No battle was easy. You never knew if you or your boyfriend would end up killed in the midst of a fight nor if you would lose someone else that you cared for, but you could only hope that things would fall upon your favour.

Once this battle was over, you only knew that you had survived and needed to look for your boyfriend to make sure he was okay. He was a super soldier and that meant he was pretty indestructible but that didn't mean that you didn't worry about him non-stop in case something terrible had happened to him.

Your concern only grew when you found his shield discarded amongst rubble. It was a bit battered, but it happened from time to time and was still going to do its job for a long time. Steve never left it though. He would always find it, or it would come back to him, so you didn't like the fact that you found the shield without him being anywhere to be seen.

You ran around the scene of destruction, seeing many injured and deceased but you were unable to find the super soldier that you missed dearly.

"Y/N," you heard from behind you.

You span around to see Steve walking towards you. He was a bit bruised and bloodied, but he was walking and that was good enough. You ran towards him and wrapped your arms around him tightly.

"I'm so glad you're okay," you cried. "I thought you were dead. I found your shield and I thought that meant you'd been killed."

Steve pulled away from you to clutch onto his shield, smiling fondly at it.

"I almost lost you," he whispered to his shield.

"Hey!" You frowned. "What about me?"

He looked up from the shield and smiled at you weakly. You knew that he cared about you dearly, but it wasn't a nice for him to care more about the shield than you when the battle had been so brutal.

"Sorry," he said, moving a hand to touch your arm. "I'm very glad that you are okay, when I lost sight of you in the battle, I begun to panic that something terrible had happened to you."

"I got cornered for a bit, but I got through it in the end. I saw you head to the south but then I was busy not dying and I just hoped that I would find you again," you smiled.

Steve leaned down and kissed you softly. "I'll always be there for you and no matter how hard the fight, I will make my way back to you."

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Written by Charlotte.