"Okay sweetheart, let's get you out. We're going to visit Daddy." Steve shut off the car engine and took out the car the key. He looked over to his side, Jackie didn't bark but looked at Steve like she understood. Steve looked in front of him. They had parked in the visitor authorized parking space. Steve felt his chest his hand searching for something that wasn't there.

"Jackie do you know where my key card is?" Steve patted himself down, he doubted the dog would know but it sounded better talking to the dog than himself. Jackie parked and pawed at the car compartment in front of her. Her paw hooked on the pull handle and she pressed it down. The compartment fell open. Various loose pieces of paper fell but namely, Steve's military authorized key card.

"You're a genius, I swear." He picked up his key card and the other papers. He carefully placed the paper back into the compartment. He slipped the lanyard of the keycard on his neck. "I really don't know what I'd do without you." Steve chuckled. It had only been three weeks with this puppy and he could barely remember what it was like before having Jackie. "Is there anything that I'm forgetting?" Steve asked Jackie.

Jackie looked around the car, she pawed at the ejector on her seatbelt. Steve helped her out by clicking the seat belt button and releasing the strap around her front. She shifted on her hind legs and looked behind the seat. She barked at the picnic basket behind the passenger seat.

"Ah, I wasn't going to forget but thanks for reminding me." Steve unbuckled himself and reached over. He grabbed the picnic basket and set it down on his lap. "Ready?" He asked. Jackie barked her answer. Steve took it as a yes, opened his driver side door and stepped out. He squinted at the sun and put one hand on the door. Jackie slipped out of the car and stood next to him. Steve slammed the door shut and clicked the lock of the car. He pocketed the car keys and looked down at Jackie. For such a young puppy she was already on his upper thigh.

"Come on girl." Steve snapped his finger and began walking towards the large building. Jackie followed, sticking close to him. A faint part of Steve acknowledged that he had never been to this building before, but his body felt like this was a normal occurrence.

They approached the front entrance, there was a guard with a large gun and a bulletproof vest on. His face was completely serious, his head turned checking Steve out. His face broke, and a small smile was visible.

"Captain Rogers! Hey, how was the holiday break?"

"Hey, Smith! It went pretty well, I have no doubt Bucky will be bragging about his ventures in no time." Steve chuckled, he acted like it was the most natural occurrence. He felt like it was the most natural occurrence.

"He mentioned something this morning on the way inside." Smith laughed his arms crossed. Steve stopped in front of the booth, he flashed his key card.

"Really? What did he say?" Steve wasn't entirely sure he wanted to hear.

"Rather not repeat it in a professional setting, catch me during my break then maybe." He smiled and jutted his head towards Jackie. "Got a new dog?"

"Yeah, a puppy. We named her Jackie."

"That girls a puppy? Looks full grown already."

"Oh yeah, if we didn't know better than we would have thought the same. We were told she's possibly part wolf."

"Where did you get her?"

"She was a reject from a military dog training program. She was too smart,"

"Dogs don't very often get kicked out for being too smart." Smith pointed out with an amused smile on. Steve rubbed the top of Jackie's head.

"Well that's not exactly why...she really didn't like listening to authority, and she had a thing with dialing 911 at random times." Smith chuckled, he finally pressed the button to open up the gate.

"Sounds like a certain duo I know, she must fit right into the family."

"She definitely does, I'll see you around Smith." He waved and began walking forward. Smith waved to them as they walked away. Steve entered the building holding the door open for Jackie. She was surprisingly calm for a puppy in a new environment. "Stay close Jackie," Steve said softly, he scratched behind her ear.

He was careful to walk through the areas where he figured the least amount of soldiers would be. He had no business intruding on the daily lives of the people in the base. He guided Jackie and himself outside again.

He hummed for a moment he wasn't sure where he was supposed to go, or where Bucky would be in the first place. He looked at his watch, it was about time for Bucky's lunch break. He took a deep breath and just let his instincts guide him to where he assumed Bucky would be.

He and Jackie followed various dirt paths until he could hear the synchronized stomping of feet. Steve peeked around the corner then took a quick step back.

"Come on Jackie let's not get in their way." He took a step closer to the forest line of the dirt path. Jackie barked and stood close to him. Rows of sweaty running men began to quickly pass in front of them.

"You're one unit if one of you slow you all slow!" A familiar voice yelled. Bucky came rounding the corner, he was running next to an extremely tired soldier.

The soldier was dressed identically as the rest, in tan pants and a tan shirt. His face was a bright red, and there was sweat pouring from every pore. Bucky's hand was resting on the man's back. The soldier was about the size of Bucky but seemed like he was completely reliant on his support.

A few soldiers up front looked backward. There was a drastic slow in pace. Steve was decently pleased to hear them remain in step as they slowed to just above a jog. Three soldiers took Bucky's place behind the man. They had their hands in various places on his back and shouted chants of encouragement. Bucky smiled and fell back giving them room to properly form ranks around the man. Bucky turned his head to the left catching a glimpse of Steve and Jackie.

"Hey, it's my two favorite peo-creatures." Bucky smiled, he slowed to walk and came over to them. Steve smiled and took a step back into the dirt path as the flight of soldiers steadily moved farther away.

"I feel like I haven't seen you all day." Steve teased, Bucky put a hand on his waist and pecked his lips. Steve felt a warmth on his face and embraced Bucky in a quick hug. "Didn't even break a sweat out there."

"Yeah, only perk about whatever junk was shoved into me. That and being able to keep up with you." Bucky felt a tugging at his leg. He looked down to see Jackie biting down on a part of his shorts. "I didn't forget about you girl." He rubbed the back of her head and under her chin.

"Smith tells me you've been talking about our erm...ventures?" Steve crossed his arms holding picnic basket tightly. He raised an eyebrow expecting some sort of guilty or apologetic look from Bucky.

"Oh yeah, I did huh? Well, you know." He shrugged, he didn't bother to come up with any sort of excuse. "Not my fault if I just have to talk about how cute your ass is."

"Shh!" He put a finger to Bucky's lips. "You are such a little...I don't even know the word." Bucky looked nothing but amused for himself. He kissed Bucky's fingers giving him a mischievous wink. Steve blushed furiously and took his finger away. "We came to have lunch with you, are you on your break yet?"

"Yeah basically, if I'm not too hungry I usually keep on training them. But with you two here I suddenly have a strong urge to eat." He looked down at the picnic basket that Steve held. "You cooked?" He asked skeptically.

"Me? Of course not, I would have ended up burning the house down. I assumed you'd be pretty upset. Sam recommended this grocery store that had these adorable pre-packaged meals. I picked up a couple of those, stuffed them in a basket and here we are."

"That's a relief." Bucky chuckled, he took Steve's available hand. "I know a great place to eat." He began walking forward tugging Steve along. Steve intertwined their fingers a happy smile on his face. Bucky guided Steve and Jackie down the dirt path. Steve was surprised how far it actually went, especially when they got to a section with mainly wild plant life.

"Are you sure there is anything back here?" Steve asked more curious than skeptical.

"Don't worry about it doll I know my way around this place." He pecked Steve lightly on the lips and picked up the pace. Comforted by Bucky's words and lips Steve followed the sketchy forest path. There was a large clearing of trees, Bucky guided them through.

On the other side was a small section of grass, it was completely surrounded by trees and it was dotted with small patches of flowers. Steve whistled and looked around.

"This looks like something out of a story. It's perfect, how did you stumble across this gem?" Steve placed the picnic basket down and let go of Bucky's hand.

"A lot of the time I'm not always entirely needed so I do a lot of walking around." He watched Steve take out a checkered blanket. He bent down and took the other side of it helping Steve spread it out then placed it on the ground.

"No one tries to stop you?" Steve knelt down on the blanket and took out the foods. He placed a tuna and chicken salad sandwich, two water bottles, a can of wet dog food, a bowl of fruit and whipped cream on the ground.

"Who's going to try and stop me? Believe it or not, I'm actually pretty intimidating if a person doesn't know me." He sat on the blanket close to Steve. Smelling the food, Jackie wandered over and sat patiently on the other side of Steve.

"You? Come on Bucky you're as intimidating as a stuffed bear." He opened Jackie's can of food first, he emptied it into a small plastic bowl and put it in front of her.

"To you maybe, those new recruits nearly wet themselves when I opened my mouth." Bucky chuckled, Steve shrugged and opened the container holding the two sandwiches.

"New recruits are always jumpy." Steve used a plastic knife to cut the sandwiches into triangles. He took out a mini bottle of sanitizer and shook it up.

"I doubt that you were ever jumpy." Bucky obediently held his hand out, Steve squirted a drop into Bucky's hand than his own.

"I was also lucky to just be there, so I didn't exactly have time to be jittery." He put the sandwiches between them. Bucky sniffed his hands and his nose curled.

"They were lucky to have you, babe." Bucky rubbed his hands on his pants. "Tell me again why we have to rub this gunk on our hands?"

"Because Tony spent a full hour talking about hygiene, and I realized maybe I got sick so often because we didn't really prioritize cleanliness. Now eat your sandwich."

"I doubt that either of us could actually catch a cold but whatever you say doll." He picked up the egg sandwich half and took a large bite. Steve picked up his chicken sandwich taking small bites at a time. Bucky glanced over at him and smiled.

"You're so cute when you eat." He opened up his water. Steve blushed and lowered the sandwich a bit.

"How can the way I eat be cute?"

"Small bites make it feel like more than it is, you used to say that remember?" Bucky wasn't nearly finished with his sandwich, Steve blushed lightly.

"Well, it was pretty solid ideology when we were eating a can of beans for dinner."

"We would have had more if you didn't give it all away." He finished his first half and washed it down with a large gulp of water. He took the other half of Steve's chicken sandwich. Steve shot him a look but said nothing.

"We survived, didn't we? A couple days hungry didn't affect us too much." He finished his half and looked at Bucky with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah yeah, your heart is bottomless isn't it?" Steve chuckled and punched Bucky's arm lightly.

"It's not bottomless, I hate a couple people."

"Like who? Satan?" Bucky took finished off his second sandwich half and reached for the fruit. Steve's hand stopped him.

"Fruit is for dessert wait for me to finish." Steve took another bite of his sandwich for emphasis. "And Satan is misunderstood." He teased, Bucky snorted and scooted closer to Steve. He rests his head on the side of Steve's shoulder and wrapped his arm around his waist.

"Can I have you for dessert?" He mumbled, Steve rolled his eyes and wiped the side of his youth with a napkin.

"No, you are still working," Steve said as professionally as he could. Bucky kissed the side of Steve's neck.

"So?"

"And we're in the middle of a forest." Bucky nibbled a spot just below Steve's ear, Steve's whole body tingled.

"So? We've done worse." Steve was now blushing a deep red, he could feel Bucky's arm rubbing at his side.

"And we're eating."

"You'd look adorable covered in whipped cream." Bucky continued kissing at Steve's neck, Steve could already feel the coming of bruises. He bit back a whimper and turned his head the other way. His eyes landed on Jackie who paid them no mind.

"We're not doing anything in front of Jackie, she's just a puppy."

"Hm, guess you're right." He stopped kissing Steve's neck and just let his head rest on Steve's shoulder.

"Is your sexual drive insatiable or something?" A red-faced Steve took his final bite and put his dirty napkin in the container.

"Yeah, it probably has something to do with my serum, surprised the same thing didn't happen to you."

"I think you're confusing personality with you being weird." Steve put the empty sandwich container in the picnic basket along with the empty dog food container.

"It's a possibility, but you never seem to care." Steve ignored his comment and opened up the fruit container. He took out two forks and uncapped the whipped cream.

"Speaking of work-"

"We weren't speaking of work," Bucky said mischievously. Steve poked his lips and continued on.

"Speaking of work, why were you running with the new recruits. I thought you only did firearms." He stabbed a piece of fruit and sprayed it with whipped cream. He brought the piece of fruit just in front of Bucky's mouth.

"They were doing some inspections of the weapon, so my course is running a little late." Bucky took the piece of fruit in his mouth, he licked off the extra whipped cream at the corners of his mouth.

"Huh, well you were doing a good job. Moving as a unit is important." The next whipped cream covered fruit was for himself.

"I learned from the best, Captain of teamwork himself Steve Rogers."

"Captain America is more of a captain of teamwork, Steve Rogers is a captain of trying too hard and getting himself in trouble." He hovered another piece of fruit in front of Bucky.

"Hm, well I love 'em both so I don't care who captains both." He bit into the piece of fruit not licking away the whipped cream this time.

"I make myself sound crazy when I refer to Captain America and Steve as different people."

"Well, they kind of are, aren't they? I mean Captain America is a symbol, and you're a person."

"I'm a mess without the suit." Steve laughed, he opted to mostly feed Bucky the fruit.

"You're a mess in the suit. Pulling helicopters with your bare hands, who gave you the right." Bucky scolded playfully.

"It was a kind of spur of the moment thing. And technically I wasn't in the suit." Steve chuckled.

"You wanted me that bad huh?" Bucky took his head off of Steve's shoulders and winked at him.

"As a person yes, maybe I could have let your attitude go." He put a whipped piece of watermelon in front of Bucky's mouth.

"You don't mean that you love my attitude the most."

"Well yes...but...yes." Steve blushed, Bucky triumphantly took the piece of watermelon in his mouth and slid it off of the fork. He ducked his head closer to Steve's and brought the other half of it closer to Steve's mouth. Steve opened his mouth and bit into the available half of the watermelon kissing Bucky in the process.

Steve pulled away and licked the cream off of his lips. Bucky watched almost hungrily and did the same.

"You're a tease you know that?" Steve laughed at that, he wiped the rest off with a clean napkin.

"By eating?"

"By breathing." Bucky stole a quick kiss catching Steve by surprise.

"Ever thought maybe you're the problem?"

"Oh I know I am, doesn't make it any less difficult."

"You are such a child sometimes I swear," Steve leaned over and connected his lips with Buckys. Bucky moved his hand from Steve's side to the cup his cheek. Steve kept the kiss short but extremely sweet.

"You taste like whipped cream." Bucky murmured near his mouth.

"Gee I wonder why."

"Sassy today aren't you?"

"Just a bit." Steve moved away and packed the empty fruit container into the picnic basket. "Now you have work."

"Do I?" Bucky raised both his eyebrows.

"Yes. You do, Jackie and I will see you back home okay?" Jackie had long finished her food and was rolling on her back in the grass. Steve put away her bowl and got off the blanket.

"That's like hours away," Bucky whined, he rolled off of the blanket dramatically and laid on his back in the grass. Jackie pranced over to him and licked her face. "Gross dog food breath." Bucky scratched her behind the ear regardless.

"You'll make it I promise." Steve rolled up the blanket and tucked it into his basket.

"You don't know that," Bucky grumbled playfully, he sat back up.

"I do, actually. Bye, be yourself." He pecked Bucky's lips and quickly stepped back before Bucky tried to lengthen it.

"Dang I was planning on trying to be Logan today." Bucky stood up and waved. "See you two later." Steve waved one more time and snapped his fingers.

"Come on Jackie we're going home." Jackie stood up and pranced to Steve's side.

"She still doesn't do that to me!" Bucky called as they walked away.

"Give her time!" Steve said in return, he weaved back through the trees and followed the dirt path back.

Steve took his time walking back to his car, by the time he and Jackie had made it outside of the facility a different guard was on duty. Steve waved politely regardless and flashed him his keycard. The guard nodded to him and let the two of them by.

As Steve got closer to his car he frowned, a figure in a sweater vest stood rigidly right in front of his vehicle.

"Uh, Vision?" Steve called out when he got closer. Vision blinked and nodded in recognition of his name.

"Yes, Steven I was afraid that I had caught you at the wrong time. I am happy to see you here."

"Well, I am too but why are you here?" He had a rocky feeling in his stomach, he stood a few feet away from Vision and tried not to look as nervous as he felt.

"I just wanted to inform you that I figured a means of your exit from this realm." Steve felt a strong tightening in his chest. Visions words were like a slap in his face. "Have you almost forgotten. You do not belong here Steve Rogers and it is imperative that you return."

"No..." Steve said without thinking, he cleared his throat. "No, I didn't forget. When...do I have to go back?"

"Well because I am not completely daft, Friday."

"That's a day away!" Steve said with more emotion then he wanted to show.

"I know, enough time to spend one more day with your imaginary family and friends. But not too much time so you do not back out. I will see you then Steven Rogers, thank you for your cooperation." Vision did an almost bow and began walking away from him. Steve's shoulders slouched and he dropped his picnic basket. He felt like there was a hole eating away at his insides. He looked down at Jackie water distorting his vision.

"You're not imaginary right girl?" Jackie barked in response and nuzzled her nose against his pant leg. Steve took several deep breaths trying to calm himself. "Let's go."