Eight long hours later, Rosemarie was proudly holding her nursing son while her husband slept off his anesthesia. After Dr. Miller had arrived, Rosemarie had been taken to the maternity ward. Peggy had gone to see if it was possible for Howard to abort James' surgery, but they were too in depth to stop. Instead of her husband holding her hand through labor, it was Peggy and Anna.
After a final push, the doctors were able to confirm what Rosemarie had been saying for months. They had a boy. Rosemarie knew just what to name him too.
Rosemarie smiled fondly as she rocked her baby back and forth. At first, Peggy tried to change her mind about the name, but in the end laughed and gave in.
"It serves James right." She had declared. "But this little man will need a nickname of some sort."
"I'm calling him J.J." Rosemarie smiled.
"That's perfect." Peggy agreed, gazing at her godson.
James moaned, causing Rosemarie to look over at him. "Hey, sleepyhead." She whispered.
James blinked his eyes open and stared blearily around the room before his gaze fell on his wife and son. His eyes widened. "Is that…?"
Rosemarie nodded and scooted her rocking chair closer to James. "It's a boy."
James' entire face lit up, despite the drugs still in his system. "A boy?"
"Would you like to hold him, Daddy?" James nodded and Rosemarie helped him to cradle their son with his good arm.
"He's perfect." James whispered in awe. "I'm so sorry I missed it."
"Don't worry. I got back at you for that." Rosemarie assured him.
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Bucky mock glared at his wife. "Tell me you didn't." He pleaded.
"I did." Rosie said proudly. "James Buchanan Barnes, meet James Buchanan Barnes Junior. J.J. for short."
Bucky groaned and let his head fall back against the pillow. "I am so sorry, kid." He said to his sleeping son. "I promise to protect you from your mother form now on."
Rosie smacked him on the shoulder for that.
X-X-X
Being new parents was hard. Being new parents and relearning how to use an arm was even more intense. Rosie spent most of her time nursing and holding J.J. and the rest of it sleeping. Bucky divided his attention between his wife and son and his own physical therapy.
Instead of attaching the prosthetic to Bucky's shoulder like he originally thought to, Howard made a "port" for the arm to lock into and detach form at the end of Bucky's stump. This gave Bucky the choice to take it off or not.
When he was at home, Bucky preferred not to wear it. He was still pretty clumsy while wearing it and he didn't want to accidently hurt J.J. However, he wore it all the time when he was out and was slowly starting to get used to it.
Meanwhile, J.J. was growing like a weed. He out grew all of his new born clothing fairly quickly and Rosie had to scramble to keep up with him. Soon he was able to lift his head all by himself. Over the months, he began rolling around on the floor and soon even began crawling.
Eventually, his parents had to go back to work and J.J. was left in Anna's very capable hands during the day. Mr. Jarvis was secretly pleased with this development, as he was concerned Anna would never find peace with her inability to have children due to her wounds from California.
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Over the next year, J.J. continued to grow and change. Bucky's favorite part of the day was driving home with his wife and being greeted by his happy toddler when they walked through the door. These days, Bucky was wearing his arm all the time, except for at night when the battery needed to charge.
Bucky was almost brought to tears every time he bent down to pick his little man up or hug Rosie. He never thought he'd get this chance.
Bucky was marveling over all these things when he heard the phone ring. Setting J.J. down, he wandered over to answer it.
"Barnes."
"I just went over your last physical." Peggy said by way of hello. "Congratulations, Agent Barnes. You are officially back on active duty."
"Thanks Peg, but you couldn't have waited to tell me that Monday? It's a Saturday."
"I know. I had to look into something and I've got bad news. I'm going to need you to reassemble the Commandoes."
His heart thudded in his chest. "What's wrong?"
"Hydra is trying to resurface."
No, not Hydra! What will they do?