Leah landed to the floor with a crash, she just groaned as she closed her eyes feeling the pain course through her body. She had hit the floor with such force, she took a minute to just familiarize herself with her surroundings and make sure there wasn't any permanent damage. She had never travelled alone, so normally had someone like Thor to stop her from falling on her arse. Leah pushed herself up off the floor, brushing herself down. Leah just looked around to see she was in one of the parks close by Steve's. She pulled her cloak closer around her raising the hood to cover her face. She quickly started walking towards Steve's. She knew if SHIELD was still checking to see if there was any activity from Asgard that they would be coming here immediately to investigate the burst of energy.

She only hoped that Steve would accept her being back here, considering that he worked for SHIELD, he was obligated to tell them about her return. She knew however that he would think long and hard before doing that, knowing what their response would be. She would probably end up in a cell and get tortured for information in the most eventful ways, considering she was one of them. Leah knew that Steve was her best chance of getting to speak to Clint again. Steve was the first person she told about her abilities herself, considering Clint had told Nat and Coulson knew from Fury who had been told all by Mathew. Anyone else who may have found out. She never really told anyone herself till Loki's attack.

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Once they landed back on the hellicarrier, Loki had been marched off the ship by armed guards taking him to a cell which should keep him contained considering who it was made for. Leah slipped out of the co-pilot seat nodding to Nat who was shutting the ship down. She could still feel the pain coursing through her body, she padded her way bare foot out of the ship to see Steve standing there picking up his stuff.

"You alright Leah?" He frowned looking at her, she could see the concern on his face. She knew he was only worried about her as a friend it still made her tense up slightly around him.

"Why do you ask?" Leah stopped smiling up at her friend.

Steve just gently touched the jacket she wore pulling it over her shoulder revealing the burnt part of her dress as well as the beginning to heal but still angry-looking bleeding wound on her shoulder from Loki's staff blast. Leah just looked down at it before back at him thinking quickly.

"I am off to the medic now." Leah lied still smiling slightly. She had gotten use to hiding her ability now from the people closest to her. "They will patch me up and I am sure I will be in working order in no time at all."

Steve just nodded staring at her, Leah headed out of the ships hanger straight to her room, she stripped herself out of her ruined dress and got straight into the shower. She removed all the dried blood and dirt off her body. She also took a couple of minutes to close her eyes and think about Loki, there was something about him which unnerved her completely. The way he held her body against his and that stare with those piercing green eyes, they seemed to read her every reaction. She just shook the thoughts from her head, there was no point even thinking about him, SHIELD interrogators would deal with him now. She looked down to her wound seeing there was only now the red patch where she had already managed to heal. She ran her hand over it before sighing, people would call it a gift but she felt it was more like a burden to carry. She let out a long sigh, turning the shower off and running her hand through her wet hair before stepping out. She had just dried off and wrapped her large towel around herself when she heard Steve called.

"Leah."

She just stepped out of the bathroom looking at him still in his suit towering over her small petite form. She looked up to Steve who just seemed shocked at her level of undress, he blushed his eyes looking at her for a moment making her smirk slightly. He then quickly turned around, she just smirked at his gentlemanly attitude still after all this time in the modern age. She managed to get dressed without feeling self-conscious he was there and without a single word being said. She had just pulled on her trousers of her all in one standard issue suit before she asked.

"Why are you here Steve?"

"You seemed out of character and you were injured." He turned around to look at her. She just stood there in her crop top and her suit hanging off her hips, but there was no sign of injury to speak of on her now. He went over and touched the shoulder where the red mark was where the obvious injured had been. She let his hand run over the area which was still slightly red-pink but otherwise it looked fine. She stood there waiting for what he was going to say. "I went to check on you at the medics but they said you hadn't been and now you're not injured."

"I was." She nodded trying to help with his confusion. She just stood there before he stepped back away from her looking at her questioningly. She knew then that she needed to explain to her friend her biggest secret. She just stood there, a little unsure about how to tell him. "I just, I am different too I guess." She shrugged trying not to make a scene about it.

"Budapest." Steve sighed looking up at her, she just nodded not really knowing what else to say, as she pulled up the rest of her suit zipping herself into it before putting on her utility belt. "I read your file, sorry, I just wanted to know everything about you." Steve explained looking a little sheepish about emitting it to her.

"Everything?" She raised a questioning eyebrow not really sure what to expect, she certainly didn't expect him to do research into her. However obviously still knowing the truth about her it didn't change his opinion about her. That made her smile, that he was still there for her as a friend even though he knew all.

"Yeah, you were a big part of my life in this modern word you still are a big part of my life now. When I first woke, you were there and you were assigned to help me in the adjustment into this world. You knew everything about me, you even tried to change yourself to help me adjust, I just wanted to be on an even playing field." Steve told her looking down, she could see the guilt plastered across his face. "Sorry, I never expected to find out as much as I did but it didn't change anything."

"Don't apologise, why didn't you say anything?" She frowned still a little dazed by what he had told her sitting down on her bunk. She just looked up at him feeling a little stupid and confused about why he didn't tell her any sooner.

"I wanted you to tell me when you were ready." Steve smiled looking a little awkward, looking down at his feet. "I wanted to wait for you to tell me yourself. What actually happened Leah most of it was classified but I got the idea?" He then slowly sat down next to her.

"I was kidnapped, someone found out who I was related too and wanted revenge on SHIELD." She looked at her lap picking her fingers nervously. "I was taken from school, I was only 17 then. My brother pissed off some man destroying his previous work and hunting him down. I was held prisoner before being used like a lab rat, I got drugged and tested on. They were trying to create another version of you really. But due to Dr Banners experiment failure they were trying to do it in parts, sections at a time. I got the increase healing rate and well I can't really die. I am sure other things may come from this but I have yet to find them out. It was so painful, every drug they pumped through my system." Leah looked down wincing at the thought of it. She remembered the odd memory come back to her, making the goose pimples rise on her neck. She closed her eyes before opening them and looked up at Steve. Who just stared at her with his kind looking blue eyes that didn't seem to judge at all. He gently took hold of her hand as if to reassure her. "I can't remember much, the odd flashback but they aren't pleasant. They took samples and ran further test before they created a monster from me. My brother managed to kill it with Nat's help. It didn't change what happened to me though. I have been injured, on deaths door even killed but I survived each time."

"You're immortal." Steve muttered sitting down next to her looking concerned. She just smiled and shook her head looking down.

"Not yet that would be depressing. I am aging still at the moment thank god, the scientists tested my cells regularly, so I will die eventually. I just hope that it will be the next time naturally, not dying when I shouldn't. The process of surviving it's only happened to me once so far but it hurt more than anyone could imagine." Leah could hear the tremble in her voice as the fear within her rose.

"Surely not more than turning into captain America." Steve bumped into her making her laugh. She remembered his report of what the process was like and it didn't sound pleasant at all.

"I have a feeling it's going to happen to me again and soon Steve." Leah looked up at him, fear in her silver eyes and worry coming through her voice "I am scared that it's going to be my brother who does it too and that it will be the last time I see him. He knows how to kill me for the final time, a way which I won't come back."

"I won't let it happen to you Leah." Steve looked at her squeezing her hand tightly. "Never okay."

"Well I guess we got to get debriefed." She sighed standing up, keeping hold of his hand for a second longer before letting it go. She just checked herself in the mirror before opening the door and heading out "I mean Fury will have our guts if we don't tell him what happened exactly."

"True." Steve smiled "You're okay though aren't you Leah?"

"You know me Steve I rarely worry about a thing." She lied convincingly smiling back at him before heading off. "I'm fine."

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She made her way through the crowded streets checking that she wasn't being followed. It surprised her how all her training came back to her so easily. She slipped into the building which housed Steve's apartment, Leah made her way up the stairs pausing in the middle to see if she heard any following footsteps. After a couple of minutes waiting and hearing nothing, she continued getting to Steve's door.

She just knocked at the door waiting a moment she heard movement behind the door. She waited for a moment as the door opened and a rather sleepy looking Steve stood in the door way. She just smiled up at him as he stared at her confusion spreading across his face.

"Hey." She smiled at him. Steve stood up a little straighter, his mouth slightly open as his eyes widened. She waited for a minute before adding. "May I come in?"