Bucky Barnes felt completely out of place, watching Ana hang out with her group of friends. They were all around the pool, Connor and his brother playing chicken with the two girls that were sisters. Ana sat on the edge of the pool, with her legs crossed as she watched them with a half noticed amusement. These were people that weren't monsters, like he was. He remembered everything that he had put people through while being the Winter Solider and he didn't understand why the Avengers, and Ana had done what they did for him. "Stop thinking that." He turned to see Valentina standing beside him, her long curly hair in a ponytail. "I lived with a drug dealer as a father, I can tell when someone is feeling guilty over things." She shrugged. "What are you feeling guilty about?" He watched her sigh when she didn't reply. "You know, I shot a man once before coming to camp. He broke into our house and tried to grab me, there was a small gun on the couch and I shot him in the dick. He died."
"Why are you telling me this?" He asked, looking at her. He couldn't imagine Valentina in all of her bubbly personality to have lived a tough life. She seemed like the girl that had everything perfect in the world happen to her. She had seemed to be the happy glue that brought the entire group of friends together. The entire time that he had known Valentina, she had never seemed to be like a daughter of a drug dealer or anything put a girl that was loyal to her friends. She shrugged, before telling him that at one point Ana and Valentina were on opposite sides of the war. She had thought that Kronos would be the best one to fall in line with, it would bring a better peace to the world and once she had saw the terrible things that had happened, she had fled before the Battle of the Labyrinth to tell Camp Half Blood everything.
"I don't think that some members of camp really forgive me. I know it was a few months until Ana could look me in the eye, we fell into a broken step. You're not the only one with regrets of temporarily being on the wrong side of life. I don't regret what I did, because we would have never realized that the Labyrinth would bring monsters into camp." She looked towards the group that was laughing, expect for Ana. "I went from a girl who didn't know how to kill to one wo knew how to make dying hurt." She replied, smiling softly at him. "If you ever want someone who completely understands, I'm around. Some people see children of Aphrodite with nothing more than matchmakers, we are born to read people and sometimes it really does suck because you see people hurt that try to hide it." She got up, then smiled softly at him before jumping into the pool.
He got up, walking toward the other Avengers, the Barton family, and Peter's Aunt May with a smile on his face. "Hey Bucky, do you know where Valentina is?" Peter asked, "I want to introduce Aunt May to my girlfriend." He seemed to beam at the words, it was something that showed he was proud to call the girl his girlfriend. He wondered what all that he had told her about her life, did he know that her mother was a Greek goddess, what all she had done.
"She's in the pool with Ana and all the rest." He replied, "They were playing some game while Ana watched." He watched Peter nod as he pulled May towards where the pool is. He could only smile as he walked over to Steve and Sam talking. "You know how the government wanted proof that I was getting better before I went on missions and it had to be a giant leap of faith. I've realized what I want to do. See if Valentina's dad is alive, if he is I want him to sign papers so I can adopt her." He smiled at Sam's and Steve's face, for the first time Bucky felt like there would be hope for him after all. He needed someone in life who saw him as a person who had made mistakes and was trying to learn from them, Valentina needed someone who could do that also along with a father figure in her life. He'd eventually need to ask Clint for help with the entire parenting concept while he worked to become her guardian.
Clint smiled at his wife and children as they played around the Facility. They had always enjoyed coming around when they were off, but since Ana had come around they hadn't come by. Lila was following Aunt Nat around while Cooper was in the lab with Tony. Laura was holding Nathaniel in her arms as he smiled at her. "I want you to meet someone. I told you about Natasha's daughter and I'd like you to meet her." He replied, pulling her toward the pool as she smiled at him. From what he had heard, Ana was taking some weird demigod thing to help her sleep and was able to sleep through the night. Her leg was still bruised and it hurt slightly to walk on it though. He smiled and waved at her as she watched four people playing chicken in the pool, one of them definitely being Connor Stoll.
She got up and limped slightly over to them, smiling softly. "Clint, I'm not holding the baby. I'm awful with kids, every time I touch one they sense my death stuff and start screaming bloody murder." She replied, giving him a side hug. "It's gotten worse since my accident." She replied, then turned to Laura with an expression that was all Ana he could not read. "You must be Laura, Clint's wife. He's mentioned you once or twice before. I'm Anastasia Romanoff, but you can call me Ana. I'm Natasha's daughter."
"You look a lot like her," Laura replied, smiling softly. "This is Nathaniel." She replied, making a motion to the baby in her arms. "How are you enjoying the facility?" She asked as Ana gave a vague enjoyment reply. She looked slightly different that the last time he had seen her, mostly because she was actually awake. Her hair had been evened out, still making it incredibly short, shorter than what it had been. Her face was clearer, fewer bruises around her face. She still seemed somewhat sad and worried.
"Wait until Lila and Cooper get a hold of you, they can't wait to meet you." She watched her face bleach before smiling softly. "You'll be fine, Ana. You trust me?"
"Is that a rhetorical question?" Ana asked, crossing her arms and smirking. "Because depending on the week I have depends on who I can actually trust."
"Funny Ana. You're a spitting image of your mother, you even have her attitude." He replied, as he watched her smirk and blow a kiss. She saw Connor, soaking wet, creeping up behind Ana with a smirk on his face. He grabbed her by the waist, and spun her, making her squeal making the other people in the pool making comments about how gross they were.
He left the group to do what they were doing; Laura went to go check on the kids. That was when he ran into Bucky Barnes. "I need to talk to you." He replied, looking slightly nervous. "It's important and you're the only one qualified to ask."
"You asking Nat to marry you?" He asked, as he watched Barnes shake his head. "Alright, then what is it?" He listened to Bucky explaining his conversation with Valentina and how he realized that in that moment she needed a father that she could talk to and understand how she felt. He explained that he was going to start finding who her father was and to get him to sign off his legal rights if Valentina if they weren't already taken away and that he was going to adopt her. Clint could only see that the conversation and his mind being made with Valentina was the biggest step of improvement that Bucky had in his help and it was thanks to the little Hispanic daughter of Aphrodite.
Clint grinned, leaning back in his chair, "Here's what I've learned so far about being a parent. Now my kids are a lot younger than what Valentina is. Natasha can help you with the demigod parent part of it. I also have heard rumors of another demigod parent named Sally Blofis." He replied, "I've been keeping my ears open to demigod news so we can stay better prepared for Ana's life." With that, Clint Barton gave him information on everything that he knows about being a father and his life with having kids and being an Avenger.