Chapter 10
By: MysticFantasy
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Steve kept his eyes on his son who slept soundly between him and Natasha.
He smiled seeing how peaceful James looked as he slept. He and the other parent's had been explained to on how Tony had kept most of the children safe over the years.
They had all been so grateful to Tony for watching over their kids and keeping them safe.
After the reunion had settled, Tony had explained that since Ultron was defeated it would take a while for the city to get back to normal. He adviced that the young teens needed time to rest and get reaquainted with their parents.
So now they were all on a jet heading back to the arctic.
"He looks just like you." Natasha said as she brushed her fingers over James' red hair.
"But he's got your firey spirit." Steve said with a smile. There was no way that he could describe how happy he was to have his family back together.
When he had been the first to be attacked by Ultron, he had thought for sure that he would never see his son again. He had thought of all the birthday's he would miss, all the precious moments of his sons life that he would miss...
Although the early years of James' life had passed, now Steve could be there for him for the rest of his life and help him heal from the thought that he had lost his parent's for good.
Tony had told him how badly James had been hurting from thinking he forever lost his parent's. Especially Steve.
The captain had been so touched to hear how much James admired him.
"Touchdown in thirty minutes." Tony announced from the front of the jet.
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Teens and adults walked off the jet and into the safe location. The damage to the dome done by Ultron had been fixed by the automatic systems.
"This is beautiful." Janet exclaimed seeing the trees, waterfall and small huts.
"Pretty neat." Clint agreed.
"I can have a hut made for you and Francis. Until then, you can stay with me in mine." Tony said. "I'll have my AI system get to work on it right away. We can have dinner in an hour. Let's just take this time to relax."
"Sounds good to me." Clint said. "Come on, Frankie. Tell me everything that happened while I was away."
Natasha watched as Janet and her son shrank down and flew toward Pym's hut with Hank following close behind.
"James, why don't we go to your room and catch up on things?" she suggested.
James smiled but then turned to surprise.
"Uh, yeah, but let me make sure that there's extra space for you and dad first. Be right back."
With that the teen rushed off to his hut and vanished inside.
"Average unclean teenage room?" Steve guessed with a smirk as Tony walked over.
"Glad to see that your observation skills are still as sharp as ever." Tony said with a smile. "James felt that since this was the only place he'd ever be, he didn't have to worry about anything happening. That was true for a while. When Vision arrived, everything changed."
"Still, we cannot thank you enough for watching James for us." Natasha said and kissed Tony on the cheek.
"Other than a few emotional moments, James is exactly like his father. Although he had his mother's stubbornness." Tony said with a grin and recieved a light pinch on the arm from the spy.
James reappeared, his hair a little messy.
"Ok. Plenty of room." he announced.
Steve and Natasha smiled and went over to the hut. They enetered and looked around. It was the perfect size for the three of them. Even the bed was large enough to hold all three.
But Natasha knew that Steve would more than likely volunteer to sleep on the couch, letting her and their son take the bed.
Then the two spotted the picture of them and James when he was a baby.
"Tony gave it to me a few years ago. I looked at it every night." James said.
"That was the day you were born and when we brought you home from the hospital." Natasha said fondly. "The day you were born was the happiest day of my life."
"And mine." Steve added. "I had always wanted a child of my own and, on that day, my wish was granted. I hated the day that we had to send you away but I knew that it was the only way to be sure you would be safe. Tony did a great job of raising you. Which surpises me a little considering how much of a party boy he was before everything happened."
"Well, I did give him a little trouble." James confessed. "Mostly because he never gave us the entire reason why we were here. He told us that we were here for safety but he never told us that it was because Ultron was looking for us. I would get upset at times but I wouldn't ever talk to anyone about it."
"We understand, my darling." Natasha said as she held her son close. "It was a hard time for you. You were old enough to remember a little of what happened the day we sent you away with Tony. But we're here now and we're never going to leave you again."
James smiled and hugged his mother and father.
It felt so good to have them back in his life. It had been so painful to not have them around. The only thing he had ever wanted was to be able to be held by his parent's, even if it was just once.
Now he had them back and they both vowed that they would always be there for him.
It just made him so happy to hear that.