#stephanie;threads

Stephanie was busy trying to figure out how to work the remote when she heard the door open and close. Captain Stephanie Rogers had been staying with Kara after the whole SHIELD coming to a meltdown fiasco. “Hey, do you think you could show me how to work this again?” She asked then looked up at Kara, “Hey, you okay?” 

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“Ahh. But see, I don’t have that luxury.” Stephanie exhaled, leaning her back against the wall.  “SHIELD controls everything I do. I would leave, but Peter started it because of me. It would just feel like I’m dishonoring him somehow.”  

Stephanie rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she walked to the door of her Brooklyn apartment. It had been another hard day with the support group. Stephanie was supposed to be the example. She was Captain America. Opening her door, she yawned. 

“Nat? No, you didn’t wake me. What’s wrong?” She asked although she knew a better question would be what was right.

“I’ll still be around,” Stephanie promised the girl after explaining that after everything calmed down, she was going to put down the shield and retire. “If the team needs me, I’ll be there. If you need me, I’m there. But Abbs,” the older woman tried to joke, “I’m one-hundred-and-five years old. I think its time to give these all bones a break.” 

“Don’t do this…don’t. We are the only ones who know what the other is going through and besides that Steve, I’m your twin sister. When you got sick and Ma was at work, who took care of you? We’re family Steve. Don’t do this. We’re a package deal. Captain and Lady America.” Stephanie swallowed thickly. She formed fists with her hands to keep from them shaking. She couldn’t let her brother see how much this was affecting her.

“I know it’s a little different okay? Because Peggy was still alive when we got out of the ice, but I’ve lost people too. Some of the same people you’ve lost too, don’t forget that.” She would not mention Howard Stark. She hadn’t mentioned Howard Stark since they had woken up because their relationship had been brief, and barely anything to get upset over after she woke up. Yet she had been upset that she didn’t get the time that Steve got with Peggy (even though Peggy was ninety-something at the time.)

“Don’t do this...don’t. We are the only ones who know what the other is going through and besides that Steve, I’m your twin sister. When you got sick and Ma was at work, who took care of you? We’re family Steve. Don’t do this. We’re a package deal. Captain and Lady America.” Stephanie swallowed thickly. She formed fists with her hands to keep from them shaking. She couldn’t let her brother see how much this was affecting her. 

“I know it’s a little different okay? Because Peggy was still alive when we got out of the ice, but I’ve lost people too. Some of the same people you’ve lost too, don’t forget that.” She would not mention Howard Stark. She hadn’t mentioned Howard Stark since they had woken up because their relationship had been brief, and barely anything to get upset over after she woke up. Yet she had been upset that she didn’t get the time that Steve got with Peggy (even though Peggy was ninety-something at the time.)

“Would you please stop trying to set me up? Natasha. I’m okay, Really, besides who wants to date an old woman? Let alone a woman who can probably crush their bones?” The words roll off her tongue good-naturedly, although she is a little lonely. But it’s all still so fresh to her, the seventy years that have gone by and she’s still grieving for Peter, Bucky, the rest of the commandos...