Bucky rushes into the room and was greeted with Natasha holding the baby, already wrapped in a blanket. Her face was not so welcoming. Bucky, worried, pushes past her and steps forward to the bed. Heidi was still. Her eyes are closed. The heartrate monitor was beeping very slowly, dangerously slowly. "She's lost a lot of blood and her blood pressure was low earlier," Bruce explains. Bucky touches her face. "Baby, come on…wake up. I'm here," he murmurs to her. Nothing. "Heidi…don't do this to me…" Tears were pooling around his blue eyes. Panicking, he starts to shake her. "Heidi…HEIDI!" The baby starts to cry and Natasha comes up to Bucky. He struggled to tear his eyes away from his wife to his son.
He reaches out for him and holds him up to face him. The baby had little wisps of dark hair but he's got the same hazel eyes as his mother. Bucky, overcome with grief but also joy, cradles the baby to his chest. The baby stops crying but he wiggles around. The monitor, then, stops beeping and a straight line comes up. "No…nonononoNONONO!" Bucky roars. Natasha warms up the paddles and slams them on Heidi's chest. Zap. Her chest comes up but still nothing. Natasha tries again. Zap. Nothing. "Come on Heidi," she grunts in frustration. Zap. The two men watch the monitor but still nothing. Natasha was about to try again but Bruce stopped her. She began to cry and he took her away. Bucky sits next to Heidi's body. He leans over and touches her head with his. "Come back to me…please…" he begs. The baby wouldn't stop wiggling in Bucky's arm and he starts to cry again. Bucky, not sure what else to do, places the infant on her bare chest. Let him hold his mother at least once. The baby immediately stops crying and holds on to the woman. Bucky leans over on the side of the bed and covers his face with his hands as he grieves.
She was cold and tired. Everything around her seemed dull. It hurt to move or even breathe. 'I just need some sleep,' she thought. Heidi felt the fuzziness of her head and vision slowly fade in darkness. Much better. She was comfortable here in the dark. It felt like she was in this state for forever. But then, she felt something warm in her chest. Did she hear a baby cry?
Alexander!
In that instant, the blackness diminished and Heidi felt her lungs expand and light shining on her face. She gasps loudly and starts to cough for air. Something was sitting on her chest and she reaches out for it only to realize it's her son. "Oh thank God," Bucky's voice rings in her ears. She looks up and he was standing over her. His eyes were bloodshot and she could see spots of blood around his face from the fights.
"James?"
"I'm here. I thought I lost you," he says with a smile. She pulls herself up to kiss him. Natasha and Bruce come rushing in and they were relieved to see her. "We thought we had lost you!" Nat shrieks with tears. "I think I was…for the moment…" Heidi says quietly. Then her attention turns to the baby in her arms. Joy overwhelms her as she holds him up in her arms to look at him. "Hey sweetie, I'm so glad you're finally here," she coos. The baby smiles back. She laughs and looks up at her husband. "He's just as handsome as you are." "Apparently as strong too," he adds. The pair laughed together.
Bucky showed his son to the rest of the team. Everyone was happy to see that he was healthy. Just as predicted, Alexander has traces of Heidi's formula in his blood stream. It is expected that he will have similar abilities as his mother. Three days after the baby was born, the Secretary of State came to the compound. Seeing the wreckage, he immediately questioned Stark and Rogers. When they explained that Hydra attacked them, Ross freaked out. "This is why I wanted her under surveillance in the first place."
"Oh like you were going to stop Hydra from getting to her," Tony argues, "No, she was at the safest place she could possibly be. She was no danger to anyone else!"
"But now I have dangerous people who might use drastic measures to get to her and the child." "So you'd rather we hand them to Hydra and use them to hurt innocent people instead?" Steve retorts. Ross slams a thick booklet on the table. "THIS is a contract from the U.N. stating that Hendricks and her child become government property. They will be taken to a secure facility where they will be constantly monitored and protected." The two other men were stunned. "I'm in the process of including Barnes since the secret is out I suppose." "So you're going to lock up a newborn just because of his parents? You're insane!" Tony yells. "I have over 100 signatures from countries around the world that agreed to this. Besides, the child will be taken care of. We're not separating him from his mother." "How long do you intend to keep them?" Steve questions with a cold look. "As long as we want, or at least until things quiet down. "You mean until the people forget them," Tony remarks. Ross ignores them and leaves to search for Heidi.