The Black Knightress (Back up for fulls)

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April 29 1944-Valkyrie Jet-Steve's POV

"Come in-this is Captain Rogers, so you read me?" I panic

"Captain Rogers. What is your lo-" Morita starts

"Steve, is that you? Are you alright?" Peggy rushes

"Peggy! Shmidt's dead!" I shout as I look around the control panel

"What about the plane?"

"That's a little bit tougher to explain." I sigh as I adjust my posture a few times

"Give me your coordinates, i'll find you a safe landing site." Peggy attempts to reason

"There's not gonna be a safe landing..but I can try and force it down."

"I-i'll get Howard on the line, he'll know what to do." Peggy tries

"There's not enough time. This thing's going too fast and it's headed straight for New York."

The engine screams with fuel and fire while my mind screams with fear as my heart shouts at me with courage.

"I gotta put her in the water." I break

"Please..don't do this. We have time. We can work it out." Peggy attempts

"Right now i'm in the middle of nowhere. If I wait any longer, a lotta people are gonna die."

Silence

"Peggy..this is my choice." I add

"Steve?" Peggy sniffles over the radio

"I know Peg, I know." I say as I fail to think this out

I'm struggling and panicking.

"Please don't do this." she pleads

"I have to, it's what's best."

"What about Katherine? What about the baby? They need their father." she asks desperately

"I know, I know, you can all hate me together as a family once they're born." I say as a tear makes its way down my face

"We could never hate you." Peggy sniffles

"This is for the greater good."

"Steve, we have a family." she tries

"And i'm trying to save millions of other peoples' families, I need to do this."

"Do you have anything you want to say?" she asks

"Tell Katherine I love her, make sure she knows I do. Tell this little one that too, I don't want he or she to be left out or to doubt my love for them. I love you so much Peggy, you can't imagine how much."

"I've got a pretty good thought." she sniffles

"I'll see you at the baby's due date, August tenth, nineteen forty-four at ten hundred hours. Howard can be their Godfather because since we see how good he is with Kathy. I'll take all late night baby duties and i'll even sleep in the crib with them if I have to to keep them calm, i'll do anything to make sure they know how much I love them."

"Maybe they'll have those blue eyes and brown hair that I've been wanting, we already have two kids with my eyes." Peggy laughs sniffly

"I want the rest of our children to have your eyes so that I'll never have to go a day without seeing part of you. If this one does have my eyes, you can see my eyes again." I ramble

"Whatever you want, but don't be late." Peggy says again

"I wouldn't dare." I say with tears coming from my eyes before driving the jet down into the water