Freezer Burn: chapter 21
by Domenika Marzione (miss_porcupine)
Genfic; PG-13-ish
Avengers/Captain America ensemble; a mashup between the movies and the 616-verse.
LJ tag | ao3

Summary: The adventures of Steve Rogers, defrosted soldier, who is missing time but not really all that lost. He's got a surprisingly broad knowledge of lettuces, a working grasp of modern technology, and may or may not be using both to mess with his teammates and save the world.

Steve heard Maria Hill speaking before he entered the room, trying to slip in as unobtrusively as he could and taking a spot along the back wall. Which was a mixed success because while Captain America couldn't really walk into a crowded room without heads turning, what was going on at the front of the room was important enough that heads swiveled back to Hill almost instantly.

It had started at 0930, although in truth that had merely been when the bombs had gone off. The start of the day for the New York Stock Exchange normally began with a bell rung by someone to commemorate some event, their smiling faces broadcast on a giant screen in Times Square. This morning, it had been a Brazilian agricultural firm president in honor of the company's joining the exchange. Early indications were that he had had no idea that he'd be setting off ninety-nine bombs in three cities: New York, London, and Tokyo.

A little more than four hours later, smoke and rubble still filled the streets of the financial districts of the three most important cities to the global economy.

HYDRA had just declared war on capitalism.

Notes: this story is updated in segments on LJ and those segments are bundled into chapters for AO3.
On LJ: part thirty-eight | part thirty-nine | part forty

On AO3: Chapter Twenty-One


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