Yay, I finally finished my sequel to "Babysitting the Starks," and here it is. If you have not read "Babysitting the Starks" and are too lazy to go to my profile to read it, there a few things you need to know: 1) Tony and Pepper are married with two kids named Ryder & Janet, and 2) Becky Sherman is Steve's girlfriend and is based on the waitress featured in the Avengers movie (the waitress' real name is Beth, as I later discovered, but I'm not fixing that at this point).

"Stark, to whatever it is you want: absolutely not," Steve said curtly to Tony Stark as he sauntered into Steve's art studio in Stark Tower.

Tony held his hands up in mock innocence and replied, "I wasn't going to say anything."

"Yes you were," affirmed Steve as he made another stroke of graphite on the crisp white page of his sketchbook.

Tony sighed. "All right, you caught me, cap. I want to talk to you about your main squeeze."

"My what?"

"I'm talking about your girlfriend Becky."

"What about her?"

Tony glanced over Steve's broad shoulder and saw that he was sketching the tender, smiling face of Becky; for once he decided to not to say a sarcastic remark, since he had an important matter to discuss. Tony stuffed his hands into his jean pockets and rolled his head back, trying to think of the best way to bring up this topic to Steve.

"You're serious about her, right?" inquired Tony.

Steve snorted disdainfully at the ridiculousness of the inquiry. "You know she means the world to me."

"Yeah yeah," replied Tony nonchalantly. "So her safety is obviously important to you."

Steve sighed impatiently. "Yes."

"Well, I was thinking that it would be a good idea if she became a SHIELD agent."

"A what?" said Steve in a tone that would inspire nervous fidgeting in most brave souls.

"A SHIELD agent," repeated Tony, who was undaunted by Steve's cold, threatening gaze that was now totally focused on him. "C'mon, Steve, she could use the training in self defense."

"No way, Tony. As of now Becky is the only normal thing in my life, and I don't want to jeopardize that by having SHIELD corrupt her."

"They're not going to corrupt her," protested Tony. "I know they're uptight and secretive, but they are experts on combat."

"They will corrupt her. She'll be exposed to the hard reality that I have to face in battle nearly everyday. I don't want that for her. Plus, aren't you being a hypocrite? I don't remember Pepper being an elite SHIELD agent."

Tony scoffed. "Are you kidding? I made her the female version of Iron Man, and she wouldn't even let me equip it with weaponry. All she did with it was go on occasional rescue missions when I wasn't around."

Taken aback, Steve asked, "When was this?"

"Before the kids were born. She called her suit 'Rescue.' We still have it, but she chooses not to use it nowadays."

"I had no idea."

"Probably because you had trapped yourself in this art studio. Seriously, do you even leave this room for bathroom breaks?"

For the first time since Tony came in, Steve smiled and laughed.

"Another idea for you to consider: why don't you train Becky yourself if you're so worried about SHIELD?" suggested Tony. "You've got the smarts to do it."

To be honest, Tony was not favorably disposed toward SHIELD either, but he used it as a front to get Steve to train Becky.

Steve shook his head. "I don't want to hurt her."

"Well don't think Black Widow is going to go easy on her. And it's not like you have the same anger issues as Banner, so it's doubtful that you'd actually hurt her."

"I still don't like the idea of laying a harmful hand on a woman."

"You're too old-fashioned, Steve."

"And you're too modern, Tony."

"Hey, I make it work," said Tony with a grin as he began to back out of the room. "Just… consider what I told you, all right?"

"Thank you for your concern," replied Steve genuinely.

"Don't start expecting it!" warned Tony as he finally stepped out, leaving Steve to his private thoughts once more.

I know this isn't an exciting start, but bear with me. It will get better. I'll even post the second chapter, too.