Here is chapter 19. it will be a little longer then the last two. I hope you all are still enjoying it.
Natasha was in her office at home working on reports. She only worked half a day 3 days a week after she reached her 6 months in her pregnancy. With Natasha's small size and that it turned out she was carrying twins Helen put her on limited duty.
Not that all that many people were complaining. Natasha's mood swings had been bad. The team would pale if she was the one leading training. Tony hadn't been back to the compound after he thought he would be funny and make a pregnant joke. It took Steve to get her off him. Steve weathered it the best of everyone and no one could figure out how he did it. James and Sarah didn't have many worries due to Natasha rarely got upset with them. They like Steve pampered her.
Natasha got up from her desk and rubbed her back. Maggie the family 5 month old German Shepard lifted her head from were she was sleeping in her dog bed that was kept in the office.
"Just going to get something to eat." Natasha told the dog.
Natasha walked in her kitchen of her new house. They had moved in 2 months ago. They opted for one of the houses that was located on 5 acres. Steve had the whole property lined with 6ft fence so Maggie had plenty of room to run around in. Their house was two stories with 6 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths, a large living room, good size kitchen and dinning room. It also had an office and a small room that was on the first floor that Steve used for his sketching. It also had a basement that they turned into a family game room. Tony even showed up with a pool table and poker table for them to put in the game room.
Natasha loved her new house but she also loved her farm house. Steve had gone out there a month ago to help with the pastures. They tilde all the pastures and planted new seed so that they would have a good batch of grass next year when they got their cattle. They decide to wait a year and let the pastures mature before putting any animals on them. Once the seed was down they fertilized everything.
Steve and Natasha had decided to spent the Christmas holidays at the farm. Things were going good with training and the Avengers were just doing support missions for SHIELD. Steve had already told Fury he was giving the Avengers two weeks off for Christmas. They would be available if there was an emergency but would not be running any missions.
Natasha fixed her lunch and head back to the office with Maggie following behind her. She sat back down and ate her lunch while she finished her reports. She just finished one on the last training session she ran when her cell phone rang.
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Steve was just called to command. He had been running training today to the relief of the others. Natasha had run them through the ringer yesterday. When he walked in Fury and Hill were standing next to the OD's desk.
"Captain we have intel that Brock Rumlow is heading to Legos, Nigerian to steal a biological weapon from a lab. We are sending the Avengers in with a couple STRIKE teams. Stop him and try to bring Rumlow in to face trial if you can if not kill him. We don't want him getting away again." briefed Fury.
"STRIKE will work to help contain him and clear the area if things go south." Hill briefed also.
"I will take Rhodes, Wilson and Vision to try to locate him from the air. T'Challa, Wanda and I will try to take him when he is found. Pietro will fly the Quinjet and provide support." Steve informed the two.
"OK, you leave in 20 minutes. The SHIELD Quinjet will form up on you and follow you in." said Hill.
Steve called the others and told them to gear up and be at the Quinjet in 15. He then called Natasha and let her know that he would be home late because of a mission.
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Steve was chasing Rumlow with Wanda and T'Challa behind him. Rumlow was heading for a market square so Steve was on the radio with STRIKE telling them to head him off and to try to clear the area. Rhodes, Vision and Sam were casing 3 separate Hydra agents that may have the bio weapon.
When Steve entered the market square Rumlow was standing in the middle. There were still several people in the square. Steve knew what Rumlow was going to do. As soon as Steve got close enough the chances of Rumlow blowing himself up to try to kill him was good. Steve needed to stall till STRIKE could clear over a 100 people still in danger.
Wanda was just entering the square when she saw Steve try to rush Rumlow to keep him from blowing himself up. It didn't do any good. As soon as Steve was close Rumlow exploded. Wanda used her powers to contain the explosion. Her first instinct was to try to throw it up and clear the area but knew from what James and Sarah had told them that would be a bad idea. So she used everything she had while STRIKE tried to clear the square. Steve and T'Challa also did what they could to clear the square. She could only hold it for about 7 minutes before she lost containment.
She saw Steve rush and grab a small child that was in the blast area when she lost containment. Both were caught in it. Wanda watched Steve place himself between the explosion and the child. Both were thrown 20 feet with Steve taking the blunt of the landing.
T'Challa looked for Steve and Wanda after the explosion. He saw Wanda on her hands and knees trying to catcher breath. He also saw fear in her face as she looked across the square. When he looked he saw his Captain down and appeared injured. He called for help.
"The Captain is down. Wanda is good just exhausted. We have injured civilians and STRIKE members. Send medical." T'Challa called over the radio.
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Fury was shouting orders after watching the explosion that was seen from a mini drone SHIELD had flying over the area. He had already seen Steve rush to save the child and get caught in it.
"Contact local officials and let them know a terrorist blew himself up at the main market square and there are injured." yelled Fury.
Hill was giving her own orders. "Tell the Helicarrier to launch medical Quinjets that we have injured SHIELD agents and a down Avenger. Tell them they better get there yesterday."
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T'Challa and Wanda were provide what aid they could to Steve. They could tell he was in pain from the burns from the explosion and other injuries from landing. Wanda shook her head when he asked about the child.
"The child is fine Cap. You on the other hand are not. Natasha is going to kill us all when she hears about this." said Wanda.
"Relax Captain. The child is with her parents now and has no injuries. Medical is on the way and we will have you out of here in no time." explained T'Challa.
Steve asked "The bio weapon and any civilian injured?"
"We have the weapon. Sam is taking it to the Quinjet now. There are some civilian casualties but it could have been worse had we not had already cleared most of the square." T'Challa explained.
A medical Quinjet landed and a couple medics came with a stretcher to take Steve to the Quinjet. Once he and the other SHIELD injured were loaded, it took off and headed to the Helicarrier with Rhodes flying escort.
The other Avengers and STRIKE team members helped with the rest of the injured. They stayed as long as thy could before heading to the Helicarrier to check on their injured team members.
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The news media had picked up the incident in Lagos and ran with it. The more conservative news agencies reported that a terrorist blew himself instead of surrender to SHIELD and the Avengers who were trying to capture him after stealing a biological weapon.
Some of the news agencies who had a reputation for blowing thing out of proportion concentrated their reports on the injured and blamed SHIELD and the Avengers. They ignored the fact that SHIELD and the Avengers had cleared most of the square while Wanda contained the explosion till she collapsed from exhaustion.
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Fury walked up to the front door of the Rogers home and knocked. A very pregnant Natasha answered the door. When she saw Fury she almost collapsed.
"Is he.." Natasha started asking.
"No but he was hurt saving a small child. He is on the heilcarrier right now. They will be flying him here as soon as they see how bad. I don't know more then that right now." Fury told her. "Get what you need and I will drive you to the Compound so you can wait for him and the others to arrive. Hill is on her way to the kids school to pick them up and take an agent to bring their car home."
"OK, thanks." said an upset Natasha.
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Natasha and the kids were waiting as the Avengers Quinjet landed with Steve and the rest on it at the helo pad next to Headquarters. Helen Cho and her team rushed out to collect Steve and get him to medical. Natasha held her children while they brought their father off the Quinjet and into the building.
It took everything she had to not lose it as Steve was wheeled by. He was laying face down and had bandages covering his back, back of his arms and legs. It also looked like his hair in the back of his head was burnt off and had burns there two.
Both children were upset at seeing their father. When Hill showed up at school they feared the worse. In the other time line they had seen him come back injured but this was the worse.
The other Avengers came in after Steve. Wanda was a mess and T'Challa had an arm around her guiding her in. The others didn't look much better. When Wanda reached Natasha and the kids she broke down. Natasha pulled the young woman in a hug. Natasha knew she was blaming herself for not being able to hold the explosion longer.
"I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't hold it longer." cried an upset Wanda.
"It's not your fault Wanda. I saw the video feed. You did an amazing job holding on as long as you did. You saved dozens of lives holding the explosion. Come on let go wait to hear about Steve." said Natasha.
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They had all been waiting a few hours for Helen to come out. When she did Natasha stood and walked to her with worry in her eyes.
"He will be find Natasha. We had him in surgery so long because we had to rebreak a couple bones and scrub his back to get all the burnt skin off. It was painful and unfortunately we sill don't have a pain medication that works on him. I contacted Dr. Banner and told him I needed a strong pain reliever for Steve but as of right now we still don't have anything so we had to induce a coma." explained Helen. "He will be in SICU for a few days till we can bring him out of the coma."
"Thanks Helen. Can I see him?" asked Natasha.
"Yes but keep it brief. I don't want you wearing your self out. Stay in your suite here if you want but you are not staying in his room." commanded Helen.
Natasha went in the SICU and sat by Steve's bed. He was laying on his stomach. He was heavily bandaged which was testament to his injuries. Tears fell down Natasha's cheeks has she looked at her husband. She only stayed a few minutes before going back to the waiting room and hugging her children.
They kept Steve in a coma a week before they felt he was healed enough that he would not be in a lot of pain. He still had a ways to go. Even as fast has he healed that much damage would take time.
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The media had finally moved on to other things but there were those that were worried. There had already been talk after Johannesburg and Sokovia. If some form of the accords happen it would cause problems bringing Hydra to and end. SHIELD could still do it but without the Avengers it would cost more lives and take longer.
Nick Fury read some of the intel reports about which world leaders were pushing for some form of the accords. What he saw worried him. Most of the countries were countries that had heavy Hydra presence. There were a few that as fare as SHIELD knew did not have Hydra in their country but these countries in general were not friendly to the US and the Avengers were based here.
He also knew of a few Senators and Congressman that wanted to control the Avengers. Secretary Ross was never good at hiding at what he thought about the Avengers.
If the Accords came Steve would take his family and disappear. The others would too or those like Tony would retire. He better start calling in some favors.
So we are moving in the time frame of Civil War. Will there be any accords or will the Avengers allies be able to stop them.