Tony and Clint made it to the hurricane shelter on the island and Tony was uneasy. He wanted this storm to be over so he could hear Pepper's voice and know that she and the kids were ok.

Clint motioned for Tony to follow him to one of the remote corners of the room.

"Tony I picked up some good intell on the spyware. The diamonds are just a cover up. He is going to steal some artifacts from the National Museum during the Hurricane. I'm going to follow him and make a move on it,"

"Do you have a death wish? Send the info to S.H.I.E.L.D and let them handle it. You said we were here to observe," Tony said back.

"You don't have to come but I need to do this," Clint stressed as he walked away.

It was 11 p.m. Monday night and everyone was sleeping in the house including Morgan in the panic room. Pepper was bound by her hands to the bed so she couldn't escape with Billy in the spare room and Joe downstairs on the couch. Pepper didn't have the energy to try and get out of the ropes and she had no plan so she decided to go with the flow for now.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y unmute bedroom," Pepper said as quietly as possible.

"Show me Morgan," she said and she could see a picture of her curled up in the corner of the panic room with a pillow and a blanket.

"I need you to keep trying Tony and tell me when you're able to get through," she said.

"There is a 911 message from . Would you like me to read it?" she asked.

"Yes," she said anxiously.

"Pep I'm so sorry. There is no service here and there is a storm coming in. I'm ok but I don't know when I'll be able to get back online. I love you. Kiss the kids for me," The A.I. said.

"There are three storms in the atlantic right now. Where is he?" she asked.

"Mrs. Stark it is 12a.m. on Tuesday where Mr. Stark is and he may be asleep if i reach him. I highly advise against waking him ,"

"F.R.I.D.A.Y do you have his location?"

"No it seems he blocked the tracing," the A.I. responded.

"Keep trying and wake him up," she said.

About twenty minutes passed and Pepper was starting to get helpless when she heard James begin to cry. She tried to get out of her restraints to go to him and she could hear someone coming up the stairs.

"Mute," Pepper said quickly to F.R.I.D.A.Y and the image of Morgan disappeared while she went silent.

Joe burst through the door and Pepper was paralyzed with fear.

"Let's go," he said as he untied her and dragged her into the baby's room.

"Shut him up," Joe said.

Pepper picked up baby James and checked his diaper and it was clean so it seemed that he was hungry. She took him in the rocker and had a seat. She unbuttoned her pajama top and nestled James close to her while she tried to discreetly open the flap on her nursing bra so James could feed.

"STOP," Joe said, suddenly frightening Pepper.

She froze in fear.

"Open your shirt all the way and take them out of the bra. I wanna see," he said with a creepy smile.

"Please I am just trying to feed my son," she said.

"Do it now," he said pointing the gun at her.

Pepper finished unbuttoning her shirt and slipped her breasts out of her nursing bra.

"To be honest they're a little worse for wear but I bet before kids they were really hot," he said as he kept staring at them.

Pepper brushed off his comment and she was struggling to get James to latch on and he was still crying.

"Did you hear me bitch?" he said pulling her arm caused her to pull James tighter with her other arm.

Pepper nodded.

"I gave you a compliment. What do you say?" he said angrily.

"That wasn't a compliment," she said, still trying to get James to latch on and stop crying.

Her breasts were raw and dry and bruised. She switched him around to the other breast and prayed it would work. But he was still fussing.

"I'm warning you to make this kid stop crying or I will shoot him," he said pointing the gun at him.

"Please, I can heat up some milk downstairs. My supply is low. I just need a minute," she said.

"Go but stay like this. Don't cover your breasts up. I'm quite enjoying this," he smiled at her. She tried to hurry past him with James in her arms and he grabbed her and stopped her. He ran his finger along her cheek and then along the side of her exposed breast and he found himself getting excited by the feel of a woman's intimate area.

"No need to be shy. You're a very attractive woman. So many things I'm wondering about you," he said, running his finger tips over her stomach.

"But for now I'm going to leave them to my imagination until the time is right," he said as he let her go in the kitchen.

Clint lied to Tony about getting food and instead he followed Ivan at a safe distance. He followed him outside and he saw there were some cars parked and he watched as he grabbed some keys and got in. Clint tried a few sets of the other keys until he found the right pair to unlock the other car and he followed after them but avoided main roads and tried to drive through town while treacherous rain and winds were making his car shake and the roads were so slick. He could barely see in front of him. He had a job to do and he never abandoned a job no matter what danger awaited him.

Tony was trying to get to higher ground inside of this hurricane shelter to get a signal on his phone. He could not rest until he heard Pepper's voice. The storm had touched down and made landfall about thirty minutes ago and it lessened in intensity a bit and dropped down to a category one. He tried again when the wind gusts uprooted a tree and sent it into the power lines which caused many sparks and live wires outside and all the power went out but it also fried any electronics within two hundred feet and Tony felt a spark in his ear from the ear piece and a burn on his hand from his phone. They went completely fried. Tony dropped the phone and started cursing. He was never going to do another favor for Clint for as long as he lived.

Pepper finally got the milk warmed and she was sitting on the couch feeding James when Billy joined them.

"What's going on here?" Billy asked as he noticed Pepper's too was open.

"She's cute isn't she," Joe said.

"Virginia please feel free to cover up. I'm sorry my friend here can't control himself," Billy said.

Pepper covered up her breasts after James finished his bottle. She walked past them back up the stairs to go burp him and put him back to bed.

Clint stopped the car and tried to see where they were going through the intense rain and winds. There was lots of inland flooding starting and he hurried a safe distance behind them as they approached the museum. He watched as they grabbed a rock and threw it through the window. The glass broke and no alarm went off since the power was out. Once they were inside he hurried to the front of the museum. He needed to find a way to ambush them when they left with the artifacts but he needed a plan and a weapon. He decided to go inside to find a weapon and all he could find was a fire extinguisher. He grabbed it in and climbed up on the awning above the entrance.

Tony headed back to the common area when he saw Bob and Stacy approaching him.

"There you are. Where's Clyde? He just missed the roll call," Bob asked.

"He told me he was going to get some food. I was upstairs trying to get a signal before the power went," Tony explained.

"He wasn't in the kitchen or the cafeteria," Stacy stressed.

GODDAMNIT CLINT. YOU HAD TO GO OUT IN THE STORM, Tony thought.

"I'm sure he is around here somewhere," Tony said even though he damn well knew that Clint went after Ivan.

"Everyone needs to shut all their electronics off, if not when the power comes back on there could be a surge," Tony warned.

"And who's in charge?" Tony asked while scanning the room.

Bob and Stacy pointed at a man in a blue shirt and Tony approached them.

"My husband is missing. We can't find him anywhere. Do you think it's possible he went out in the storm during the chaos?" Tony asked.

"If anyone is going out there they're not coming back unless it's in a body bag," the man whose name tag said Charles said.

"You'd be surprised by how strong he is," Tony said, really hoping that Clint would be ok.

"Sir Ivan Popov is missing too," one of the other attendants said approaching the groups.

"Call it in, but I doubt emergency services are going to risk their lives for people who refuse to listen to warnings," he said.

Clint was in position as he heard them leaving the front of the building with a case. He had to make a decision here. He was all alone so he could either take out Popov and bring him in and risk the artifact getting destroyed in the storm or he could save the artifact and run and maybe return it before Popov catches him. He jumped down and kicked his legs knocking out the guy carrying the case and he knocked the other guy out with the fire extinguisher. He grabbed the case and took off running into the city just as Popov noticed and started to shoot.

Clint was going home to home trying to find a hidden key or an open window or anyone home. He needed to get off the streets or Popov would find him for certain. He was also trying to stay alive and not get drowned into a flooded zone, swept away in the wind or hit with any flying trees or debris. The next house he approached had the spare key. He used it to open the door and he was greeted in the foyer by a woman with a handgun.

"Go from here. We have nothing," she said, pointing it at him.

"I don't want anything from you and I'm not armed. I just need a place to ride out the storm," he said as he shut the door behind him.

"What's in the case? It looks like a bomb," she accused him.

"It's not a bomb," Clint said trying to reassure her.

"Open it," she insisted.

"I will but before I do please let me explain," he said calmly.

She nodded.

He was about to speak when an old woman appeared behind her.

"This is my mother. She is too sick to leave," the girl said.

"My name is Clint. I was sent here undercover to catch a criminal. His name is Ivan Popov. He used the storm as a way to get into the museum and steal some artifacts," he said quietly as he opened the box and there were several antique guns.

"How do I know you're not lying?" she asked again, pointing the gun at him.

"Because he is trying to find me. We need a safe place to hide until the power goes back and I can call my superiors," Clint said.

"I have a landline phone. Momma is old fashioned," she said motioning him to follow her.

Clint picked up the phone and dialed the old S.H.I.E.L.D landline that Natasha forced him to never forget. He heard it ringing and ringing and ringing. He was about to hang up when someone answered.

"Yes hello this is Agent Barton. I need to be connected to Nick Fury," Clint said desperately.

"Hold please," they said and there was elevator music.

"Fury," he said as he came on the line.

"I got the artifact in my possession but I couldn't save it and get Popov. He is still on the island looking for me. We are in the middle of a hurricane here and I'm hiding in someone's house, but there is no power on the is still at the hurricane shelter. We will need back up as soon as the storm is over and it's clear to fly and if you could get your hands on Stark's tech that would be great. I bet he could get the power up and running once it's safe," Clint seemed to say all in one breath.

"Don't leave this phone until I call back with more details within twenty four hours," he said and the line went dead.

"Thank you. Now we really need to get somewhere safe," he motioned to the woman.

Pepper laid there restlessly thinking about the storms in the atlantic and trying to figure out which island he might be on. Tony was not very good in situations without tech. She closed her eyes and willed sleep to come to her.

Tony was sitting on the cot and he was looking at his bracelet trying to figure out if it could read F.R.I.D.A.Y all the way from here. He needed some tools and it should work. It went out before the power outage so it didn't fry. He really needed to make this work.

"Does anyone have a tool kit around here?" he asked.

There was an older man in the corner trying to repair his watch so he could keep the time but he couldn't see too well.

"How about if I fix that watch for you? Then maybe I can borrow the tools to fix this?" he asked him as he held up his bracelet.

The man nodded and Tony went to work on his watch when he realized something. The time change really got them mixed up. Tony realized the time when the old man's battery operated watch flashed on and it had the time in New york and he realized that it was tuesday and they would have been returning home in one more day. He sighed and handed the man his watch and started on his bracelet. There was a long night ahead of them and he hated to admit he was a little worried about Clint. Secretly he admired Clint because he was a regular guy and he could kick ass. He wasn't a demigod like Thor, or pumped with super soldier serum like Steve and no gamma radiation like Bruce. Sure he had intense training in S.H.I.E.L.D but he was just Clint to him and Tony wished he could fight like him sometimes instead of hiding behind a metal suit.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y I want Mommy," Morgan said as she sat up and then on the screen she could see her mom tied to the bed and she got nervous.

"Baby brother," she continued and James was asleep in his crib.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y who else is here," she asked.

"There are two men armed with guns in the home,"

"I can't call Daddy or anyone," she said.

"I cannot reach Mr. Stark," the A.I. replied.

Morgan continued to look at the wires. She was going to go back to sleep and try again tomorrow.