An End and a Beginning

The battle was brutal as Steve, Natasha, and Olivia fought the Chitauri on ground, doing their best to hold off the growing forces. Both Steve and Natasha seemed of the same mind that, because Olivia had the least amount of experience in combat, they would take on the majority of the forces themselves in the hopes that any stragglers who made it past them would be weakened or wounded enough that she could pick them off easier. While Olivia appreciated their consideration of her lack of skills, and how this was really the first major battle she was standing in the middle of and a part of, she wished they wouldn't have. Because, by taking on so many more soldiers, she could see them both wearing out even faster. She had managed to take out a handful of Chitauri, using the batons to knock them to the side or knock them out entirely, all the while reminding herself that they were aliens and not humans, that she was breaking no oaths by wounding them.

"Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal," she heard Natasha speak as she looked over to see the woman slumping, worn out. While Natasha was an expert soldier, a master assassin, she was still human and without the added benefit of endurance from Dr. Erskine's serum. She and Steve were holding up better, but Natasha was struggling.

Olivia looked around, making sure there was no immediate danger before she made her way over to Natasha's side, quickly rummaging through her utility belt for something she had seen earlier.

"Our biggest guns couldn't touch it," Steve reminded her.

"Well, maybe it's not about guns," Natasha countered as she gestured at the chariots racing above them. Maybe it was about just getting close enough in general, maybe it was about the alien tech, she didn't know, but there was only one way to find out.

"You wanna get up there, you're gonna need a ride."

"I got a ride. I could use a lift though."

"Before the lift, how about a boost first?" Olivia asked, holding up something in her hand for Natasha to see.

"As long as it's not poison, go for it," Natasha joked.

Olivia shook her head and moved to quickly prep the needle she was holding with a solution in a small capsule she had in her other hand.

"Adrenaline?" Steve guessed, recalling when she had used the same trick to help get Bucky out of the HYDRA camp.

Olivia nodded, the cap of the needle clenched in her teeth as she found a good spot to inject Natasha with it.

The woman didn't even flinch, but a few moments later they could see the adrenaline kick in. She sucked in a deep breath, "That's a hell of a boost, Liv," she muttered in thanks, before hopping in place for a moment, looking at Steve and giving him a nod that she was ready to go.

He braced himself, angling his shield towards her as she stepped back a few paces to give herself enough room, Olivia looking round to guard their backs while they did this, "Are you sure about this?" he called.

"Yeah," she shrugged, "It's gonna be fun."

Steve gave her a nod that he was ready and she took off running, racing up a fallen car and jumping off of it so she would land on the shield, Steve thrusting up to shoot her into the air where she grabbed onto a passing Chitauri chariot.

Olivia shook her head as she moved closer to Steve, watching her fly down the streets, "Is it just me, or do people in 2012 have a very different idea of what it is to have fun?"

"They're crazy," he agreed, "Give me a small bar with some light music and pool table anytime," he added with a look at her, recalling their first date, or what Bucky and Peggy had taken to teasing them was their first date.

"When this is over?" she glanced at him with a soft smile.

He chuckled, understanding it was her way of asking that they do just that, "When this is over," he agreed, before the two of them got back to dealing with the Chitauri soldiers that were slowly approaching.

~8~

Olivia spun around from where she had just knocked over a Chitauri soldier when she heard a grunt, to see Steve had been knocked down, a Chitauri pinning him with an energy rifle aimed right at him. She didn't stop to think what she was doing as she grabbed a rock from right beside her, for there was more than enough rubble from a destruction going on everywhere, and hurled it at the Chitauri. It struck right in the middle of its back, causing it to let out a roar and turn to snarl at her. But it was all the distraction Steve needed to break the soldier's leg and get it down on the ground. He quickly got to his feet, picking up his shield from where it had fallen, and nodded his thanks to Olivia when they both got a call over the comm..

"Major," Barton reported, "Captain, the bank on 42nd past Madison, they caught a lot of civilians there."

They glanced at each other and Olivia replied, "We'll handle it."

They were going to go together, of course they were, there was no way this played out with only one of them going. If Steve went, it would mean leaving Olivia on the street to deal with the soldiers and he would never do that. But if Olivia went, it would mean not only the same thing but also her facing whatever Chitauri might be in the bank. The fact that there were civilians caught there could mean that they might be injured. The Chitauri were not gentle creatures in their attack, they meant to cause harm. If they both went, Steve could deal with the soldiers while she saw to the civilians.

They ran down the street, heading straight for the bank. The closer they got, the more they could hear the civilians inside, but even worse they could hear something charging within, and that made them even more nervous. As soon as they were close enough to see inside the bank they made sure they took stock of the situation. There were dozens of citizens crouched together, tense and scared, while three Chitauri soldiers aimed their guns at the humans to keep them in line. One of them was crouched down next to something that looked like a bomb, it was the thing that was making the charging noise.

"Ready?" Steve called as they continued running, lifting his shield and heading straight for one of the windows.

"I knew I should have stopped at the loo!" she shouted back to him, making him laugh right as he lifted his shield, crashing through the window, immediately throwing his shield at the one working on the bomb. Olivia followed, jumping in right after as he went for the two remaining soldiers who turned their weapons to him.

Steve ducked behind a desk and kicked it at the two soldiers, Olivia slid onto her knees under the Chitauri fire, reaching the civilians and quickly looking around to see if any of them were injured. Some were bruised, some had scrapes, but they all appeared relatively fine if just quite scared.

"Is anyone hurt?' she asked them, and a few gave her odd looks for how she could be focused on them while Captain America was jumping over a desk and had head-locked a soldier while backhanding another one over a railing, "Any injuries?" she repeated to make sure that no one had actually been hurt too.

No one appeared to raise their hand or voice their concerns about it, so she looked over her shoulder to see Steve facing one soldier, the other two down for the count, and back to the people, "Right then, out, come on," she stood, putting herself in the middle of them and the path to the door, her back to the fight going on behind her for more cover, gesturing them to run and they quickly began to move for the doors, evacuating the building while Steve kept the soldiers busy, "Go! Go!"

She turned when she heard a grunt, to see another Chitauri soldier had gotten up and managed to attack Steve from behind, ripping off his helmet. She looked over, hearing the bomb beeping faster and faster and rushed over, looking at her batons. Well, if ever there was a way to determine whether or not the force field actually worked it would be now. She quickly set them on the ground, placing the batons exactly like Natasha had instructed, standing up with the rounded ends on the ground. She looked back when she heard a thump, to see Steve had flipped over one of the soldiers, and turned back to the batons, hitting the buttons and activating the force field at the bomb began to beep even faster.

Steve grabbed his shield, using it to slam into another Chitauri, sending it flying into a wall as he reached out to grab Olivia, pulling her back and crouching them both down behind his shield as the bomb went off...

Steve looked up a moment later, when the bomb engaged, yet he and Olivia were still there and not blown through a wall. He turned to where her batons were set, watching as the bomb went off within a force field, but didn't expand past it. They stared, waiting until the fire went down inside the field before standing.

"Definitely looking forward to that full report," Steve murmured, very impressed with what the batons could do, and also quite surprised that it had that feature on it, not entirely sure what it even was but grateful for it. Seeing that energy holding up against a bomb, if Olivia ever had to use it, now he knew she'd be safe.

Olivia gave a small laugh, turning with his helmet in her hand that she had grabbed from the floor when she stood, placing it back on his head, "I'll be very thorough," she promised teasingly, before moving to get her batons.

Steve chuckled, holding out a hand to her as the two of them hurried back out of the bank, taking a moment to look at the civilians who were being treated by the arrival of policemen and an ambulance, apparently having gotten the report of the holdup in the bank as well. They could see the waitress who had attended to them earlier looking at them with a grateful expression. They nodded at her, before turning to run back into the city.

The Chitauri still had to be dealt with.

~8~

Thor had joined Steve and Olivia on the ground, the three of them battling even more Chitauri soldiers. Steve threw his shield while Thor threw his hammer, using them to take down a soldier or two. Steve turned around, seeing Thor catching the hammer, only to see an energy blast from a Chitauri coming straight at him, his shield a few feet away. He braced himself for the hit, but Olivia quickly rushed in front of him, bringing her batons together in front of her and triggering the force field, absorbing the energy instead as Thor swung his hammer at a car, sending it flying and crashing into a massive amount Chitauri soldiers.

Steve quickly pressed a kiss to the back of Olivia's head in thanks, before turning and picking up his shield.

"You ready for another bout?" Thor grinned as he turned to the two of them.

"What?" Steve joked, "You gettin' sleepy?"

"I can close it!" Natasha suddenly shouted through the comm. system, "Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down!"

"Do it!" Olivia ordered quickly.

"No, wait!" Tony cut in.

"Stark, these things are still coming!" Steve told him, unable to see Iron Man flying anywhere in the area.

"I got a nuke coming in!"

"What?!" Olivia gaped, looking at Steve who appeared equally as stunned.

From what they knew of bombs like that, they needed government clearance, authorization of the highest sort to be launched. Which meant someone very high up was willing to launch a missile at Stark Tower and right over New York. And that was with them not even sure it would destroy the portal! The shock wave from it detonating alone would be sure to destroy so many things in the area, homes, schools, hospitals, it would kill people!

"It's gonna blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it."

The three of them looked up, knowing exactly what Tony meant, to see a stream of smoke flying across the sky, clearly Tony pushing the missile higher and higher towards the portal.

"Stark, you know that's a one-way trip?" Steve called out, Olivia watching with her hands over her mouth, her batons having fallen to the ground at the sight of what Tony was doing.

Tony didn't answer, they could only watch as the missile went higher and higher, gaining speed, until it went straight through the portal with Tony, the comms. going to static. They looked around when the Chitauri soldiers suddenly gave pained cries and began to shake, looking like they were convulsing, before they just dropped, falling everywhere and not getting up.

"Liv..." Steve turned to Olivia, knowing she needed to give the order, they could see the nuke had gone off within the portal, the blast was heading straight for it once more. If it made it through the portal it could destroy some of the city.

Olivia blinked rapidly, not wanting to say it, wanting to give Tony a chance to come back through portal first, but she understood the severity of it, she understood what a weapon like that could do to the innocent people in the city, the destruction it could cause. She hoped Howard and Tony would forgive her, "Close it."

A moment later the Tesseract was turned off, the beam that was holding portal open vanished and it began to ripple as it shut. They kept their eyes trained to the sky, watching with baited breath as the last of the portal closed, just as a small figure fell out of it, sparkling in red and gold.

Tony!

"Son of a gun!" Steve breathed, before grinning and reaching out to hug Olivia tightly as she let out a relieved noise of her own.

"Something's wrong..." Olivia said a moment later, watching Tony from over Steve's shoulder. He was falling and falling and not using any of his rockets to stabilize himself.

"He's not slowing down," Thor realized, starting to swing his hammer around, ready to fly up and catch him, when the Hulk, out of nowhere, jumped off a building, launching himself at Tony. He managed to grab Tony out of midair and use the buildings he smashed into to slide down to the ground where he placed Tony. The three of them ran over to Tony's side, Thor ripping his helmet off, the man not moving.

Olivia quickly began to assess the situation, feeling for his pulse, checking for his breathing. She had just started to pinch his nose and was about to administer mouth-to-mouth, when the Hulk roared in fury, which seemed to jump start Tony.

"What the hell?" he gasped out, jolting awake, "What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?" he glanced up, catching sight of Olivia, "Please tell me you didn't kiss me," he grimaced.

Steve opened his mouth to ask him what was wrong with Olivia kissing him, when the words registered in his head, and he realized, well, he didn't want her to kiss anyone but him so it was a good thing she didn't 'kiss' Tony, so instead he said, "We won."

"Alright," he nodded, "Hey. Alright," he added a second time, more to Olivia, who was just smiling at him with tears in her eyes, meaning more than just the situation was alright but that HE was alright too, "Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it."

Thor looked up at Stark Tower, "We're not finished yet."

Tony sighed, "Shawarma after?"

Olivia sniffled, SO happy he was alright, "Shawarma after."

~8~

The team gathered, standing at the ready in the penthouse of Stark Tower, watching as Loki came to from where he been left in a bit of a crater on the floor. From what the others said the Hulk had beaten him quite badly, enough to knock him out for the rest of the battle. He crawled to a small stair, wincing, with bruises and cuts everywhere, taking a breath or two before he turned his head to see them standing there.

His gaze flickered between them all before it rested on Tony, "If it's all the same to you. I'll have that drink."

Natasha, who was holding the scepter, shook her head at him but glanced at Olivia, "Please tell me you don't want to treat him," she spoke, when Loki winced, clearly in pain and injured. For everything Olivia had said earlier about why she didn't want to fight, about her role in the war, she got the feeling the woman would be willing to treat anyone who was injured, even if it was an enemy.

Olivia looked at Loki for a moment, unable to help but think about watching him stab Phil through the chest, and looked back at the woman, "He's not of Earth," Olivia stated, "I only promised to treat humans."

Natasha smirked at that, especially when Olivia turned on her heel and looked at Thor who had a small cut above his eyebrow and began to fuss over him, telling him to sit down so she could clean his wound.

It made sense, Thor had fought to save Earth, that was more than enough to make him an honorary human.

~8~

A few weeks later the Avengers, as Tony had called them, a fitting title for the group, gathered together at Central Park to witness Thor taking Loki back to Asgard. The trickster God was handcuffed and even muzzled to make sure he wouldn't be a threat to anyone. Thor shook hands with everyone on the team, though he gave Olivia a hug, much to the amusement of the team when Steve gave a mock-annoyed look to him for it. Tony had the Tesseract with him, Bruce giving it to Thor, enclosed in a glass tube for safety. The two Asgardians grabbed either end of the case, using the energy from it to trigger some sort of portal of their own, using it to take them home. Olivia stood beside Steve, watching the goings-on, watching as Barton and Natasha got into the back of a SHIELD car, racing off, Bruce moving to get in the passenger seat of a sports car Tony had been driving. She and Steve were waiting near his motorcycle, when she stepped away, calling out to Tony before he could get into his car.

"Tony," she approached him, "Could I talk to you for a moment?"

Tony glanced at a watch on his wrist, before smiling at her, not having looked long enough to actually get the time, "I can spare a minute."

Olivia nodded to the side just slightly, stepping off with Tony following to give them a little space to talk.

"I just wanted to apologize," she began.

"Apologize?" Tony frowned at that, "What do you have to apologize about?"

"I haven't been fair to you."

"Um…is this some weird 1940s reverse psychology thing?"

"What?"

"I'm pretty sure I'm the one that hasn't been fair to you, not the other way around."

"Maybe not outwardly, but in here," she tapped her temple, "I haven't given you the chance you deserved."

Tony sighed, "Me neither," he could admit after everything, "And, I guess I'm sorry about that too. It was just…hard, seeing you and Boy Wonder over there."

"I gathered as much," Olivia teased gently, he truly hadn't seemed pleased with being around Steve at first.

"It really was more him than you," he continued, sounding as though he were trying to make her feel better about his own feelings.

"Tony…"

"No, look," he cut in gently with a long breath, "It's just…if we're doing this, if we're apologizing and stuff, I think we need to know what and why we're apologizing about. Right?" Olivia nodded, "It's just…growing up, dad didn't shut up about the two of you and for the longest time I thought…" he shook his head, "I thought you guys were the thing he was proudest of creating, that you were his pride and joy. Or, well, the Cap was."

"Steve?" Olivia's face scrunched, trying to follow Tony's small speech.

"Dad never stopped trying to find you guys," Tony told her, "But, when the talked about it, it was like…like he expected to find Rogers."

It took Olivia a moment to realize, "He thought the crash killed me but not Steve."

"You were the more ill one, you didn't have as much tolerance with bodily trauma, you didn't exercise your strength or endurance as much," Tony shrugged for all the reasons he'd heard Howard talk over the years about it, "You were a woman," he held up his hands in innocence at that, showing it was Howard's thought not his own, "He thought he'd find Rogers, so you…you were just like a fond memory. But dad never gave up, he was so obsessed with finding him, it was like nothing and no one else mattered, not even me."

"I'm sure that's not true," Olivia tried to reassure him.

"He um, he left a message for me, that…that I was the greatest thing he'd ever created. And it helped, but just…seeing you both, it was like…"

"All those poor feelings just came back," Olivia finished, now understanding Tony's reaction to her and Steve.

She didn't have to imagine what it was like to grow up thinking you weren't good enough. She and Steve had both gone through it, had had people on all sides telling them they weren't enough. Steve had had his bullies, Colonels in the army, all those people pushing him down. She had had herself, her illnesses, all the people she'd encountered in the war that felt she couldn't do it because she was a woman. But it had to be worse for Tony, for those feelings to come from his own father.

He resented her and Steve, Steve more than her, because they represented those feelings. They were the people he thought his father was most proud of, the ones he cared more about than his own son. He'd lashed out more at Steve, wanting to prove the man wasn't that special, so he could prove his father wrong, so he could know there wasn't anything THAT important about him that he was worth the attention over Howard's own son. He'd lashed out a little at her, not quite as much, because Howard hadn't focused so much on finding her again, but just remembered her fondly. She was a story, Steve was a reality to Tony.

"Speaking of Howard," Olivia began after a moment, "That's what I wanted to apologize about. I…I saw the files that he had passed, and the files that he had a son and I…I wanted to meet you. I started wondering what you were like, whether you took after your mother or father. And, when I met you, I…well, I seemed to have compared you to your father quite a bit. And that wasn't fair to you. I shouldn't have been looking for Howard in you, I should have been getting to know YOU right from the start. And I'm sorry for that."

"Its fine," he tried to wave it off, but Olivia reached out to take his hand with her right one.

"It's really not," she insisted, "You are a man worth getting to know, Tony. Because once I realized what I'd been doing, the things I began to notice about you? You are an incredible man, Tony, so strong, so brave, and SO clever. You have such a big heart. And everything you've done with your life, how you turned it around, the good you've brought to this world? Your father would be so proud. I know I am. I am SO proud of you, Tony."

Tony made the softest of sniffles, looking away as he blinked quickly, though Olivia could see the beginnings of tears in his eyes.

"Thanks Aunt Liv," he mumbled, before closing his eyes and shaking his head, taking a deep breath, "I mean…Olivia."

Olivia squeezed his hand a moment, waiting till he opened his eyes again, "If you promise not to tease me about my name…" she trailed off, leaving him to work out what she was implying.

Tony blinked at her, "…ME?"

She laughed a bit, "Take that Howard, right?"

Tony chuckled...and pulled her to him by the hand she was holding, hugging her tightly, "I promise, no teasing about your name."

She mock-groaned, "Why do I get the feeling I've just opened a can of worms?"

"Oh, because you have," Tony assured her, pulling back to grin at her widely, "But thank you, Liv."

She gave him a nod, rolling her eyes when he lifted her hand to kiss her knuckles when a throat cleared behind her and Steve spoke, "Should I be worried?"

Olivia smiled as she turned to him, "Never."

"Just keep in mind, still not afraid to hit an old man, so if I ever have to defend her honor…" Tony warned him, though there was a joke in his voice, "She's practically family after all."

Steve shook his head at Tony and held out a hand to Olivia as she stepped to his side, the two of them waving at Tony as he saluted them before getting in his car and driving off.

Steve wrapped his arm around Olivia's waist, the two of them just taking a moment to enjoy the peace and solitude of the park, the bright day, and the knowledge that they had helped save the Earth once more. Olivia turned to smile up at him, resting her chin on his shoulder. He leaned in, giving her a quick kiss, and turning slightly so that both his arms were around her waist, her own moving up to drape over his shoulders.

"You may be proud of Tony," Steve spoke, and Olivia rolled her eyes playfully, knowing that Steve hadn't been eavesdropping, she just hadn't walked far enough away with Tony for him not to naturally be able to hear her words, "But I'm really proud of you."

"I didn't do much this time," she tried to shrug off his praise, "This wasn't like the 107th, not many people were injured that I could get to or that I knew about. I mostly just whacked aliens in the head with a stick."

"They were really good whacks," he teased, smiling at her, "But, being serious, helping people doesn't always mean just treating their wounds," he spoke gently, "Sometimes it means keeping them from getting injured...Like what you did in the bank, with your sticks..."

"Batons," she murmured, flush on her cheeks at what he was saying, she had never been good at taking compliments.

"You stopped a bomb, you stopped me from getting blasted, you managed to protect, but also treat the injured. You know I would never ever pressure you to take up a weapon," he added, "I just want you to be safe, whether that means I protect you or you learn a way to protect yourself, it doesn't matter to me as long as you're safe. Because if I ever lost you, Liv..."

She nodded, knowing that he wouldn't want to finish that thought, he wouldn't even want to consider it, "The feeling's mutual," she told him, "And I'm very grateful, to Natasha and Maria and Phil, for the batons. I've been looking at weapons as things that cause destruction for so long, even just these," she let her hands slide down from his shoulders to rest on his chest, tapping lightly so he knew she meant her hands, "Can destroy things. You and I can hurt people a lot easier than other people can. I always felt like weapons were things that, if i I did use, then the blood would just be on my hands even more," she gave him an apologetic look, knowing he viewed weapons differently than she did, and trying to tell him with her eyes that she wasn't saying he had blood on his hands. He nodded, understanding that her perspectives and perceptions were different and that she didn't see him as being a monster or anything like that just because he had used weapons in the past, "I don't know if I'll keep using them, the batons. I doubt many of our enemies in the future are going to be aliens. I really don't like hurting people."

Steve nodded, completely understanding how she felt. They had talked about this during the war, the nights where the Commandos were all sleeping but they couldn't manage it and they would stay up and look at the stars and talk. He knew how she felt about weapons in general, he knew how she felt about hurting people, about things that could injure or destroy or kill.

"We can practice," he offered, moving his hands from her waist to her own resting on his chest, "I didn't wake up from the experiment with a shield on my arm, I learned how to use it. I'm not saying use them, that's up to you if you want to use them or not, I'm just saying...maybe practice with them. Give them a chance. See how they work for you because they definitely seemed to work against the Chitauri."

"They certainly did," she could admit to that. She considered what he said for a moment or two, absently tapping her fingers on his chest before she looked up at him and gave him a small smile, "I'll try them," she promised.

"And, for the record," he squeezed her hands lightly, pulling them off of his chest to bring them up to his mouth and kiss her knuckles, "These are too perfect ever be stained red."

She shook her head at him, at how sweet he was, before she lowered their hands, still keeping them joined, "You know, I believe I remember someone promising music and a pool table..."

Steve chuckled at that, grinning widely, "Right this way, " he gestured over at his motorcycle, dropping one of her hands and walking over there with their arms swinging between them. He offered her a helmet to put on as the two of them got on the motorcycle and took off for their date.

To be continued...in...Give Me Liberty!

A/N: SO sorry this wasn't up yesterday :( I talk about it more in my Intercession story, but I went on a job interview and ended up with a splitting headache after and it was hard to look at a computer screen. I just barely managed to get my DW story posted before the end of the day and hadn't even begun to look at this one :( But at least it's up now! :D

Before we talk about the chapter, announcing the winner of the poll! The official pairing name for Steve and Olivia is...Stevia! :D It was a VERY close vote, I think it literally won by a single vote ;) I found it a bit ironic that ended up being the winning name since Stevia is a natural sweetener and sugar substitute and Steve and Olivia are so sweet together lol. I think I need to up my fluff game so they live up to their name ;) ;)

We've now finished the Avengers! :D And we've seen Olivia take her first steps towards possibly using a weapon and learning to fight ;) We'll have to wait till the Winter Soldier to see if she sticks with the batons or not. But Loki is defeated as are the Chitauri :) I hope you liked the moments between Tony and Olivia and then her and Steve :)

I really wanted to touch on Tony's feelings regarding Steve and Olivia and his father. To him, Steve was the one he reacted to more because his father thought he'd find Steve, that, somehow, he survived the crash. But he didn't think Olivia had. So the stories were more fond remembrance for Olivia, but more realistic possibility for Steve. I also felt that, given how Steve and the Commandos used more weapons, Howard would go on to have more contact/interaction with Steve than Olivia in the end. To Tony, it was more 'Steve, Steve, Steve, oh and Olivia too' from his father. He's not sure how to react to her, but they both apologize for things and I think it'll be the start of a good friendship. We still have yet to see what nicknames Tony might come up with for her, or if he'll stick with just 'Liv' since it was a big thing to him...and what he's going to tease her about if not her name, SO many options ;)

As for the title of the next story. Give Me Liberty (or Give Me Death), I felt it was fitting with Bucky being controlled, all his freewill taken. Liberty is defined as 'being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views' which I felt was certainly HYDRA oppressing everything Bucky was and how he deserved liberty :( Also how Steve was willing to let Bucky kill him because he couldn't kill/hurt Bucky :(

In about a week I'll be posting a Star Trek story for my OC Cora, and once she's finished, we'll be back to Steve, Olivia, and the Winter Soldier. So probably some time around the end of August for Olivia ;)

And, just to end...I really have to say thank you guys SO much! Really, I give each and every reader/reviewer/favoriter/follower/ko-fi giver/anythinger a virtual hug because you guys are amazing :) I write for all of you guys and I'm just so touched that you all liked the story and am truly thankful that you're enjoying Olivia :) I'll do my very best to keep it up in the future, because you guys most definitely deserve it. I love you all :')

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