A/N: Hello everyone! Thank you for reading the sequel for my story To Swear On Your Life! This story is rated M for adult themes (some smut, nothing too graphic), coarse language, and violence so read at your own discretion.

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Chapter 1: Spectacular

Prologue (Ivan POV)

I was furious.

She dared to force me out of her life, ME!

Her father, who had given her all that I could and even supported her during the tough times in her teenage years.

I had accepted the fact that she was married to Dr. Bruce Banner and pregnant with his child…Until things changed.

Namely the color of little Anastasia Grace Banner's eyes and skin.

I had been gone for two whole months and I had returned to Russia with revenge on my mind and a plan forming in my head.

A plan that would involve a new alliance and patience.

"The time will come when they cannot hide the child's abnormalities, and when that time comes, I will end this sick affair once and for all!", I thought.

I dialed a phone number and the operator answered in Russian.

"You've reached the operator for the Russian phone service, how may we help you?"

I replied.

"This is Ivan Petrovich, please connect me to the Adamovich Ruby Organization."

"Right away sir."

I smiled as I was connected to the one person I was certain would be dead by now.

"Adamovich Ruby Organization, how may we help you?", a young woman answered.

"Yes, my name is Ivan Petrovich...I would like to speak with my old friend Vladimir."….

"Right away sir.", the young woman said as she switched the call.

"Hello?", came an older man's voice from the other end of the line.

"Hello old friend."

"May I ask who's speaking?", He replied.

"Surely you must remember me? My name is Ivan Petrovich.", I responded.

His whole tone switched in an instant.

"Ivan? You old dog, I thought you were dead!", he replied and I could hear the sneer in his voice.

Vladimir Adamovich is the man responsible for locking me away all those years, we were friends at one point, but I realized that I would have to offer some collateral to get my alliance.

"For a while there, so did I. But I was liberated earlier this year. I have a proposition for you."

"Ooh a proposition, let's hear it then."

"I want to create an alliance with the Red Room.", I said directly.

"An alliance? With my organization? You know that it will cost you…"

"That's where my proposition comes into play. I need a small number of your forces to obtain some things that are of value to me…for revenge of course."

"What are your items of value? What are they worth?"

"Natasha Romanoff and her infant daughter Anastasia Grace Banner and those two are priceless items."

"Natasha? The Black Widow…She's a mother? How can this be? She was sterilized at age seventeen just before you were imprisoned."

"Apparently your surgeons did a bad job, or they didn't do it at all. Either way, she had a daughter with the Hulk."

"The giant green beast?"

"Yes, apparently the beast can transform itself into a human that goes by the name Dr. Bruce Banner."

"I will let you commandeer an unit of my finest agents but I want to know something first: what's in it for me?", Vladimir replied after a short pause.

My lips curled up into a sneer.

"That all depends on my level of success. If I can get only the child, I will pay you in full for the costs of your unit. If I return with Natasha and the child, I will let you have Natasha as payment. But if I manage to get all three of them, you can have the Hulk and Natasha...the child will remain with me and I will oversee the testing done to it."

"And if you fail?"

"You forget who you are speaking to… You know how many years of experience I have, you were my partner through four and a half decades of it…we were practically brothers."

"Only I was the son of the founder of the Red Room and you and I were trained together…"

"In any case, you know full well what I am capable of… I doubt that I will come away empty handed."

"You drive a hard bargain Petrovich, but I think that I can deal with that…I have one request though.", Vladimir said.

"What is it?", I asked.

"Kill Romanoff if you can't bring her in...It's her punishment for her betrayal to me and every member of the Red Room.", Vladimir said sharply.

"This operation will take time so your assistance is not required immediately.", I explained.

"Of course…you have to attack when they least expect it, when they let their guard down. Contact me when you need me to send my unit. Until then, farewell old friend.", Vladimir said as he hung up.

My lips curled into a smirk.

All I had to do was wait.

And if my guess was correct, I wouldn't have to wait too long.

Bruce POV

"Natasha?", I called into the apartment, "I'm home!"

Snowy woofed at me and tackled me to the floor.

"Ugh! Snowy girl! I missed you too!", I gasped as Snowy barked, wagged her tail, and licked me. She was getting so big and starting to grow fur in a darker shade of creamy golden. She still had all the energy of a puppy and she would never cease to make me smile. She sat on the floor in front of me and her tail beat out a staccato rhythm on the floor.

"Missed you too….", I repeated softly as I looked around the empty apartment, wondering where Natasha and Anastasia were.

I had been on the Helicarrier for the past two months, I had been called back to teach a new unit of SHIELD R&D recruits about the dangers of gamma radiation. It had all been really rushed and I had missed Natasha, Anastasia, and Snowy more than anything.

The day we had arrived home from Nebraska was the day that Tony, Fury, Phil, Clint, Serena, and I had been rushed to the Helicarrier ports because we had to teach classes of new SHIELD recruits.

Natasha had gone back on her birth control pills two weeks after that and Ivan had fallen off the grid after leaving the United States on a flight to Morocco.

What didn't help us any was the fact that Ivan had some ties with the Red Room in the past when Natasha was still a member. Ivan had been imprisoned by their leader in Belgium until earlier this year. Natasha wasn't really much of a help when it came to telling SHIELD information about the Red Room either.

Every time the Red Room was mentioned, she would leave the room or get really quiet, even before we were dating she would do that. I may not have a Ph.D. in psychology, but I could tell she had issues with repression and some form of PTSD.

The only thing I knew about the Red Room was that Natasha had to fight to the death on her seventeenth birthday. She had seen some gruesome things in her childhood. She had killed her first person at age nine and had to kill her dog at age ten. Every year on Natasha's birthday the leaders would kill off a number of the girls in a mass ceremony of sorts, and that Natasha was supposed to be sterilized by them at age seventeen.

It was a horrible thing to have to look back on, and I don't blame her for having issues because of what happened to her for twelve years from the time she was five… if it had been me, I'm sure I would repress things too.

Then again, I was beaten as a child and teenager by my alcoholic father all because I had been born. My parents didn't plan on having another child after Grace…My father had turned to alcoholism when I was about two years old as a result of having to work more jobs to support the family. He never beat Grace except for the times that she didn't get straight A's but he did verbally abuse her. My mother made the mistake of always trying to come between me and my father's belt and sometimes we both got it. Come to think of it, I had some issues with my past too.

"Hello? Anyone home?", I called again.

I dropped my suitcase and left the room to go up to the living area with Snowy and see if anyone had seen Anastasia and Natasha.

When I reached the living room, I walked in to find Loki and Darcy French kissing on the sofa. I felt my face get hot and I cleared my throat as they pushed each other away abruptly, both of them blushing.

I rolled my eyes at the couple and asked them if they had seen Natasha and Anastasia.

Loki replied,

"Yes, I saw them this morning when Jane, Thor, and Natasha left with Liz, Ed, and Anastasia to spend a day in the park. They should be home soon."

I nodded as Darcy turned on the TV.

"So Doc, how was it on the Helicarrier?", Darcy asked.

"Uh, lonely…", I replied as I watched her place her head on Loki's chest and sigh exhaustedly, her unusually pale skin standing out against Loki's dark green hoodie as she shivered.

"How so?", Loki asked, "I know you weren't alone."

I shrugged.

"Tony was there and he was the only one I really talked to. I didn't really enjoy teaching and being the center of attention either…it's just not something I wholly enjoy doing."

"Ah. I understand…", Loki nodded as Darcy pulled the blanket off of the back of the couch and draped it over both of them.

I scratched Snowy behind her ear as the couple snuggled closer together and were soon asleep in each other's arms.

I got up and went back to the apartment with Snowy at my heels.

I unpacked, showered, and changed into my comfy clothes before slumping face-first on the king sized bed, thoroughly exhausted from the change in time zones.

My hands grasped Natasha's pillow and I pulled it close, a poor substitute for holding Natasha, but I missed her so badly and a pillow would have to do.

I sighed as I stared blankly at the carved wood of the bedside table and inhaled.

The pillow smelt like lavender, fabric softener, baby lotion, and Natasha's flowery perfume mingled with a scent that was entirely her own.

I missed seeing her pretty face, feeling the way she would place her hands delicately on my chest, the way her lips moved over mine, and the way she would place her head on my chest at night.

My thoughts were nothing compared to Natasha in reality, but they were just comforting enough to lull me to sleep.

Natasha POV

"It's a beautiful day today, isn't it?", I remarked to Jane and Thor as we walked through central park pushing the babies along in their strollers.

As we walked, all of us pointed to things in the park and told the babies what they were. Ed and Liz were trying to repeat the words since they were old enough to talk, but Anastasia's pediatrician, Dr. Karolyn Abernathy, told me that at three months Anastasia's brain is rapidly developing and her vocabulary is forming even if she can't speak yet. She told me that I should point to things and say their names in order for her to learn the words. I was saying the words in English, Latin, and Russian so she would have a sound grasp on all three languages.

"Indeed it is Lady Natasha.", Thor replied.

"That's a tree…Can you say tree?", he asked his daughter.

Liz waved her chubby fist and replied with "Whee", Thor repeated the word, but Liz had issues with pronouncing the letter T.

Jane praised Ed for saying "Tree" as I followed suit,

"That's a tree. Arbor. Derevo."

"How is little Anastasia doing?", Thor asked.

"She misses Bruce, but she hasn't been turning green as often as I thought she would.", I replied.

"Do you miss him too?", Jane asked, pulling the sun shade up on Edward's stroller.

"You have no idea.", I replied.

"Actually we do.", Jane laughed. "When Thor left for Asgard he gave me his word that he would return, but the Bifrost was destroyed and we were separated for two years…you can almost imagine our reunion.", Jane said with a wink. "If I'm not mistaken, your reunion with Bruce will be pretty spectacular.", she added with a whisper and a sly grin.

"Well," I retorted with a smile and an elbow jab, "Considering the fact that every time you guys spend the day in bed, we have violent thunderstorms, I would say that your reunion was probably on the more spectacular end of the scale."

"Don't lie to me, you said so yourself earlier in the week that you hadn't had sex in four months and couldn't wait for him to get home so you could jump his bones.", Jane said as she rolled her eyes. "If that's not spectacular, I don't know what is."

I didn't want to think that I only wanted to see Bruce again because we had gone sixteen long weeks without intimacy, but that played a pretty large part in the whole scheme of things. I missed his gentle demeanor, the way his eyes would sparkle when he smiled, the way he would tell me how much he loved me, and just watching the way he would care for Anastasia made my heart melt.

"That isn't the only reason I want to see him again.", I said.

"Oh really?"

"Yeah.", I nodded to Anastasia, "I want to get some sleep at night, this little girl is quite the handful."

"Has she rolled over yet?", Jane asked.

"I've put her down on the play mat and moved her legs like Dr. A said, but she just lays there and looks at the ceiling. She doesn't even shift from side to side to try and roll over onto her belly. When I place her onto her belly, she tries to lift herself up on her arms but she hasn't done it completely. She still cries at night and I don't get my eight hours of sleep."

"And you're griping about it?", Jane chuckled.

"Yeah, my lullaby skills are okay but I'm nowhere as good as Bruce. When he sings that 'Golden Slumbers' song, Anastasia is out in no time."

"I've got two, half-human half-Aesir hybrids, who may or may not have the power to control electricity and lightning like their father… they don't sleep at night, and they know how to walk and talk a little… Edward almost escaped from his crib the other day. You have no idea how much I just want to have an hour of straight, interrupted, sleep."

We sat down on a park bench and rested our legs from the exercise.

I was gradually losing weight, slipping below one hundred and thirty pounds after four months. I still wasn't back at my pre-pregnancy weight of one hundred twenty one pounds, but I was getting close. I was much curvier than I was before and my measurements were no longer 36' 24' 36' but they were 40' 28' 38'. I actually liked the fact that my girls still looked good and that I had a little more weight to throw around, it made me feel more like a normal woman.

"Do you think we should head back? It's almost three thirty and that's when the twins go down for their nap.", Thor asked after a period of time.

We got up and left the park and walked the ten blocks back to the tower.

We departed at our respective floors and I walked into my apartment and found nothing amiss until I had laid Anastasia down for her nap and went into the bedroom.

Then I found the best surprise in the world on the bed.

My husband was sleeping soundly, clutching my pillow for dear life as he breathed easily. I sat down on my side of the bed and tried not to wake him up.

Unfortunately, my weight on the bed caused Bruce to stir and crack his warm brown eyes open at me.

He blinked a few times before whispering,

"Hello Natasha."

I leaned down and kissed his forehead as I murmured,

"Hello Bruce…I missed you."

"I missed you too.", he replied as he reached for my hand and held it.

"How was your trip?"

"Would've been better if you and Anastasia had been there."

I smiled.

"You still tired?", I asked.

"Not anymore. I am pretty hungry though, and SHIELD cafeteria food isn't the greatest."

"I know. Do you want to go get dinner? I think tonight is 'clean out the refrigerator' night, so it's every man or woman for his or herself. I know I want the rest of that Thai food because I can finally start eating spicy stuff again without having Anastasia kick me in the gut for it."

"Maybe in a few minutes.", Bruce replied before getting out of bed, "I just want to see my girl right now."

He padded into the nursery and I followed him. I stood at the doorway and watched as he leaned over the crib and cooed at his daughter.

"Look how big you got, your hair is turning as red as your mother's…", he murmured as Anastasia gurgled. He reached into the crib and picked her up while murmuring sweet nothings in her ear in a voice so soft I could barely hear it.

This is what I had truly missed the most, watching my husband be the loving father he always wanted to be.

Bruce sat down on the floor near the play mat and laid Anastasia on her back on the mat.

She started kicking her feet a little and swatting at the toys that hung from the padded rod over her head. Snowy trotted over to Anastasia and laid down next to the mat before sniffing Anastasia experimentally and nudging her with her nose.

I smiled as Anastasia put her hand on Snowy's head and gurgled happily at her furry friend.

"Jarvis,", I said quietly, "Take a picture."

Bruce chuckled softly and then gazed at me.

"Natasha, come over here… I want the whole family over here… I missed you all too much."

I walked over and sat next to Bruce, who kissed me on my forehead.

We sat in silence for a long time and then Anastasia drifted off to sleep.

I put her back in her crib and Snowy trotted over to the rug next to the crib and laid down as Bruce and I left the room.

I went out onto the balcony and sat down in the same spot where Bruce had proposed to me.

"So what do you want to do tonight?", Bruce asked.

"I don't know."

"How about this: we eat dinner now, it's Tuesday so it's Game Night. We can turn in at whatever time you want to and then…", He stood with me and pulled me into his embrace before whispering, "…the rest of the night is ours."

I didn't think, I just kissed him hard on the lips and he kissed me back with the same raw emotion, backing me into the wall as I tugged on his hair. His hands were running down my sides and he bit my bottom lip softly.

Oh, I had definitely missed this.

We broke apart and I noticed how breathless I was.

"Bruce…", I gasped as he straightened his glasses.

"I'm sorry…that was a bit forward of me… even if we are married, I should really take into consideration what you have to say before throwing myself at you…"

"No…I kissed you first…", I replied, "I wanted that…but we should go eat dinner first… you know, fuel the fun…"

"I agree."

Bruce POV

We took the stairs up to the kitchen and as Natasha climbed the stairs in front of me with Anastasia in her arms and Snowy at her heels, I couldn't help but notice how much curvier she had become in the time that I had been gone.

The Hulk liked what he saw and made a noise of approval in the back of my mind.

That single noise was nothing compared to all the talking he did from the time I opened my eyes and saw Natasha siting on the bed to the time when I was making out with her.

I think he did more talking in the past two hours than he had in the past month.

The only thing that I was slightly taken aback at was the fact that the Hulk noticed that Anastasia's other half was slowly getting stronger, but not speaking to her yet.

Tony and I started working on a remedy on the Helicarrier, but the only probable outcome we could find was to use the gamma radiation to reverse the effects of the Hulk.

When Tony suggested it, I remember looking at him like he was insane and asking him if he was drunk. In my opinion, fighting fire with fire would only lead to a bigger problem. Tony had explained that cancer was sometimes caused by and cured with radiation. If we could do the same thing with gamma rays and create a serum, there was a chance that I could get rid of the Hulk.

I ate my Caesar salad in silence as Natasha finished off her Thai food and left the table to go somewhere more private to breastfeed Anastasia. I went into the kitchen and walked in on Pepper and Tony having a conversation in hushed tones.

"Oh, I'm sorry…I didn't mean to intrude…"

"No it's okay…we were done here anyway…", Pepper said as she walked out and left Tony standing there with an ashen look on his face.

"Tony, what happened?"

"Pepper wants to look into artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization procedures… I was hoping that we wouldn't need to resort to that…that what we were doing would be enough to make a baby… She's been taking prenatal vitamins, charting her cycles, eating right, and she even stopped spending late nights at the office to get more sleep. I've been working out, eating right, staying sober except for the glass of champagne I had at the Rogers' wedding, taking a multivitamin, and getting more sleep at night… I'm running out of options here and it's scaring me half to death that we aren't having any luck yet.", he explained.

"Talk to Phil… he and Maria had the same problem… maybe they have some tips for you."

"I already asked them how they finally conceived, but they were doing the same things as we are and they just got lucky one time.", he replied. "I wish I was as lucky as you, Thor, and Phil are…You have no idea what it was like for me when Pepper told me how badly she wanted to have a baby of her own…you should've seen her face when I told her it would be a long shot…".

I patted my friend on the back.

"I wish I could help, really I do, but this is one of life's great mysteries that's beyond my, or anyone else's, reasoning. Don't give up because you haven't been lucky, keep trying and I'm sure things will work out for you…Just promise me one thing.", I said.

"What's that?"

"Don't go all Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on us and adopt a bunch of kids if things don't work out.", I said with a smile.

Tony finally laughed,

"Oh God no, I don't think Pepper would let me have more than three kids, biological or otherwise… She already says that a child of mine would outsmart all of us as soon as they were old enough to be potty trained and I don't doubt her on that!"

"Now you sound like yourself again… By the way, what's the game tonight?"

"Clue. We're breaking into six teams of two, which works out well since Steve and Beth are off in their own paradise and Fury's on the Tin Can In The Sky."

"Not bad… five bucks says that Team Banner wins.", I said with a smirk.

"Oh it's on and I'll take your bet because the Stark duo is unstoppable!"

"Oh really because it didn't seem that way when we played Blackjack that one time…if memory serves me right, Natasha cleaned out everyone."

"That's because she was counting cards!"

"Are you two really arguing about that game again?", Natasha asked as she walked into the kitchen.

"Yeah we are…I think you cheated.", Tony said.

Natasha looked taken aback.

"I would never."

Pepper called for Tony and he left the room. When he was gone, I came up behind Natasha and asked her,

"Did you cheat?"

She turned around and fixed me with the sexiest look she could muster. "Now Dr. Banner…", she began in a seductive voice, "…Why on earth would I do that?", she asked before walking past me and out of the kitchen with a sway of her hips.

One hour later…

"…It was Professor Plum, in the Ballroom, with the Knife…", Loki read.

Ten pairs of eyes flicked to Maria and Phil.

"We lost.", Phil stated as we began to clean up.

I exhaled as Natasha's hand left my thigh.

She had been doing this on purpose, getting me frustrated, as if I wasn't frustrated enough before she started teasing me…

She got up to go into the kitchen and I followed her, knowing full well that two could play this game.

She leaned over to pick up Snowy's empty food and water bowls and when she went over to the sink to deposit them, I came up behind her and rested my head on her shoulder.

"Good game Agent Banner…"

"I know of a better one for when we get back to our bedroom and lock the door behind us, Dr. Banner.", she said as she began to grind on me.

I pushed her hair off her neck and kissed that sensitive spot that never failed to turn her on.

She squirmed and whispered,

"Bruce…we shouldn't do this here…"

"You're right we shouldn't…so let's not.", I said before biting her earlobe gently and pulling away.

I was so glad that I didn't have a hard-on as a result of her actions…that would've been awkward.

We said goodnight, Natasha took Snowy out to do her business and I took Anastasia back to her nursery.

She was asleep when I laid her down and I closed the door behind me as I left and walked through the living room and into the bedroom. I heard the telltale sound of Snowy going to her dog bed in the corner of the living room before Natasha entered the bedroom and closed the door behind herself. She made eye contact with me as I stood by the side of the bed. I took off my glasses and put them onto the bedside table as I dimmed the lights.

"Dr. Banner…", she whispered seductively as she began to walk over to me as if she was stalking her prey, "You've waited this long for me… why don't you take me?"

I didn't hesitate for a moment before we both rushed at each other and landed on the bed.

I was the luckiest man in the world.

Thank God that the Hulk never said a word during sex, it was good to just be myself for once.

"Agent Banner, you're a tease…", I growled as she tossed my shirt away.

"You know you like it…", she gasped back as I pulled her shirt off and nipped at her clavicle.

I smirked when she gasped as I brushed my hands over her breasts before tugging her yoga pants down.

She flipped me over onto my back and I looked up at her as she began to grind on me again.

She wasn't going to have the upper hand tonight…

I flipped her over and somehow lost my pants in the process, which left her smirking up at me.

Her smugness was short lived, especially when I pushed my thigh between her legs and rubbed against her panties.

"Bruce…..", she moaned and writhed, "Don't tease me…".

I had already given up on the notion of being gentle. I had gone without release for four months and it was going to be worth the wait. Her teasing showed me that she wanted it rough, so she was going to get it rough.

Her begging just made me press my leg into her harder.

I kissed her and she tugged my hair as my fingers undid the clasp on her bra before tossing it aside.

I kissed her neck again as my fingers went to work on her breasts, teasing her further as she writhed against me.

"Please….", she gasped, and I removed my thigh from her.

She whimpered as my hands left her breasts and ran down her sides to the waistband of her panties and my inner dude did a victory dance at the fact that I was the only man in the world who could make the Black Widow whimper in pleasure.

"Oh fuck everything!", she cried as I rubbed her through her panties and felt exactly how turned on she was by my actions.

"Just you…", I growled before she bucked into my hand and moaned again.

"Bruce….please….", she gasped as I discarded her panties and teased her.

"What do you want me to do?", I murmured.

She bucked her hips against my fingers and moaned in ecstasy as I slipped one digit inside of her,

"Make love to me all night…"

She pushed my boxers off and then groped blindly in the open drawer of the bedside table for a condom (we didn't want to have another baby until Anastasia was at least two) before finding one and ripping the foil package open with her teeth.

I slipped another finger into her and she cried,

"Oh God!"

I smirked and growled back,

"Nope, not God, just Bruce…"

I pulled my hand away from her and she whimpered at the sudden loss of contact before pushing me off of her.

I didn't move as she rolled the condom onto me, it took all my energy to not lose control and come right then and there… but then she grasped me and my thoughts became a blur as I heard myself moaning her name.

"Natasha….".

I found my thoughts and she stopped jerking me off just long enough for me to growl, push her onto her back, and get on top of her.

I searched for any sign of doubt in her eyes and when I found none, I leaned in and kissed her slowly.

She bucked her hips against mine and I decided not to wait any longer before pushing inside of her.

She cried out with me as I stilled when I was buried in her, waiting for her to stretch.

She was always a tight fit, but now it was even harder to keep it together…

"Bruce….you can move….", she panted.

I began to move and she was so close to the edge that it just spurred me to move faster.

She chanted my name like a prayer and screamed it when she came undone.

Her release triggered my own and we fell into oblivion together.

Natasha POV

I panted as Bruce stilled and removed himself from me.

Wow.

That was the most incredible experience of my life.

Bruce had never been that rough with me and I liked it.

Bruce got up and discarded the condom as I rolled over and closed the bedside table drawer.

"That was amazing…", I commented as he spooned against me.

"You think so?"

"I know so…"

"Well if you're up for round two, I'd be all too happy to oblige…", he said and I could feel him smirk as he kissed my shoulder.

I rolled over and looked into his eyes and whispered,

"I am if you are."

"Then let's proceed…", he murmured as he pressed his lips to mine.

Jane was right.

Our reunion was quite spectacular.

A/N: So how was that for the first chapter? Any thoughts on Ivan's evil plans? What did you think of my first bit of smutty writing? Too dirty? To dull? Tell me what you think!

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