A/B: I take what I said about the kids' age back. Lila is officially 7 and a half and Cooper is almost 12!

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Laura watched the Avengers train with the kids. Cooper and Lila were talking in each other's mouth commenting on everything and everyone. Nate had fallen asleep in his stroller only a couple minutes in. Not that Laura was complaining.

At the moment Clint was working with Rhodey on some kicks at the other side of the gym. Sam and Steve were sparing, and the kids were jumping around cheering them on. In one of the corners, Peter and Bucky were talking. Laura didn't know too much about close combat, but she could tell Peter was struggling quite a bit. Still, Laura thought it was a good call from Steve to let Bucky work with him. Laura knew that Natasha originally was the one that was going to train with him, but because she was taking care of Wanda, Bucky was the chosen one.

Natasha had once told her that the way Bucky's fighting style was very unique and hard to counter if you don't know what you are doing. She had described him as scary calm and collected.

Natasha had told her that before he had escaped HYDRA, and he still was a brainwashed he had fought both her, Steve and Sam. She had explained that he was mostly keeping his distance, preferring to use guns over close combat. He had a lot more control over the situation with a gun. However, when he did fight hand to hand, he was very controlled in his movements and only trying to punch and kick when he was almost 100 percent certain he would land it. He used a knife to keep the opponent away from coming to close as well as an extended arm. Using a knife also meant he never had to charge a hit as much to hurt his opponent. Natasha described him as extremely deadly and was very thankful she never had to fight him again.

Laura watched Peter and Bucky lightly sparing when Natasha and Wanda walked up beside her. Steve and Sam stopped sparing and Steve ordered Sam over to Rhodey and Clint. The man walked over to the three women and pointed at Wanda's arm.

"So, what did you do to her?" Steve said with a small chuckle. Natasha only huffed by the comment. Wanda's arm was neatly wrapped up in a bandage but not in a sling anymore. Instead, she had a shoulder brace on.

"I sewed the wound because someone was dumb enough not to do it." Natasha looked at Steve with serious eyes and nodded at the door. Laura and Wanda watched as the two walked away and started discussing. They didn't even bother to close the door as they stood in the hallway partly yelling at each other. Laura could tell Natasha was upset by something, but she had no idea what.

"Are you okay Wanda?" Laura said with a soft voice. The other girl seemed a bit distant, but she nodded and smiled at the woman. Laura smiled back. She could tell it was a genuine smile. Laura was happy the younger girls seemed to be in a better mood. Even if her mentor wasn't.

Natasha walked back to the two of them with Steve close behind. He looked upset, but Laura didn't bother to ask. It wasn't any of her business anyway.

"You guys ready for some training?" Steve said to the two kids who were standing a few feet away. They both nodded excited back, and Steve looked at Laura. She nodded approvingly. The kids had learned a few moves from Natasha previously and she was sure the kids would love to learn from the real Captain America. She was just not looking forward to having to try to keep it to them self and not go about it when they went back to school in a few months.

Natasha was going to take over from Bucky and work with Peter for a while. She walked over to Peter and Buck and because they had nothing better to do, Laura and Wanda decided to follow her to watch. Laura trusted Steve with the kids, and she knew Clint would keep an eye on them anyway.

"How is it going, guys?" Natasha said while she was braiding her red hair away from her face. Peter looked at the Natasha with an upset look in his face.

"I don't know. It's hard. I am more of swinging from the ceiling kind of guy. I don't know how to do this fighting thing. Not that Bucky is a bad teacher, but yeah." Peter said looking at his teacher who only nodded in agreement.

"Don't worry, I was the same way," Wanda said with a soft voice. "I also preferred to keep my distance and avoid combat. With these powers, I felt like I never had to need to learn any close combat." Laura watched as a red light started to dance around Wand's left hand. She was guessing that Natasha had told her she was allowed to use her powers as long as she wasn't using her right hand too much.

"But Natasha convinced me. I can't always rely on my powers. I need to be able to defend myself without them." Wanda smiled at the boy and he nodded slowly.

"James is an excellent teacher, and so is Nat. You should really listen to them. They know what they are talking about." Wanda added pointing at the two adults in front of her. Wait, James. Who is James? Laura looked at Natasha who only slightly moved her eyebrow when she heard Wanda say, James. Mentally writing a note to ask Natasha about that later Laura decided to ignore it for now.

"Yeah okay," Peter answered looking a lot calmer than he did before. He looked at Natasha and nodded letting her lead him over to one of the mats on the floor. Laura watched as Natasha showed him how to block and counter any hits. He seemed like a fast learner easily stooping Natasha's punches.

Besides them, Wanda and Bucky were lightly sparing. Bucky was throwing a few punches and letting Wanda try to dodge them. Laura could tell he was never close enough to hit her, but Wanda seemed happy to be training again. The girl was even using her powers to block him a few times.

The fight between Bucky and Wanda had a nice flow to it, while Natasha and Peter were a lot tenser. Or Peter was at least. While Natasha was very patient with him, it seemed like he got frustrated when he didn't get the move right. Natasha had only shown him a few easy block and kicks. And of course, how to hit and punch in the most efficient way. It was nothing complicated, but the boy was clearly not in his element.

Natasha was giving him comments down the road as they kept on going. It reminded Laura about when she used to be when she taught Lila. But Lila was only 7 and a half and Peter was almost 18.

As the training went on Peter got more and more frustrated. By the end of the session, Peter and Natasha were full on fighting. It was Natasha's idea to try to get this frustration out. Natasha clearly dominating the fight. While Peter was fast and agile it was nothing compared to Natasha. She didn't seem to be trying to hit him, only blocking his hits letting him burn out his steam and anger. It was probably a good thing that she laid low considering she could probably have killed him within a few seconds.

She was gliding along the floor dodging everything with ease. The rest of the gym had stopped their training to watch the two on the floor. Peter tried to punch with his right hand only resulting in Natasha step to the left making him stumble a bit.

"Come on Peter use both of your arms, you got a left one too," Natasha said blocking a hit without looking faced at all. Peter nodded at her before he tried again this time giving it his all. He got a lot closer to her this time. She only nodded in approval. Laura could tell Natasha was very relaxed with the situation. Peter was already getting tired while Natasha hadn't even broken a sweat.

Natasha had her eyes glued to the target watching his every step. She was blocking him off even before he tried to go after her, and it was making Peter angry. The only sound in the room was Peters panting and the sound it made when Natasha blocked yet another punch.

"Steve, STOP!" Wanda's voice cut through the silences as Steve whispered something in her ear and pulled her into a hug from behind. It was nothing but pure happiness in Wanda's voice, but it was enough to make Natasha turn her entire attention towards the other woman. Watched as his opponent turned away from him. His first and probably last opportunity to maybe land a hit Peter kicked after her throwing spy off. Her big green eyes shot up and by pure reaction punching after the boy. The boy stumbled back in surprise letting out a small groan as the punch connected with his shoulder. Thankfully not hitting with full force.

Laura couldn't tell what it was but for a split second, she saw something in Natasha's eyes. Before she knew what was happening Natasha swept Peter of the floor by hooking his foot making him fall to the ground. Natasha looked at him before she stepped away.

"Natasha!" Steve said making her shake her head in surprise. Peter picked himself up from the ground looking around. He looked fine thankfully.

"I'm fine Captain Rogers." He started as he brushed off some dust moving his left shoulder a bit.

"Yeah, I don't… yeah. NATASHA!" Steve didn't seem to care at all about Peter. He knew he was fine. It was Natasha he cared about. Natasha only looked at him and Peter before she walked away. Laura watched as Clint tried to grab her shoulder to stop her from leaving but she shook him off.

"Nat." Clint started. He looked at the others in the room confused and started to jog after her. Laura's thoughts got interrupted by Lila walking up to her poking her. She looked at her mother before she asked about what happened. As much as Laura wanted to answer she didn't even know.

The rest of the team watched as Clint jogged out of the room disappearing down the hallway. They exchanged a few looks before Steve told them today's training was over and go hit the shower.

Laura walked with the kids back to their room. Nathaniel had been sleeping most of the day and it was almost 4 pm already. Usually, she wouldn't let the two-year-old sleep much during daytime but considering the boy had kept both her and Clint up most of the night she was only with it. The kids talked excitedly about that Steve had taught them. While Laura could tell Lila was still confused about what happened to Natasha, the girl didn't seem to be too worried.

As the kids were changing Laura went back to her own room across the hall with Nate to clean him up as well. Laura looked down at her phone. Clint had sent her a text 10 minutes ago.

"Nat won't talk to me. Steve ordered pizza and I think Pepper is coming over."

Laura was just about to reply when Clint opened the door to the room. Laura smiled to him handing over the boy who was desperately trying to get over to his dad. Clint continued cleaning up the boy as Laura looked at herself in the mirror brushing her hair carefully.

"Penny for your thoughts" Laura walked up behind to her husband and kissed him on his neck before she looked at him. He shrugged as he helped Nate into his clean onesie. Laura could tell Clint was having a hard time processing everything. She walked out in the hallway spotting Sam with Steve. She waved them over.

"Could you guys please take the kids into the living room for me. I want to talk to Clint. Alone." Laura asked looking at the men in front of her. Steve looked at her and nodded while Sam walked into the kids' room getting greeted by a squeal from Lila. Laura mothed thank you to Sam as Lila jumped on his back and Cooper already ranting about some training stuff.

Laura smiled to herself as she watched all five waking to the common room. She was happy the team liked the kids as much as they did consider they all looked up to them so much. Laura's smile faded when she turned back into her room. Clint was sitting on the edge of the bed with his head in his hands.

"What's wrong?" Laura said sitting down beside him. Clint looked into her eyes, and Laura could tell he was stressed about the whole situation.

"It's just that Nat seems so different. After she came home, I mean." Laura watched as her husband shifted and looked around in the room. She didn't want to push him, so she just waited to continue on his own.

"She seems so distressed. Like something is bothering her." Clint looked at her and Laura nodded slowly.

"It's bad, isn't it? Nat seems really shaken." Laura smiled softly at Clint. Those were the exact same words she had used when Natasha came home after Wanda had messed with her head. Clint knew Laura knew more about the situation and it made her happy that he seemed to be okay with it. He only needed to know that his best friend was okay. And if that meant that his girlfriend knew more than him, he was fine with it.

"Ultron has these allies, these kids" Laura stated earning a small laugh from Clint as he wrapped himself around her. Laura smiled warmly at him and let him kiss her. She smiled into the kiss before she pulled back. Her eyes turned serious and she looked at him.

"She didn't tell me what exactly what was bothering her, but she told me what happened when they were captured. They used Wanda against her. Like a torturing device, hurting her to get Natasha to talk." Laura felt Clint tense up beside her as she explained what Natasha had told her.

"She feels a lot of guilt. She didn't tell me, but I think she felt like she failed Wanda."

"Which is why she was reacting that way when Wanda told Steve to stop." Clint finished looking at Laura who nodded back.