March 25, 1987 - Secret Lab in the USA

The next time Scarlet Silverthorne opened her eyes, she was lying on the same bed shivering. She tried to clear her throat and croaked out. "It didn't work." She heard her rough voice say as she looked up at the lab's blurred ceiling.

"Scarlet... it did." A voice said at the end of her bed.

Blinking, she tried to make her eyes focus and saw a man standing in front of her. He looked familiar but she couldn't place his name as he came around to the side of her bed.

"Scarlet... it's me, its Howard." He told her as he took her hand in his own.

"No!" Scarlet said taking in his gray hair and mustache. She looked around to not only see him, but an elderly gentleman. "No, you are too old."

"Scarlet, you've been asleep for 37 years." Howard told her calmly.

"What?" Scarlet asked shocked as she tried to sit up.

"Take your time. Your body is still trying to wake up." The elderly gentleman told her taking her hand in his and holding her wrist as he looked at his watch.

Scarlet looked at him, "Dr. Reinstein?"

He smiled. "Welcome to 1987."

Scarlet looked around, "So I am 68 years old in a 30 year old's body?"

Howard nodded, "Essentially. We tried to figure out how to cure you for the longest time Scarlet but technology and medicine didn't advance as fast as we thought it would."

"But you think you've figured it out?" Ellie asked them.

Dr. Reinstein nodded, "We now have drugs called mood stabilizers which held control impulses in the brain. I am hoping that it stabilizes your body. I've already given them to you in the IV."

Scarlet looked at her hand that currently had an IV in it, "Where is Peggy?"

"She doesn't know...that we woke you up yet at least." Howard told her. "She is currently working with another SHIELD agent."

"SHIELD... SHIELD... the agency that you and Peggy created right?" Scarlet asked as she felt like her brain had been through a blender.

Howard looked at Dr. Reinstein then back at Scarlet, "Yes, are you having memory issues?"

"Just a little foggy in spots I guess." Scarlet said as she sighed, "So... what are we going to do now that I am awake?"

Dr. Reinstein looked at the IV bag. "well you have one entire bag of the stabilizers in you and part of another. How about you try your powers... see if it helps."

"I'm still kind of cold. I don't know if that will affect them at all." Scarlet told them rubbing her hands together. As she separated them tendrils of light, as if she had created a cat's cradle, interweaved through her fingers. "Well that's a no."

"You can create light." Howard said in awe.

"No, I am still pulling it from the lights above but... I feel more controlled. Doc, I think it worked." Scarlet told him with a smile.

"We will do some more tests and trials before we know for sure, but it does look promising." Dr. Reinstein told her returning her smile.