Chapter 2: James
Natasha Romanoff Rogers (the last part still making her want to laugh like a punch drunk teenager every time she heard someone say it), had no idea what she was doing here to begin with. It had all started when she had visited Jane last week and she put all these crazy ideas in her head about kids.
She had been sitting on the floor of Magni's room keeping the 18-month old entertained, so his mother could have a break. When Jane entered the room and looked at her with a funny look on her face.
"What?" Natasha asked, confused by the look on Jane's face.
"It's just," Jane started sitting down next to them on the floor. "Magni is usually super particular about who takes care of him, but he really seems to like you." It was obvious Jane had more to say, but was nervous to say it.
"Go on." Natasha pushed.
"Have you and Steve ever thought about maybe having one of your own?" Jane quickly blurted out.
Now, Natasha and Steve had barely been married a year, but Natasha knew he still wanted a family, even if he insisted he didn't. "A little, but I don't think it'll happen anytime soon." Natasha answered.
"Well, you should, because from what I've seen, you're both amazing with kids." Jane said, before changing the subject and ending the conversation.
But one week later, here she sits in an OBGyn office trying not to have a panic attack or second guess why she's even here. You see, Steve had made her breakfast this morning and the mere smell of bacon (one of her favorite foods) made her start to gag and then she threw up. She was supposed to go on a mission today, but after the morning she had, Steve insisted he go and made her stay home.
After he left, she took the three pregnancy tests, Jane had left here on "accident" the last time she visited. She had taken all three on a whim, and once the first one came out positive she dropped everything to drive here.
"Natasha Romanoff Rogers." The nurse called, bringing Natasha out of her reminiscing of the last week.
She goes into the back room and sits on the bed to wait for the doctor, after being checked up by the nurse. She distracts herself by reading the posters on the wall about pregnancy and babies, and telling herself it's just a false alarm.
"Hello, Mrs. Rogers." the doctor said, entering the room.
"Hi, I came in today, because I took a pregnancy test this morning and it came out positive, so I just wanted to check to make sure, it was right." Natasha explained, while trying to keep her voice from shaking.
"Alright, well then, let's see what's going on." the doctor said and then asked a nurse to go get an ultrasound device. He asked her some questions, definitely not making her any less nervous and the nurse then returned with the ultrasound device for the doctor.
"This might be a little cold." The doctor warned before putting on an icy blue gel and rubbing the device across it on her stomach to spread it around.
"Well, there's definitely someone there." the doctor said before the sound of a strong heartbeat filled the room. Natasha just sat there in shock for a minute until she realized that it was Steve and her baby's heartbeat that had filled the room.
The doctor gave her information about the bay. Then gave her a wipe to clean off her stomach and told her he would see her again in about 3 months to find out the gender. Natasha just nodded, and walked to the desk to make her next appointment.
After making it, the nurse came up to her and said "Here's your first baby picture." excitement lacing her voice as Natasha just nodded again, took the pictures, and left.
She had just sat down in the front seat of her and closed the door, when she noticed the ultrasound pictures had a much more clear look at her baby. She sat in her car for a good ten minutes, with a huge grin on her face, and just stared at the pictures before driving home.
On her way home, she starting thinking about how she should tell steve and decided she would stop at the toy store on her way home to see if they had something.
"Oh, you must be joking." She muttered to herself when she entered the store and saw that they had a whole section of avengers themed toys. She walked the isles, almost wanting to burst out laughing the entire time, until she reached the Captain America toys. She knew what she was going to do the second she saw the plastic small Captain America shield and decided to buy that, plus a few other things.
After arriving at home, she got the round case Steve usually stored his shield in and put the plastic one in there, as he was with him on the mission. She had decided to set up a scavenger hunt with different baby items she had found at the store and have the plastic shield with a card tapped to it saying "Congratulations Daddy!", plus the ultrasound inside. She had just barely finished setting it up, when Steve texted her he was on his way home with take out.
She had decided to see if he would notice the first clue on his own, a Captain America sippy cup she had left on the counter with a note. He didn't notice it though, until he started to clean up their take out, later that night.
"What's this?" He asked nat as she was sitting on the couch, pretending to read the mission his debrief.
"Why don't you follow the clues and find out." She said with a smirk and he did just that.
While he was looking for the last clue, the shield bag in his closet as Natasha knew he always forgot to properly put his shield away after a mission, Nat started recording his reaction on her phone. He unzipped the bag and pulled the smaller plastic version of his shield with the card on it.
"Is this real?" He asked, while still holding the shield in one hand and staring at the ultrasound in the other.
"Very." Natasha answered, while watching to see his reaction.
Steve then picked her up and spun her around, before setting her down and kneeling to kiss her stomach.
Later, that night he had his hand on her stomach as they laid in bed while she told him everything about the baby.
"Thank you so much for giving me this gift, Nat." Steve started looking at nat with his hand still on her stomach.
"Your welcome, and I actually have an idea for the gender reveal." Nat said
"What's your idea?" Steve asked.
"We could have you throw your shield at a balloon to burst it open, and reveal the gender." Nat said.
"I love that idea." Steve stated before kissing Natasha sweetly on the lips
And four months later, that's exactly what they did and Blue bursted out of the balloon revealing the baby to be a boy. And they both looked at each other right after and knew exactly what to name him, James Antony Rogers.