His Best Girl: Her Secret Legacy-Part 1

Familiar-Yet Not

*You'll see why I chose this song as you read*

*for those who don't know this, this how "Agent Carter" showed Peggy looking as a child; so imagine the main character looking exactly how I described in the last chapter, but making the face above when she wakes*

*WARNING-some 1950s slang will be used-so have your dictionaries near by, or google at the ready*

*Carter's p.o.v. only*

Setting: secret room below S. H. I. E. L. D. HQ-just before the alarm went off & Fury found it...

(Deep in Carter's dreams of her LONG sleep)

Streets of Brooklyn, New York: December 26, 1954- standing in front of a normal looking house; the nine year old girl is tapping her foot impatiently...

"Hurry up already Ricky!" I shout, "we're gonna miss the picking of whose Captain America!"

"What do you care?" He snaps as he come running out the house, "no body ain't gonna ever pick you."

"And why not?!" I snap

"Cause you a girl," he says as we run towards we're we usually meet the others

"So what?! What's that suppose to mean?!" I shout angrily

"Captain America's a guy; everyone knows that!" He shouts back

"I could lick you just as any guy could Richard Thomas and you know it!" I shout

"I know," he says with a laugh, "that's why you're better of playing the part of your mother!"

"..." I fall silent as I blush

"Cause like her, you both ain't just some baby; I mean you and your old lady ain't no Skags either, but..." he struggles to get out

"Ricky..." I say

"..." he looks at me as we get to where the other guys are

"I dig it," I say smiling

"Cool chick," he says

I watch as my best friend runs off to join the line up to pick this games Captain America; being the only chick in this gang of cats, I always end up being my mother. In our little gang aside from me and Ricky that is, there's Slick Johnny Carson: he's a real vulture, but we just call him Slick Johnny. His twin brother Charlie Carson: he's always singing on everyone, so we call him Cherry Charlie. Franklin Fishers always getting hacked about something or other, we call him Frosted Frankie; there's William Blindly: he's always making five finger discounts for whatever reason or no reason at all-we call him Bag Bill. Steven Sanders is such a wet rag sometimes that we call him Square Steve and Gregory Goldman is so raunchy that we call him Groatey Greg...then there's Ricky. Richard Thomas is so Bull he gets all the girls-he hates it-that's why we call him Radioactive Ricky. As for me, well...the gang calls me Queen Carter but not cause I get the guys-I'm too scrawny & weak looking to have a guy look at me like that-but cause I'm really good at playing dead for people and acting like I got smoke in my noggin when someone in the gang needs an alibi for something and I don't ask questions or nothin, I just do it.

Yep; there's eight of us; my own gang of howling comandos, my old lady tells me tales about my old man and his gang all the time. I hope to meet what's left of them one day and thank them for helping my old man back in the day; like always the gang chooses Radioactive Ricky to play my old man, and I'm my old lady-their always making us out to be hooked and it really bugs us! I mean, I see him more as my Bucky than my bow-this time Slick Johnny is Bucky; which means everyone else are the other commandos.