Nothing Will Ever Bring Us Back Together

Chapter Fifteen- Ambush

BARTON HOUSEHOLD

Clint and Natasha both grabbed their weapons from under the pillows and made their ways downstairs where the noise that had awoken them had come from.

"Hey don't shoot me!" The scared voice of Steve Rogers said but you could only tell it was him once he was under the light. Captain America had developed a little British accent!

"Steve I have no idea why you are in my house but I am only going to say this once. Get out if you value your life." Natasha growled.

"Come on Spidey, he flew all the way over here." Tony Stark said, stepping out of the shadows.

"Oh God not you, I've already beaten you up this week." Natasha shook her head, hoping that she was dreaming.

"Not just him all of us, minus Thor, Natasha," Bruce said.

"Hi Bruce your kid is asleep upstairs." Clint said cheerfully.

"Now do you believe me when I told you we should go?" Natasha hissed at Clint.

"Nope." He said back.

"Guys, how are you? We haven't seen you in what, sixteen years?" Steve asked.

"Today exactly. Well, Stark an I had the misfortune of meeting twice before this but for the rest of you it is sixteen years." Natasha said dryly. She really did not want to be part of the Avengers again. She felt like her ledger was finally cleared, she did not want any more red.

"More like a misfortune for me..." Tony muttered, remembering what happened previously.

"MUM? DAD?" Katya shouted down the stairs, thinking she heard voices.

"I'll be up in a sec, Kat." Natasha said back. "All of you, out my house, NOW!" Natasha said as she went upstairs to see Katya.

"You did wake her up in the middle of the night," Clint said, "Did you forget how grumpy she gets or something?"

"Oh...yeah..." Tony said. "Give her this and convince her to come. Use the kids against her too, tell Katya and Ethan that Ella and Joe will be there. Bruce will text Lewis and tell him to say he wants to go. You have to come. Tell Spidey Pep will be there."

"One question. Who are you supposed to be to them? What are we supposed to tell them?" Clint asked.

"Cross the bridge if we come to it." Tony replied, handing over an envelope.

"I'd take her advice if you value your life, get out of our house." Clint stated.

"One question." Tony said.

"Fire, tin can." Clint replied.

"Do we invite Eye patch?" Tony asked.

"I don't know. Who is actually going to be there?" Clint asked.

"Us lot plus wife and kids. Darcy and son." Tony answered.

"If you want him to be there. One condition though." Clint said.

"What, Legolas?" Tony asked.

"He doesn't try to recruit me or Nat for S.H.I.E.L.D. and we don't want to get back into all this Avengers stuff." Clint replied.

"Sure, Katniss. We won't invite him, pirate's probably too busy being the master spy. Let's go guys before Spidey comes back." Tony said and they left. He made his way up to Katya's room and stood in the doorway, listening. Natasha was softly singing a Russian lullaby as Katya fell asleep.

"Did you make them go away?" Natasha asked, standing up.

"Yeah but he gave me this and said we have to be there." Natasha took the envelope, opened it and read the letter.

"No." Natasha growled handing it back, "Not going. Nope. No." Clint sighed and promised himself he would try again tomorrow morning. They both crawled under the bed sheets and went to sleep.

THE NEXT MORNING

"Katya, Ethan, Lewis? Will you help me?" Clint asked, knowing he would need all the help he could get.

"To do what?" Katya asked.

"To convince mum to go to a party." Clint replied.

"Do I have to come?" Katya asked.

"Yes." Clint answered.

"No then." Katya told him.

"I'm out too." Ethan said. They both hated parties.

"Ethan, Ella will be there." Clint teased.

"And..." He said.

"We'll be there all night so you can have a really long talk. Nothing else though, nothing else at all." Clint's mind was full of wrong images.

"Ok, I'll help." He said.

"Katya, Joe will be there." Clint teased.

"And..." Katya said.

"He's your friend." Clint said.

"No, I hate parties." Katya really did detest them.

"Its a really small one, there's going to be twentyish people and there's another little girl called... I don't know her name. God, I don't know anyone. Kat, you know I said I only had seven friends, one was dead, one was married to me? Here's your chance to meet them." Clint thought of a long ago conversation on the roof.

"Okay dad, I'll help." Katya said, suddenly curious.

"Lewis you won't mind? Your dad mum and sister are going." Clint asked, hoping it was ok with his guest.

"Okay. Dad texted me to help anyway. Are you guys friends?" He asked.

"Used to be. Do you want breakfast?" Clint asked.

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"Mummy, daddy says we're going to a party today!" Katya exclaimed, walking into Clint and Natasha's bedroom.

"No, we are not darling, sorry but no." Natasha said, burying her had back in to the pillows.

"Please mummy? It sounds fun!" Katya asked.

"It won't be." Natasha said, her voice muffled by the pillows.

"Fineeeee." Katya pouted and left.

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"Mum can we go to this party? I haven't seen Ella in about a week." Ethan asked.

"No." Ethan walked away without another word.

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"Please Tasha. Just this once?"

"No."

"Pepper will be there."

"Pepper probably hates me."

"No, she really wants to see you."

"Clint. I am not going to this party. The Avengers will suck us back in. I have only just stopped my ledger from dripping, I don't want it to overflow once more. " Clint turned and walked away. As soon as there was talk of red ledgers, he had lost. It was up to Lewis now.

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Natasha was sitting on the couch with her book. Lewis walked over and sat down next to her.

"Excuse me, Mrs Barton?" He asked.

"Natasha is fine and yes, Lewis?

"Can we really not go to that party tonight? My sister is there and I want to check if she's ok, she normally gets really homesick." Natasha caved. She could not stop this little boy from caring about his sister. The talk of Pepper had almost cracked her but this was too much.

"Yes we're going, I changed my mind, CLINT WE'RE GOING IN AN HOUR."