Fragmented

Chapter four

A/N: So we found out in the last episode that Cap and Eve were together, hence, Eden's existence. I won't ramble on this time around but I hope you all enjoy the chapter.

Chapter four:

(Eden Pov)

"Eden-May Sinclair-Rogers born June 12th 2000, mother Eve Margaret Sinclair, father Steven Grant Rogers..." The words echoed around me, they sounded completely foreign to me as my brain scrambled to comprehend it. My mum had always told me she didn't know where he was and that he didn't want to know us. I'm pretty sure there was a resounding smack where my jaw at fallen through the bed and hit the floor with such velocity. I didn't know how to feel other than shocked, but my mind was having a battle on whether to show any emotions whatsoever or to show that the news hadn't phased me.

"Tony did you know?" Steve... my dad asked Uncle Tony, this was a question I was curious about and so I turned to the man in question waiting for his answer. He gulped nervously and he switched the leg that he had crossed over. I narrowed my eyes at him, knowing he was about to lie.

"No..." He started, I scoffed and rolled my eyes.

"Bullshit, you gulped and crossed your opposite leg in preparation for your answer. You knew who my father was all along and you kept it from me... you and my mum kept it from me." I accused him... can you accuse someone when you know it's the truth?

"Eden, please listen to me?" He begged but my mind was already set, I wasn't going to listen to another lie.

"Sorry Uncle Tony but I've been here less than two days and I'm already hearing lies. I'm not a small child anymore who has no clue about the world, you've seen the videos of what I became, you've seen the evidence of what I became. I'm not naïve and I won't take people lying to me. Not even Hydra did that." I told him and ripped the IV from my arm, standing from the bed and leaving the room clutching my suit in my hands. Before I was out the door I turned to look at Tony, "I don't think this is going to work, you may as well just lock me up because I don't do family anymore, I'm better off alone." I told him and walked out, not really knowing where I was going but I was going anywhere away from that medical room.

I found the elevator easily and when I stepped inside I didn't really give it much thought until I was asking FRIDAY to take me up to the roof, my shoulder was still a little achy but it was healing quicker by the minute, the pain dissipating bit by bit. The elevator doors opened and I was graced with the sight of New York in the distance, but the darkness was comfortable for me, I lived in the shadows. Maybe I should have just stayed in the shadows. I walked to the edge and sat down, the night air had already begun calming me, I took a deep breath and lowered myself down so my legs were dangling over the edge but I was laying down. I wasn't sure how much time had passed when I heard footsteps behind me, it sounded like whoever it was, was trying to be quiet.

"You'll have to try harder than that to sneak up on me." I spoke quietly, but with how quiet it was it almost sounded like it was echoing. The person came into view and I shifted so I was sitting back up staring out at the city in the distance.

"I wanted to give you a little time to yourself to process what happened back there." He sat down next to me and assumed the same position of legs hanging over the edge, I glanced at him and stared into the same blue eyes that were mine. "I'm sorry you had to find out that way, it must have been a shock." Steve shrugged a little and I nodded, turning back away from him.

"I remember asking about my dad when I was very young and hoping that my mum would say he'd been away but was coming back now but all I got told is that he didn't want to know us. I remember being at school and watching everyone else's dads pick them up but my dad never came for me and looking back now I didn't understand just how much I needed someone, anyone to be my dad. To be there to scare away the monsters that lived under my bed or someone who would let me wake them in the middle of the night because I had a nightmare. Don't get me wrong my mum was amazing, she adored me and she was my whole world. She gave her life trying to save me, but I can't help but resent her a little because I could have had two parents, I might not have been so lonely and I may not have ever been taken by Hydra if I had. Does that make a horrible daughter Steve?" I asked, a shuddering breath releasing from my lungs.

"I don't think it does Eden, I think you were kept in the dark because your mum was scared. Your mum was amazing and so smart and I loved her with everything that I am but she left me and I'm pretty sure she left me because she found out she was pregnant and was scared. People do things that are bizarre and sometimes we don't agree with them but they do it out of genuine fear. Eden Don't be mad at Tony, his default reflex when it comes to your mum is lying, he has always protected her and even in death I think he feels it's his duty." He chuckled slightly, "When you introduced yourself to us back in the med-bay I was overcome with fear instantly, I started counting dates in my head trying to figure out if you could be my daughter and the fear I felt at that responsibility was huge. I watched you get tortured and assaulted by men I used to trust but when FRDIAY read out your file and confirmed my suspicions, my fear left my body. They say when you find out your going to be a father the love is instant and even though you're fifteen and I didn't really know you yet sitting in that bed I loved you instantly." He admitted and I turned to him shocked, that he could even think of loving someone like me, "I know you don't know me either but I've not had the option to be your dad, so if you'll allow me Eden, I'd very much like the option of being your dad and we can take it as fast or as slow as you like, I know it's a lot to take in and think about but you have me now and I'm not going anywhere." He rambled and I hung on every single word he told me, he wanted to be my dad... Steve Rogers, who stood for all things good in the world wanted to be the father to a teenager who was all things broken and evil. I took a few minutes to mentally digest what he had admitted to me, he must have taken my silence as a rejection because he began to stand but I quickly shot my hand out to grab his and he remained sitting next to me.

"I don't know how to do the whole family thing anymore, I've been alone a long time now." I started taking a deep breath and looked him in the eyes, "But I'd like that. Having a dad is something I've dreamed of my whole life." I told him and he suddenly grinned, it was a very infectious grin because I couldn't stop one from forming on my face.

Maybe everything was starting to fall into place...

Or so I thought...