Chapter 3

HELLO PEEPS I AM BACK!

A few things have kept me from posting:

1) I lost the paper I kept my passwords on. I have it now. I also have a backup paper. Updates are now on Sundays.

2) I realized a huge mistake I had made in this story. When I was checking the dates on the "Captain America Wiki", it said that he was an orphan. I realized this was wrong one day when I was thinking about the "with you till the end of the line" scene in Captain America 2, where it is right after his mother's funeral. So, I spent a week on "research" (aka binge watching marvel movies) and I found some stuff I missed and I have a site that tells me the scripts so prepare for some knock-your-socks-off accuracy. The third chapter is the only one I have edited, and you don't really have to go back and re-read it... I barely changed it where it needed it.

3) My school schedule has changed, hence the Sunday updates.

One other thing: thank you Just Watch Me Fly for your comment. You are kindof my fanfiction hero, it means alot to me that you like it :)

Well, crap.

The beefy guy Dani had just booted looked about fifteen, but if she had to guess, she would say he could snap her in half without breaking a sweat. Dani gulped.

The other guy took a break from punching the kid in the face and looked at her with murder in his eyes. Double crap. This guy was even bigger than the first.

"Get. Out." Said the first one. Dani looked over at the kid. His eyes were bruised shut, bloody and puffy, and he was coughing and wheezing. He wasnt even fighting back at this point. She new she would get her butt handed to her if she didnt back off but she couldnt leave him like this. She placed her purse on the ground.

"Make me" she said simply, and looked the first bully in the eye. He pulled his arm back, and she prepared for the painful connection with her face.

As his fist came swinging towards her, however, time seemed to slow down. In shock, Dani managed to knock his hand aside. Time sped up again as he followed through with the punch, leaving his side exposed to her. She took the opportunity to kick him in the ribs as hard as she could. He stumbled with a grunt, looking surprised.

What just happened, she wondered. She didnt have time to think as the second brute came charging at her, abandoning the bloody child on the sidewalk. Time slowed down as he came closer. Dani swore- he was at least three times her size. As he moved like he was swiming in maple syrup, she stepped out of the way. Just as he passed her, she elbowed him in the lower back. Hard.

Time resumed normal speed as the guy fell to the ground... and started crying? Dani hadn't realized she could hit that hard... Time returned to a crawl. She didnt see what the problem was, the second guy was down. She then realized that the first guy was behind her.

Dani had no clue what had happened until it was over. Her head seemed to move of its own accord, and a fist broke the air where it had been. She grabbed the fist without turning around and proceeded to FREAKING FLIP HIM OVER HER SHOULDER.

Time sped up. With a painful thud, the thug slammed on the pavement. Dani stood there in shock as the two lay moaning on the ground.

How the hell did i do that, she wondered. A higher pitched moan directed her attention to the bleeding pile in the corner. Figure it out later, she chided herself. This guy is gonna die otherwise.

She picked the kid with quite alot of effort, and stepped over the two. Somehow she managed to retrieve her purse without dumping the kid on his head. One of the bullies attempted to get up, but Dani kicked him in the head and he collapsed again. Gonna feel that tomorrow. Not so tough NOW, are ya?

This kid couldnt weigh more than fifty or sixty pounds. He was SMALL. Even in her stiff and pained state, Dani was able to carry him two blocks to a crappy park and place him on a dilapidated bench. It was then that she got a better look at him. Blood was still dripping down his thin face, and getting in his short blond hair. He looked like he couldn't be more than twelve or thirteen. She realized he looked very familiar but she couldnt put her hand on who exactly he looked like. A choking cough from him snapped her out of her thoughts, and she turned to her purse.

"Alright, lets see what you have for me" she said to the worn bag. She closed her eyes and shook it... it felt heavy. Opening it revealed... a metal canteen of water, some rags and some white bandages.

"Perfect". She turned to the boy and began cleaning of the thick coating of blood from a cut on his forhead with the water and rags. He didnt like that at all.

"Shh, sit still, I gotta clean this or it will get infected", she chided.

"Wh-what happened.." he coughed.

"I should ask you the same thing" she said, as she cleaned the blood caked on his eyes. "Can you open your eyes?" He complied as best he could with the level of swelling he had. Dani reached for her purse. She needed her flashlight to check for a concussion. The penlight she had was a bit futuristic for the current year but she doubted this kid would notice in his current state.

"They- *cough* they were mu-mugging some lady a-and i stopped to *cough*"

"You saved her?" Dani cut him of, looking at him in surprise. "And she just ran off" she said, shaking her head.

"Yeah", croaked the boy. A quick test with the flashlight showed that he had no concussion. She asked him where else it hurt, and he pointed to his wrist. As she began wrapping the apparently sprained appendage, she asked,

"So, what's your name?" He made a gurgling noise and replied,

"Steve". Dani stopped and looked at him.

"What is your last name?" She asked in a very serious tone.

"Rogers". Dani did not know how to process this.

Is this some kind of joke? I am in the thirties with ...a kid Captain America... That is just a movie! Frick! What is happening?! Steve's voice pulled her out of her stupor.

"What is your name?" She replied without thinking,

"Dani". Steve said

"That sounds like a tough name. Danny. How did you beat up those guys?"

I would like to know that myself.

"Oh, you know, lots of punching and stuff." She finished wrapping the wrist. She didn't know what to do next. if she was actually in the Captain America movie, then shouldn't she warn Steve about falling in the ice?

As soon as the thought had entered her mind of warning Steve, something happened. She... SAW what would happen if she warned him. He would stop the plane before hand and stay in his own time. He and Peggy would get married. They would have children, who would have weaker super powers. He would be old when the events of the Avengers movies happened. People would die because he wasnt there to save them. She saw their faces, she watched them die and it felt as real as if she had been standing there. She saw Bucky, completing the misson, never finding out who he really was. She saw HYDRA take over the world, the thousands they would kill. She saw the face of every person who would die, as they rapidly flashed before her eyes. Some of them she recognised as heros from the Marvel movies. Most of them she didn't know. As she watched, pressure grew in her head. Just as she was sure she would explode, reality snapped back into focus.

She said some swear words that her mother would not approve of.

Steve looked at her, stunned.

"You shouldn't say that" he said, his shocked blue eyes peeking out at her judgementally through the swollen lids. Dani, holding her head, nodded.

What was that! It only took a few moments, but all those faces... She looked up at Steve. Well, I guess I am not telling him about being stuck in the ice then, she thought to herself. Crap.

"I... I need to get back home to make my dinner" Steve said.

"You make your own dinner?" Dani asked, somewhat shocked.

"Yeah, mom will be working until after I go to bed..." He mumbled, clearly unhappy to leave her.

"How about I buy you dinner?" She asked, noting his thin appearance. She would bet they weren't feeding him enough. Steve looked surprised, and tried to protest, but Dani wasn't having any of that.

"No. No, come on. I saved your sorry butt, you owe me", she joked. "I need a friend to talk to, come on and ill call it even". She didn't wait for an answer, just pulled him up by his good wrist and started pulling him in the general direction of an eatery they had passed.

"...okay, fine" Steve said, and the pair limped away.

"So, how old are you, Steve?" Dani asked, as the boy across from her inhaled everything on his plate while trying to do so politely. She quite liked this restaurant. It was so unlike the fast food joints from her time. While it was nothing fancy, the mismatched chairs and worn tables gave the place character. Also, there were only two other people, so Dani and Steve could talk alone. The meal was great. She hadn't even spent half her money for both of them to have a chicken and potatoes dinner.

"Twelve", he stated as soon as he swallowed. Honestly, he could have passed for ten. His face looked twelve though. She saw that his pants were just a tiny bit too small for him. She made a mental note of that.

"You are fifteen, arent you?" Steve inquired. Dani was amused at the assumption. Even though she was seventeen, just a few weeks from eighteen, her height and face made people guess she was alot younger. Steve had actually made a higher guess than most people...

"I am ninety three next week. Pushin' for 100, ya know?" She joked. Steve smiled, puffy eyes making his face a comical sight.

"Really? You don't look a day over sixty" he said with a shit-eating grin. Dani laughed. She had never had any friends who would sass back.

"At least I don't look like a racoon from black eyes" Dani said, which earned a laugh from Steve.

They talked for two hours. Steve eventually revealed that his father had died in combat, and his mother to work as a nurse for long hours to support him. Somehow they wound up huging with Steve crying on her shoulder. He apparently had only one friend, and not much opportunity to talk through his rough, short life. They quickly began to see eachother as friends, and as they left the restaurant, Steve made her promise to come see him soon.

"Sure, but you have to stay out of fights Steve..." she insisted, knowing full well that he would not. He agreed, but he was a terrible lier. Dani could see in his eyes that he had no intention of letting bullies alone. They quickly reached Steve's house.

"Well... goodbye then, Steve" she said. As she started to leave:

"Danny". She turned around, and Steve nearly knocked her over with the biggest bear hug his small body could manage. This isn't permanent, don't get attached. You are going to finish this mission and go home. Don't get attached. "Bye" he finally said as he released her, and ran up the crumbling stairs. Dani watched him go.

After a few moment she started to amble down the street. Holding her hands up to her face, she began to wonder how she had taken down those two thugs earlier. If this was indeed the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it would not be crazy for her to have super powers, would it? She figured that she would have to test her theory out.

She saw a perfect opportunity. Across the street was the car she had kicked a rock into earlier! It even had the dent on the hood. She picked up a rock and threw it hard at the door.

"HEY!" Came from behind her. Turning around, she saw the man from earlier, and he looked pissed. Majorly, majorly pissed. Dani put her fists up and took a fighting stance. The man dropped his briefcase and stomped towards her...

And slugged her hard in the face before she could react.

Cussing, she picked herself up of the ground and lunged at the guy. Nothing like what had happened earlier transpired, and she was speedily knocked to the ground again. Bruised and tired, all she could do was lay on the ground in a ball as the man kicked her multiple times in the head and back. Eventually he left, muttering under his breath about "punk kids" and so on.

Dani cursed whatever powers that be who had given her those abilities at one time but not the other. Limping back to the park, she found a bush to sleep under. As she stiffly settled onto a blanket that had shown up in her bag, she reminded herself that she just had to finish the mission and this all would be over soon.

How wrong she was.

Heh. Writing Steve is fun so far but I want to show his personality more... What did you guys think of the chapter? She won't be with Steve for the duration of his teen years, I will skip alot, so the actual war will be here soon. I think just one more chapter developing their relationship and then the serum :D

-Stax