Roo sat on the edge of the bed, and looked out the window, at the New York skyline. She had woken up a couple of minutes ago, when she heard Natasha and Clint coming into their apartment. Right now, someone was in the shower, and the other was walking around the kitchen.
She stood up, and walked to the bureau, and picked up the file. She flipped through it, until she found the picture she wanted.
It was a picture of her family, at the beach, taken a week before everything went wrong. Roo was in the middle, with Ty on her left, and Liana on the right. Her mother was next to Ty, and her father was next to Liana.
Roo remembered that day clearly.
"Mom! Look at what I found!" screamed Ty, showing his mother a big seashell he had found.
"That's awesome, Ty! Can I see it?" Asked her mother.
Liana was sitting in the sand, trying to make a upside down sandcastle. Liana was always creative, and Roo thought she should become an artist.
"Daddy! I need more sand!" She had screamed.
"I'm getting it."
Her father was acting as Liana's helper, and was constantly fetching sand for her.
"Roo! How about you come down from there, and eat something?" Her mother asked.
"Sure," she had answered.
Roo was climbing some rocks she had found, and was watching the scene. The day was so perfect; everything was perfect.
Roo sighed. She missed her parents, her siblings. To her, the last time she had seen them was seven years ago. Hydra was never her family. To her, they were just people who taught her how to defend herself, who taught her how to shoot.
And now she was struck in Avenger's Tower with two Avengers' as her adoptive parents. They were being nice to her, but they were being too nice. Why should they bother with her?
Which reminds me, I gotta tell Fury about Hydra's plans...
Roo rubbed her eyes and yawned.
Everything could wait until morning.
The first thing Tony did in the morning was kick everyone out of the tower for the day.
"Bye everyone! Don't come back until 10! And that's PM!"
Pepper glared at him. She was the only person who was staying.
"Tony, what is this? Why are you kicking everyone out of the tower?"
"It's only for a day."
"But why?"
"So I can work on Clint's rude kid's room."
"She has a name."
"So? Anyhow, I didn't want anyone to peek."
"Really? Why-"
Just then, they door bell rang. (Tony found it hilarious that Avengers' Tower had a door bell)
"That must be the stuff I ordered!" He said cheerfully, and walked into the elevator. Pepper followed.
When they got to the lobby, they found tons of gigantic boxes, a bewildered looking receptionist, and an exhausted delivery man.
"Uh, Tony? The room's floor space isn't big enough for all that stuff." Pepper said, eyeing the boxes wearily. It was going to take forever to get it all up onto the Avengers' quarters.
"Who said anything about floors?" Asked Tony, as he finished signing the form. "Come on, let's get it upstairs."
An hour later, all the boxes were in Clint and Natasha's hallway, and Pepper and Tony were painting the walls purple, and the door red.
"The paint isn't going to dry fast enough." Pepper told Tony.
"Yeah? Well, I invented fast drying paint. That's why I'm a genius."
Soon, the walls were all painted and dry, and Tony started ripping open the boxes.
"Ok, this one is the bed, that one over their is the desk... Pepper? Do you know which one has the bookcase?"
When everyone came back to the Tower, they found Pepper and Tony covered in purple and red paint, looking dead tired.
"Why are you covered in paint?" Asked Sharon walking over to Pepper.
Pepper smiled at her friend. "We were decorating."
"Decorating?" Asked Thor.
"We were decorating the assassins' kid's room."
"You were on our floor?" Asked Natasha, narrowing her eyes.
"You didn't snoop, did you?" Asked Clint.
"Don't worry, I kept him in my sights." Assured Pepper.
"Can we see it?" Asked Jane. Pepper nodded.
Roo was confused. Then again, the Avengers were confusing. Her whole life after the fire was confusing.
The Avengers were being nice to her. Not that she was expecting them to attack her (Well, a part of her was), but a billionaire genius and his wife (Who just happened to be the CEO of a highly successful company) decorating a room for her wasn't something she was expecting. She had actually imagined living in the cupboard under the stairs, like Harry Potter (Though she didn't imagine a invitation to go to a magical school coming to her via owl).
They were now standing in front of a door painted red, and Tony opened the door with a flourish.
"Ta-da! Look at my brilliant genius!" Tony crowed.
Roo poked her head in the room, and her eyes widened.
The walls were pointed purple, and the doors to what she thought was the bathroom and closet were painted red, like the door to the hallway. There was a bookcase with a couple of books in it, and next to it was a desk, with a computer on it. There was also a small red sofa, with purple throw pillows on it. The walls, after Roo looked at them again, had pegs sticking out of them, for reasons she wasn't sure of.
In other words, the room was wonderful. Except for one thing.
"Where's the bed?" Asked Bruce, after he looked in.
Tony grinned. "Look up."
Roo did, and saw a bed hanging from the ceiling.
"Why is the bed hanging from the ceiling?" Asked Steve, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, there wasn't enough space to put the bed, and everyone should have a couch in their room. Also, this is the kid of the Black Widow and Hawkeye! She should naturally like high spaces, right?"
"How do you get up?" Asked Betty, looking up at the bed.
"Easy! JARVIS, bring down the ladder!"
A ladder came out of the ceiling, and Tony walked up to it.
"See?"
"Nice. But what's with the pegs sticking out of the wall?" Asked Clint.
"You know how assassins love hanging up weapons? Those are for Roo's weapons."
"Oh."
"Well, Roo, do you like it?" Asked Pepper.
Roo smiled slightly.
"It's wonderful. Thank you."
Roo lay in her new bed, and sighed. She could get used to this life. No one yelling at her to work harder, no one disappointed at her, no one threatening to hurt Ava...
Ava! She completely forgot about Ava!
She wondered if Hydra would hurt Ava. Probably not.
Hydra would have already noticed her missing. She hoped they thought she was dead.
She could hide here, Roo decided. The Avengers didn't seem like they were going to kick her out anytime soon.
But things never last for long. Her family didn't. Hydra didn't.
Roo sighed again, and waited for the universe to throw more crap at her.
