A/N: I was able to complete my writing challenge, though not all of it was for this story. I'm also going on a road trip soon, so that should give me some much needed time to plan this story instead of my usual writing with the a,b,c style ideas in my head.

Thank you BlueOwl and Emerald2211 for helping me edit this chapter!

He really would rather just meet up with Lani, but it will take time to make sure all the Hydra members are out in the open. It would be safer for Lani to be away, and he'll just have to trust that Lani wouldn't get into any trouble.

"I have three models for you arm set up, I'll the pieces printed out and it should be ready in three hours. None of these are anything too different since you'll need surgery to rewire the connections to make it more efficient, but I get why you might not want to do that," Stark - Tony he reminded himself - said in a rush.

Bucky just waited for him to finish talking while taking a look over the place. It was easy to see why Lani likes it. It looks like something straight out of a sci-fi novel.

"Jarvis, can you put up the models?" Tony asked, and then three holographs of robotic arms appeared. "Which one stikes your fancy robo-hobo?"

"You're building me a new one?"

"That's the whole reason I asked you to come up here. And I needed to do something not Hydra related."

"Hydra was the one who built my arm."

"That's not what I meant. Don't you want a new arm?"

"Yes, but I was assuming that was just an excuse to talk to me alone," he admitted, and Tony made a face.

"I would rather not talk about that."

"I am sorry for killing your parents," he said even though Tony didn't want to talk.

It was something that needed to be said.

"Great. Now let's get back to the arm. Since we are keeping the shoulder for now, there isn't much I can do to lower the weight," Tony started to explain as he moved the holograms with his hands.

Bucky was willing to let the conversation move on. Not like he really wanted to talk about killing people that he doesn't even remember killing. He knew a few things about the arm due to what little he remembered the technicians talking about and what Lani had figured out. Tony seems to have already figured out everything about it, and more importantly, how to make it better for him.

"...also if you want I could switch up the battery. Having the kinematic one is not bad, but doesn't give you a lot of wiggle room. Not to mention you'll always have to be moving it or you'll get shocked. Can't imagine that makes for a very peaceful sleep," Tony said, pausing enough in his talk to look at him.

"I've gotten used to it," he said, since he didn't realize until the arm was destroyed that it was even happening.

"But now you don't have to."

He gave another nod since Tony was still looking at him like he wanted a response.

"Right. Now which of these prototypes do you like more? I'll make some better ones from scratch later, but for now we don't have a lot of options."

Bucky knew logically what was different between the holograms, but they honestly looked about the same.

"Which ever you can build faster."

"Boring, but I get it," Tony said typing something on the keyboard, "And now that's printing. This DMLS is my own version, so it only takes a about 30 minutes insidead of the days most take. You're free to stay or I'll just have J tell you when it's done."

He wonder if Tony wanted him to leave. Right now the only thing he wants to do is go see Lani, but that will have to wait. Checking in with Steve would be good, but that will take longer then 30 minutes and it would not be nice making Tony wait just because Steve is very good at taking up his time and attention.

"I can wait, if that's alright."

"I won't have offer if it wasn't. There's a coffee and a mini fridge over there along with a sofa that Rhodey says needs to be replace but I think it just fine," Tony rambled, giving him the distinct feeling that Tony was not comfortable with his presence but was willing to lie.

Suddenly Tony stopped what he was doing at looked at him.

"Did Lani ever tell you about Rhodey?"

"No?" Bucky asked, now worried.

"Few days ago Rhodey, my best friend, came to visit while Lani was done in the lab. She didn't realize that we were trying to keep the two of you a secret and told Rhodey, which isn't a bad thing since I was going to ask if Rhodey could be clued in since he's war machine and I know for a fact he's not secretly Hydra, but still wanted to check with the team. Since that's a thing that teammates do, or so I'm told."

Bucky realized this must have happened the day he grounded Lani. Upset that she didn't tell him that she met someone knew, but maybe Lani was more mad about the grounding than he first assumed.

"Speaking of the kiddo, she's with Legolas right?"

He figured Tony ment Barton when he said Legolas and told him, "He promised to take her somewhere safe. Romanoff knows where it is."

"And you're good with that? Just trusting your kid to a stranger?"

"Lani can take care of herself. I just wanted her out of the tower and she won't have left me alone if someone didn't go with her."

"Guess you taught her about danger signs while on the run," Tony said, and it looked like that would be it, but then stopped in his work for a moment.

"Speaking of, Rhodey brought up a good point after meeting Lani. Apparently knowing about quantum mechanics and what Cherenkov radiation is isn't something a normal kid knows. I knew what that was at her age, but apparently my childhood isn't a good standard for a normal kid," Tony gave a lot of intonations with his last sentence, making it seem like he was trying to mock what this Rhodey person told him.

"Lani spent most of her free time in the library after we escaped," Bucky said, since it sounded like Tony was trying to ask how Lani could know that stuff.

Personally, he never bothered to ask. It wasn't important.

"That's what I thought. Rhodey was just being paranoid after finding out about Hydra and that she was with them for her early years. I did find some of her files, if you want to read them."

The fact that they had active files on Lani despite them being out of Hydra for so long wasn't good.

"How many files?"

"Just a few megabytes from what I've found so far," Tony said which didn't tell Bucky how many pages they was.

Video would be more data, he knows that at least.

"Will I have time to read it before the arm is ready?"

"You can read while I'm welding your arm back on if you want," Tony said before looking at his face and backpedaling, "Don't look at me like that, it's not a real welder, just a laser pen I made that was way too strong to be a laser pointer. It will be more than enough to get the metal of the new arm to what's left of the old one, and it should be safe for you."

Bucky would have mentioned Hydra has used a normal welder on his arm without removing before, but he did want to keep the Hydra talk to a minumine.

"Okay then."

"Jarvis, print out the documents with 1-08 mentioned in them," Tony told his AI before turning to look at Bucky properly, "The laser printer should be done by now, so if you could make a pot of coffee while I get it ready that would be great."

He waited until Tony was out of sight before making his way to the coffee bar he pointed out earlier. It was more than just a coffee machine, but that was the only thing he focused on. If Tony wanted sugar or one of the bottle in his drink then he'll have to get it himself.

There were a few clacks going on wherever Tony was, and it seemed to be taking longer than just picking up the pieces. Bucky didn't think Tony was doing anything malicious, most likely he just needed a break from his parent's killer.

"Okay, this weighs a lot more then I thought," Tony said after a few more minutes.

The coffee was done, and Bucky even poured two cups and sugar in his.

"Do you want any help?"

"No, I got it. I've been working out. No where close to what you and Steve can do, but enough to move my own equipment around," Tony said, lugging the half arm onto a table. "Now we just need a chair for you and...oh, the coffee's done."

Tony took the other cup and just drank the whole thing before getting more from the pot. Meanwhile he grabbed the chair Tony was using since the only only place to sit was a stool that looked like would collapse if he tried sitting in it.

"That's just what I needed, now you mind...you already got it. Right. Here's the papers, and I'll start the rewiring."

Bucky took a seat, moving his shoulder so Tony could have easy access.

"I should have asked this sooner, but is me working on your arm going to cause you any body dissociation?"

"What?"

"I was just thinking, you've had this arm for decades. You don't think of it as a prosthetic, but actually your arm right?"

"Yes?" He said since even though Hydra would refer to it as a weapon, it's always been just another arm to him.

"Well, most people don't like seeing themselves get operated on."

"Oh," Bucky said, now realizing what Tony was talking about, "If that was ever the case, Hydra desistived me to any work done on the arm."

"That's...not a good thing. Just let me know if you feel off and we can stop," Tony said before picking up the arm.

He watched for a little bit as Tony connected the new wires to the old one, before working on sealing the metal on the outside together. Then he started reading the documents.

Clint ended up coming back before too long, not looking any worse for wear.

"So did you find anyone?"

"Not nearby. Nat let me know there were a few who took the false trails we made, but it looks like for now they don't know we're here."

I nodded, looking out the window at the setting sun. It's already been a few hours since the tower was invaded by Hydra, and I was getting worried again. It didn't help that Clint was only able to stay still for a few minutes before going on another patrol, making sure we weren't followed.

"You were able to talk with Natasha?"

"Yeah, seems like they are all done and will be stopping by. It was meant to be just Nat and Barnes, but sounds like the captain wanted to come too," Clint said, and his face fell as he looked around his apartment. "Wait, I can't let him see this place. It's a mess."

"But Natasha and Bucky seeing it would have been fine?"

"You know, I wasn't thinking about that, but you're right. I don't want any members of the howling commandos to see my dirty socks," Clint said as he picked up a laundry basket and started trying to clean.

"I would recommend just shoving it in a drawer, but I'm pretty sure both have superhuman sense of smell."

"Shit. Wait, no, shoot. Don't tell your dad I swore in front of you," Clint begged which just looked silly.

"I don't think he cares about that."

"Still, not a good habit to swear in front of kids...uh, do you think you could help me clean up the place?"

"No."

"Right, try keeping Lucky entertained."

Lucky was sitting with me on the couch, wagging his tag like he heard that we were talking about him.

"Sounds good."

I then watched as Clint frantically tried cleaning the place, which was a bit of a challenge just because it had been so long since he was last there. Before the whole Loki mess, he was in New Mexico. The place wasn't quite that dusty, but whoever was taking care of Lucky might have cleaned the place a little.

By the time the sun fully set, Clint got another phone call.

"...You know I was planning on ordering the pizza...I was waiting for you to arrive...right, forgot how much they eat...right, right...okay see you soon."

"Was that Natasha?" I asked when Clint hung up.

"Yeah, sounds like they will be here in about ten minutes. More if traffic is back to normal," Clint said just as they heard a knock on the door.

Clint tensed up until the knocking made a clear pattern, then he walked over.

"I thought you said you were still ten minutes away?"

"I lied. Did you seriously try tidying up the place for us?"

"No. Yes. Stop looking at me like that Nat."

I waited as long as I could before throwing myself at Bucky, more or less hugging his legs.

"You okay?" he asked, bending down slightly to pick me up with his one arm.

"I'm fine, are you?" I said before noticing that Bucky was hugging me with two arms, not one "Your arms back!"

"Tony fixed it."

"Really? That's great!"

I didn't think Tony would forgive Bucky this quickly, but I'm glad he did. Would have been nice if it was not on the day Hydra decided to try getting Bucky back (or possibly me), but beggers can't be choosers.

"So, what happens now?" I asked before noticing the stack of pizza that Steve was being forced to carry.

"Now, we eat. Later we can talk about what to do next," Natasha said, already in the kitchen getting some plates and glasses like she lived here.

Though if Clint has been living here for two years, I would assume he invited Natasha over enough times for her to feel comfortable. Then again, Natasha strikes me as the type of person who doesn't waste a lot of time trying to get comfortable.

"You only got New York style pizza?" Clint complained almost as soon as Steve got the pizza boxes on his table.

"I don't know if you noticed, but we are in New York," Steve sassed back.

"And there are places where you can get more than one style of pizza. Have you even had Chicago style pizza before?"

"No," Steve said at the same time Bucky said, "Yes."

Which led to Steve to look at Bucky like he was just told his puppy died.

"When did you have Chicago pizza?"

"Like a year and half ago, when we were in Chicago," I answered for Bucky, already grabbing a slice since no one else was eating.

"It's good. Next time we'll have to get it," Clint added, before serving himself as well.

No one looked injured, not that that means much since Bucky and Steve can heal a lot of things in only a few hours. Still not sure if Steve heals any faster than Bucky, but I know Bucky can get a cut on his hand completely healed in ten hours.

It was funny seeing Steve trying to keep Lucky from eating his pizza though.

"I told you he liked pizza, not to just give it to him."

"But he looked like he was hungry," Steve tried to argue, though it didn't look like Clint cared too much that his dog just ate half a slice of pizza.

"Now you know how I felt," Bucky muttered under his breath, and I wouldn't have been able to hear it if I wasn't sitting right next to him.

"Hey, what is that supposed to mean?"

"I have no idea," Bucky said, and for the life of me I could not tell if he was being honest or joking.

At this point it's really 50/50.

Steve seemed to think Bucky was being serious, since he looked to Bucky with the saddest puppy eyes. A grown man shouldn't look like that, but here we are.

I was able to wait a little longer before it became too much.

"Can we talk now about what happened today?"

The four adults in the room all look to each other like they were wondering who should speak first.

"Fury saw Lani," Natasha ended up saying, and I was surprised with how Steve and Bucky reacted to that.

"What?"

"Was he not supposed to see me?" I asked, wondering if that was the reason they didn't want me at the meeting and not just because of my physical age.

"We are still not sure if Fury can be trusted," Steve ended up saying.

I knew Fury wasn't Hydra, but not like I could explain why I knew that. Maybe to Bucky, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for him to know about my past life.

"Fury told them about the plan to lure Hydra out, and there was a disagreement," Natasha said to Clint who nodded like it all made sense now.

"Wait a second, the attack today was planned?"

"Fury used Bucky as bait," Steve said harshly, like he was two seconds from punching a wall in frustration.

"It wasn't a bad plan. They needed to figure out who could be trusted and it's not like I recognize every person who's part of Hydra," Bucky said, acting like this was a common argument.

"We could have figured that out in other ways! Do you even care that you could have been taken again?"

"Why do you think I made sure Natasha was with Lani?"

Despite this arguing getting close to being as uncomfortable to watch as when your parents argue, I could see where both were coming from. The Avengers can't take down Hydra with only a few people. They need to figure out what parts of Shield can be saved, if any. But I don't want to lose Bucky just to take down Hydra.

"Well, nothing you can do about it now. It's in the past," I said which caused Bucky to give me a very uncomfortable look.

I wished we were alone so I could ask if he wanted me to go back or not, but there was no way I was telling everyone about my reset powers. It was hard enough telling Bucky.

"That is not going to happen again," Steve said, looking sure of himself.

"Of course we aren't going to do this again. Defeats the purpose if Hydra knows what we are doing by trying it again," Natasha said, sounding like she was rolling her eyes despite no eye movement.

"I was talking about Bucky as bait."

"Yeah, I also vote for not having Bucky as bait. At least until we know for sure that no else else alive in Hydra knows his trigger words," I added between bites of my pizza.

I almost didn't notice the look Natasha and Clint gave each other, but Bucky sure did.

"What is it?" he asked, straightening up now that the discussion wasn't about him.

"While we were trying to bait Hydra into showing their hidden agents, there was no sign they were going to strike so soon. I'm wondering if they found out we got the book," Natasha said, and now I was interested.

"Do you still have it?" I asked before anyone else could.

"We decided it would be better to burn it than risk Hydra getting it again," Clint said, and honestly I was a little shocked.

Sure, I wanted them to burn it, but that didn't seem like something they would do. I thought I would have to try convincing them or even try stealing it.

"Bucky, you said only your main handler knew them, and most of them are now dead," Steve asked, and Bucky nodded.

"I still don't remember their names though."

"That's fine. We'll figure it out," Steve said like he was certain they would.

"So, I take it that it's going to take some time to make sure all the secret Hydra agents revealed themselves?" I asked and Natasha nodded.

"Fury also has legal reason to do a thorough purge of Shield. Gives us a reason to gather some dirt of the higher ups you had on your list. Might be good to stay the night."

"Seriously, Nat? I only have one guest room, and this sofa isn't even a pullout."

"It's fine. I've slept on the floor before," Steve said, and I almost laughed at how Clint looked like he was going to die of embarrassment.

I guess it really hasn't been long enough for the team to get to know Steve rather than Captain America. I could only imagine how weird it would be to have a real life superhero you learned about as a kid saying it's okay to sleep on your living room floor.

"I'm fine with the couch," I added since it was really too small for anyone else besides maybe Natasha.

"See? I get the guest room, Lani the couch, and the two centenarians can take the floor."

"I don't know if you noticed, but I'm only 92. Got a few more years before we are centenarians," Steve said, looking to Bucky.

"And you don't look a day over 80," Bucky added, which just caused the two to laugh.

"Well, I think I've done my social quota for the week, and I'm not even on a seduction mission. Don't wake me up unless we are being attacked," Natasha said before leaving, going to the guest room I checked out during one of the times Clint left me alone.

It was the cleanest room in the place.

"I'll go see what pillows and blankets I can find... you sure you don't want my bed? I haven't slept in it since last time I washed the sheets."

"When was the last time you washed the sheets?" I had to ask.

"...five months ago?"

"The floor is fine," Bucky said at the same time as Steve.

I snort-laughed at that before realizing something important.

"Wait, can we build a pillow fort?"

It's been years since I built one. Maybe when my friend was stressing about finals and I made her one in an attempt to get her to relax? I'm someone who thinks you are never too old for pillow forts.

"We are going to build a pillow castle," Clint promised, looking way more excited than I thought he'd be, but pillow forts are fun.

"Are you not going to sleep on the couch then?" Bucky asked, and I wasn't really thinking of sleeping.

I should talk to Bucky to see if it would be smart to reset. Or maybe Steve to see how that side of these went.

"I was going to put the couch in the fort. Bet we could build it big enough for you two as well."

Sleeping in a pillow fort is better than just sleeping on the ground after all.

"Just like old times, huh, Bucky," Steve said, and his smile fell slightly at Bucky confused expression.

Guess that's one of the things Bucky hasn't remembered yet. That's sad.

I watched as Clint got Bucky and Steve to help him carry the pillows and blankets they managed to find while I gave Lucky all the pets.

Maybe I could get by with just not sleeping tonight. That might be for the best.

A/N: That pillow fort idea was not planed, but when I was writing this I made one for my dog and got inspired.

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