was a pathetic movement.

"He's lying, you know that, right?" But Sully saw in Summer's eyes she was doubting. "Ben is a liar, Summer, he is and he always will be. You don't remember how he cheated on you?" An inner rage started to fluid by Sully's veins, that son of a bitch was playing with his best friends mind again… Oh, he couldn't forgive him for that, he needed to pay. "Ok, I will train with you. I need to be stronger to punch him right in his pretty face."

"Sully…" Summer whispered but her friend was already offering her a hand to help her to stand up. "Maybe you're overreacting…" Finally she took his hand and stood up sighing. "I'm sure Ben is…" But shut up instead of following with the statement.

Ben was a good guy?, she asked to herself, that boy wanted to kill Captain America taking advantage Steve was unconscious because of Summer's power. He smiled with evil and got close to them but Summer stood between Cap and Four… Threating him with using her abilities again if he went closer. Yeah, she remembered that really clearly, but for some reasons her mind forgot it. What happened then? Ben took a step back with his arms raised in peace, he knew couldn't fight her back without consequences… And then? Oh, there was someone else. Who? Jacquelin, Number Five, appeared and Summer heard a voice in her head. What did she say? She couldn't remember.

"Jake, Jake was there, Sully." Summer whispered to his friend. "Do you think she used her abilities to make me believe Ben is a good buy?" Sully shrugged his shoulders thinking about it, could be a possibility. Jacquelin had the power of telepathy –and that was a dangerous ability, she could convince anyone to do whatever Jake desired. "They went away even though they could take me and killing the Captain…"

"Maybe your father wants him alive… They were friends, right?" Summer was in silent thinking about it, she saw a young version of Aaron in Steve's memories… and how the Cap didn't trust him at all, he was too reckless and sometimes the ideas he proposed for the missions were too cruel even Hydra's members deserved the pain.

"I'm not sure they were…"

When Clint entered to the lab he saw Tony playing with his virtual windows, there were a lot of files on them but his eyes catch instantly an old photography of himself with Lynette –he was six and his sister brought him a robot to protect him for the bullies in the orphanage because it was his birthday. The man of iron moved his hand quickly and the images banished, he turned around to see his college and saluted him with a serious head movement.

"You didn't say you had a sister." Tony started talking and next to him a new window appeared. "Lynette Rosemarie Barton, your half-sister, turned to be Summer's mother and Aaron's wife." The photograph of her was too old, maybe she was in her thirties in that one when actual day was in the middle of her fifties. "And you expect me to still trusting you, I guess." Bruce Banner was behind him, looking at Clint with calm eyes trying to not involucrate in the conversation to avoid the stress. "Why did you hide us this information?"

"I don't think this is relevant, Stark." Clint complained looking at his sister's photo. "I only saw Lynette two or three times in the past when I was a kid, I don't know where she is now if you have the intention to ask." Tony crossed his arms mistrust; he didn't believe a word the archer said. "I work for SHIELD, not for Aaron."

"We know." Bruce interrupted him trying to excuse them –Tony's speech wasn't a claim for betrayal at it sounded. "But Aaron Strauss left a message in his phone in our recent meeting, it was your sister's name…" Clint blinked confused when Bruce showed the screen of the mobile photo, it was true, and it was Lynette's name. "Do you think she's implicated in this?"

"I really don't know…" He whispered without looking at them. "I've been trying to find her since we fought Loki in New York…" Tony took a step forward to be closer to him; he couldn't miss even a whisper. "As far as I know, she investigated the Tesseract with your father, Stark." Clint explained to them his research in Shield's files –some information Tony couldn't even hack. "Lynette wasn't exactly a housewife… Before married Aaron she worked for the first version of Shield, founded by your father Howard, but she quick after her first child was born… I talked with some agents that were alive in that time and they said Lynette was shy, quiet and anybody knew much about her… Unless your father."

"I'm sure he knew her perfectly." Tony clicked his tongue disgusted and the window turned off. "They had an affair as far as I know." Clint flew his eyes open –well, he knew his sister wasn't the definition of a saint but didn't expect something like that. "And guess what, they had a child." Clint was too confused to interrupt him to ask about it; Tony, who had his eyes filled with angry, sighed trying to calm him down. "I can't believe he did that to my mother… She didn't deserve it." Maria Stark was incredible, everybody usually centered the attention to Howard –who was the actual genius, but his wife Maria had some potential too. After all, she was the woman Howard chose to marry. "Phoebe did the tests using some foreign labs to make sure anyone could hack the information… And the DNA confirmed what I thought. Summer isn't the daughter of Aaron."

"Wait." Clint blinked totally confused, what he was saying was impossible. "Summer is your sister?"

"Half-sister." He corrected the archer with an offended face. "She's half Stark, half Barton. But I'm sure she doesn't have any Strauss genes." Tony smiled with sarcasm. When he found out who was Lynette, when he found out all the photographs Howard had of her in his archives, when he found out how much his father adored his intern… Well, it wasn't too difficult to make some theories. He knew his father reputation and, what the hell, Summer could perfectly pass as her sister –with her deep brown eyes and her messy brunette hair. "I'm sure you won't say any of this to another person, Barton."

"I won't." Clint nodded and leaned his head to the right. "What about Aaton? Did he know that?"

"Maybe… We can't be sure." Tony turned on the window again, the photograph of Lynette stilled in it. "Our priority now is finding Lynette Strauss and I'm happy to know you're by our side, Barton." The archer smiled a little and touched the windows to show Tony something –it was a place, an old asylum in the suburbs of the city.

"I don't know where Lyn is, but Judith Strauss comes to visit someone in the asylum a couple times at month." Tony and Bruce heard him very carefully; Judith was Aaron's sister and turned to be the patient zero of his experiments. Shield sent Phil Coulson long time ago to follow her movements and compiled some information… But he died before finish the mission. As far as he know, Judith was an excellent cellist and didn't have any implication in Aaron's plans –the woman took care of Summer and Winnifred when Lynette decided to abandon her family. "I'd check it."

"Bruce will go with you." The professor Banner flew his eyes surprised looking directly to Tony –he had lost his mind? What if something goes wrong and the other guy showed in front of all the mad patients? It wasn't a good idea. "Rogers and I will interrogate the bimbo guy, maybe he knew something about your half-sister…"

"Does Steve know this information?" Clint asked looking at her sister's photo, Tony shrugged his should with discomfort. "About me and Lynette… And Summer and you…"

"No, he doesn't know." Tony added with a serious voice. "And it's going to be this way before we could trust him." The archer looked at him searching for an explanation, since when Cap wasn't enough trustable? "It's complicated…"

[Forest Hills – New York, actual day]

The blond girl was putting her all attention in cleaning the knife, she was doing a great job and in a couple of minutes the weapons would be ready to use them again. Winnifred knew that her work was being more implicated studying and having a normal teenage life than fighting the enemies, but her heart pumped excited every time the action appeared in their life. Riley looked up, when she had all the knives and guns prepared to be used again, to see the brunette girl. "Study."

"You're not my mother." Winnie replied. Riley was an enigma for her, she found the blond girl after Thor came to the earth the first time –she was naked in the middle of the desert of New Mexico totally confused, the girl barely knew which year was or what happened to her but when her blue eyes catch Winnifred… Oh, the Strauss had the sensation the blond knew her even Winnie didn't meet Riley before. After that, the two girls became inseparables. Riley had some skills Winnifred needed to be invisible, to not be founded by her father or her aunt Judith. "What about yours?" She asked with curious and Riley's eyes turned sad and moved to avoid the question. "She's dead?"

"She is." Riley whispered and stood up to keep the weapons in a safe place, a place Winnifred couldn't see. When the blond returned to Winnie's room, she found the brunette looking through the window with her arms crossed. "Did you finish your homework?"

"No." She answered calmly and turned around to see her. "Are you going to-" But she couldn't finish talking because and explosion made the two girls fell to the ground, some kind of grenade destroyed the entrance door to make easy to enter to the house. "What the fuck?" Riley was the first to stand up and drew a knife she hid in one of her boots, her eyes shined with fierce.

"Stay here, don't move." The blond girl ordered to the brunette and opened carefully the door of the room; she couldn't see anything but the smoke of the explosion. Slowly she went out making sure no one was allow to enter the room where Winnifred was –her priority was protecting the Strauss at any cost. Her eyes used to see into the smoke and catch two silhouettes coming directly to her, one of them was a stocky man who had more muscles than brain. It was easy to leave him unconscious taking advantage of the smoke –she could hide and attack when he wasn't expecting it; but the other one was someone that left her breathless. When the stocky man fell to the ground the man with a red skull moved forward to face her. "You…"

"Aaron got your message, dearie, but I'm afraid he wasn't willing to come to visit you." The smoke was dissipating and now she could see him clearly. Johann Schmidy, also known as Red Skull, was in front of her without any visible weapon; his eyes showed her the hate he harbored to her family –because he knew perfectly who she really was. "But don't bother, I'm here instead."

"What a pleasure." She clicked her tongue and wished for anything better than a knife, but at least the villain seemed unarmed and that was a good point. "Are you going to kill me? I'm not going to put you easily." Red Smull smiled with evilness and before she could react he moved quickly to take her by the neck.

"Your time will come, don't worry." He raised her and Riley moved his feet trying to kick him but was too far from her. "I'm here for a better prize." His evil eyes moved to the door next to them, Winnifred was actually there holding a small gun. "Here you are." Riley shouted the girl's name and with all her strength she tried to get rid of him but everything was useless; Red Skull was stronger than her.

"Leave her or I'll shoot you!" The brunette threated him aiming the gun directly to Johann.

"As you wish." Riley fell to the ground trying to catch her breath again; her eyes looked up to see the brunette –Why she had to be too weak? She couldn't afford losing Winnie. "Put down that weapon, dearie, I'm here to talk not to fight."

"Don't you listen him, Winnie…" Riley whispered but Red Skull kicked her in the stomach to shut her up. The blond girl moaned in pain as he punched her again.

"Stop!" She shot the gun but the bullet barely passed near to Red's face. "Please… Stop." Johann stopped and turned around to see the scared teen. "What do you want from me?"

"Your trust." Johann said calmly and pointed the blond girl. "I don't understand why you trust her instead of me." Riley gave him a withering look and tried to stand up but another hit sent her to the ground. "Did she tell you who really is? Her real intentions?" Red looked down to see the blond girl, Riley was tossing blood from her mouth while tried to breath normally. "She wants you dead." He said like it wasn't something important. Winnifred held her breath back and looked Riley searching for explanation, but the blond girl barely could talk. "Because of you, her mother died."

"No… No… That's not true." Riley whispered and tears showed in her eyes. "Don't listen him, Winnie, that's not true… I trust you, I really do, I won't hurt you… Never."

"Oh please, you're such a pathetic liar." Johann spitted and bent down to see her right in the face. "Both of us know why you are here; don't try to hide your intentions." Then he turned around to face Winnifred, who was full of confusion. "You're Winnifred Strauss, the second daughter of Aaron and Lynette Strauss. You have a sister, Summer Strauss, who's dead. Am I right?" The girl nodded carefully and slowly putted the gun down. "Well, Winnie, your sister isn't dead." Red Skull offered to her a closed envelope and she took it with curious, inside there was a couple of photos that proved he was right. Summer was walking through the streets of New York with a blond man. "He's Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America -He's part of The Avengers." Winnifred couldn't move her eyes from the photo, how was this possible? Her sister was dead, they buried her years ago. The paper shivered in her hands when they started to shake. "You're living a liar, dearie… Your sister is the reason your father left you alone, your sister is the reason why you can't have a normal life. You know in your heart my words are true." Winnifred shook her head; Summer wasn't the reason of her messy life. "Think about this… If you were the dead one, would your father do the impossible to take you back from the dead? Mmhmm?"

"He will…" But her voice broke knowing she was lying. Aaron had only eyes for Summer, she barely existed to him. He never cared too much about her.

"Aaron is a fool, Winnifred." Red Skull took a step forward to her. "He can't see your potential."

"But you do." Winnie interrupted him with a smile in her face and Johann nodded slowly. The brunette teen shot the gun again but this time she had another target, the bullet crashed into Riley's leg making her screaming in pain. "No one tells me what to do."

[Dee's apartment, actual day]

She wasn't exactly a positive person but there wasn't another point of view: The bottle was half empty. Deanna sighed and drank again directly to the bottle, all the glasses were resting in the sink and she had no intention to clean them soon. She wanted to stand up but suddenly the world was moving too fast, a hysterical laugh escaped from her lips as she fell to the sofa again.

"Dee?" A voice named her and Deanna furrowed her brow, who the hell was coming to visit her now? She was having fun alone! Didn't need anyone. "The door was open and I thought something could happen… I'm happy to see you're okay." Phoebe Book, Pepper's new secretary, was actually there with her perfect blue suit and her good intentions. "But if you aren't okay, I'd stay here and help you with—"

"Saint Phoebe is going to save my life!" Deanna shouted raising the bottle in front of her. "I already have my savior, sweetie, come back to the tower and tell Tony I'm full of happy thoughts." But Phoebe didn't move a bit, she was standing looking at Dee with sadness. The ex-police couldn't stand that look in her eyes. "Shit, Phoebs, go away."

"You need help." She whispered a little bit scared and took a step back when Dee tried to stand up to use the bottle as a weapon to threat her. "I won't go." Number Two moved her eyes across the place –it was a messy, it needed an emergency cleaning and she was sure Deanna didn't eat anything in days because the kitchen was pretty empty of food… But full of alcohol. "What happened to you?"

"Love." Dee whispered closing her eyes. "Love will destroy you, Phoebs… Please… Never fall in love… I don't want you to change." And then she started to cry leaving the bottle –it crashed to the ground breaking in a million of pieces. Phoebe hugged her trying to console her pain but it was useless. "He's in everything of this apartment, Phoebs… All the moments we shared are in here, his presence is… it's just… it breaks me down." Dee sobbed and let herself went away to the pain of his missing. "It's suffocating me…"

[Steve's apartment, actual day]

Drawing gave him the peace he needed desperately. First of all the pencil traced some lines to organized the space in the paper, then added a couple of circles that will be the deep eyes once the drawing will finished. Painting the hair was really easy –and with that he imagined himself touching it assuming would be soft and smelled like fruits, maybe strawberries. Then his hands moved to her neck, the skin was warm and could feel her pulse pumping faster, and guided her closer to him. He cupped her face with the both hands -her cheeks would be red, her lips half opened will suppose an inevitable temptation and without regretting it he would fall into that feeling. "Who are you drawing?"

Steve opened his eyes in surprise when he found a girl in front of him –she was sitting in his lap with her body pressing onto his. The drawing was gone –maybe because he gave up on it to leave himself into his imagination, but no the feelings it instigated. He felt his cheeks blushed, uncomfortable with the nearest of the girl.

"Don't mind, I'd find out…" She whispered softly and touched his cheeks with her fingers, Steve closed his eyes concentrating in the caress –if only was her touching his skin like that… "Oh." The girl said surprised and laughed against his neck –when she got too close? But Steve thoughts dissipated when he felt the lips kissing his jaw. "Peggy… Do you miss her?" Peggy? Steve thought, oh Peggy… How he could forget her so easily? She guided his hands to her hips instigating him to touch under her shirt. "Ssht, don't worry, soldier." When he wanted to answer a finger shut him up. "Close your eyes… Lost you in the moment…" Her voice sounded authoritarian and he followed the orders feeling her breath crashing near to his mouth, the next words faded away when her lips covered his in a soft kiss. "I can be whoever you want me to be…." She whispered again but all he ever wanted was feeling that lips again –oh, how he missed them. Steve drowned him completely in their kiss, in her touch...

Jacquelin smiled against his lips knowing that she got the soldier out of time. No man can resist the temptation of his lover coming back. It was an easy work to find the desire the Captain was trying to hold back, she only needed to crave into his deep thoughts. A woman named Peggy Carter who met the Captain in 1943, of course now she was nothing but an old woman but Jacquelin modified that for her pleasure. Every time the Captain would open his eyes, he will see her. Her, the woman he lost when the plane crashed into the cold water.

Cap's lips were warm and needed; it had passed too much time since he kissed someone in that way. "You're really cute." She said with a mischievous smile in her face. Usually the telepath didn't enjoy her games but this time was different, the Captain was a pretty toy to play with. "It's a shame I don't have too much time for this, Steven, but I swear to you I'll come back pretty soon." Steve looked at her, confused –what was that? He didn't understand a word Peggy said. "Don't move, understand?" He nodded following her orders and closed his eyes again. Jake took a syringe from her pocket and quickly the needle went through his arm's skin, the blood filled the container. "Now forget everything."

He opened the eyes when his mobile phone started to ring, Tony's name showed in the screen and Steve picked up instantly. "Come to the tower, Capsicle, we need to talk."

[Stark tower, actual day]

"Lynette? Sum's mum?" Sullivan asked confused when the man of iron and the Captain asked him a few questions about the woman. He leaned his head to the left trying to figure out how that information will affect the situation, couldn't see why Aaron's wife was important for the mission of stopping the scientist's plans. "I barely remember her… I wasn't exactly her cup of tea."

"Don't you say." Tony whispered to himself but Sully heard him feeling offended instantly. "And what do you remember about her?" He asked nicely trying to gain his trust, the blond guy crossed his arms in a pensive way. Steve wasn't listen him at all, his thought were with the fact he awoke in the sofa with his arm bleeding –he couldn't remember how it happened, maybe someone tried to drug him? It was impossible, none of the drugs or the alcohol worked on him… His body rejected them for good or bad. "Please, cooperate with us."

"I don't know what to say!" Sully complained. "She was the worst mother, didn't care about Summer… Or Winifred. There was something dark in her; I don't know how to describe it… She never talked to me more than a hello or goodbye… Aaron loved her with all his heart, I can tell because the way he looked at her was… Well, lovely. But when she looked at him… Lynette didn't love him at all."

"That's why she left her family?" Tony asked and Sully shrugged his shoulders with indifference.

"Maybe…" The blond guy looked at him with caution. "But it was the same day Howard and Maria Stark died… I don't believe in coincidences."

"Me neither, kid." Tony added and Sully looked down feeling sad for Aaron, the scientist wasn't too bad… Maybe a little bit mad or out of mind but deep inside he had good intentions. "Now we're going to talk abou- where are you going, Cap?" He asked confused when Steve stood up with the intention of leaving the room.

"I'll be back in a minutes, I need to go to the bathroom." The man of iron nodded even he knew perfectly that Steve was lying –the Captain wasn't a good liar, his eyes reported him.

[Forest Hills – New York, actual day]

Spidy entered to the house through the window which was open because the explosion broke all the glasses. The main floor was destroyed, full of wreckage and broken furniture; the second floor didn't receive the impact of the explosion directly so it had the structure conserved. "Peter…" He jumped when a whispered surprised him –his Spider Sense didn't alarm him as usually do when the danger was coming. His eyes catch a body in the second floor, it was a teen girl with blond hair who was bleeding by her leg because a bullet wound. "Peter…" She whispered again and he came closer –no one but Gwen knew his real identity, or it was coincidence she was saying that name or he had new problems. "Peter… I failed." Tears filled Riley's eyes. "I failed again."

She looked at him. "No… You didn't." He answered trying to give her console but she started to cry anyway. "We're going to the hospital, okay?" Spidy tried to carry her in his arms but the girl resisted.

"I'll be fine, just take the bullet off…"

[Stark tower, actual day]

Summer was dancing like she did in the theater before Ben showed up, but this time a sweet music filled the room –it reminds him a soft lullaby. Her movements were catchy; he couldn't stop looking totally distracted by her. Suddenly Summer stopped and Steve thought she already saw him but what she did was making a pony tail in order to avoid feeling his wet hair stuck to her neck.

His cheeks blushed when he remembered the drawing he planned to do but failed when something unexpected happened. His thoughts leaded him to imagine the touch of that hair –soft with a sweet smell, and then the skin of her neck… Warm. Smooth. Prohibited, the simple touch of it would cost him his life –and he already passed for that before and didn't want it to repeat it.

"Captain."

His heart skipped a heartbeat. Summer was looking directly to him confused but also worried. He felt his cheeks burning like millions of hells. "I… I just… I didn't… I didn't mean to… Uh… Disturb you from… From your exercise… Your dance. Yeah, your dance." Summer turned off the CD player to hear him better because Steve was talking too quickly, too much nervous.

"Are you fine, Cap?" He nodded crossing his arms like he could protect himself from the feelings that filled his mind. "You don't look… Fine."

"But I am." Steve interrupted her and Summer smiled a little.

"You didn't come to visit me after what happened in the theater… I thought you won't see me again." He couldn't respond to that. Steve didn't plan to see her again but unconsciously his feet guided him to this place. He felt worried about Summer having his memories, she could see all the weakness he held back to seem more self-confidence. All his worries, all his fears, all his desires. She knew everything about him now. Sully said the effects weren't permanent and Summer would forget it in a couple of days more or less… But at that moment it didn't help him. "I'm glad to see you." She got closer and with her nearest Steve remembered her body pressed against his in the theater while laid in the ground after awakening. He bitted his lower lip. "Can—Can I ask you another favor, Cap?"

"Steve, call me Steve." Summer leaned her head. Oh, that neck.

"Can I ask you another favor, Steve?" She repeated the question with a mischievous smile. He liked the sound of his name with her voice. "Ah?" The Captain nodded carefully avoiding seeing anything but her face. "Can you teach me how to fight?"