"Steve?" Chris asked walking in.
"You're okay?" Steve asked and walked over and hugged her.
"I'm okay." Chris smiled into his shoulder.
"I was worried you were never gonna come home."
"I would never leave you."
Steve let go and kissed Chris.
"Your son missed you." Steve said and Chris looked towards the bed where Gabriel was lying there, beginning to wake up.
"Hello, handsome." Chris said picking him up and smiling at him.
Gabriel barely woke as Chris lifted him into her arms.
"I missed you. I missed you both." Chris said holding Gabriel and resting her forehead against Steve's.
"Let's go home." Steve said and grabbed their bags before walking towards the door.
A few weeks later T'Challa was knocking on the door to their house.
"T'Challa, what do we owe the pleasure?" Steve asked stepping aside to allow the king to come inside.
"Your friend, he is awake." T'Challa said with a smile.
"Bucky?"
T'Challa nodded and looked at Chris who had walked out of the kitchen after what she had heard.
"Let's go." Chris smiled at him.
T'Challa took the Rogers to the border village where Bucky was waiting at the edge of the lake.
"Bucky?" Steve asked slowly approaching him.
Bucky turned around and looked at Steve.
"Do you remember me?" Steve asked.
Bucky nodded.
Steve smiled and hugged him.
"I missed you so much, bud."
"I missed you too." Bucky smiled at him.
"I have someone for you to meet. You might remember my wife, Chris. This is our son, Gabriel." Steve said gesturing to Chris and Gabriel who were standing behind him.
"Son? You're a dad?" Bucky asked looking between Steve and his family.
"Yeah, hard to believe isn't it. The scrawny kid from Brooklyn with a wife and child."
"It is." Bucky smiled.
"This is your nephew." Chris said stepping forward with Gabriel in her arms.
"Wow, he's certainly got your eyes, Steve."
"They certainly couldn't get any bluer." Chris smiled.
"No, they could not." Bucky smiled.
"This kid is going to need a family. Something more than some super parents. A super uncle would be cool as well."
"You want me to…?"
"You are family. Lord knows that Chris and I don't have anyone else."
"I'd love to be a part of your family." Bucky smiled.
Chris smiled and held out Gabriel so Bucky could touch him. Without his other arm, Bucky refused to hold him. But he ruffled his hair and allowed Gabriel grab one of his fingers. The three adults smiled as Gabriel giggled at his uncle.
Two years had passed, and Gabriel had grown into the little terror that Chris and Steve knew he would. He was stronger than most two-year old's, but not stronger than his mother which was what was important at the moment. Steve and Chris continued their work with the King while still keeping their location a secret.
"Chris, do you hear that?" Steve asked walking around the house listening for the ringing. At first he thought it was his Kimoyo beads, but then realized it was not his and the ringing was not the same.
"I'm trying to find it before it wakes up Gabriel. I finally got him down for his nap." Chris said running around the house with Steve.
They finally pulled out the flip phone from the junk drawer in the kitchen.
"It's Tony." Steve said.
"What?" I said in utter disbelief.
"Tony?" Steve said answering the phone.
"The universe is in trouble. We need the Avengers. All of them." Bruce said.
"Bruce?" Steve said and Chris looked at Steve.
"The universe is in danger. Thanos is coming and he's already killed Thor."
"Thor is dead?"
"And the universe is next if we don't do something."
"Great. I'll call the babysitter." Chris sighed.
She walked back into Gabriel's room and sat in the rocking chair next to his crib.
"Chris, it's time to go." Steve said from the doorway.
"What if we don't come back? What if we never see him again? I just want to stare at him for a little longer."
"We will see him again. We will save the universe and we will come back here and be together until we are old and decrepit." Steve said kneeling in front of her.
"I know." I smiled at him.
Steve held my face in his hand and kissed my forehead before standing up and turning to Gabriel.
"Mommy and I love you very much, our little angel." Steve said smoothing back Gabriel's brown hair.
"I love you." I said and kissed his forehead before they walked out of the room.
"Keep him safe." I told his nanny before Steve and I grabbed our bags.
"Of course, ma'am." She nodded and closed the doors after them.
"Natasha, it's Chris." I said over the phone.
"Well, it's about damn time, you two. Wanda missed her check-in. She's in Scotland visiting Vision. I'm on my way there now with Sam."
"We'll meet you." I said and hung up.
"You must understand why I cannot come with you." T'Challa said to Steve and Chris as the two men walked up to her.
"You have an entire nation to look after. We will contact you with more information. Thank you for allowing us the jet." Steve said shaking his hand.
"Of course, anything for some of my closest friends. I had Shuri make you some new weapons as well." T'Challa smiled.
"Tell Shuri thank you." Chris smiled and took the bag he held out to her.
Steve and I boarded the ship and took of.
"Natasha, Sam, Wanda, and Vision are all in Scotland." Chris said getting into the pilot's seat.
"Well, let's get going." Steve said and closed the bay doors.
"Natasha!" I said as we landed near her beacon.
"Chris, Steve. Welcome to the party. We need t hurry to the train station." Natasha said and they all took off running.
As they entered the train station a train pulled through blocking them from getting to Vision and Wanda.
One of the aliens tried to throw a spear at Steve and he dodged and caught it walking out of the shadows. I raised my gun from Shuri and shot towards one of them knocking them back. Sam flew in and sent the other into a café.
Steve went to throw the spear at one of them, but he dodged and flew right into my hands for I was right behind the alien. I took the spear and sliced the backs of his knees before stabbing him. I knocked him to the ground with the staff still in my hands. I went to lunge at him again, but the staff flew from my hands into the female alien's as she jumped towards me. Steve rolled picking up the male alien's staff and blocked it. I took the staff that I had strapped to my back and twisted it activating the vibranium. Steve and I stood on opposite sides of the female alien and took turns attacking her. Sam came and knocked her back towards the other alien and we all stared down at the two of them ready to pounce.
"Get up." The female alien said to the other.
"I cannot."
"We don't want to kill you, but don't think we won't." Natasha said calmly with a threat in her voice.
"You'll never get another chance." She threatened before they were beamed up into their ship.
"Come on." Chris said and walked with the others over to Wanda and Vision.
"Can you stand?" Sam asked Vision as he offered him a hand.
Sam and Wanda supported Vision while Natasha, Steve and I stood in front of them.
"Thank you." Vision said to both me and Steve.
"Let's get him on the jet." Steve said with a nod and led the way.
Everyone loaded onto the jet and I got in the pilot's seat.
"Where are we going, Steve?" I asked.
"The compound." Steve said and I nodded.
"So, the baby?" Natasha asked standing beside me.
I reached into my pocket and pulled out our family picture.
"His name is Gabriel. He's being watched by a friend right now. She's good to him. She'll take care of him."
"We'll get you back to him."
"I know." Chris said.
They landed at the compound and Steve and I walked into the compound to see Rhodey talking to a hologram of the secretary.
"Mr. Secretary." Steve greeted.
"You've got a set on you, that's for sure." The secretary said walking closer.
"Seems you could use a little bit of that." I defended beside him.
"The world is in trouble and you walk in thinking all is forgiven?"
"I'm not expecting forgiveness. Earth just lost her best defender. And we're here to save more than the planet. We're talking about the universe." Steve said, and walked through the secretary.
"Arrest them." The secretary said to Rhodey.
"Of course, sir." Rhodey said and hung up with him.
"Hey Rhodey." I smiled.
"It's great to see you guys." Rhodey smiled and shook Steve's hand.
"Wow, you guys look like shit. Must have been a rough few years."
"Hotels weren't exactly five stars." Sam joked.
"Speak for yourself." I said looking at all of them with a smile.
"I think you all look great." Brue said and everyone turned to look at him. I looked back and forth between he and Natasha unsure how this would transpire.
"Hi, Bruce." Natasha smiled.
"Nat." He greeted and it extened into silence.
"Okay, well, let's get this party started. Sooner we save the world and the sooner I can get home to Gabriel." I smiled at everyone.
Everyone debriefed Rhodey and Banner and I placed one of my Kimoyo beads down to project who we had seen.
"They can find us. We need to be ready for the next time."
"We need everyone. Where's Clint?" Bruce asked.
"After everything with the accords he and Scott took deals so that they could be with their families. They're under house arrest." Natasha explained.
"Scott?"
"Ant-man." Steve told him.
"There's an Ant-man and a Spiderman?"
"You missed a lot in the years you were gone." I said looking down at the ground.
"It doesn't matter. Thanos has the largest army in the universe and he won't stop until he has all six stones."
"We have to protect Vision." Natasha said.
"We have to destroy the stone." Vision said leaning against the wall causing everyone to look at him. "I've been giving it a great deal of thought, and I believe that if it were exposed to a powerful energy source it could be destroyed." Vision said looking at Wanda.
"And you along with it. We're not discussing this." Wanda said shaking her head.
"If we destroy the stone then Thanos can't get it."
"That price is too high."
"Only you can pay it."
Wanda pulled away from Vision and turned her back.
"Thanos plans to wipe out half of the universe. One live can not stand in the way of his defeat."
"We don't trade lives, Vision." Steve said.
"Captain, you once laid down your own life to save millions of people. We're talking about trillions."
"You might have a choice, Vision." Banner spoke up. "Your mind is more than just the stone. It is a complex overly of many things. Jarvis, Ultron, Tony, me, the stone. All of those systems mixed together and are learning from one another."
"So, Vision is more than the stone?" Wanda asked.
"If we remove the stone there's still a lot of Vision left. And perhaps those are the best parts."
"Can you do it?" Natasha asked.
"No. Not here." Bruce said shaking his head.
"I think I know someone who could." I said straightening up.
"Chris," Steve said.
"The fate of half the universe rests on us. He knows that. He will open his city up for this. And Shuri could do it. With her knowledge and technology." I whispered to him.
"You call T'Challa. I'll get everyone onto the jet." Steve sighed.
"We're gonna see Gabriel." I smiled and kissed his cheek before running for the jet.