Peggy woke up feeling Steve's arm wrapped around her like usual, but what made this morning special was his hand resting on her back without the barrier of a shirt. She burrowed herself into the blanket again moving closer to Steve once she felt the ring on her finger. The details of their night seem clouded but she knew one thing, he did not disappoint. "Good morning." Peggy for the first time in her life was a morning person.

Steve smiled once he saw her, "Not a dream." He moved his hands off of her and rolled onto his back to stretch.

"Should we get room service before joining the world again." Peggy reached over to the side table, picking up a binder filled with information on their room. She pulled up the blanket against her front and leaned up to read the menu.

Steve looked down her back, blushing a bit at the thought of last night's activities. The more he looked the more he could notice the collections of scars on Peggy. Two bullet holes on her shoulder stuck out along with the side effects of a knife. He brushed his hand along the ridged length of a scar that crossed her back, causing Peggy to flinch. "Sorry, I just haven't noticed those."

Peggy kept her focus on the paper, "I've quite known how to answer that." She could feel Steve finish tracing the scar given to her by a 12 year old assassin. "Most of them were from the Red Room investigations, a few others were from the war." Peggy reached behind her and felt her right shoulder where there were the two gunshot wounds. "I got these two by saving Colonel Phillips before I was in the SSR." She leaned back down keeping the blanket tucked around her.

"I didn't know about that." Steve reached for the menu looking himself.

"He'd been captured behind enemy lines and I was working as a spy at the time. I managed to get ahold of Howard who owed me a favor from when I saved his neck in Poland one time." she fiddled with her wedding ring, "I pushed him out of the way of the two shots, but I got hit… I was off duty for far too long, but he knew I was a capable fighter which is why he put me in the SSR with him."

"I guess they're two lucky shots." Steve smiled.

Peggy cracked a smile, "Well, my opinions on them come and go. It's hard to go undercover with two rather recognizable scars. Amongst others."

Steve kissed the top of her shoulder, "I like them. They make you look dangerous."

She ran her hand through his hair, "That I am Captain Rogers."

"Yes Agent Rogers…" He looked up at her, "Are you going to change your name?"

Peggy hadn't ever thought about it. After the war there was no choice, she would have taken his last name. But now that there was the option. "I'm not sure actually. What are your thoughts?"

Steve shrugged, "It seems like a silly detail. I don't think I could live with the guilt of taking Margaret Carter away from the world. I think you should keep it."

"Margaret Rogers…" Peggy tested the sound, "I'll have to think about it." She laughed, "Steve Carter."

They both laughed, "I'd much rather pick out breakfast." He set the menu aside, "I'll call, my dear."

"Thank you darling." Peggy moved her feet over the side of the bed wrapping the thin top sheet around her to gather up her clothes on the way to the bathroom. She picked up Steves shirt and threw it at him, "We're going to get such shit from everyone about this."

"Worth it." Steve grinned.


"Hail the conquering hero!" Sam shouted from the lunch table. The Avengers were half assembled with Tony, Sam, Steve and Natasha sitting around the table. Bucky was there, but he wasn't interested in signing up to be apart of Earth's mightiest hero quite yet. "Engaged and laid all in one night."

Natasha laughed, "About damn time."

"I'm assuming she knew what she was doing. " Tony laughed, "She probably gave fella's a run for their money in the good ol' days."

"Fella's, meaning your dad." Natasha pointed out, receiving an overall sound of displeasure at the idea. Mostly from Tony.

"Bad form Romanov!" Bucky pointed out. Natasha shrugged not feeling the least bit regretful. "So now you have to plan a wedding."

Steve nodded, "Yeah, neither of us are really looking forward to the planning. I think I might care more than Peggy does."

"Dibs on planning the Bachelor party!" Natasha finished her lunch.

"No." Steve said quickly, "Please no. Please nothing crazy."

Natasha grinned, "Steve when have I ever done anything crazy?"

Peggy slammed through the doors, "Where's Bucky?-" she stopped seeing him at the table.

"What happened?" Bucky asked as the table turned.

Peggy held her phone up, "I just got a call from Coulson. He said his team just saw the winter soldier. Two Agents were shot, and in critical condition."

"I thought we solved that problem." Sam pointed to Bucky. "He's been here since we got back from DC."

Steve tried to make sense of it, "How is that possible?" He refused to believe Bucky had anything to do with it.

"Did they get a picture." Bucky stood up.

"I believe so, but I can't work this damn thing. Coulson knew you all were looking so he sent over everything he had. Can you get them." Peggy instead handed Natasha the phone.

"Sure thing, Director Rogers.." Natasha stood up taking the phone out to an office.

Steve turned to face Peggy, "How did SHIELD find out about us looking."

"I told them." Peggy put her hands on her hips feeling the potential argument starting. "They're out in the field a lot- Is this really the thing you'd like to talk about right now?"

"It was classified." Steve argued.

Peggy put her hand up, "It's my job to decide what's classified. There's no need for The Avengers and SHIELD to keep so many secrets. But this is not the problem right now. Right now, the problem is the fact that there's another killer out there that no one knew about."

"Who got hurt?" Sam got up.

"Agents Johnson and Morse… they should be fine though."

Bucky nodded, "Then they weren't the targets. Which is good."

"Well let's figure this out," Steve stood up with the rest of them and walked to where Natasha was trying to pull the pictures up.

Natasha pulled the picture up, "It was taken off The Bus's outside camera."

Bucky and Peggy looked as close as possible to the picture, "Female?" Peggy guessed.

"There was only one other one I can remember." Bucky wrapped his real arm across his chest and hooked his hand on his neck. Crossing his arms always felt weird.. "And they didn't like the results. They probably didn't trust her because she was a woman and she was a civilian before they grabbed her." Natasha and Peggy rolled their eyes.

"Right it was the Russians who figured out women made better assassins." Tony laughed, "I could have told them that."

Natasha sat down, "Hydra and The Red Room worked together after the war and after Mrs. Rogers dismantled them."

Peggy ignored the comment, "They dispersed into SHIELD and the KGB was more than willing to assist. Leviathan is responsible for whoever the second assassin is." She paced, "I feel like I know but it's not there. I don't remember anything else about them and I spent 5 years hunting them down."

"Well we'll try and lure this one in." Steve looked at the picture, "Get them away from Hydra before anyone else gets hurt." He walked out.

Peggy walked after him, "Steve wait."

"Just give me a minute Peggy." He stopped to face her."

"We should talk about this." She was close behind him.

Steve stopped, "Fine, what do you want to talk about. The fact that you gave SHIELD all the information we have on Bucky without telling me."

"That was before." she deflected, "Why don't you trust that I know what I'm doing?"

"Because… you didn't talk to me about it."

Peggy sighed, knowing she acted poorly. "I'm sorry. I won't do it again, but SHIELD is different. It was only Coulson." she looked around, "I can't help but feel like you're overreacting a bit, it was your idea to have The Avengers and SHIELD work together."

He sighed, "I know I am… I just thought I was all done with this. I don't think there's a way to stop this one, Bucky only stopped because it was me. And if Hydra has this, they're stronger than we thought."

"I know. Being angry with me won't help." Peggy took his hand, "Alright?"

"Alright." He wrapped his arms around her and gave Peggy a kiss, "I'm not angry… Are you flying to the Playground now."

Peggy nodded, "I should go figure out what happened from the source."

"Should I come with you?" He suggested. The rift between SHIELD and The Avengers was a recipe for disaster. "I've only been there once, I should go again."

"If you'd like… Everyone loves you there. They'll like hearing the news." Peggy laughed, "The plane will leave in an hour." She kissed him on the lips again, "and we'll figure this out."

Steve pulled back, "But there's a rather important thing we need to discuss."

Peggy tilted her head, "Yes?"

"Will Natasha be a Grooms-woman or Bridesmaid? " Steve laughed.

She walked past Steve to their room so she could pack, "Whatever she needs to be so she doesn't throw my Bachelorette party."