"And you still don't know a bloody thing about women." The laugh felt good, it was bitter sweet but still good. Steve, completely without guile about emotions. Could he really have doubted it? "I think I can speak with some authority on what she may have felt." His hand felt, smaller but warm and comforting on hers. It was roughened and calloused in a way she'd come to know from hard work he'd done. "Her work was your work and you would have done it together. I doubt it would have ever been conventional, but I think it would have been enough."
There was no other way for it, she would not have given up her work and he would never have asked her to. Sure she could be int he field and pregnant, but there were ways to ensure that was not a risk to be taken if it were even possible. That wasn't a given either since Rebirth changed him so dramatically. It would have taken some arranging and opening some minds but she felt sure in her world at least, that is how it would have worked.
"Steve was driven, especially after he rescued Barnes; the two were practically inseparable. They were part of an advance team to a remote Hydra base in the Alps, Barnes was lost in a fight before they arrived. I think Steve took that harder than anything and it made him determined to make Hydra pay. When he got his chance to stop a massive weapon and Schmidt at the same time, well there was no turning back. In the end he managed to eliminate Schmidt, stop the weapon and took Hydra's worst into the ocean. He went down with it." He was never found, they looked for months. He was gone.
"The last thing he said to me," she coughed out a short dark laugh, "he was rescheduling our date and talking about dancing. I never said anything, we never," She swallowed and looked away again. "Even in the last moments we lied to each other and I've never forgiven myself for that. So please understand what seeing you means, and why I can never be sorry for it. I hope you won't be either."
It let her know that somewhere they had gotten it at least a little right and that was good. But she frowned with his last and her hand gripped his firmly. "You do, he always did. It didn't matter what his body was, everything Steve Rogers was and did came from his heart. I knew that from almost the moment I met him, it's what I loved most."
And that was saying too much, Peggy withdrew her hands and felt her cheeks darken for having stepped over the line.
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There was no other way for it, she would not have given up her work and he would never have asked her to. Sure she could be int he field and pregnant, but there were ways to ensure that was not a risk to be taken if it were even possible. That wasn't a given either since Rebirth changed him so dramatically. It would have taken some arranging and opening some minds but she felt sure in her world at least, that is how it would have worked.
"Steve was driven, especially after he rescued Barnes; the two were practically inseparable. They were part of an advance team to a remote Hydra base in the Alps, Barnes was lost in a fight before they arrived. I think Steve took that harder than anything and it made him determined to make Hydra pay. When he got his chance to stop a massive weapon and Schmidt at the same time, well there was no turning back. In the end he managed to eliminate
Schmidt, stop the weapon and took Hydra's worst into the ocean. He went down with it." He was never found, they looked for months. He was gone.
"The last thing he said to me," she coughed out a short dark laugh, "he was rescheduling our date and talking about dancing. I never said anything, we never," She swallowed and looked away again. "Even in the last moments we lied to each other and I've never forgiven myself for that. So please understand what seeing you means, and why I can never be sorry for it. I hope you won't be either."
It let her know that somewhere they had gotten it at least a little right and that was good. But she frowned with his last and her hand gripped his firmly. "You do, he always did. It didn't matter what his body was, everything Steve Rogers was and did came from his heart. I knew that from almost the moment I met him, it's what I loved most."
And that was saying too much, Peggy withdrew her hands and felt her cheeks darken for having stepped over the line.