Just had to post this today I couldn't wait any longer! It's finally here! A chapter will be posted once a week unless I say otherwise. If you want a sneak peek as to what's to come, have a look at the teaser trailer. watch?v=A8zenMZ3XFI
*1945, Russia – the red room*
"You gotta help me!" a young Natasha Romanoff's voice filled the dark room.
"you know what they will do if they find out!" She continued.
"It's not my problem Natalia," A man's voice spoke softly.
"you've changed Barnes, they have messed with your head one too many times." She spat.
He sighed.
"I've never seen you like this Natalia, what happened to no attachments? Have you forgotten everything Ivan has taught you?" Buck quizzed.
"UGH! Barnes this isn't about Ivan! It's not about the red room, or you, or even me! It's about her. If Ivan or Alexei find her, they will turn her into something bigger than both of us just look at her genes." She replied.
The pair glanced over to the cot in the corner with the tiny baby.
"We just have to hide her. She will be fully grown at the age of 15 and she will stay that age for her whole life. I wouldn't ask you to do this if I had any other choice, they're going to wipe me and you know it. raise her to be anything but the monster I've become. Please?" she begged.
"Fine. But no promises I can hide her forever." James sighed.
"NATALIA? ITS TIME FOR YOUR TRAINING!" Ivan's voice called from the corridor.
She quickly smiled at James before going over to the cot.
"I will always love you Nevaeh, please remember that. I'm so sorry." She whispered before she sprinted out the room leaving James Barnes with her new born daughter.
*Present day*
On the early November morning, Nia was sat on the main balcony with a fluffy blanket wrapped round her, as Steve went to join her.
"Good run?" she asked without looking round.
"err, yeah how did you-oh, Powers right?" he asked.
She hummed in reply.
"If you don't mind me asking, what exactly can you do?" Steve asked.
"Defence mechanism, Mind oversight, telekinesis and telepathy." She said before taking a sip of her drink.
Steve looked more confused than ever.
"I can create shields round me and others, make people see whatever I want them to see, read minds, see people's future, move object with my mind and I can talk to you without actually speaking. But it's no big deal." She smiled looking over to him.
He chuckled.
"Has my mom told you anything?" she asked warily.
"No, I want her to when she's ready but out of curiosity, who knows about you and what happened?" he asked.
"My mom, Me, Clint and Bucky."
"Bucky?" Steve asked with curiosity.
"yeah he raised me for eight years of my life. No matter what the red room did to him he always had a bit of heart left in him." Nia smiled taking another sip of her hot drink.
"is he your…" "No." Nia cut him off.
"when I was born, my mom needed someone to look after me, the red room would wipe her monthly so she would likely forget she had me so she gave me to Bucky so I would be kept safe. I loved Bucky. He let me call him that; Said it felt familiar to him." She smiled.
Steve smiled thinking about it.
"Truth is, I never knew my dad but I know who he is. When I was, little I thought, it was Bucky because of how much he cared about me. I wanted to ask my mom. But after the first few weeks she stopped coming I knew it was because they wiped her, but I never stopped hoping she would come back." She smiled and looked down.
"How come he only looked after you till you were eight?" Steve asked.
She was silent for a moment.
"They found me. Wondered where Bucky had been sneaking off to so they put a tracker on him. Led them straight to me. Bucky put up one hell of a fight but there was too many, they took me away and wiped him so he would forget. But they forgot about what I would remember." She said softly.
They sat in silence for a few minutes just admiring the view of New York.
"Look Steve, my mom has had many years to get ready to tell someone this, I think it's just because she's afraid of what you would do. Let me talk to her; though she's never been the kind to open up to people, you have a right to know. I don't want it all to come from me." She said before the balcony fell silent.
"Talk to her at exactly 1:06 this afternoon, she'll be ready then." Nia said swiftly before walking off.
*That Afternoon*
"Nat!" Steve called.
"Steve, I've just put the twins down for a nap. Shhhh!" She said back.
"Okay. But Natasha I have to know what's going on. Your 15-year-old daughter that I didn't know existed just shows up out of the blue with Pietro, who last time I checked was dead." He took her hands and led her to the table.
Natasha sighed.
"I'm Sorry I didn't tell you anything, really am. But I don't know how I couldn't just drop it into a conversation." She replied.
"Nat. you can tell me anything, you know that. I'll always be here for you we can get through this but you have to tell me everything." He said looking into her emerald eyes.
"I know. I'll tell you but you can't make me talk about it after."
"Okay, I won't" he assured though he was unsure himself.
She paused before she started.
"I managed to hide the pregnancy from Alexei and Ivan. The KGB had pretty advanced drugs so I stole them so that I wouldn't show. She was born when I was on a mission." She said getting a glass of water.
"That must have been bad – giving birth on a mission." Steve said softly.
"Well you'd think, but it was better than being in the KGB where I would be found out straight away. I was in the hotel after killing one of my targets. My waters broke and I gave birth on the bathroom floor. I picked her up and held her, she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and at that moment nothing else mattered. It was just me and her in a stingy hotel bathroom floor it was just me and her nothing else not the KGB, not Ivan, not even my mission." She spoke as a tear rolled down her face which Steve quickly caught.
"I thought about running away with her I really did, but I knew they would find me and kill me and still I had killed so many people, I was wanted by almost every country in the world. So, I went back, I trusted Bucky with her life. I had to they were going to brain wash me for about the thousandth time." Nat continued.
"Days after her eighth birthday they got her. Wiped Bucky and came to me. They knew she was mine the second they saw her, had fiery red hair like me which she eventually grew out of. I thought they were going to equip her to the red room as she was the right age but they didn't. I saw her and recognized her straight away I remembered everything and the way she looked at me, was just like she knew who I was too." She said.
What did they do to her?" Steve asked.
"They wanted to experiment on her. She had my genes and I had the serum they demanded to know who the father was but I could never tell them, all the more reason to experiment. So, after torturing me, they introduced her to extreme conditions thinking it would maybe kill her so they could take her organs or make me tell them, but all it did was release a chemical that activated her powers. She couldn't control them at the time and killed many people. I grabbed her and ran for what seemed like forever and we lived in a bedsit for a year thinking we were safe. We thought we were free. And then…" she stopped to take a drink of water.
"And then?" Steve asked.
"And then, Clint came when I was at the shop buying us food with what little money we had. We had a massive fight in the alley next door until he had my neck; Just seconds away from snapping it but, I said, 'Kill me I want to die. Do it but it will only make my daughter an orphan.' At the time, he and Laura were dating and trying for a baby. So, he let go said he wouldn't kill me but recruit me for shield and give Nia a happy childhood out of what she had left. And that happened until she almost killed her foster family." She Sighed.
"Purposely or..." Steve asked.
"It was an accident her foster family refused to let her see me and wanted her to move on from me so she freaked out let her powers lose, I was the only one who could make her stop, so I asked if she could live with me. But Fury declined my request and sent her to Russia where she was placed with people who knew what to do with kids like her. I saw her once a year and by 12 she had Depression, Anxiety and she was Self-Harming. It killed me to see her like it but I could do nothing. 3 years later, she was 15 and fully grown. From then on, she wouldn't age like me so I secretly set her up with a company. She told me over and over what she could do and how she wanted to help people, she can heal people and bring them back to life so that's what she did. That's why Pietro's here." Natasha smiled.
"Nat?" Steve asked.
"Hmm?" She replied.
"What did she do when she found out about us?"
Natasha sighed.
"When I told her about me and you she was happier than I thought she would be, a little less so when I told her about the twins. She thought I was replacing her but really, she'll always be my little girl." Natasha replied.
Steve smiled softly at her.
"Hey. Steve I will always love you. No matter what happened in the past it's you and me together. Okay?"
Steve smiled more and kissed her.
"Steve, Nat you better come down stairs now!" Tony's voice said through the speaker.
"What why?" Steve asked.
"Fury's here." Tony replied.
"So, your point is?" Natasha asked.
"He's with Phil Coulson."