They had fallen asleep together. Wrapped in one anothers arms and the blanket that had been on the couch, they were curled up in one another. He was desperate to keep her at his side, just as she had been desperate to engulf herself in him the night before. She didn't know where they had stopped and what had been a dream, but Robin could tell that she still had most of her clothes on and that told her the whole story. But she didn't want to move, she didn't want to leave the moment behind because she really didn't know how many more of these moments she would get, they always seemed to slip between her fingers. So she left laid there, nuzzling her head back below James's head, and wrapping the mans dangerous arm around her chest tightly and slowly feel back into her deep sleep.
When she woke she could tell that the sun was just starting to shin through the windows and felt James leave his place from behind her, making sure to carefully move around her not to wake her, acting as if she was made of glass. Robin could hear the alarm clock going off from the kids room, but she still didn't want to move, she was in such a comfortable state. Simon knew how to make Eggo's, he knew how to make toast and there was cereal on top of the fridge, they would be fine for the morning. She turned herself so that she was facing the couch, away from the sun, planning on going back to sleep when she heard Simon come out of the bedroom and approach James, who was doing something in the kitchen at the time.
" Do you love her?" Simon asked, point blank.
" What?" James questioned, she could feel the tension between the two of them already as she acted like she was asleep.
" My sister? Do you love her? Do you care for her?" Simon asked, he sounded dead serious too.
" I care for your sister quite a lot." James stated with a more friendly tone.
" Yeah, her last boyfriend said that too. Jake, that was his name, he was a model like her. This was before we came into her custody though, we barely really knew him, we just knew what he did to her. See, she loved being a model, loved everything about it, even the fact of being stick thin all of the time. But Jake, he would always poke fun at her, if she had even an ounce of weight of her body that was not needed, he would mock her for it, call her fat, and all of these other horrible things. But the thing is, Robin was so in love with the jerk that she didn't even know that she could have had a better life without him, because . . . from what I know, that was her first love, the first guy who had really been around long enough for her to love. He even called her fat it in front of Mom one time that I thought that she was going to kill him right then and there, would have been better too, Robin would have been better off. We all knew that with her being a model that she was going to drop a few pounds here and there because that was what the job called for, but at her lowest she was ninety-five pounds and Jake, the jerk, kept telling her that she was too fat, that he was telling her this because he cared about her well being.
" My mother worried every time that Robin would come around, every time we were in the same area, she would try to make Robin eat something, anything, but most of the time Robin would refuse. Even at Thanksgiving, we could barely get her to eat even a bit of turkey. We thought that we were going to loose her soon enough, even my dad who never worries about the little things started to get concerned with Robin. Mom wondered how she even got out of bed, she couldn't have had much energy to do much because of how little she was eating, and only hoped that she wouldn't pass out doing a catwalk in heels that were a foot tall. Mom always worried about Robin, with the job that Mom had I guess she had the right to worry though. But Robin is a wild child, she will do whatever she wants when she wants and if you don't like it then you better get the hell out of her way because she will knock you the hell down. She loved the model lifestyle." Simon said, she could tell that he was looking in her general direction.
" So, what caused her to stop, caused her to break up with Jake?" James hissed out the last part.
" She walked in to find our parents dead of the apartment that they had been in, an assassin had put a bullet into the back of both of their heads. It was Christmas Eve and they had just gotten done with some case, some hot shot that they had had to take care of for awhile, they had just handed him off to another guy to handle the day before and we were all together for the holiday. Robin had flown in from her photoshoot somewhere in Italy and she looked stunning, thin, but stunning. She had taken me and Cecilia out to get gifts, she was the first one it, I think that if we would have been just a bit earlier. . . well we wouldn't be here either. I know that she still thinks about that night, it haunts her dreams." Simon said with a sorrowful tone in his voice, Robin shivering as she recalled that night, it was the first night that she had put to the back of her mind. " Then Jake, well he didn't want to hall around two kids with them wherever they went, he called us useless baggage that needed to be taken care of. Funny thing is, the day after he had called us that, he was in the hospital with two broken legs,guess he fell down the stairs. They didn't know if he would ever be able to do a catwalk again." Simon chuckled at this.
" Did Robin make him fall down the stairs?" James said, trying not to laugh.
" I think that she ran him over with the rental car that we had soon after he said that, but he kept saying that he fell down the stairs, I guess that Mom and Dad's work finally rubbed off on her, she knows how to make people keep their mouths shut when she needs to. Should have done it sooner if you ask me, but hey, at least she did it before someone else did." Simon said.
" Yeah, your sister mentioned something about your parents work, where did they work again?' James asked as Robin wondered why he would care about that.
" You ever hear about the top secret agency that was leaked out for the public to know about like three months ago? S.H.I.E.L.D? Yeah, they were two of the best that they had, we went all around the world with them because of that job and knew everyone from the highest ranking people to the grunts on bottom. But hey, I guess with our parents dying, it made Robin clean up her act. She started to eat normally again, I think for Celie but she never told me otherwise, she gave up everything for us really. She dropped modeling and took us here to New York where she got a job and started to look after the two of us, her life was completely flipped around, just to take care of the two of us. And for everything that she has done for us, I just don't wanna see her get hurt in anyway because of some guy telling her that he cares for her when really all he's doing is using her." Simon said with a threatening tone in his prepubescent voice that made Robin have to hold back a chuckle, Simon thinking that he could take on James was a sight that even she would like to see. But she was also honored that he would try to do it to protect her.
" Well Simon, I can tell you, I think that she is perfect, no matter what anyone else wants to say. I really care for your sister, with almost everything I have in my body I care for her and I won't let anything happen to her or you or your little sister. For what the three of you have done for me, I will forever be in debt, but what I feel for your sister, it's pretty close to love – or what I think is love. She's helping me in ways that I don't even think that she could know about and I hope that I can help her with whatever it is that comes through her path. I'm not going to hurt her or use her, I promise that." James said and it made Robin blush a bit, now feeling like she was intruding on a conversation.
" Well. . . good. Make sure that she eats something today, when she gets busy or has too much on her mind she can goes for like two days without sitting down and eating. It's a side effect." Simon stated, Robin could tell that he was feeling awkward.
" I'll get on making some breakfast." James chuckled to the boy. " What do you like to eat?"
" Do you even know how to make breakfast? Better yet, do you know how to turn on a stove?" Simon mocked the man.
" Now that, somehow, is something that I remember how to do." James said proudly.
" Its a miracle!" Simon snickered.
" Yeah, I know, I got a guy who can actually figure out how to turn on a stove and is willing to cook for me." Robin yawned as she rose from her place on the couch, acting like she had just woken up. " What are you guys talking about so early?" She questioned and watched the two panic.
" What to make for breakfast." James finally stated, making Robin laugh as she got up from the couch and slowly made her way into the kitchen.
" Uh huh, and what were you two talking about before that?" Robin said as a smile finally broke from her face.
" Top secret boy stuff!" Simon mocked his little sister as Robin busted out laughing.
" You heard him, I guess I can't tell you now." James struggled as Robin jumped up and onto the counter on the other side of the kitchen.
" I bet that I could get it out of you." Robin said in one of the only flirty tones that she knew of.
" Gross! I need to go wash my mouth, and my mind, out for like an hour now. Remember dude, top secret." Simon said to James, giving him a look that if looks could kill, James would be dead right at that moment.
" You know, he forgot to say something." Robin said when the boy was finally in the bathroom with the door locked.
" Yeah? And what's that?" James said with a smile as he started to pour some pancake mix out a pan.
" I dropped smoking cold turkey for them too. It seemed like a bad habit to have when you are taking care of a four-year-old and a eleven-year-old. So I threw out my last pack and regretted it for the next month and a half. It was the hardest thing to do but I would do it all over again for those two twerps." Robin smiled lightly.
" So how much of that did you hear?" James asked, keeping focus on the pancakes.
" Uh, from do you love her, I think." Robin chuckled as she went over and lightly gave the man a kiss on the cheek, having to get up onto her tip toes to do so. " You were really convincing, I think that he may save you from having two metal arms."
" I. . . I wasn't lying though, I really do care for you." He whispered as he moved slipped his arm around her waist, pulling her in lightly as he gave her another kiss on the lips, making her legs go tingly as he did so, making her smile as he pulled away.
" So. . . so where did you learn to make pancakes, the last thing I knew you. . . you didn't know much of anything." Robin said, the smile not leaving her face.
" I really don't know, it just came to me when I was talking with Simon. All I can remember is making them with someone, someone who mocked the way that I made them, but I didn't care cause I knew that he was going to eat them anyway. He. . . he would have eaten anything I made." James said, a small smile on his face.
" Well I think that you already have a boyfriend then." Robin said as she tried to pull away from the man as he pulled her body in closer to him. " So I was thinking, since you have no real memories of movies and that means that you have never seen all of the Disney movies, that we could have a movie marathon of champions. First with the greatest Disney films that were made for day, maybe a horror movie marathon tomorrow or tonight, then maybe some romance the next day, I've been meaning to watch Titanic again but no one in this house likes that movie or can sit through all of it and Jordan will reenact the whole thing with you." They both chuckled at this as James started to placed pancakes onto a plate.
" Pancakes on a 'Endsday? Seems a little am. . . am. . .Robin! What is the word I'm thinking of?" Cecilia said as she jumped into her eat at the table, her outfit not matching up at all.
" Ambitious?" Robin smiled as she kissed James on the cheek again before bringing a plate to her little sister, who squealed like. . . well like a little girl.
" Are you and Bucky dating yet?" Cecilia said, nearly bouncing out of her chair.
" Who the hell is Bucky?" Simon asked, coming out from the bathroom and sitting in his place at the table.
" Don't swear. And she seems to think that James is Bucky Barnes, you remember from that one guy from the Captain America memorial thing in DC? The only Howling Commando to give up his life for America and blah blah blah, well Cecilia can't get it through her oh so very thick skull that James is not Bucky, though even I gotta admit, they look alike. I keep trying to tell her, it can't be." Robin shook her head as she placed a plate in front of her brother. " What happened to top secret girls stuff, huh Celie?" Robin chuckled as she messed up her sisters hair.
" She kind of has a point though, they look alike." Simon shrugged before he started to stuff his mouth with pancakes as Robin went back to James to find that he was in one of his distant states, which would have been fine if he hadn't been burning the pancakes.
" James!" Robin snapped her fingers at his face, trying to get him to come back as she took the pan from the burner and flopped the black pancake onto a plate. " James! Hello? Anyone in there?" She asked as she moved her hair in front of his face before he finally snapped himself out of whatever trance he was in.
" The Howling Commandos, I. . . I knew them." James stated, his look still so far off. " I. . . I was one of them."
" Don't get her started, the last thing I need is a five year old getting the best of me!" Robin stated as she looked from James to Cecilia. " It's just not possible, you being him, right?" Robin asked with a smile, doubting everything that was crossing her mind.
" Yeah. . . it's not." James said with a smile as he gave a girl a small kiss on the forehead before she pulled him down and gave him a kiss on the lips, only a small one though, the kids were still watching after all.
" Bubble popper." Cecilia muttered.
" That's what I do best, Miss Cecilia." Robin muttered.
" They're gonna get married." Cecilia whispered to her brother, making Robin bust out laughing once again.
" Okay, finish up your pancakes so I can get you into an outfit that doesn't look like your whole closet threw up on you." Robin smiled as she gave James one more light kiss before moving to her sisters hair and started to run her fingers through it, getting the knots that she has missed out.
" I think I look pretty!" Cecilia said after her last syrup-filled bite of pancake.
" I think that you do too, I just think that maybe- just maybe – wearing a bright pink tutu, a orange and black stripped shirt, and zebra print tights are a little too much to go to school in all in one day. Now common, lets go and find something else that is a little more tame for your class today, okay?" Robin said with a smile as her sister just nodded, grabbing her hand, and taking her into her bedroom.
They had spent all day watching all of her favorite Disney movies. Though she tired to contain herself, she always found herself singing along to the songs, knowing every single word to all of the, and just hearing James chuckle as she did this, telling her to continue to sing. He really enjoyed the movies, they were care-free for the most part and something that you really didn't have to put much brain-power into, they were just something that anyone could get into. Though he wouldn't say anything, she could tell that he was really liking these movies, behind all of his though guy attitude there was someone behind it all who was so willing to sit down with a girl and have a Disney movie marathon date and that was something that Robin could fall head over heels for. She could feel herself falling for the man, and hard.