A/N: Last chapter for tonight ;) Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel, Disney or the Avengers. Just Sera.


"I should call Steve and Buck," I sighed.

"Hold that thought girl, I'm landing in a minute," Trip called back to the cabin. After he set us down gently, I got out with Daisy and Trip. Wanda still didn't like my father, and I understood why.

"What's this? Where are my grandbabies?" My Dad asked jokingly as he approached for a hug.

"Back at main base with the guys." I chuckled, holding him tightly and releasing him.

"Agent Johnson, Agent Triplett," My Dad said nodding to the two, and seeing Wanda out on the pad.

"She's still not a fan," He said softly, before smiling tightly and saying, "Please come in."

"Guys, I'll need a minute with him," I said, and they understood, going to play Pool in the meantime as I sat him down in the lab upstairs.

"What's up Princess?"

"Dad, do you remember when we explained that Bucky was coming to live with us? We told you about everything he did, or at least everything we knew?"

"Yeah." He said, swallowing hard.

"I found the man that was responsible for Bucky's actions. The man that ordered the hit on your parents." I said slowly, as his face didn't change.

"Where is he?" He said softly.

"Locked up with a broken nose. I had to use my powers of persuasion, and a fair number of torture techniques on him to get him to talk." I said, as Pepper came in. She stopped seeing our body language. Sitting next to Dad she put her arm around him, and a hand on my knee.

"She found the man that ordered the hit on my parents." He said, coughing out the emotional sound in his voice.

"And he's going to answer for his crimes. I promise you this Daddy." I said, feeling the tears leaking out of my eyes

"I just -" He started, putting a hand over his mouth.

"I spent so much time looking for answers. And my daughter, my amazing daughter, brings them to me on a silver platter." He said, taking my hand.

"I wanted to bring you his head, believe me. Steve wouldn't have looked at me the same way again though. Bucky would have loved it, but Steve has a different heart." I joked.

"Don't you dare. He needs all the torture we can think of," My Dad laughed, as Pepper hit his chest lightly.

"Dad, you know everything now about what happened to your parents." I said, blinking back my tears.

"You cannot begin to understand how amazing that feels."

"Actually, I've been searching since I've known I was your daughter." I said, smiling at him softly.

"Even before we met?"

"I poured over everything there was to know about you, my other family, and specifically that crash. I have been looking for answers my whole life, and while some were answered when I found you, others, like this one, took a few years to unravel."

"Thank you." He laughed in relief.

"Anything for you Dad." I said, leaning forward to hug him. He held me tightly, patting my hair as we both cried. Pepper was rubbing our backs soothingly as we had our moment.

"It's times like these where I wish I could summon things with a flick of my wrist," I chuckled as I thought about scotch for the first time since I found out I was pregnant with the twins.

"One triple coming right up. This deserves a toast."

"I'll stick to water today. Come back to base with us. We can all celebrate there, once I've diffused the husband bombs," I joked, as Pepper dried her eyes.

"Sure, Pepper hasn't even met the SHIELD agents yet, properly anyways."

"They are great. I'm sure you're going to love Bobby and Daisy."

"Well, I should go pack a bag or two then," She said, smiling at us before leaving the lab.

"FRIDAY?" Dad said.

"Yes boss. How can I help you?"

"You know the song. Play it," He said pointing in a random direction. Soon the sounds of Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas played softly as my Dad handed me a glass of water.

"I've been waiting to play this for 26 years." He sighed, taking a drink of his scotch.

"Do you want to go see them, after everything is done?" I prompted, alluding to their graves.

"It would be fitting. I'm not terribly sentimental though," He chuckled.

"Lies. You found artwork of mine form when I was five and it's hanging up over there next to your suits." I motioned.

"I'm proud of my first creation. What do you want, a medal?" He teased as Pepper's voice came over top the music.

"Sera, have you let Steve and Bucky know we are coming?" She asked.

"No, but I have to call him now anyways. He's probably mad about the cryptic answer I gave a few hours ago." I said, dialing Steve's number

"Sera! Please tell me you didn't…"

"Relax Captain Control, I didn't kill him. Dad knows and him and Pepper are coming to base for a few days. Tell whoever is cooking dinner tonight that I am making dinner and to set out 20 pounds of chicken."

"Please let it be the world's greatest butter chicken you're making," I heard Bucky say pleadingly.

"Yes," I laughed.

"Sera, we need to talk about this. You can't just torture people," Steve said lowly.

"Steve, what I did to him was no different than what I did for SHIELD before I met my father. I had the stomach for the hard stuff, and a method of getting the answers we needed, nothing more."

"What did you learn?"

"What I found out from Carson, I can tell the team as a whole. We'll by there in less than an hour. And it's not the only thing I have to tell you," I said hanging up. Steve was being particularly difficult today, and I wasn't in the mood to deal with it.

"Trouble in paradise?" Dad joked, noting my huff. Downing my glass, I noticed his drink was off color.

"That's not scotch," I chuckled.

"Oh, well, it's bourbon." My Dad said, laughing.

"When did you switch?" I smiled, going to pour myself another glass of water.

"Not long after New York."

"Plus you went on the gluten free diet," I teased. He stuck his tongue out at me, and Pepper came back in with two bags.

"Happy has been alerted and I'm ready to go."

"Okay, then let's get this show on the road. Or the skies." I said, laughing at myself.

"Alright Princess," Dad laughed, putting the glass down and linking his arm through mine to get me downstairs. Wanda was civil to my father, but sat down next to me with a smile on her face.

"Vision and you seem to be getting close," I whispered when we landed 30 minutes later. Vision had come out to greet us, and barely saying a hello to my Dad. I knew how hard it was for him to hear the voice that he created, want nothing to do with him.

"He and I talk," She said, shrugging to throw me off.

"You know that I can tell you're lying," I teased, bumping her shoulder with my own. As we all walked into the base, I saw Fury smirking at me.

"How did I not know you and Pym knew each other?"

"Some things a girl just has to keep to herself." I said, as we continued walking. I left everyone to get settled in while I went to prepare dinner. Chopping up the chicken, simmering the sauce, and cooking the pot of rice, I sighed.

"Mmm… mmm," I heard, making my head snap up. It wasn't an adult voice by far, so I turned to see who it was.

"Elijah!" I smiled, noticing my boy was crawling to me.

"I think he's trying to say Mom," Natasha smirked, bringing in Callie on her hip.

"Are you trying to say Mama?" I smiled, picking him up and kissing him all over his chubby little face.

"They've been fun," She said, mixing the sauce.

"Did you like your time with Auntie Nat?" I said, cuddling him close. He smiled at me, and my heart melted.

"Steve and Bucky had me watching them, as they had some business to attend to." She said, handing me Callie as well.

"I'm going to have to get back to strength training." I said, noticing how heavy they got since two days before.

"Jemma says they put on another two pounds each. And that they more resemble 12 month olds now." She said, grabbing plates for the table.

"I'm surprised that that haven't started trying to talk until now."

"Maybe it's just their bodies that the serum has effected, not their brains." She suggested.

"That was the one thing I remember from Steve's retelling of how he was chosen. The serum took the good and made it better. Bad became worse. His heart for his country grew that day, maybe that's all it does. Steve was already wicked smart to begin with. Mind you, I have no idea the effects that Zola's formula had on Bucky." I said, after putting them in their mobile playpen. Like the bassinets we had at the playground, we had one in just about every room.

"Bucky hasn't seemed like himself today. What's the reason?" She asked, folding her arms and leaning against the fridge. Putting everything in two large serving dishes, I set them on burners to keep warm while the rice cooked.

"I was… interrogating the man that ordered Bucky to kill Howard Stark."

"Wow, that's huge. And they didn't agree with your methods?"

"They don't know who I learned most of my tricks from." I sighed.

"Rumlow was a sneaky bastard."

"What they don't know yet… is he is a triple agent." I said softly. Her head snapped up to glare at me, and I knew I had hit a nerve.

"What is with all your secrets Sera? You knew about Insight, you know the man that had shrinking tech, and you know that Rumlow has been working Hydra the whole time?"

"Not the whole time." I said, putting down the spoon I was holding.

"I really want to hit you right now," She growled.

"I will explain everything once…. He checks back in."

"Where is he Sera?"

"Taking care of loose ends. That's all I can tell you. If I say anything else, it will blow his cover and we will have lost our entire trail on Hydra."

"Can you at least tell me what he's doing?"

"He's re-recruiting. It's a ruse, designed to put all of Hydra in one spot, before… before arresting the lot."

"And just where are you going to put that many people?"

"Somewhere they can't get back from."

"And where would that be?" She asked.

"A facility I will name when I reveal the whole plan. Natasha, I'm asking you to trust me, as you've always done. What I do is for the good of this country, not myself."

"You're starting to sound like them you know." She replied cooly.

"Yeah, just a bit. I'm getting tired of the lies, but in order for this to work, I need you all to have complete trust that I know what I'm doing. And that means not tell everyone."

"Who does know?"

"Fury, Maria, Coulson and May."

"You don't trust Steve and Bucky?"

"They have been known to jump head first, ask for a parachute later. I'm gonna play this close to my chest. And they can hate me for it, they can threaten to take away my children, but nothing in this world has been more important to me, from day one than this."

"What do you consider day one?" She asked sarcastically.

"Since the day I found out I was a Stark. The day my whole life turned out to be a lie that my mother kept to protect me from my father's enemies."

"His enemies didn't appear until after he became Iron Man," She said, rolling her eyes.

"No, his enemies were watching his every movement. And my mother, turned out to be the biggest of all."

"Why?"

"She was the Red Skull's granddaughter." I yelled, startling the kids. Natasha's eyes widened in fury and growled, "How long have you known?"

"She told me on her deathbed. Told me that she believe none of the lies Hydra had spewed to her. She hid with me, to protect me from them. I am a legacy, you could say, but it was something I knew to be wrong without having them explain their side. And I know, once Bucky and Steve know, they won't look at me the same way. They wont trust me. And they have every right not to. I have lied, and kept this close for years. And I know that once they tell me to leave, my heart will break. And once it does, I will truly become the monster I've known myself to be."

She didn't speak, but I heard a scuffle from the doorway and saw Wanda and Pietro looking in. Wanda gave a weak smile, as all the other agents filed in with them. I heard more coming in behind me and knew Natasha had pressed the signal for dinner.

"You are meant to hear this all later. It's time my secrets came to light."

"Yeah. Time is right." A voice sounded from behind me, and my blood ran cold. Not bothering to turn around, I heard both children squeal in joy at being picked up and I tried to keep my tears at bay.

"I guess this is for the better," I said taking a pair of handcuffs from my back pocket, and putting them on myself. But before I could put the other on my wrist, Fury's hand stopped me.

"That's not necessary Stark. It's both our burden to tell."

"Mine more than most," I sobbed, silently pleading for him to finish putting them on. Instead he took them off, and put them on the counter.

"I've known since before I asked her to come to SHIELD. It helped me work angles I needed. I had my suspicions for years, and something Loki said tipped me off that Hydra was in SHIELD."

"You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers." I quoted, turning to see Steve and Bucky holding our children protectively from me.

"She told me the moment she found out. Not something most people would be forthright about," Nick said, raising an eyebrow.

"But she only told you. Then why now? Why after years of lying do you tell the truth now?" Bucky said lowly.

"Because the plan is almost complete. The prison we've built, stronger than the Fridge, is in the last place anyone would think to look. And my mutant friends have been helping bring it to fruition. Our triple agent is gathering them all there for a secret meeting of any remaining Hydra followers. And it was the perfect trap."

"You know the X-Men?" Sam asked, standing beside Steve.

"Yes. Dr. Charles Xavier is my friend, and the only one that has ever helped me face my inner demons. Those demons being whose legacy I was supposed to be. I had a choice, and I made it. Now, I'm going to sit in that specialized cell downstairs until everyone has had a chance to digest what I'm saying. This was never meant to hurt anyone more than it hurt me. And what you are all feeling now. Well, welcome to my life the last 8 years." I said, leaving the room. I ran down the stairs, towards the cell I talked about but I was stopped by a voice.

"You are not gonna believe what just happened," He laughed darkly.

"Clint," I breathed.

"I found out my sister, the woman I trusted with my children, was lying to me since the day I met her. But then again, I could tell she wanted to tell me. I just knew I would have to stick around to find out what it was that was so important to keep buried." He said, bow drawn, arrow notched at my head as I turned.

"You were the one person I trusted other than Fury with my secret. You of all people should have been honest."

"And I will wait years, decades to earn back your trust. I know I lost everyone's. But if you feel like you have to..." I said, going to place a hand on my stomach, but stopping myself.

"Drop the bow Merida," I heard my father's voice say. They had all followed me, wanting to see if I would go where I said.

"Your own daughter lied to you."

"And we haven't lied to each other? We haven't kept things, huge things, from the team?" My Dad said, as Pepper stood by his side.

"Please, do not fight on my account. It's not worth it. I'm not worth it," I said, my voice breaking. I walked up to the control panel on the door and set it to shut and seal me in.

"Don't you dare Sera." My Dad yelled as I backed up to the door.

"Daddy, this is the only way. I can give them some peace of mind, and I have nowhere to run. Phil and May will come to explain with me. Call Professor Xavier. That wonderful man is a walking lie detector. At least this way, no one else can get hurt." I said, then running into the room, but not before one of Clint's arrows pierced my side. Grounding my teeth in pain, I kept from crying out as I went down. I cried as I realized it was still protruding from my skin. I heard a commotion and saw Steve and Bucky trying to separate Dad from killing Clint.

"Today was supposed to be happy. I thought…" I said, blacking out from the pain.