elsie always knew that something was missing but she was content with her life. the universe, on the other hand, was not. becoming an avenger is the unravelling of elsie and bucky barnes may just be her saviour. if she ever finds him.
the avengers...
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❝ 04 , like a true patriot ❞
Being back on the bridge felt better this time for Elsie. Nobody was staring at her. They were too concerned with getting the helicarrier into the air. So, she could stand near the door and just watch silently with her debrief file now in hand. Natasha had handed it to her before she moved away to stand at the edge of the top platform. Her face had turned serious as she knelt by the side of an Agent's computer.
Everyone seemed so serious, on task and entirely focused. The bridge was filled with people all with one goal, one secret, one future.
Elsie didn't understand how so many people could be working for SHIELD and yet she hadn't heard of them until they had kidnapped her. Her gaze drifted across the bridge before landing on Captain Steve Rogers.
There was still something about him that was so familiar. Maybe it was the way that he walked or the way that he talked but although he was a man out of time, he felt like he was in the right time to Elsie. He seemed to be acting exactly as she would have expected him to be. Her gaze bored into the side of his head, trying desperately to work him out.
He glanced at her and the two briefly met gazes, sizing each other up before Steve turned away. Elsie's gaze returned back to the file and she flicked to the information she had on Captain Steve Rogers.
There were pictures of his time in the Second World War, his unit, his childhood home, how he looked when he came out of the ice. All of the information she could ever need about him was laid in front of her. It was bizarre but she was glad to know something about her teammates.
Though, the file did very little to explain how he had been frozen in ice for seventy years and still lived. There was a vague throwaway comment that the super soldier serum he was injected with did it but that didn't make Elsie understand any better.
And when she flicked through the pictures of Steve, a man stood out to her. He was always beside Steve, arms around each other, the two of them smiling. The pictures didn't give everyone's name but Elsie knew who it was. Something deep in her gut told her that she knew this man. But she didn't know where from and she didn't know why she knew him. How could she know someone who had died over half a century ago? Who had gone missing in action and never returned?
Wait.
How did she know he had gone missing in action? She didn't know this man. She had no idea who it was and she didn't know who Steve was until today. There was nothing strange here.
There wasn't.
"Gentleman, Lady." Fury's words snapped Elsie out of her confused daze. Her gaze refocused on the bridge ahead of her. The unsettled feeling that had clawed its way into her head disappeared slowly. The acknowledgement of her reality seemed to settle something in her.
