AN: This is a short one or two-chapter fanfic I decided to do after watching Winter Soldier. It is an AU of my Avenger's story, Master Assassins daughter. In this Anastasia does not join S.H.I.E.L.D., but is a normal teenage athlete. When SHIELD falls, a strike team that Hawkeye was on a mission with goes rouge and goes after her before he or Natasha can get home to protect their daughter. Hope you like it and please remember to review.
The room was silent except for the soft beep of the heart monitor. A man sat on the edge of a bed, holding the hand of a young woman. She was badly injured, attacked by people she thought were the good. She several broke bones, a severely blackened eye and a broken ankle and wrist.
Suddenly, the door to the room slid open and a red haired woman entered followed by a tall blonde haired man.
"Clint...is she?" She asked, staring down at her husband.
"No, they heavily sedated her, guess the STRIKE team messed with her head pretty bad...she was whimpering in broken Russian when we found her...Anya never uses Russian unless she is desperate." Clint replied, his typically cool eyes blazing.
"We'll get them...in the meantime...we need to send her somewhere safe." Steve said, looking at the badly bruised form of his friend.
"Where, the world now knows who she is, who her parents are and everything my baby work her ass off for will be taken because of that." Clint snarled, causing the monitor to rise.
"Clint calm down, you're scaring her...Anya baby, can you hear me?" Natasha said, kneeling by the bed.
"Mama...don't…let them take...my medal." The young girl murmured, a stray tear rolling down her cheek.
Natasha fought back tears as her daughter slipped back into unconscious. She turned to Clint and Steve, the protective mother emerging.
"That was last thing she should worry about...you and I both know who has to take her, I know it will be a shock to her, but that is who she is safest with...I am going to call Melinda and see if she can come get her." Natasha said, causing her husband to sigh and Steve to be rather confused.
"I know...just once I wish that I could have said no to an op... Anastasia wouldn't be in the hospital, we would not need to send her away because of our job." Clint replied, unshed tears glistening in his eyes, "Protecting her was our responsibility and we failed to do that."
Natasha understood how he felt but, at the moment she was not safe. She knew that their daughter being in the hospital really messed with his head as much as it did hers.
"I know, but this time we do and we will make sure that the S.T.R.I.K.E. team that did this to her will pay dearly for it." Natasha told him, making her husband nod.
Steve looked over at his friends, seeing that they were dead serious about getting back at whoever hurt their little girl. Since becoming friends with Clint and Natasha, he had gotten to know their daughter. He knew how protective they were of her because of their pasts.
"Let me know when you two go after that team. Now that we know they are HYDRA, I am coming too." Steve said, making them look up.
"You might not like what you end up seeing." Clint said, looking up at him. "True, but I can't sit by knowing that my friends are putting themselves in danger and might not make it back to a young girl who needs them either." Steve replied.
Natasha looked to her husband to see what he thought. He nodded, agreeing with her, knowing that Steve was a good person to bring with them.
"Alright, I will get a hold of Melinda and see if she can come get her when she is released. She will keep her safe, and so will he." Natasha said, before standing up.
She placed a gentle kiss on Anastasia's forehead before walking out of the room to call her friend. She could only hope that the Asian woman had not been affected by the fall of SHIELD like they were.
AN: So I hope you all will like the first part of this story. I will continue with more interaction between Anya and her parent in the next part before she leaves with May. Please remember to review
