A/N: Hello to my awesome readers! You guys are awesome! You know that, right? Hope you do! Anyway, here's the next chapter! You should also read my other stories! Taisha and Natty is about Natasha's sister, and Heaven Spelt Backwards is about Clint's sister! They're two completely different characters and two completely different stories! Read to find out what the heck I'm talking about! :)
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Chapter 12: Informing the World!
As soon as the elevator doors opened, Baylee pushed Tony out and pulled Jackson into the room with her, having not let ho of his hand the whole time. He didn't seem too fazed about being dragged around by there, and she would rather spare him of the awkwardness of the other room, although being here wouldn't be that much different.
Baylee glared at Tony before finally releasing Jackson's hand and walking over to the couch to sit down. Jackson followed her and sat down beside her anyway, and Tony just stood in the middle of the loving room on Baylee's floor, shuffling his feet in an awkward silence.
"I'm so sick of him being like this," Baylee whispered to Jackson in Russian as she put her head in her hands.
"Hey," Jackson said back in Russian, gently placing a hand under her chin and lifting her head to look him in the eyes. "I barely know you, and you barely know me, but I'm gonna look out for you, and I will attempt to comfort you, although it'd be easier if I knew why."
Baylee blushed and smiled shyly, staring into Jackson's emerald eyes for a few seconds. Then she glanced at Tony, who was watching the two smugly, but had a slightly confused expression because he obviously didn't understand a word of what was just said. Then he got an idea.
"Hey, JARVIS-" Baylee cut him off.
"Disable all the translations please, JARVIS," she asked quickly, still talking in Russian.
"Right away, Miss Garcia," the Ai replied in English. Tony glared at the roof, then at Baylee, who smirked.
"Fine. I already know that I was right. I don't need translations anymore. Any genius could figure it out, and I am an extremely intelligent genius," Tony smirked. "Now, I'm off to go find out what made Agent Romanoff slap Agent Barton's cousin and what secrets blondie could spill about either of the ninjas." Then he sprinted towards the elevator.
Jackson and Baylee shared a quick look before scrambling off the couch and across the room towards the elevator. Unfortunately, the doors shut just before either of them could make it inside.
Suddenly, Baylee remembered the emergency staircase along the side of the mansion, and she grabbed Jackson's hand and pulled him over to them while yelling at JARVIS in Spanish, asking him to stop the elevator from moving to the main floor.
"I'm sorry, Miss, but Mr. Stark has asked me to ignore your commands for the next hour."
"Well crap," Jackson said as they ran up the stairs as fast as possible. On the third-last, Baylee tripped up and, instead of just waiting of the impact of the fall, she put her hands out and used the power of the fall to push herself over the top step and roll onto the floor, before standing up next to Jackson, who was both shocked and surprised at what had just happened.
Baylee just smirked at him, then the elevator dinged and out walked Tony. The two teenagers glanced at each other before sprinting across the room at the same time as Tony did. All three of them ended up in front of Natasha, who was staring at them with a blank look on her face, and so did Clint, who was sitting next to her.
"Tony was spying on the four of us before we came inside!" Baylee yelled in Russian so Thor, Steve and Bruce wouldn't find out anything that wasn't supposed to be found out yet. Tony, on the other hand, would be a more difficult person to evade.
"He wants to know your secrets, and apparently he didn't hear anything before I said that I would spill your secrets, so he doesn't know what secrets he wants to know, or that it involves both of you, just that I know a secret of Natasha's and he wants to know, too," Jackson told the secretly married couple in Russian, talking at one hundred miles per hour.
Natasha and Clint shared a silent conversation, using only their eyes to talk. After a minute or so, they both nodded and turned to face everyone else.
"Well. You wanted to know my secret, Tony? You got what you want." Natasha adjusted Reilly in her lap. "Which secret would you like to know? I do have many secrets." Baylee could tell that she was going to go about this sneakily and only give information about the exact questions asked.
"What were you talking about before the four of you came inside? Why do they get to know but no one else does? And who does this secret involve?" Tony asked interrogatively, crossing his arms as he stood in front of the ginger-haired woman.
"Okay, firstly, it involves me and someone else, I'm not going to say who. Secondly, Baylee Clint and Jackson all know because they can, and we were talking about wedlock before we came inside. Now put the pieces together and voila! The secret is out."
It took Tony less than five seconds. "Wedlock, marriage, Natasha and someone else - Natasha's married. Not Baylee, not Jackson, Clint! Aha! Clint and Natasha are MARRIED!"
"Bingo," Clint said indifferently, but he took Natasha's hand in his and she rested her head on his shoulder while they both looked down at the sleeping child. A thought then struck Clint.
"Would you like to keep her? Raise her as our own and watch her grow up?" he asked quietly so only he and Natasha could hear.
Natasha looked at Clint with a mix of hope, happiness and fear. "But what about our jobs? That's the only thing that I know now, and I'm not trained to be a mother. I'm trained to be an assassin and undercover agent." She looked back down sadly.
"Tash, no one is ever trained for parenthood, and even if Fury doesn't let us stay at SHIELD, we will always have a place on the team," Clint assured his wife, then waited until she nodded.
Meanwhile, Tony had decided to inform the whole world of Clint and Natasha's marriage, and was currently running about the huge mansion yelling at the top off his lungs.
"Guess what, guys! They kept a secret from us! The hawk and the spider are married! MARRIED! And they didn't even care to tell us! Hawk and spidey are married! Hawk and spidey are married!" he sang before running off to find Pepper, who had been woken up by all of the noise and was standing in the hallway.
"WHAT?!" Steve, Bruce and Thor yelled in surprise.
"What's going on now?" Pepper asked sleepily, walking over to Tony and hugging him so he would quiet down.
Tony wrapped his arms around her waist to support his half-asleep girlfriend while she looked tiredly around the room. She noticed Bruce, Thor and Steve looking at Clint and Natasha with wide eyes and Jackson andy Baylee sitting next to each other on one of the couches.
When her eyes finally reached Clint and Natasha, she saw their hands entwined and a baby in Natasha's lap, she realised what had happened.
"Oh, okay. Now I understand. So, who's this little one?" Pepper asked, nearly awake now. Sh stumbled slightly as she made her way over to the couch and sat down on the other side of Natasha, as she smiled at the gorgeous infant.
"You understand? You mean you knew all along?!" Tony squealed, making the nearly-fully-awake Pepper giggle at the picth of his voice.
"Ive known for the entire time that they've lived here," she shrugged, giggling again at her boyfriend's goofy face. "Anyway." Pepper turned back to the married could with a questioning look in her eyes.
One glance at Jackson told Clint that he really didn't want to repeat the story for a third time, so the older cousin decided to explain this time.
"This is my eighteen-year-old cousin, Jackson," he said, pointing to the boy next to Baylee. "And about three days ago, he found her in a house. Her parents had been killed, they were lying dead on the floor, and she was all alone." Pepper gasped quietly.
"I did make sure that she didn't have any family to look after her before I took her, though, incase you were wondering," Jackson added.
Pepper nodded. "So who's going to look after her then? Are you going to hand her in to SHIELD or get someone to look after her here?"
Everyone looked around at each other silently for a minute, then the quiet was broken by Natasha's strong and clear voice.
"She's staying," she stated simply, narrowing her eyes as she looked around the room, daring anyone to say otherwise.
"Well, you kinda already made that decision when you ordered me to buy baby stuff online when you walked in before," Tony huffed. "Which, by the way, will be here at 9am tomorrow."
"Thank you, Stark."
All the other Avengers minus Clint had their jaws sitting on the floor at that.
"Did you just say 'thank you'?" Tony asked in a shocked voice, earning a couch pillow to the head.
Firstly, I just have to say, if you spot any mistakes, please tell me so I can fix it, coz I had no time to do a spellcheck. Thank you! And secondly, I hope you enjoyed the Tony Starkness in this chapter! Next chapter isn't fully written yet, so it may take a while longer to upload, but it will be up as soon as possible! There are about two-four chapter left, I think! But there will be a sequel, so don't cry! It'll all be okay! Have a good weekend!