She didn't know how long they had slept for. She didn't really know what was up, what was down, and what day it was, but she saw that the sun was shinning once again. Robin didn't want the leave her bed, she just wanted to stay there, wrapped in both of James's arms, and keep herself borrowed, safe and sound, with him. She liked the way that he seemed so at peace, the way that he kept holding on to her, not wanting her to move. She was happy here, she was the most relaxed that she had been in a long, long time, she herself was at peace. Robin noticed that James would smile a bit, dreaming she thought, and wanted to know what it was that he was dreaming about, but decided to go against it and just allowing him to rest, seeing as he seemed to need his sleep more than a normal human would need. But she didn't mind, she just rested in her bed, thinking about the night before. They had been rough, hell Robin wouldn't have been surprised to find a hole in her wall, but somehow, somewhat, she thought that that was what making love would feel like. Even with the bruises, she felt like it was just the two of them committing to one another and
She had never really been in love before, Jake, eh, he was fun to be around and he was always around, so she stayed in the relationship. There had been others, but they were mostly one nights were some of the guards that she had been forced with during the first few months of her modeling, her parents had insisted on it. But this, this was something that Robin had never experienced before. That passion and desire, the way that he held onto her for dear life and the way that she just needed to be by his side, she knew that it was either a sign of being desperate or being in love, she was hoping for the love one though. She just wanted to lie there her body tangled up in his, and spend the rest of her days in that bed with that man, or until the bed finally broke which she doubted would take very long. But her stomach was starting to rumble, she had to pee, and then the door started to knock. The first two, she thought she could have ignored for a few more hours, and if she was certain that it was Jordan, she could have ignored him the whole day. But it wasn't her friends knock, so she pulled herself out of the bed, hoping that it was just going to be some girl scouts selling thin mints, and pulled on her robe.
" Running away from me so soon?" James asked before she was out of the room.
" Oh yeah. Yesterday had just been too sexy for me, I am running as far as this apartment can take me to get away from you." She smiled with a wink. " Someone's at the door."
" Jordan?" James questioned with a groan, he didn't seem too excited at the thought of hearing what Jordan would say now that they had finally had sex.
" Doubt it, he would have just barged right in. That would have been horrible, god I can hear what he would say now. . . But anyway, it's most likely just some girl scouts selling cookies, man I could go for some thin mints. . ." Robin said, zoning out on the thought of thin mints before the knocking brought her back to reality. " Go back to sleep, I'll be back soon enough." She said as she closed her bedroom door and quickly went to the door, opening it just a bit and gasped with what she saw.
" Agent Grant Ward! How long has it been?" She asked as she nearly jumped out of the door, giving the man a hug that nearly knocked him over.
Agent Ward had been her first body guard after she left her parents to become a model. They had demanded that while she was away from them touring the world, some places where they had taken people out in, that she have someone that they could trust with her, someone who was going to protect her no matter what, that's where Agent Grant Ward and her first met. He had taken out quite a few people who had tried to kidnap her those first few months, it was then that Robin fully knew that she would have never been able to become a doctor with taking bullets out of his arm once and his thigh another time. Robin and him had an on again off again relationship, he was her guardian and tried to act like he was, but when they went out and they would just be out on the two, he used to hit on her and flirt. Robin was young enough to giggle and to do cute teenage girl thing, but she was also smart enough to know that this would never last. Agent Ward had been as close to love as Robin had ever felt before, but it was really nothing anyway she now knew what it felt like to be falling. Robin knew that either one of them was going to die or Agent Ward was going to be reassigned to something more important than taking care of a teenaged model, it was thankfully the second thing that had taken him away from Robin, it broke her heart for awhile. But they had had something deep and strong, those few months had been some of the best times that she had ever had, Agent Ward had been the one to show her the whole new world that she did not know existed. Now that, that she had been in love with, the world and the freedom that it had brought to her.
" You look like fucking hell." She stated as she took a step back and noticed that he was bruised up from head to toe. "You get caught up in the wrong type of agency now that S.H.I.E.L.D is done?" She asked as she looked him over again.
He had a broken noise, anyone could tell that it was broken and cut up. From the way that he was breathing she could tell that he had re-broken a few ribs. The face that had gotten them out of plenty of bad situations were bruised and cut up, she even suspected that he had a fracture to his cheekbone. His lip was split pretty deep, but it was already starting to heal pretty well. His arm though, it seemed like the worst thing, it was not healing too well. From the way that he was holding onto it, cradling it really, she could tell that it had been cut into pretty deeply, it was his dominate hand so she understood why he had not just gone off and done it on his own. He must have been hurting pretty badly to come to her for help, he was the type of guy who would do everything on his own unless he physically could not, and even then he would try and do it on his own.
" It's good to see you too, Blake." He had always called her by her last name, she had always called him Ward. It had always been their way of flirting.
" What happened? You look like you were thrown through a meat grinder." She asked as she lightly placed her hand on his good cheek.
" Got into a street fight while trying to get some intel. I thought that I could handle it on my own but. . .but I think that I may need some stitching up." He said as she noticed that he was holding his hand over his shoulder.
" What the hell is it with you guys and not going to the hospital. I am not an ER you know!" She sighed as she opened the door and that's when he noticed what she was only wearing a robe.
" Am I interrupting something?" Ward asked as she pulled him in by the elbow of his good arm.
" Just the end to a magical weekend." Robin said as she forced him to sit in a kitchen chair, pulling out the rubbing alcohol once again and some needle and thread. " So, who the hell did you piss off, Ward?"
" Me and some of the others, we are the lat of the S.H.I.E.L.D agents, everyone else. . . they've all done their separate ways now that we're not an agency anymore. We're tracking down Hydra." Ward said as she pulled his arm away from his arm, forcing him to take off his shirt so that she could get a better look at it, though he had been trying to treat it, he was write, it did need some stitches.
" Hydra! Oh man, who on earth could I forget that. . . oh man I am so silly. Hydra and, okay I got it now. Sorry go on." She said, remembering how Captain America had thought to have defeated most of Hydra in World War 2, but then when S.H.I.E.L.D came out, so did Hydra. James had been tortured basically by the same people who had employed her parents.
" You have something that you want to share to the class, Blake?" Ward asked through his teeth as she started to clean it out.
" Nah, I heard the name and forgot where it came from is all. The whole Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D thing still is at the back of my mind of things that have to settle in." She said to the man as she started to disinfect the needle.
" Well I thought that I could handle everything, turns out I couldn't. A guy that worked for Hydra got me a few days back, jumped me really, I . . I barely got out of there alive, but I doubt that the guy is doing any better. Didn't get any of the intel that I needed either." He said as she noticed that he was basically one big black and blue from head to toe.
" You should have just dropped the whole S.H.I.E.L.D gig when everyone else did. Become someones body guard for real, or go off and join the C.I.A. or something that would not have you turned into someone's punching bag. Christ Ward, you're just lucky that you didn't hit any arteries." She said as she finally got the nerve and started to stitch the man up, going quickly but making sure to go as good of a job as she could.
" Well, I think that with Hydra still out there, someone needs to take them out. I have a theory," Robin chuckled at this, rolling her eyes as well.
" Uh huh, here we go again with your theories. The last time you had one of these we were in Moscow and you got me to drink a whole bottle of Vodka before trying to walk around in heels." Robin held the man back as he started to chuckle as well.
" Hey! That was a valid theory knowing how drunk a model could be before she was not able to do her job anymore. Besides, that was the first time that you could completely drunk in your life." Ward said lightly. " No, what I think is that Hydra sent one of their best to kill off your parents."
" Hydra? Ward, listen those people are crazy and they are murders, but they were also S.H.I.E.L.D. Back then, before someone off and killed Director Fury, they were still our people, they worked alongside of us. They would not have killed off my parents." Robin rolled her eyes.
" But think about, who else would have known where you all would have been? Who else would have known the little things, like that you three were gone, that your parents were going to be together on Christmas Eve? It all makes sense because Hydra was inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was a lone assassin, one that was told to take them out by Hydra." Ward said as she tied off the stitching and cut the excess thread off.
" Well, whoever did it was a murder, someone who could take out both of my parents without dying, they were good and I will give whoever it is that, though I would love to gibe them a bullet to the back of the head as well, the thing is though, they're dead. Whoever killed them, they got away with it, I can't think about these little things, Ward. I still have Simon and Cecilia to take care of, they are my top priority right now." Robin shrugged as she started to take the rubbing alcohol to some of the other marks on the mans face.
" So I'm guessing then that you would not like to join me in taking down Hydra?" He said through a seductive smile.
" I wouldn't even bother asking, lover boy. I'm finally happy here, I've settled down and gotten used to the fact of having to little heathens that need me to take care of them 24/7." Robin said as he lightly placed his hand on her face. " Besides, we both know that I would only slow you down. I would have never even made it to a level one agent."
" You're looking really good, you know that, Blake?" Ward asked to her as she smiled before turning away, getting up and washing her hands.
" I also have someone in my life now too. Someone who doesn't mind me having to heathens. He's a good guy, Ward, I even think that you would like him, if you could ever think of enjoying someone's company." Robin said as she washed her hands thoroughly.
" I always enjoyed your company." He said, she could feel him watching her.
" You wanted to shoot me in my back of the head those first few weeks, I was too wild of even the great Ward to tame." Robin said as she could hear him chuckling.
" You were just that, a wild one. But I did enjoy those few months with you. Does he treat you well?" He asked, getting more serious.
" Yes, Ward, he treats me like a princess. . . no, more than that. He, he acts as if I am the best thing that has happened in his life, like I am the only good thing that is even in his life. He's a good man." Robin nodded as she finally turned around to find him looking back at her bedroom.
" Does he treat the kids well?" He asked as he finally looked back to her, though he had only met the children a few times before the funeral, he always seemed to like them.
" Yeah, he really does. He's good to them, Cecilia love him already, and Simon. . . well Simon is starting to come around to him as well. We're starting to seem like one little broken family." Robin said before pulling her robe on tighter.
" So I'm guessing he would not like it if I asked you to breakfast?" Ward asked as he got up from the chair, pulling his shirt back on, man Robin did not like the thought of him putting his shirt back on, he had a nice body.
" Yeah. . . I doubt that he would find much comfort in me going on to breakfast with someone who looks as good as you do. Besides, I doubt that I should leave him here to fend on his own. Knowing my luck I would come back to find the entire place burnt to the ground, the kids blaming him and him blaming the kids." Robin smiled as Ward gave her the smile, she had only seen him smile a handful of times so when he smiled you knew that you had made him happy.
" They here? The kids?" He asked looking around as if he had just missed them before that moment.
" No, surprisingly they both are out this weekend, a miracle if you ask me. I can never get them out of my hair." Robin said as they both chuckled a bit.
" Well I should probably get going then . . . I wouldn't want to intrude on you and your boyfriends last few hours alone." Ward said as she just blushed lightly, walking him to the door.
" Listen, I don't want to have to do to another funeral anytime soon, so you make sure to keep yourself safe enough to survive. No more getting jumped by someone who is crazy enough to take you on, okay?" Robin asked with a smile as he just nodded.
" Yeah, I think that I can do that for you." He said as she gave him another small hug. " You make sure to keep yourself and those kids safe too. I don't want to play superhero anytime soon."
" But I always liked it when you would swoop in and save the day, though we both know that I could have handled it, it was always fun to watch you act like you knew what you were doing." She smiled as he lightly touched the cut on her face.
" Robin, make sure that no one does whatever happened here again. Then I will be swooping in and saving the day." He said as he gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before he started to walk off.
" Good luck out there, Grant!" She called back to him before she went back into the apartment and instantly back into the bedroom.
" Well he seemed, untrustworthy." James said, his body propped up on his arms as he smirked to the girl.
" Ward? He's a nice guy, he was my body guard for awhile when I was a model. He's saved my life a fair few times." Robin smiled as she slipped her robe off before getting back in bed with the man.
" There's just something about him that I didn't like." James said as she kissed the hickey she had left on his neck.
" What? The fact that he tried to get me to go out to breakfast with him, or the fact that you both allow a nineteen year-old to dress your wounds. Besides, you didn't even see him, all you did was hear his voice." Robin said as she kissed up his neck.
" I don't know, there's just something about him." He said as he finally pulled on her cheek lightly, pressing his lips against hers.
" I thought that I told you to go back to bed." She whispered as she wrapped her fingers into his hair.
" Well I guess that I have too much energy to go back to sleep." James whispered right into her eat before biting it lightly.
" Well that's a first." Robin mumbled. " But I think that I know a way to drain all of that energy." She said with a smile as he was thinking the exact same thing as she had been.