So, they moved in with Steve and Sam. Sometimes they two of them would go out on different missions, sometimes they would be gone for week, and for some odd reason that is when the floor seemed to be the loneliest, even Robin hated waiting for them to come back. But the one thing that Robin refused to do was allow James to go off with them, he had nearly lost him one and she had nearly had to be separated from him and she was not going to risk it ever again. The floor was actually huge, it was like having her entire apartment floor as a home now. And Steve had been right, there were a lot of bedrooms. Cecilia and Simon both out their own rooms, which was a first, and James and Robin got a bedroom with its own bathroom and full walk in closet, the last thing made Robin so happy she had jumped around in it screaming- which had made James fall onto the bed because of how hard he was laughing.
Tony had brought someone to come in and be her doctor, he would only made a house call when it was for her, and she had needed quite a few when it came to being in an apartment when you have two children who could could scream for you because their on the other side of the floor and you book it to them to find out that one hit the other. But the doctor was kind and understood what she was going through, no matter at what time of day or night she called, her doctor would be there within the hour for the pain that she was going through. Recovery when you get shot, twice, in the gut is something that takes a lot of time. . . a lot more when you do not allow yourself to recover. But Robin became like a mother to everyone on her floor, she would cook them breakfast, she would make sure that they had everything before they left for school or to take down Hydra, and she would make sure that there was something to eat when they all got back. And if anyone didn't like what she had cooked, they would get hit upside the head. Sam learned quick not to say that she had burnt something. He got hit twice. It had been a little under a year since Robin had been shot and Steve and Sam had just gotten back from one of their missions.
Little by little, mostly at night, James started to remember everything. And he told Robin everything as well, the good stuff that he remembered and the bad. Most of the night she would wake up, their black Labrador Retriever, Mystique, would jump up on the bed when James was having a nightmare and would nuzzle James and calm him down until he woke up. Robin would run to the light and turn it on, learning different things from Sam as they went along. When he would calm back down, Mystique laying right on top of both Robin and James, because she knew that she had done her job and this somehow was the dogs treat, they would talk about the memory. Robin did not care if it was good, bad, or somewhere in between, she was there for him through thick and thin. One time she remembered that James just shot out of bed, ran to Steve's room and screamed at him, calling him a dork because he thought that fondue meant having sex before he went back to bed with Robin, chuckling the whole way. When they started to call one another jerk and punk, Robin knew that Steve had his Bucky back.
" Are you ever going to let me cut my hair any shorter than this?" James asked, she had allowed him to get it cut like when he had been a Hollowing Commando, but that was as short as she was ever going to allow it.
" Well. . . maybe when I am old and senile. That or when I am blind." Robin shrugged with a smile as they both heard the door shut. " They're back! Hey Jarv, play We Didn't Start the Fire, again." Robin smiled as she walked towards the two and gave them both a small hug, she really did worry about the two a little too much.
" Man I love it when she does that." Sam said.
" Don't get any ideas!" James called out.
" You do understand that this does not teach them anything about what they missed, right?" Sam asked with a smile as he noticed what was playing.
" Yeah, but it is so funny seeing how annoyed they get when it plays." Robin said with a wink as James started to mutter the lyrics, he had told her he hated it when he couldn't get it out of his head for a week, and Steve just sighed like an annoyed child.
" You do have a point there." Sam winked to her. " But we tried to fight it!" He yelled as she saw him rocking out.
" Everything go okay? No wounds that I need to clean out this time?" Robin asked.
" Nah, you know that I have his back and sometimes he even has mine." Sam said as he left the entry way of the floor and straight towards the kitchen. " Steve! She made cookies!" He cried out like a child.
" It really is something having a full kitchen to work with, and having the room to cook in!" Robin smiled as she took Steve's shield and hung it up in the closet right beside the entry way.
" You really do too much around here, when I asked you to live with us I did not think that you would come in and do all this." Steve said with a smile as Robin just rolled her eyes.
" What? Cook for you guys? Make sure that you survive a knife wound? I have been doing that since James came into my life, its kind of gotten a little old." Robin said with a wink as they walked into the kitchen.
" Did I hear that you are getting sick of me?" James asked with a smile on his face as she noticed the cookie in his hand.
" Thank god! I thought that this chick was never going to think that you were getting old! Now's my chance!" Sam clapped as he winked to Robin.
" Nah, the knife wounds and the cooking for you boys." Robin sighed as she went and stood beside of James, him instantly wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her in closer.
" Hey! Two of us are older than your grandparents would be if they were alive!" Steve said as he went and took a cookie as well.
" Great-grandparents." Robin sighed. " Besides, do you really think that that is something that you should be bragging about? Really sexy telling a girl that you are old. . . real big turn on." Robin said as Sam chuckled.
" You seem to think that its pretty sexy having a boyfriend who is old enough to be your grand-grandfather." James whispered into her ear.
" Eh, you have your perks." She said before she kissed him.
" So we heard that you guys are going to be needing a babysitter for the night." Sam said as he went to the fridge.
" We are?" Robin asked as she looked from face to face. " Why?" Robin asked to James.
" I'm taking you out tonight." James said with a smile.
" Really?" Robin said with a little to enthusiasm.
" Man you do not take your girl out enough, Buck." Sam said, shaking his head from the door of the fridge.
" I know, but I plan on making it up tonight." James said as he kissed the girls head lightly.
" Can't wait to see where this leads me." Robin smiled as she leaned into his kiss.
He had told her to get dressed up, which made Robin a little nervous as she flung out different dresses out of her closet, unsure of what he meant by getting dressed up. She had her formal wear that she wore to work, but that did not seem sexy enough. She had the things that she used to wear out to the clubs, but that was a little too sexy. She could have worn something that went to the ground, but she thought that maybe that would be a little too formal for where ever they were going, she was so confused and finally knew what it was like to be a girl who was going to be late for her own date. She had not even done her hair or make up yet and she could feel a rush of panic coming to her face as there was a knock on the door before Cecilia rushed int her closet and just smiled brightly towards Robin.
" I new 'hat you are doing tonight. James told me alll about it." Cecilia said as Robin just smiled to her little sister.
" Uh huh, and what is it that we are doing then, huh Miss Cecilia?" Robin asked as her sister just shook her head.
" Nope! Its top secret information!" Cecilia said as she started to go through her dresses.
" Oh, common Celie. We both know that he never takes me out for anything. Please? Just tell me a little hint about what it is that we are doing?" Robin asked.
" Hint: You are going out." Cecilia said with a sassy attitude.
" Man sometimes I think that I have taught you a little too much sass for your own good." Robin sighed.
" Here 'ear this one." Robin said as she pulled out a long red dress that Robin had not worn in a long time.
" Why?" Robin asked with a smile as she held t up to her body and looked towards the mirror.
" Because it's red." Cecilia smiled as she peaked around Robin's legs.
" And because red is your favorite color or because it's James's favorite color?" Robin asked as she pressed the dress up against her body.
" Both." Cecilia shrugged as she bounced her way out of the closet and sat on her sisters bed.
" Okay." Robin said as she started to pull the dress off of the hanger.
It was a dress that she had not even thought about wearing, but it was simple yet formal, sexy yet elegant. It was a ruby red dress that went to the floor, with little sparkles around her waist. It had one strap and it had a split that came up to about her thigh on one side of the dress. Robin curled her hair up until they were little romantic curls and did her make-up to a natural tone with big red lips to match her dress, the whole time Cecilia picking out a pair of shoes for her sister to wear.
Robin chuckled each time her sister would come out, wearing the pair of shoes that she thought that Robin would look good in. Robin had finally agreed with some black peeptoe heels, they were perfect because they gave her a little lift off of the ground and yet she could still walk in them without hurting within ten minutes. When both she had Cecilia approved in her look they went out of her room, Cecilia's hand wrapped tightly around Robin's as she skipped around the hallway that lead towards the living room area where James was waiting, a bouquet of flowers in his hands and a tux on his body that made Robin's mouth drop and he looked at her as if she was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen.
" You. . . you look. . . stunning Robin." James said lightly as she blushed, moving her hair into her face.
" You look pretty good yourself." Robin finally replied with. " Are those for me?" Robin asked as she looked down to the flowers in his hands, tiger lilies and lilacs for Robin and roses and babies breath for James, just like the flower crowns that her sister had made for them a year ago.
" No! They're for me!" Cecilia said jokingly to her sister. " Duh they're for you."
" Thank you, James." Robin said as she took them from the man, in return giving him a light kiss. " I'll go see if we have a vase in this apartment." Robin said as she went to the kitchen to find that James, Sam, and Simon were all in there, listening in to their conversation. " Really guys? What the hell are we doing tonight that has you all so excited?"
" You'll see." Sam said, taking another cookie from the plate and biting into it.
" Well fine, but here, find a vase for these and put a aspirin in it." Robin said as she handed her flowers to Steve. " And don't wait up!" She called as she went back to James.
" Oh, we'll wait up. That's for damn sure." Sam said with a smile as they all peered around the corner of the kitchen, all three acting as if she could not seem them over the flowers in Steve's hands.
When they had left the apartment and were walking around on the streets, James wrapped his overcoat around Robin's body, knowing that she was shaking a bit and she noticed that he seemed a little nervous too. They had first stopped at Anja's for a little late night snack, even Anja was in on this date because she had everything out and ready, the whole store was closed and just kept smiling towards the two of them and letting them have their little powered sugar fights at her tables. Robin had gotten a little powered sugar on her noise from James and that was that, it turned into an all out brawl until Anja had to allow them to use the employees bathroom to get it all off because they were not done for the night. Anja had hugged them both of them, a smile on her face and tears from her eyes as they left the shop, making Robin smile as James wrapped his arm around her body.
" So, what is this all about anyway?" Robin asked as he pulled her in closer as they walked down the busy streets.
" We met a year ago today." He said as he kissed the top of her head.
" Holy crap! Has it really been a year already?" She asked as James just chuckled and nodded.
" That is one thing that I know for sure about my past. На следующий день моя жизнь изменилась к лучшему." He whispered as Robin rolled her eyes.
" Man, time flies. And stop with the Russian, we both know that I can say about two and a half words in Russian!" Robin said as James just laughed.
" The day my life changed for the better." He said in English.
" Stop." Robin blushed as she nudged him.
" What? Its the truth." James said to her as he pulled her into Rockefeller Center.
" James, what the hell are we doing here?" Robin asked with a smile on her face as she looked around. The skate rink had closed almost a month ago, the people just passed by, besides the tourists, they were the only ones who really came to the center.
" You'll see." He said with a smile as he pulled her into the building.
They went up, all the way up, until there were no more walls and it was only the sky around them. It took Robin's breath away, she had always always wanted to come up to the top of Rockefeller Center to the gardens, but she had never been able to because it was always booked up or there was a wait time that just seemed outrageous. As she stepped out of the elevator she just starred at the gardens that were light up by yellow-glowing lights. Robin placed her hands over her mouth as she just kept walking all around the gardens, looking at all of the different flowers that went around the water and then she looked out to find that you could basically see the whole city from all the way up here. The city that never slept had always seemed a little too bright, a little too big to her, but at that moment in time it was the most beautiful thing that she had ever seen. Robin spun around the gardens, laughing and smiling as James just smiled to her, allowing her to do whatever she pleased.
" How did you get this for us?! We are the only people up here! Me and Jordan, we tried to break in here once and had to run away before we got arrested! You have to book this place like six months in advanced just to be up here, let alone to get it just for the two of us!" Robin asked as she ran up to the man and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him down as she kissed him.
" I pulled a few strings." James smiled through their kiss.
" Well I love it when you pull some strings." She said as she kept her arms around his neck. " You do pull some good string." She winked as she started to pull him around the gardens, showing him all of the different things that she found so beautiful about the gardens and then city that she never knew she had loved so much.
" Robin." James called to her as he was standing right in the middle of an archway made of roses and lilacs, Robin smiled as she ran to the man who instantly took hold of her hands, drawing her in closer. " Robin, you have really been my saving grace, without you I really do not know what would have happened to me. You are the sun in my life, you are the joy that keeps me going through the day and keeps me sane when night comes around. Throughout my entire life I have never felt so loved than when I am with you and I have never loved as much as I do for you. You are the love of my life and you are the only woman that I want in my life." He said as he got down on one knee, making Robin gasp as he pulled out a little black box from his back pocket. " Robin, will you marry me?" James asked as she could feel the tears coming to her eyes as she tried to bite her lip to keep herself from crying.
" Of course!" She cried out as James jumped off of the ground, wrapping her in a tight hug and spun her around. When he finally brought her down to the ground, he kissed her on the lips before placing the ring on her finger. It was beautiful, it was gold with one big octagon-shaped diamond in the middle and a bunch of little ones surrounding it.
" It was my mothers, Steve went and found it for me when I asked him to." James said with a smile as he noticed her starring at it.
" Its beautiful." She whispered as she felt his lips press against her cheek, right at the spot where she had been cut by a knife a year before.
" It fits you perfectly then." He said to her.
" There's only one problem with this whole marriage thing." Robin said as she saw the look of terror come to James's face.
" Wh-what's that?" He asked as he looked to her, eyes wide.
" Now we gotta plan a wedding." Robin said as he picked her up, kissed her before he spun her around once again.
Hey guys! I really hate to tell you all this, but there is only one chapter left. But it's gonna be a good one, promise! Enjoy!