Same Time Frame as Chapter Two

Steve's POV

It's been three months since I broke into the Raft and rescued the team. Three months I've been in Wakanda. Three months Bucky placed back in cryofreeze to disable the trigger words. Three months since me and Tony's showdown at that base in Siberia. Three months since the fight at the airport between the Avengers. Where Natasha let me and Bucky go. Where she is right now. Nobody's heard from her. She's been on the run before and can handle herself, but I want her here. All of my best friends here by my side. Everyone who was with me that were against the Accords are all here except for Scott. Lucky he had some friends to help him out. Picked up Barton's family after we left the Raft. Still at the house. Can't believe Nat didn't move them. Be glad nobody knew they existed.

"Mr. Rogers," one of the Wakandan servants said,"the doctors wanted me to tell you that they have disabled Mr. Barnes' trigger words. He will be coming out of the cryofreeze shortly. Your presence is optional, but King T'Challa says that he knows that you'll be there. Your teammates are welcome to join you."

"Okay, I'll ask them if they want to come. What time will he come out?" Steve asked, masking his excitement.

"Thirty minutes."

"Thank you!"

"Your welcome, sir."

My best friend is back! Bucky won't have to worry about trigger words or HYDRA anymore! No more danger for him or for us. So thirty minutes. Thirty minutes to find everyone and ask if they want to come. Well, like about fifteen minutes to find them and ten minutes to get there. Now where would everyone be in the afternoon. The common area. Or their rooms. I'll try the common room first.

Steve ran to the common room and found everyone on the sofa in there watching Star Wars. Sam and Clint were really into while Wanda was surrounded by blankets and tissues on the end of the couch, sleeping.

Oh, forgot Wanda was sick. She probably won't come. Won't hurt to ask.

Steve cleared his throat to get the team's attention. Sam paused the movie, and they turned to face him.

"Is this important Steve? You woke Wanda up, and me and Sam could still be watching the movie," Clint said.

"It is," Steve said. "Bucky's trigger words are gone and he's getting out of cryo in a few minutes. I was wondering if you wanted to be there with me when he comes out."

"Sure! This calls for a celebration!" Sam said, jumping up from the sofa enthusiastically.

"I would go, Steve, but I don't want to spread my cold," Wanda said.

"What about you Clint?" asked Steve.

"I'll stay and take care of Wanda. And I promised Lila I would help her with a puzzle. Tell him that Hawkeye will see him afterwards though okay," Clint said.

"That's fine," Steve said. "You ready to go Sam?"

"Yeah, let's go. See you two later," Sam told them.

Steve and Sam walked out of the common room and towards the lab.

"I swear Clint thinks Wanda is his kid. I mean they're so close," Sam said jokingly.

Steve laughed. "That's so true! But it's good for her. After Pietro, she needed someone to lean on."

"I feel like if he likes you enough, you'll become his family. First it was Laura, then Natasha, and now Wanda," Sam said. He noticed Steve tense up when he said Natasha's name. "Hey, she can take care of herself remember. She's good at running from the government."

"But she wouldn't have had to run from the government if she didn't let us go," Steve said guiltily.

"Hey man, it worked out in the long run. Natasha will probably find her way back to us eventually. I mean it's Nat we're talkin' 'bout. Let's just think about Bucky, okay."

"Fine."

T'Challa was waiting for them at the doorway of the lab.

"Come in," he said smiling. The men walked inside where they saw the cryo pod.

"You can stand over here," a scientist said.

They followed the scientist over to the cryo pod. Sam, Steve, T'Challa, and some scientists and a doctor huddled around it. Then the scientist grabbed a high-tech tablet.

"The cryogenic capsule will open in five seconds," the scientist explained. "Everyone be ready. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Open!"

The cryo pod's door lowered and steam poured into the room. Once it cleared, everyone could see Bucky, who was beginning to open his eyes.

"Bucky," Steve said, "can you hear me? It's me, Steve. Sam, King T'Challa, and some scientists are here too."

"I can hear you," Bucky said weakly.

"Mr. Rogers can you help me get Mr. Barnes out the cryo pod?" asked one of the scientists. Steve nodded and walked toward the pod and pulled Bucky out and draped his new metal arm over his shoulder. Sam came over and got the other arm.

"Place him on the cot please, sir," the scientist said. Steve and Sam gently placed him on the cot.

Bucky laughed."You're acting like I can't walk over myself,"

Sam rolled his eyes in annoyance."Cause you can't walk over yourself,"

"Whatever, Sam. I guess they got rid of the trigger words. And gave me a new arm," Bucky said to the scientists. He moved bent and straightened his fingers. A doctor was checking his vitals to make sure everything was okay.

"Yes, the trigger words have been disabled. Your new arm has a new upgrade too," T'Challa said. "It is now made out of vibranium and devoid of the Soviet star."

"Thank you your highness. I owe you."

"No you don't," T'Challa said. "Free of charge."

"Thank you, for everything."

"I must go now. I have royal duties to attend to," T'Challa said. Then he walked out of the room and through the door where some of the Dora Milaje, including Okoye were waiting. Steve could hear him walking down the hallway his footsteps getting fainter and fainter until he couldn't hear them anymore. Then he turned to Bucky whose vitals were still being checked.

"Ready to be part of the world again?" asked Steve jokingly.

"Sure, what did I miss?"

"Not much besides people trying to figure out where we are," Sam said. "That's it. And Scott went back to America and is lying low with some friends of his. Not a good idea."

"Cool," Bucky said.

"Mr. Barnes your vitals are fine. You are free to go with your friends back to your quarters."

"Aren't you going to check to see if the words are actually disabled?" Steve asked cautiously.

"We already did. Mr. Barnes has a com in his ear. A scientist in another room said the words. They have no effect on him," a doctor said.

"You just put everyone in this room in danger!" Steve yelled in anger. Sam and Bucky looked at the doctor with horror and anger plastered on their faces.

"We had safety measures in place," the doctor said calmly. "The com was fitted with an electric shock that would knock him out if he was out of control. Here see, here is the com." The doctor took it out of Bucky's ear and showed it to the room. Everyone calmed down a little bit. Steve was still a little uneasy but tried not to show it. The room was in a awkward silence.

"Um, so are we done here or not," Sam asked.

"Yes you may leave, we're done. Mr. Barnes should be able to walk now. But assistance might be necessary," the doctor said.

"Okay, thank you, bye," Sam said. He grabbed Bucky and Steve and dragged them out of the lab and started walking away. Bucky gave him a look of gratitude and nodded.

"Thanks," Bucky said.

"No problem," Sam said.

"So what now?" Bucky asked.

"We'll go to the common room and see if anyone's in there. So you can meet them. Then we can show you your room."

"Who's here?"

"Me, you, Sam, Wanda, Clint, and Clint's family."

"Clint has a family?"

"Yeah."

"He left them didn't he. He left them to help us."

"It's not your fault. And nobody outside of the Avengers knows except Fury. We picked them up after we hit the Raft."

"Oh. Do you think his family will like me?"

"Laura will like you. And his kids will like you. Cooper's probably gonna ask you a million questions about your arm, Lila might want to do your hair, and Nate is too young to understand you."

Bucky laughed.

"And caution, Wanda's sick, so beware," said Steve.

"I'll be fine. I have a nice little serum just like you Steve, except it's a little different. But I do know that I don't get sick. Easily."

"Cool," Sam said.

Bucky's POV

The group walked into the common room and found it more crowded than it was earlier. The Barton family had joined Clint and Wanda. Clint was doing a puzzle with Lila, Laura was talking to Wanda, and Cooper was playing with Nathaniel. Laura noticed the men were there and got up to greet them. She led them towards the sofa.

"So this is the man my husband left me for," she said.

The color in Bucky's face drained. "I'm so sor-"

"I was just teasing. It's nice to meet you Sergeant Barnes. I'm Laura, Clint's wife."

"Nice to meet you, mam. You can call me Bucky."

"Okay."

"Nice to see you man," said Clint.

"Clint right?"

"Yep. That's me."

"You're the farmer guy that shoots arrows."

Everyone except Clint laughed.

"Haha. Really funny people. Last person that laughed at me took an arrow to the knee. Bucky, just so you know, I am a world-renowned assassin. Do not get on my bad side."

"Former, assassin," said Laura. "Now he's just a farmer that shoots arrows, like Bucky said. And supposed to be a full-time dad."

"He's a great daddy."

Bucky turned to see Lila staring at him.

"We never said that he wasn't sweetie. The adults are talking, can you go back to doing your puzzle?" asked Laura.

"Okay."

"You must be Lila," Bucky said.

Her eyes grew wide in amazement. "How do you know my name?"

"Steve told me before while we were walking here. Your brothers are named Cooper and Nate."

"Yep. Cooper he knows your name too!"

Cooper rolled his eyes. Laura gave him one of her signature mom looks that everyone has gotten at one point.

"Cool, Lila," he said, a bit of sarcasm in his voice. "I saw you at the Captain America exhibit at the Smithsonian. They had a panel on you," Cooper said.

"I saw it when I was there a few years ago. They need to update it though."

"Yeah, cause you're not dead."

"Do you want to meet Nate?" asked Lila.

"Lila, stop interrupting," Cooper said.

"I wouldn't mind meeting him."

"If you two agree to go back to what you were doing before you interrupted our conversation," said Laura.

"Okay!" they said in unison.

Lila picked Nate up and gave him to Bucky, who cautiously took him from her arms. He placed the baby on his lap. Nate looked up at him with his curious brown eyes and smiled. He snuggled into Bucky's chest and closed his eyes.

"He likes you," Laura said.

"I can tell."

"It took that little munchkin a while to warm up to me," said Steve. "And I'm a baby magnet."

"You should have seen Steve's face when he first held him. Nate started bawling and trying to get away from him. He was mortified," said Sam.

"I'm just not used to that. It's new to me."

"Is this all of your family, Clint?" Bucky asked.

The room went silent. Clint looked away.

"Kids, can you guys go play somewhere else," Laura asked.

"But why?" said Lila.

"Just go play somewhere else for now okay. Take Nate with you."

Lila gathered her puzzle pieces and put them in the box. Cooper took Nate from Bucky and the three left the room.

"We're still missing a person," said Laura.

"What?"

"Her name is Natasha. We don't know where she is," said Laura. "She disappeared after Leipzig."

"Is Natasha one of your kids?"

"No, she's my sister in law."

"Clint's sister."

"Yeah."

"You've met her before, Buck. The redhead. She let us go at the airport. And she was with me in DC."

"Can you show me a picture of her? I remember the red hair, but not the face."

Clint took his wallet out and opened it to get a picture. He pulled out the picture and handed it to Steve to give to Bucky. Then Lila burst in the room in a tizzy.

"Auntie Nat's on TV! Auntie Nat's on TV!"

"What!" Clint exclaimed. He turned on the TV. "What channel?"

"It's on the news. When Cooper turned on the TV the news was on and she was on it."

Clint turned to BBC.

BBC News Report

"This is Nick Bryant with BBC bringing you this breaking news report. Just coming in from Amsterdam, there has been a bombing at an apartment complex outside the city. About 57 people were believed to be inside. The bombing is believed to be coordinated by ex-Avenger Natasha Romanoff. Romanoff lived in the complex while going under the alias of Lotte Smitt. This was discovered by her employer when she came into work this morning. A bloody handprint was find on a wall in the kitchen which was later identified as Romanoff's. The scene showed an apparent struggle, leading the authorities to believe that there was a second woman with Romanoff. The second woman, identified by DNA left behind, is Isabella Locke. She is believed to have been knocked unconscious and dragged out of the kitchen. Her location is not known at the time, but authorities believe that she was moved to the apartment complex that is now in flames. Romanoff has been incognito for the past three months after breaking the rules of the Sokovia Accords. She is now wanted for espionage, terrorism, and Article 289 and 289a in Holland, which is equal to 1st degree murder in the states. All 117 nations that signed the Accords are meeting to discuss the punishment of Romanoff later today. The outcome will likely be the death penalty and a kill on sight issued. Romanoff was last seen with blonde hair and blue eyes. She's about five foot, three inches and ways about 138 pounds or 1.6 meters and 62.6 kilograms. She has many scars including one on her stomach and one on her shoulder. If you spot Romanoff, do not engage. Call the authorities to handle it. She is dangerous without weapons. More will be on the story later as we go to commercial break."

I know her.

Clint's POV

"Oh my god," Steve said shocked.

"Auntie Nat did that?" Lila said.

The team looked at the little girl in horror. Even though the reporter just explained it to them, to hear it come from Lila's mouth, it just poured salt into the wound.

"She's a monster."

"DELILAH ELIZABETH BARTON! Wanda will you take her to me and Clint's room. I will deal with you young lady later."

Wanda took Lila by the hand and led her out of the room.

Clint stared at the TV in silence. Not my Natasha. Not my best friend, my sister. My kids' aunt. My wife's best friend. My partner. She wouldn't have gone back to that life. She's done with that life. It's not true. It's not her.

"Are they sure it's her?" asked Laura. "It could be a copycat. They don't have any proof that it's her."

"Um… a copy-cat that happens to have her handprint. Her blood. It's her. No matter what we don't want to believe, it's her," said Sam.

"Why Amsterdam? I mean, it's not that far from Germany," Steve asked.

"Those apartments. Me and Natasha went to Amsterdam for a mission. It was one of our first missions together. I remember seeing those apartments. She told me that they would be a good place to hide if we ever needed to lay low for awhile. Guess she ended up doing that," explained Clint.

"Maybe the coworker found out that she was the Black Widow. She confronts Natasha, they fight, bloody handprint is left, Natasha kidnaps her. Then she blows up the complex she was living in to destroy the evidence of her being there," Sam said.

"But why," Clint asked. "She promised me she would never go back to that life. But the news says that she just killed dozens of people. That she kidnapped one of her co-workers and killed her. My daughter. My daughter that looks up to her. That says that she wants to be just like her no matter how many times Natasha says that she needs to choose someone else to look up to. My Lila. She just looked at the news. The news that told her that her favorite person in the world, just killed a bunch of innocent people. She looked at that TV and saw what is in her mind, a monster. She sees her aunt as a monster. Lila called her aunt, her Auntie Nat, a monster. Only Nat and her enemies call her that. Never Lila."

Clint was in tears. Laura hugged him in effort to comfort him. The rest of the team awkwardly looked at each other in silence.

Steve stood up. Defiant, he said, "We need to find her. We need to find her now."

Author's Note: Ok. So I rewrote chapter 2 and merged it with this chapter. I didn't like it. And I forgot to include Clint's family. Rather than have Natasha come get them, I just made it that Steve picked them up. Sorry if you really liked chapter 2. I will use the theme in that chapter later. Anyway I updated, which is good. So... ENJOY! Oh and let me know in the reviews section if you are excited about BLACK PANTHER! Okay bye. Wait, who liked that last Bucky part? Let me know. I will update soon. Bye for real.

P.S. Can y'all help me find two fanfics. I read them, and I forgot to add them to my favorites.

Fanfic 1: Natasha is about to shoot herself but Steve stops her and ends up getting shot.

Fanfic 2: Bruce finds Natasha, who has memory loss, and helps her regain and her memories. He and Tony find out that she was tortured by Ross and help her. (This is post Civil War)

Thanks! Let me know in the reviews section. And who is excited about finally getting our Black Widow movie! I hope they do the Winterwidow ship!

Reviews:

xWriter15x chapter 4 . Jan 5

Love this when is the next update x

Here's the next update. I don't know about the next one though. Well when it will be.

crazyaboutto chapter 4 . Dec 22, 2017

How can I favorite this twice or trice? I always thought Natasha's words included Fire Tsar and Ballet but I thought there would be number in between like Bucky's birth year. ...1 Fire...9 Ballet... 28 Tsar

Do you based this upon Black Widow Comics (2017)? There is a Headmistress there too
Idk how you will handle brainwashed Natasha but here is a fun fact. Natasha was the only one who could resist Purple Man's mind control in comics. I learned this awhile ago but it's impressive. Purple man is the villain of Jessica Jones season 1 but he was stronger in comics. Also in the 2017' BW comics I've mentioned, I love the line "no one gets into my head unless I let them and I rarely let them"

Please update soon. I really Wonder what will happen next

Yes I do read the Black Widow comics. I didn't know about her resisting the Purple Man, but she doesn't let people get in her head that easily. And the idea about the numbers is a good one. Maybe I'll go back and add them in there.

Rahaf chapter 4 . Dec 22, 2017

Intense,,wish that it was longer thu ,,more dark twist soon I hope ..thx for the updates

I'm trying to make them longer. It's really hard though. But I'm making each chapter at least 2,500 words. Most are 3,000 words or a little bit less than 3,000. The dark twists will be here soon. Don't worry. And I will always update my stories, eventually.