Sometimes you needed a LOT of bandaids. Steve wasn't well and sometimes the attention made him feel better, he didn't get a lot of it, so when he needed a little extra tending to it was nice. So he made sure she was utterly tended to and then some.
She was so wonderfully pocket sized and Steve nodded as he pretended to read from the book in front of him. "Oh of course, she had so many friends, a Shark named Stark and a Reindeer named Rogers!" And so the story went, about their adventures and the wonderful times they had together. It was a story, but it was real, because Steve had never been so happy.