J,GoB, Saturday Morning

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Steve stood in front of the pastry case, contemplating breakfast and sipping a cup of coffee that seemed to be blessedly caffeinated. He'd just about decided on a danish, and was thinking that today ought to be nicely quiet after all the hustle of prom yesterday.

Steve was such an optimist sometimes.

((For Steve's little surprises, but open for all your pastry needs!))

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Sarah tried to stop Steve Jr. before he went running into the shop, but sometimes the little squirt was slippery. "Daddy!" he yelled, glomming on to Steve's leg for dear life.

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Steve boggled down at the little blond boy currently attached to his pants leg. "What did you say?!"

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That was about when Sarah dashed into the shop. "Stevie! No! You're gonna get us in--" Oh, darn. "Hi Daddy. Why aren't you in Malaysia?" She sidled up and poked him in the leg. "Are you an El Em Dee again?"

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Stevie. Stevie and...some other little girl. And he was their daddy.

Steve had a few words for this situation, all of them learned either growing up in the slums or during his stint in the actual army, but he was Captain America and Captain America didn't talk that way. "I...live here." The light went on. "Did your daddy ever tell you about alternate universes?"

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Sarah brightened immediately. "Yeah! If we get lost we're supposed to find Mr. Stark or Mr. Richards if they're not evil an' tell 'em they need to invent something to send us home. Are we lost now?"

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"Yes," Steve said slowly. "I'm not your daddy. Exactly. But you can't go to Mr. Stark or Mr. Richards, they're...not exactly evil. But. Tell you what, why don't you stick around here for a little while and then if we can't find you a way home I'll--" break cover "Call Mr. Stark for you? And, um. What are your names?"

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"I," said Sarah, striking a pose, "am Sarah Miriam Rosenthal-Rogers! The Amazing Bunny Girl!"

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Well, that had the added benefit of telling him who her mother was. Bernie had always intended to keep her name after they married--she already had professional cache in the art world, and was planning to get it in the legal world. They'd never talked about kids, largely because Steve was operating under the impression he was sterile, partly because...well, they'd just never gotten to that point before things fell apart.

"I see," he said, amused. "And you?" he asked the little blond guy on his leg. "Stevie, right?"

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Steve Jr. grinned up at him. "I'm Steve Rogers," he said. "Junior. Only Sarah calls me Stevie. Everybody else calls me Steve Jr." He frowned a little. "Except Uncle Bucky. He calls me Mini-Steve."

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Uncle Bucky. Those words made Steve's heart swell about three sizes. "I see. And what's your mommy's name, Steve Junior?"

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"Sharon," Steve Junior said. "An' she's a spy an' she's really pretty."

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Steve had to admit that was true. Sharon was really pretty. So pretty she took his breath away sometimes.

Took...his breath...

There was something there, but some part of his mind was insisting he not touch it, and he'd learned to trust that little voice. He could deal with that later, when he didn't have kids. "Your mommy is really pretty," he agreed, "but Sarah's mommy is really pretty, too," and he wondered if he could get the story of how he wound up with a kid with both of them. He wasn't about to leave someone with a kid, and he wasn't about to cheat, so...

"You must be hungry, huh? I was just about to get something to eat. What do you two want for breakfast?"

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"Cake!" Steve Junior insisted. His sister pointed at him and nodded insistently.

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Well, he wasn't their actual father. He could spoil them a little. "And cake you shall have!"