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Chapter 25-

A few hours after the fight with Ultron, Emerson was laying in a hospital bed. She was hooked up to an IV and a monitor. Looking around the hospital room, she didn't see Steve anywhere and she felt like something was missing.

"Ms. Rhodes, you gave us quite the scare." Nick Fury said when he walked into the room. This was the first time Emerson was able to put the face to the name. "Cap will be back shortly. We had to force him out of the room so he can shower. We figured you wouldn't want to smell a rotting man when you first woke up. We are at St Mathews Hospital."

Sitting up slowly in the bed, grunting softly as it hurt to sit. "Its Emerson. What happened?"

"You were shot." Fury said plain and simple. "Cap's calmness then turned into a rampage. We were surprised it took Cap so long. We were expecting that to happen when we found out you were kidnapped."

Emerson's eyebrows shot up in surprise, until everything that happened came back to her.

Emerson was standing in-between Steve and the helicarrier, SHIELD had just come to help get every civilians off the flying city of Sokovia. Steve was using his shield to protect the two while the couple ran to were flying everywhere and Emerson was beginning to feel nervous. They were only 10 feet away from the entrance were Emerson and the baby would be safe. When the majority of the bullets cleared Steve threw his shield at the robots that were surrounding them right as they made it to the entrance. But the last robot got a shot off before getting hit and the target was Emerson.

Resting her hand on her right side where she remembered the bullet hitting her. She also glanced down at her hopefully still pregnant womb. "Am I okay? Is the baby okay?"

"You are just fine. We got the bullet out." Fury said sliding his hand down his face as one of the SHIELD doctors walked in with a incubator. "Do you want to meet your son?"

"My son?" Emerson asked her eyes not leaving the incubator. Beginning to hyperventilate, Emerson pointed at the incubator. "Why is he in there and not in my womb?!" The doctor was trying to explain what had happened but Emerson didn't want to hear any of it. "No. We were just going to find out the sex. This is not how I wanted to find out. Put him back in! Its too early!"

"Em!" Steve said running into the room, straight to her. "Listen to him please." Resting his hand on her cheek, saying the one thing he knew that would calm her down. "Liam is outside waiting for you. He wants to meet his little brother."

"Liam? Liam's here? How is he?" Emerson asked as Steve sat on the bed, taking a deep breathe.

Kissing her temple, Steve smiled. "He's doing just perfect. He just wants to see his mom and the only way he can do that is if his mom listens to the doctor."

Sniffling softly, Emerson turned towards the doctor. "Okay tell me what happened."

Nodding his head over at Steve, the doctor explained what happened. "When we were in surgery for removing the bullet, we realized that it was hitting the edge of your womb, creating a hole. The baby was in distress from all the blood you were losing. The only option to fix the hole was to take the baby out."

"How is the baby?" Emerson asked looking over at little baby, who looked like a baby but only as big as a spaghetti squash. "He looks so little."

Smiling softly, the doctor nodded over to Steve. "Because of the serum running in your son's vines, he is doing very well. Better then most preemies. Which probably saved his life. But we are going to have to keep him in the incubator until we believe it will be safe for him to live without it."

"How long do you think it'll be until we will be able to hold him?" Emerson asked hooking her arm with Steve's. "And can we see our other son?"

"I'll go get him." Fury said as the doctor nodded his head.

"Hopefully you'll be able to hold him in a couple of weeks. If he has half of what Cap has running through his blood, it will take a little longer for him to heal. But he will heal faster then a non serum baby." The doctor said as Fury stepped out to get Liam. "But I would start thinking of a name. I don't think you want him to be called Baby Cap."

Nodding his head, Steve smiled. "Yeah we will think of a name. I don't want him to be called Baby Cap."

"I think it's cute." Emerson said as the door opened, showing Liam holding onto Fury's hand. "Oh my god Liam, come here."

"Mommy!" Liam exclaimed as he let go of Fury's hand and ran over to the hospital bed. After Steve helped him up onto the bed, Liam snuggled into Emerson's side. "Your okay."

"Your okay." Emerson said tears filling her eyes, hugging her son tightly. The one thing that kept her going when she was in the cell, was being able to see Liam again. She knew Liam watching her get taken was hard on him and all she wanted was to hold her son. "I'm so glad your okay."

"I was so brave mommy. Wasn't I daddy?" Liam said with a smile on his face as Steve nodded his head. "I called daddy right away and then Agent Hill came to pick me up! And she took me to grandma and grandpa's! I only cried a little bit, but daddy and grandpa said it was okay. Boys are allowed to cry."

"They most certainly are." Emerson said kissing the top of his head.

Steve leaned into the pillows on the hospital bed and looked over at his family. The family he never thought he would have or get the chance to have since waking up from the ice. Listening to the conversations of Liam and Emerson always calmed him down. Right now it was perfect. Even if his son was born earlier than he should have been, something Steve feels as it was his fault. He shouldn't have let her fight for as long as he did. But he didn't have a choice, the city was all ready flying in the sky and they couldn't risk not having Thor up there with them. As the Demi God was the only one how could fly her away from all the action. He taught Emerson how to properly shoot a gun and how to fight, just not thinking that Emerson would have to fight pregnant against an army of robots.

"What about Elijah." Emerson said looking at the incubator. "We could call him Eli for short. Its a strong name right? He should have a strong name."

Nodding his head, Steve looked over at the incubator. "I like it. Elijah Rogers. What about the middle name?"

"Steven." Emerson said looking over at Steve with a smile on her face. "Elijah Steven Rogers."

"Are you sure?" Steve asked looking over at the love of his life. "We can pick a different middle name. Maybe after your father."

Shaking her head. "No I want to name him after his father. The one who will always be there for him, to protect him. Just like his father was right before he was born."

"I could have saved you. And kept him inside his mom's belly for the rest of his time." Steve said shaking his head. "I should have gotten there sooner. I would have been able to save you both."

Resting her hand on Steve's cheek, Emerson shook her head. "No you wouldn't have. We actually got lucky that I didn't loose Eli. Ultron threw me against the wall the day before you all made it. There could have been way more problems then there actually were. We got extremely lucky. We could have lost our son, instead we got to meet him earlier then expected. And that is okay."

"You're right, we are extremely lucky." Steve said kissing Emerson's temple. "Elijah Steven Rogers does have a nice ring to it."
"It most certainly does." Emerson said resting her hand gently in the incubator. "Welcome to the world Eli."