Yay! Next chapter is up! The last Wednesday I had an operation (nothing serious, just a cyst –I hope I didn't make any grammar mistake, that what the translate said.) so I can't sit for hours in front of the computer… So maybe I'm going to a little hiatus :(

I'll write whenever I can, I promise, but I'll be late.

[FLASHBACK. Stark's lab, May 1970]

She was holding the flowers but nothing else.

Howard kissed his wife's forehead and paid attention to the little baby Maria was caressing, his eyes were pretty closed and his head was bold but his father was already claiming he looked like a truly Stark. His wife smiled and nodded being so proud of the little son they shared. "We'll name him Anthony. Anthony Edward Stark." Howard looked at the little baby, his face was red but his expression was relaxed… He was having his first dreams. "Tony, my first child…"

"Congratulations, Miss Stark, it's a lovely baby." Lynette took finally a step forward to be closer to the couple and she offered her the flowers. Maria smiled to the young girl and took them with her free hand, they're beautiful –a mixed bunch made of petunias and sunflowers. "I hope you like it… I'm not good with this kind of presents."

"They're lovely, Lyn." The cheeks of the young girl blushed happily to have chosen well. "Thanks, sweetheart." Even Maria was sweaty for the effort of giving birth and the bangs under her eyes reporter she was more tired than wanted to admit, the woman was radiant. Beautiful. Her eyes shined in happiness and every time she looked at their baby the love was reflected in her face, no one could possible hated that sweet image. Not even Lynette.

The young intern of Howard secretly envied Maria for her marriage. Howard Stark not only was the genius she expected to meet, he was charming in a ways she didn't comprehend at first… but lately something unexpected was happening. Lynette found herself watching at the couple and imagined herself in the place of Maria –kissing Howard's lips, feeling his hands over her hips, his breath caressing her neck every time he spoke near to her ear…; she needed him in a non-professional way. She'd give anything to be one day in her place, to be his just for one day. But that wasn't going to happen; Lynette was just a smart young girl by Howard's eyes. A special inversion for the future of Stark Industries. She knew it perfectly.

"Are you okay?" A nurse asked to her when came out from Maria's room crying and shaking –his body was shivering because of the impotence, Maria was the perfect woman for Howard but she couldn't help but hated her. She felt miserable. "Take some Kleenex, honey." The woman offered the tissues to her but the young girl rejected them.

"I'm fine." She whispered trying to calm herself down –oh, what a shame she was. "Can you tell me how to go out from here, please miss?"

The fresh air of the early morning helped her to quieten her feelings and thoughts. Howard had taken her by his car –they were in the lab when Maria called him because she had had already broken waters; so now she had to do the way on foot. The hospital was in one of the richest neighborhood of the city while her actually home belonged to a place where none of the rich will have a house. She had walked twenty meters when heard her name by Howard's lips, he was running to catch her. Lynette didn't turn around; in fact she started to run away from him even her shoes weren't ideal for exercise.

"Lyn! Lyn, wait!" Tears filled her eyes while running, why Howard had to follow her like he actually cared? His chest hurt by the pain of being pushed out. Howard was moving on his life –forming a family with Maria, being the founder of an important Industry, his face was everywhere in every magazine of the kiosk. And what about her? His twin left her behind when enlisted in the army. His father had a new kid to play with. Her mother was dead –she had hung herself in the kitchen, the two siblings found her when had arrived from the school. Her talented imagination and intelligent was showed to the world by the name of another person –or in that case, a company. Nobody knew who really was. She was just a ghost of someone maybe didn't have to exist it. "Rose!"

He overtook her and stopped in the middle of her way so she had to stop too. "Don't call me that." She grumped in disgust –her mother used to call her by her second name and couldn't stand it anymore. "What do you want?" Her arms crossed in defensive.

"What's going on with you?" Howard asked confused and worried, he took her by the shoulders to make sure she was facing him. Lynette's eyes tried to avoid him but his hand moved to her chin to raise her head. "You can tell me."

"I don't like myself when I'm with you." And she took a step back. "I'm sorry…" Lynette went around and left Howard alone with his thoughts.

The next day she didn't showed herself at the lab and he knew he had lost his uncut diamond.

[Stark tower, actual day]

Summer puffed tired of the explanations about the most important thing to get attention when you're in the middle of a fight, what the girl expected was a couple of punching tips and maybe a class of shooting but, obviously, Steve had another plans. The Captain was talking too much and the girl was afraid the sports clothes she wore were for nothing. Tony, and Pepper was next to him reading a lot of papers with the Stark Industries logo, was supervising the training because, well, the reason was simple: He needed a break time and loved making fun of the captain –the man of iron had the perfect excuse, he was the legal guardian of Summer now and needed to make sure the girl was okay. "Just shut up." Summer begged in a whisper and crossed her arms, Steve stopped of talking watching her feeling confused of her petition. "Why you don't teach me how to leave someone unconscious without using my power? Ah? That could be useful."

"And surviving is useful too." He complained offended because she wasn't getting serious his explanations. "I thought you wanted to know how to defense yourself, not how to search the problems."

"I didn't say I was going to search the problems." She replied and took a step back from him. "But if you didn't notice…, lately the problems are finding me and that's why I need to know how to punch back." He saw in her eyes she stilled worry for Ben, he didn't give signals of making another movement but the girl was afraid the experiment didn't give up so easily. "So please, can you teach me that or I have to ask another person?" Tony looked to another side; he didn't want to be involved in the conversation –not because didn't want to teach the girl how to fight, he approved the fact Summer wanted to learn some tips to defense herself… It was just he didn't use to the idea of the girl being his half-sister –it was too painful thinking of Maria, his mother, being betrayed by his father in that way.

"Okay then, go ahead." Steve took a step back too, leaving a distance of ten meters between them. "Try to hit me." The Captain was looking at her in a serious way; he didn't expect she could even touch a hair from his head. "Let's see how you move." Tony bended resting his arms in the legs with the intention of no losing even a second of Summer's trying –she was wearing a couple of gloves and the enough fabric to make sure Steve was safe from her uncontrolled abilities.

The girl looked at him thinking about if he was being serious or not… But Steve wasn't the joking type so he really wanted to see if she was capable of doing it or not. Summer nodded slowly to let him know was accepting the challenge and prepared herself to make the first movement. She was quick, more than Steve though she could be. Suddenly he had her in front of him and the Captain avoid her hand touch taking steps back but it was just a feint, the girl turned on herself –she wasn't fighting, Steve thought, she was dancing- catching him on surprise and bended to reduce the distance between them.

This time he had to jump to make sure she didn't hit him. "Are you sure you didn't take classes of personal training before?" Tony asked in the distance with a big smile on his face and Steve rolled his eyes when he heard him. "You're sweating, Capsicle." Steve clicked his tongue –it wasn't true, he wasn't even tired but Tony wanted to distract him. "Don't be too bad with the grandpa, Sum'."

"Shut up, Stark." Steve said with a rude voice, he was getting tired of his jokes –especially when he had to concentrate in something else. Maybe Summer wasn't an expert of self-defense but her condition of ballerina gave her the enough coordination, resistance and agility to suppose a problem for him. But he was better; no one could possibly doubt it. "You're doing it right."

"The fight is nothing but another type of dance."

The girl had had another couple of opportunities but finally Steve had been quicker than her; now she was exhausted and the movements started to be slower than before. Pepper stood up leaving Tony behind –her phone was ringing and it turned to be from the committee so she needed to check everything was going well in the company. The Stark glanced up her –what would he do without her? And then a strange feeling started to fluid in his brain, what if he was like his father –as everyone used to say? Tony couldn't imagine betraying Pepper with another woman now but he knew most of the people out there believe he stilled being a womanizer, and a lot of young ladies had flirting with him in every event he assisted. What if the old Tony shows up and then screw everything up?

His thoughts were interrupted by his half-sister's voice. "Agh! My leg!" The girl's face was the image of pain and Steve worried instantly about. He went closer to check her leg; Tony stood up and took two steps toward before stopped –the expression of pain faded out and went replaced by a big smile. Summer moved quickly –taking the two men by surprise; and her hand touched Steve's cheek softly. "I win, Rogers." She whispered and tiptoed up to him, the Captain felt his heart skipping a beat. "Don't your ever get distracted…" She quoted him –it was from his explanations; Steve furrowed his brow in offense. "What? You're not proud I was listening? I'm a good student." He saw his own reflection in her eyes and found peace and calm in them, Summer was grabbing his shirt to pull him to her. "Your good heart will be your perdition."

Tony cleared his throat to catch their attention and Summer took a step back to be far from the Captain, Steve stilled looking at her eyes like he was hypnotized. He didn't feel like losing, maybe Summer won the challenged but something in his head told him he already had won. "It's enough for today, don't you think?" Steve nodded slowly without looking at him.

"See you tomorrow, Cap." Summer said with a smile on her face and turned around to go to the exit; Steve couldn't do anything but directed his gaze to her. Tony spanned his fingers in front of him to make him react and the Captain rolled his eyes.

"What about now, Stark?" He asked with a tired expression but the Stark was serious enough to make him realized something was happening.

"What about you, Captain?" Tony crossed his arms in defensive. "What are you doing? What kind of pathetic flirting is that?" Steve blinked totally confused but his cheeks blushed when he catch what Tony was meaning. "Summer is not certain your type, so stop this… this thing you're doing." For the first time, Tony couldn't find the perfect words to say… Not even a funny joke to break the tension. Tony's caring feelings were quickly coming out of hiding –for the god's sake, he had a sister now and she needed to be protected from all-well, from everything that possibly hurt her. And he was sure Steve was one of its. As Tony thought about it, the caring feelings translated into a fear of losing her –he got the feeling the Captain would take her far from him. "She's… Damnit, Steve, she's too young for you."

"What?" There was a short and breathless silence where none of them could possibly stare at each other. "Summer is thirteen years old, Tony, she's not a little girl anymore." He made a pause to let him the opportunity to explain himself, but the Stark man lowered his eyes with a sad expression on them. "And why would you care about that? It's not your business."

"It is!" Steve's eyes encouraged him to tell the Captain the reason but Tony didn't say anything else.

"You're not the center of the universe." Steve grumped taking a step back. "Summer can make her own decisions without your help."

[Asylum, Actual day]

The three stopped in front of the building. Sullivan flew his eyes open in surprise, he had imaging a grey building that could look similar to a jail but it turned to be a normal site –with his walls made of bricks and the experiment could appreciate a big gardens behind the building. "Wow, it doesn't look like a mad house." Clint ignored him like he did before –now was sure the reason why Tony let Sullivan to follow them into the mission of searching for Lynette: The Stark wanted to be free from Three's presence. What a jerk. "Do you think Summer's mom is here?" He asked confused. Lyntte wasn't the best mother of the world but surely she wasn't crazy.

"No, we're not sure..." Bruce answered him knowing that Clint wouldn't. The archer moved his hand to indicate the rest of the team to keep moving. "But we find out Judith, Aaron's sister, is visiting someone in here." Sully leaned his head to the right –no one in Strauss's family, and he knew it perfectly, was a patient from the Asylum… Or at least not three years ago…, of course something could possibly change.

"Judd is pretty cool." Sullivan whispered to Bruce when they entered to the hall. "She was the mother the girls needed." When they crossed the hall an administrative caught them to ask for they business in the building, Clint told her they were searching for someone and Sully saw the archer was showing something to the woman. Something he couldn't see. The administrative smiled nicely to them and invited to follow her, she needed to check the name in the computer. While Clint and Bruce were occupied with the searching, Sully moved his eyes to take a better look of the inside. It was luminous and didn't smell as a hospital, there was peace in every corner of the place.

"I'm sorry." The woman said. "We don't have a patient with that name."

Suddenly Sully's eyes caught something familiar, a woman with black hair and a couple of green eyes was crossing the hall. Judith, he thought instantly and wanted to warn the boys but both were ignoring him, okay then, it turned to be my mission. He ran directly to her and when Judith realized the boy was coming after her, she started to run too away from him. "Judith! Judd, please! It's me! Sullivan!" He shouted trying to stop her, but she was really fast. "Judd!"

"Go away, Bomer!" She cried out. "I'm not going back!"

"Back? Back where?" He asked confused. "I'm with the Avengers, Judd! And Summer too!" They were crossing a room for the patients –they had a TV and a big bookcase to entertain themselves, and most of them had their eyes flew open surprised and afraid to see the two experiments over there, when Judith stopped. "Cool… I'm breathless…"

"Summer is alive?" She asked and took a step forward to him, Sully opened his mouth to answer but the woman grabbed him by the shirt collar. "Don't play with me, Bomer, I know you were working with Aaron."

"But that's the past, Judd." He claimed trying to be away from her; Judith sighed but didn't pull him back. When an arrow caressed her cheek she turned around to see Clint with his bow and Bruce behind him. "They're my friends, Juddy, please." A second arrow had the intention to show her that they weren't there for a nice talk, Judith pushed the blond to the ground and raised her arms to stop the arrow with her ability. The weapon stopped in the air like it was held by two invisible threads. "Cool, Judd."

"Who are you and what do you want from me?" She shouted and with another movement of her hand the arrow crashed to the ground.

"My name is Clint Barton, Miss Strauss, and my friend is Bruce Banner." The archer said raising her arms in peace –leaving the bow in the ground next to him. "We just want some information… Lynette Strauss was my sister and I need to find her. She's in dangerous."

"Yeah, sure she is." Judith whispered with disgust and leaned her head to the left. "Follow me." She ordered and started to walk through the room, instantly they followed her but leaving a security distance from her. "I didn't know she had a brother." The experiment number zero whispered. "It's not like I knew her too much but… She never said anything about you."

"We weren't pretty close." Clint shrugged his shoulders with indifference. They went through three different corridors before Judith stopped in front of one of the room designated to the patients that hadn't a good prognosis. "What are we doing here…?" He asked confused and obviously afraid of the answer. Judith opened the door without talking and entered in silent, Clint was the first to follow her and his heart skipped a heartbeat.

"You asked for your sister, well, she's here."

[Aaron's hideout, Actual day]

Aaron couldn't believe what he was actually seeing. Winifred, his little innocent daughter, was cooperating with the villain without questioning his orders. Red Skull had ordered to install a better lab in the basement of the house and his men did it in a blink of an eye, it had the best machines and the most powerful techs in the market. "Winnie… Dear…" But she had been ignoring him since Jaquelin had given her a couple of samples of blood. "Winnie…"

"Is everything here, dad?" She asked with a serious voice while showed to him a pile of papers, he blinked confused. "Mom's files. Is everything here or you destroyed something?" Winifred asked her again and this time she sounded a little bit threaten, Aaron looked at her without saying anything. "You're not going to cooperate? Seriously?"

"This isn't a game, Winnie." He said in a whisper and his daughter smiled with sarcasm –she wasn't a little girl, she knew exactly who Red Skull was and what he wanted. "Please, it's too late for me, Winnie… But not for you."

"Too late for you, daddy?" She said with irony and laughed. "Oh, please, too much melodramatic." Winifred crossed her arms looking directly to him. "I was there when mom decided to leave us. Don't treat me like I'm stupid… I know about her work, so tell me where her files are!"

"They're gone!" He answered standing up to face his daughter. "Lynette just asked for one thing before she went away, she asked me to destroy her work… And I did it." Winifred moved her eyes to another person; Jake was next to her with her arms crossed and a smile in her face. She shook her head when Winnie looked at her.

"You're lying." Aaron swallowed his own saliva and sat down when the experiment number five took a step forward to be closer to him. "But good for us, we have another methods to extract you the information." Jacquelin looked at him and Aaron saw in her eyes she was asking for his forgiveness, he nodded his head and closed his eyes when she touched his cheeks with her both hands. "Join me later, when you'll find out where are the files." Winnie said when Jake started to use her powers. "It's time, Five, Seven is going to wake up."

[Stark tower, Actual day]

After fifteen minutes of doubting he knocked the door of her room. The waiting felt like an eternity to him but fortunately Summer opened the door quickly. He smiled to her before realized she was half naked –the girl only was wearing underwear. "What's up, Cap? I thought you left." She said confused and he tried to focus only on her face but it was a hard work even his moral thoughts told him it was wrong standing at her like that. "Something's wrong?" Obviously she wasn't understood why his face was red as a Chinese lantern and he tried to say something but his voice broke every time. "Come in." Summer turned around and left the door opened giving him the permission to enter. "Are you fine?" She pointed at his face. "Maybe you have fever."

"I'm fine." He crossed his arms resting himself against the door closed. "Why are you…?" Summer looked at him without understanding at him when he pointed her body. "Y'now… More clothes would be better."

"Oh." Summer nodded slowly and opened the closet to find something to wear. "I took a shower before you showed up." She explained to him while found out a jeans and a white shirt. "Did I do something wrong? I always got dressed in front of Sully but you... You didn't seem comfortable." Steve sighed trying not to think too much in her words –why that blond kid was allowed to see her naked every time? "There's something you don't like or it's just another rule? I mean, my brain didn't forget only my memories… I forgot everything about the rules of… Living? You know, like knock the door before enter into a room… Something like that stuff. It's complicated."

"Yeah, it's not… correct being naked in front of… people…" Summer nodded her head trying to memorize that stupid rule –what was the point of that? They could see her nose or her eyes; they were part of her body as her belly or her tits… There was too much she couldn't understand.

"The people are too much shyness." Summer grumped sitting in the bed sighing. "Sorry then, Cap." Steve nodded feeling his cheek turning pink instead of too much red. "I'm glad you're here, I want to tell something." She clapped the sit next to her and he doubted before sat down, Summer was too close. He could smell the shampoo she used –as he thought in his dreams, it smelled like sweet fruit. "Do you remember that time in the ice cream shop? I touched the hands of the woman but nothing happened."

"Mmhmm." It was true… He totally forgot it… Maybe because after that Ben showed up and all his attention was putted in his reasons to get Summer back.

"At that moment I only felt joy… Happiness… There wasn't fear of doing something wrong; I only concentrated in the ice cream and the memories of my mother and sister." Steve leaned his head to the right trying to follow her explanations. "I think I can control it." She claimed with a big smile in her face. "Sully and I were working on it. Amm… Tony doesn't know anything so please don't tell him." She begged with her eyes filled of excitement.

"Any improvement?" Summer bit her lower lip and bended down to his direction. "Can you show me?"

"Your memories are fading out of my head…" She whispered and slowly her hand moved to his thigh caressing him making drawings with her fingers. "I don't want to use it in you again." Steve looked up finding her eyes –they were sad like something in her mind hurt her too much. "It's painful to know that you don't feel the same I feel about you."

[Streets of New York, Actual day]

After making sure Deanna was peaceful sleeping in her bed, Phoebe had been gone away to make her way home. The streets were lighted by the artificial lamppost and the moon –it was full but the night was darker, and Phoebs could barely see the walkers before they were too much closer. The blond girl sighed –her mind told her that the option of calling Happy wasn't too stupid, the man would do it in a blink of an eye and she would feel more protected. But it was too late for that.

Before she could realized a car stopped next to her and a couple of men jumped out carrying buckets filled with water. She took a step back and prepared to attack in case it would be needed –it was weird they only came with water but she was sure they're not nice people. "Stay away from me!" She picked the phone from her pocket and dialed Tony's number in a blink of an eye, but the men were doing their movements too. "TONY." She cried out when one of the men took her by the arm. "Leave me!" She electroshocked him without thinking it twice and then the water crashed into her.

Maybe she could control the electricity but Phoebs wasn't immune to it. The water was a good conductor and she felt instantly the pain of the electricity in her skin, leaving her unconsciousness. "Pick her." Another man jumped out the car, it was the experiment number four. Ben Scott. "Hello, Mister Stark." He said after picked her phone. "I'm sorry but… We win this time." A smiled showed in his face. Oh, the power of winning. "Get used to it."

Dudududu. Hope you like it the chapter! The action is coming and so are the moments of Steve/Sum! Yup! So excited! Anyway, this fic is going to have my particular version of the Winter Soldier and The Civil Wars so I'm not going to be faithful to the comics. Sorry :) But I hope you'll enjoy my version!