"She reminds me of you sometimes." Peggy's voice brought Steve's attention away from the young woman playing the piano, despite the fact they had stopped dancing a while ago, and made Steve look at her in question. "Her courage, despite her small frame," her lips twitched in a smile that Steve returned, "and her honesty. The way she can lose herself while drawing."

"Her eyes, they're familiar." Steve confessed to Peggy, knowing somehow she would know why and tell him.

A fond smile curled her lips as she watched how Nate swayed while she played.

"I'll tell you so you're not surprised later on." Peggy told him. "She's Howard's little girl."

Steve looked back at Nate in shock, wondering how he didn't realise those were Howard's eyes staring at him.

"Is she married?" Steve asked with his eyebrows furrowed.

"God no, Nattie's never been in a relationship before in her life." Peggy laughingly replied before catching Steve's confused look. "Officially Howard Stark only had one child with his wife, a son named Tony Stark. Tony came home after finishing college to be introduced to his half-sister, Natasha Howard."

"Howard cheated on his wife?" Steve asked in shock.

"Howard changed over the years." Peggy told him simply. "Drowned himself in his work when he wasn't searching for you, he didn't spent a lot of time with his wife and son. I know for a fact he spent no time with Nattie."

"How?" He asked.

"I first met Nattie when she was four after Howard and his wife's funeral." Peggy told him, dark eyes slightly unfocused as she remembered. "Tony was so uncomfortable trying to say who she was, he didn't need to of course. Her eyes are just like Howard's after all.

I told her that she had beautiful eyes, and she replied they were like Tony's. She didn't say they're like Dad's and I don't think I've ever heard her call Howard Dad. Tony was the one that raised her, he was her brother, mother and father for her in some ways."

"Why doesn't people know she's Howard's daughter?" Steve asked though he knew it would have caused a scandal if someone like Howard claimed a bastard child when he was meant to be happily married

"Because of the scandal, because Maria would never have forgiven him if he acknowledged that he fathered a child with someone else, because it was easier to protect her when everyone was unaware of her." Peggy explained easily.

Steve nodded in understanding though he frowned.

From the little Peggy just told him about Howard, he didn't like how his friend had changed. Especially when it meant that his own daughter never knew him.

"How did he die?" Steve asked, hoping Peggy didn't catch the small catch in his words but knew that was a pointless thing to hope for when she sent him a concerned look.

"Car accident." Peggy told him softly. "It was very sudden, very quick. He didn't suffer."

"What have else have I missed?" He asked, and she smiled at him sadly before she told him everything that had happened to their friends over the years.

Steve watched the world go by from behind the darkened window of the car before glancing at Nate, whose face was lit up by the little touch-screen computer-tablet-thing that she showed him when he asked.

"Thank you." He told her making her head jerk up in surprise, dark eyes blinking at him in question. "For taking me to see Peggy."

How didn't he recognise those eyes that shone with the same intelligence as Howard's did?

"I didn't do it for you per say." Nate said as she waved one hand, tablet left abandoned on her lap. "I mostly did it for Aunt Peggy."

"I know." He smiled at her as more confusion filled her dark eyes. "Still I'm thankful that you did, I don't think I would have had the courage to face her."

She blinked at him and nodded in understanding.

"I guess it would be hard to face someone that seems to have aged seventy years in a day."

Something in his chest eased at her easy accepted of his admitted lack of courage. For two years he had people looking at him for courage, courage he didn't always feel but always showed because he had been Captain America. This little doll sitting beside him wasn't disappointed by his confessed lack of courage, she understood that it would be hard and she didn't scoff that Captain America was a coward when it came to seeing Peggy again knowing that seventy years had passed.

And the words Peggy whispered into his ear as she hugged him goodbye echoed in the back of his mind.

'I think she'll be good for you.'

"What are you doing?" He asked curious because he was tired of the silence, the silence reminded of the sudden panic when he realised he had no idea where he was, the silence reminded him of the night in the bar when he tried to get drunk.

He had been in the army, he wasn't used to such complete silence.

"Hm, I'm looking through S.H.I.E.L.D's secure files." She answered him absently, fingers dashing over the screen.

"Why?" He asked making her look at him with cautious eyes before she seemed to come to a decision.

She pressed herself against his side, lips on his ear, making him blush.

"Hydra is hiding in S.H.I.E.L.D." She whispered making him pale and look at her shocked.

She pressed a single long slender finger to his lips to stop him saying anything, glancing at their driver with a wary gaze.

He understood, she didn't know who she could trust. Steve was certain that the only reason she had trusted him enough to tell him was because she knew Steve had been fighting against Hydra and would always fight against them.

He was humbled by her show of trust, and nodded his understanding of the situation.

"Howie's the only robot dog in the world." Nate said as if that was what they had been talking about, his eyes widened more at that. "So don't worry about finding anymore robot dogs like him." She than scratched Howie's head, his tail wagged in enjoyment.

"Is there a lot of robots now?" Steve asked half-curious, half-freaked out at the fact that the dog he had been petting wasn't a real dog.

"There are quite a few." Nate admitted, tapping at the tablet until it went blank and dark. "They help build things mostly. I have a robot that looks after me, her name is Nanny, and I've had her almost all my life. Don't freak out when you see her."

"Where am I going to live?" Steve realised for the first time he was basically homeless.

"With me, I've got a spare room and I thought it would be best if you were around someone." She caught his slightly confused look at the last bit. "So you don't brood about the past."

Oh.

It made sense, that was probably what Steve would do if he was left alone to stumble through this new and strange world he had just woke up in.

"Thank you." He repeat making her shrug with an embarrassed look and a dismissive 'it's nothing, really'.

Thanks to Nate's warning, Steve didn't freak out when a maid-style robot rolled out of the kitchen after they entered Nate's—his as well he supposed—apartment.

He would admit to being bemused when Nanny herded both him and Nate towards the small dining table before she swirled off to get some food for them.

"She's a bit of a mother-hen." Nate told him with a fond and amused smile as she speared some pasta that was on the plate that Nanny gave them.

"She's nice." Steve told her in return making Nate almost beamed at him.

The 2nd May when both Steve and Nate were at their Gym, that Steve found that reminded him of home, and Steve was trying to help Nate put more strength into her punches was when Fury entered.

He paused for a moment and simply watched as Steve corrected Nate's stance before Nate let another punch flying at the punch-bag making it rock back slightly.

Nate turned a pleased smile on Steve who smiled back, a very fond smile in fact.

Fury was a spy—he was The Spy in a way—and he wasn't stupid. He could see what was happening between them and he couldn't wait till Tony realised that his little sister's first boyfriend was Captain America.

He cleared his throat loudly to break up the little love-fess making both of them turn to him, smiles slipping off their faces.

"I've got a mission for you." Fury informed them, handing over a file to Steve, who let Nate peer at it.

"Hydra's secret weapon?" Steve asked at the same time that Nate said; "So, someone's stolen the cube than."

"Yes." He said simply, before he began to explain what happened and what he needed them to do.