avachickenugget
"𝓢𝓸 𝓹𝓲𝓬𝓴 𝓶𝓮. 𝓒𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓶𝓮. 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓶𝓮"
Before the war made him a hero, he was just a boy-
and she was the one who loved him first. Elara Reynolds knew Steve Rogers before the serum, before the shield, before the world called him Captain America. Back then, he was hers-and she was his. They had a plan. A life after the war. A date at eight o'clock that never came. Because Steve Rogers went down in the Arctic... and Elara was left behind with nothing but a promise and a letter that said he didn't make it. But the war didn't just take him. It took her, too. Captured by HYDRA and turned into something they couldn't control, Elara survived long after she was supposed to die-unchanged, untouched by time, and haunted by everything she lost. Decades later, the impossible happens. Steve Rogers is alive. And so is she. But love isn't the same after seventy years. Not when it's buried under grief, anger, and the kind of pain that never really fades. Because the first time they lost to each other... It was the war's fault. The second time? It might be theirs.
Steve Rogers x fem! oc
tw: cussing, trauma
trope: second chance love, [he fell first, she fell harder]