Little Winged One

By Raveneyestar

Disclaimer: I own nothing! It all belongs to Marvel and Disney(when mentioned)

I only own Akilina (Lina) Barton

A/N: Got bored halfway through writing the chapter... so this kind of formed... hope you enjoy it. :)

Chapter 3

Natasha buckled Lina into the airplane seat, gave Lina her Build-A-Bear rabbit, that had been a gift from Fury. The rabbit's name was Buzz, since she couldn't say Bugs Bunny when she was smaller. The rabbit was brown, with floppy ears, and was squish-able/cuddle-able but the 'fur' to the rabbit was instead of being soft was rather coarse. The rabbit had been through the wash several times, so it was a washed-stuffy. It also had an ice-cream stain from when Lina had spilled her chocolate ice-cream on the rabbit, and screamed when Natasha had tried to take it so she could wash it.

But the rabbit kept Lina quiet through the ride plane ride, and it also helped that Lina had the window-seat. Clint had wanted to take a regular commercial plane, even though Tony tried to persuade them to use his privet Jet. The two assassins had declined the offered and had bought the tickets for the commercial airline.

"Daddy, were we going?" Lina asked.

"Los Angeles International Airport. Once there, we are going to drive to Uncle Tony's Malibu home." Clint responded and got a look from an older lady.

"Intermathional?" Lina asked confused.

"International. It means in that airport, all planes from all countries can land there." Natasha explained.

"What's O'Maly-boo?"

"Malibu. And it's where Uncle Tony's one home is. We're going to stay there for a while to get out of the Tower, okay?" Clint responded.

The elderly lady smiled before tapping Clint on the shoulder and saying, "She is just adorable."

"Thank you." Clint smiled, "She can be one pain in the tucus if you know what I mean." He chuckled.

The lady nodded, "Had three. They're all grown up now. Moved out and everything. My husband and I are going to visit the one. It's been ten years since I last saw him. How old is she?"

"Six." Natasha smiled, but gave Clint a warning look, one he knew that meant 'don't say too much we don't know this woman.' Clint ignored her and continued talking with the elderly lady. While Natasha kept busy with coloring with Lina. She simply tuned Clint out and really only answered Lina's nonstop questions.

"WOW!" Lina cried out when Clint opened the door to Tony's Malibu home, and took off before Clint or Natasha could stop her and explain the rules for while they are there.

"Guess she likes it." Clint smirked at Natasha, who rolled her eyes at him and walked into the home. It was a lot like how she had seen it when she was watching Tony several years prior. Lina called from another room, before running back over, looking ecstatic.

"Can I have that room?" Lina asked pointing in the direction to where one of the guest rooms was. Natasha nodded and Lina ran off, back to the room, this time carrying her small Wizard of Oz Backpack. Natasha didn't know where Steve had found that backpack but Lina loved the thing. Natasha followed, to make sure nothing 'Tony Appropriate' was in any of the drawers in the room. Thankfully she found nothing except some spare shirts and pants, that she assumed Tony has for guests who forget them. She helped Lina unpack the suitcase that Natasha had brought with her into the room. The two unpacked the bag before Lina asked, "How long are we staying?"

"A couple weeks. Then we'll head back." Natasha replied, putting Lina's t-shirts into a drawer.

"Is Uncle Tony and Auntie Pep visiting?"

"No. Just you, me, and your dad." Natasha replied.

"Oh... what are we going to do?"

"Whatever you want to do."

"Can we eat ice-cream for breakfast?"

"No. I meant whatever you want to do outside the home."

"Oh..." Lina said as she dumped out her backpack onto the king-sized bed.

The following day Natasha and Clint took Lina out and showed her around. They drove into LA for a comedian's show and afterwards thought it wasn't such a good idea. It turns out... if you take a four year old to a comedy show, your bound to not only have a confused toddler but one that repeats everything the guy said. Even the bad things. Clint quickly regretted offering to go to the Comedy Show as Lina was repeating very 'Tony Appropriate' lines. Clint had to explain to Lina that she was not to repeat anything that the Comedian had said. Lina had seemed to understand and Clint relaxed a lot.

That night Clint put Lina to bed and went into the living room watch one of Natasha's Sappy-Love-Movies that she has him sit through at least once a month. He turned the volume up so that it drowned out a lot, the baby monitor next to him, and Natasha curled up into his side as she started the movie. He really didn't like this movie... or any Sappy-Love-Movie, but he would sit through it and end up crying at the part where the guy ends up leaving the girl or vise versa depending on the movie, even though it was entirely obvious that the two liked each other. This movie the girl is like Natasha in sharing her feelings, and the guy actually likes her.

The movie was Pitch Perfect, and Clint hated all the singing parts, but Natasha seemed to enjoy it. When the movie was over she said, "Go check on Lina and I'll find some action-movie, deal?"

Clint raised an eyebrow but nodded, and went to check on Lina as Natasha went searching through the movie drawers. Clint walked down the hallway, quietly, as to make sure he didn't wake Lina up. He opened the door and peaked in. He watched for a few moments as he waited for her to roll over. But she didn't. He walked in and gently lifted the thick comforter to find that Lina wasn't there. "NATASHA!" Clint yelled.

He no sooner got his wife's name out of his mouth and she was at the doorway. "What happened?"

"She's gone." Clint panicked, as he pulled the covers back all the way. Natasha went through the closet and the adjoining bathroom before she stiffened next to Clint. "What?" He turned to see what she was looking at and saw the window was open.

"JARVIS!" Natasha screeched.

"Yes, Mrs. Barton?" The AL's voice sounded.

"GET TONY NOW!" Clint yelled.

"Sir, it's one-"

"NOW!" Natasha screamed.

"Yello." They heard Tony's voice and he sounded like he was half asleep.

"Stark, Lina's missing." Clint said blunting.

"WHAT!?" Tony sounded suddenly awake and they heard him yelling and they heard the others yelling back at him. Including Pepper.

"What happened?" Pepper asked.

"We don't know. All we know is that during the two hours that we were watching a movie she went missing!" Natasha was pacing as she spoke now, and Clint was sitting on the bed, his head in his hands, trying to relax.

"Natasha, breathe." Jane's calm voice said. "Tony, can you bring up the surveillance?"

"What do you think I am trying to- Uh-oh..." Tony's voice said.

"What do you mean, Uh-Oh?" Steve's upset voice questioned.

"Surveillance was turned off three hours ago and recently re-enabled thirty minutes ago... I can't get a trace of where they were though." Tony mumbled.

"Tash, sit still. Thor and I are on our way." Jane's voice sounded before a crack of thunder was heard over the AL.

Within a half hour everyone but Pepper and Lina were accounted for. Fury hadn't been notified, as the Avengers felt they could solve this problem on their own. Steve was asking Bruce and Tony to try everything computer-wise while Loki for any trace of anything. Pepper had remained behind, considering someone should be at the Tower just in case something came through.

"Tasha, we need to tell Fury." Jane said after several hours of everyone searching for something but found nothing.

"No." Natasha said quickly, looking up from where she was working on a stark-tablet with the alarm and surveillance system of the Malibu home.

"Natasha, we only have 72 hours before we are looking for a dead body. You know that, right?" Bruce said from the other room, where him and Tony were trying to concentrate on how the people turned off all alarms and surveillance in the home when Tony had rigged it to alert him if anything hacked in.

"DON'T SAY THAT!" Natasha yelled at Bruce before quickly realizing who she was yelling at and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled... it's just..."

"You're upset about Lina going missing." Tony concluded and Natasha only nodded. The two had actually been on better terms since Lina was born. It could have been because Tony drove Natasha to the hospital when she was having the baby, but Natasha wasn't sure why she started tolerating the Billionaire, but was fine in tolerating Tony, as she had finally maybe a a couple months ago started trusting Tony. That didn't mean she trusted him like she did with Clint, Hill, Coulson, or Fury.

Natasha was learning to trust her teammates after four long years, she was starting to trust them. Loki had yet to gain her trust, she couldn't bring herself to trust him. Yes she had long since forgiven 'Reindeer Games' as Tony so often called him. But she didn't trust him. She had trusted Steve longer than the others, but still Steve hadn't gained the master assassin's full trust. As for Fury and Agent Maria Hill, they had Natasha's trust... as did Coulson she would trust them and be friendly with them. The three of them plus Clint had been the ones to welcome her into SHIELD. Maria and Natasha had actually bonded pretty quickly, but it had taken Natasha good five years to trust Coulson, and a good ten to trust Fury. Fury had been the man who had ordered Clint on the mission to kill her in the first place. It took longer to trust him than it did Clint, Coulson, or Maria.

"We should tell him." Clint said quietly. Natasha hesitated before nodding.

"JARVIS!" Tony called.

"Yes, sir?" The AL asked.

"Get Fury and Hill here. Tell them... Hawkeye is throwing a temper tantrum or something. DO NOT TELL THEM ABOUT LINA BEING MISSING!" Tony ordered.

"Right away, sir." The AL replied.

Within another two hours the place was over run by Fury, Hill, and several armed Agents of SHIELD. "What happened?" Fury demanded.

"Lina's missing." Clint reported.

"How?" Hill asked concerned, looking at Natasha.

"We don't know. All we know is that whoever did it hacked JARVIS, turned off all alarms and all surveillance cameras." Natasha replied, before being hugged by the second in command of SHIELD. The only person other than Clint or Coulson to have been able to experience hugging the infamous Black Widow... and lived to tell the tale.