Sergeant Higgins/ Iron Man Lovestory

Falcon

"Wake up, sunshine."

"Not very tempting, satan." Lenna mumbled while burying her head under the blanket. "I'll go for a quick run, okey?" Sam said. "Yeah, I'll sleep." Lenna mumbled to him. She heard the front door close and with that she fell asleep again.

"Alright I'm back." Sam yelled. "Why?" Lenna asked when she woke up to the sound of Sam entering the bedroom. "Because it's my house. Now get up." Sam pulled the blanket from her. "And put your leg back on." he added. "You know I have a higher rank than you, right?" Lenna chuckled sleepily and sat up. She heard knocking. "Wilson?" she called out just incase the man hadn't heard it. "Copy that, ma'am."

Lenna finished with her leg and pulled on a pair of sweatpants. She made her way to the hall and saw two familiar faces with Sam. "Oh, hey guys." she yawned. "Looks like somebody got a good night sleep." Steve scoffed. Lenna decided to ignore that comment.

Sam directed Steve and Natasha to the bathroom so they could clean up while Lenna started preparing breakfast. Sam helped her a bit.

"I made breakfast. If you guys... Eat that sort of thing." Sam's voice came from the bedroom. "You mean I made breakfast?" Lenna called out. "Shut up!" Sam laughed and punched her shoulder. "Let me have my moment, woman." Sam called out in defeat.

Lenna leaned against the kitchen counter and observed the trio. She sipped her coffee slowly while listening their conversation. "So, the question is who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?" Natasha asked while looking around. "Pierce." Steve and Lenna said at the same time. They looked at eachother confused but then turned their attention back to Natasha. "Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world." she mumbled in defeat. "But he's not working alone. Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star." Steve pointed out. "So was Jasper Sitwell." Natasha sighed realisingly. Steve realised the same thing that Natasha had just seconds ago and now asked: "So the real question is, how do the two... three most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?"

Lenna was about to offer her help but Sam got his words out faster. "The answer is you don't." He dropped a file on the table infront of Steve. Lenna pushed herself up from her leaning position and moved to stand behind Steve. "What's that?" Steve asked while observing a photograph. "Call it a resume." Sam grinned. "Is it Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you." Natasha grabbed the photograph from Steve.

"Is this your second partner?" Lenna asked with a hint of sadness in her voice. "Yeah, Riley." Sam sighed. Lenna moved to Sam and placed her hand on his back. "I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs. What did you use, a stealth chute?" Natasha asked. Sam grabbed the file from the table and handed it to Steve. "No, these."

Steve opened the file and quickly scanned the information in it. He raised his eyes from the text and said: "I thought you said you were a pilot." Sam grinned and backed himself up by saying: "I never said a pilot." Steve sighed and said: "I can't ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason."

"Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in. Also you kinda threw Lenna at me so..." He laughed. "Now it's my fault?" Lenna laughed and punched Sam's arm. "Sarge is a great puncher over here." Sam chuckled and rubbed the place he had gotten hit.

"Where can we get our hands on one of these things?" Steve asked smiling at the two friends. "The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve inch steel wall." Sam said. Steve looked at Natasha who shrugged for answer. "Shouldn't be a problem." Steve threw the file back on the table.

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"Lenna, you stay here. Just incase." Sam ordered. "Why am I the one left out, literally left out. Like outside." Lenna scoffed. "Well maybe because you are a sniper?" Sam made his point. "Well yeah... But I'm good at shooting from any distance." Lenna burrowed her brow. "We need someone outside." Steve tried to help Sam make his point clearer. "Alright, ranked down. I'll stay." Lenna smiled and hurried to find a spot where she could get a clear shot.

"I'm settled in."

We're moving in. Stay alert.

"Will do."

Lenna looked around. She followed the trio through the scope on her rifle and waited for any action that would need her interference.

Moving out. Got the package.

Lenna hurried back to the car and waited for the rest of the team to get there too.

"What took you so long? Thought you were moving out already." Lenna scoffed when they finally got to the car about twenty minutes later. "A little incident happened while on our way out." Steve sighed like he was done with everything. "But you still got it?" Lenna asked turning towards the others in her seat. "Yeah we still got it."