So I saw something on Tumblr about Steve and Susan meeting in London, and then I somehow came up with this idea. Basically it is an AU where Susan ends up in present day times after stepping through the portal at the end of Prince Caspian.

I have plans for more chapters, but for now I'm just going to post this first part.

It had been twelve days since he woke up in this strange new time. Twelve days since his life had changed…again. Twelve days spent dwelling on the fact that he didn't fit here. There was too much that he didn't know, too much he had to learn. But he had to do it. He had to learn to fit in here, because apparently the world still needed Captain America.

So he had spent the morning in the bases' library, trying to learn about everything that had happened in the 70 years that he had been asleep. It was slow going, for there was obviously a lot to cover, but he was making the effort. His session was interrupted, however, when a SHEILD agent came by to tell him that Director Fury wanted to see him. So Steve levered himself out of his chair and began the trek to the Director's office.

He was about to turn the last corner, when the sound of raised voices reached his ears. He stepped forward, the office coming into view, but then stopped at the sight of the two arguing people. One was Director Fury, and the other…

He didn't know what caused it, but he felt his heart skip a beat. Maybe it was the painfully familiar curl of her hair, or the vintage look of her dress, or the shade of her lipstick, or the British accent in her words. Maybe it was all of the above.

"I know this is a hard adjustment for you," Fury was saying. "But you can't just expect – "

"Of course I do not expect them to just…bow at my feet!" the woman said irritably, interrupting the man with a wave of her hand. "But I do expect them to respect me. I have earned that right, at least."

Something about the way she held herself made him want to say she was military. But no, there was something more about her, something he couldn't place. Deciding that he had eavesdropped enough, he cleared his throat as he finally stepped into view, his apology clear on his face.

The woman snapped her head around, her face forming into a neutral expression at being caught. Their eyes met for just a moment, but that was all it took for Steve to learn something about her. She didn't fit either. It was all too clear in her eyes. And just as he could see it in her, he knew that his eyes were telling her the exact same thing.

"Is that all then, Director Fury?" she asked, breaking their connection.

"For now," he answered.

And with a nod of her head, she was striding down the hallway, the echo of her heels against the floor reaching back to the two men after she had turned the corner.

"So that was...?" Steve asked, jerking a thumb back in the direction that the woman had gone.

"A new recruit," Fury answered, his tone indicating that that was all the information he was going to give out at that point.

Steve nodded in understanding. And then it was back to business between the two of them. But he was determined to learn the truth about the mysterious woman; who she was, and more importantly, where she came from.