Captain Gardener, trimming the Roses of Liberty (I am such a jerk!)

I know that this is a filler chapter to set up for whatever you have planned in the next few chapters/Y2K (please make a joke with that! perhaps Sammy can start a Y2K business to make money? No, too immoral when she knows for a fact it's a bunch of BS -_-) but I'm trying to outguess you with the Black Sheep of the family, Clint. Everyone else zoomed and picked up whatever they wanted, but it would be true that there would be the statistical outlier; in this case, the underachiever.

And Commissioned Officers take an Oath of Commission, not an Oath of Enlistment (which more or less amounts to the same thing save Commissioned Officers get their commission from the President while enlisted members get it from... holyfuckingshit I forgot, but The General of the Army, I think [and I swore my oath to that guy any I can't remember who it was?]).

And trying to guess what boffs in 1998-2001. Obviously something stinky.

Please tell me BabyWidow is sent to spy/kill Peggy because she would be 14/16 and full-fledge Red Widow. That would be hysterical and a complete curveball for even Steve The Wise.

Hi, I've been meaning to review this chapter for days. I have sooo many thoughts.

First of all, I love what you've done with Clint. It's very human and very real.

I also think I can see where he's coming from. Clint is supposed to be a very humours person, and in my experience, the best comedian's are usually honest, frank, blunt. It must be very difficult for Clint to accept that he's been lied to by omission for so long. Worse still, that he has to perpetuate that lie.

I imagine it's even worse because he's a Vietnamese American. They were, and still are at times, very much looked down on in both the US and Vietnam. He was uprooted, (for reasons he would not learn about until later), only to likely find himself just not quite fitting in because he was not fully Vietnamese. So to find out that there's yet another thing separating him must be hard for him.

Children who feel "other" can often get in with a bad crowd just to feel they fit in. Also, Clint has a lot of great people in his family who had accomplished or will accomplish great things, they're all named after heroes. It's a lot of pressure. Better to not live up to it, than to try and fail.

Just so much. I feel so much for this boy. I hope he will be okay and he and his family will be able to sort everything out.

I also love how this contrasts with Steven. In the MCU, I felt in the middle that Steve, in some ways. clung to the Avengers as the only familiar thing in a world that was so changed. So much kept happening to him, every time he might have made progress adjusting, his energy had to go into fighting instead. Such that, in Ultron anyway, he seems to have stayed fighting for not solely the right reasons. I see the same thing with Steven here. It's not that he's doing anything wrong per se, but he's doing what he's doing out of a sense of trying to prove himself, and it's never enough. It's fear that is driving him. He'll never be satisfied until he's fought again and won. It's not particularly healthy, but it's hard to quantify when on the surface, he's a straight A student. I think poor Grandpa Steve has seen this all before; no wonder he's worried.

This chapter just gave me so many feels, I'm sorry if I am just rambling away throwing all of them at you. I just really loved this chapter.

One thing that I'm sad about is that the Howling Commandos were not let in on the secret of Steve's survival. I wished that Steve could've had at least one conversation with them.

Oh no... Everything was fine and then you just had to end the chapter like THAT! I’m so worried now. I hope Clint is going to be ok. I’m so scared that he’s going to end up in a really dark place. Great chapter though!

As always, enjoying and looking forward to more!

Oh, dear... Marines are not soldiers. Call one that and they will **politely** (usually) correct the error.
And now I'm feeling old. Spangles' grandson Steven reminds me way too much of Private Grandspawn USMC

I love that you aren't making all the kids perfect. Makes it seem like a "real" family. Every family has that one member that drives everyone crazy, LOL. Can't wait to read the second half!

Does Clint have depression or some similar mental illness? That’s my guess for what’s going on with him. Thanks for writing!

Love this story! I look forward to your updates and am so excited to see what happens next! I’m interested to see how the rest of the grandkids decide to live their lives before the snap.

There is another possibility both Howard, Steve and Peggy go to Britain in order to unite with Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness, and UNIT in order to meet up with and set up connections with a certain Time Lord called the Doctor in order to have a alternate person than Tony Stark to do the Infinity Stone and Infinity Gauntlet snap and also to let you know the Time Stone isn't as all powerful as you think since it can only affect/influence/control the branched off time lines/ realities of their particular earth/universe. Where as the individual Time Vortex of a individual TARDIS of the overall Eye of Harmony affects so much more. And so on resetting using the time stone the Ancient one will find that her attempts won't be as successful as she thinks it will be.

Personally I view that Bruce Banner and Doctor Strange are both mistaken when it has to do with the aspects of the movement of time in relation to time travel do to the Doctor Who episode don't blink: DOCTOR [on screenPeople assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. Otherwords historic timeline DNA/genetic code/Linnaean taxonomic code where time travel related paradoxes and other time travel after affects are simply genetic mutations, alterations, genetic modifications, and adaptations to that historic timeline DNA/genetic code/Linnaean taxonomic code.

You should go and ahead and watch the marvel cinematic universe phases 4, 5, and 6 movies and tv shows as they come out.

this was interesting please update as soon as you can

I wonder if Howard and Maria were worried that Peggy might've been killed during the car chase before their thoughts were interrupted by the surprise appearance of the Winter Soldier? Also, before his death, I wonder if Howard came to the shocking realization that he and his wife were meant to die on that fateful night?

"Prevengers"? Ugh, it's so lame that I actually chuckled. But then again I've always struggled with making up superhero names because most of them do suck or are just very simplistic (DC and Marvel really pulled out the dough for names like Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Spider-Man and the like). I always tend to go for mythology or cultural-impact names for flavor (like a character named 'the Nightingale' that I've been working on) so it doesn't just 'label' what they could do but also actually sounds like a real name and not something slapped on at the last minute.

Still, Prevengers isn't the worst. Revengers was actually a comic book one (I don't remember when it was used) and I remember how hard I groaned when it was used in Thor: Ragnorok.

Frank Rumlow raised his kid right, didn't he. I like that whole scene though; it was a tense moment, and everyone acted tensely, not rashly. HYDRA didn't just jump in when the tracking thing went off-line. They studied and investigated. I LIKE THAT! That shows thought as well as the kind of thing I would assume HYDRA would do.

Rumlow is the Anti-Rogers? That's a thought.