2am, Thursday, April 12, 2013
It was a dark, small room. No windows, nothing. She slowly picked up her head. Her mouth felt like it was on fire.
"Henry?" she rasped out. "Henry?!"
"Ron" he lifted his hooded eyelids to look at their surroundings "What's going on? Where are we?"
"I don't know, last thing I remember is the doctor taking us to your room."
"Did he take us"
"Well, we have to assume so since he isn't in here tied up with us. He could be being held somewhere else though."
Henry felt something strange.
"Xander, can you hear us, we are in a room. I have no idea where. Get help" Henry thought. WHen he didn't hear Ronnie respond he looked over to her. "Ron, you did hear me? Right?"
A tear escaped Ronnie's eye, the hole in her chest growing. Only together could they ever be strong "No"
"What do we do?"
"Hope for the best. Mom and Dad will find us, I know they will."
A lock clicks and a dark figure enters the room. The siblings look at each other as they can not see the figures face.
"Hello children. My name is Klaue and I have some questions about your Mum and Dad. I need to know about what the hell I'm dealing with. We good?" A man asks. He stepped out of the shadows and Ronnie instantly put a face to the name. This man was Ulysses Klaue, the main danger to Wakanda, a black market ops man, and most dangerously, someone with extremely loose lips.
Xander walks around the living room. He can't connect to Henry or Ronnie. He is completely losing it.
"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know" He shouted, upsetting his already upset parents. He sat down on the couch and ran his hands over his face. He looks over to see his mom crying on his dad's shoulder. Normally he would want to help her, but he was about to burst into tears himself. "I'm sorry, I need to go." he stood up to go to either Henry's room or the gym.
Natasha leaned further into Steve's tight embrace.
"Should've protected them. They're my kids, I should've-I-I could've..." she trailed off into another fit of silent tears only given away by her shaken figure.
"You did everything you could love" Steve pressed a kiss to the side of her forehead.
"No I didn't. Everything has just gone to shit lately. I love you, I love our kids, I hate Rumlow, I wish just everything could go back to normal. I feel worthless here. I need to get that red out of my ledger Steve." She looked deep into his eyes. "Now two of our kids are missing, the other one is off having a mental breakdown, and I'm being less than helpful. I just have this horrible feeling in my gut that they're injured, they can't go through what I have Steve, they can't. Promise me that you will keep Xander safe in the field when I can't. I've lost so much, I don't think I could live to bare losing one of them too."
"I promise sweetheart, I promise." Steve whispered, a tear falling from his eye and catching on her shoulder.
Natasha slowly stopped crying. She had turned into the Black Widow, and she probably would be like that until they found them. T'Challa and Okoye entered the room, feeling slightly awkward walking in on such an intimate moment. In that moment T'Challa realized that she was a woman, not just a mother and assassin, but someone who wants and needs compassion.
"I'm sorry to intrude but we thought that you should know that there has been no progress but we are in the process of interviewing some of the council members and guards. I'm sorry that this happened and we will get them found as soon as possible. Do you know where Xander is, we need his help with the public?" T'Challa told them.
"I don't think that he's in the mood for anything public, but he went to the training room" Steve answered and the Wakandans left the room without another word. That's what Steve really liked about them, they didn't need words to show themselves and they stayed professional. "King T'Chaka" Steve greeted as he entered the room.
"Captain Rogers, I have spoken to the members of the council and U'Wasi was the last one in contact with Henry and Ronnie. He is still unaccounted for but his mother is here and has no idea of his whereabouts. My wife is making the chefs prepare some food. I apologise, truefully."
"Just find them, please." Natasha says with her voice cracking at the end. The kind king put his large hand on her shoulder. "We will" he pulled her into a hug. Who knew that the King of Wakanda was a hugger. "Thank you" he shook Steve's head and left the room.
Steve knew that this was the wrong thought to be having at a time like this but, he wanted to get married here. It was the only place that he and Nat could legally get married without using fake identities. He felt too selfish even though it was the perfect idea. But Natasha deserved a real wedding. She deserved to have Clint walking her down the aisle with Coulson and Tony sobbing, she deserved to have Fury pronounce them husband and wife, she deserved everything. He was more sure of it than ever. Whenever he thinks he knows her, she lets something amazing about her slip out. The mother to his children, the love of his life. Yes, Peggy was his first love, but it will always be Natasha who is his true love. She deserves the world and in his eyes, she doesn't have a ledger at all.
"Steve?" His true love's voice brought him back to reality. He looked at the table, he had been staring at the same piece of bread for two minutes.
"Sorry, just thinking." he rubbed her hand but she still wasn't convinced. He decided that it was not ok to be thinking like that while Ronnnie and Henry were missing. Nobody really talked during dinner, most of them didn't have appetites anyway.
A man runs in, seemingly out of breath "My Queen, we have a development."
Not very much important content in this but in a few chapters things will start to ramp up i promise