Black Widow and Agent 13 typed like lightening on the keyboards in front of them silently praying that they could change the direction of the incoming missiles. “Five minutes incoming.” Agent 13 shouted giving a time frame. Every twenty seconds she would call out a time. It was important for them to know how long they had. The more and more Arnim talked, the more distracted Steve seemed to become. “Captain we need you to focus.” [i]Don’t get in your head Steve.[/i] Sharon’s silent plea didn’t go unheard as he finally broke his attention to where Brock called out. 

“Two minutes and fifteen seconds.” Agent 13 called out as they took off towards the entrance. This crawl was nothing new for any of them as they quickly worked their way through the whole. By the time everyone reached the exit they took off running. “Eighty seconds.” Huff huff huff, “Sixty seconds.” Huff huff huff huff huff. “Thirty seconds.” 

Whistling could be heard off in the distance coming closer and closer, “Fifteen seconds to impact.” Sharon screamed as they reached the gate and everyone made it passed it. “Five seconds!”

[b]BOOM[/b]

As Agent 13 had predicted the impact happened five seconds after she called out and the team was blown forward by the explosion. Luckily years of training helped as the team rolled to protect themselves from any damage. Sitting upright Agent 13 stared at the flames in front of them; had they not made it out in time, everyone would have died. But they were fine. 

That evening, Sharon was sent home after Steve had left and the blonde climbed the stairs. A heavy sigh carrying her feet, she was still shaken by the situation but it was okay. She was alive, Steve was alive, everyone was alive. Stopping at Steve’s door she took in a deep breath, the pretext of seeing him this evening was to ‘make sure he was okay’ but really, she just wanted to be around him. 

Raising up a small hand, she gave the door a knock and waited. Was he home?