Steve Rogers Imagines

General

A/N: request for -miller hope you like it :)

Steve's POV

"hey steve you excited to have your little girl back home?" clint asks walking into the kitchen, "clint she's 23 not a little girl anymore" tony says taking a sip of his coffee. "they're always little ones though even when they are high ranking generals in the army" clint points out "aren't I right steve?" he asks me. "yeah always my little girl" I smile, "you must be pretty proud her first tour as a general, at her young age" nat says sitting down next to clint. "yeah I am, she's doing more than what I did at her age" I say, "its probably the super solider you passed down, its hard for her not to do her job when she's the daughter of Captain America who literally fought and helped win the second world war" wanda smiles. "that and she's just like her mother, not just my genes" I point out, "yeah if (Y/N) could see her now she'd been so proud, of both of you" nat smiles. "so what time do you pick her up?" bucky asks me, "in a couple hours, can't wait" I smile, "is she going to help out on missions while she's back here?" nat asks, "I don't know, up to her I guess but I wouldn't be surprised if she wanted to" I say. "wait hold up I just realised something" tony says putting his hand up to silence everyone, "what is it tony?" I sigh knowing it wasn't going to be great. "Abigail is a General right?" tony asks, "yes..." I answer confused as to where this was going, "and you're a captain correct" tony continues, "correct, tony where are you going with this?" I sigh. "well forgive me if I'm wrong but I know for a fact I am 100% right on this, General out rank captains don't they?" he asks, "yeah they do" bucky says, "well in that case if Abigail was to join the team, she would outrank her own dad and hence be the leader of the team, giving steve orders" tony says. "yeah she would, tony do you really think that would bother me?" I ask him, "you hate people undermining your orders" tony argues. "correction he used to, until (Y/N) came along and took him down a few pegs and stopped his inflated ego getting so big it would pop" nat points out. "inflated ego?" I question, "very true, he's used to being second in command now" tony agrees ignoring what I said like the rest of the team. "I don't have an inflated ego" I mutter, "not anymore you don't" bucky mumbled under his breath, "careful sergeant" I smirk nudging him slightly.

I was stood at the arrivals hall of the airport waiting for Abigail to come through, after what seemed like hours I finally saw her scanning the crowds smiling when she saw me. As she walked over I opened up my arms and she walked straight into them giving me a massive hug "oh I've missed you" I smile, "I've missed you too dad" she smiles. "how was the first tour as a general?" I ask smiling at her as I grab her bags and we start walking to the car "oh yeah it was alright, lots of hard work" she says.  I glance over at her slightly confused at her lack of enthusiasm "you alright?" I ask her, "hm? Oh yeah just tired, long flight, need a good shower too" she says with a slight smile. "well as soon as you we get back you can do whatever you want, just relax" I tell her as we load the bags into the car, "sounds amazing, getting to rest" she sighs with a smile. On the journey home, it was pretty quiet, I knew from experience you don't really talk a lot about what happens on tour but Abigail seemed oddly quieter than normal. I kept glancing over to see her staring out the window in her own little world, I started to wonder if something had happened while she was out there, but I didn't want to push her into telling me. She stayed quiet as we walked into the compound as we entered the communal floor the entire team were waiting for us "welcome home!" they all cheer coming over to give Abigail a hug. "general Rogers" tony says saluting "nice to have you back ma'am" he adds giving her a hug "great to be back" she smiles. "so general, how was the tour?" bucky asks, abigail's smile falters slightly "good, eye opening to say the least" she says "um as nice as this has been I'm exhausted and in need of a good shower so if I don't see you at dinner I'll see you tomorrow" she adds. "that's okay sweetie, go rest up I'll see if you want dinner later okay" I tell her, "thanks dad" she smiles before heading off to her room. "is she alright?" nat asks me quietly, "I think so why?" I ask her, "something was just different, I'm not sure what though" she explains. I shrug my shoulders with a sigh "I think she's just tired, it was a long tour, doing a very hard job for her age so she probably just wants to sleep" I suggest, "yeah that's probably it" she agrees. Later on I head to abigail's room to see if she was hungry, as I slowly walk in I see her fast asleep. I gently wake her up "hey sorry to wake you but there's dinner if you want some" I tell her as she slowly wakes up, "thanks dad but I'm okay, not hungry" she yawns. "that's okay, you get back to sleep I'll see you in the morning, goodnight" I smile, "night dad" she yawns already falling back asleep.

Abigail had been back for a week or so now, she had spent most of her time either in her room or in the gym. I was stood watching her work out in the gym, "she looks just like you" bucky chuckles joining me on the balcony. "what punching away on the punch bag?" I ask him not taking my eyes off her "yeah justs needs to rip one now to be exactly like you" he chuckles. Abigail then turns around and catches us watching, she smiles slightly and gives a small wave before going to her bag to get her drink. "have you asked her if she wanted to join us on missions?" bucky asks me, "yeah, she said no for now, just wants to relax and take a break" I tell him. "that's fair enough, I don't think I could ever take a break, I'd miss it too much" bucky says, "yeah me too, been fighting pretty much no stop since the war" I agree. I ended up staying up late planning for a mission and on my way back to my room I noticed Abigail stood out on the balcony. "hey what you still doing up, it's gone 2am" I say walking out to join her, "couldn't sleep" she says looking over at me. "what's keeping you up?" I ask her concerned, "nothing really, guess the bed's too comfy than what I'm used to" she says shrugging her shoulders. "feeling like you're sinking to the floor?" I ask laughing slightly earning a small half-hearted chuckle from her, "yeah exactly like that" she smiles. "hey come on lets get you to bed, you'll get used to your bed soon enough I promise" I say "and hey if there's anything you want to talk about, you can always talk to me about it, or anyone else" I tell her. "thanks dad but I'm fine" she says with a small smile "goodnight dad" she says heading back inside.

Once again I was up late again one night and just as I was walking past my room I passed abigail's room and heard her wake up with a scream. I instantly rush in and find her trying to catch her breath tears streaming down her face. "hey its okay, just a nightmare" I say soothing her trying to stop her from panicking "they won't stop" she stutters through the tears, "what won't stop?" I ask her rubbing her back soothingly. "the nightmares, every time I close my eyes they start" she cries, "what are they about?" I ask her, she shakes her head new tears falling "it's all my fault" she says. "hey nothing's your fault" I reassure her, "yes it is, they're dead because of me, Colonel Brigges was right, I wasn't ready" she says burying her head into my chest. "hey its okay, just let it all out and we'll talk about it okay" I say, she nods her head slightly and she slowly stops crying. Once she had I took her to the kitchen and made her a cup of tea to help keep her calm. "okay so what happened? You can tell me everything and anything" I tell her, she nods her head slightly before taking a deep breath. "well when I was up for the general promotion this other colonel was up for it, colonel brigges, he has loads more experience than me but I got the job and he was bitter about it, telling me I'd fail and I wasn't ready for it. I ignored him and carried on with my job, at the end of the tour we planned to take this base in Afghanistan where a large delivery of firearms was about to arrive. When we got there everything seemed to go to plan until an IED went off and began the chaos. Soon enough we were surrounded and pinned down by the enemy, our medic was rushing to save all the injured men but as they got up to move onto the next one they got shot down. Without a medic it all went wrong, the comms were down so we couldn't call for backup, by the time we were finally out we had lost loads, too many men, and its all my fault I didn't plan it better" she explains wiping away the tears as she spoke. "hey its not your fault, these things happen, you can't plan for everything" I tell her, "it is dad, and there's nothing I can do, I should just give up my position to brigges" she says shaking her head. "hey look, those men followed you into battle, they wouldn't blame you at all, they would have applauded you for getting them out" I tell her, but she just shakes her head "hey have I ever told you the story of how your mother rescued her entire unit?" I ask her, she shakes her head again. "your mom, (Y/N), was leading her first shield mission and during it her and her entire unit got captured by the enemy. They took her from them and tried to get shield intel from her by torturing her, but they underestimated her and she over powered everyone in the room, fighting and taking out everyone in her way, she got back to her unit set them free and they fought their way out. not all of them made it though, and on their way back (Y/N) apologised saying it was all her fault but nobody else thought that, they told her what she did was save them, without her all of them would have died. She was the hero, just like you" I tell her. Abigail smiles through the tears, "I miss mom" she says, "I miss her too, and she is so proud of you, just like I am and all those soldiers you got out, you're a hero just like her" I tell her. she smiles properly, the first I've seen since she came back "thank you so much dad" she cries hugging me tightly.