Sorry this chapter took so long and was kind of filler - I've gone back to school for my A-levels, so chapters may be even more infrequent :( Sorry - but please continue to read and review to tell me what you think of them xx

Steve finds himself reading up on history, through all the events that he's missed whilst he was, as Tony calls him, a Capsicle. There is so much stuff he's missed - the end of the war and the seventy years that he's been gone and he's not stupid or naive enough to think that SHIELD told him everything. He doesn't think that they've lied to him, more skimmed over the more important bits.

But Steve has always been stubborn and he wants to know what he's missed.

So he asks JARVIS (because he's become remarkably apt at interacting with the AI and would get so annoyed with Tony that the two would end up trying to throw each other out the window instead of learn anything) to direct him to the nearest computer and asks that he not be disturbed.

(He then has to ask JARVIS what he's supposed to do next.)

He is led to a site named Wikipedia, which he is told is my always true, but normally contains more fact that not. JARVIS assures him that he will clarify and reassure him on any data he does not find believable, something he thinks will happen a lot.

Or maybe not. He's already gotten used to the talking robot butler and the gold-titanium alloy suit that flies.

What else is there to shock him?

Apparently here's plenty of things, as he scrawls through reports of wars and fights and riots and strikes. But it's not just bad things - its women's liberation and equal rights for black people and the gay movement.

But none if that means much for a man who still thinks that gay means happy.

Too much has changed too quickly. He doesn't know how he's supposed to adapt to this new world. Should he still hold the door open for a woman? Or will Natasha accuse him of being sexist and knock him unconscious for a while?

Can he still use the word gay in the same context? Can he still listen to the radio - everyone else seems to have moved on to smart phones and blackberries and apples (whatever fruit has to do with it). He doesn't know what half the things he's reading about are kindles and apps and Facebook.

And on the flip side is everything that he does understand, all the horrific things done in the last seventy years, the atomic bomb on Japan, the holocaust, 911. He's going to need to talk to JARVIS about all this later because he doesn't quite understand how the same people can responsible for both.

The world has changed whilst he was gone, moved forwards without him. But it's still the same - people still hurt each other and fight for power and are greedy and selfish. People are still the same.

It's almost like his seventy years weren't worth it, that everyone he knew died and he was saved just do it could torture him. But people still love, still care, as well and maybe that's good enough for him.

When he thinks he's finally had enough for the day - because he knows that there's no chance of him managing to cover seventy years of history in one day - he takes a short break, wishing that he could take pain killers (they aren't strong enough). His brain hurts with information overload and all the things that he doesn't want to think about.

Steve knows that someone will come up to get him sooner or later, undoubtedly not long after they ask JARVIS.

(Unsurprisingly they do send someone up. Surprisingly, that someone is Natasha.)

The two of them talk for a while, talking about history. Natasha, being Russian, knows more about the effects of history than anyone else in the Avengers, except perhaps Tony. It is a good opportunity got the two of them to work through any issues that may arise between them in the aftermath of the Cold War, particularly with Natasha being a Russian assassin and Steve being the embodiment of everything that is wholesome and American. As always, it's more helpful to have someone that's actually lived through some of that time, even if most of what she says is general knowledge as opposed to her own personal experience, because most of that is classified and she can't talk about it or it just hurts her too much to talk about.

She teaches him how to use the phone that Tony had thrown at him during their third meeting, and how to text, even though she warns him that being able to text won't necessarily mean he's able to understand what everyone else is saying - texting has become a language of its own. When he displays his confusion she shows him some examples, before telling him that he'll pick it up as he goes along, particularly living with both Clint and Tony.

After a while it turns into the two of them comparing the times they live in, is it really better to live these days? Was everything better?

Then it turned into Steve telling her some stories from his own childhood, tales of him and Bucky racing around the local neighbourhood, the bigger boy always stopping to let Steve catch his breath. Stories of days tucked in bed with his mother feeding him soup and days at school, so different to how it was today (not that Natasha would know first-hand).

The rest of the team found them like that, smiling at the memory of the time that Steve had tripped into a lake, pulling Bucky in with him, and the scolding he'd received when he's gotten home. They joined the pair of them, laughing and smiling, and even Natasha shared some of her personal memories, though all vaguely and briefly.

They actually felt like a team for the first time.

Steve decided that he couldn't wait to get used to it.