They drove for a quite a while.
Leaving the narrow streets of New York behind than the suburbs.
It wasn't noon yet and Maria enjoyed the warming air blowing at her face.
She trusted the man sitting in front of her.
There weren't many people she trusted as much as she did him.
Especially after learning that SHIELD, which had defined her for so long wasn't what it was meant to be.
That the brotherhood they thought to be destroyed had infiltrated it.
"We're here." She heard him saying and she felt the motorbike slowing down.
Steve stopped and parked his bike.
"Where are we?" Maria asked as she handed him her helmet.
"I drive often here when all those things just get too much. Fury, Stark, those modern things I still need to get used to. It's so quiet and calm here. It remains me off the time back then."
Steve took her hand and walked down the main street.
He was right.
It was calmer.
Steve stopped at the entrance of a small park.
"I know this park since my childhood. My parents took me here whenever we visited my grandparents who lived close to here. It had always been one of my favourite places especially after seeing my grandparents. You're the first one I'm bringing here."
Maria didn't exactly know how to react.
There hadn't been many people in her life who had shared those special things and places with her.
And she was the first one Steve brought here made her realise that she wasn't just someone for him.
"Thank you." She said quietly and both went in the park.
The park was small but tidy.
Someone seemed to take regularly care of it.
Steve headed straight for a certain part of it and Maria followed him on a slower pace trying to remember everything she saw still holding his hand.
"That is my favourite spot because you can see the ocean."
Maria hadn't seen that Steve had stopped and bumped into his shoulder.
"Hey carefully." He smiled and stepped aside.
"It's beautiful." Fascinated she looked out on the calm ocean.
They sat there a while just starring out on the blue ocean.
Once in a while they would talk quietly but most of the time they remained silent.
At some point Maria laid her head against Steve's shoulder.
"So what happens next?" She whispered.
"I don't know. A lot of things are going to change. Some won't. Who knows what is coming."