A/N Sorry for the late update, I have been at the London Anniversary games this weekend and most of this was written on trains. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed, favourited favourited or just read this story so far. It is my first Fanfic and I'm kind of proud of myself for getting this far. Anyway here is
Chapter Four
Clint's POV
I burst through the doors of the hospital room, 007, and see Pepper, holding her hand.
"Hey Pepper, and Tasha it's good to see your still alive." I say. As soon as the word 'Tasha' leaves my lips, though Natasha's eyes begin to open and her mouth stretches in to an 'O'.
"Clint, how did you do that?" Pepper asks quietly.
"I'm Hawkeye." I respond and Pepper says
"Not you as well! I heard Steve do it yesterday, Tony does it all the time and Thor is always going 'I am Thor, Son of Odin.' I'm not going to be surprised if Bruce says later 'I am the Hulk."
"Wait, what?" Natasha says, "Where am I? How long was I out for? What happened to put me in here?"
"Tasha," I say while Pepper gets up and leaves, sensing Natasha would be angry, "You're in the hospital in the tower, you've been here for a week and a bit, you know you jumped in front of me and took two bullets." Tasha stays calm, and says,
"Where? And now I can stop owing you for Budapest." As I point I say,
"You never owed me for Budapest." And she replies,
"I did and do we now have matching scars?"
"Yes."
"Clint please say you weren't sitting here all the time I was out."
"No, I wasn't Fury forced me to go on a mission."
"Is that what the cut is from?" I hadn't even noticed the cut along my left cheekbone until she said it
"Yes." I say.
Natasha's POV
I cannot believe that Fury forced him on a missson while I was out. I would have point-blankly refused to go. Clint says it was supposed to be a three day one too. He got it done faster though because even without me, he's still Hawkeye.
"So, what have I missed? Pepper?" I inquire.
"Nothing much. Pepper had a scare in here and turned ghostwhite, but nothing new. Pepper said she will not call it Tony Jr. though." Clint says.
"Good for her," I say swinging my legs out of the bed and ripping the IV's from my arm, "I'm getting some food, you coming?" I half walk, half run down the hallway knowing that Clint will be after me. I walk silently in to the shared Avengers kitchen where Steve says "Natasha? You're alive?" I am about to say 'Yes' when Clint come in and says,
"Tasha, they want you to come down for five, only five, I promise I'll time it." I give him a look which says 'please.' He know I hate hospital. For one, its a reminder the hospital fire and another, when I was captured in China, they put me on a hospital table and sliced me up. Clint got me out of that one. I still have scars, mental and physical. Putting my dislike behind I follow him and mutter, "You'd better time it."
Four minutes and thirty eight seconds later, we make our way back up o the kitchen, only to find it empty. Five minutes ago it had been full of life, everyone in here. Clint says, "J.A.R.V.I.S. Where are the other Avengers?" and J.A.R.V.I.S. replies
"They are down outside hospital room 008, sir." We make our way down there but I cat bring myself to get out of the lift. "You go," I say to Clint "Tell Pepper I said I'm too scared."
"Tasha-" He begins,
"Go." I say
Clint's POV
"Thor, will you please go and either drag or carry Natasha out of the lift. She needs to be here for Pepper." I say as I approach the other Avengers.
"Certainly." Thor says and he and Jane go off to coax Tasha down here. Steve says to me,
"Pepper's in real labour now. Tony 's probably pacing in there and Pepper 's probably screaming at him- good the the walls are soundproof." The door opens and Tony steps out.
"Where's Natasha?" he asks me sounding desperate, not an easy thing to make Tony Stark sound. "Thor's getting her. She wouldn't come out of the lift." I say.
"Well, go and get her. Pepper's screaming for her. No idea why though."
"I know why." said Natasha who is being pushed down the corridor by Thor. She and Tony disappear in to Pepper's room. Four hours later the rest of us are allowed to come in and a baby girl sits in Tony's arms, well I assume it's a baby girl, it's got a pink baby-gro on. Pepper has just given birth yet they're already arguing about names.
"It should be Antonia." Tony says very a sure of himself.
"No, something unique like... Lilliana." Pepper says.
"I like that," Natasha and Jane say and Tony agrees,
"It wouldn't be too bad..."
"Natasha, you said you would choose the middle name." says Pepper.
"Of course," Natasha replies, "Hmmm... how about Ocean."
"That's genius." says Jane.
"Right," says Thor "This young babes name is Lilliana Ocean Stark. Ag-" He cuts off as Natasha falls to the floor.
"What just happened?" asks Pepper who cannot see.
"Come back to us, Tasha. I love you. I miss you. Just stay with me." I say as her eyes slowly open, getting a strange look from Tony, Thor, Jane and I assume Pepper but I can't see her face.