Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel, Disney, ABC or the Avengers. Just Sera and the chaos I create.
A month went by and I was watching as two trailers rolled up the long driveway to the base, each towed by a separate truck. I raced out to the barn that was beautifully constructed by Mr. Reynes's company, with Joey hot on my heels, and practically vibrated with excitement. I heard Sunchaser neighing softly as they were brought to a stop and backed up for unloading.
"Here you go ma'am. Please sign," One driver asked, and I all but stole the pen from his hand, and signing that he had delivered both horses.
"He was pretty good on the way up. Not too many stops, and was eating well enough. Didn't loose too much weight wise," He said and I bit my lip in anticipation as the doors were opened.
"Hey boy," I said softly as Sunchaser came out on his own. He approached me and nudged my stomach. Joey was hesitant to approach him, but when they met, it was as if old friends were being reunited.
"You've got plenty of space to run here boy, and there are back trails that are beautiful too," I said as I brought him into the barn an opened his stall, where I had feed and water waiting. I closed the door and walked back out as they unloaded Sweet Feet.
"Hey girl, remember me?' I smiled. I had flown over to the boarders in Poughkeepsie to meet her and she was very friendly. She playfully nudged my stomach and I led her into the barn as well, opening the stall opposite Sunchaser. He was looking at her in curiosity, and I laughed.
"After you both eat, we can go out into the field," I said as Bucky, Steve and my Dad brought the twins in.
"Is this a good time?" Steve asked as Sunchaser eyes the tiny humans.
"Yes," I smiled.
"Wait, you never said anything about a second one," Bucky said confused as to why there were two.
"I wanted a mare, and besides it's me that taking care of them," I smiled, patting Sweet Feet's shoulder.
"Maria has come up with some publicity idea that they all hate." My Dad said, eyeing the horses like they just insulted his mother.
"The idea?" I asked, brushing out Sunchaser's mane.
"Press tour. Basically talk shows, explaining why we are here and what we are doing," Bucky said as Callie squealed, alerting the two horses.
"Easy," I said softly, "Okay and why do you hate that?"
"Because they decided that I'm not mature enough to do it and no one else wants to," Dad said, pointing at the guys.
"You really aren't," Bucky laughed, and Dad shrugged.
"They wanted a friendly face, and according to Pepper, you are dearly loved by the world." Steve said, and I stopped combing to look at them.
"Surely you're joking?" I asked, horrified.
"Would you rather we sent Assassins 1 and 2?" Dad said, and I rolled my eyes.
"Loop me in there with them Dad. I'm the third killer to the trio."
"Think about it Sera. You are great with people, relatable, beautiful, and not nearly as stuck up as Capsicle." Dad said. I threw the brush at him and he ducked in time, but I still growled, "What did I say about that name?"
"Sera, I'm not good in front of cameras or crowds. I do the fighting," Steve said, and Bucky added, "And I just shoot things and hit people."
"I'm not any better," I said exasperated.
"But you are passionate about our side of the story and people will see that."
"I'm not funny though," I said, "Most talk shows, the guests know how to get people laughing."
"You are Angel," Steve said smiling, giving me his best puppy dog eyes. I saw them all pouting and trying to give big, glossy eyes to sway me to their side. I growled and said, "Fine, but I don't have to like it."
"Perfect. Maria already booked everything anyways. You are out in California in a week, and we are all joining you. We'll stay at the house there so we don't have to worry about a hotel."
"Thank god, I wouldn't have been able to handle all the Spa treatments they had to offer," I said sadly, and Dad replied, "Yeah. Wait, are you being-"
"Sarcastic?" I finished, "Yeah."
"Well, Pepper said that means shopping as you haven't been since New York almost two months ago." He said, before leaving us. I chuckled as Steve introduced Callie to Sunchaser.
"Callie, Elijah, these are your new best friends," I said, as Elijah looked over the door at Sweet Feet.
"They look... antsy," Bucky commented.
"Yeah, I'm gonna let them run a bit." I said, moving to open the large door that led to the fenced field.
"You guys will be happy here," I said, as I led both horses out and removed the leads from their hackamores. They walked slowly out and I leaned against the doors, watching as they took in their new home.
"We're gonna be just fine," I smiled, as the guys came to stand beside me.
"-but enough of my ranting. Our guest is a shocker for all of you. We kept this a secret, as we wanted to be the first to welcome her back to her home in California. A graduate of Psychology and Law from Harvard University and a degree Mechanical Engineering from MIT like her old man, she's the most educated person we've had on our show. She's been working with an elite team since the Battle of New York and I think it's high time she came home. Please welcome, the Siren, Seraphina Stark!" I heard, before the double doors opened and I smiled to the audience, moving to greet Jimmy.
"Oh, welcome home!" He said, kissing my cheek and I thanked him.
"So you've kind of been missing the last two years. We saw you in the tabloids every once and awhile but after SHIELD fell, you've been absent."
"Yeah, well now that Hydra is locked up, I can definitely tell you all about it," I smiled, "I got married, and 6 months later my little angels graced the world with their presence."
The audience awed and Jimmy looked stumped.
"So you are no longer Stark then," He asked.
"No longer Stark. I mean, always by blood, but not legally by name anymore," I explained nervously.
"So Captain America finally popped the question," He prompted. I had to not mention the whole polyamorus marriage because America was not ready for that.
"It was marry me or let my Dad push him off the roof of Stark Tower. I know he would have survived, but this was less painful," I teased.
"Do we get to see America's newest superheroes?" He asked and I smiled, saying, "I gave the photo to your tech guy, so…" The picture was brought up and the audience awed at my little ones.
"Beautiful. So you've been at home with the kids then. How's that been?"
"Great. New secret base, lots of family and friends with us to help raise them, and I've perfected my crème brule."
"You cook?" Jimmy asked happily surprised.
"Oh, nearly every dinner I'm cooking. Cookies, pies, basically anything the team wants, I can make."
"Invite me over for dinner sometime. My wife isn't the greatest cook," He joked.
"Of course," I smiled.
"So, last month you helped with a huge win. Tell us about that."
"Well, first I need to give you a little backstory. My cousin and I, we came from the same bloodline that descended form Johann Schmidt, the head of Hydra during WWII. Neither of our mothers wanted that life for us so we hid. And coincidently both joined SHIELD. We met when he trained me and then again later when we discovered we were actually family. He'd been brainwashed by Hyrda and I'd been fighting them, even while pregnant."
"So had you had the twins before the Battle of Sokovia?"
"Yes, they were only 2 months old at the time. So He'd become a triple agent for our side, getting Intel, rising through the ranks biding his time before we developed our plan. I'd been a friend of the X-Men for years before the Avengers were formed, so I'd had a good idea the kind of fire power we had at our disposal. We had the official seal of approval from the President, and CIA and military forces backing us up in case things went south."
"After I let the team know about our plan, they agreed, seeing as it was fool proof and unless we really needed to defend ourselves, we wouldn't be killing them. So using an old base in Pennsylvania, we set the trap. We created fake weapons to fool them, and right now, they are all awaiting trial one by one in the prison we set up for them ourselves."
"So what was Hydra's main goal? I mean, we aren't all mindless drones. I can't speak for most of Hollywood on that though," He joked.
"Their whole idealism irked me. I was a legacy, and that was something I very much wanted to forget. Fear, chaos, and death would bring about a New World Order with them at the helm. Mind you they had something much worse in mind. They had been using a Monolith, a giant stone that turned into a portal to send people as sacrifices to a distant planet where the first Inhuman was waiting to be brought back to earth."
"Sorry, Inhuman?"
"That's an even longer story," I laughed, "But the world needs to know about this. We can't fight in the shadows anymore with the world unaware of the danger. Thousands of years ago a race called the Kree descended on our planet and used Terrigen crystals to turn humans into weapons. It gave them abilities, powers. They call them gifts. Some are beautiful, other can be frightening in the wrong hands."
"SHIELD, the new SHIELD that is, has been helping the people that were effected by theses Terrigen crystals within the last year. Hydra was using them to turn people into Inhumans to build up an army for this leader. They called him their god."
"What a bunch of nut jobs," He said and I laughed, "Oh yes they are."
"So you've been helping too I assume?"
"Yeah, SHIELD and the Avengers are two different teams, but we work together really well."
"Well, this is kind of crazy." He said shaking his head.
"It sounds even crazier when you're seeing it happen. Regardless to say, this is all in the past and I'm probably the most thankful for it."
"Why's that?"
"My kids were wanted by Hydra. They would have been taken and raised in Hydra, killing for them, because they have the Super Soldier Serum that Steve passed down," I explained.
"Those bastards," He said and I laughed.
"Yeah." I smirked.
"So other than Avenging, what do you do in your spare time?" He asked as the audience laughed at the topic change.
"I dance, horseback ride, I haven't been in probably three years, but I love snowboarding." I said, as the night changed from a difficult topic into fun ones. Jimmy was great about the long speech thing, realizing how important it was not to leave anything out to the public.
That night, I got back to my father's mansion to find him and Steve talking over a secondary base for west coast operations.
"Thinking about expanding the family business?" I quipped, pouring myself a drink.
"How'd the taping go?" Steve asked, and I crossed my eyes and pretended to hang myself.
"That bad?" Dad laughed.
"No it was fun, it was just a lot of explaining what happened. By the way, how do you feel, with the world knowing about you Bucky and I?" I asked Steve.
"I don't have a problem with it."
"I'm just worried about the press. How they are gonna spin things, and some groups won't really like it, to the point of calling us polygamists. But I'm not ashamed, and I don't want our children to be either," I said, as I turned and went upstairs. I had a taping of Ellen in the morning.
