Little Winged One

By Raveneyestar

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

I only own Akilina (Lina) Barton

Chapter 6

The Avengers had dropped Lina off at the Tower, promising her that Natasha would be home soon. But Clint wasn't happy about leaving his daughter there. He would much rather have her with him on the helicarrier, but since Steve and Tony had both talked him into leaving Lina with Pepper and Jane at the Tower he had grudgingly agreed. He currently was in his old room in the Helicarrier, awaiting news on Natasha. The others had tried to bring out of his room, but he had refused.

Tony had the audacity to claim that he was acting like Natasha did when she was pregnant with Lina, probably the reason why Tony was currently in the medical wing because of an arrow grazing his shoulder, along with a dislocated shoulder. Clint however heard from Hill that Fury wasn't happy with his actions.

Clint huffed as he stood from his bed and headed to Fury's office, he knew the lecture he was going to get from the Director and really didn't want to know. He was still waiting to be told if he could go in to see Natasha yet... after almost a full five hours after they arrived back on the helicarrier.

"What were you planning on accomplishing by dislocating Stark's shoulder?" Fury growled as soon as he had closed the door and stood at attention three feet into the room.

"He mocked me." Was Clint's lying reply. He knew how to lie to the Director... and not get caught, but he was playing on thin ice right now and he knew it.

Fury shook his head and after a sigh he said, "Agent, I understand your worried for Romanoff, but you have to keep your actions under control. I'm having Miss Potts, Miss Foster, and Lina brought to the helicarrier. You are to make sure your teammates don't cause trouble. That understood, Agent?"

"Yes, sir." Clint replied, looking at Fury before he was dismissed to go and retrieve the three from the landing deck.

"Daddy!" Lina cried out as soon as Pepper let go of her hand and let her run towards Clint, who easily picked her up. He gave Pepper a one armed hug in greeting as he did with Jane, which he had become accustomed to doing when seeing the two women, before leading them inside and to the debriefing room where the Avengers and Loki sat talking.

He let Lina down and went straight to Steve, instead of Tony. He laughed at Tony's pout, "Serves you right, Stark."

Tony shot a glare but didn't say anything as Pepper asked him what he had said to the assassin to make him say that. Steve was telling Lina a story from when he was little, and surprisingly she was sitting still. Jane was telling Thor and Loki to knock it off, as they were arguing over who was better... crazy little things brothers argue about, right?

After Steve's story Clint heard Lina asked, "Mommy going to be okay?"

He watched from across the table where he sat with his feet up on the table as Steve was searching for words. He finally managed out, "Your mom will be fine. She's been through worse."

Lina looked slightly confused at that but Clint quickly stepped in saying, "Nap time" and scooped the four year old out of Steve's lap giving him a look that said, 'really, now she will want to know what the 'worse' is'. Steve only shrugged his shoulder and Clint took Lina back to his room and put her down for a nap. She refused at first.

"But the bad man will get me." Lina whimpered, clinging to Clint.

Clint sighed and sat on the bed before saying, "The bad man isn't going to get."

"Why?"

"Mommy and I took care of it. He isn't going to get you." Clint hesitated before adding, "Nothing will ever hurt you."

"Promise?"

"I promise."

"Pinky Promise?" She held up her pinky.

Clint smiled and wrapped his pinky around hers and replied, "I pinky promise nothing will ever hurt you or get you."

With that Lina seemed okay to go for a nap, that Clint knew she needed or he was going to have an extremely long day. He left her once she was asleep and went back to the Avengers down the hall. "What?" Steve asked.

"She's going to want to know what the 'worse' is that Nat has been through." Clint huffed flopping back into his chair that he had been in.

"Is she okay?" Tony asked.

"She was scared that the 'bad man' would get her. I had to promise her that nothing would ever happen to her." Clint responded.

"How do you think you're going to pull that off, Clint? There is bound to be one time after this that you are not going to be able to protect her." Bruce, the voice of reason of the team, asked.

"I don't know. All I know is that it calmed her to know that I won't let anything happen to her." Clint said, looking tired and frustrated.

A man in a white coat, who Clint realized was Dr. Carson, SHIELD's top doctor. "There are good news and bad news."

"Bad news first." Tony said and Clint glared at him. "What? In theory you hear the bad first and the the good and you're happy it wasn't as bad as it could have been."

Clint rolled his eyes but motioned for the doctor to continue. "Well... Bad News is that the one shot missed her heart by inches, and that it took a long time to fix the wound along with making sure that there wasn't internal bleeding in that area. The second bad news is that we lost her once on the operation table, we managed to revive her. The Good news is that she is currently in stable condition and you can go see her."

Clint hesitantly got up and looked for someone to go with him. Pepper was the first to go by his side and the two headed to Natasha's Medical Wing Room. Pepper whispered outside her door, "I'll stay outside. You go ahead in."

Clint nodded and pushed the door open to see Natasha sleeping. He saw her one shoulder was completely bandaged and knew she was also bandaged around the torso and leg where she had been hit. He sat down in the chair next to her and waited for her to awake. He ended up zoning out until he heard an almost whisper of a voice get out, "Hey."

He looked over at her and forced a smile, "Hey."

"Lina okay?" She asked.

"She's fine. She's currently napping in my room." Natasha smiled a small smile on that before Clint added, "They lost you on the operating table."

"I'm not that easy to get rid of, Barton." Natasha retorted with a smirk.

"I know. Because then you would have been dead before I would have even had the chance to bring you back to SHIELD twenty years ago." Clint smirked, and Natasha rolled her eyes.

Before Natasha could say anything the Team cam barging in, Tony complaining about Steve and Bruce teasing him while Thor and Loki laughed at him. Jane and Pepper were trying to get them out of the room, but were not even being heard over Thor and Loki's laughter, Tony's complaining, and Steve and Bruce's teasing of Tony. Clint was laughing and Natasha grinned at the sight of her 'family' but noticed Lina wasn't there and Clint could tell she had been hoping to see Lina.

"Lady Barton! It is good to know you are safe!" Thor bellowed happily.

"Thank you, Thor." Natasha smiled, sitting up in the bed with a wince at the slight pain but considering she was ordered by Fury and the doctor to stay in the bed for 24 hours she didn't get up. After they all settled down and Jane went to go get Lina from Clint's room Natasha asked, "Who got me here?"

Thor smiled and Natasha assumed it was him before he even said, "When you collapsed we were all devastated. When we heard that our ride out was a half hour away... I asked Clint if I could take you here myself. He was hesitant but agreed that it would be faster. I'm glade I did, Lady Barton, for no sooner did I land that you passed out."

Natasha smiled, "Thank you, Thor." She saw Jane return with Lina and saw Lina go running to the side of the bed that Clint was sitting next to and he picked her up into her lap.

"You okay, Mommy?" Lina asked, as she crawled onto the bed.

"Yeah, ребенок, I'm okay." Natasha said and watched as Lina curled up into her side and drifted asleep.

"ребенок?" Jane asked, Natasha remembered that she rarely called Lina that but nodded.

"Means child, baby, infant, babe, brat in Russian." Natasha explained.

Jane had an 'oh' look and nodded. Clint noticed Natasha's eyes growing heavy and shooed the 'family' out of the room. He then kissed her before saying, "I'll be back. You get some rest."

Natasha nodded and scooted down so she was laying with Lina curled into her side and she too drift asleep. Clint crept out of the room and gently closed the door. Him and guys proceeded to go and find a place to drink, as he knew just the place in the Helicarrier. Pepper and Jane went to go find something to eat.