Two words that knock the bottom out of Steve's stomach. Conjure up a recovery room filled with lemon and and bleach and the faint lingering odor of sweat and vomit. Remind him of how Peggy looked that day, rumpled and panicked, the only time he's ever seen her in either state.
Steve reaches for her hand automatically, the spreading cold in his gut made worse by Josephine's continued recitation of her book in the otherwise silent room. Six months in the ice made coming back into the world like missing a step down a familiar stairway. Seventy years...
He needs to hold his daughter.
Steve scoops her out of Peggy's lap to cradle her against him with one arm, still holding the agent's hand with his free one.
Gabriel stares at the back of Clint's head, his normal stoicism fractured by an expression of disbelief and none-too-subtle dislike.
"Howard - Mr. Stark found me," Steve murmurs, almost drowned out by Josephine pointing out a particularly interesting bit of the picture in her book. He kisses the top of her head. "Pulled me out of the water not long after he found-" After he found the Tesseract, which is still classified, no matter who Barton says he is.
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Two words that knock the bottom out of Steve's stomach. Conjure up a recovery room filled with lemon and and bleach and the faint lingering odor of sweat and vomit. Remind him of how Peggy looked that day, rumpled and panicked, the only time he's ever seen her in either state.
Steve reaches for her hand automatically, the spreading cold in his gut made worse by Josephine's continued recitation of her book in the otherwise silent room. Six months in the ice made coming back into the world like missing a step down a familiar stairway. Seventy years...
He needs to hold his daughter.
Steve scoops her out of Peggy's lap to cradle her against him with one arm, still holding the agent's hand with his free one.
Gabriel stares at the back of Clint's head, his normal stoicism fractured by an expression of disbelief and none-too-subtle dislike.
"Howard - Mr. Stark found me," Steve murmurs, almost drowned out by Josephine pointing out a particularly interesting bit of the picture in her book. He kisses the top of her head. "Pulled me out of the water not long after he found-" After he found the Tesseract, which is still classified, no matter who Barton says he is.