Lemme start off with a massive apology. I can no longer update weekly due to a crap ton of homework and additional commitments. I think every other week, but I can't guarantee. What I CAN guarantee is that I will not give up on this story. I have the entire thing planned out except for the end, but that's because I have two ways I want to end it. I just have to find the time to type it AND be able to have a weak semblance of a social life.

Thank you for your patience.

Also, I known this is short, I plan (but ONLY plan) upon having a full length chapter next week and then settle into the "every other Sunday" schedule.

And as always, thank you for your comments. They mean more than you know.

-Stax

Chapter 13

For the first time in ages, Dani cried. I'm home, she thought, looking around at the street. Back in the forties, back where Steve and Bucky where.

She jolted with a realization. I feel like this is my home...? Not the world she came from, but this alternate dimension. It was because her best friends were from here. Shaking herself from this thought, she stepped off the stoop she was on and attempted to regain her bearings.

She recognized the street. Not quite three blocks away was the alley where she had met Steve. Starting in that direction, she began to feel hope in her chest. I can warn myself to let go of the train instead of holding on and trying to explain- I can save Bucky! She noted, a warm, triumphant feeling blooming in her chest. And then, up ahead her on the street-

"STEVE!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, racing towards the man. He didn't react. "STEVE, STEVE DAMNIT!" She yelled as she neared him. He was tall now- she realized that this was that time when they took five days off their campaign in Europe to rest in Brooklyn. Bucky had hurt his leg and they all had needed a rest. "STEEEEE-"

She cut off as she ran right through him.

"Steve!?" She waved her hand in front of his face. "Steve..." he couldn't see her. She yelled some unsavory swear words at the sky and attempted to kick at a conveniently placed rock. Steve looked up then.

"Dani" he said with a pleasant smile on his face.

"Steve!?" He began to walk towards her. "You can see me!?" She shouted. She opened her arms to hug him as he came up right by her- and walked through her. She turned around.

"Steve, I thought you were watching Bucky?" It was Dani. Well, not Dani in this present moment- Dani from back when she still was visible. Dani watched the scene, remembering how it went.

"I thought YOU were watching Bucky" the invisible Dani Whispered.

"I thought YOU were watching Bucky!" past Dani echoed, shock on her face. The current Dani smirked. Bucky was far from willing to rest on his hurt leg, someone had to be with him at all times to make sure he didn't go out until it was healed. Dani remembered thinking about how un-Bucky-like that was, and how it really was more characteristic for Steve to pull that crap.

But now she had had time to stew in these memories. Really, Bucky was probably convinced that Steve was still going to get in fights and need saving, being the natural worrier that he was. To everyone around him, Bucky seemed like a very mentally sturdy person. His popularity and outward appearance of strength gave everyone around him the wrong impression. Dani was his confidante, she knew his weakness: Steve. Bucky had one or two grey hairs from him, Dani had seen them herself.

Shaking herself from her thoughts, she raced after Steve and... well, herself, as they sped down the cobbled road to find their friend.

Crap. There was a boy ahead, and if Dani's memory wasn't failing her, he was about to get run over by her past self. Sure enough...

"OW!"

"Ohcrapsorry" her past body said, clearly distressed, helping the boy to his feet. "Sorrycan'tstayreallysorry" She blurted and ran after Steve, who had a head start now. Current Dani stopped at the boy, who was staring in awe.

"That was Captain America and Corporal White!" He said, bouncing up and down. "That was-" he said turning to Dani, his rant cut off by a shocked gasp. "BUT-" he looked down at the receding form of her past self, then back at her current self. "BUT..."

"Wait" Dani cut him off bending down to his height, "You can SEE me?" The kid gulped and nodded. Dani facepalmed. I guess this is the next person. But who the hell could it be? Wolverine? He's Canadian though... "Kid, I'm your imaginary friend" she said, standing back up. Magneto? Nah, he was in Europe now... are the X-men even in this universe? She wondered. The kid pouted.

"Really?"

"Yep."

"Then why couldn't I get Captain America instead?" Signing, she resigned herself to the reality that most boys were going to prefer Steve to her.

"Because I'm cooler, you will see" she insisted. "Now... what is your name?"

"I'm Phillip Coulson" the boy said with a grin.

Dani didn't know what to do with that information.

This is from a headcanon I saw on pinterest months ago. I'll explain how its possible in the next chapter.