章節 49: Chapter 49 Caen area
Steve gaped, "Whoa...Wait, there's still more in there.", glancing at the fragment of green, glowing Quantonium, and Erskine smiled, "Only 25 percent, I estimate. It's waiting for a worthy person. I suspect the worthy person in question will only have Amazonian size, some powers of a general theme, and of course, strength and speed and stamina beyond limits of a normal human.".
Peggy blinked in amazement, "That's incredible...", and Erskine nodded, "Indeed.", putting the fragment back in his pocket, "So, ready to get back to England?", with a smile.
Steve replied, "I know you will keep Peggy and Susan safe for me, but first, I want to hug you. It's been months!", and Erskine chuckled, "You truly missed being of a normal size of sorts, hmm? Come here, son.".
Steve warmly embraced the Doctor, though was very careful not to crush the man with his size and strength before finally letting go.
"Steve, you promise me that you'll only be this size when you're quite a way from the frontline. I don't know how well we'd hold up to fire at this size and I don't want to learn that you were taking out by a sniper.", Peggy said.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure to be careful and not push myself too much, especially while you're gone.", Steve reassured her with a hand squeeze.
Peggy nodded, "Good. After all, you got a bride-to-be and a daughter to fight for, besides for your country and the world.", as Susan burped, finished with her meal, and Peggy then covered herself up as she adjusted Susan to her other arm.
Steve smiled, "Yes, Captain.", his heart swelling happily as he's engaged to an amazing woman, and a father to boot. Erskine chuckled, "I'll guide you to one of the boats, Miss Carter. And Steven, on my word, I will keep them safe all the way to England. Please give all those Nazi a kick in the ass.", watching his words there as he won't swear in front of a child. He knows a mother's fury too well, after all.Steve nodded, and gave Peggy a last passionate kiss, and pecked Susan's nose as he leaned his forehead on hers, "Take care of Mummy for me, okay?", and Susan gurgled, patting her hands on his cheek, her newly forming eidetic memory taking his words to heart.
Peggy smiled, squeezed his hand, and then walked on with Erskine, with Steve sighing heavily yet lighthearted at the same time as he went another way, to the command tent to talk with Colonel Phillips to see to his further missions.
"You alright?", Erskine asked her as Peggy looked back at Steve walking away. "Yeah, just... this'll be the first time we've really been apart since the day... I've just gotten so used to being with him at almost every waking moment as well as sleeping...", Peggy admitted.
Erskine nodded, "I can understand that. Think of it as practice for a job after the war. After all, you'd need to learn how to live together yet not together at the same time, though I suspect, for your heroics and such, the military will give you a good hearty amount of money to last you through the years.".
"Maybe, maybe not, we'll just have to see there.", Peggy sighed as she looked to Susan. "One thing is for sure; I think I'm certainly going to have my hands full with the next few weeks with this one.".
Susan babbled quietly, her fingers trying to catch Peggy's bouncy curls, and Erskine chuckled, "Indeed.", as they kept walking on, with Erskine asking a soldier to grab the bags of wipes and diapers and the blanket on the way.
Under a matter of hours, Peggy arrived in England with Susan, staying in the fort, for the next two months, with either weekends of visiting her parents who fell in love instantly with their first granddaughter, or days of letting Erskine babysit Susan while Peggy catches up on sleep or drills.
To make sure Susan can't forget her father, Peggy arranged for old and recent newsreels of Steve to be watched on days where it's especially lonely for Peggy, even with Susan to occupy her attention.
On the end of the two months, Colonel Phillips personally returned back to England to tell Peggy that she's back on duty for the mornings, and
Peggy, having seen that Erskine is just as much bonded to Susan as much as Susan is to her parents, went to work on expressing her milk into normal-sized bottles, and with lots of kisses,
Peggy hesitantly yet excitedly left the fort to come back to work, to fight again, and especially Steve as she turned on her fire powers, flying in speed records just as dawn broke.
Meanwhile, Steve was having a fairly miserable time on the front without Peggy at his side. Not to mention the down mood of the campaign.
The landings had been achieved and the Allies had a strong foothold, but the Germans rushed many reinforcements to Normandy to bottle up the invasion.
Steve first had to help liberate the port of Cherbourg in the west in order for more supplies to come in and then move to the east to assist the
British in taking Caen which should've fell on D-Day but would take weeks before that would happen.
Not to mention the slow fighting through the hedgerows which kept the march southward incredibly slow.
But the good news was that the Germans were being drained and unable to replace many of their losses while the Allied numbers swelled more and more and were ready for a breakout which came on
July 18th with
Operation Cobra which finally started to punch the hole open to the west and the American forces began to flood out of Normandy.
Now it was the start of August with the situation looking precarious for the Germans. Patton's 3rd Army was driving further west in the Brittany
Peninsula and south while planning to swing back around to the east while the British, Canadian and Free Polish forces pushed from the Caen area. A massive encirclement of
German forces was slowly forming that the Allies were hoping they could achieve... and with Peggy coming back, it might be
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