" i age wonderfully "
CASSANDRA BARNES
assassin. spy. agent. super soldier.
-CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FIRST AVENGER-
-THE AVENGERS-
book one of the cassandra barnes series
cover made by the lovely @-PsychoWxrrior
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1943
"Faster ladies! Come on!" Cassandra jeered.
Cassandra ran from behind the soliders, getting annoyed. They all ran much slower than she did, but she couldn't yell at them from the front.
"Stop!" She yelled.
The soliders stopped on front of the flagpole, facing her.
"This flagpole means we're at the half-way point," she held up a hand before the men could groan. "If anybody can grab that flag, then they get to ride back with Agent Carter. So go ahead."
They all started jumping and grabbing for it. One man tried climbing up the pole, and he got very close, but slid down. She couldn't help but laugh knowing she could get up there with no problem, actually, some of the younger girls could get up without assistance. She grew tired of watching them fail, and whistled.
"Fall in, come on, let's go!" She said.
The small man, Steven Rogers, was still standing at the flagpole looking up at it. She sighed, and clapped her hands twice.
"Rogers, I said fall in!" She yelled.
She was about to grab him, when he did something. The small man bent down, and twisted the rod securing the pole to the stand, and Cassandra stepped to the side when the pole came falling down. The man walked to the flag, and tore it off its hooks, and handed it to Cassandra. He climbed into the back of the truck and gave Peggy a smile.
Peggy turned her head around to look at Cassandra, giving her an I told you so look. Cassandra stuck her tongue out at the woman, before beginning to run, and yell at the soliders again.
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"Come on girls," Peggy mocked, as the soliders failed to do a correct pushup. "Jumping jacks!"
The men did jumping jacks, very slowly. Peggy walked in between them, ducking arms and legs.
"Faster ladies! My grandmother had more life in her, God rest her soul! Move it!" She said, more angrily this time.
Peggy came up to Cassandra, Colonel Phillips, and Doctor Erskine. Peggy stood next to Cassandra, lightly kicked her ankle.
"What!" Cassandra hissed. "It's your turn Miss Hawthorne."
A devious smile appeared on her face, and she walked to the men. Cassandra was about to make them continue push-ups again when Colonel Phillips yelled,
