53 Last Christmas

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"What are you looking at?" I asked Steve curiously as I watched Steve concentrate on the laptop screen. Amelia was curled up in my arms happily watching the world go by.

"Nothing." Steve mumbled and didn't convince me.

"Liar." I called him out and look over his shoulder.

"Brooklyn real estate?" I question immediately.

"I do it occasionally when I miss my hometown." Steve admitted quietly.

"Brooklyn's nice." I nod. "I could transfer to SI's R&D department in New York. Work in Avengers Tower…"

Steve then looked at me. "Looking at places to live in Brooklyn doesn't mean…"

"You miss Brooklyn. Clearly. We can consider it."

"You grew up here. Your family is here. We can't leave California."

"I lived here when I was a baby. I mostly grew up in Massachusetts because I went to MIT so young. I graduated college with a doctorate at fifteen remember? I moved to back Pasadena with my family at seventeen, meaning I don't remember much of California before hand. Not to mention I moved to DC for SHIELD. I happen to like the east coast Steve."

"Now it sounds like you want to move…" Steve laughed as he stole Amelia from me.

"I'm saying lets consider it."

"…Alright then…" Steve looked at me surprised.

"Good. Now, I promised to help my dad for a few hours. Have fun with the princess. I'm jealous." I say as I grabbed a pop tart before kissing my child and husband.

"You could stay, you are on maternity leave…" Steve reminded me.

"Then I wouldn't get to help with my dad's new project. I like this project."

"The whole Iron Legion thing again?" Steve asked.

"You sound disapproving."

"No. Made to help keep civilians safe when things go sideways. I'm a fan. I just think Tony's getting obsessive and to an extent over-zealous. The last time he did this he made forty-two Iron Man armors."

"That ended up becoming handy in the end but I see your point, he needs a better hobby. I'll keep him in check. I promise."


"Clint?" Jessica attempted to get the archer's attention as he got his first pot of coffee. Clint tended to drink his coffee right out of the pot.

"Too early for talking Jess. Please leave a message after the beep."

"Am I smart?" Jessica asked anyway.

"Your guess is as good as mine." Clint walked into the living room leaving Jessica befuddled.

Jessica sighed and went to find Natasha.

"Natasha?" Jessica found the assassin cleaning up Liho's latest victim.

"Jess."

"Would you say I'm… smart?"

"Sure. Why?"

"I never went to school. I didn't graduate."

"Neither did I. or Clint. We turned out okay." Natasha shrugged.

"I want to go to school." Jessica announced.

"Alright then. Talk to Pepper. She'd know about school stuff more than Clint and I."


It was half way through the day when I found on the refrigerator a colourful list that was clearly written by Lily.

"This Lily's Christmas list?" I ask my dad as I watch him go straight for the coffee.

"Yeah. Pep also helped her write her letter to Santa yesterday." Tony smiled. Christmas was a little over two weeks away. Of course the little girl was excited for Santa.

"What does she want?"

"A dinosaur."

"Does she really want a dinosaur or do you want a dinosaur?"

"No, Lily. See that green word at the top? That's her spelling Tyrannosaurs Rex."

"Oh, I see it now. She spelt it correctly. Nice job."

"She's gotten really good at spelling." Tony nodded.

"How do you plan on getting a T-Rex?"

"Was going to build one. Pep said no. So a giant stuffy."

"Not giant rabbit stuffy size right?" I feel the need to clarify. Tony was still being reminded of the 'Giant Rabbit Debacle' almost every day.

"Pep vetoed that as well…"


"Steve… what is with the boxes in the closet?" I ask when I come home and opened the hall closet to find a lot of boxes.

"Amelia's Christmas presents." Steve shrugged.

"She'll barely be eight weeks old. I don't think she can open presents yet."

"Don't take the fun out of this for me Aly."

"Speaking of Amelia… she asleep?"

"Yeah. Fell asleep in my arms. She does that little nose-crinkling thing that you do when she's about to fall asleep. Its adorable." Steve gave a dopey smile.

"She so has you wrapped around her finger… what could you possibly gotten an infant?"

"I bought her a stuffed musical elephant. Amelia really likes music so I figured…"

"And the nine other boxes?"

"Um… they were so cute…" Steve looked to the ground with a blush.

"And so are you… you're such a dad. Spoiling our baby." I laugh and ruffle Steve's hair.

"Hard to resist the baby with her mother's charm." Steve hugged me.

"Flattering." I rolled my eyes. "But I thought it was your charm she had…"

"If she had my charm she would be a lot more awkward…"

"Then you do not know yourself well. And I find your awkwardness adorable."

"You might be the only one."

"That's not true. Tons of women think you're adorable. I should just be the only one you recognize."

"How is Tony and his project?"

"Good job changing the subject." I snorted. "He and his robocops were fine. Tony thinks he can debut them just after Christmas."

Steve nodded. "That's good. Thor really wants to start looking for the scepter. Having his Iron Legion ready would definitely be a plus."

"I agree… you are going on these little avengers adventures aren't you?" I sigh.

"Without me and Bruce, who would take care of the children?" Steve said jokingly.

"As long as you come back to your actual child. And me." I patted Steve's shoulder and headed towards the stairs.

"Always."


It was five thirty on Christmas morning and I was wide awake. Steve and Amelia were asleep at the moment. I figured it wouldn't be too much longer and both would be up with me.

I was in the other room working on the last minute details for my dad's present. Lily had been helping me with it as well. Lily is surprisingly good at finding bugs in computer code…

"There she is. We found mommy." Steve said to the baby in his arms as he leaned in the doorway of my office/work area.

"Merry Christmas you two." I smiled at the pair.

"Merry Christmas." Steve kissed the top of my head. "What are you doing?"

"Present from me and Lily for my dad. I was trying to finish it before you got up."

"I noticed you got up. You think I don't notice when I stop getting kneed in the back?" Steve shrugged it off.

"Jerk. I don't knee you in the back."

"You do. Don't worry about it. I'm a super soldier and this way I know you're alive."

"That's sorta depressing Rogers."

"It's the truth."

"The truth is depressing. It's Christmas. Don't do that to me."

"Alright then. Presents?"

"Better."


Christmas was in full swing at the Stark Mansion. The kids were playing upstairs with Darcy. Steve, Thor, Bucky, Jessica and Clint were talking about who knows what. Natasha had stolen my daughter. Pepper and Valerie were discussing their kids. And Tony, Bruce, Rhodey, Jimmy and I were discussing a NASA mission that went wrong about two weeks ago, leading to a missing NASA security captain.

Then Jane walked into the room.

"Tony… why are there four holographic beagles in your bathroom?" Jane asked confused. Everyone looked towards Tony.

Tony sighed "Lily! What did I tell you about playing with the holograph settings without supervision?" Tony called to my sister as he walked upstairs.

"Never a dull moment…" Rhodey laughed.

"No kidding." Jimmy smiled.

"So Alyssa, Tony was telling me you helped with the Iron Legion project." Rhodey then mentioned.

"Yeah he asked for my help with some things. Internal programming and what not."

"Well, I have to say the work is impressive, as usual."

"Thank you." I said to my former boss and feel a little sister tugging on my leg.

"Now Lyssa?" Lily asked me. Even though now she could properly say 'Alyssa' she still preferred to use the nickname she branded me with.

"You wanna give it to dad now?" I ask the little girl, who nods her response.

"Alright, you go give it to him." I give Lily the box and she runs to give it to Tony.

"What's this Lil?" Tony asked Lily.

"Open daddy." Lily commanded. I came by and brought the toddler in my lap.

"FRIDAY? Is… is this an AI?" Tony asked me.

"Lily said JARVIS needed a friend." I shrugged. "You don't have to use it. Ever. JARVIS is the best AI on the planet."

"How'd you come up with the name?"

"The phrase 'my girl Friday' actually." I smirked.

Tony laughed and got FRIDAY online.

"Hello Boss, is there anything you need assistance with?" the feminine voice answered.

"I know for JARVIS you used a modified version of real Jarvis using voice samples. So I took voice samples of myself, Pepper and Lily, mixed them together and modified that." I explained the voice.

"JARVIS has a friend now!" Lily smiled brightly.

"That's right Lilypad, JARVIS now has a friend. Very thoughtful of you." Tony smiled at the little girl.

Tony then turned to me to talk about the inner workings of the AI.

"It even runs the advanced holograph system that Lily created. I know that most of Stark Industries' holographs are that program." I informed my dad.

"Well, it is the superior system. All of Avengers Tower uses it. How Lily figured out how to smooth out the internal algorithm and make it react eighteen percent faster to the users commands I will never know…" Tony thought to himself.

"I asked her actually. She just said 'compute-y stuff.'" I deadpan.

"The mind of a three year old genius." Tony shook his head.

"No kidding. When I was three I used to spout physics equations in my sleep." I shook my head.

"And I was building circuits…" Tony said to himself.

"When I was three I just stared learning Calculus." Jimmy joined in.

"And when I was three I was playing with blocks and eating dirt. Can you guys shut up? You are making us feel bad." Clint piped up.


"Hey Jess, can I talk to you for a second?" Steve asked the new recruit.

"Sure Cap, what's up?" the girl in question turned around.

"I know you are not a full avenger yet, but I feel that you have been trained enough to ask you this question. With all of us looking for Loki's missing scepter, would you mind keeping an eye on Alyssa? Barnes will be here too and he said he'd keep her out of trouble. But he has his own family and I was hoping that you wouldn't mind…"

"Of course. I can do that for ya." Jessica mock saluted.


Next Chapter: 5 month time skip. Age of Ultron has happened. Don't worry, I'll tell you what's different in this story.