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Chapter 22: The day we had a scare
Everybody rushed out of the structure and got into their cars. Steve, Natasha, Elena and Jamie got into the same car whereas Tony, Pepper and Maria got into another one. Wanda took her own car and had told everyone to follow her. The friends did has told and followed the long haired woman. Steve was the one driving while Natasha looked out of the widow guiltily. To her eyes, it was her fault. She would not get over it if something bad had happened to Clint.
"Hey, you okay?" The blonde haired man looked over at her with a worried expression.
"Yes." She said and looked at him giving him a tight smile.
The rest of the road happened mostly in silence, the two children in the backseats were speaking to each other. "My daddy is my daddy." Elena said.
"But your daddy is my daddy, too." Jamie retorted back. "We share our daddy but not our mommy."
"No, we don't." She said, talking about the latter one. "I am going to be a ballerina."
"Oh? It's my momma who will teach you!" He said cheerfully, proud of his mother.
"Yes, she is." Elena nodded.
Steve drove behind Wanda and parked beside her when they arrived at the building she took them too. Everyone got out of their cars and looked at each other with worry and confusion except the two kids who kept speaking about their parents. "Where are we?" Steve asked.
Wanda sighed. "Just follow me." She said and nodded her head towards the entrance of the building before walking in. The adults frowned more, especially Natasha and went after her anyway. Natasha was ahead of them even Wanda who told her to go forward. The woman was suspicious and doubtful. Who the hell who had been attacked would go in such a dark building? Some things didn't add up and died to know why they had come here.
A plastic curtain was separating the corridor they were in with an unknown room and strangely, some soft music jazz could be heard from that room. Elena stuck closer to her father and grabbed his hand. "I'm dead meat. We're dead meat." She said in a whisper and Tony chuckled.
Natasha was fed-up with all this suspense and opened the curtain in one shove to the side. The light immediately turned off and some ruffles were heard from behind her. She turned around and called out. "Jamie? Jamie?" She took out her phone to put the light on and saw that nobody was around her anymore. Her phone was violently removed from her hand. "Hey!" She protested and tried to grab the person's arm but failed.
Suddenly somebody grabbed her arms and shoved her through the room, without any light she almost tripped. Natasha struggled to get free from the person's strong arms but nothing made them let go. The person made her sit down on a chair and then let go of her but when she stood up to leave, the light switched back on and she could who the person was. A shocked expression passed through her face, the man stood tall and was as handsome as she remembered. He looked at her with this smile playing at the corner of his lips. His shirt was unbuttoned and his hair longer than she remembered, he had so much changed after all those years. Once she recovered from the shock of seeing the man, his name fell from her lips in a questioning tone. "Thor?"
Thor smiled at Natasha and winked at her before he started to shake his shoulders. "Sit down, friend Natasha. You're up for a long ride." He told her and pushed her gently back down on the chair. She looked up at him with parted lips. "What are you talking about? Where are-?"
He interrupted her by putting a finger on her lips as he surprised her by the simple action. "Shh, shh. Don't question anything and forget everything for a moment, will you?"
"Uh-huh." The still confused Natasha replied with a frown on her face. Thor disappeared and she was once again alone. "Thor?" She called out. "Jamie? Elena? Steve?" She called out one by one. A blinding light came from before her and she blinked a few time. She heard light steps walk on what looked like a stage? Why would a stage be there?
"Hi, momma!" She heard Jamie's innocent voice from the little stage. He waved at her with his smile, the woman smiled at her son and waved back though she still wondered what was happening. He looked to his right to where Natasha assumed Steve was. Her son nodded and looked back at her. "My momma is the best momma in the world. I don't known all the mommas but my momma is the greatest in the world. She is always here for me when I'm having bad dreams and she makes the best cookies in the world..." He paused, trying to remember his words. He just shrugged and giggled. "Silly me, I forgot the words!"
Natasha felt the tears coming up in her eyes in pride, it made her so happy to hear her little world talk about her in such a cheerful manner. She chuckled at his last sentence.
"I love you, momma!" He said instead and smiled. "To the North Pole and back." He smile widely and waved at her again.
"I love you too, baby boy." She said her smile never leaving her face.
Elena walked on the stage to her brother and took the microphone he handed her. She smiled at him and made bubble noises in the microphone. "It's working!" She said enthusiastically. "Now, Miss Tasha, do welcome the Seaker of borgivness."
Natasha frowned then heard someone's voice whisper. "Seeker of Forgiveness!"
"Oh!" Elena said before repeating the right words. "Seeker of Forgiveness!" The younger child put the microphone down and got down from the stage along with her brother. The two Rogers children walked to Natasha and gave her a kiss on each cheeks. She smiled and kissed their heads and took them on her lap.
Natasha looked up the stage and saw Steve, Maria, Wanda, Tony, Pepper and Thor walk to the middle of the stage. Oh, that fucker! Clint was there, too and he was alright! She looked at them and her eyebrows raised up when she saw Laura, Sam and Bucky get on stage as well. Natasha's eyebrows crashed together as she saw that they all had a microphone except Steve who picked up the one his kids used.
The girls lifted the microphones to their lips and started harmonizing. "Ooh… Ooh… Ooh…" They were the first ones who sang.
Maria: Oh, Natasha. Did I tell you that you are precious to me?
Wanda: You mean more than you think… to me
Pepper: After all the shit you went through… I haven't been better than those who hurt you
Laura: This is why I am standing before you today, I want to apologize for the wrongs I've done
Sam: And I want you to know that friendship was all we needed from the beginning
Bucky: You work yourself off for other people's happiness that yu forget your own
Tony: You never let me down, never made me cry and you always made me smile so much
Everybody:
Natasha, we want to see you smile
You've always stood by us, We owe you
Yes, we owe you so forking much darling
We are the little seeker of forgiveness
Asking you here and now to forgive us
Clint: I know how you can be, how mad you can get
Steve: But know that I owe you, you are my magical person
Thor: We owe you darling, yes we do
Everybody:
Natasha, we want to see you smile
You've always stood by us, We owe you
Yes, we owe you so forking much darling
We are the little seeker of forgiveness
Asking you here and now to forgive us
Tony: This song is dedicated to you, Natasha
Steve: You are an amazing mother and a super person. This is why I love you.
Clint: I'm sorry for the scare, we needed you there today
Everybody:
Natasha, we want to see you smile
You've always stood by us, We owe you
Yes, we owe you so forking much darling
We are the little seeker of forgiveness
Asking you here and now to forgive us
They all sang smiling and looking at Natasha. The said woman was overwhelmed by the little attention they had for her. Her son looked up at her with a smile on his lips and he lifted his small hands to wipe away the tears that had rolled down her cheeks. She hadn't noticed that she had started crying but she noticed that all eyes were on hers.
She stood up getting the two children on the ground. She sighed slightly as she walked up to the stage and everyone kept looking at her? She walked to Clint. "Natasha-" He began but she interrupted him by lifting her hand.
"First of all." She started talking and raised her hand to slap Clint's face. Everybody was shocked, some gasped and other's eyes widened. "That's for using Alexei to bring me here and for the shameful words you've almost all said to me."
"That's understandable." Clint said. "That was kind of a assh- ashhole move."
"Yeah, that was." She nodded and looked at everyone. Her face broke into a smile. "But I really appreciated the gesture. It was a really good idea what you did. Thank you, guys."
Wanda beamed with happiness, she was proud to know that she had loved the song. "I suggested to record it but these guys didn't want to." She said.
Sam, Bucky, Clint and Laura looked at Natasha waiting for her to talk. They all meant their parts in the story, they were really sorry for what they said and wanted the woman to forgive them. As if on clue, Natasha looked at each of them. "Even you guys. Thank you and I forgive you."
The four of them beamed and jumped to Natasha to hug her. She laughed as she got crushed into their bodies and hugged them back. "I missed you guys."
"We missed you too." Laura said.
"We are sorry." Sam chided in, insisting that they regretted their words.
"It's okay." Natasha said and hugged each of them. The redhead smiled and looked at Thor. "It's been so long that I haven't seen you." She told him.
"That's right." He nodded with a smile. "I hope I didn't scare you earlier."
"Well you did, a bit but that was nothing." She shrugged it off. "Hey, where's Jane? I haven't seen her for a long time as well."
Silence fell among the adults as they all looked awkwardly at each other. Natasha frowned, man if she didn't get wrinkles by the end of the day she'd be surprised. "What?" She looked at her. "Did she die, too?!" she asked before she could help herself.
"No, no she did not."
"Sorry, that was uncalled for." The mother said shaking her head. She had just disrespected Sharon without meaning too.
"We just… divorced after a year of marriage." He smiled tightly.
"Oh, I'm sorry." She said and went to hug him. He accepted her hug and wrapped his big arms around her. They pulled away and smiled at each other.
She turned to look at Steve who was already looking at her. She walked up to him and smiled. "Thank you." She said.
He smiled and shrugged it off. The man held out his arms suggesting a hug and Natasha wrapped her arms around him. He did the same smiling. She laid her head atop of Steve's chest breathing his sens in and closed her eyes as she smiled.
Happiness was what both of them felt, Natasha was happy because she was family at peace with everyone she ever considered as family. Steve was happy because Natasha was back in his life.
The blonde haired guy lifted up his hand to cup her cheek and softly stroked it with his thumb. He lowered his head so his lips could kiss the crown of her head, she smiled even more and felt so cared for in his arms. "I love you." He whispered.
The redheaded woman lifted her head to look up at Steve with such happiness and fondness in her eyes. "I love you, too." She said aloud as she watched his reaction.
His smile, just like his eyeballs, widened at the news. "Y-you love me?" He asked unbelieving he just heard those precious words from her lips.
"Yes, I love you, my creepy stranger." She announced with delight and easiness. She was sure of her feelings towards Steve and she knew he loved her and Jamie too much to ever let them go. He chuckled, he was not believing his ears! The woman he loved just admitted that she loved him as well.
"I love you." He said again before capturing both of her cheeks to bring her lips to his. He kissed her softly and lovingly.
She happily kissed him back as she wrapped her arms around him then laid her forehead against his. "Aww!" Wanda and Tony were in an awed of the two lovebirds. Thor took out his phone and snapped a picture of them.
Jamie looked up at his parents and smiled. Elena smiled as well, she had hoped that her brother's mother would become hers but would that be happening one day?
Natasha pulled away and took Steve's hand in hers. He smiled like an idiot as he looked at her.