A/N: And here we go! Three brand new chapters about the lives of our favourite superheros. Enjoy :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel, Disney, ABC or the Avengers. Just Sera.
"Pietro?" Wanda asked, tears in her eyes as she found her brother in medical. I had been watching over him as he slept, bandaging up my father while Bucky and Steve went to get the twins. They had been my first thought, but I felt like I should stay with Pietro.
"He's resting," I said, standing up. I held out my hand, saying, "Sera Stark Barnes-Rogers."
"You are Stark's daughter," She said, eyeing me.
"I'm also the one who saved your brother. My father's unstable behaviors don't run in the family." I said sternly, dropping my hand.
"I'm sorry," She said, offering her hand. I took it as Bucky and Steve came in with our two angels.
"How are you two?" I said, tearing up knowing they were alright.
"We're okay," Bucky teased as I moved to hold and feed Elijah. He had that face on that normally meant he was hungry and was about to cry.
"Um, ангел?" Bucky said, throwing a cover up over me, as he noticed Pietro stirring.
"Wanda?" He asked, groggily.
"You are stupid. I lost you," She said, crying into his chest.
"I'm your older brother. I won't leave you." He said quietly, as he patter her head. I motioned for the three of us to move to another room.
"You're still healing junior. Slow down," I said, smirking.
"I don't regret it. C'ptain said, "You get killed, walk it off."" He chuckled. Steve shook his head, looking to be kicking himself.
"Rest," I said, still nursing Elijah as I walked to the other room and sat down on the bed.
"Vacation?" I asked, and Bucky smiled.
"Yeah." Steve said, chuckling. Natasha came in and sat down next to me. I burped Elijah, and handed him to Nat. She needed to hold him, I could just tell.
"Bruce wouldn't take the Quinjet off stealth mode." She said lowly, as I was handed Callie.
"Guys," I said, as Steve and Bucky nodded. They went to go talk to Pietro, who was looking much better.
"Would you believe I implanted a non-searchable tracker into the jet's computer? My Dad didn't even know he was putting it in." I said, picking up a tablet and typing onto it. Her smile widened by two inches.
"He doesn't know about the tracker?" She asked.
"Nat, even I would have a hard time believe it's a tracker." I laughed as I continued feeding Callie. She was hungry today.
"Where is he?" She asked quietly as she rocked Elijah.
"Cruising over the Atlantic Ocean. Heading for… Brazil, again," I said surprised.
"He wanted to disappear. I was going to go with him."
"Take a quinjet. Do it now before you regret it." I said, as she shook her head.
"He wanted to keep me safe from him. And I betrayed him by triggering the Hulk."
"Trust me. I think I betrayed Steve and Bucky's trust when I kept SHIELD from everyone, and now again when I used and experimental alien drug to bring Junior back to life."
"Junior?" she asked.
"You remember that mission in Siberia? The diplomat's son?"
"How did you get…. Oh." She chuckled, as I moved to burp Callie. As they both drifted off to sleep, I sighed contently.
"Now if I could just get my husbands to want me like these two do." I joked, as Natasha cuddled Elijah closer.
"Clint's leaving in a few hours." I sighed.
"I kind of miss the days where it was just the three of us." She said, looking down at Callie in my arms.
"I do too. And then I think of what I got out of the deal, and what Clint has. I want that. I want to be able to go home for months and not think about saving the world or handling dangerous missions chasing cartels, and black market arms dealers, mercenaries. Aliens and evil robots too."
"So you were in on this?"
"Theta was supposed to be integrating the Avengers back into SHIELD." I said, wincing at her cold look.
"You knew." She said, not surprised.
"I was the one who brought up the idea to Fury to 'store' No.64 off record. I wanted to tweak it to be better than INSIGHT, but now I'm happy I was off helping my father with the clean up of AIM."
"You quit before you left to help him," She asked, not following me.
"I was in charge of design and production of Insight. I had no clue, until Steve was falling from one on the news."
"You know, for a best friend, you sure do keep a lot from me."
"We're spies Natasha. I know for fact you've kept things from me. You thought you were in love with Clint for the first few years at SHIELD, but wouldn't admit it for fear of weakness. You've dedicated your life at SHIELD to righting your wrongs. I know a lot of what happened in the Red Room, and it's not from your file. It's your eyes that give it away." I said, laying my head on her shoulder.
"We never really touched on this, but I kissed Steve." She said, as I shot up in surprise.
"Okay, this is throwing me for a loop. He's never mentioned it." I said, thinking back to when SHIELD fell and he no longer had a job.
"Mall. We were going down an escalator, but Rumlow was coming up. I had to make it uncomfortable for him so he would look away." She said, getting up and moving with Elijah.
"Oh. Okay."
"He's a good kisser," she smirked.
"And now you have to die." I said, narrowing my eyes playfully.
Three months later, I was sitting at the new SHIELD/Avengers base, one of my grandfather's old warehouses refitted for our operations. Fury was balancing Elijah on his knee, and I was showing Callie how to crawl.
"She's only 4 months." Steve said, leaning against the doorframe.
"They look like they are nearly 1 year olds. And they are part Stark. I was crawling at 4 months, and building circuit boards by the time I was 4." Dad said, smirking at his grandchildren.
"Laura is kind of jealous that we will skip the terrible two's."
"She's lucky Nathaniel stays a baby longer."
"But we get to see all the good stuff sooner," Bucky said, looking out the large window wall.
"Right now you're missing it!" I said excited as she used her arms to pull herself forward, making a pushing motion with her feet. Steve knelt down to her and smiled.
"That's my girl. Come to Dad."
"Back off, come to Daddy princess," Bucky laughed kneeling next to him. Seeing there were two people looking for her attention, she smiled, but turned around slowly to crawl back to me. I laughed slightly, picking up my girl and kissing her cheek.
"Good job sweetie," I said, kissing her hand as she placed it on my mouth.
"Mama's girl," Steve said, folding his arms, playfully glaring.
"Our own daughter ignores us." Bucky said, holding a hand to his heart.
"Fury, you mind? I need to feel like one of my children likes me," Steve joked, asking for Elijah.
"I'm not done with my nephew," Fury said with sass. We all laughed at Steve and Bucky's pouts. Thor was standing off to the side, watching us in fascination.
"Jane and Eric will be here soon?" I asked him, trying to include him in the group.
"They shall be, but I need to go back to Asgard."
"Why?" I asked, he shook his head before saying, "I must say my goodbyes now. Jane will understand. Tell her of my vision that all is not right on Asgard, and that I will return to her."
"Don't take two years this time!" She panted as she and Eric walked in the room.
"You have great timing," Nat whispered.
"I saw their Quinjet land, and knew how long it would take them to find us." I said, making Fury grin.
"I knew I picked the right one for the job," He said, as my Dad chuckled.
"To spy on her father," Dad said, taking Callie from me. I was confused as he said, "I didn't get this, so I want to have as much with these two as I can."
"Dad you wouldn't have been able to handle me as a child," I joked as Thor and Jane went into the hallway.
"Clint says hi, and hopes everyone's doing good," Nat said after reading her phone.
"Hey, where is Junior?" I asked, as Steve and Bucky's faces contorted with jealousy.
"He and Wanda are training with Vision." Nat answered wryly.
"I though Vision was about peace, not unnecessary fighting?" Dad said, slightly mocking.
"He's not, but he knows that another fight is around the corner and we all need to be ready."
"I need to put them down for a nap," I said, taking Elijah from Fury and handing him to Steve.
"You can change him," I teased, as Steve's face fell.
"And you can change her," I said taking Callie back to give to Bucky. He was smiling, because Elijah always had the worst diaper bombs. Sticking his tongue out in triumph at Steve, he practically skipped from the room.
"Don't leave without one last dinner," I said, tapping Thor's arm as I walked by.
"It would be my delight to join you all," Thor said, as he held Jane by the waist.
"Dinner?" Jane asked, confused.
"You'll enjoy Sera's cooking. It is excellent!" I heard as I kept walking. Steve walked behind me, cooing at Elijah, who loved to grab his nose.
"He put on some weight," Steve said, noticing.
"He should be, he's growing twice as fast as other kids his age." I laughed.
"You're Dad wants to quit." He said, putting an arm around me.
"I know. It's why he designed Ultron. He told me he knew we needed to be ready the next time an alien invasion happened. The Chitauri weren't the first to invade this planet. The Kree, as you know, took certain humans and enhanced them, using the Diviner's to change them into weapons. Asgardian's fought wars on our planet, using it as nothing more than a battleground. No, something else is coming, and we need to be ready for it."
"We will be."
"There was something my Dad said to Loki that stuck with me. "Maybe we can't protect the earth, but you can be damn sure we'll avenge it.""
"Hm." Steve said, looking down at Elijah.
"Do you regret our lives?" I asked, noticing his conflicted expression.
"I love our children, I love the life the three of us have together. I just wish that was enough to keep me from wondering. What happens when someone tries to take the kids, or if God forbid, another invasion comes to our doorstep? I almost wish we weren't together, and we didn't have the kids. Then we wouldn't have to worry about them or any of us being used or hurt." As he said the words, I felt my heart shatter.
"Sera?" He asked, at my blank stare.
"You wish…" I said, before shaking my head.
"God no, Sera!" He said, taking my hand, "I'm just saying. In another life, another time, none of us would have to worry about the others or our children. Don't you want to protect them?"
"Of course," I said, venom leaking into my voice.
"Imagine if you could do so by not allowing them to be in the picture. And by that I mean… I'm gonna stop talking."
"So you would have rather we not had kids." I said taking Elijah from his arms.
"Sera. Stop." He said, making my pause.
"You know what I'm trying to say. You know I get flustered around you, and I usually can't express myself like I want to. I've been going crazy these last few months. You won't let us shower with you, and even when Dr. Russo gave the all clear, you've been distant."
"God, do men always think with their penis?" I asked the ceiling before walking off. Steve followed, apologizing and resigning himself to shutting up to fix the problem. I quickly changed Elijah, put him down for a nap and kissed Callie, before leaving our apartment to go make dinner. I heard a smack as I got further down the hall, and knew he was being talked to by Bucky.
A/N: Uh oh. :)
