Chapter 1

Abigail's POV

As the music blares through the speakers in the studio I forget about the terrible training session this morning and I forget about that fact that I'm worried about my parents. They were supposed to be home last night from a mission with Clint and Natasha but they aren't back yet. As for the training session it's not that I did poorly its the fact that I keep getting paired with the agents in training who have no idea what they are doing. Tyler on the other hand had a perfect run this morning but like the good boyfriend he is he didn't rub it in, instead he tried to criticize himself. Yes, in case you were wondering I Abigail Rodgers am dating Tyler Barton. It was bound to happen if you think about it, we were best friends from the start. I'm so focused on my dancing that I don't see Tyler in the doorway. I go to turn and I stop and laugh.

"You can't scare me like that." I laugh. "You know I zone out when I dance." I say pausing the music.

"Sorry." he smirks. "There're back." he says to me.

"In one piece?" I ask.

"Heading up to debrief as we speak." he smiles.

"Uncle Nick won't mind if we crash, he did have them gone for two weeks." I say grabbing his hand.

"If it's for you of course not, I'm a different story."

"He loves you." I laugh. "Where is Jackson?"

"Last I checked he was down working with Bruce and Darcy and did not want to be bothered, told me he would find your parents later." he says as we head up to the Shield floor.

I pull Tyler over to the conference room and we pass Phil's office, Sky is in there talking to him and he stops us.

"I would wait Abs." he says.

"Why?"

"Just trust me." he says.

"What, you don't want to come hang out with me, I'm offended." says Sky.

"How much longer do you think they'll be?" ask Tyler sitting down on the couch with me.

"Fifteen minutes tops. How was training this morning?"

"Sore subject." I sigh. "May was teaching this morning, she was great, my partner not so much."

"Compliments won't get you Tyler as a partner all the time." laughs May walking in and setting a file on Phil's desk. "You did good though."

"I keep trying to tell her that." smirks Tyler.

"Smart boy." says Phil.

"I try."

"No Jackson?" ask Sky.

"He is working in the lab again. I'm surprised Tony is still letting him down there now that he and Eliza are dating."

Eliza Stark, the daughter of Pepper and Tony, and one of my best friends, and I guess now my brothers girlfriend. The best part is that Tony and Pepper are his godparents, the whole thing is just really funny.

"Tony still being weird about that?" ask Sky.

"Of course he is, it's Tony." I laugh.

My poor brother is shy just like my dad so it took him a while to admit his feelings for Eliza, now he is getting a hard time from Tony. I feel bad but it's kind of funny.

"It's a dad thing." I say. "My dad was the same way with Tyler even though we've been friends since we were in diapers." I laugh. Speaking of my dad the conference room door opens and out walks my parents. I jump off the couch and run over to hug him.

"Hi princess." he laughs.

"I missed you guys." I smile as I hug my mom.

"We missed you too." she smiles. "Where is Jackson?"

"Lab." I smile.

"Tony is still letting him down there?" laughs Clint from behind me.

"He is tolerating him, Jackson is just helping Bruce with formulas…I think. It all looks the same to me."

"You and me both." says Natasha as I hug her. "You two stay out of trouble?" she ask.

"We were angles." says Tyler.

"And training was good?" ask my dad.

"Yeah…" I trail off.

"We can talk about that later." He laughs as we walk to the elevator.

I head up to our floor with my mom and dad and sit down at the bar in the kitchen while they grab food. My mom comes and sits down to me and my dad stands across from us making one of the biggest sandwiches I have ever seen.

"You hungry dad?" I laugh.

"Missed breakfast, we were a little pre occupied."

"Any reason you guys got back late?"

"Our target was being difficult." says my mom.

"Ah."

"What did you do while we were gone?" she ask.

"Training, dancing, more training and relaxed in my very little amount of free time."

Just then the elevator opens and Jackson walks off. "There he is." says my dad. "Got bored in the lab?"

"More like Eliza came in and Tony had steam coming out of his ears." he laughs.

"Give him another week." laughs my mom.

"How was it?" Jackson ask them.

"Fine, your typical mission." says mom.

"Any more coming up?" I ask.

"Not that we know of." says dad. "Things pop up though."

"I know but two weeks." I sigh.

"I know I'm sorry." says mom. "It's just part of the job."

"Alright well I just came to say hello and give Tony a minute to cool off, I need to get back to work." says Jackson walking to the elevator.

"Okay." says my mom.

"I'm going to get cleaned up." says my dad walking towards their room.

"I don't suppose you have anywhere you need to be." laughs my mom.

"Not at the moment." I say.

"How are things with Tyler?" she ask.

"Mom…"

"I'm just wondering." she laughs.

"Good." I smile.

"I'm assuming that's who you spent all your free time with." she smirks.

"Most of it yes…"

"Almost six months." she smiles.

"Why do you keep track of all this." I laugh.

"Because Natasha and I have nothing better to do when we stuck in one room for over a week."

"I'm glad that Tyler and I are your first topic of conversation."

"We'' actually…"

"I'm stopping you there, I don't even want to know." I say walking towards the studio.

"I'm going to go see if your dad is done, are you going to keep dancing?"

"No, I was just shutting everything down, Tyler and I were going to watch a movie." I say.

"Have fun." she says walking into her room.

I clean up the studio before grabbing a sweatshirt from my room and heading up to the Barton's floor. When the door opens Clint is sitting at the kitchen counter eating food and I have to laugh.

"What?" He ask.

"Nothing, my dad did the exact same thing."

"Ah, I'm going to assume you are here for Tyler and not for your favorite uncle."

"I love you Clint." I laugh as I walk back to Tyler's room. I pass Natasha's studio and see her dancing. She gives me a smile before focusing again. I walk into Tyler's room and plop down on his bed next to him. "What are we watching?"

"Breakfast Club?"

"Sounds good." I smile.

He pops the disc into his computer before putting an arm around me and pulling me over to him. I snuggle into his side and he kisses the side of my head.

"Your mom okay?" I ask.

"Just unwinding." He says. "We have time at the range tomorrow by the way."

"Oh okay."

""You tired?"

"Yes." I laugh. "What was your first hint."

"The very few words that have been said to me was my first clue." He smirks.

"I didn't sleep last night." I sigh.

"Nightmare?"

"Yup."

"Why didn't you come talk to me?"

"Cause I didn't want to wake you up."

"Abs…"

"I know, I know, next time."

"What was it about?"

"The usual."

"That's like the third time in the past two weeks."

"I know, don't worry about it Ty, lets just watch the movie. We can talk about it later."

For the past year I have been having this re accruing nightmare where the Red Room captures me and brainwashes me before making me kill my family, everyone. I wake up right before I get to my parents. Its disturbing to say the least. I know that my parents destroyed the Red Room so I can't figure out why I'm having it. I hope is's not my mind trying to warn me about something.

Tyler's POV

Two hours later Abbey and I go up to the community floor and walk into pure chaos. Sam a trying to keep he and Darcy's kids under control while she, Bruce, and Jackson work at the table. Wanda is helping Pepper in the kitchen and Vision is talking to Steve. Eliza walks over and sits next to Jackson and Tony pulls up a chair to the table, it's a science fest of there. Alex is talking to my parents on the couch, it's looks intense whatever it is so we decide to take a seat at the bar.

"We should have stayed in your room." Laughs Abbey.

"Never too late." I say.

"Just wait till the Odinson's get back." Says Pepper.

"Never a dull moment in Avengers tower." Says Wanda.

Sam walks over to us and sighs. "I have a big favor to ask you two." he says to Abbey and I.

"And that would be?" I ask.

"I would really appreciate if you guys could baby-sit tomorrow night."

"We got it." says Abbey.

I turn around to see Hunter and Ava running around the floor and I internally groan. They are sweet kids but they are a handful, they got Darcy's energy that's for sure. "What time?" I ask.

"Six."

"You got it Sam." I say.

"You guys are the best." He says walking away to go get them to sit down.

"Dinner is ready." says Pepper. "Might want to go ahead and get food."

Abbey and I jump up and grab plates before going to sit down at the table. After not having almost everyone together for two weeks it's nice to me almost complete. You would think we would get sick of each other but its the opposite, we are a very close, dysfunctional family. Once dinner is over we all pile into the living room to watch a movie. Once the movie is over everyone slowly starts to go off to bed. Once it's just Eliza, Jackson, Abbey, I we stay silent before deciding what to do.

"I need to go finish some stuff up in the lab, Eliza want to help?" ask Jackson.

"Yeah." she says getting up to walk with him.

"Lets go dance." says Abbey.

Yes…I dance…and play guitar. So yes I am a Shield agent in training who happens to be very into the arts. Really what happened is when Abbey picked it up I decided to try it…and liked it. But not that whole Ballet crap I prefer the contemporary dance. She gets up off the couch and we go up to her floor. Her parents are sitting on the couch in the living room when we get up there.

"What are you guys up to?" ask Alex.

"Dancing." says Abbey.

"Have fun." says Steve.

We get into the studio and Abbey looks at me. "Trust me on song choice?"

"Always. Are we just going to see what happens?"

"That's how our best dances are created." she smiles.

I get ready and she puts something on before walking over to stand right in front of me facing me. Once the music starts I let my mind go blank and let what happens happen. Abbey starts and then I start to follow. I lift her at one point and for the most part we stay in sync, going off of each other. As the music ends I spin her before pulling her into me our foreheads touching. We are both breathing heavily and after a few seconds she finally speaks up.

"We need to video this one." she whispers.

"That was good." I smile before kissing her. She wraps her arms around my neck before deepening it. After a minute I break away and smirk at her. "We should do late night dancing more often."

"Maybe…" she smiles. "Set your phone up, I was being serious about filming that one. I don't think we have ever been so synced up like that before."

"Your wish is my command." I laugh as I go to set my phone is the corner of the room.

We do the same thing again but this time with more intensity. Once it is over Abbey sits down against the mirror and I grab my phone so we can watch it. Once we are done watching it we are both speechless.

"We just did that without thinking." she says.

"I vote we only doing dancing late at night now. And your in charge of music."

"I don't know, you usually pick pretty good songs."

"Yeah but this…this was incredible."

"We should do one of your songs."

"If I can finish one." I sigh.

"You have a few done."

"Eh."

"Just record them, we can see what happens."

"Sing with me." I say.

"Tyler…"

"I don't care what you say, I think you have a great voice." I say. "Please, you are what my songs are lacking, they feel so one dimensional but if I add you in we could do some cool harmonies and it would be amazing."

"It is so obvious you are adopted." she laughs.

"Apparently I get it from my biological dad…at least that's what I've been told." I laugh.

"How do you know all this stuff about your biological parents?"

"They each wrote me a letter in case they ever died…smart people since they died eight months after I was born."We are quiet for a minute. Abbey takes me hand and starts playing with it, something she does when she is thinking. I look at her trying to understand what she is thinking about. "What's going on in that pretty little head of yours?" I whisper.

"My nightmare was different last night." she whispers looking at the floor.

"What was different?"

"More gruesome." she whispers. "I took my time with you, I knew how to mentally torture you before I actually killed you. I hurt more to watch it happen because the whole time you kept telling me that you loved me and that it wasn't my fault. I didn't understand how you could say those things after you had just watched me kill almost everyone else."

"Abbey…"

"It scares me Tyler, I don't understand it and it scares me."

"Come here." I say pulling her into my lap. "We are going to figure them out okay, they aren't going to last forever."

"Sure feels like it." She mumbles into my chest.

"I love you." I say kissing her head."

"I love you too." She whispers. "I've been up for a while so I'm going to head to bed." She says getting up.

"Okay, come get me if you need me."

"Okay." She smiles. She gives me a quick peck on the lips before walking to her room. I walk toward the elevator to go down to my floor.

"Goodnight Tyler." Says Alex.

"Goodnight." I say.

"We on for training in the morning?" Ask Steve.

"Yeah see ya then."

"Wait,Tyler come here real quick." Says Steve.

"Did I do something?" I ask timidly.

"No I just need to ask you something. Did Abbey have any nightmares while we were gone?"

"Three, one happened last night."

"They are happening more often." He sighs. "Alright, thanks Ty, see you in the morning."

"Night Steve."

I take the elevator up to my floor and walk to the fridge to grab a water before heading back towards the bedrooms. My parents door is open and my mom is reading while dad is filling out paperwork.

"Where were you?" he ask.

"Abbey and I were dancing." I say leaning against the door frame.

"Any thing good?" ask my mom.

"Really good, we took a video of it the second time we did it."

"Show me tomorrow." she smiles.

"Do you want to practice at the range tomorrow?" ask dad.

"Sure, I have training in the morning and then Abbey and I have gun training with mom so after that."

"Want to fit a meal or two into the schedule of yours?" laughs my mom.

"Maybe, we'll see." I smile. "I'll see you guys in the morning, love you."

"Love you Ty." Says my mom.

"Love you too." says my dad.

I shower before heading into my room. I shoot Abbey a text to make sure she is okay before heading to bed. As Wanda said, never a dull moment here in Avengers tower.