"Genevieve Smith", or Elizabeth Barnes, is a young adult trying to live a normal life, after mysteriously being awakened after she thought she "died" in 1946. After being "awakened", she's placed in an apartment, with no idea who awakened her and how. Finding herself thrown into the modern world, she tries her best to cope. Three years later, when she finally feels like she has a bit of a grip on things, Nick Fury approaches her, wanting her to join S.H.I.E.L.D. Elizabeth is very reluctant, but agrees to come to S.H.I.E.L.D., if Nick promises to tell her the why's and how's of her "awakening". What Elizabeth doesn't plan on when arriving is falling back in love with Steve Rogers. Will she be able to get past her feelings, as memories from her former life come flooding back, and conflict with new, startling discoveries?
And I know it makes you nervous,
but I promise you it's worth it,
to show them everything you've kept inside,
Don't Hide
•••••
Dawn Beckett doesn't exist.
When Nick Fury pulled her from the jaws of HYDRA experimentation, he hid her from the world for her protection. She was his biggest secret weapon, embarking on covert missions to help the world and the Avengers without compromising her anonymity.
Until James Buchanan Barnes.
The upbeat, down-to-earth girl who wishes beyond anything she can have a family again meets the forlorn, brooding lone wolf who is desperately trying to make sense out of the muddled madness in his mind.
The mission was simple: investigate and protect.
But, after a whirlwind of events leading her in the middle of an internal war threatening to rip apart the very group she helped succeed from the shadows, her heart has different plans.
She was sent to investigate and protect him.
She never expected to fall for him.
[Pre-Civil War though Civil War]