Saleen's jaw dropped as she stared at the phone in Jessie's hand. "You're kidding me."

"I'm not."

Saleen kept staring. "That can't be true."

Jessie grinned. "I swear it is."

"He seriously could not have done that."

"He did."

"Did what?" the Doctor asked from where he was helping Jemma and Fitz on the Bus in the lab, busying himself with a lot of stuff.

"You seriously wore a fedora with that scarf?" Saleen finally asked.

The Doctor's head shot up, as well as Jemma and Fitz's. "What?" Jemma asked in shock, running over.

Jessie held up her phone, showing the Doctor's fourth incarnation. "Fedora and a really long scarf."

"Passed by it trying to find out this outfit," the Doctor added, peering at the picture. "Did you download every single one?"

"Yep," she replied, popping the "p." "Got a problem with that?"

"The Doctor grinned, shaking his head. "Nope."

"He keeps getting weirder," Jessie continued. "His next one had a piece of celery on his lapel."

"He can save the world with nothing but his hands, but lookie here, he's wearing a vegetable!" the Doctor agreed, rolling his eyes. "Never again."

"I don't know," Saleen said, looking at the photo. "I kind of like that one."

"Really?" Jemma asked, holding up the phone and comparing the fifth Doctor to the tenth. "I like this one better."

The Doctor's eyebrows shot up. "Really?"

Jemma smirked, and Jessie laughed. "For one, you're not wearing a vegetable."

"He'd wear a banana if he could," Jessie commented.

The Doctor looked at her. "Oi!"

"What?" she asked, grinning. "It's true! I mean, you've probably got one in your pocket right now if the Blitz was anything to go by."

The Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver at her. "Touché, my dear."

Jessie beamed at him, and May's voice came over the intercom. "Landing in D.C. in five."

"Oh, did I tell you?" Saleen asked suddenly, and Jessie raised an eyebrow at her. "Steve and Natasha are in D.C. Fury's gone off the grid, and they want to tell us why."

"The guy in red, white, and blue and the woman with the really ginger hair?" the Doctor asked, not looking up.

Saleen looked at Jessie in surprise. "He knows?"

"Tell me if I get this right: the demigods, a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend, a man with breathtaking anger issues, and a few master assassins?"

Saleen clapped, and the Doctor grinned. Jessie smiled. "I taught him everything he knows."

"And the best part is that they've invited us to stay until New Year's," Saleen added. "With Tony, Clint, and Bruce in town as well."

The Doctor finally looked up. "I get the TARDIS in here for a while, and then we're here for three days?"

"Problem?" Jessie asked.

The Doctor sighed. "The things I do for you, Jess."

She grinned, partly because he agreed. The other part was because he'd called her Jess.

***

The good thing about psychic paper was how it got him out of almost any jam, the Doctor realized as they arrived at the airfield, and there was some suspicion as to who he was. Coulson, Saleen, and Skye sorted it all out quickly, along with the help of an agent named John Garrett. "He was Grant's S.O.," Jessie explained to the Doctor as they followed him through the SHIELD complex.

Garrett turned at his name. "You knew Grant?"

"Only long enough to know that he was a great man," the Doctor replied, sensing tough ground. "I wish I could have known him better."

Garrett nodded. "That means a lot."

"Jessie!"

Jessie squealed and ran forward towards a woman as ginger as Saleen, who was dressed in tight-fitting jeans and a hoodie. The SHIELD team smiled and left Saleen and the Doctor there and followed Garrett back through headquarters. The two hugged each other hard, and the Doctor saw the black bracelets on her wrists and the two guns she had holstered to her hips, and he knew that this woman was definitely dangerous. "Agent Romanoff?" he guessed.

Saleen nodded. "The Black Widow. Cap's right behind her."

Jessie did hug Steve next, and he could see she was practically glowing with happiness. Natasha Romanoff walked up to him and Saleen, and the Doctor straightened as she approached. "Agent Romanoff," he greeted her.

"You must be the Doctor, I assume," she replied. He nodded and held out a hand, which she accepted after a while. "Not quite the leather Saleen was talking about."

"Well, I sort of . . . changed," he replied.

Saleen snorted. "Totally changed is more like it."

"Stark has the cars outside," Steve said, walking up to join them with Jessie at his side. "Best he could get." He nodded to the Doctor. "Doctor."

"Captain Rogers," he replied, noting Jessie stiffen when he said Captain. He then asked a tentative question. "Any chance you met a Captain Jack Harkness during the war?"

Steve thought for a second, then shook his head. "Nothing comes to mind."

"Oh, well, then," the Doctor said brightly as Jessie breathed a sigh. "Good man, Jack."

"I mentioned the time travel," Saleen added. "Kind of helped with the whole idea about Jessie . . . " She coughed. "Traveling."

"Welcome to D.C.," Natasha told them as they walked outside.

***

The Doctor got along brilliantly with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, Jessie realized when they made it to the house, practically mansion, that Tony had built in D.C. He spent a long time in the lab with the two of them and Saleen, and more than once she could hear them all laughing hard at something. Jessie, meanwhile, was laughing with Steve, Natasha, and Clint over trips she'd had with the Doctor. "And then Jack pulls out a banana instead of a gun, which the Doctor had taken," Jessie was saying, doubling over in laughter, "and when Jack asked why he shouldn't drop it, he replied - "

"'Good source of potassium!'" the Doctor, complete with a rather great Northern accent in contrast to his Southern London one now, finished, coming up with the others and sitting down.

Natasha and Clint were laughing hard, and Steve was grinning. "The London Blitz," he said. "That would've been fun to see."

"Do it by barrage balloon," Jessie suggested, grinning wildly. "It's awesome that way."

"And ended up with a certain 51st century pretty boy," the Doctor added.

"You're not so bad yourself," Jessie retorted, before realizing what she just said. She blushed a little and cleared her throat. "So, anything new while I've been gone?"

"HYDRA was inside SHIELD," Natasha replied, realizing she was uncomfortable. "Alexander Pierce was one of their members."

"You're kidding me!" Jessie exclaimed, looking back and forth between Natasha and Steve.

Steve shook his head. "No joke. Also ran into an old friend of mine. Bucky Barnes."

"Your best friend, right?" the Doctor asked.

Steve nodded. "He was brainwashed by HYDRA. It was growing inside of SHIELD, and no one noticed. When Fury was 'killed' - " He made quotations. " - the HYDRA agents turned on me and Nat. We were relocating everywhere."

"There're still a few people to worm out, but we've got most of it covered," Clint finished.

"That's partly why Bruce and I are here in D.C.," Tony brought up as he joined them. "Agent Hill asked for help in cleaning everything up."

"It doesn't beat what you've been doing, though," Natasha said quickly. "Tell us another one?"

"For my first trip, he took me to see the end of the world," Jessie supplied.

The Doctor burst out laughing. "Your reactions to everyone was brilliant."

"I'd never seen anyone like them before!" Jessie protested. "And it's your fault that Cassandra hated us!" She grumbled under her breath. "The last human. Honestly."

The clock chimed overhead, and Tony grinned. "Twenty-three hundred. One hour to go until New Year's."

***

That hour was spent mainly on playing cards. Jessie teamed up with the Doctor against Clint and Natasha in a game of Kemps, where they evened out before Clint and Natasha won, years of experience working together giving them the edge. When it got to Euchre, though, Jessie and the Doctor took almost every round.

"Two minutes!" Tony shouted.

Saleen bounded over to the fridge and pulled out a few bottles of red wine, and Jessie internally winced as she poured the alcohol. "Drinks for everyone!"

The Doctor wrinkled his nose. "I can smell that from here."

"How does it smell?"

"Like sour grapes."

Jessie snorted in amusement as she took their two glasses, two of the smaller ones. She handed one to him. "To another great year."

He grinned back. "Another great year indeed."

"Three!" Tony and Saleen began counting, Clint joining them. "Two! One!"

The clock chimed midnight, and they all raised their glasses. "Happy New Year!" they all cheered before drinking. Jessie choked as the wine hit the back of her throat, but she managed to swallow. "God, that's sour!"

The others began talking, and Jessie tipped the rest of her wine down the kitchen sink. She made her excuse to go to bed, but she stayed behind. The Doctor had gone to the sink, looked to make sure the others were distracted, then promptly spat his sip into the sink. She giggled as he poured the rest of his down the sink. His head shot up, and he raised an eyebrow at her before holding a finger to his lips. She just giggled and went down the hall to her bedroom. And this one's cheeky.