Once a month Jordan and Robin would go out for a day of pampering. For them to do what made them happy and doing things together. Usually it was when Jordan felt like it, but this month, Robin asked James if he would be okay with taking care of the kids when they got home, if they got home before she did, and when he said that it was fine she basically ran out the door, ready to be the one to wake Jordan up for once. Though she hated being woken up, the queen bitch, well he hated to be woken up more than anyone that Robin knew. And she had been right, When she jumped onto Jordan, who was in a dead asleep in his bed, he nearly punched her in the face before he just deiced that hitting her with a pillow before pretend smothering her. But when Jordan realized why his best friend was there, he cheered right up, pulling on some jeans and a clean shirt before basically running out of the house with her arm wrapped around his arm.
It was one of her favorite things, being out with Jordan and just getting their nails done because he was one of the nail salons favorite people to come into the store. They called him in there ít tê giác, which from what she thought meant that they were calling him a little rhinoceros which made sense for him, he was cute and you just wanted to cuddle up to him but he was able to kill you within a second if you made him mad enough. She, of course, was con chim nhỏ, little bird. She could tell that they had picked up on that name from Jordan, but now when they came in they were not just customers or even people that they knew by name, they had their own Vietnamese names, they were well known around here and though most of the women still did not talk too much to Jordan and Robin, every single person knew their names and Robin and Jordan tried to remeber theirs as well. So when they came into the store, everyone seemed far too happy to have ít tê giác and con chim nhỏ back in the store for their months manicures and pedicures. They loved the fact that Jordan got his nails done, always right beside of Robin, talking to all of them, telling them how pretty their hair, nails, or eyes were.
" So, tell me, is lover boy coming to Pepper's birthday bash this weekend?" Jordan asked, his hands pulled out in front of him.
" That decades dance thing, I doubt that I am even going to it, besides I didn't even get an invite to the party." Robin mumbled, watching the television news.
" We both know that she would be heartbroken if you didn't show up. Besides, you can get lover boy all dressed up in a forties see how much he really looks like your lover from the past." Jordan said with a smile to his best friend.
" He is my lover from the past. I'm telling you Jordan that it is him, I mean how can it not be with the other him fucking following us around wherever we go! Ten bucks says that he has someone watching us right now." Robin hissed, holding nothing in when it came to Steve Rogers.
" Hopefully its him, man I like the thought of that boy watching over me. It's safe and kinky all at one." Jordan winked as the woman put his hand under the automatic blow dyer thing the that to dry the nails quicker.
" Ew." Robin sighed, she wanted to go to the ball, but she knew that it would take too much effort to get James to go out in public, where he may be figured out, she didn't want to risk very much when it came to James.
" Well what do you think? Because I think that you need to get out of that little apartment, go on an actual date with the boy, get dressed up and have a little fun in your life! Common, little bird, you would have an amazing time!" Jordan said as he was basically begging her. " Besides, where else are you going to wear that cute little cocktail dress of that time?"
" Places." She mumbled as she rebated it.
Robin had been planning on going to it, she had wanted to go to the party since she heard about what the theme was, hell she had basically planned the whole party out for Pepper. Pepper had told her that she could come, she would be on the list, and she knew that Pepper would not mind having another person at the party. But there were too many variables to worry about, too many things that may spark James, give him memories that he does not want to relive in public, things that should not be seen in public. Plus there is always that little fact of Steve Rogers showing up, though it was not a Stark official party, Robin knew that Steve Rogers and all of the other Avengers were always on the list no matter whose party it was. The last thing any of them needed was Steve meeting up worth James in a place like that, Robin didn't need to have another race around New York with Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and most likely Tony and Pepper following them. No, one race with a super solider and a sidekick was enough, she didn't need to think about adding in Iron Man and her boss to that picture as well. But this party had been calling her name, telling her to come and join it, she had wanted to go so badly. She had planned what she was going to wear from head to toe, she even knew how she was going to do her hair, but everything had changed when James came into her life, she was not going to put him through someone that could make it worse off for him, no, she wouldn't do that to anyone.
" Con chim nhỏ, you should go. He right, going out is good for the soul." The one that had been doing her nails said placing another thick layer on her indec finger.
" No, not with James, too many things could go so wrong, too fast for me to think about going to something like that. You know how he can get, I don't want to make it worse just because I wanna go out to some party. Pepper will understand and you better understand too, Jordan." Robin said giving Jordan a look that told him not to mess with her.
" Fine, fine. But don't think this is the last time that you are going to hear about that party, because I am going to try to get you to go to it still!" Jordan said with a wicked smile on his face as they finally got around to doing their toes while they kept the polish on their nails from smudging by keeping them firmly on the arm rests.
Jordan had dragged her into a fortune teller after their nail date. Robin had never really believed in things like that, they never really told the right things, just like those little cookies never told her her lucky numbers. She snickered and giggled listening to the woman tall Jordan how he was going to find his soul mate, someone who had lots of money and would sweep him off of his feet when he was twenty-one, how they were going to be in love forever. How Jordan was going to find the job that he loved, that he was going to be happy, it all sounded like something that she had said to everyone before, it also sounded like a complete waste of money to Robin, so she was happy that Jordan was paying for her to be told what each line in her palm meant and how she was going to find her true love, settle down, get married, and have two children, because after taking care of Simon and Cecilia the one thing in the world she would ever want is to settle down and do it all over again. But, mostly to make Jordan happy, she sat down where he had sat and showed the woman her palms, telling the older woman her full name and her birthday and then the woman started to get to work.
" Robin, you. . . you have been through a lot of struggles and pain in your past. So much pain, it haunts you, follows you around. You must let go on that pain, or it could consume you. You do a lot to help out with the family at home, yet you have never been truly happy with that, you always have wanted to be something more than just a member of your family. You want what a normal girl wants, love, and you have it now. . . but. . . but. . ." The lady started to look different, her eyes seemed to change and. . .something about her made her look different. "Death follows you around, the people that you love, vanish, the people that you keep close to you, you would die for. You worry about it, that. . . that death will strike your family again. And it will try." She whispered and Robin felt her palms start to sweat.
" What do you mean?" She whispered, death had taken so many from her, how could it even think about taking anyone else from her?
" The spirits tell me, they are coming back again, to strike to a final time. They are going to strike and strike hard, but not to destroy the Blake family. . . to destroy him. They need him. . . they need him back, they are willing to . . . to do anything to get him back. Death and destruction follows him where he goes, just as it follows you." The woman seemed like she was in another world.
" Him? Which him, there are a lot of hims in my life. Lady, you are scaring me." Robin said as she started to feel the tips of her fingers shake.
" The same man that killed your parents, the one that you saw that night he spared your life because you were not the target. He spared it once, but he may not do it again, little bird. He is back. He has taken on a new face though, someone that blends in to the world, someone that can be unnoticed in it. He is a ghost that cannot be seen to any and yet is seen by all." She gasped as she seemed like she was finally coming back to the world that Robin was in.
" How do you know about my parents? How do you know that I saw him that night!" Robin shrieks, feeling the tears coming to her eyes. " No one knows that I saw him! No one knows, I never even told the cops that I saw him! He thought about killing me, he pointed the gun right at me and then stopped, he. . . he heard Cecilia. He would have killed me if it wasn't for that little girl. Who is he?! Tell me!" Robin screamed, feeling the tears running down her cheeks as Jordan came in and instantly wrapped his arms around Robin's shoulders, bringing her into his body.
" You must leave here, leave your lover behind, go and run, far and do not tell a soul. . . but you will not do so. . . you poor, poor soul. You are going to dance with the devil and death will follow." She yelled to the girl, whose whole body was shaking.
" Lady you on some mad drugs, common little bird, lets get out of here." Jordan said but before they could leave, the lady grabbed onto her arm.
" Love is a deadly thing. Trust no one." She whispered to Robin before dropping her arm, her and Jordan running as fast and as far away from there as their feet could possibly take them. When Robin finally couldn't run anymore, when her arms stopped working and her body finally collapsed she was at the entrance to her apartment.
" She knew everything Jordan, things have I have not told anymore before. She knew about my parents and she knew that. . . that I saw their killer, that he looked me in the eyes and shook his head because I was not his target, Jordan he could have killed me! I should have been dead, I should be in the ground next to my parents! And now this lady is telling me that he's back in my life. . ." Robin said, her breathing erratic, tears flowing from her, her whole body shaking as Jordan pulled her into his arms, cradling her like a child and bringing her the rest of the way back to her apartment.
" Little bird, she was most likely a good guesser, she may have even been with S.H.I.E.L.D, maybe some level one thing or whatever. But we both know that the bull that they tell is. . . well its just that, its bull. Common little bird, deep breaths." Jordan whispered as he opened her door and ran her to the couch.
" They're home! They're home! You're home!" Cecilia nearly sung in her normal happy tone. Making Robin's stress levels go up even higher, death will follow.
" I've gotta get them out of here!" Robin called as she tried to jump up but Jordan's loving hands kept her down. " He's going to come back and kill us, he is going to come back! He's coming back!" She cried, trying to fight off Jordan.
" James!" Simon said as he pulled their sister into another room. " We. . . we have a situation."
" I . . . I have to get them out of here. They are not safe, Jordan you heard that lady, I'm not safe. I've. .. I've gotta get them out of the country, if he came all the way over here, whats stopping him from doing it again? He's out to finish us off now." Robin said as she felt her whole body shake.
" What is she talking about?" She heard James ask as she finally broke her trance and finally looked to him.
" He's coming back." Robin said, feeling the tears coming down her face as James took Jordan's place, kneeling on the ground in front of the girl.
" Some weird fortune teller told her that. . ." Jordan looked around, making sure that both her little siblings were gone. " That the guy who killed her parents has come back. That death is following her and is out for her. She was basically told to run with the kids and tell no one where they are going." Jordan whispered as he lightly kissed the top of the shaking girls head.
" He's going to try and kill them, he's going to hurt them and I. . . I just can't let that happen, James." She said through her tears.
" No." Was all that James said, making Robin look up to him.
" No?" She questioned.
" No. I have told you before, I am never going to let anything happen to you, I would never let anything happen to Simon and Cecilia either. No one is going to hurt you, let alone try and kill you. Robin I will never let anything happen to your siblings as long as I am breathing. You, you have saved me in way that you do not even understand and I will repay the favor everyday that you will keep me by your side. Robin, no one is going to hurt you. I promise." He whispered, kissing her cheek lightly before moving down to her trembling lips.
" I cannot allow you to get hurt either." She said as she lightly placed her hands on his cheeks.
" Girl, she was just some crazy lady whose drugs must have kicked in between the time that she got done with me reading and the time that she started in with yours. I mean, did you see the way that her face changed? It just ain't normal whatever happened to that woman." Jordan said, shaking his head and finally a smile broke from Robin's face. " There's my little bird."
" You know, you're right, she did turn into some crazy thing." Robin muttered, biting down on her trembling lip.
" Of course I am right." Jordan scoffed, rolling his eyes a bit too.
" I. . . What in the world was I thinking?" Robin said, finally laughing at her own stupidity.
" That someone knew a little too much about you and that meant that she knew everything about you and the future. Remind me for our next trip to go and get tattoos or a piecing in a place that we're sure to forget." Jordan said.
" How about no." Robin smiled as James wiped the tears from her eyes.
" Besides, anyone tries to get to you or the little minions, they're so going to have to get through me." Jordan said, holding up his arms.
" And me." James smiled as he lightly kissed her once again.
" Aw you too are so disgustingly cute!" Jordan said, smacking his hands together. " And you know what, I think that you two would be even cuter going to Pepper's birthday bash together. Ohh, I can see it now. The girl who waited for her soldier to come home for months, played by Robin Blake. The loving solider home from war and ready to start a life back in New York, played by your James Idontknowyourlastname! I think that I could even rangle up a World War 2 solider outfit!" Jordan said with a smile.
" No! Jordan, how many times do I have to tell you, we are not going to the party!" Robin snapped, making the man jump.
" Why? I think that it would be fun, getting you out of the house and doing something that wont make you cry." James said looking to Jordan who just put his hands up in the air. " I'd love to go to a party, it would be nice to get out a bit."
" But James, who knows what you are going to remember, and who is going to be there!" Robin said, feeling a little worried about it all.
" Then we will deal with that when the time comes, now common Doll, I'm going to take you dancing this weekend." James said with a soft smile that she had not seen before and knew, Bucky was slowly coming back to him.