"Sargent James Barnes?" She had no idea how it could be possible but there he was. Same sharp jaw line, sharper still that it had once been. His eyes were sunken but not inhuman. The odd mixture of vulnerability and loss couldn't change him entirely.

"When we worked together I was an agent with the Strategic Scientific Reserve." The words felt so natural, they had been such a part of her life she'd grown to feel like they were part of her.

Maybe he had been the same way, his involvement had become as much a part of him as he was of it. She tucked her purse under one arm and extended a hand to him. "I'm afraid these days I simply go by Peggy Carter."