A/N: Um...so, hey. Long time, no write. I'm really sorry, I hit that wall and I didn't know how to get around it. Real life sort of took up a lot of my time and I lost that spark I had when writing this story. I am going to dig deep inside myself to not fall into the darkness of writers block.

And as always,

Read it...enjoy it.

Life on a farm was pretty simple. You could grow a few crops, take in a couple of animals, but that wasn't the Barton farm. Katie had no desire to grow anything and Clint found himself too busy at times just witnessing his daughter grow up. Some times it amazed him how that tiny baby wrapped in a blanket was now this short thing who likes to run even though she can barely walk.

"You're having one of your moments aren't you?" came the voice behind Clint. At the moment he sat on the porch, staring down to his daughter as she played with her toys, completely content in the moment. There was only one thing missing, and he hoped she'd be back soon. "One of those fatherly moments."

"Don't you have a date or something?" Clint asked looking over his shoulder to Matthew who stood in a t-shirt and shorts, sweating profusely after his run. "You're usually not here for long periods of time."

"And you're usually not left alone with a baby." Matthew replied walking over and climbing up the steps to sit besides Natalia.

"So you're here in case I screw something up?" Clint scoffed. "She's my daughter, I've been alone with her lots of times."

"Sure when Rinny's in the shower, or she's taking a nap." Matthew replied glancing over to the man. "Never taken care of her when Rinny is in a different state."

"What are you afraid will happen?"

"There are lots of things that could go wrong C." Matthew replied with a shake of his head. "Like now." he glanced down to his watch. "It's way past her nap time." Clint looked down to his own watch and cursed because the man is right.

"I can just put her down now." Clint said standing to his feet and walking over to pick up the girl.

"That would be fine, if at the moment it wasn't time for her to eat lunch." Matthew said standing to his feet as well. "Plus if you were to put her down now, she would never go to sleep tonight. She's probably gonna be a tough kid to get down actually. She's usually fussy when Rinny puts her to sleep."

"And instead of telling me all of these things before, you choose to tell me after I screw everything up?" Clint asked.

"Well yeah, it's more fun that way." Matthew replied before Clint took a step toward him, causing the young man jump back quickly. "Look all you have to do is tire her out a bit before she goes to bed, and she should be fine." Matthew glanced down to his watch before turning and heading into the house.

"I'm probably gonna kill your uncle, bud." Clint said smiling down to his daughter before they took walked inside so he could get her some lunch. They walked in the kitchen where they found Matthew already making himself a sandwich.

"So hey, did you see the message for you?" Matthew asked as Clint sat Natalia in her high chair.

"What message?" Clint asked turning back to the man, and Matthew simply pointed toward the notepad next to the phone. With a quirked brow, Clint walked over and read the message before turning back to Matthew. "Is this English?"

"I'm dating this girl whose left handed and I sort of told her I was too, so now I'm trying get acclimated to using my left hand, you know." Matthew said before taking a bite of his sandwich. "Dude, she's super hot and-"

"What was the message!"

"Oh, your in laws are stopping by." Matthew said and Clint eyes went wide.

"When?"

"Uh..." Matthew walked over to read his note, squinting as well trying to make sense of it. Suddenly the doorbell rang, and both me shared a look before peeking out the kitchen to see the familiar faces of Martin and Cynthia Chamber outside. "I think they said around now o'clock." Matthew turned back to Clint's glare before slowly backing away.

Clint rarely found himself nervous, but it would seem that in the presence of Martin Chambers the feeling seemed to strike him. After the expected greetings, Cynthia volunteered to get Natalia some lunch. Matthew cowardly scurried away upstairs to get a shower, leaving Clint and Martin in the living room in a very awkward silence.

"So you said she's gone to New York for some Avengers meeting?" Martin asked in an attempt to break the tension in the room.

"Uh, yeah. I guess after that explosion in Lagos the government decided to get involved." Clint said with a shake of his head. "I guess they're looking to put some reigns on the Avengers."

"You're an Avenger, aren't you?" Martin asked and Clint let out a sigh before turning at the sound of his daughter's laughter and a smile came to his face. "Oh I get it." Clint turned back to the man with a quirked brow. "Some titles are more important than others. Father...husband...not many titles top those."

"She doesn't get it." Clint replied. "I mean this can be it for me. Her and that kid, they can be my whole world and I would die a very happy man, but she-"

"She was taught never to run away from a fight." Martin stated firmly. "I taught her that. Taught her that if she believes in something, then it is her obligation to fight for it. And if she believes in something, then it's hard to change her mind."

"Trust me, I know." Clint said with a chuckle. "She believes in the Avengers, so I have no doubt she's probably giving someone hell right now for trying to mess with them."

"Alright!" Cynthia said appearing in the living room with her granddaughter on her hip. "We're all fed, and now I think someone is ready for a nap."

"I can take her." Clint said standing to his feet.

"You sure, I don't mind." Cynthia said turning to the child. "I missed these moments with Katherine. Moments I can never get back."

"Cin-"

"No, it's fine." Clint said smiling down to his daughter who seemed very content in the woman's arms. "Do you remember where he room is?"

"I do." Cynthia replied before looking back down to the child. "Alright, lets go take that nap." and with that the woman carried the child up the stairs.

"I'm sorry if she's being a little pushy." Martin said and Clint turned with a shake of his head. "We never really thought we would have this moment when she found out the truth." Martin let out a long sigh as he thought about all the twists and turns that had to happen so they could get to this point. "We thought she'd hate us forever."

"Yeah, well Kat has a way of surprising you." Clint replied.

"So besides this Avengers business, how has she been?" Martin asked and Clint just shrugged.

"She's fine. I think she's even getting used to the farm life." Clint said with a light chuckle. "She doesn't know it yet, but she's going to help grow some stuff out in the field."

"Ha!" Martin laughed. "Good luck with that. If it doesn't have a motherboard, then she isn't interested." the man's laughter died down, before he cleared his throat. "So she's good?" Clint suddenly felt as if the man knew something he didn't.

"Is there a reason she wouldn't be?" Clint asked, this time a bit more serious.

"No, I'm just making sure you're taking care of my daughter. After everything she's been through, she deserves nothing but the best when it comes to her life."

"I couldn't agree with you more." Clint said when both men turned at the sudden footsteps coming down the stairs. They turned to see a freshly dressed Matthew who looked like he was heading out. "You're finally leaving?"

"Don't sound so happy." Matthew said before. "Hey I don't think grands knows about Mr. monkey and his required presence during nap times." Clint's eyes searched the room, before spotting the stuffed animal on the floor.

"I should get this upstairs." Clint said before picking it up and glancing over to Martin. "I'll be back down." with that the man went rushing upstairs as Matthew walked over to take up his seat.

"So Martin, how you been?" Matthew asked and Martin couldn't help but chuckle. "I can't imagine the life of a dead man being too exciting."

"You'd be surprised."

"You know I'm kind of surprised you and the missus would come here. Kat and C are being watched like hawks by some very big players in our government."

"We know, and we have friends who really good at keeping us in the shadows."

"I guess they must be good if you two haven't been hauled out by now." Matthew replied before glancing to the stair to see if anyone was there. "So Marty, tell me-" he turned back to the man. "What are you doing here?"

"Visit with my daughter and granddaughter." Martin replied never tearing his eyes from the young man. Martin would never say the words out loud, but he actually liked Matthew. He had an eyes for detail, had a way of being able to make moves without a lot of people looking at him.

"Yeah, but coming here to the far was a risk. A risk you wouldn't have taken if you didn't have a very good reason." Matthew countered watching the man closely. "Is there something happening that we should know about?"

"Like what?"

"I don't know, but I got this feeling you and Grandma Chambers are here to play the doting grandparents role. If something is happening-"

"If something was happening, why would I tell you?"

"Because if it concerns anyone in this house, and it leads to something bad happening to them, then I would like you to know I gave you an opportunity to come clean, before I kill you." Matthew said, before a smile crossed his face. He suddenly jumped to his feet. "But hey, maybe I'm just reading too much into something so innocent." the man headed for the door.

"I need to know if she's alright." Martin said and Matthew stopped and turned back to him. "Anything happen to her out of the ordinary."

"Out of the ordinary, how?" Matthew asked coming closer to the man. "What's going on?"

"I'm not completely sure, but I've recently been made aware of something that involves Katie." Martin replied and Matthew fell back into the seat in front of the man. "Look maybe it was all a lie, maybe-" Matthew suddenly stood to his feet and stalked into the kitchen leaving Martin very confused before he walked back out and tossed a sketch pad on the table. Martin hesitantly picked up the pad, flipping it open not expecting the images he would see.

"She's having these dreams." Matthew said and Martin looked up to him. "Of those things in that sketch pad. They have names and personalities, and she knows where they come from because in her dreams she was there with them." Martin's eyes looked back down to the images as he continued to flip the page, his eyes settling on a menacing purple man, with dark eyes, the words, "Thanos." written underneath. "At first I thought they were just dreams, but after all this time-" Martin once again met the man's eyes. "So now I told you what I know, you tell me what's going on with my sister."

S.H.I.E.L.D was an organization that was created to protect the world from the things it couldn't handle. It was supposed to bring peace to the world, and yet it was corrupted. S.H.I.E.L.D was probably the worse thing that ever happened to Katie and yet it also gave her the best things in her life. Her family was a product of S.H.I.E.L.D, a team of extraordinary people was a product of S.H.I.E.L.D.

As she thought about this, really thought about it, it began to make Katie question her decision about the accords. She didn't agree with them, but there was still the chance that something positive could come from them. Katie found herself aimlessly walking in the large, open land that surrounded the facility. Once she'd got tired of walking, she plopped down on the grass and laid back to stare up to the sky that was currently changing. The sound of the crunching grass came to her ears, and she wondered which of them was coming to check on her. Soon the face of Vision appeared above her with a smile.

"Do you mind if I join you?" he asked and Katie simply patted the grass beside her, and the being went about lying down as well.

"I think I was too dismissive." Katie said with a sigh, as stars began peeking through the sky. "With Ross involved, and the UN, I just-" she looked over to Vision who continued to look up to the sky. "I don't trust it. This feels like their way of putting a leash on that dog they always wanted to control." she shook her head before turning back to the sky. "Or it could be their way of helping us."

"It's the unknown factors in the equation that are giving you doubts." Vision stated and Katie nodded. "How do you usually deal with unknown factors?"

"I plan for the worst possible case scenario." Katie replied. "It's just with this a plan, the worse case scenario could get me put in a very deep, dark, prison for the rest of my life." she glanced over to the being. "I have a husband, and I have a daughter, I shouldn't even be here, right?"

"I believe that every being on this planet is where it is supposed to be when they are supposed to be there." Vision spoke his eyes on the stars. "I believe there is a reason you are here, I believe there is a reason I am here. Everything has a purpose. The challenge is figuring out what that purpose is." the being turned to her, and Katie glanced from his eyes to the glowing, yellow jewel on the being's forehead. Her mind suddenly flashes to one of her many weird dreams, and she remembers a gem similar to the one on Vision's head on the strange glove.

"Tell me Vision." Katie says turning away to look back up to the stars. "Do you believe there are more to dreams than random images from our self conscious?" the being simply chuckled and Katie turned back to him, realizing that may have been a stupid question given who he was. "Well of course you do." she sighed. "I've been having these really strange dreams of things that can't be, and things that can't happen." she turned back to the stars. "And yet I think on some level they might be true. Which is crazy because there isn't some purple man searching for the infinity stones, or weirdly colored people, or talking animal and trees roaming beyond the stars." She closed her eyes and let out another sigh. "It's all impossible."

"Am I not an impossibility?" Vision asked for the second time since he'd been on this planet. Katie opened her eyes and turned back to the being as he sat up. "You're so filled with numbers, that you can't see beyond them. At some point you're going to have to see what you're afraid is true." and with that the being stood to his feet and walked off back toward the facility, leaving Katie with only his words.

Katie continued to look up to the stars, seeming to feel more comfortable with them as her ceiling at the moment. She felt her phone vibrate in her pocket and slipped it out and brought it to her ear.

"Hello dear husband?" Katie answered, assuming the only person calling her so late was none other than Clint. There wasn't a reply and the smile fell from her face. "Clint, you there?" still no sound, and Katie pulled the phone from her ear and sighed to see that it was her stalker again. She shook her head before bringing back to her ear. "You're not Clint, you're-" she chuckled,. "you actually have yet to say your name. I should probably just give you one, huh?" she began thinking up names. "It's kind of hard since I don't know if you're a dude or a chick. I should probably try a gender neutral name. How about...Jamie. That's a good one. I had a friend in high school named Jaime. She talked entirely way too much, but she was the only one with as many brain cells as me so I endured it." she paused in hopes to get a reply, but nothing but the slow breaths coming from the other end of the line. "You know this might be a good thing. You calling. I've had a very interesting day. I came home, and it's not home anymore." she chuckled. "Maybe that was the problem. I've never really had a home, and now I have one with my husband and my daughter and something felt like it was missing, and then I came here, to see my friends, well my family, but something felt like it was missing here too." she shook her head as she looked back up to the sky. "So I'm at the point where I'm looking for something, but I just don't know what it is. Have you ever felt like that?"There wasn't a reply and she didn't really expect one. "Well it's late, and you're being weird and not saying anything, so we should probably call it a night." she pulled the phone from her ear and ended the call before finally standing to her feet.

When she walked back into the facility she ran into Steve and Sam who both were carrying bags as if about to go.

"You two leaving?" Katie asked and they looked up to her.

"Yeah." Steve replied, but there was something off and Katie noticed before taking a step forward.

"What's wrong?"

"It's Peggy, she-" Steve couldn't even say the words yet, but he didn't have to. Katie placed a hand on his shoulder, before bringing him into a hug.

"I'm so sorry Steve." she whispered so only the man could hear. "Where's the funeral going to be?"
"London." Steve said with a nod. "Sam and I were about to board the plane."

"I can come with too. Funerals are tough." Katie suggested and the man shook his head.

"Thanks, but that's alright. You should get home. It sucks that you flew all the way here-"

"Over bullshit, I totally agree." Katie said with a shake of her head.

"That's not what I was going to say exactly." Steve said and Katie just shrugged. "We should get going, say hi to Clint and Talia for me." Katie nodded before once again pulling the Captain into a hug before she watched him and Sam head down toward the elevator.

Katie turned, figuring before she left that she could probably talk to Tony. The issue once again came when she had no idea where he is. The halls at this point were practically empty, so Katie simply walked down the linoleum floors aimlessly.

"Is there a reason you're not asking for my help?" came a sudden female Irish voice. "You had no issue earlier."

"Well Friday, earlier people's lives were in danger, right now I'm just lost and I'm sure at some point I won't be lost anymore." Katie replied before coming to a hall that lead in two different directions.

"You don't like me because I'm not him." Friday stated and Katie simply rolled her eyes.

"Tony has been working overtime in the personalty department." Katie muttered with a shake of her head. "Friday, I've been on a farm, in a very boring town with limited tech at my disposal. So no me not asking for your help when I'm lost is just me forgetting that I can ask the thing that's not there to tell me how to get to Tony."

"Mr. Stark is his office, I can take you there if you would like." Friday replied and Katie sighed as the elevator in front of her suddenly opened. Katie looked at it for a moment, unsure. "Just get on already." Katie rolled her eyes once again before stepping onto the elevator. She was glad the program chose to remain silent, she however was not please when the elevator stopped and in stepped Natasha.

"I thought you would be off to a farmer's life." Natasha asked as the elevator began to move again.

"I am, I'm just stopping by to say bye to Tony." Katie replied.

"So-" Natasha said turning back to the doors. "You mentioned to Steve that there were pictures." Katie smiled and turned to the woman. "Don't look at me right now."

"Why, you're so cute being all girly and asking to see pictures of your goddaughter." Katie said pulling out her phone and swiping a few keys. "Alright you now have them." she turned back to the woman. "Should get you through your plane ride to Vienna."

"You think I signed it."

"I know you signed it." Katie said turning away from the woman. "You don't want to be blindsided, and so you peek your head in, let them think you're one of them while you watch their moves. If it works, good, but if it doesn't, at least you'll have some advantage." Natasha turned to Katie with a quirked brow. "While at SHIELD, I may have scanned one of your psych-evals."

"It's a good plan." Natasha said turning back to the doors.

"It is in a perfect world." Katie said with a shake of her head. "HYDRA had implanted themselves in SHIELD, and had agents walking past us in the hall and we didn't even know until one agent had this nagging feeling something wasn't right."

"Rhodey was right, the UN isn't HYDRA." Natasha countered just as the elevators finally opened. The woman stepped off and before the door closed, Katie took a step forward to hold the doors open.

"Do you know what HYDRA's biggest strength was?" Katie asked and Natasha stopped and turned back to her. "Everyone thought they were dead. They made some of the biggest moves in the world and no one knew it was them because HYDRA was just a whisper from the past. The UN probably isn't HYDRA, but you give anyone that much power, and that causality Vision was talking about starts to happen. Signing those accords is risk."

"Not signing those accords could be a bigger risk." Natasha countered. "And we don't need more enemies."

That was one thing Katie would agree to. She simply nodded before taking a step back onto the elevator.

When the elevator doors opened, Katie walked out to a large lobby like room, that was very dim lit. She did spot the office across the room, the door slightly open and light coming from inside. When she walked over and pushed open the door, she saw Tony standing at the window, a glass of bourbon in hand.

"I thought you would've fled back to your life of being Mrs. Old MacDonald." Tony said, knowing it was her without turning to see her. "What are you still doing here?"

"You know I think that is the first time you've ever asked me that." Katie said staring at the back of the man's hand. "You're really upset with me, aren't you?"

"No, I'm just a little disappointed." the man replied, and Katie's eyes went wide at the statement. He took a swig from his glass, before turning and pointing to her. "Do you love your daughter?"

"What kind of question is that?" Katie asked, feeling herself actually not liking the man in front of her at the moment. "Of course I love my daughter."

"So what would you do if your entire farm was floating in the air, and pieces of it just fell on your daughter, your husband and it could've been prevented, but some smart ass who has problems with authority didn't sign a simple piece of paper."

"So the Accords would've prevented Sokovia, they would've stopped Loki, alien from from a different planet from coming to New York and opening the sky?" Katie asked talking a step forward, "Oh, the Accords would've put the fear of God in Alexander Pierce and he and his HYDRA pals would've never built those carriers. One simple piece of paper could've prevented that?"

"No that piece of paper would've told us when to shoot and when to get civilians to safety!" Tony snapped slamming his glass to his desk and turning to the woman fully.

"And a piece of paper has to do that for us? A group of people who have absolutely no idea the type of things we're up against can tell us how to handle them?"

"This is pointless." Tony muttered turning away to look out his window. "You're too screwed up to get how important this is."

"And you're too much of a coward to believe that you're capable of cleaning up your own messes. You're still looking for mommy and daddy to come make it go away so you don't have to." Tony turned an ice glare toward the woman at the mention if his parents.

"I guess people do change in a year." Tony scoffed.

"I'm still me Tony. And you're still you. And a year of us not seeing each other only accomplished one thing." Katie said with a shake of her head. "It made us pay attention and we're not liking what we see."

"That's an understatement."

The pair stood there for a moment, simply staring at the other unsure how they found themselves in this moment. For so long they were as thick as thieves and just like that they found themselves on opposite sides of a line they didn't even know was forming.

"You should go." Tony said as less of a request. Katie turned away for a moment, suddenly hit with a pang of sadness before she turned back to the man.

"I should go." Katie said with a nod before turning. She stopped short of the door, finding this to be the moment for her to do something to change what she felt would happen the moment she stepped outside. In a very spontaneous moment, she turned around and walked over to stand in front of the man. There were so many words passing though her head that she wanted to just come flying out of her mouth, but in the end she decided to keep it simple. "I love you, Tony. Always remember that." and with that she turned and left, now satisfied with the way the conversation ended.

Katie ended up back on the elevator, her eyes closed as she let her back fall back against the wall.

"FRIDAY, I need you to book me a flight?"

"Oh, so now you want my help?" the program asked and Katie opened her eyes .

"Listen you little-" her phone interrupted her and she pulled it from her pocket, seeing the unknown number on her screen. "What?!" she practically yelled into the phone. "Why do you keep calling me? What do you want from me, because I'm one hundred percent sure I don't have it. Listen do yourself a favor and just stop calling me, because apparently I just screw things up." Katie closed her eyes once again dropping her head to the wall. "I'm sorry, I can't help you." she was about to hang up when an expected voice stopped her.

"Wait!"

Katie opened her eyes and lifted her head because the voice that just came through her phone was a voice she'd recognize even after all these years.

"Bucky?"

A/N: looks like there may be a bit of a detour before coming back to the farm life.