When Steve was approaching the bunker, he called the W.T. of his fiancée, Sharon Carter.

Sharon: Steve? Is everything all right?

S: No, we have a problem.

Sharon: What happened? Didn't you get the vaccine?

S: We did it, but it's something else. It's Natasha.

Steve could hear Sharon took a deeper breath when he said the word Natasha.

S: She's hurt.

Sharon: Hurt? Very serious? I'll alert the medical staff to come.

S: No, please don't.

Sharon: I don't understand.

S: She was scratched by one of those creatures.

Sharon: God.

S: Yes... I need you to help me get her into the bunker without anyone noticing.

Sharon: What? Are you crazy?

S: You know if they know, they won't even let her in.

Sharon: Because of a scratch?

S: She's sick and she passed out.

Sharon was silent.

S: Sharon? Do it for me and for James. We have to help her.

Sharon: If she's sick, Steve... I'm sorry, it's too dangerous to bring her inside.

S: She will get better, she has the serum.

Sharon: Yes and that's exactly why she wasn't even supposed to get sick with a scratch. This is serious, it can trigger another epidemic. Aren't the children's enough? It's very irresponsible to bring her here in this state, you know that.

S: Sharon, please. I can't leave her here alone.

Sharon: And will you risk contaminating the entire population of the bunker? Wow, Steve, how much do you love her?

S: She's my friend, Sharon. She wouldn't leave me behind. I didn't understand your question.

Steve lost his patience with Sharon, showing jealousy at this point that he needs help, but Sharon is right. The protocol is for not bring sick people into the bunker.

Steve pondered this, he calmed down and tried again.

S: Sharon, I just need you to get us to one of those isolation chambers. You're a good SHIELD agent, I know you'll find a way to get her inside and ensure the safety of the others in the bunker.

Again a silence followed. Sharon sighed heavily.

Sharon: How long until you arrive?

S: I believe one hour or less.

Sharon: Okay.

S: Are you going to help us?

Sharon: Yes.

Sharon turned off the W.T. and went to make arrangements for the arrival of Steve and Natasha.

It took Steve about 45 minutes to finally land in the flight field, he stepped out of the jet carrying Natasha on his lap and he also was carrying a small bag with the vaccines.

Steve walked to the entrance of the bunker and waited for the door to be opened, but it remained closed. Steve was going to put Natasha on the ground to reach his W.T. in his pocket and call Sharon, but Sharon appeared behind him.

Sharon: Over here.

Steve looked at her in confusion and followed her.

As the bunker is buried beneath the ground, for those who see from afar, it seems only a natural geographic deformation. To get access, you have to go down a small ramp made of dirt.

It was almost a tunnel, but without a roof. And apparently it seemed to be the only access to the bunker.

Steve climbed the ramp until he stepped out of this "tunnel" and followed Sharon who walked to the other side of the bunker structure.

Steve was looking at that pile of grass covering the bunker and he was trying to figure out what they were doing there.

As Steve got closer, he could see a door, very well disguised, seemed to be part of that mini bunker mountain.

Sharon had a mask in her hand and put it on Natasha's face. Steve looked at her.

S: Thank you.

Sharon looked at Steve without smiling or showing any kind of emotion, she inspected the bandage that Steve did on Natasha's arm and decided it was okay, as there was no blood leaking from the bandage.

Sharon opened the door and stepped inside the bunker, followed by Steve with Natasha in his arms.

Steve noticed that they were in a kind of metal duct where there was a lot of huge electrical cables.

Sharon's idea to get in there was perfect, because they would have no contact with anyone in the bunker and also because the duct circulates around all the perimeter of the bunker.

Sharon: Follow me.

Sharon started to walk the duct and warned Steve to not touch or stepping to avoid electrocution. As they neared the exit closest to the elevator, Sharon opened the door and they disembarked in the hallway. Steve looked around and saw no one around.

Sharon: I sounded the alarm and everyone is in the main courtyard. We have five minutes until they realize it was a false alarm.

Steve nodded and the two of them got out of the elevator to the F wing. When they got there, there were some professionals of that sector, who saw nothing unusual, since it was the area for people who went crazy or need to be isolated by Illness or any other reason.

And it does not matter the emergency, the F-wing, quarantine areas and medical center always continue to function normally.

Sharon approached one of the professionals and asked if there were any chamber that they could put Natasha on.

The guy who was there only thought strange that no one warned him that someone else was coming, but there is a chamber for Natasha.

Sharon: Cho is busy and asked me to register her here.

- Patient's name?

Sharon: Natasha Romanoff.

- Condition?

Sharon: Is she lucid?

Steve nodded.

- Patient is lucid, Okay. Sick?

Sharon: Yes. Unknown disease. She's here to go through exams to find out what she have.

S: She had a fever and she passed out before we got here.

- Infectious?

Sharon: No one knows.

- She had contact with the outside?

Sharon: Yes.

- All right, I'll put her in chamber number 13.

The doctor called his assistant and asked for a stretcher.

S: I'll take her there.

- You can't go in there with her, not in those dirty clothes like that.

The assistant returned with the stretcher and Steve put Natasha on the stretcher.

- Give her a shower and prepare her for the chamber.

Steve looked at the assistant and then at the doctor.

S: Is he going to bathe her?

Sharon: What's the matter, Steve?

- No, he'll deliver her to the nurses to bathe her. I have to go, excuse me.

S: Wait. After I take a shower, may I visit her?

- Of course, but you'll have to wear special protective clothing.

Steve nodded and watched the doctor and his assistant disappear behind a door with Natasha's body.

Sharon: Steve?

Steve looked at Sharon.

Sharon: James is here too.

Steve frowned in confusion and looked at Sharon.

Sharon: He's been here since yesterday.

S: Is he sick???

Sharon: No, not exactly. Cho and Tony think James is the one who spread the disease to the other children because he is the one who recently arrived from outside and had that fever a while back...

S: What?

Sharon: He's fine, he's here just to do tests to see if he's the source of the epidemic or not.

S: Who's there with him?

Sharon: Right now, no one.

Steve walked toward the access door to the chambers.

Sharon gripped Steve's arm.

Sharon: Steve! Clint has come to visit him when he can, but Lila is in serious condition. I tried to stay with James, but he strange me and he cries too much.

S: He strange everyone, he can't be isolated, he's just a baby.

Sharon: Steve, we're losing all the kids. We have to find out the source. Try to reason.

S: My son is not a lab rat!

Sharon: I know that. Don't you care about our daughter?

S: What are you talking about? Of course I care!

Sharon: If she were born and James was the transmitter, would you let Maggie get sick?

S: I can't believe you're asking me that.

Sharon: I'm just trying to make you understand why James is here. There's a father and a mother crying about the death of their children, Steve.

S: Do you blame my son for that?

Sharon: I didn't say that! You distort everything I say. I said we have to make sure he is not the source of this disease.

S: What if he is?

Sharon: I don't know, he'll have to stay here, I guess. But you got the vaccine, so everything is going to be okay and James will be fine. That's what we expect.

Steve looked at the door again.

Sharon: If you go in there like this, you will put at risk everything that they have been fighting to keep clear of virus and dirt, you need to take a shower. I will take the vaccine to Dr. McCoy, and as soon as you are clean and calmer, you come back here and visit James.

Sharon now began to feel angry at Steve.

Sharon: And by the way, me and your daughter are fine. Thanks for asking.

S: Sharon...

Sharon turned his back on Steve and got into the elevator.

Steve ran and walked in with her.

S: I'm sorry for not asking how you are, there's so many things going on right now, I was scared for Natasha and you talked about James and my head... I don't know, I just got really angry but it's nothing to do with you and Maggie. I know she's fine, because she's in you and you're careful.

Sharon: But you should have at least asked.

Sharon just sighed and when the elevator stopped on the pavement of the research center, she landed and looked at Steve before the doors closed.

Sharon: I just wanted everything to be like before.

S: What do you mean by that? Before?

Sharon shook her head and the elevator doors closed.

Steve went to his room, showered, changed into an outfit and immediately went back to F-Wing. He was told to wear special clothing and wear a mask. As he passed the hallway of the chambers, he saw Natasha unconscious in one of them.

Steve stopped in the hallway to watch her and the doctor approached him.

S: How is she? She woke up?

- Yes, but she soon went back to sleep.

S: Sleep?

- She's got a fever, we're doing everything we can to control it. The fever makes her sleep constantly like that.

S: I want to be with her.

- This is not recommended, we don't know if this is contagious. Besides, you're here to see your son, right?

Steve looked at the doctor.

- Tony and Dr. Cho are in there in the isolation room. Do you want to stay here some more and then meet us there?

Steve looked at Natasha again, took a deep breath and shook his head.

S: I want to see him.

Steve followed the doctor to the anteroom of isolation, where Tony was.

Steve had no idea how it was that James had been isolated. The chambers are cold enough and inhumane enough, but that was too much. James was crying, two nurses and Dr. Cho inside the room, with clipboards in hand, making several notes and completely ignoring the boy's despair.

Tony looked at Steve and walked toward him. Steve already knew that whoever authorized this, it was Tony.

When Sharon explained, Steve was quieter, but now that he's seeing how James is being treated as a deadly chemical weapon, Steve got really upset.

T: Steve, I just want to say...

Tony didn't finish the sentence because Steve punched his face hard, which made Tony fall on the floor. The doctor was startled by the scene.

- Mr. Rogers, this is no place for this, I'll have to call security ...

Tony bent over and then stood up, putting his hand on his bleeding mouth.

T: It won't be necessary, doc.

S: I wanted you to have a baby, Tony. And that you watched him the same way I'm watching James crying scared in that place.

T: You talk like he's being beaten. You know that's the protocol. The protocol that you, me and Bruce created, with the help of the bunker leaders. You agreed, I know you're hurt because he is your son, but if it was the son of another person, wouldn't you have done the same?

Steve still stared at Stark.

T: Anyway, Cho came to take James out of isolation. He's not the source of the epidemic.

S: You mean he got stuck for two days here, for nothing?

T: It wasn't for nothing. We needed to do the tests. Now he's free to go.

S: You're unbelievable.

- Mr. Rogers, you can go in and get James.

Steve followed the doctor and as soon as he entered the room, he took off his mask and took James into his lap.

S: Hey, champ. You're alright. Don't cry anymore. Daddy's here.

Steve kissed the side of James's forehead.

Tony was now entering the room. Steve stared at him.

S: You're lucky that it wasn't Natasha to see this.

T: By the way... I need to talk to you.

Steve and Tony left the room with James and went into the corridor where they could talk to each other.

Tony watched Natasha in one of the chambers.

T: What happened?

S: She had an accident.

T: What kind of accident?

S: She fell.

Tony looked at Steve, with a disbelieving face.

S: Listen, Tony, I was not going to let her out there! You weren't there, you don't know how it is!

T: Do you know what will happen if they know we have someone here who has been scratched by one of those things out there and is sick?

Steve shut up. He felt guilty, but he wasn't sorry for the decision he made.

T: People were going to freak out, thinking they were going to die with a new epidemic. They would be furious and rebel, or God knows what other reactions people confined can begin to have. We've seen everything in here, haven't we?

S: Where do you want to go with that? Do you want to tell everyone that I brought her here? Go ahead, report me. Expel me.

T: That's exactly what I want to prevent it from happening. Only me, you, Sharon, Cho and her team know the truth. We will keep this a secret for the good of Natasha and the bunker population. As much as you hate me, you must know that I consider you my friend, as well as Natasha, and it's only for this reason that I will help you.

S: People will ask questions about that.

T: Yes, we will say that it was an accident and that she is recovering.

S: Clint and Hill would be suspicious. They need to know.

T: Yes, just them.

Dr. Cho approached them in the corridor.

Cho: Tony, I need to get back to my quarantine patients.

S: Did the vaccine do anything?

Cho: Not yet, but it will. As soon as McCoy, Tony and I started multiplying that vaccine. And it would be great to have Bruce's help if he's more in control.

T: He is, I already talked to him. I'm going to help McCoy because he's already started the work since Sharon delivered the material. Are you coming, Steve?

S: I'm going to stay with Natasha.

Cho: James can't be near her at all.

S: I know that.

Cho: And you too if you want to be close to your son and your pregnant wife. We won't spread another epidemic.

S: I know!

Cho and Tony walked out of the hall of the chambers and boarded the elevator.

Steve turned James toward Natasha's chamber and pointed at her inside the chamber.

S: Your mother is right there, see?

J: Mum... Mum...

S: Yes. You miss her, don't you? She misses you too. She loves you very much, James.

Steve kissed James's forehead and shook him slightly in his lap.

...

Steve stayed so long in that hallway, watching Natasha, that the doctor's assistant even laid a chair for him to sit with James.

Steve didn't even know what time it was, he only realized it was late when Sharon appeared in the hallway.

Sharon: Steve? What are you doing?

S: Waiting for Natasha's news.

Sharon: You got James out of isolation and you're standing here alone with him?

S: He misses his mother. He only slept now, but he cried a lot. I thought staying here would help.

Sharon: No, it just gets worse. He will want to be with her and he can't. And Steve, he needs to eat, he needs to bathe, you know that, don't you?

S: I know... What time is it?

Sharon: It's past dinner time.

S: All right, I'm not hungry.

Sharon: But he must be and he must be in need of a shower. Come on, come on.

Steve looked at Sharon and nodded, he got up and got on the elevator with Sharon.

As they reached the main pavement, from the bedrooms and dining room, Sharon walked into the kitchen and Steve stopped in the hallway.

S: He's asleep.

Sharon: We have to wake him up.

S: No, it took him a long time to sleep.

Sharon: Steve, he's a baby, he can't sleep without eating something. I separated a soup for him and you. Yes, you will eat, because I haven't seen you eat anything since you arrived.

Steve had no choice but to accompany Sharon and have dinner. They woke James up to eat and then went to the bedroom.

James fell asleep again, faster than expected.

Sharon: He sleeps here with me in bed and you sleep on the floor, I've already left it tidy for you.

Steve nodded. Sharon was already lying on the bed and Steve put James lying next to her.

Before going to the makeshift bed on the floor, Steve looked at Sharon and approached his face to her to give her a kiss, but Sharon turned her face, letting the kiss catch her cheek.

Steve frowned and sighed.

S: Are we still like that?

Sharon: Like what?

Steve sat on the edge of the bed and put his hand on her belly.

S: I know you're angry, and I don't know what I should say to make you feel better. It wasn't enough for us to get away when I went on a mission, but now that I'm here, it seems we've stayed away from each other again. We weren't like that, Sharon.

Sharon stared at James asleep and didn't reply to Steve, she closed her eyes tight.

S: If this is my fault, I'm sorry. I don't want you to feel bad.

Steve kissed Sharon's belly and lay down on the improvised bed.

Sharon wanted to make amends, but she didn't know how to communicate with him, without her getting too angry, she allowed herself to cry when Steve wasn't looking at her.

...

James slept well until dawn, when he began to weep desperately.

Sharon yawned and was about to get up, but Steve was already on his feet.

S: It's okay, I'll take care of him.

Steve caught James in his lap and James began calling for his mother.

Steve walked around the room and tried to distract him with various things, but nothing calmed him down.

S: Sharon?

Sharon just moaned, indicating that she was listening.

S: I'm going for a walk with him.

Steve left the room with James and he knew it was time he wanted to take a bottle, so he went to Natasha's room and got the special milk and the bottle of James.

Automatically as he walked down the corridor in Steve's lap, James calmed down. Steve prepared his bottle and decided to go down to Wing F so James could see his mother and also why he needed to know something new about her.

Upon reaching the F-Wing, Steve walked into the corridor of the chambers, he approached Natasha's chamber and noticed that there were nurses inside her chamber.

When Steve stood facing the chamber, he noticed that Natasha was awake and the nurses were talking to her.

Steve tapped the glass of the chamber and the nurses looked at him.

- Someone came to see you.

The nurse warned Natasha, who still had a fever and heavy body.

Natasha looked at the glass of the chamber and when she saw James, her heart crumpled and Natasha started to cry.

Steve was worried, not understanding the reason for the cry. James was almost asleep with the bottle in his mouth and didn't even see his mother.

- Aw. I know how it hurts to stay away from our children, honey.

Natasha felt pain in her whole body and even talking was difficult.

N: My son...

- He's so cute, isn't he? Don't worry, sweetheart, you'll get better and you'll soon be able to hold him in your arms.

N: I miss him so much. I just...

Natasha's eyes began to betray her and they began to close themselves.

N: James...

Natasha wanted to ask to hold James a little, but until her voice failed, she closed her eyes, and could no longer open, but she was conscious.

I just want to be with him, please. James... Natasha though, her heart aching for not having seen him when she reached the bunker, it hurt that she'd just seen him and couldn't keep him close to her.

Natasha thought about how much James must have cried these days that he was without her and she wonders how many more days he will have to cry to be with her again.