A Chance

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Steve Rogers was sat on a chair reading a news paper when the guy next to him started talking to him.

"Boy, a lot of guys getting killed over there. Kind of makes you think twice about enlisting, huh?" The guy asked.

Steve lowered his newspaper before responding. "Nope." 

Steve then gets up since his name was called. Once at the front the doctor looks over Steve's form while looking skeptically at the man.

"Rogers... What'd your father die of?" The doctor asked.

"Mustard gas." Steve replied. "He was in the 107th infantry. I was hoping I could be assigned..."

Mother?" The doctor asked cutting Steve off.

"She was a nurse if the TB ward." Steve replied again. "Got hit, couldn't shake it."

The doctor looks at all of Steve's symptoms before looking up at the man. "Sorry son."

"Look just give me a chance..." Steve pleaded.

"You'll be ineligible on your asthma alone." The doctor dismissed.

"Is there anything you can do?" Steve asked.

"I'm doing it. I'm saving your life." The doctor said then stamped his enlistment form "4F."

After being denied with his enlistment, Steve was now sat on his own in a movie theatre waiting for the movie to start.

"War continues to ravage Europe, but help is on the way. Every able-bodied young man is lining up to serve his country. Even little Timmy is doing his part collecting scrap metal. Nice work, Timmy!"

"Who cares!? Play the movie already!" A man shouted.

"Hey, you wanna show some respect?" Steve whispered.

"Meanwhile, overseas, our brave boys are showing the axis powers that the price of freedom is never too high."

"Let's go! Get on with it! Hey, just start the cartoon!" The same guy shouted again.

"Hey buddy, you wanna shut up!?" Steve said louder this time.

"Together with Allied forces, we'll face any threat, no matter the size."

"You just don't know when to give up do you?" The guy said as he punched Steve and he fell into a pile of garbage.

"I can do this all day." Steve said breathing heavily as he put his fists up again only to be punched and fall into a new pile of trash.

" Steve said breathing heavily as he put his fists up again only to be punched and fall into a new pile of trash

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Steve picked up the lid to the trash can and held it like a shield.

The guy was going to attack Steve again but he was stopped when two hands landed on his shoulders.

"Hey! Pick on someone your own size." The voice of one of Steve's best friends James "Bucky" Barnes said as his other friend AJ Watson turned the man to face him and punched him in the face. The man fighting Steve stumbled and was eventually kicked in the rear end by Bucky's older sister Becca.

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