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004. | ❛ we're getting married. ❜

"Done?" Caroline asked Steve as he walked towards her and the elevator. His face was gorgeous as ever and his upper body was something to die for. Expect she was already dead.

He nodded, as they both stared outside the glass window, waiting for the elevator to arrive to it's destination.

After a couple moments of silence, the elevator doors opened," Operations control," Steve said once they both got onto the elevator.

"Confirmed."

Just before the elevator could close, Rumlow sticks his hand in between the door so it wouldn't close. He walks in with two other STRIKE agents. Caroline moves closer to Steve.

"Forensics"

"Confirmed"

"Cap," Rumlow got Steve's attention, "Kingsley" he nodded towards her while she rolled her eyes.

"Rumlow." Steve turned around and leaned against the railing, Caroline following his lead resting her hip on it. The elevator doors close and starts riding down.

"Evidence response found some fibers on the roof they want us to see. You ant me to get the tac-team ready?" Rumlow asks.

"No let's wait and see what it is first" Steve replies

Caroline looks at the agents and sees one of them has a hand on his gun. She nudges Steve and his eyebrows furrow.

The elevator stops, and in come some more agents, "Excuse me" They all try and move to make space. Steve grabs Caroline's hand and slowly make their way to the middle of the elevator. Caroline uses her senses to see if anybody had a quickened heartbeat. It was faint but each agent had a quick beat. She could see how weird they were all acting towards them.

"Sorry about what happened with Fury. Messed up what happened with him. You must be suffering deeply Kingsley."

"Thank you but I'm also sorry, I don't talk to people who have no feelings. I'm not that evolved" She snapped at him. Steve looked at the agent on his left, a little bit of sweat was dripping down his forehead. His grip tightens on Caroline's hand.

A few more floors down, the elevator stops once again, and three more agents step in, "Records."

"Confirmed,"

Steve looks all around the elevator quickly glancing at the people in it. He slowly realizes the amount of agents as the door closes. A few seconds pass by before Steve speaks up,

"Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?"

After a moment, an agent in front of them pulls out an electric rod, turning around to try and shock at least one of them. Mostly Steve.

Both of them break away as they both get grabbed by different agents. Someone hits the emergency stop button, and the elevator comes to an immediate halt.

The agents with briefcase pull out the top to reveal magnetic cuffs. They try to use it on Steve but he fights it off.

Escaping the agent's grasp, Caroline bits the agent causing him to panic leaving her to headbutt him. She turns around and high kicks an agent in the face.

Steve still punches agents in the faces and throats while still in a headlock. He elbows the man behind him in the face before grabbing him once again, and throwing him over his shoulder and to the other side of the elevator. Caroline ducks from the man as she jumps on the back of another agent before putting him into submission. She turns around knocking out another agent kicking him in the stomach.

Steve arm gets stuck in a cuff and tries pulling it off. Rumlow grabs the electric rod, and tries shocking Steve but blocks it. But Rumlow gives him a shock in the back when Steve turns around. Steve lets out a grunt in pain, Caroline calling his name out in a sign of worry as she snaps the neck of a man before pushing him onto Rumlow. He lets go of the rod as Steve elbows him in the face, then hitting another agent before pushing them into the corner.

Rumlow gets up holding his arms out, "Woah, big guy I just want you to know, Cap, this ain't personal," He lunged at Steve with the rods but missing the first time. Steve blocked his hand but still being able to shock him in the stomach.

Steve resisted it again and whacked his other arm, letting the rod go, but he still shocks him. Steve panted, "It kinda feels personal." Steve stomped on his shield as it flew up attaching to his arm.

Caroline walked over all the bodies and leaned toward the corner behind Steve, watching him slice off his magnetic cuff on his wrist with his shield. Steve then taps on the emergency stop button on the wall and the doors open revealing another team of STRIKE aiming their guns at them.

Steve stops before spinning to the side, slicing the wires on the side of the elevator as it drops to the bottom. He crouches holding onto Caroline. He gets up when the elevator stops and pulls open the elevator door to see if it's safe.

Steve and Caroline see more STRIKE agents running towards them and pushes the elevators down closed once again. Steve looked around, his eyes landing on the building below him. He looks at Caroline as she nods her head.

"You're not serious are you? It's crazy." she cries as he grabs her waist, placing a kiss on the side of her head.

"Give it up, Rogers! Get that door open! You have nowhere to go!"  Was the last thing they heard before they jumped out of the glass window.

Caroline yelps as she shut her eyes while Steve's grip on her waist gets tighter by the second. They crouch behind his shield as they crash into the ceiling windows, bouncing off the floor once they've reached the ground.

The both of them groan, Steve helps Caroline up as she slowly heals. They both run to the garage, ignoring the looks from the agents around them.

Steve puts his helmet on once they reach the motorcycle, and Caroline quickly gets on behind him wrapping her arms around him. Before the doors could close, the motorcycle flies through and they make their way across the bridge.

A quinjet aims at the couple, "Stand down! Repeat, stand down!"

Steve only goes faster at the sound of it, dodging the bullets that were being shot. He throws his shield at the quinjet as it slowly goes down.

He stands up, "Take the handles," he tells Caroline

"Steve, I don't-" Caroline stops once Steve jumps off the motorcycle and onto the quinjet. Caroline made her way up to the handles, swerving her way past the crashing quinjet.

Steve rips his shield out of the side before flying through the air and sticking it into the other side of the quinjet. He pulls it off before landing on top again, throwing his shield, making it bounce. He jumps off, grabbing his shield in the air before landing in the ground, while the quinjet crashes behind him.

Caroline pulls the motorcycle beside him and gets on behind her, attaching his shield to his back.

"You better not do that to me again" Caroline tells him before leading them both off the bridge.

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In disguises, Steve and Caroline walk over to the vending machine. They approached it to see if the flash drive was still there but they both saw it was gone.

Natasha pops up in the reflection of the window behind them, chewing Hubba Bubba. Furious, Steve pushes Natasha into the nearest room, pulling his hood off as he pushes her to the wall.

"Steve-" Caroline says before she gets cut off

"Where is it?"

"Safe"

"Do better," Steve orders growing angrier by the passing second.

"Where did you get it?"

"Why would I tell you?"

"Fury gave it to you, why?"

"What's on it?" Steve ignores her

"I don't know"

"Stop lying!" Steve yells

"I only act like I know everything, Rogers."

"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?"

Natasha blinked a couple of times, "Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty. Fury needed a way in, so do you."

Steve pushes her again, "I'm not gonna ask you again."

"Steve," Caroline huffs placing her hand on his shoulder calming him down. He slowly let's go of Natasha's jacket, taking a step back.

"...I know who killed Fury..Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years."

"So he's a ghost story."

"Five years ago, Caroline and I were escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot at the tires near Odessa, we lost control, went straight over a cliff. Caroline pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, he was about to shoot when Caroline stepped in and shot." Natasha slightly pulls up her shirt, showing the old bullet wound near her belly button,"It missed Caroline and went straight through me."

"A Soviet slag, no rifling." Natasha lifts her left eyebrow, "Bye-bye bikinis"

"Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now." Steve said which caused Caroline to hit him for joking.

"Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried," Natasha held up the flash drive.

"What about her? The woman I saw that night." Steve asserted himself on Natasha as she kept her poker face on.

"She's off the grid. Like you said they're a ghost story."

Steve grabs it from her, leading Caroline out of the room, "Well, let's find out what the ghosts want."

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"First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk." Natasha tells Steve under his breath. Steve looks around at the people around him, holding onto Caroline like a little child.

"If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off," he whispers in Caroline's ear causing her to roll her eyes before telling him to go.

"Bathroom," Caroline tells Natasha, nodding in response.

"I never imagined any of us dressed as a hipster." Caroline watches Steve walking to the restroom in disguise.

"Me neither."

"Okay, let's go," Steve pulls Caroline over to the apple store, Natasha clearly looking as the third wheel.

Caroline and Steve stood on the other side of Natasha, blocking people's view of the laptop.

"The drive has a level six homing program, so as soon as we boot up, SHIELD will know exactly where we are."

"How much time do we have left?" Steve looked around.

"Uh.. about nine minutes from.." Natasha inserted the flash drive intot the laptop, lighting up,"Now."

"Fury was right about that ship.. somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands," Natasha told them, typing non stop

"Can you override it?" Caroline asked.

"The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me," she didn't care to admit, "Slightly"

"I'm gonna try running a tracer. This program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from."

"Can I help you guys with anything?" An apple worker with long blonde hair came over to them.

"Oh! No," Caroline wrapped her arm around Steve and gave the guy a bright smile, "My best friend was just helping me find some honeymoon destinations for my fiancé and I!"

Caroline gave Steve a big kiss on the cheek, making his cheeks turn light pink, while Caroline kept smiling.

"Right! We're getting married," Steve smiled down at Caroline wrapping his arm around her waist.

"I just consider myself the luckiest gal ever!"

"Congratulations, where do you guys think about going?" The employee tried looking at the laptop but Caroline casually leaned over blocking his view.

Steve looked over Caroline and down at the laptop seeing the signal traced to a place in New Jersey, "New Jersey..."

"Ah, nice!" he nodded. He stared at Steve like he knew him. Steve started to worry thinking that they were exposed,

"I have the exact same glasses!"

"Wow, you two are practically twins," Natasha sarcastically spoke

"Ha! I wish," the employee brought his hands, motioning Steve's muscles,"Specimen," he took a few step back, "If you guys need anything, I've been Aaron!" Holding up his name tag.

"Thank you"

"Fiancé, huh?" Natasha teased her best friend who's faced turned red.

"Don't start" Caroline smirked to her

Steve checked his watch, "You said nine minutes, come on."

"Relax.. Got it." Natasha smiled

Wheaton, New Jersey popped up and Steve leaned more closer to the screen

"You know it?"

"I used to , let's go," he pulls out the flash drive and grabs a hold of Caroline's hand, leading her out of the store.

"Standard tac-team Two behind, tow across, two coming straight at us. If they makes us, I'll engage, you two hit the south escalator to the metro."

"Shut up and start laughing at something I said," Natasha orderd them.

"What?"

"Do it!" The three of them duck their heads and bust out into fits of fake laughs.

They pass the two men and head straight for the escalator. Natasha ditches the tow, walking over to the group of nerds, laughing at what they said. They stare at her in shock as she starts working her charm on the group as they head down the escalator.

Steve and Caroline follow, Steve getting on first, and Caroline stepping on the one behind. Caroline looks around noticing Rumlow going up the other escalator. In a fit of panic, she tells Steve to turn around. He turns around and faces her, staring into her beautiful blue eyes. She cups his cheeks and places her lips onto his.

Steve wraps his strong arms around her as a small giggle escapes her mouth. It was as if they were kissing for the first time.

Rumlow uncomfortable by the PDA looks away and goes right pass them, not detecting them.

They both pull apart, with wide grins on their faces, making them look like nerds. Caroline gives him another small kiss before telling him to watch his step.

"Now, that I liked." Steve said dazing off before turning around and walking off the escalator. He felt as if he was daydreaming and in this world, he didn't want the dream to end. Thank god for him, that it was as real as it could be.

Caroline walked off the escalator as Steve intertwines their hands as they both try to catch up with Natasha.