With the engagement party of sorts broken up, thanks to the news of Angie being alive and also being The new Winter Soldier. Peggy tucked herself away in her office trying to figure out a plan that wasn't crazy… and avoiding Steve. Steve opened the door with a knock, "You know knocking as you enter a room isn't really the order you should do things."

Steve shrugged, "I didn't want to give you the option to tell me to go away."

"Now Steve don't be ridiculous, when have I-" She stopped knowing that she'd done that before. Right before Steve ran off to try and rescue Bucky. "I suppose you're here to get me to go relax or eat or something else entirely frivolous."

"I wouldn't really qualify food and sleep as optional." Steve walked around her desk to see the papers she was holding, "Have you found anything?"

Peggy looked down at the mess of papers, "All of this information and not a single thing useful. There was more in Bucky's file and most of that was redacted."

Steve nodded, "That's how people do things I guess.." He put his arm around her, trying to console her even though he wasn't really sure there was anything he could do. "Do you want to talk about it?"

She knew his phrasing well enough that this was Steve Rogers politely demanding to know what's going on. "Do I have a choice?"

"Of course." He stopped seeing a picture of Peggy and Angie, sitting around a patio table somewhere on a tropical beach. "That's her?"

Peggy inhaled, "Yes it was."

"Still is." escaped his lips less than a second after, "We will get her back." Steve turned back to the table, "Where is this?"

"Oh it was in Hawaii. Howard made us go for Christmas in '46. Angie and I, Jarvis and Anna." Peggy smiled, "Poor Howard was alone."

"I bet that didn't last for long." Steve put the picture down, "Like father like.. well people tell me Tony used to do that sort of thing. I guess being with Pepper has made him behave."

"As much as he's genetically able to." Peggy kept her eyes on the picture. "I know considering Angie and I having a previous relationship makes this complicated. You don't want to know about this-" she looked at a picture of Angie, Peggy and Jarvis playing poker.

Steve sorted through some other pictures, "Of course I do. I don't care about it Peggy." He put his hands on her shoulders, "I'm glad you were happy when I couldn't be there. You deserved to be happy, with Howard, or Angie or whoever else… I just want to know something about her."

"You would have liked her." Peggy rested her head against Steve's chest. "She was lively, and damn funny too. She wanted to be an actress on Broadway, but that never really worked out. Hollywood did she could have been a great actress."

"How'd she… yah know?"

"Leviathan took her to lure me in. I went to Russia to hunt her down. The SSR didn't sanction it so I went alone." she pulled Steve's arms around her tight. "I got captured, a few months later the SSR found me."

"Months?" Steve hoped he misheard.

Peggy nodded but stayed quiet for a while more. "I don't remember much. It all just felt like a long nightmare. Torture… experiments.. I went for Angie and failed..." Peggy felt the flood gates in her head open, and she wasn't sure if she could close them. ".. They got into my brain. They.." Peggy pushed her head into Steve's chest and started to cry. She wasn't immune to tears, but she always tried to be around other people. When Steve's radio cut out she cried- of course- but she was alone. With Angie, she never had a reason to cry. And with Howard… well... Howard did a lot of crying.

Steve held her close, "It's okay Peg. You're okay." He could have guessed but, he wouldn't have dared guess it was that bad.

"I haven't told anyone about that." She said through the tears. "I don't want to think about what they've done to her."

"I know." Steve smoothed out Peggy's hair while she sobbed into his chest, "Trust me, I know. After seeing Bucky I wouldn't wish that feeling on anyone. The regret, the guilt-"

Peggy searched in her pocket for a handkerchief (she insisted on having one out of habit) to wipe her eyes and save what makeup was left, "What a pair or we."

Steve took the swatch of cloth and dabbed her cheeks where she'd missed, "Quite a pair."

"Wait so we're working with SHIELD now?" Tony looked up from his phone, where he'd been the whole meeting. "Is that why you brought us… here?"

The Avengers had gathered to try and figure out a strategy for obtaining the second Winter Soldier, even Wanda was there despite her attempts to ignore the fact she'd be working with Stark. "They're a whole new organization." Natasha defended, "Mostly figuring out the inhuman outbreaks. Peggy has everything under control so far… speaking of which" Everyone was gathered… except Peggy, "Where is she?"

"She's.." Steve rubbed the back of his neck, looking a bit ashamed, "I might have put something in her tea to get her to sleep.."

Tony laughed, "Well.. who's going to replace the old man's spot when the old woman kills him."

"I know, it's terrible but I don't know what else to do! It's not that she won't sleep, it's that she can't. She can't sleep if there's something to do, and when she sleep she has nightmares-" He didn't know how to explain Peggy's state of mind. Since she confessed about her time captured by The Red Room, she started working even harder. A pace that Steve didn't know existed until he saw it. "I have no idea how to help in this situation."

"Well we got one." Sam pointed over to Bucky, "Number 2 can't be that hard."

Bucky made an unsure face, "A couple things. One, I surrendered. And two, It took me almost killing Steve for the whole thing to clear out of my head." He scratched his stubble with his metal hand, "I guess it's still possible, but short of almost losing Peggy it's going to be hard."

Steve opened a folder with information, "And Peggy would volunteer herself for her. I'm 1000 percent certain."

"Who is she?" Tony looked at some old Pictures that were on the table of Peggy, Angie and Howard on a boat somewhere. "Peggy's old Girlfriend?" He teased.

"Yeah." Steve nodded.

The table froze with different reactions, the most prominent were Natasha and Sam who looked like Christmas had come early. "NO WAY!" Sam looked at the pictures.

"I knew it." Natasha held her hand out to Tony, "Pay up."

Steve watched them ashamed of them, "You had bets? This isn't funny! This is serious."

"No one's saying it's not.." Bucky spoke up. A hint of his old self present as he accepted some cash from Tony. "It's just entertainingly complicating."

"You're telling me." Steve made a note to somehow get better friends. "Get it out of your system now, because if you act like this in front of Peggy, you're all dead." He was hurt by the way everyone reacted, "Now are we going to make a plan or just sit around and gossip all day."

"We'll make a plan. And it'll be a hell of a good one." Bucky promised, "There's a crack in everything the KGB did."

Natasha nodded, "And we'll find it."

Steve threw Natasha a folder with maps of Hydra activity, "Peggy found some places she thinks they'll be keeping Angie and-" his phone buzzed on the table. Hesitantly Steve reached over and picked it up, seeing it was Peggy calling. "Ugh oh."

"Something new?" Bucky leaned forward, ready for bad news.

"No… Peggy woke up." Steve stood up, "Hopefully I'll be back."