The stark manor was on the sunnier greener side of California, it was fenced in far enough from the road there was of paparazzi and had a nice view of the ocean, a path lead down to a strip of private beach.

It was large with plenty of huge windows to let the light in, had a large kitchen and a library with more large windows and a window seat that took up a corner of the room filled with pillows and cushions.

She knew because shed put them there, it had been her nest whenever they would go on vacation and she could barely go outside for fear of getting deathly ill.

It had several bedrooms along with two master bedrooms one was her brothers the other hers, with a bed large enough to fit five and more large windows covered in thick blue drapes.

Her room also had a special air filtration system and hypoallergenic everything because she had been allergic to everything.

Though rarely used the manor had a full staff on call and a cleaning crew that came in once every three days.

She had called them in early and paid extra just to make sure the place was clean.

Steve's eyes went wide when she pulled up to the manor in a unassuming black suv with tented windows, she had to say she agreed the house was beautiful, the roses her mother herself had planted along the edge of the house in full bloom, that had become larger since the last time Beth was there.

Blooming out in an array of colors, yellows reds pinks whites and a few oranges they were beautiful, some of her mother's favorite blue roses climbing up the supports on the front of the home.

When they got out of the car Steve inhaled slowly and smiled "it's beautiful" she looked at him as she came around "my mother loved roses, she planted these herself, they've gotten bigger since last time I was here" he looked at her brows risen from under the ball cap he wore as a precaution.

"My mom liked roses to, I use to steal them from the neighbors garden all the time" she grinned at the man "well look at that, captain America use to pilfer roses? I knew there was a wicked side to you" he swatted her arm as he smirked.

Beth had always loved the kitchen with its stainless steel appliances industrial sized fridge and ample cooking space, but Steve fell in love with the library the moment he saw it.

She would like to say she was surprised but she wasn't, there was enough books in there to last anyone let alone a ample reader like Steve at least a year, a lot of the books were first additions a few of them Steve remembered from when he was a kid.

It made since she always though her father had bought out a library to fill the room.

"How long has it been since you were here?" Steve asked over lunch she made a humming noise around her food "about four, no five years I think" she took another bite of her Panini then swallowed and set it down whipping her mouth.

"After tony built that one of his I didn't see much point in staying 15 miles away just for more leg room" Steve propped his chin on one of his hands "is it true what happened to that place?"

She glanced up "you mean did he really challenge a terrorist that already had a hard on for him, to come after him and spout off the address to the place we both lived?" she copied his position "from what pepper has told me yes that really happened"

Running her fingers through her hair she raked it back "of course I was being run around between new genie and England fixing shields toys so I couldn't tell him maybe it was a bad idea to give a terrorist your home address"

Glancing up she saw Steve trying not to laugh "go ahead laugh, lord knows I did at first before I relised out house was really in the ocean"

So he laughed and she smiled because she always liked his laugh, it seemed to take years off his face when he did.

He always looked to mature to be a 25 year old.

The first day they were there all they did was sleep and eats and unwinds from too much stress.

She found he liked to sleep on top of her and when she asked he blushed and said it was comfortable, she didn't think that was the whole reason but she didn't want to make him have a stress induced asthma attack, or well, embarrassment induced.

The second day early in the morning she went for a run on the beach the sandy ground making it twice as much of a work out as it usually was and she found it was actually really beautiful on the beach.

It didn't take that much convincing to get Steve to join her for a walk along the shore even if he still kept that ball cap pulled down over his hair, the sand felt warm under their feet slightly damp from the waves that randomly slipped up over the sand where they walked.

He didn't seem to mind when she reached out to lace their fingers together.

Eventually he settled down in the sand with his sketch pad and she kicked off her shorts, he blushed when she also pulled off her shirt to reveal the top to the swimsuit she was wearing.

It was probably because the bottoms hugged her form and her breasts strained against the top, she was sure it got darker when she turned toured the water and the bottoms were revealed to slip between the cheeks of her ass.

She never really thought there was anything special about her body, she wasn't as vain as some of the women she had met at different benefits and charity dinners she was forced to go to, her breasts weren't large but they were decent sized, her waist wasn't super thin and she had too much muscle to have a girly figure, her hips weren't small either, she actually had birthing hips which her brother took a lot of pleasure in teasing her about.

All in all she didn't fit the picture of most women in her position, right and one half of one of the largest former weapons companies in the world but she didn't have the figure of a soldier the way Steve did after the serum.

Yet when Steve looked at her blush darkening his face like sunburn he thought he'd never seen anyone as beautiful as her, the way the light caught in her light brown hair making it look like honey and the way her eyes glinted like emeralds.

He wondered how many people actually knew her eyes weren't completely green, that they had bronze flecks and a ring of coffee brown around her pupil.

She walked toured the water then slowly into it until it came up to her hips just standing there for a moments surrounded by the cool yet warm water with the sun beating down hot on her face.

Watching her Steve had sudden inspiration and opened his pad of paper he glanced up once more saw her bounce with a bit larger wave then dive in and disappear before he started to sketch.