A/N: READ MEEEE

Wow! Thanks for the reviews, favorites, and follows, guys! :D I'm so happy you enjoy this family fluff stuff. Some of you have asked for more, and believe me, I will give you more! However I am suffering a bit of writer's block right now, so this little mini one-shot may seem a bit off or abrupt DX This is so frustrating! AND I'VE BEEN TRYING TO UPLOAD THIS STORY FOR LIKE 12 HOURS (tried last night, went to bed, then tried again this morning XP) BUT THE WEBSITE IS BEING ALL GLITCHY :( I managed to upload it using the copy-and-paste method. Smh...

I decided to not try and force out a nicer length one-shot, but I also didn't want to just update this story with an author's note (no offense to people who do that, I completely understand that having to be the case usually in multi-chapter fics). So now we take a step backwards and see 4 year old Maggie after some drama. Oh, no!

In these one-shots, I am going to try to leave Steve and Natasha's relationship's status as vague as possible. Why? Well, so it can be up to you guys individually and personally if they should be married or not! For me, I like to think that they are married in this story, but I'm leaving it open so you guys can think whatever, since I'm not that good at writing romance anyway XD

Also! I've been looking at terms of endearment in Russian since ya know Natasha's Russian and well she has a child, aka someone to use a term of endearment on… And I really like "Лапушка," which can mean darling or sweetheart! I also really liked the pronunciation—la-poosh-ka! HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! (Assuming that the website I used was correct in their translation/pronunciation, which I hope they are, 'cause it's a site that's supposed to help people learn Russian XP)

I also made a short Romanogers-themed picture music video (PMV); all the pictures are drawn by me! It's based on this really cute PMV to this cute love song, so I basically drew my own version with Natasha and Steve! You can check it out on my YouTube channel, which is listed on my profile with a link. :)

OH AND ONE MORE THING—the basic plot of Winter Soldier is referenced in this, at the very end (because little kids love story time) so if you still haven't seen it and want to go into that theatre without knowing anything about it, well, skip the last paragraph. XP

Ok, enough rambling, now on with the very short one-shot!

Natasha Romanoff sighed as she sat on the hospital bed, feeling a dull ache radiating from her left arm, which was in a sling. She had been shot in the arm on her latest mission, and was thankful it wasn't much worse. Now that she had a family, Natasha had something to prevent her from diving head first into missions and being reckless in the field.

The female Avenger looked up as she heard someone enter her room, and smiled when she recognized who it was.

"Hey, Nat." Steve said softly as he walked up to her bed, holding four year old Maggie in his arms. The small girl had her head buried in the space between her father's neck and shoulder; it had been there since she first heard of her mother getting hurt.

"Hey." Natasha replied tiredly, and scooted over, patting the now vacant spot on the bed with her head. Taking a hint, the Captain sat down with their child still clinging onto him for dear life. "

Is she okay?" Natasha asked, concerned, as the usually hyper and always talking Maggie was deathly quiet and had yet to show signs of seeing her mother for the first time in a few days.

"Ever since she heard you got hurt"—Maggie's arms tightened around her father at that—"she's been holding onto me like this." Steve explained quietly, before sighing. "Come on, Mags, don't you want to see Mama?"

Receiving no response, Natasha put a hand on her daughter's arm. "Hey, I'm okay, you don't have to worry, Лапушка." She tried softly, and soon found herself staring into tear-filled blue eyes, as Maggie turned to look at her.

"See? I'm okay." Natasha asserted gently, holding her good arm out to prompt a hug. Maggie complied and all but jumped into her mother's arms, crying.

"I was so scared when Daddy said you got hurt! I thought you would leave me… Like Anna and Elsa's parents!" The family of three had been going through an intense Disney phase, which had helped introduced the concept of death to the four year old as someone leaving forever. "I missed you so much and I thought I'd never see you again and that'd I be alone…"

As Maggie continued to sob and ramble, Natasha pulled her closer; she didn't know what to say, or what else she could do. She felt herself tearing up, prompting Steve to wrap his arms protectively around the two redheads he loved.

In times like these, Natasha wished she or Steve had the ability to promise their child they'd always be there for her. But with their job as protectors of the world, they couldn't. Suddenly something so simple became so complicated.

After Maggie's crying had calmed down to the occasional sniffle, Steve broke the hug and examined the two girls. Figuring Maggie was quite tired now, he proposed something he knew she loved. "Hey, Mags, wanna hear a story?" he asked, meeting his daughter's red and tired eyes. Maggie contemplated it for a bit, before nodding her head and quietly answering, "Okay."

"Here, let's get comfortable." Natasha proposed, lying back on the bed, snuggling her daughter up close on her side. "What kind of story do you want to hear, Лапушка?"

"A happy one, one about you and Daddy." Maggie requested innocently, looking up at her mother. Natasha and Steve both thought for a moment, before the former asked Maggie if she would want to hear about them falling in love. After receiving an enthusiastic "yes!" and agreement from Steve, they began telling their daughter a broad and watered down version of the time Hydra tried to take over Shield from the inside, forcing the two Avengers to work together and strengthen their relationship more than ever before.

A/N: Eh, I figured a good story for something romantic like that—that wouldn't be too mushy and boring for a 4 year old—would be the basic plot of Winter Soldier, since Natasha and Steve were together for a lot of that movie and had some really deep scenes.