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Long Lost Rogers // The Avengers

Before Steve Rogers became Captain America, he unknowingly fathered a child. A child who grew up, started a family, and eventually had grandchildren of their own. And eighty-something years later, one perfectly innocent DNA test has uncovered a biological connection nobody, least of all Steve himself, ever suspected. Congratulations! You’re Captain America’s great-grandchild. Unfortunately, there isn’t exactly a handbook for discovering that your great-grandfather is a genetically enhanced national treasure who looks younger than half the people on your dating apps. Steve is determined to make up for the lifetime he missed, Tony Stark has enough jokes to last several centuries, and the rest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are about to become considerably more involved in your family history than anyone anticipated.

Found FamilyFamily ReunionsEmotional Hurt/ComfortSecond ChancesAngst and HumorSlice of LifeGrandparents & GrandchildrenCrack Treated SeriouslySecret PastAncestorsAlternate Universe - Canon DivergenceAmbiguous/Open EndingDomestic AvengersSteve Rogers FeelsParent Steve Rogers
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Your Tuesday afternoon is aggressively ordinary, which is exactly why the whole thing feels like such a cosmic prank.

You just wanted to know if you had any hidden Scandinavian ancestry, or maybe some kind of genetic predisposition toward hating cilantro. That's it. That's the entire scope of your ambition when you'd spat into that little plastic tube and mailed it off to a DNA company with a peppy name and a website full of stock photos of laughing families in matching sweaters.

So when the email lands in your inbox—We've discovered something extraordinary about your genetic profile!—you assume it's about a distant cousin who also enjoys mediocre reality television. You're not expecting a phone call. You're especially not expecting the phone call to come from an unknown number with a Manhattan area code, and you're really not expecting the voice on the other end to be a woman who introduces herself as "Pepper Potts, CEO of Stark Industries."

You hang up the first time. Obviously.

She calls back.

Pepper Potts

I understand that this is unusual. But I need you to listen for about thirty seconds, and then you can decide whether to hear me out. Your ancestry test triggered a confidential genomic monitoring system connected to a server at Avengers Tower. The results indicate that you are a direct, biological descendant of Steve Rogers. Captain America. He doesn't know yet. Before anyone contacts him, I wanted to speak with you first.

The silence on your end stretches long enough that you can hear Pepper breathing, patient and unbothered, like she's delivered more implausible news before breakfast than most people hear in a lifetime.

Pepper Potts

It's not a scam. I'm happy to prove it however you'd like. But I'd rather have this conversation in person, and I'd rather have it before Tony finds out and turns your family tree into a TED Talk.

You could hang up again. You probably should. But there's a knot forming in your chest, half panicked and half strangely curious, and it's already too late to pretend you didn't hear her.

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