It should have ended in the rain, she could feel it start to come down as she ran, but she just allowed it to mix in with her tears. She did not know where she had run to, hell she really did not care. She just pulled herself away from the crowd, into an alleyway, and just dropped to the ground, and allowed herself to break. Robin had not broken down like this since. . . since her parents died, since James killed them. She could feel the tears coming down her face, should could feel her chest heaving, yet she could not stop herself. So she just pulled her legs up against her body, wrapping her arms around them and dropping her head into her knees, and allowed herself to sob. She hated herself, how could she have been so foolish? How could she have allowed a killer into her house, taken care of him, allowed him to get near her siblings? Robin felt like a fool, felt like she had done so many bad things, so many thing that would make her parents cringe. She had had sex with the man who had killed them, the man who had put a bullet straight into their heads without any thought in it. Robin had been in love with the person who had made her parents take their last breath. She was a horrible excuse of a child, of a person. But then a voice called out from the front of the alleyway, she could hear feet running towards her, she could not stand to face him.
" Little bird! Little bird, what are you doing back here?" Jordan called out as she dropped to his knees and tried to lift her head, she could not even stand to look at him.
" You knew, you knew about James and you tried to make him tell me. You tried to make him tell me all about his past because you knew. You understood what he was talking about. You knew, you knew and I was too foolish not to see it!" She cried, hitting her head against her knees.
" Little bird! Robin! Robin enough!" Jordan yelled as he pulled her head away from her knees making her look at him, she could see all of her pain reflected into his eyes. " Common, we're going to my apartment."
" No. . . no, I deserve to be out here." Robin shook her head as she allowed the tears to keep falling as if she had a choice. That is when Jordan just picked her up and started to carry her the two blocks to his apartment.
Jordan had worked to get the best of the best in his apartment building. Robin had never really asked how he got it and neither of them really wanted to talk about it. But he kept it clean, which meant that Robin usually didn't come over because with her meant that there would be kids coming as well. So when Jordan just placed her on his couch and started to walk off, Robin looked around to find that it looked mostly the same, besides the little dog that was already curling up around her, trying to figure out what was wrong. Robin smiled to the little thing, trying to pet it as it wigged right into her lap and started to lick her face lightly, making Robin chuckle and smile as Jordan came back in, two cups of tea brewed and already. Robin was starting to be able to breath one again, but she could see feel the tears coming down her face.
" That's Chico, I got him from a friend of a friend." Jordan said with a friendly smile as he wrapped a blanket around the girl, the dog in her lap curled up and wagging his tail.
" Got him or stole him because you didn't like the way that they were treating him?" Robin asked, looking over the lip of her cup to see Jordan smile with a look that told her it was the second choice.
" Listen, I am sorry that I didn't tell you myself. . . . I just wanted you to hear it from him, because I figured that you would not listen to me." Jordan apologized as Robin tried to keep from choking because of her crying.
" I wouldn't have. I was a fool. Jordan, how could I allow myself to fall in love with someone? I mean I should have learned a lot time ago that I cannot love people, that it always ends in pain and suffering." Robin sobbed as she started to pet Chico once again, him licking the hand that held her mug.
" You have so much love in you. You just don't know how to pick the right guy, but then again out of the two of us I guess that you have had the better run at it. So, we gonna go after this boy? Show him a little revenge, the S.H.I.E.L.D way?" Jordan asked with a wicked smile on his face as Robin chuckled.
" No. . . no. . . we are going to allow him to live his life. Hell, I think that we would have to fight through Steve to get to James again. He would die for James." Robin sighed as she felt the tears finally stop.
" As you would have." Jordan nodded as Robin just sighed.
" He would die for me." She whispered as she just kept breathing, trying to regain some composure.
" Well you have learned, we'll get through this together. Which reminds me! I gotta have a phone call." Jordan said as he jumped up and started to run into another room.
" Who? What do you have to call someone about my regret and mental breakdown." Robin cried out.
" Pepper to tell her that you are not just a machine!" Jordan cried back as he locked himself into his bedroom.
Jordan had kept her in his apartment a little too long. Robin had guess that each time that her phone went off, which Jordan had to keep from her to make sure that she would not go calling Steve to make sure that James was at least okay, was from her siblings asking where she was. He gave her some before, before telling her that she needed to cut down on the drinking, and they started to even watch some movies the way that they used to. Screaming at the main character, telling them that they were a fool for loving someone or for trusting someone, Jordan just allowing Robin to get out her pain. They rocked out to each song that was in there, Jordan allowing the girl to keep the dog in her lap the whole time, Chico made her feel a little more happy than she would have without him he was so willing to just lick her to death that it made her giggle. But when the sun started to set, Robin figured that it was time for her to get back to her apartment building, knowing that even Simon must have been getting worried because of how many times she could have heard her phone go off in ten minutes she figured that Cecilia had gotten a hold of her phone. So she bid Jordan and farewell and hugged him as tightly as possible, that boy could calm her down or rile her up within seconds, it had kind of turned into his job.
She felt happy going back to her apartment, even though she did not understand how she was going to tell her siblings, mostly Cecilia, why James was not going to come back. How she was going to tell Simon that the man that she had put all of her trust into, the man that she had told Simon would protect them, was the man that had killed their parents. Robin figured that Cecilia would be hard to lie to, but she would simply tell them that she was cold, since it was raining and she had gotten herself soaked in the rain, that she would have enough time to figured it out. She would go to work bright an early, leaving before them so she would not have to face it, so that she would have enough time to work out word for word what she was going to tell them. It should have ended in the rain as she turned the bend, looking to find that there were blue lights all around her apartment building and felt her heart drop as she started to run towards the yellow tape. She police cars were all around her apartment building, there was glass on the ground and as she looked up she could tell, she just knew, it was coming from her apartment building as her heart dropped. Robin just knew, there was something wrong, there had been something wrong from the first phone call that she had gotten.
" No." Was all she could whispered as he head she started to shake. She pushed right through, trying to get into the building as she was pulled away by some police officers.
" Please! My sister, she is up there, she will not come out for anyone. My brother would have locked the door up and would not answer even if you tell him that you are cops. Please, please just allow me to get up there and make sure that they are okay. Please, I will come back down." Robin begged as the officer looked down to her.
" Ma'am are you Robin Blake?" He asked as she started to shake her head, the tears starting to come back to her eyes.
" No. . . no no no, what-what happened?" Robin asked as she noticed that there were no ambulances near, no firetrucks, which meant that there were no living bodies.
" Ma'am, your house was broken into. The neighbors could hear screaming, it seems that your house was broken into and whoever it was, they. . . they took your siblings." He told her as she started to howl in sadness as she ran past him, now allowing him to take her back across the lines as she ran up the flights of stairs, not allowing her aching legs to stop her, as she finally got to her floor and saw the tape around the door.
Simon had blocked the door, barricaded it so high that the person shot through the door to get to them. Robin could feel the tears coming to her eyes, her hand on her mouth, as she went past the yellow tape, around the barricade as she found that her apartment had been torn apart. Almost all of the furniture that had not been up against the wall was flipped upside down and broken. Her plates had been used as weapons, they were shattered all along the ground, her sofa had been thrown the other way, and her favorite blue chair was halfway into the apartment next door. There was two bullet holes right through her television, holes that went out the windows, as she went down the hall she noticed that Simon had barricaded the kids bedroom door. Robin could feel her whole body shaking, her hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming, as she saw the dents in the door before it had shattered. The person had kicked through most of that easily, Robin could see where they dragged Cecilia out of the closet, she could hear the little girl screaming and kicking as they did so, she could see her brother yelling and trying to protect Cecilia as they took her from the closet. There was a broken lap on the ground from where Simon must have tried to fight them off, to keep them away from her little sister. Her cell phone, the phone calls, Simon was trying to call her because he thought that she was the one person that could help. Robin could feel her lip quiver as she went into the closet to find her old teddy bear still on the ground, Simon had given it to her to keep her calm. Robin had to bite down hard on her lip to keep herself from completely breaking down once again, they needed her to be strong.
" I am so sorry Celie." She whispered as she picked up the teddy bear, pulling it in tight to her body and noticing how it smelt like her little sister.
"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 could hear the lady from the fortune shop once again and that is when she just dropped the bear and went into her room.
Opening up her underwear draw, because Cecilia had started to play with her tampon box that she had stashed them in before and knew that Simon would never go into her underwear draw, she pulled out two glock 22 40 caliber Smith and Wesson pistol's, they had been her parents. She placed them both into her pants as she pulled out a thigh holder and wrapped it around her thigh before she moved out of the apartment, taking a back stairway and leaving the place that she had called home for so long, heading straight for Stark Tower. Steve would have taken him in, James had been Steve's best friend when he was Bucky, so Steve would never allow him to be homeless. James had the trust to get into the apartment, but without Robin, she could see how Simon would be suspicious. Something must have happened, James may have snapped back into the Winter Solider, but if he had captured her siblings, it would be the last time that he snapped into anything. Robin did not stop at the doorway of the tower, didn't even really care if anyone saw her as she got into the elevator and slammed on the button that was to Steve Roger's floor, pulling out one of the pistol's and took the safely off of it Once the doorway opened, she was ready to take no prisoners.
" Where are they?" She screamed at the top of her lungs as she found the three of them in the middle of the living area.
" Whoa chick! What the hell is wrong with you?" Sam screamed as he put his hands up.
" Where the hell are they? Where have you taken them?" Robin screamed as James looked to her, she could see that he had been tearing up, he, James had been crying.
" They? Who are you talking about?" Steve asked as he tried to come to her but she aimed the gun right at him.
" Simon and Cecilia!" Robin screamed.
" What. . . what happened to them?" James asked as his look went from sadness to straight up fear.
" They're gone! Someone came in and took them, kidnapped them from my apartment. They had guns, they shot through everything thing, they took my siblings!" Robin cried out.
" Who. . . what the hell is going on?!" Sam asked, still with his hands up as Robin lowered her gun, figuring that James had not taken them as she placed it into her holster.
" You guys haven't watched the news yet? Seeing as they aren't here I'm guessing that Hydra took my siblings. Just like that lady said." Robin said as James started to come near her, but only came near her as she placed her hand back into her gun. " Just because I need your help doesn't mean that you are forgiven." She whispered.
" What. . . why would Hydra take your siblings?" Steve asked.
" They're the kids of two of the highest agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, even Fury had kept an eye on them after they died. Those kids were like. . . they were expected to go to the top of S.H.I.E.L.D before they were fifteen. Getting a hold of them would be like finding gold." Sam said.
" Besides, if they have them, they have me, and if they have me. . ." Robin said as she looked to James.
" They can get me back." James said as he looked down to the ground.
" Listen, I get it if you don't want to come with me. I'm not going to make you do that, you have been put through enough hell by Hydra. Tell me where they are, tell me where they have hiding spots, and I will go and get my siblings back." Robin said, looking to the man to find that there was some comfort in her words.
" No, I got you all into this, I am going to be the one that gets them out, no matter the cost. These kids trusted me and I destroyed their trust." James said.
" Yeah, you're not the only one." Robin mumbled.
" So when do we start?" Sam asked as Robin looked to him.
" No. . . this is not something that I am getting anymore people into than I have to." Robin shook her head, she was not going to have anyone elses blood on her hands.
" Ma'am, I would say the same thing about you, but I have figured that it would be a little too much of a fight to tell a S.H.I.E.L.D woman no." Steve said as Robin turned to her.
" Oh hell no! My sister would never forgive me if I got Captain America killed! Celie would rather die than to have her idol killed and she is only five." Robin said as she placed her hand on his chest, refusing him to come with her.
" They're are children in Hydra who are in danger, who have been taken from their guardian. These kids need someone to come and help them out and you two alone could not do it." Steve said as Sam snickered.
" Oh they can, they would just blow everything up in their path." Sam said as Robin took out her other gun and took the safety off.
" Well, that was what I was planning on going in there and doing." Robin said with a smile as she looked to both Sam and Steve. " Well, if you guys are coming, you better get suited up. We are going in there full force and I am not leaving until I get my siblings back."
" You see why I love her?" James said with a smile.
" Where are you going?" Robin asked with a smile back to him, she couldn't really help but to smile when he gave a smile.
" Well you told them to get suited up, figured that I should get suited up as well." James said with a wink as he followed the other two back, Robin wondering what he was getting dressed into.