Ok, so this more of a FanFiction than something that could've actually happened, but I imagined a way that Steve could've gotten a happy ending, with out going back to Peggy and staying in Bucky and Sam's lives.
During the 5 years after the snap, Nat finally is able to get Steve to go on a date, to keep his spirits up after the decimation. She set him up with an ex shield agent, let's call her Jenna. Now, Jenna didn't always have an easy life. She grew up in the foster system with no family to call her own, but she always wanted one. She joins Shield at age 19, but leaves a few years later due to some...issues. She sorta struggles for a bit, but ends up using the skills she learned at Shield to become a bails bonds person. One day, tired and exhausted from an assignment, she goes to a party thrown by one of her colleges, where she has a one night stand with a man that ends up in a pregnancy. Jenna is upset, cuz she has no idea who the man is, and had always hoped her child would have a father, a complete family life. But she continues with the pregnancy, giving birth to a daughter, Emma. Sadly, just 4 weeks after Emma is born, Thanos happens. Emma turns to dust in Jenna's arms, which results in giving her ptsd later on.
She and Steve meet, and find they both have a lot in common. They both just want a happy, somewhat normal life, but it seems impossible for either of them.
They continue to date, and fall in love.
Fast forward to the events of Endgame. Steve tells Jenna what they are about to do. Jenna, while nervous, hopes that they are able to pull the time heist off. She might get her baby back!
And she does. She is in tears when she see her daughter appear on her bed, not changing in 5 years.
When Steve comes back, he tells her the heartbreaking news that Tony and Natasha sacrificed themselves to save the universe. She comforts Steve, who is clearly traumatized from what has taken place. After the tears, Steve introduces Jenna to Bucky and Sam, and Jenna introduces Emma to Steve.
After the memorial for Tony (and Nat because she deserved better) Steve returns the stones and comes back, and then surprises Jenna by proposing to her (out of respect for tony and Nat, let's pretend that Steve returned the stones like a few days after the memorial.) Jenna of course says yes, and Steve retires the shield to Sam.
So in the end, Jenna gets the family she never had, Emma will get to grow up with a father(a father probably 10 times better than whoever her biological father was), and Steve gets the domestic family life he always wanted but never thought he would have, WITHOUT leaving Bucky and Sam behind.
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