See You in a Minute

S T E V E

❝I don't know how to dance.❞
- Steve Rogers

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After reconnecting with Peggy, I looked around New Jersey and entered the nearest bar. It wasn't that I didn't want to come home yet, I just feel like I need a little time to sort everything out.

Spending the afternoon with Peggy, I finally feel like Steve Rogers again. I'm finally catching up to what I've been missing, and it's good. She was talking about the end of WWII, how I've inspired so many people, the death of our fellow soldiers, how much I've changed our time, that date we were supposed to have—we talked about everything we possibly could, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

My love for her never disappeared. In the back of my mind and in the deepest depths of my heart, she was always there. Peggy would always and always have had a place in my heart. She believed in me before everybody else did and it's because of her that I know how to love someone so strongly and hold on to them even if it means forever. And being with her earlier, it only proved that.

However, it was because that I spent my whole afternoon with her that made me realize different things.

I always thought that Peggy was the missing piece in this puzzle I call myself. Even when I had Bucky, the Avengers-I was still incomplete and I've always thought that Peggy was what I was missing. But now, I know I'm wrong.

Peggy Carter is my living nostalgia. She represents everything I wanted and everything I could've had if only. But even she isn't enough to fill in this empty space in me that has been there for so long.

But even with all these insights dawning upon me, my mind still hasn't changed. Even though I didn't find my missing piece, being with Peggy has made me feel more like myself than anybody has ever before, and I'm not giving that up. All these hesitations—I'm sure it'll disappear soon enough. I can't be too worried for what's going on now when I'm not even fully beginning this new journey yet. I just need the courage to continue and go on and I'll be fine.

As soon as I entered the bar, the changes they made during this time caught my attention. It was nowhere near the changes the 21st century has but it was different enough from the 40's.

When I continued looking around, my gaze was quickly transfixed to Natasha who was being surrounded by different men all the while being eyed from afar, too.

And she didn't know she was beautiful.

She was laughing along with them as she circled her finger in the shot glass she had in her hold. If I didn't know better-but I do-I'd say she was she's flirting with these men here.

I walked up to Natasha and inserted myself between the man she was talking to and herself. She straightened her back upon seeing me and looked at me with a surprised expression, "Steve."

"What are you doing?" I asked her as I looked around the bar to see who else were staring at her. Most of them were looking away now while the rest were glaring at me. I simply shot them a stern look and eventually, they took their gazes off her. God, people just don't learn to respect, do they?

"I was just making some friends, Steve," she defended herself as she looked away before she finished her drink. "What? You were spending some time with your old flame that I had no one to talk to-"

"You made that happen."

"So I had no choice but to replace you," she ended, completely ignoring what I just said, as she looked at me with her green eyes. The song in the bar suddenly changed to a slow one and those who had their lovers with them went to the dance floor while those that didn't just sat and talked to their friends.