Hello!

I'm sosorry for disappearing! I've been working lots, and haven't had time for a while. But I still have lots left to write for you, so I promise that will come.

Here are my Headcanons. Please accept them as some form of apology, as I know how frustrating it is when a story is left for ages. I was going to wait until I'd actually written some up before posting, but hey, the prompts are quite sweet in themselves. (May have a couple ofspoilers)Please let me know ifyou have any ideas for scenesyou'd like to see Lily and Steve in, or something in modern life you'd like tosee them deal with.I'm just as curious!

I do have some of these written up into full scenes, which I will post later as they're not very chronological.

Thank you foryour support :)

Headcanons

Although she lives with Steve in his flat, Lily still likes to give him space. For this reason, she is the Avengers' best nightmare support. Everyone in the tower sleeps with their door unlocked anyway in case someone needs company through the night,
so no one says anything if they feel Lily slip under their covers. Secretly, everybody is warmed to think she trusts them enough to sleep beside them.

Lily has serious body confidence issues. Although she is beautifully muscular and slender in stature, she hates summer clothing because of the heavy scarring all over her body from the ribs down. The marks are from where her entire form was reconstructed
by surgeons, so they earn respect, but she is cripplingly embarrassed by them. Steve constantly worries about her, and reminds her subtly how perfect he thinks she is.

When Peggy died, Lily walked around in shorts and a crop top for a week. Showing her multitude of scars was her mark of respect for everything her mother had suffered and sacrificed to give her a life.

Steve's little girl brings out the best in everyone. Her father is of course besotted with her, and Bruce is a wonderful confidant when she needs a kind word or honest opinion. Clint tells his kids stories about her, and they love it when she visits.
Natasha has become unusually maternal, something that Steve is endlessly grateful for after losing Peggy, as sometimes not even a father's touch can come close to that of a woman.

The rest of the guys are Lily's honourary uncles, much like the Howling Commandos had been when she was little. Thor and Tony insist on trying to find her a suitor worthy of her 'beauty, charm and terrifying athleticism', while Sam and Bucky insist
on vetting each one. All of them are ridiculously protective over her, and spoil her rotten at any opportunity.

Even Coulson, Lily's honourary Grandpa, loves the fact he's included in their little family.

Bucky is Lily's godfather. He always has been, even when Peggy thought him dead- a detail that humbles him whenever he thinks about it. Needless to say he completely adores his goddaughter and always leaves his door open or stays with her when Steve
isn't home.

JARVIS has a soft spot for Lily, and calls her Little Miss Carter. No one knows quite how, but Tony's pretty sure its one of Clint's little 'improvements'.

Lily has frequent nightmares about her accident and having her body reconstructed. Whenever he hears her getting restless or starting to scream, Steve goes into her room, picks her up and carries her back to his own bed, where he picks out Peggy's
old perfume and sprays it into the bedclothes. The scent of her mother combined with Steve's arms around her instantly calms Lily down. Steve still keeps stocks of Peggy's perfume solely for this purpose.

In the fifties, Lily was bullied terribly at school for not knowing her father. However, when she died, the other kids found themselves wracked with guilt. Fifty years later, when she resurfaced, she was bombarded with apologies from her sixty year
old classmates, but received strings of insults at her new school for her grotesque scars. She suffered in silence for months, until Bucky finally got her to tell him what was wrong. The next day, he showed up with his metal arm and glared at
everyone until Lily came out of class. No one has bothered her since.

Lily talks to JARVIS as though he's still the butler she knew as a small child. JARVIS loves this, and Tony even modified him so he can use phrases and nicknames she remembers from her childhood. Since Peggy died, this has been a great comfort to
Lily.

Natasha thinks about Lily just as much as Steve does. She used to dream about having her own children, and though having grown up in a different time, the young girl represents everything Natasha wanted her own daughter to be. Natasha's never told
the others, so they can't understand her attachment, but they think it's sweet. Knowing vaguely how she feels, when one of them is not home Lily calls her daily, but still Natasha worries about her constantly.

The Avengers have an unspoken etiquette when it comes to Lily. They are the largest and most permanent family she's ever had, so it is on all of them to take care of her and train her to be an agent. As well as Steve, she is particularly close to
Natasha, who is often referenced as her 'figurative stepmom'. Knowing Peggy would be proud, all of them secretly love it. All the guys are her figurative uncles. The running joke therefore is that Coulson is her 'figurative grandpa'. Secretly,
he absolutely loves that too.

As part of Coulson's 'family values' scheme for Lily, he suggested that the Avengers each give her an article of clothing. Steve gave her the jacket he wore before the serum, Clint gave her his old training sweatshirt, Natasha gave her a ring that
only she knows the origins of. Thor gave her the checkered shirt he first wore when he came to earth, and Tony gave her a Stark Industries tee. Bruce gave her a necktie, which she wears around her hair as a bandana. Loki, rather begrudgingly,
gave her a scarf. Bucky gave her one of his training shirts, and Sam gave her his best running socks.

As a typical 1940s gentleman, Steve is too bashful to openly talk to his teenage daughter about matters specific to being a woman. Instead, as Lily is too shy to ask Natasha (who would be happy to help if she did), the two simply communicate by writing
each other little notes. For example, once a month Steve will fill Lily's secret cupboard with her favourite chocolate (Cadbury's Bourneville, if you're interested) and leave a note with the words 'Save some for me ~ Dad'. Lily will also go to
check her shelf in the bathroom and find one with 'Need anything?' written in his familiarly graceful letters, to which she will either reply with 'Yes please,' and carefully list the items, or 'Not now, thank you :)'.

Steve has decided that as soon as Lily shows any interest in a young man of her age, he will warn her uncles (the avengers) off with a stern word. He always hated being teased for such things.

Most of the time, now she's grown into her stitches, Lily can walk and run and use her legs just like everyone else. She still has bad days, where everything hurts and she's confined to her wheelchair, but she considers it a fair price for her life.
The only problem is that after anything more strenuous than daily life, like when Ultron came along or pre-rehabilitation Bucky tried to kidnap her, she is stuck in her chair for longer, often about a week. She hates having to rely on everyone,
and puts on a lighthearted face, but Steve can tell when her spirits get low and has JARVIS keep an eye on her.

Lily has a very severe anxiety disorder. She struggles so drastically with everyday interactions that sometimes she just hides away all day, missing her lessons and training with no explanation. Steve is the only one who actually understands how she
struggles, and she made him promise never to tell anyone else. He agreed, of course, but has since dropped many little hints to Bucky and Natasha, who realised very quickly. As both are assassins with short tempers, Lily wasn't quite aware that
their fierce protectiveness was over her until the day Tony first teased her about her British accent. Natasha instantly adopted the 'Queen's Speech' as he called it and Bucky simply crushed his mug 'accidentally' onto Tony's lap.

Steve's parents were Irish immigrants, so he is fluent in Irish Gaelic, and used to speak it at home as a child. When Lily found this out she put all her efforts into learning it, and didn't tell him until she presented him with a Father's Day card
that read 'tú a bheith i gcónaí ar mo laoch. Is breá liom tú'. They now speak it to each other in their apartment and on the phone.

Waking up in the 21st century, Lily's greatest sadness is that she can't wear the 1950s style that she dreamed about as a child. She just can't seem to grasp modern fashion. Occasionally, Steve takes the time to style her hair for her, curling it
to look just like the women of their era. He loves seeing his daughter dressed as she would have been back in the sixties, had she grown up, although each time he is hit with a pang of pain when he sees just how much she looks like Peggy.

For Lily's 70th birthday (18th, if you don't count the frozen years), Steve and Natasha put together a themed party in a small restaurant over in Brooklyn, not at all far from the house she grew up in. The whole thing was set in the fifties, the decade
Lily remembers living in, with all the guests wearing fitting attire and all her favourite big band music from her childhood playing.

When she saw it, she cried.

The Maximoff twins have adopted Lily as their little sister. Wanda takes her shopping, teaches her all things to do with makeup, discusses what she likes to call 'girl things'. Pietro is another one who is fiercely protective, but likes to argue that
he is closer to her because he is younger. The three of them often go out together, watching films or visiting places, and Steve is glad Lily has some friends that are at least closer to her age.