Janet's POV
After our little chat, Bruce went back to his apartment leaving us to deal with our parents alone. "So how long do you think you all are grounded for?" Clint asked us all seriously. Here we go again…
Hilda's POV
"You have to be Frick-"I didn't finish my sentence thanks to Sam's hand covering my mouth. Clint raised an eyebrow along with Tony and Thor. Natasha and Steve just smirked. "No, Hilda I am not joking. I believe Steve already told you all this?" he asked looking at Steve. "Well you see Clint I did tell them, but we were interrupted by someone's laughter." He says solely looking towards me. Clint returned his gaze to us. "Why do you guys-"he was cut off. "No, no Clint it wasn't all of them. It was just Hilda." Steve replied, dropping the smirk and now going full blown Captain America mode. "And after doing this, she thought it was okay to raise her voice, questioned my authority and what tops it all she tried to walk away but failed to do so thanks to Nat." He said sternly. It took All of Sam and Daisy's strength to hold me back, to make sure I didn't strangle Steve.
Clint walked over to me and crouched down. I could feel Sam's uneasiness so I tried calming down. "Take your hands off her mouth please." He told them, his gaze not wavering from me. They removed their hands from my mouth but not from my shoulders. He stood up to his full height and grabbed my hand pulling me off the couch. "I am pretty sure I taught you manners didn't I, young lady?" He said. I didn't look at him, so I nodded my head yes. "Verbal answers would be nice Hilda." I hear Steve say, still in his Captain America voice. I take a deep breath. "Yes you did." I answer through my teeth, still not looking at my father. I felt my dad grab my chin forcing me to look at him. "You, I repeat YOU are not allowed to leave the tower without one of with us you and are confined to our floor during your whole suspension. Do you understand me?" He said sternly. "Yes."I reply. "Yes what?"He counters. "Yes sir." I say once again through clenched teeth. He lets go of my hand and chin and I all but run to the elevator. Sometimes I wish we weren't superheroes…
Sam's POV
I am. FUMING! How dare Steve sell her out like that? I know she can feel my anger like the rest of them, but we can also feel her sadness. I get up to go after but Father stops me. "Leave it be this is not our problem." He tells me. "Not my problem?" I raise my voice. "NOT MY PROBLEM?!" Daisy and Janet both jump to hold me back but I shake them off calling my sword to me. I raise it pointing it to Steve, while still looking at my father. "He forgot to mention that he had disrespected Janet, called her father a mad-man, and say she is a bad influence on us. Which we so happily told him the reasons which she is not." I almost yelled at him. They all turn to Steve. "Is this true?" I hear Clint say. "I'm not wrong. Look at Hilda for example. She would never raise her at any of us or try to walk away, but ever since Janet came along they have been acting differently." Steve says rising from his spot. "She would've acted the same even without Janet." We hear Daisy say for the first time in a while.
Daisy's POV
"She would've acted the same even without Janet." I say tiredly. They all have a version they see of Hilda and us, but they don't remember that we weren't always with them. "You all have seemed to forgotten that Hilda and me didn't know who are parents one time life." I tell them. "Remember that long ago that you only avenger who had a daughter was Thor." Janet tells them. 'Janet in mind, Sam, Daisy' (telepathy)
'Are you sure you want to tell them?'
'You don't have to.'
'I'm sure it's time for them to remember'
"Hilda and I at one point in time didn't know who our fathers were." I say. "Hilda and I struck out on own, only relying on each other. That is until we met Sam at school after that fight"
Flashback
"Hey are you doing okay?" Hilda asks me. "Yeah I'm fine." I reply. We were walking to lunch to sit down at or usual table. We put our stuff down and head to the line. Hilda and I both get pizza and walk back to our table. "Lucky us we got here when we did huh?" Hilda says with a smile looking at the crowed lunchroom. "Yeah lucky us." I answer laughing. We eat for another 2 minutes until we hear a voice say. "Move so we can sit down you ugly dweebs." Hilda looks up to see who said that when we land our eyes on the resident 'Queen Bee.' Jess and her little henchmen. "Im sorry what did you say to me?" Hilda says angrily. Hilda has been taking self defense classes since she was a little girl, so I know things are about to go down. I look around to see we have the whole room's attention. I turn back to Hilda. "You heard me, now move or else." Jess says pushing Hilda a little. Bad move.
Hilda grabs her wrist twisting it to a point where it is almost going to break and I jump up to stop her from twisting it more. "You are lucky my friend here is stopping me because one more twist and I could break your wrist." She says calmly. She pushes Jess back and onto the floor. "That was a bad move!" We hear someone yell at us as Hilda gets tackled to the ground. I look and see a big dude hovering over Hilda punching her in the face and gut. I run over to pull him off but get blocked off by Jess's Friends.
"Hey get off her!" I hear someone yell. I look over to Hilda seeing someone had pushed off the guy and is now helping her up. We hear a whistle and turn to see the monitors finally arriving to stop this fight. We also see our principal running towards Hilda and the girl. "Come, we need to get you to the nurse." Principal Jefferson says. I run over to them, catching up just behind the girl. "We will call your parents to pick you up immediately." Jefferson says and Hilda starts to laugh. "Sorry to burst your bubble but we don't have parents." She tells them. "Then maybe you can come with us." someone behind us says.
I turn around to see the girl from before alongside a man in a purple hood and dark wash jeans. "Hi my name is Samantha." Sam says holding out her hand. "Hi I'm Daisy and my friend who you saved is Hilda." I said shaking her hand and pointing over to Hilda who is sitting next to the nurse who gives her an ice pack. "I think you might have a broken rib but I don't have the materials to fix that." The nurse says sadly. "I think I know who can help with that." That guy next to Samantha says. "And who are you?" Hilda asks as she is walking up behind me. "My name is Clint Barton, and I believe I know someone who can help you with that broken rib if you want." Hilda looked at me and I shrugged. "sure." We reply at the same time. And that's the start of our story.
End of Flashback.
"Even after that, she would still come home with a busted lip, sprained wrist, or something worse." I say coldly. "So no Steve, Janet isn't a bad influence. She just brought out the fighter in all of us that we thought we lost." I say while pulling Janet closer.
Clint's POV
I can't believe I forgot that. After we brought her home we had Bruce patch her up. We let them stay because Samantha wanted to hang out with them. Tony had just come back asking who they were and asking where their parents were. Hilda told us just what she told the principal. He offered to find them which surprised us all. Even more so when they hugged him telling him yes. It was a challenge to take their blood because Hilda is afraid of needles. I held her hand the entire time it happened. It took two weeks to find out and we were all surprised that Tony and I were their parents. Hilda ran out of the tower faster than lighting running to the park. "Damn it." I breathed out. I really screwed up. "I have to talk to her." I said walking towards the elevator. I have to make this right…
