The Russian

Chapter Twenty: Experiment

I watch us pull up to the location. A guard tower stood, with it's crumbing features. The fence blocked our path as it held the worn out stop sign. We all get out, and Amira runs over to Steve, grabbing his hand. Tash hold out her reader and I follow silently behind.

"This is it?" Steve asks. Natasha checks her reader, then puts it in her pocket.

"The file came from these coordinates." She says.

"So did I." Steve said. We all look at the worn sign.

Camp Lehigh

U.S Army Restricted Area

"Let's go." I say, breaking the trance. It took us a bit but we got it. Night had fallen as we searched the area. Amira was ruining around looking at all the ruins with excitement. Steve looked uneasy, and I understood why.

"This camp is where I was trained." Steve tells us.

"Change much?" Tash asks as she observes the area. Steve stops and So do I. He was staring at a flagpole. It was rusty and looked like it was on it's last legs. I shut my eyes for a second and see something that made me smile.

The big strong men ran to the flagpole, trying to grab the flag. The Drill officer watch with laughter. Little scrawny Steve stood back and watch the men. The Sargent orders them all back, but Steve does not move. He walks up to the pole and pulls out the pin, making it drop. He grabs the flag and hands it to his Sargent. Then heads to a beautiful girl with dark brown hair and cherry red lipstick. It was Peggy.

"Mika." I snapped to see Steve looking at me, shaking me back to reality. I turn to see Amira looking at the flag pole and trying to climb it. She got a little high and looked at Steve.

"Look Steve Look! I did it!" She cheered. Steve chuckled and helped her down.

"Yeah, you did." HE told her with a smile. Amira was glowing with excitement.

"Well this is a dead end." Tash says breaking off the moment. "Zero heat signatures, Zero waves. Not even radio. Who ever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off." She says with defeat. Steve looks past Tash and stares.

"What is it?" I ask him. He starts walking towards the concrete building.

"Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards of the barracks. This building is in the wrong place." Steve tells us as we approached the locked door. He was about to break the lock when Amira stopped him.

"Isn't breaking in bad?" She asks. Steve looks at Tash then a Amira.

"No sweetheart." I  tell her as I pick her up. "Steve used to live here, so its okay." Amira looks at Stve then nods her head. Steve slams the edge of the shield into the lock, snapping it in two. We open the door and the smell of dust and stinky socks (Don't ask why, thats just how it smelt) filled our noses. We walk down the steps cautiously, Steve leading the way. 

Amira got closer to my chest, holding tightly to her Thor doll. She was nervous, and so was I. Steve switches the light on. Rows of desks and chairs emerged, with the SHEILD sign painted on. We all walk in slight amazement.

"This is SHEILD." Tash says.

"Maybe where it started." Steve said, unsure of where we were. As we slowly made our way down, Steve entered one of the offices, and we followed. Walls were filled with empty cabinets, and Three Photos hung.

"Theres Stark's Father." Tash said. It was the middle picture, a man with a smile and a mustache. Then the woman next to him was a photo of the woman I saw in my memory, or Steve's memory. Peggy Carter.