James had still been in a deep sleep when Robin rose to go to work, she didn't want to bother him, he really needed to get all of the rest that you could after the weekend that they had had together. She and the kids left for their places at the same time, leaving James to have the whole apartment to himself, all day. Robin could only hope that she would come back to find it all in one piece, and with him still within the apartment. She had given him a small kiss and left him a note on when they were all supposed to be home, but other than that she left it to James to decided what he wanted to do, she felt like a mother leaving her child to fend for itself for the first time. But work called, though Pepper and Tony were not going to be in the office today, she still thought it would be best to actually be in the building.
Robin got to drop the kids off at their school, in the newly cleaned Camaro, making all of the kids stare at them as she waved and said goodbye to both of them, making them seem so cool. Robin loved the feeling of seeing her siblings being so happy and having everyone want to talk to them, she figured that it was one of the only times that Robin would be able to do this, so she figured why not make both of the kids get a little heads up in the popularity charts. She hated waiting in traffic, but being in traffic in a car that cost more than anything you had ever had before, that made it a little worth it. Robin had loved the feeling of the Camaro, everything about it really, so when she finally parked in with the rest of Tony's cars, she felt like she was leaving a piece of her behind. But she was also happy knowing that it was safe and sound, that it wasn't going to get stole or dented in her buildings parking lot.
When she got to her desk she found that Jordan had already been there, leaving her a muffin, about ten different magazines, and a little note. She smiled as she read that it said I love you, little bird. Eat the muffin and try not to throw it up while reading all about our weekend. Guess TMZ is gonna do something about it tonight too. You're still a superstar. - - Jordasian. Robin rolled her eyes at his new nickname for himself as she unrolled the muffin and started to go through all of the different magazines that had been published since Saturday, smiling as she ripped out one of the better pictures of her and James, they must have just gotten there, Robin was smiling and even James had a slight smile on his face. They looked so happy, such in the time with her arm wrapped tightly around his, his arm around her waist, pulling her in as tightly as he possibly could. They looked you and in love and Robin instantly posted it on the side of her computer before she started to actually read about the party in the eyes of people that should not have been there to begin with. Robin had been somewhat known when she was a model, she had even found herself in Vogue once, but this, this was something completely different.
They had pictures of all of the best people who had shown up the the party. Tony and Pepper, Pepper dressed up head to toe in a beautiful dress from the 1920's looking like something that had come out of the Great Gatsby, Tony looking like he had just come out of a hard rock band from the 1980's. Of course they would get a good one of Steve, who looked just like he had when he had joined the army, though he was a little bit bigger than when he had first joined, in a lovely military uniform that looked just like the one that James had had on. Jordan looked like he had just come from battle in Vietnam, with all camo on with some black under his eyes, he looked like he could have really done some damage to someone. . . that is until he did, then he would say that he was sorry for the next hour. Some of the people that Robin hadn't seen at the party were Maria Hill, former agent of S.H.I.E.L.D who worked for Pepper decked out in a outfit from the 1960's looking kind of like Twiggy mixed in with something much more fierce that scared Robin a bit. Then came the pictures of Robin and James, even the magazines compared James to Bucky Barnes, but they thought that they knew everything and just did a compression. After she had looked at all of the pictures she decided that she had all day, since she had done all of the work that Pepper had given her for the next month over a week ago, she was going to start reading through the magazines, since they were all basically about the party. Wrong move.
Robin should have known before reading it, the magazines are cruel and horrible things, but she could not help it. She read through each and every one of them and it seemed like they call caught her, and mostly everyone else that was in those things, leaving the event ( twice ) with James and her dancing with different men all night. The one thing that they did say that was good about her was her dancing moves when it came to her big swing dance. She was happy that they had gotten a good photo of that to atleast put in one of the magazines. But they all said the same thing, that she was putting on weight, that she was a horrible guardian to her siblings because she was out and rumored to be drinking and sleeping with different guys. Hell, one of them said that she was sleeping with both James and Steve. Robin was just happy to notice that in most of them they said that Pepper's party was as smashing hit, Robin only had about a paragraph in most of the magazines, but it seemed like to her that it was the longest paragraph in the whole thing. Robin felt sick as she put down the large muffin her friend had gotten her and went and looked out the window. She didn't know how long she had been there when someone lightly touched her shoulder, making her snap and slap it, hard.
" Whoa there, sorry, I didn't know you were going to- have you been crying?" Steve Rogers asked as he knelled down and got to her level, instantly wiping the tears away from her eyes.
" I. . . I am sorry. . . it's just something, well everything, that those magazines said about me. . . and you. . . and James, it just kind of got to me." Robin sniffled as she stood up and felt Steve's arm wrap around her shoulder, keeping her from moving.
" Yeah, I read some of it today. But Robin, you can't listen to anything that those stupid things say! They are just there to. . . well to make people read them no matter what it costs or what it does to the people that have been put in them!" Steve said, a hopeful smile on his face that she was going to listen.
" Trust me, I know all of that. I just. . . I feel like a fool. I mean I should have known when I was going to a party that had Tony Stark at it that it would have been something where I needed to suck in my gut, try and not eat whatever I wanted the week before, and act like an adult!" Robin shook her head, she did feel like a fool at that moment.
" Robin, you are barely an adult. And besides, you are like a feather, why would you even think that you would need to have off anything?" Steve asked as he looked to Robin, completely concerned with what the girl was saying.
" Because. They were saying that I had thighs that jiggled when I danced and that my stomach was too big for the dress that I was wearing. That they could see stretch marks in my arms." Robin sniffled, wiping the tears away from her eyes as she moved back to her computer.
" Robin, none of that is true. Thighs are supposed to jiggle, even if its muscle. Besides, no one was caring that night about any of that because you put them all in awe with your dancing." Steve said wish a smile as he noticed the picture on her computer. " And I doubt that he would even allow you to be saying these things. . . you know that he is in love with you, that he loves every bit of you just the way that it is." Robin looked up to the picture of her and James and then to Steve.
" You. . . you really think he loves me?" Robin asked as Steve just smiled, shaking his head and looking back to the girl.
" It is written on his face, I've seen him in love maybe once and what you two have, well it is something that he really never has had before. But yeah, he is in love with you with every fiber on his being." Steve smiled as Robin finally let out a little smile.
" I wouldn't go that far." Robin mumbled as Steve just laughed.
" Oh, I would." Robin finally smiled to him as he wiped the final tear away from her eyes.
" So, Captain Rogers, what can I do for you here at Stark Industries today, seeing as both Ms. Potts and Mr. Stark are away for the day?" Robin asked, giving the speech that she was supposed to give.
" I actually came to see you, Miss Blake. Miss Robin Blake. First born to Ivy and Jason Blake. See, Tony told me all about you, from the things that he knows. S.H.I.E.L.D huh?" Steve said as Robin pulled a seat that was from around the other side of the desk up to her side and offered it to Steve.
" Me? No. My parents were though, it was the only thing that my mom had ever known and I couldn't even tell you with my dad. They lived in it and they died in it, they would have died if they would have seen how it call came to an end." Robin said, shaking her head. " So what made you wanna come and see me? Since I know it wasn't to hear the sob story of how I became an orphan with two kiddos to take care of." She said, smiling lightly, hoping that Steve would drop the whole parent conversation.
" Well I was thinking about taking you out to lunch, even got your bosses okay for you to go out, if you wanna join me for something to eat." Steve said, the corners of his mouth perking up with a hopeful smile.
" I'm not too hungry. Besides, we wouldn't want anyone seeing us together. The last thing that you need after what happened in DC is people actually thinking that you are hooking up with me while I am hooking up with two different guys who are like ninety-something years old. Cause you know, any powerful man taking an attractive woman out for a bite to eat must be using her for a good time." Robin said with a wink as she started to flip through the magazines once again.
" Well, unlike you, I really don't care what they say about me because I know what the truth is. Now common, its either that or we are ordering in to Stark Tower." Steve said with a threatening tone, making Robin smile.
" Oh, even better. Going back to your place, how. . . perfect." Robin said, shutting off her computer as she picked up her purse. " You got a car or are we walking?"
" What?" Steve said as he started to follow her.
" Well we need a means of transportation, unless you are going to throw us out of the window, saw the videos of you jumping out of that S.H.I.E.L.D building back in DC, gotta say, not really in the mood to bounce off of the cement today to get anywhere." Robin smiled from the elevator, she didn't know where this snarkyness was coming from, but she kind of loved it.
" Common, it'd be fun." Steve snickered.
" In your dreams." She smiled as they left the office, Robin wondering why Pepper even kept her on payroll.
By the time that she had gotten home the kids were already there, jumping all over the place and all around James, who for once seemed really happy to have them around. From what she could tell all three of them, which included Simon, were jumping around and playing some kind of army game. Robin just shook her head and chuckled as she placed four different boxed of Chinese food around the table before she tuck and rolled into the kitchen, pulling her finger gun out of her pocket and joining in on the game. Cecilia had come bounding out of the bedroom area and into the living room to find Robin, who wrapped her into her arms and tucked and rolled with Cecilia, making her laugh and giggle.
" I love it when you do that!" Cecilia whispered. " Again! Again!" Cecilia begged so Robin once again did. She remembered when her mother used to do this to her when she had been Cecilia's age.
" Are you going to be my secret agent now?" Robin whispered and Cecilia nodded as they both gout out their guns and pointed them towards the hallway.
No one else had figured out she was home yet, she when they ran out of the bedroom area it was Robin who lunged out from around the couch and tackled James to the ground, making the whole apartment shake for a moment. Cecilia went for Simon yellow pew pew because that was the what she thought the noise of a gun sounded like before Simon lightly hit her with a pillow, his version of a gun. James instantly flipped her around , slamming her body hard again the cold ground, and for a moment she feared the worst because of the animalistic look that came from his eyes. She really thought for a moment that he would have killed her if it hadn't been for Cecilia yelling and jumping on top of James as well, it was the little girl who had brought him back from whatever place he had been in. James shook it off pretty quickly, smiling and even laughing a bit as he acting as if the little girl was so heavy and flopped himself onto Robin, who grunted.
" Pig pile of Robin! Pig pile of Robin!" Cecilia cried out through her laughter.
" Are you okay?" James whispered as he realized what he had gone.
" Five-by-five." She groaned out, she was lying but didn't know if James had fell for it or not. " Just trying to catch me breath."
" I got to shoot James, hit Celie with a pillow, and now possibly crush my other sister to death. This is a great day after all." Simon said as he picked up Cecilia and then jumped both of them onto James's back, he acted as he if was allowing them to push down on the girl, but she smiled having about an inch between their two bodies. He was still treating her as if she was made of glass.
" How was your day of work?" James whispered lightly as they both could feel Cecilia lightly kicking James's butt.
" I brought back food, complements of Steve Rogers." Robin called out just loud enough for the kids to hear it.
" Captain America?" Cecilia yelled as she jumped off of the other three and ran towards the table.
" Chinese food at a little place in Brooklyn." Robin said as she could see James go into another trace.
" How. . . patriotic of him." Simon mumbled as Robin was trapped under James, who finally came out of it.
" Ya remember the place or you just remembering Chinese food?" Robin chuckled where he shook his head lightly.
" The second one." James said as he got up and pulled her up as well. " I don't think there were any places in Brooklyn that we could afford to really go to, let along there being a Chinese place."
" I knew it." Cecilia whispered, she had already started in on her food.
" Shut up, we all knew it." Simon said as Robin gave him a kiss on the lips. " Didn't know that though. When did you guys start going all official?"
" When you locked yourself in your room." Robin mumbled as she took her place between her siblings, James on the other side. " Steve said that you would like it, I guess that the guy really thinks that he knows you well or something." Robin chuckled as she kept the lip to her meal closed.
" You not hungry, Robin?" Cecilia said through a mouth full of noodles.
" No, Celie, I already ate when I was out with Captain Rogers, trust me, I ate more than my fair share." Robin said with a smile, looking over to find that James was extremely concerned. " Hey James, if you are up for it, Steve thought that you would wanna go over to his place tomorrow. Tony I guess is going to be out for the whole week with Pepper and him and Sam wanted to go for a run or something." This made James look down at his meal. " Hey, it's just if and when you are up for it. No pressure from any of us."
" I'll think about it." James said as they all started to get back into the normal routine of dinner, eating and talking all about the day. It was always been mostly Cecilia talking about all of the different learning activities that they had done while Simon would talk about the new move that he was trying to master or had already mastered. Robin would try and tell them about how hard her job was but they would both just look at her and laugh, they even knew that Pepper loved having her there even if it was just to be a companion for her. But today Robin got to talk about her adventures out with Captain America, which was full of a well needed laugh and an angry phone call from Jordan wondering where she had run off to.
Happy Mothers Day guys!
Also just wanted to give you a heads up that I am going to be starting another Bucky/OC ( possibly Bucky/OC/Steve haven't really decided yet. . .) It should be up by the end of the week.