Author notes in Chapter 1

Tony POV

Enroute to the airstrip, Holly had taken the van with Coulson, Red and May while Tony decided to see if he could get Rogers to crap freedom with his driving. So far, no good. Then again, he'd worked with Romanov for how long? If he could survive her driving, he was probably close to immune. Dammit.

"So, tell me. Who said hi first?" Tony asked, curious as to how his pseudo sister had reacted to meeting Captain America. He hadn't been terribly impressed but of course he didn't impress easily.

"Does her pulling a gun on me count as hi?"

Tony laughed shaking his head. "That sounds like my honorary sister agent. Lucky for you she didn't shoot you. She can do that shooting a quarter from a mile away thing. I think. Or she tells me to scare me, I don't know."

"Yeah. How come you've never mentioned her or her family at all?"

Tony gripped the steering wheel, maneuvering the car through three lanes of traffic and back again to take the exit they needed. Because they were his, the one thing he didn't want to share with the world when he shared everything else. "Because I didn't want to. Here's my question, you worked with SHIELD and you never looked up what happened to your old Commando crowd? Wouldn't have been hard to find her that way."

Rogers looked down before looking back to the road. "What, so I could find out how old they were when they died? I was told when I was thawed out that of everyone, Peggy was the only one left. That's all I needed to really know."

"And now you know Barnes is back too. Jarvis hasn't found anything on him yet, sorry." Tony managed to just beat a red light as they sped down the roadway. "Did Holly offer to help you look for him?"

"Yeah she did. To use profiling to figure out where he might go. How could that work if his mind is all messed up thanks to Hydra?"

Tony shrugged. "Don't ask me. She's as smart as they come, if anyone can figure it out, it's Holly. She's got friends at the FBI, maybe they'd help."

"She showed a picture of you and her when she was small to her class today. You looked happy."

"She's always been the closest I ever got to a younger sibling." He wondered which picture she'd shown.

"And her brother, Eddie?"

Tony clenched his jaw, thinking of his old friend, gone so many years. His friend who was never able to tell him the truth of who he was. His first true friend. "I don't want to talk about this with you, okay Capsicle? Some things are private."

"Fair enough." A pause. "That gives me an option to cash in the same chip someday."

"Fine." Didn't matter. Tony would find out anyway.

Holly POV

They were barely on the road before Coulson, being a gentleman and letting Holly ride shotgun asked his question from the seat that Tony had apparently adapted between the actual seats of the van, large enough to share with Nat. Where the hell had they gotten this thing? Had it been frozen somewhere in the Arctic or had they rescued it from an A-Team convention? "So? What do you think?"

"The van is shit. Please tell me there is more money in the new budget than this."

He scoffed and rolled his eyes and May's lips twirked up a little. "You know what I'm talking about! Cap! What did you think of finally meeting him?"

"Besides the fact that I might have introduced myself by pointing a gun at him?" She cringed a little, knowing Coulson was going to flip.

Coulson's jaw dropped in utter shock and May let out a petite snort. "This we have to hear."

"He didn't make himself known to me. He went to my class this afternoon and then found out about my rehearsal for the veteran's benefit and was sitting in a darkened corner. He waited till everyone left. What else should I have thought?" She threw her hands up, more than embarrassed on her own account. Uncle Dum Dum would have gotten a kick out of it and never let her live it down. Just wait until Peggy heard. Dear god.

"Oh! Are you doing Star Spangled Man again?" Apparently the faux pas of pointing a gun at one's childhood hero wasn't as big a deal as she thought it was.

She grinned. Coulson always tried to make it out for any performance of the old war bond performance. "Of course. And I had Captain America himself in the audience. Can you imagine how Daddy would be flipping out right now?"

"He'd be over the moon. Eddie too. How'd he take having a gun pointed at him?"

"Wasn't the first time. He called me ma'am." She giggled. "Nat, he told me what you said to say to prove his identity."

Natasha sat up a bit in the seat. She wasn't overly pleased by the accommodations either and Holly wagered she'd arrived with Tony in his car. Probably driving worse than Tony was right now to scare him a bit. "Oh the Hot Lips thing?"

"Yeah."

"I figured that would be enough of an identifier." She paused. "He didn't react much when you floated his coffee."

"Why should he?" Coulsen jumped in. "It's no different than having an Asian man or a black man in the Commandos."

Holly tried not to laugh even though the other two women were smirking at his quick reaction to defend Captain Rogers. "Exactly. I think he was more curious than anything else."