#this way shield team can get involved i wanna see coulson floundering

[captainjimothycarter]

SteveSousa is such a soft ship I need to write my fic for one day. They're so tenderly in love and both down right underneath it all terrified because they don't know the future and on all accounts both should be technically dead. Well on paper Sousa is anyway.

It takes all their courage to go see elderly Peggy together. Steve knows her age cant be used against her. She's still sharp as ever save for a few moments. He tells Peggy he has a guest and he's...sorry. She's confused until Daniel is brought in.

All three of them are in tears and Daniel just about falls apart after hugging Peggy. He's back in Steve's arms and that man isnt letting go. He doesn't need him to.

Daniel roughly tells Peggy what happened. About how he technically did but didnt die. How they saved the world. How the team had one last stop and dropped him off here after an important battle it seems.

"And yet you two found one another," Peggy laughed in between a coughing fit. Her hand hasnt let go of Steve's. "I always said you two were too alike. Too stubborn to die. Thank you - the both of you."

Its heartbreaking, both of them seeing the woman they love so frail in bed while they're not. Its cruel fate whose brought them together but taken away the one thing that brought them together.

Its Daniel who gets Steve to see how bad he's coping. How he goes to Sam for help because Steve's being rash and reckless and that's the Caps montro but damnit can we get him some help?

Hell the both of them. Because Daniel cant deny he has ptsd as well.

Its late one winter when Natasha is at their door. Daniel has long since joined the Avengers and Tony has built him wings like Sam's. He's better in the sky than the ground.

"I need you two to come with me. Now."

They dont question her and run out into the blizzard. There on Shields hospital bed lays Peggy. Her health had been more down than up lately and they knew it was close to her time.

Except this wasnt a frail Peggy. This was Peggy like when Steve went down in the ice. The one Daniel last remembers seeing before she goes to New Jersey.

There was an experimental program with a version of the serum. Steve wants to be furious but he can't. Natasha tells them no one wanted to get his hopes up and they werent sure it even reach this stage. But her levels are rising. The effects of the strokes have disappeared. Shes showing signs of waking up.

The two men out of time are practically puddles of emotion when her eyes open and lands on them. Everyone mysteriously looks away when they both kiss her.

There's no if ands or buts. This is where the three of them belonged - together.