Steve left Peggy short after their meeting. She was right, he had a schedule and the last thing Peggy wanted was for him to forget about it responsibilities. They would go about their day, doing their work and meet for lunch. It seemed painfully casual.

Peggy went along with her day, secretly getting a tour of the Avengers facility by Natasha, while Sam and Steve were training. Sam stopped running on the track outside leaning over on his knees, "I don't even know why you run man." Steve finished his lap not even breaking a sweat. "Especially with me of... all people."

Steve stopped by Sam, "I like the company. And you've gotten faster." He was trying to be nice.

"I vote for an early lunch. I think I saw Clint with some of that meatloaf from Laura, I'm sure he'll share."

"As much as I'd like to say yes to that." Steve walked to the start of the loop and grabbed his water bottle, "But I got a date." He grinned.

Sam nodded, "You can't call business meetings dates. It gives the... wrong impression."

Steve smirked, "No, I have a date. You know... girl, boy, lunch. At least that's how Nat and Tony explained it to me." Steve turned around not too concerned with

"Hot damn!" Sam clapped and ran to catch up to Steve, "Who is it?"

"A friend." Steve approached the door to the facilities. "An old friend. Not that she looks old."

Sam waved Steve off, "I've never been good at riddles, I'll just ask Natasha."

"What are you going to ask me?" Natasha stood with Peggy further down the sleek hallway.

"Who Steve has a date with." Sam walked down a few steps with Steve, "Didn't think it was possible." He looked over at Peggy noticing her nice frame without being impolite, "Who might this be?" Sam held a hand out.

Peggy shook his hand, "Shield Director Peggy Carter."

Steve couldn't stop himself from grinning, "She's my lunch date."

Sam eyed Peggy a bit more, "Well no shit. That the girl you told me-"

"Yep." Steve nodded.

Peggy interjected, "I can report with mixed emotions that I'm the newest relic of Howard Starks biological experiments that actually worked."

"Good ol' daddy stark." Natasha pulled Sam aside, "Let's go try and steal some of Clints lunch." The idea left Steve and Peggy alone for the first time in a long while.

They approached the moment with silence, both unsure what to say. "So-" Steve started.

"So." Peggy nodded taking a small step forward.

Steve scratched the back of his neck, "I'm gonna change and then we can grab lunch... or go get lunch.. have lunch... The cafeteria food isn't bad... but it's better than anything we had during the war-"

Peggy closed the gap and kissed on the lips, "Please stop talking and go change."

The Avengers Facility was top of the line in every way possible- Stark made sure of that. But the one thing that had never been thought through was a romantic spot. Each member of the team had their own room to be used however they needed. Bruce had a meditation room, Natasha and Sam shared a game room, Tony's room was the closest anyone's came to luxurious due to the amount of technology the man needed to tie his shoes, which is why when Tony ever saw the inside of Steve's room he was concerned for his friends sanity. Besides the desk covered in an obvious lack of technology there was some weights and a punching bag in one corner then a cot in the other. 'an honest to god cot' is how Tony described it. But it made Steve feel at home. The old baseball posters and even an original USO tour poster but his prized possession were the pictures he found in the SHIELD files. Pictures of the Howling Commando's in all their glory, and "Skinny Ass Steve" as Sam would say framed and hung tastefully- with much help from Bruce and Pepper. In the center was a picture of Steve, Peggy and Bucky sitting around a make shift table somewhere on the western front playing cards. Dugan snuck the picture when no one noticed, and Steve was glad he found it. Sometimes the sentiment of the room overwhelmed him. If he walked into a room like this in the beginning would have triggered him into some of the more unhappy memories of his past. But now, it gave him the drive to fix what Peggy had created and the ideals they shared.

But now he wouldn't really need the reminded since she was sitting across from him in the quiet corner of the cafeteria, "I really can't believe you're here Peg. It seems like a dream."

Peggy nodded looking around, "This whole thing does. The world is so-"

"Different?" Steve guessed.

"Yes." Peggy sighed her finger nails playing with the rim of the plate, "Like I'll never belong in it."

Steve watched her red finger nails, "I feel like that's the thing about this time.. There are so many options for everyone, every door is open so no one has their place. When we were younger, before the war, we had our places."

"The world made sure to remind us of that."

"But you fought it." Steve reminded her.

Peggy shook her head, "We both did."

Steve shrugged, "I did a lousy job at it. I waited around for the SSR to change me-"

"They did not change you Steve." Peggy said with a determination, "You have always been the same Steve Rogers to me. That Steve that got the flag off that flag pole, and jumped on that grenade at boot camp."

Steve reached over the table and took her hand, "I'm so glad you're back with me Peg. I'm not sure I understood how much I needed someone to believe in me, and not the suit until you came back," He ran his thumb over her knuckles, "Someone who believes the little guy as much as me now. Peg," His voice caught in his throat, "I feel like there's so much past between us, I don't know how to say what I want to say."

Peggy laughed, "You're so dramatic." She pulled her other hand up to take his, "The World has changed, and we can't go back, All we can do is our best and sometimes the best thing we can do is to Start over. But I'd like to start over with you Steve."

Steve squeezed her hand, "I'd like to get to know you."

"We really don't know each other." She looked up to his eyes, getting worried that they both had opposing ideas "Is this you telling me, kissing you was a bad idea?"

"No!" he said quickly, "No no, that was... nice. I liked it... do you not what to-?"

"You still don't know a thing about women." she rolled her eyes.