Everything is okay in the world for once. Until, one day, something terrible happens: the effects of the serum on Steve's body wear off, leaving behind a small, skinny Steve, unable to fight. Out of sadness, Steve travels back to Brooklyn to his old apartment. It's there that Steve encounters a familiar face.
Bucky Barnes had been on the run since the fight at the Triskelion. Somehow, he ends up in Brooklyn, where he finds a devastated and tiny Steve Rogers.
As a new crisis threatens the world, SHIELD realise the world needs Captain America. But now that Steve is skinny again, what are they going to do?
When I'm Gone - Book 1 of the Phoenix Rising Series (Steve Rogers X Reader)
12 parts Ongoing Mature
12 parts
Ongoing
Mature
Steve Rogers married the love of his life in a grand spectacle while on the run from the US government. The newlyweds enjoyed exactly one year of marital bliss before half the world, including Steve's best friends, Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson, blipped out of existence at the hand of the Mad Titan. They've both lost people, but one of them is coping better than the other. Grieving the loss of Bucky and Sam, and carrying the guilt of letting the world down, Steve tries to find solace in the arms of his wife as they work together to weather the storms of this new existence and build the future they both dreamed of. But, he can't shake the infinite feeling of failure and the need to fix what Thanos broke, no matter the cost.