Ding Dong

"Sir the Door" JARVIS said.

"I know I heard it, what time is it?" Tony asked.

"9:30 sir" the AI said. Tony sighed and got up from his workbench and went up stairs to see who it was. He swung the door open "What!" He was shocked to see a teenage girl stepping a few steps back "I'm sorry can I help you?" The girl nodded and signed 'is there a Steve Rogers here?' Tony looked at her hands and said "uhhh…yeah, just wait one second," Tony was so glad he had in an earpiece and JARVIS told him what she asked

"CAP! The doors for you!" Tony yelled and you could hear a thump as Steve ran down the hall. Tony stepped aside and went back to his lab.

Steve slowed, as he got closer to the door, he studied the girl as he walked; she was about 5'8", with braided brown hair and emerald Green eyes. "Can I help you?" He asked. The girl nodded and handed him a note she had in her pocket, he caught glimpse of her hand it was metal… just like Bucky's. He read the note, it said:

"Hello Mr. Rogers,

My name is Jade Barnes. I am James "Bucky" Barnes daughter; I escaped Hydra when I was 9. They cut out my vocal chords so I can't speak; I lost my arm when I was fighting against a bunch of HYDRA goons, so I have a metal arm. I found out you and my dad served together and I wanted to meet you. He would tell me about you when he got memories of you. I am 16 now and I share a birthday with you.

-Jade"

Steve looked up at her and saw her looking down at her feet "come on, its cold out there. Lets go get a snack" He smiled at the teen. Jade smiled back and came inside she looked around in aw. Steve put his arm around her to which she flinched but let him do it, he led the way to the kitchen and made hot cocoa for them "this was your dad's favorite drink."

Jade smiled and signed 'Thank You', she sat across from Steve at the Table her back to the wall, so she could see the door. Steve noted how scared she looked as she drank her cocoa.

Natasha walked in the kitchen and saw Jade "hello, who are you?"

"Natasha this is Jade shes Bucky's daughter. Jade this is Natasha" Steve said introducing the two. Natasha studied her, making note of the metal hand holding the mug, the scars on her neck and how nervous she seemed.

"Its all right, sweetie. I'm not going to hurt you" The Russian said and Jade nodded ok.

"Do you have a place to stay?" Steve asked seeing it was raining out side, Jade shook her head and signed 'I just got here today.' Natasha saw Steves face, he had no idea what she was saying, and "she said she just arrived today." Jade smiled a little glad some one understood her. Steve looked at Natasha, and she gave him the look

"right, Jade you can stay here in Avengers Tower for tonight, would you like to?" he asked her. Jade nodded and looked at Natasha and signed ' my bags are in the car outside' Natasha nodded

"I'll go get them, Steve can you find her a room, where Tony wont find out about her yet"

"sure" Steve got up and Jade followed him up stairs, realizing she was going to be lost. Steve found her a room near Natasha's since the assassin was the only other female other then Pepper and Jade seemed to like Natasha.

" Natasha is right across the hall, and I'm up two floors, ok?" Jade nodded. Steve waited for Natasha and told her where Jades room was. Natasha walked in with Jade's book bag and saw that the teen was asleep sprawled across the bed; she smiled and actually got to study her. Jades entire right arm was metal opposite that of the Winter Solider, she had thrown her jacket over the back of a chair and just flopped down on the bed. Natasha closed the door back and went to her room and got ready for bed and fell asleep.

Natasha woke up and looked at the clock and saw it was 12:30, someone had knocked on her door "come in" The door creaked open revealing Jade, Natasha turned her lamp on and saw that the teen was clutching a old teddy bear, she signed ' I'm Scared' Natasha smiled warmly at the teen and patted the bad and let the teen climb in much like a little kid.

"Your ok, your safe here" Natasha said in Russian to her and turned the light off, and Jade slept till morning. Natasha woke up with the sun and so did Jade, Jade looked at her feet and signed 'I'm sorry for waking you up'

"Don't worry about it, I know what it feels like to be scared. Get dressed and we'll see if Steve is up yet" Natasha said and Jade nodded and went back to her room and got dressed in a black T-shirt, jeans, her jacket and a pair of sneakers and left her bag in her room. Her bear sitting on top of it. Natasha walked her down to the kitchen; Bruce was the only other awake. He looked up from his newspaper "Good Morning Natasha, who is this?"

"This is Jade, shes deaf so she cant speak" Natasha looked at the teen who was half hiding behind her "This is Dr. Bruce Banner" Jade waved hello to him and signed ' is it ok if I sit?'

"Of course" Bruce said, Jade smiled as Natasha made her some cocoa and Coffee and sat next to Jade. Jade took a sip of the Cocoa and almost jumped out of her skin when a hand was set on her shoulder.

Steve sat next to Natasha "sorry" he said.

Bruce had seen her jump " you ok?" Jade didn't answer and stared into her cocoa. Steve handed Bruce the note Jade had given him the night before. Bruce got a look of shock on his face and gave Natasha the note. Natasha gasped reading the note

"Is there anything else we should know?" the three looked at Jade who nodded and disappeared into thin air. Natasha and Steve were shocked. Bruce nodded and Jade came back just as Clint walked in the room

"whoa, who is this" he made his coffee and Natasha handed him the note. Clint dropped his mug and it shattered on the floor, he looked at Jade who waved a little. The front door burst open, Jade disappeared and SHIELD agents covered the room around them.

Fury walked up to them "Where is she? She is a threat and has been on the run for years for having association to HYDRA."

Natasha said "Who?" Jade slowly got up from the table making sure not to hit anything, Natasha hit Jades chair with her foot pushing it out.

"The girl who showed up at your front door last night. Her name is Jade "Cheshire" Barnes and is very dangerous."

"She didn't look like it she just looked scared" Steve said, "me and Tony were the only ones here, she slept in the car out front" Fury sighed and told the other agents to leave and search around for her. Clint cleaned up his mess and discreetly put the note in his pocket and left the room, he could see a ghost of Jade and followed her. Jade ran up the stairs and to the room she had been staying and grabbed her bag and it turned invisible like her, he shut the door behind him and Jade turned visible and strapped a pair of twin katanas to her back and pulled out two disk things, she grabbed Clint's arm and turned them invisible and signed 'take me to the roof' Clint led the up there and she let go and he turned visible, she made her hands visible and asked if he could throw one of the disks to the next roof top, to which the archer did. She dropped the other disk on the ground and it lit up, she put something in his hand, it was a tracker Clint realized. He watched as she stepped on the disk and disappeared completely, he picked up the disk and put it in his pocket with the tracker and looked over at the next roof and caught a glimpse of her. He headed back inside to talk to Cap, when he got back every one was in the living room, except Thor. He sat next to Sam, the newest Avenger, and pulled out the stuff from his pockets, the note, disk and tracker.

"Stark scan this" Clint tossed it to Tony, Tony caught it and scanned it

"where'd you get this, I've never seen anything like it. JARVIS reverse engineer it."

"From our little friend Jade" Clint said and giving the note and tracker to Steve. Steve smiled "Do you think the stuff Fury said about Jade was true"

"No, her file says shes has 10 lives on her hands, eight of which are HYDRA, no espionage, only a very bad picture of her being dragged behind the Winter Soldier" Tony said bringing the few pictures up on the TV. Bruce, Pepper and Steve gasped as it went through the pictures that SHIELD had of Jade. The most recent she had fresh cuts and wounds on her arms and torso and face, she was scowling at the camera with a sword pointed at it, in that picture she looked like the Winter Solider.

"I found a video" Tony said and put it up, it was of a hundred SHIELD foot soldiers chasing her through a town, snipers shooting at her hitting centimeters away from her feet and her getting cornered, then and only then did she pull out the swords and was looking over the soldiers like a wild animal, A young soldier came forward and shot her in the stomach, she swiftly moved and sliced the gun out of hands and jumped up on a wall of the ally and jumped to the other pulling her self up on to the fire escape and running up to the roof, putting the swords away at the same time, the camera switched views to a ground solider, she punched the camera and the guy, but through the static you could see she wore a muzzle like the winter soldier and saw her disappear into thin air.

"She only hurt one man," Steve said.

"And scared the shit out of another." Sam said

"Where is she now?" Clint asked. Steve looked at the tracker and saw she was in an ally way on Third Street and showed Clint and every one else.

"Sir, I finished. There is an unknown power source in it. And it only appears to work to one set of fingerprints. It appears to be a teleporter and the technology is years away, even for you." JARVIS said putting everyone into stunned silence especially Tony.

"WHAT! How can a 14 year old have better tech than me!" Tony yelled out.

"Shes 16" Steve said. Tony waved him off.

"Sir the disk is glowing and reversing Polarity, I suggest you put it down" Jarvis interrupted what ever Tony was going to say. Tony set it down on the floor near his seat and seconds later Jade appeared panting for breath and was bleeding from her side and passed out right there. Pepper and Natasha rushed over to the downed teen, motherly instincts taking over.

"Shes burning up" Pepper said and looked at Steve

"Get her to the infirmary, Bruce she needs your help" The two men nodded and Steve picked her up carefully and saw her metal hand was over the wound, he ran with the girl and set her on one of the beds. Bruce only seconds behind him and in scrubs and pulled her Jacket off and cutting the tanktop at an acceptable length and started to clean the wound and stitched it up. He walked out and saw Natasha and Pepper

"its infected, but shes stable now" he motioned to the door and they went in.

Tony, Clint and Sam looked at the book bag laying a few feet from the disk. Tony lunged forward to grab the bag only to have a knife fly by his face and Clint grabbed the bag and ran to the infirmary and gave Steve the book bag and the soldier took it into the room and set the bag in a chair, he cringed seeing the scars and the stitches that covered her lower torso and back. Natasha had gotten a cold wet washcloth and put it on her forehead. Pepper went over to the bag and opened it and smiled and put the teddy bear on the bed next to her and her metal hand instantly closed around the bears arm, it had a plush metal arm to and button eyes.

Natasha went back to the bag and looked through it, she found the swords in the very back of the bag, a retractable bostaff, a few clothes, fake ID's, what appeared to be protein bar wrappers, a note book and pens, a few more of the disks and some other technology Tony would kill for, and a dog collar with a tag that said Bucky.

"This is sad" Natasha said showing the other two the collar.

" She had a dog" Pepper said

"and named it after her dad" Steve added. Jade sucked in a lot of air and sat up and felt the stitches, she was confused. Natasha heard her and hit Steves arm. Steve saw her and so did Pepper

"Hey" Steve say. Jade looked at him for a second trying to remember who he was, then waved she kept running her fingers over the stitches.

"You rember me right? *Jade nodded* this is Pepper" Steve said and the blond waved at her

"Hi, I suggest you don't mess with your stitches" Jade stopped messing with them and signed 'can I have some water?'

Natasha looked at Steve "can you go get her a glass of water? Jade sweetie, you need to lay back down" Jade did as she told sucking in a breath of air, from the pain. Steve left and went back up stairs to find Tony knocked out, Sam and Clint watching Arrow and using Tony as a foot stool and Bruce in the kitchen, the disk was gone, he suspected Bruce had it.

Steve walked in the kitchen "She awake, what did they do to Tony?" Steve asked getting a glass of water.

"Shes up already? She must be used to fighting off sedatives fast. Tony was going to break the disk in half then rebuild it and sell it as his own. Clint put him in a sleeper hold and knocked him out. Tell Jade she needs to rest" Bruce answered.

Steve shook his head hearing what happened to Tony "Will do" he took the water and headed back down to the infirmary, he walked in seeing Jade had fallen back asleep and was curled up on her hurt side, he set the water down on the table. Natasha's phone vibrated, an unknown number, and she left the room and stood in the hall and answered "hello?"

"how is she?"

"Who are you and what do you know?"

"A father has a right to know about his daughter."

"I'll bring you to see her, give me a meeting place."

"The Shawarma place, 20 minutes" and the man hung up

Natasha popped back in the room "I'm going out"

Steve and Pepper nodded and they sat down and talked.

Natasha got in her car and drove to the Shawarma place and waited for the man on the phone to enter, she got a text that said to come to the roof. Natasha did, she was surprised that the Winter Soldier was there.

"How is she?" He asked genuinely concerned.

"Shes fine, do you know who hurt her?"

"Crossbones" Bucky said, "Can you take me to see her?"

Natasha sighed "yes" and they got in her car "you clean up nice."

Bucky stared at her "what?"

"You look nice compared to the last time I saw you" Natasha said and drove back to Avengers Tower and snuck him inside and down to the infirmary.

Steve and Pepper looked at the door, Steve's jaw dropped to the floor "Bucky" he said.

"Hey Steve" He offered a small smile. Pepper stood up and walked over to him "its nice to finally meet you, Steve has said so much about you." And shook his hand, and then left the room, to check on Tony. Bucky watched her leave then looked at the bed where his daughter was laying and sighed, he moved the hair that had fallen in her face and kissed her forehead and sat in one of the chairs. Natasha let a tear slide down her face, she could see he was no longer the most wanted assassin but a man who was scared for his family. Jade woke up a little and saw Bucky, she almost jumped out of the bed to hug him, he got up and hugged her, tears running down both their faces, Natasha took a picture on her phone. They looked at each other and Jade signed 'I never thought I'd see you again'

"I know baby, but I'm here now remember I'm always watching over you whether you realize it or not. Your safer here with them then you are with me, I'll come and visit you ok?" Jade nodded and hugged him again. She smiled when they pulled away and waved bye. Steve showed Bucky the way out. Natasha hugged Jade in a rare show of emotion and let Jade cry her heart out. As Jade healed it became unspoken to the avengers that she would be staying here and they had to hide her from Fury