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A/N Hello again. In case you're all wondering (which you probably aren't) I passed my cross country trial. Now I have to convince myself it's fun running through muddy fields on saturdays. Actually that reminds me I've got training in an hour. Quite a conversation based chapter. Sorry. Please review!
The next day, I go and visit Cap in hospital, leaving Eva at home. She's 26 so I can leave her home alone right? Cap's awake when I get there, listening to that troubleman soundtrack by Marvin Gaye. "Boys," I nod taking a seat. "What's up?"
"The ceiling..." Steve croaks and cracks a smile. I assume that's his attempt at humour.
"Good..." Sam shrugs. "Natasha, why did you jump out the helicopter yesterday?"
"She jumped out of a helicopter?" Steve asks.
"I... Will tell you guys someday soon, just not right now." I'm not telling anyone about Eva unless she's there. I talk with mainly Sam for a bit as Cap's a bit croaky, until I have to leave to go speak with people that I don't really want to. Later on, I get home and Eva's lying on my couch sleeping. I drape a blanket over her small frame and drop the bag of clothes I picked up for her on the floor, pausing whatever movie she was watching before she fell asleep. I still can't believe I have a sister. One that's alive anyway. I finally have something for myself, something that other people can know about.
When I wake in the morning, I reach over and hug the person next to me... except that it's not Clint. It's Eva... I get up, shower, dress and begin eating some cereal with probably too much sugar in. Eva joins me still looking half asleep and in yesterday's clothes about halfway through. "What's planned for today oh wise one?" She asks and I raise my eyebrow leaning back.
"Well I have to try and find a highly classified file which will probably be kept in a highly secret place of my enemies. Other than that I'm free. What do you want to do, young one?" Steve asked me for it yesterday. I owe him, and I won't ever stop, so this is a favour I'll have to honour.
"I'll help you." That's surprising I thought she'd want to go shopping or do some other teenagery thing, then I remember I missed all her teenage years.
In the end, it only takes a day to get the file. Eva handles all the phone calls and I pull in a few favours from Russia and Ukraine. My contact says someone will drop it off tomorrow, late afternoon. The work is tiring and Eva falls asleep on the keyboard twice. The second time I take her to bed. In the future I can really see her and Clint getting on. They have the same sense of humour and sarcasm, whereas mine is a little different. I can also see them ganging up on me which is unfortunate.
The file is delivered by spies the next day. It's thick and its of Bucky, Steve's friend, The Winter Solider. Eva and I hide out in my apartment watching movies all day. "Why do you have so many movies?" She asks, "It's not like you're ever here. You're always in like Germany or Budapest or your boyfriend, who I am really doubting exits, house."
"Maybe I collect movies. And my boyfriend lives here if you don't believe look in the draws." She races to my bedroom and comes back after finding that indeed, Clint's clothes are here.
"When am I going to meet him?" She whines, like she can't wait.
"Well tomorrow I'll give this to Cap and say bye to him and Falcon, text Fury, then we can leave. So probably tomorrow. I probably will have to talk Fury in to lending me a jet though..."
The next day I call Fury who says that the usual jet is waiting for me at a secret base, and that he's meeting Rogers in the graveyard. I take Eva and set off in my car for where Fury and Coulson are buried. Fury's just leaving as I arrive.
"... Tell em they can find me right here." I walk in to the graveyard, Eva flanking my left shoulder. It's a nice day and also the first time I've seen Fury's grave. His over exuberant grave.
"You should be honoured that's as close as he gets to saying thank you." I tell them walking over. Both of them look confused at the sight of someone with me, but Steve takes the lead in the conversation, wanting to continue about Fury while we're on the topic.
"You're not going with him?" He asks. Maybe he assumes I would because I'm S.H.I.E.L.D. through and through. But I'm not going with him.
"Nope. Not with him." I reply.
"Europe though?" Clever this one.
"There's an agent on a deep undercover mission in Germany who told me before he left that if anything significant happened I should go and get him. It's not Loki but... Hydra's quite significant... Also his mission technically no longer exists as it was a S.H.I.E.L.D. op and S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer exists."
"I'm taking that it's Agent Barton?" I nod.
"Sorry, but who's the little girl?" Sam asks, letting his curiosity get the better of him.
"I am NOT little! I am twenty six thank you very much!" I warned Eva in the car about embarrassing me, I really hope this is the extent of it.
"Feisty... So who is she?" Falcon, I forbid you to fall in love with my sister.
"The reason I jumped out the helicopter... And since I'm leaving today I thought I'd better tell you. Steve, Sam meet Eva, my baby sister." I hold my hand out as if they couldn't guess who it was. Well it's not me or them so it must be... (wait, I can't guess who) her.
"I am not a baby..." She growls under her breath.
"Since when do you have a sister?" Since before you were born, Falcon. Actually probably not. Sam's probably my age.
"Since I was two years old... Then I thought she died, then it turned out she didn't, but I met her again for the first time since I was six about three weeks ago."
"You have an interesting life story that I would one day like to learn." Cap, you do not want to know what's happened to me. I've been working to try and get if off the internet but I can't exactly classify it now, can I?
"Well it's all on the internet, if you really want. But you don't want to know. The rundown is kidnapping at the age of six, brainwashing, steroids, serum like you, Cap, assassinations from when I was fourteen, and a prisoner of S.H.I.E.L.D. eight years ago."
"I'm sorry, Natasha, I really am." Steve look seems genuine, and he knows pain so can relate.
"Do any of you folks know who her boyfriend is, because she won't tell me." No Eva, they don't. And they never will. Shut up about my personal life, these are my colleagues.
"Ева заткнуться, только три человека знают и два из них лежат в этом кладбище." Russian is a lovely language to be annoyed in.
"What did she say?" Nosey aren't you Falcon. Maybe I said I hate falcon and he should leave. I didn't though.
"Word for word, 'Eva shut up, only three people know and two of them lie in this cemetery.' But who's that?"
"Fury and... Coulson? Hill's probably the third." Cap you are too clever. Of course why wouldn't I trust the highest agents who are known for keeping secrets and some days I partially tolerate.
"I'm not telling you who my boyfriend is Eva!" Please can we get off this topic and leave my private life alone?
"Wait, Stark's jokes about baby Blackhawk's... It's him isn't it? You trust him with everything so he should know if it wasn't him." Rogers, you may be from the dark ages and you might be clever but just shut up!
"Barton has the brain of a five year old child why would I date him? Also I never confirmed it was Hill. Anyway I only put up with him because I owe him a debt I can never repay. And right at the minute, same with you Rogers." Reasons... He has the brain of a five year old child, and love is for children. So we're children together.
"Burn..." Thanks little sis. Awkward silence there.
"That thing you asked for... I called in a few favours from Kiev..." I hold out the file. "Will you do me a favour call that nurse?" If he's going to live in the modern world he needs to date. Even I'm doing it.
"She's not a nurse." Wow Rogers, finally figured it out?!
"And you're not a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent." Because S.H.I.E.L.D. No longer exists.
"What was her name again?" Jeez someone has short term memory problems.
"Sharon, she's nice. Be careful Steve might not wanna pull on that thread. Bye Cap. See you Wilson." I put my arm around Eva and lead her back to the car.