Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Book 8)

Chapter 18✔️

Emoji Chapter:➕Added/🗣 Mentioned Scenes/Chapter

Same Day: Sam's House
Inside: Guest Bedroom ⌨️🕊🎭

Amy snaps out of her shock after hearing Steve tell her that he love's her, she silently grabs Steve's face and pulls him into a kiss, Steve kisses back, wrapping his arms around her. The kiss becomes a little intense and Steve picks her up, Amy runs her fingers in his hair. They pull away for air, Amy leans her forehead softly on his, both panting and they lightly chuckle and Steve puts her back down.

Amy tells Steve as she has her hands cupped at the back of his neck and his arms still around her waist, "I think we should keep this quiet for a bit." Steve looks at her confused and goes to say something but she tells him, "If Anna finds out or worse AJ, we will never hear the end of it."

Steve nods, "Agreed." They let out a small chuckle before Steve pecks Amy's lips and pulls away, he asks her as he opens the door, "You okay?"

Amy smiles and nods, "Yeah, thank you." Steve nods and smiles before leaving.

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Kitchen ⌨️🕊🎭

A couple of minutes later, everyone is gathered in Sam's kitchen for breakfast.

AJ sitting back in her chair with her crossed-feet up on Anna's vacant chair, "So, the question is, who at SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?" She takes a bite of her toast.

Sam standing behind his kitchen counter, putting butter on his toast looks over at Steve. Steve sitting at the table across from AJ, staring off as he answers, "Pierce."

Anna leaning against the counter in front of where Sam is, holding up her glass of juice in her hands, she pushes off the counter and leans down, resting her forearms and elbows at the back of AJ's chair, "Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world."

Steve points out, "But he's not working alone. Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star."

Amy sitting beside Steve and AJ on his left and her right, she raises her eyebrows as she realizes and remembers, "So was Jasper Sitwell." Sam thinks for a second, he turns around to get something.

Steve looks at Amy, he thinks for a second and realizes as he remembers and sighs, "So, the real question is, how do the four most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?"

Sam walks back over, holding a file in his hand, he tells Steve as he walks to the table, "The answer is, you don't." Sam drops a file in front of Steve.

Steve sits up, asking Sam who leans against his counter, "What's this?"

Sam answers vaguely, "Call it a resume."

The three stand up from their chairs as AnnaBeth leans back up straight and steps around the table, standing behind her chair, picking up the photo of Sam with his Pararescue team, "Is this Bakhmala?" The three come closer to look at they photo, "The Khalid Khandil mission,-" She looks and nods to Sam, "-that was you?" Sam doesn't say anything, just looks at her, silently confirming to her question, Anna says to Steve, "You didn't say he was a Pararescue." AJ looks at Sam surprised, having heard of the Pararescue team.

Steve grabs the photo from Anna, looking at the photo of Sam with his colleague, Steve looks at Sam, "Is this Riley?"

Sam nods a bit as he answers sadly, "Yeah."

AJ states, "I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs." She looks at Sam curiously, "What did you use? A stealth chute?"

Sam tells AJ, "No." He steps forward, grabs the file from the table, holds it out to Steve, "These." Steve gives Amy the photo and she looks at it curiously, she's looking at Sam in sympathy as Steve grabs the file from Sam who steps back, crossing his arms patiently waiting as Steve opens the file and reads it, Anna looking at the file beside Steve on his right.