2011

Somewhere off the coast of Greenland

As the two SHIELD agents searched through what appeared to be some kind of oversized plane, the likes of which they had never seen, the Lieutenant couldn't help but get more and more excited with every step. He could feel it in his bones; they were about to find something important. He heard his partner speak, and turned to see a shield. The snow covering it was wiped away and he realized it was THE shield, the one lost many years ago. He radioed the base and told them to get the Colonel, and it sank in how important this discovery was.

New York City

Steve blinked, clearing the spots out of his eyes. His arms and legs felt heavy as he sat up, and he had a weird taste in his mouth. He looked around his room, and saw sunlight coming in from the windows. He could hear traffic outside the windows, and the radio in the corner was playing a ball game.

He listened to the game as he continued to look around the room, but he just felt himself getting more and more confused. Steve realized that the game seemed familiar because he had been there, and he felt the hair on the back of his neck rise as the door opened. A women dressed in a standard military uniform walked in, closing the door behind her.

Steve continued to listen to the game as she tried to convince him he was in New York City, but he couldn't see how that was possible. The last thing he remembered was Schmidt's plane hurtling toward the ground and… Peggy. He felt his heart break a little, and he hoped she was ok, wherever she was. He looked back at the woman, and knew something was wrong. Steve asked her where he really was and when she called to men with really big guns, his defensive instincts kicked in.

Before he knew it he was throwing the men against the wall, which gave out under their weight. He followed them into an open, empty room, and headed for the doors, looking for an escape. Steve made it to the street before he was stopped, although that was due more to the shock of what he was seeing rather than the black cars surrounding him. He heard a man behind him say, "At ease soldier," and he turned to see a tall man wearing all black with an eye patch.

Several hours later Steve was sitting in what he was told was a hospital, although it didn't look anything like he remembered hospitals looking like. He supposed he should expect that though, seeing as how he had been in that ice for almost 70 years. He rolled down his sleeve as the nurse finished drawing his blood and tried to focus on what Mr. Fury was telling him.

"I know you probably have a lot of questions, but we're going to spend the next few days running tests on you. We want to make sure you really are ok after spending so long asleep and then we'll see if we can't find something for you to do. Of course, we also need to find out who the other person on the ship is, but I'm sure-"

Steve interrupted, "What other person? There was no one else on the ship when I took it down."

Fury observed Steve for a few long moments, "Well, then let's go see who she is."

As Fury led him down the hall, Steve wasn't sure what to think. He felt his heart beating harder as they stopped in front of a door and Fury nodded for him to go in first.

He took a deep breath and opened the door. Walking in, his eyes were immediately drawn to the women lying in the bed, and the breath he had taken rushed out as he said, "Peggy?"