! 𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐘 & 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘 | 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 ! 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐭, 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐑. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐥𝐨𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐲 - 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐠

He was supposed to go to war. She was supposed to stay behind. Neither of them were supposed to burn. In 1943, Cassandra Hawthorne is a brilliant weapons engineer and scientist working quietly behind the scenes of the war effort. She's sharp, guarded, and far too busy saving the world to waste time on charming soldiers with crooked smiles. Until James Buchanan Barnes walks into her life - all soft smirks and sudden sincerity - and ruins everything. A slow, sweet kind of romance blooms between experiments and letters. But the war doesn't wait for anyone. When Bucky is deployed, the world begins to shift, and soon Cassandra finds herself caught in the same nightmare that stole him. What begins with a goodbye ends in experiments, betrayal, and a silence that lasts decades. After all - she built the arm that broke him. And somewhere, locked behind a Hydra door, her sister still waits.

"So, uh, I'm sorry again. I would really like it if we could start over." Nayeli blinked a few times in silence, as if her mind was racing to catch up with his words. When she didn't respond, Steve tried to clarify for her apparent confusion. "Uh...friends?" Her mouth formed an o shape, seeming to understand. Nayeli was the most confusing person Steve had ever met, she was obviously smart with her high status in shield. But, she had no smarts when it came to social interaction. "Okay, sure" Nayeli eventually said, "I won't hold it against you, people tend to avoid the unknown and scary. You did it, the government does it, that guy on the fourth floor with the receding hairline does it. Just don't act too patriotic around me and we'll get along, 'kay?" And with that, Nayeli slammed her apartment door shut, leaving Steve staring at her star sticker. *.·:·.✧ ✦ ✧.·:·.* If you asked Steve what he was more scared of, teenagers or another alien invasion he would reply another alien invasion. Before Natasha would chime in that it was most definitely teenagers. So when eighteen year old Nayeli Dovebar joins SHIELD as a technical analyst, he goes to great lengths in avoiding the terrifying glitter obsessed fashionista. But, she catches on to his little predicament. So when fear turns into friendship, Steve Natasha and Nayeli are in for the ride of their lives. *.·:·.✧ ✦ ✧.·:·.* I do not own any of the marvel characters nor their plot I only own Nayeli and her plot <3 Pre-Winter Soldier ✓ Winter Soldier ✓ Pre-Age of Ultron ✓ Age of Ultron ✓ Pre-Civil War ✓ Civil War ✓ Pre-Infinity War ✓ Infinity War ✓ End Game ✓ Pietro Maximoff x f!oc GOING THROUGH EDITING!!!

Everything that ever happened to Grace McNeil can be traced back to one moment in time. The day she officially died. From that fracture came five lives, all changed beyond repair: the dead who were left behind, the traitor who walked away, the guilty who could never forget, the victor who would eventually pay dearly, and the girl left frozen, waiting for the past to return. S.H.I.E.L.D. was meant to be a fresh start-a way out of the ghosts of her cloudy past. Instead, it became the beginning of something darker: a web of lies, old wars, and choices that refuse to stay buried. Yet even now, something remains. Something the rot could not corrupt. Someone worth fighting for. - Steve rogers x FEM OC 1998 - 2025 IM RE - WRITING THE ENDING