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Tony and Bruce looked at each other wide eyed as they looked from the doorway that Devon had just left through and Steve who stood stunned on the other side of the room.

"I'll take her," Tony said nodding to the door. "You get him. I better catch up before she destroys another lab."

As he left, he heard Bruce ask, "So Steve do you want to tell me what just happened?"

Tony followed Devon's route by JARVIS's tracking ability as he was lead to his private lab. He had locked the lab when he left it earlier, but just like the first day they had met her, she had broken into his lab. He tapped his code into the panel on the door.

Nothing happened.

Tony tried his alternate code.

Still nothing.

Frowning Tony popped the cover off the lock. Devon had hard wired the lock. It would not be difficult to fix but it would take him a few minutes. Tony watched through the glass door as she marched back and forth through the lab. Of course, he was concerned about his equipment but at the same time, the look on Devon's face bothered him. She looked crazed, but in a sad way not like when she destroyed the lab.

The lock clicked its release and it slid open, allowing Tony entrance to his lab.

Devon stood before his armor, her hand raised as she was speaking softly. As Tony neared her, he could make out her words.

"…So Eden sank to grief. So dawn goes down to day." Devon's hand stroked the Mark VII as she said the last line, "Nothing gold can stay."

Tony took in a hiss as she touched his suite of armor. His sudden noise made her spin around rapidly. For a moment, he did not know what to say or do as the woman stood before him with wide eyes blinking rapidly.

"So what's up?" Tony asked not knowing what else to say to the sad look on the woman's face.

Devon looked away, staring into the distance at nothing in particular. "I just needed some time," she mumbled.

"Time for what?"

"What?" she replied in confusion, as her eyes gained focus again.

"Never mind," Tony said giving up on what had been on her mind just then. "Why are you in my lab?"

"I don't know…" her voice faded off as she looked around as if just noticing where she was. "I panicked. I guess I came here on autopilot."

"Since when's my lab your safe place," he said raising an eyebrow at her. While he was being a jerk in his attitude, but a part of him was beginning to care about this woman, who barged her way into his life.

"I don't know," Devon repeated giving a little shrug. "I just… I couldn't…"

"So what is it about the big oaf that has you all bothered?" Tony asked with a smirk.

Devon turned slowly to face him and Tony realized that the words he had said were exactly the wrong thing to say. The woman stalked over to him slowly, anger glowing in her eyes. Like a switch had been thrown, suddenly she seemed to move in a flash and Tony found himself pinned against the lab wall. He hit the wall with such force the plaster crumbled around him. Her size belied her strength as she lifted him off the floor.

"Don't talk about him that way," Devon growled out. "He is a brilliant man, a military and mathematical genius in his day."

"How do you know that?"

The soft question came from the doorway, which caused Tony to take his eyes off the angry woman. In the door way was Steve and Bruce. When the familiar voice had spoken, Devon had tensed but she lowered him to the floor, before turning to face the newcomers.

"When my mother gave me the file on me," Devon said quietly, starting slowly, "I read everything there was in the file. At seven, I didn't really understand it, but over the years, I began to. My file, which is in a safe place, had a great deal of information about you, Steve."

The soldier looked confused. He obviously did not know how much information SHEILD and the military had on him. Tony had not studied much of his father's information on the super soldier out of jealousy.

"There is only one thing I have ever taken out of the file," Devon continued speaking, while she pulled a paper out of her jacket pocket. She stepped closer to the soldier and handed the paper to him, before looking away. "I've been in love with you since before I ever met you. Before I even knew you were still alive."

Curiosity got the better of Tony as he eased over to the Captain. He raised his eyebrows when he saw that the paper was actually an old photograph of Steve from before he was Captain America.

"Why?" Steve asked in a whisper.

"Besides the fact that you were smart and strong and one of the few people who knew what it was like to…" Devon's voice faded out as she looked at her hands and flexed them as if she was trying to find the right words for what she was. "But it was more than all that, you had a normal life before. I was born like this, but you… Well actually all three of you had normal lives before."

Tony looked at the other men and realized that she was right. For all of their issues they had before changing their lives they had at least gotten to know what it was like not to be a super hero. Whether by accident or on purpose they have gotten to choose how they dealt with the change. Devon on the other hand had this information thrust on her and told that it must be a secret for the rest of her life.

The silence drug on until Devon said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that."

"No," Tony said stepping in interrupting her apology, "you're exactly right. Not that we had normal lives but we know what you meant."

Devon nodded before her attention went solely to Steve. "I have some issues that I have to work out but if you can be patient with me I'd certainly like to give this a try."