A/N: If anyone is wondering, I am still in shook about the teaser. Natasha is my baby so obviously, Widow getting her own movie. Guys, I am not ready.

I am still really loving this fanfic. I have late-ish shifts the next few days, so I'll be able to write more. And Christmas just has me in a great mood, even though I don't really like Christmas at all.

I hope you all are having a great December so far. I know I am having a decent one at least. Don't hesitate to PM me if you just want to talk or anything. Thanks for all the love.

(also, I just realized I called them Caspar and Lucie with Cooper and Lila. I suuuuuck ahahah)

And until the next note, make it a great week and I'll talk to you all soon!

S-B

The first thing Laura did when they got home was to put Lila in bed before going and kiss Cooper good night. When she walked downstairs, she only found Clint in the living room.

"Where is Nat?" Laura asked looking around in the big room. Clint was sitting on the couch working on his bow. She could tell he was concentrating by the way he was wrinkling his forehead.

"Taking a phone call outside. She said something about Pepper calling at dinner or something." He looked up at her and smiled warmly. Laura walked over to him and he moved the bow letting her take place between his legs. The two of them leaned back on the couch and she could feel his strong arms wrap around her.

"I am guessing you had a good time with Kent and Annie?" Clint said with his head resting on hers.

"Mhm. Super nice. They loved her." Laura mumbled back.

"Why am I not surprised?" Laura let out a small laugh at the same time Natasha walked into the room. She had a new earpiece in her ear. It was wrapped around her ear with small metal parts holding the earbud in place. She looked at the two of them and smiled.

"I'll talk to you soon." Natasha ended the conversation. Her voice was soft and kind. It was no point asking, they all knew she was talking to Pepper.

Natasha took a seat at the other end of their couch and Laura watched in awe when she lightly tapped the earpiece and it unwrapped itself before it fell out.

"Stark tech. A new kind of handsfree modification thing. He wanted me to test it out. I'm not complaining." Natasha explained with a soft laugh before Laura needed to ask. She only nodded smiling at Natasha.

"To not date her, you guys seem to talk a lot." Of course, Clint was the one making the comment. Laura giggled when Natasha rolled her eyes dramatically.

"We are allowed to talk." Natasha mumbled back.

"Yeah sure, but I mean you guys are talking like all the time. And I saw the way she looked at you. Honestly, you can tell us, Nat. When is the wedding?" Laura gasped, choking a laughter when Natasha shut up her eyes.

"We aren't. I…We weren't even girlfriends"

"Sure, you just went on dates. Hung out at each other's places. Had sex all the time I mean-"

"CLINT." Natasha cut him off before letting out a small sigh. "Look. What happened between us… it was great…but we took a break. But of course, I still care. We were really close so... Yeah." Natasha looked down at her hands and Laura could feel Clint move behind her. She didn't know exactly what was happening before Clint threw a powerful kick towards Natasha making her fall on the floor.

"Then woman up and ask her out again. Honestly Nat. You two were great and she would fit perfectly into this family anyways. Not that Cooper and I need any more girls in this house but still.

"I'll think about it."

The rest of the night was spent joking around. Natasha and Clint had always been the kind to pick at each other a lot. It was just kinda who they were. They would tease nonstop, like two siblings would do. Their close friendship was probably one of the main reasons why their partnership also worked so well. While Natasha had proved herself as a good partner before the two had classified as friends their partnership had only gotten better. There were times Laura felt left out and they would of them would simply communicate with looks right above her head. But she always reminded herself, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing. What they had was something special, something very important. And Laura knew better than to be jealous.

By the time the three of them when to bed they had been laughing so much Laura's stomach hurt, and she was very ready to go to bed.

When Laura woke up the next day, she thought she woke up early but was surprised to find Clint's side already empty. None of them were particularly good at "sleeping in". But they had a tendency to wake up at more or less the same time every day. And it was very rear that Clint could get out of bed without her noticing.

She slipped out of bed and got dressed in something that would be presentable enough to drop the kids off in, but comfortable to just do nothing in too. Not that her standers were partially high or anything.

A quick peek out her bedroom door told her the kids were still asleep. But she was definitely not complaining. She preferred the days where she actually got down her coffee before the kids jumped her. Because even if they were up at 5 am they would still get late to school, so why make the day more miserable without coffee.

Laura jogged downstairs and could already smell the coffee and toast she was sure Clint was eating right now.

"She is out running." Clint said before Laura got the time to ask. He was sitting in one of the chairs in the living room with a cup in his hand and his tablet in the other. Bedside him on the table she could post the toasted bread who was currently spreading a delicious smell over the whole room. Laura nodded before walking over to the kitchen to grab her own mug.

"I am thinking about getting the tiers checked out, so I'll drop them off today. Okay?" Clint looked up from the screen when Laura passed him and sat down on the couch.

"Sure. But don't tell Nat that. She wants you to buy me a new car so hearing you already doubt the one we have now will only prove her point." Laura said sipping slowly on her coffee, moaning softly when the taste hit her taste buds for the first of many times today.

"A new car? No. We don't need a new car. Why would we need a new car?" Clint shook his head violently making Laura giggle around her cup.

"Hey, not my words. I am fine, but she threatened with you buying one or she would." Clint closed his eyes shaking his head before saying.

"Yeah no. We don't need a new one. So, no I am not buying you a car." Laura was just about to say something before she got cut off.

"Well, then I guess I have to get on with my birthday shopping then." Laura jumped in her seat. Holy crap where did she come from? She threw a glance at Clint who looked just as surprised as her.

"You are not getting us a car Nat. it's way too much money. We can't accept that. You never spend any money on yourself anyways. So, until you do, I am not letting you buy my wife a car." Laura watched Natasha open her mouth like she was going to say something, but soon close it and just smile. Both Clint and Laura looked at her. Her smile was the kind of smile she had whenever she was planning on something. That wasn't a good sign.

The feeling of having Natasha back home was wonderful. While they all knew she would at one point go back to New York to live at the Avengers tower Laura tried to push the thought away. When she inevitably did go things would change. The Avengers would work as a private organization and not under the same kind of monitoring from the consul and state like SHIELD had, and that was a big change. It meant they would be their own bosses. Go wherever they wanted and do whatever they wanted. They would continue SHIELDS work, but it was still very different from what they had done previously.

Clint had pointed out that with the kind of reputation Tony, or Iron man, already had chances was their work would rise to a higher scale to match his super heroness. He was classed as a superhero, and so was the Avengers in the Avengers initiative. No more babysitting. This was a superhero in real life.

But right now, it didn't feel like any superhero life. As the day went on, they were just, normal. Like a normal family. With no duties other than giving the kids attention, or make dinner, or help Cooper with homework. Helping Lila get to bed didn't need some life-threatening action. And no powers were needed to do the dishes at 10 pm either. It was just life.

"Hey Natasha could you help me with tidying the living room before Annie and Lucie come tomo-" Laura walked up to Natasha's room in a fast phase, but took a fast halt in the door when her eyes fell on Natasha curled up in the middle of the bed. She could already feel her heart start racing in her chest. Was she in pain? Hurt, tired, overworked, sick? It was so many things that immediately popped up into her head, where none of them were particularly good.

It wasn't before Laura started talking to herself, forcing herself to calm down, she heard Natasha's calm steady breathing which immediately made her relax a bit. The girl hadn't even made it under her cover before she had fallen asleep. And while a summer night wasn't very cold Laura didn't take any chances. She moved over to the window where Natasha had her blanket neatly folded and placed on a chair. She grabbed it before throwing it over the former spy and immediately she watched Natasha snuggle up under it. Laura smiled at her before carefully walking out the room closing the door behind her. Maybe Natasha would finally get the night sleep she deserved.

To nobody's surprise, Laura was woken up by two kids jumping her bed Friday morning. To even less of a surprise Natasha was already awake with a whole breakfast on the table by the time the four of them made it downstairs. The woman was reading a book but lifted her head when they walked in. Her hair was damp from a shower and she was dressed in of all black, as most of her days.

"Good morning." Laura lifted an eyebrow and looked at Clint when they heard her slightly hoarse voice.

"Good morning to you too. I see you've been busy." Deciding not to point it out Laure moved over to the table with the kids running around her. Natasha nodded and smiled following after her.

The kids were on fire. And somehow, no idea how, they had ended up being even later than normal to school. Even if they were done with both breakfast and gifts before they usually finish their breakfast, they somehow managed to do so anyway. Their mornings were just cursed, she was convinced at this point.

Natasha had thankfully not shown up with a car, so her gift was simply just driving the kids to school, letting Laura and Clint spend some time together. Saying quote: "I am living you two for some birthday time. But I am looking at you, Clint, when I say, another child is not on her wish list."

When Natasha came back the three of them spent the morning just doing nothing. Laura could finish her coffee without to kids hanging on her, and Clint and Natasha both walked around in the house doing some light cleanup before Clint announced he would take a look in the farm just to make sure it wasn't any very obvious spy tech that Lucie and Annie could stumble upon.

Over the years Natasha and Clint had made and created small ways to integrate work and training into the farm family life. Most of the time when they spared, they didn't use any kind of protection other than maybe some tape. But if one of them felt especially feisty they would use full-on protection and gloves, all stored in the barn. They had a few targets out on the field for Clint to use with his bow. But it was the shooting rage they had made in the middle of the forest they used if they were handing a gun. All of which was to make sure none of them fell out of training completely.

"Please say you removed the handgun from the living room?" Natasha and Clint had decided they needed to hide a few guns around the house in case they needed one. All very carefully monitored and hidden away from the kids. Laura had been very skeptical at first, knowing that accident happens all the time. It wasn't before Natasha brought in a custom holster only releasing the gun if it matched with a fingerprint, Laura had agreed. It was impossible for anyone other than the three of them to open the holster. And if somebody did, both Clint and Natasha would get a notification on their phone. Still, it made Laura somewhat paranoid.

Annie had of course been in their house before, and so had Lucie. But as time went on the need for security had only risen in the household. Clint had been brainwashed, and Natasha shot. Both of them were constantly working with dangerous humans. But it wasn't before recent when Natasha had to flee from SHIELD, or correction, Hydra, and was almost assassinated, killed and forced to go into hiding when her files got dropped that Laura had fully understood how hated and wanted, she really was around the world.

"I have," Natasha confirmed with a small smile. Laura wrinkled her nose still a bit confused about her raspy voice. Maybe she was slightly paler than usual? It was honestly very hard to tell.

"Are you okay Natasha?" Natasha looked at her with a surprised face before nodding slowly.

"Yeah. I just didn't sleep great." She only answered. Laura was not buying it. She patted the seat beside her on the couch letting Natasha sit down.

"Natasha. Please don't lie."

"Come on Laura, it's your birthday. You don't have to care for me all the time." Natasha tried, but even she didn't sound very convincing.

"Natasha…"

"I just… Didn't sleep much. And my head is tired. But I'm fine." Laura looked at her tilting her head still waiting for a real explanation.

"and may or may have woken up by nightmare. Like I said it's fine. It's nothing to worry about." Natasha tried to push it off and Laura could honestly laugh off the very bad attempt.

"Natasha. Stop. It's not fine. Why is that "fine". Your voice is damaged. And I know it happened overnight. That's not fine. None of this is fine." Laura leaned on Natasha's shoulder and the other woman let out a small sigh.

"What a way to ruin the mood. Like happy birthday to you." Laura laughed softly at the younger woman.

"Shut up Romanoff."

Natasha and Laura were on the verge of falling asleep when Clint walked into the house again. He stopped and looked at them with a smile before saying.

"Guys it's 2 pm. I'll be leaving soon, but if the two of you aren't planning on moving before Annie, Lucie and Lila are coming in like two hours that's fine by me." Laura giggled when Natasha let out a small snort on his comment.

"Just walk away, you old man. I'm hanging out with my girlfriend over here having a really cute moment." Natasha mumbled dragging Laura closer making her yelp as they fell back. She landed softly on top of Natasha and she could practically feel the smug smile on the redhead's face.

"Thought she was my girlfriend. My bad." Clint said throwing a small pillow in their direction. Natasha blocked it easily with her arm making sure it didn't hit Laura.

"She's not." She laughed before flipping the two of them over. Laura almost screamed as she felt Natasha maneuver her way around, pinning Laura underneath her looking at her with a smug smile. Laura couldn't do anything other than laugh of their silliness.

"Hands off my girl," Clint said and before Laura knew what was happening Clint jumped Natasha throwing her at the other end of the sofa pinning her. Natasha laughed into Clint's neck before pushing him back before they both ended up on the floor. Natasha let out a loud breath, taking the impact of both of them.

"I told you to stop didn't I." Clint started. Laura couldn't see what was happening before Clint almost fell off her as he rapidly backed up and moved off her like he had gotten shocked or something. His movements were slow when he finally slipped completely away and off and moved his head and body down.

"Tasha?" Laura could feel her body freeze when her eyes caught Natasha's panic-filled green.

"Tasha. You with me?" Clint tried again touching her arm ever so slightly. Laura felt her heart slow and calm down when Natasha let out a soft groan and whispered.

"Fine." Clint offered a hand helping her up on her feet with a small smile.

"Think I lost you there for a second." He said with a jokingly voice and Natasha forced a small smile back.

"Yeah sorry." She only answered not letting any of them dig any deeper. Not that it looked like Clint was planning on. He only nodded before moving to the door again.

"Kent will be picking up me and the last dad before getting the kids. since they are the only one with a car space for 6." Laura nodded trying to ignore Natasha who walked out of the room.

Natasha disappeared for the next one and a half hour and it was worrying. It wasn't before Annie pulled up in front of the house that Natasha walked down the stairs. Laura got one glance at her before Lila ran through the door with Lucie and Annie close behind.

Laura gave Annie a small hug letting her into the house. The adults only got one second to look at the girls before they flew upstairs into Lila's room. Laughing the whole way.

Annie and Laura walked into the kitchen talking softly when they both looked at Natasha who somehow in the thirty seconds downstairs had gotten her hair up in a bun and were already prepping for whatever she was making. Her eyes were glued to the recipe on her tablet.

Laura looked at Annie who was looking at the redhead. Annie's normal soft expression was mixed with hesitation. It seemed odd considering how warm she had been the last time they had seen each other.

The two of them didn't get to say hi to each other before Natasha moved her hand and Laura watched her put an earpiece into her ear. She looked at Annie's surprised face when the piece started to wrap itself around her ear.

"Hi," Natasha said still glued to the recipe.

"Maria. We have guests this really isn't the time you know." Both Laura and Annie took a seat in the living room watching Natasha move around while talking.

"I will Maria. But can we please do this another time. Clint is not even here." Natasha wasn't rude in any way, but it was very clear she wasn't in the best mood. Annie was too looking at Natasha, but her face looked more stressed than anything. She looked tense and almost jumped in her seat when Natasha stabbed the cutting board with the knife making it stand straight up in the wood. It looked more violent than it was. Laura knew the knives she used were ridiculously sharp and she knew Natasha usually let the knives like that when she was working in the kitchen without the kids.

Natasha let out a small sigh when the conversation ended. It was very obvious that whatever Maria had said was asking more of her than just move into the tower. She picked up the knife again, but she didn't start cutting right away. She just stood in still in the middle of the kitchen with her eyes closed, hand hanging loosely in her hand with the knife resting against her thigh.

It bothered Laura a lot knowing something was wrong. She moved from her seat and walked up to Natasha. Every other human would have jumped in surprise or fear if somebody had touched their head as Laura did to Natasha, but Natasha didn't. She only leaned into the touch and mumbled.

"Maria wants me back on the field." Laura only nodded slowly stroking Natasha's hair holding her head in her hands.

"We have unfinished food to make," Laura whispered back making Natasha laugh softly.

"Annie looks horrified. I think she thinks I am going to kill you." Natasha said still with a low mumble. Laura threw a glance to her right. Natasha was of course right. Annie looked at them specially and it wasn't before then Laura realized that the knife was more or less against her leg.

"Well, most people don't rest their knife against another's leg."

"Mhm well. What's the fun in that?" Laura laughed softly letting Natasha pull back and look at her. Natasha's smiled back at her before mumbling low.

"While I like making Lila happy, I am not too fond of the idea of homemade pasta. Why couldn't she have asked for something else? Like soup or something." Laura chuckled before taking the knife out of Natasha's hand.

"Just tell me what to do and I'll help."

Laura watched Natasha move around in the kitchen while she was frying some bacon. Annie had eventually joined them. And while she had seemed very hesitant at first it soon disappeared. Natasha was scary good at getting the best out of people. She knew exactly what buttons to push. It was one of her many, many talents.

Laura could just see Annie melting in front of her, giving Natasha everything and more. It was a very dangerous thing how easily Natasha could get anything out of anyone. Probably why Natasha was such a talented spy. She had every needed quality and more. Her looks, wit, agility, atheism, charisma, beauty. She was just perfect for the business.

Natasha got more information out of Annie in 50 minutes than Laura had gotten out of her the three first years they've known each other. And somehow, she made it all fall natural, even without her slipping anything out about her own life.

"Lila." Natasha barely raised her voice when she called for the kids. Annie threw Laura a small look. She could tell Annie was not connived the girls would come on that. Laura only smiled while mouthing "watch". Like predicted Lila and Lucie came flying through the door in just a few seconds.

"No running though." Natasha corrected letting them both take a seat. Lila nodded with a smile.

"Did you make it?!" She was practically jumping in her seat and Laura couldn't help but laugh a bit.

"Yes. Carbonara as you asked. Now please Lila." Natasha said with a small smile. Her voice wasn't strict at all but it was enough.

"I gave you a spoon Laura. Not that I get how anyone can eat spaghetti with a spoon but okay." Natasha said as she put the pot on the table.

"Hey, I just do okay." Laura shrugged with a small smile. Natasha grimaced back.

"Nobody else cares Nat. It's not my fault your etiquette is flawlessly perfect like everything else you do." Laura teased and Natasha gasped pretending she was shocked.

"ouch." She said as she served the girls.

"Mommy has told me to eat with a fork in my right hand and knife in my left." Lucie said as Natasha walked behind her.

"Good girl, Lucie. Maybe you can teach Lila." Natasha's voice was soft as she winked to Lila who only laughed.

The dinner was very nice. As always Natasha's cooking blew her mind. Something so easy as pasta, and she somehow just blew Laura out of the waters. And Laura was half Italian, she had tasted some nice pasta in her life. Annie and Lucie also seemed happy with the food and the four of them spend a good hour just eating and talking.

"Can we go outside and play?" Lila looked up at her mother with big eyes. They had just finished the dinner and the kids had more than enough energy saved up now. Lucie ran up to Lila and nodded in agreement. She had the same begging eyes as her daughter.

"Outside?" Laura echoed looking at Annie with a questioning look.

"I mean I suppose as long as one of us is with you. It's getting dark soon." Annie said slowly. The two girls squealed before they started jumping in happiness and Laura laughed softly.

"Nat come with us!" Lila grabbed Natasha's arm and pulled. Not that Natasha bugged at all.

"Flower, some of us have to do the dishes. And I don't see you volunteering" Natasha said with a small laugh still not moving when Lila started pushing.

"Mommy can do them," Lila said before backing up from Natasha to get a running start on her push. Natasha laughed as Lila just headbutts her legs.

"It's your mother's birthday Lila. We don't treat her like that." Like pouted loudly, and while Laura probably should have been offended, she only laughed as her daughter still tried to move the other woman who was still glued to the floor.

It took Natasha some convincing and a promise to join them after the dishes to get the girl to stop asking. But Laura and Annie both followed them outside leaving Natasha alone to clean. Annie had offered to stay and help but Laura and just brushed her off before pushing her out the door. While she knew it was only meant as a nice offer Natasha was way more efficient alone.

"Does any of you call her Natasha like ever?" Annie asked after Lila asked for Nat for the fifth time. Laura laughed before nodding.

"Well yeah, but the kids grew up with Auntie Nat. And both Clint and I have our own nicknames on top of that, so it really depends on our moods." The two of them watched Lila and Lucie run around. It was already turning dark, but the summer night kept them warm.

"How did you guys meet again? Clint just introduced her as his partner or?"

"Something like that." Laura was a bit surprised by the question. It was something about the way Annie had looked at Natasha that almost worried her.

"Annie are you okay?" Laura asked just as Natasha walked out the door.

"We can talk inside if you want to" Laura let Natasha pass them and walk up to the girls before she gave the offer to Annie.

"If something happens Natasha can handle it" Annie looked a bit hesitant but after one look at Natasha who already had Lila riding her back, she nodded and followed Laura inside.

"I need to confess something. And you might get mad." Laura walked into the living room with Annie trailing behind her. She turned around and looked at her with a serious look.

"Okay. That's not a great way to start the conversation. But go ahead." Laura answered before turning around moving to the kitchen to put on the kettle.

"It's about Natasha." Laura nodded and turned to her looking at her across the room.

"That much I figured." She answered softly. Even from across the room Laura could tell Annie was a bit uncomfortable. She was looking out the window, probably watching the kids.

"Or maybe I should say. It's about Natalia." Laura froze looking at Annie like she dropped a bomb. She kind of did. Natasha's real name was banned in the house a long time ago. The kids didn't even know she had another name. They never used it after she changed it years ago.

Laura was just about to say something when they heard a scream outside. Laura shook her head violently to get herself back on track walking up to Annie. The other woman was now standing up and was leaning against the window trying to see what was happening outside.

"I am sure Natasha can handle whatever is going on." Laura walked up behind her scanning the outside. The two girls were standing in the middle of the driveway just a few feet away from her car. Laura felt her heart stop her just as Lila pushed Lucie forcefully away from her. Natasha was out of sight which was almost just as worrying.

"On second thought." Laura said turning around grabbing her jacket on the way out with Annie just behind. They were on the other side of the lot, and while it was only 100 yards or so it felt like a mile. Laura relaxed a bit when she saw Natasha walk up from behind the car reaching the girls in just a few seconds.

The saying words can cut deeper than a knife had never felt more real in Laura's life. It felt like a slow-motion movie, but it also happened so fast. Natasha was moving up behind Lucie holding a protective arm around her saying something to Lila Laura didn't catch. She could tell Natasha was frustrated from her eyes and Lila was fuming. She watched her daughter scream and stumping her foot as she threw another push towards Lucie yelling. "I am going to kill you."

The air got filled with a loud thud and a crack and she didn't know who the scream belonged to. Maybe it was Annie, Lucie, Natasha, Lila, or even her own. She wasn't sure about anything anymore. Everything was a complete blur as she threw herself forward dropping her jacked to the ground and sprinting towards Natasha who was falling to the ground with blood streaming down her face.

A/N: Fun fact I hate the nickname Tasha, but I know they use it, so I guess I'll use it…

Also yes, another cliffhanger because I need to post something. I was planning on doing one long chapter but oh well.

(no proofreading so might change this a bit later on.)

S-B again.