Steve, Tony, Pepper, Clint and Natasha were left waiting in one of the conference rooms while the data was analysed, information was colated and blood tests were processed.

"Okay; Clint, Natasha. What we need you to do is think really hard, and write down every time you were hurt or injured when you were younger, okay?" Dr. Montgomery asked

The two kids stared at her like she was crazy

"This is really important" she emphasised, but they just looked at her and didn't make a move towards the pens and paper on the table. Dr Montgomery was chosen to lead on this because both Clint and Natasha's adult selves liked her; which was a lot seeing as they both hated doctors, however it seems in their child forms, they didn't quite have the same trust in her.

She looked to the three adults, who nodded their agreement to help before she turned and left the room.

Steve tackled Clint, who had figured out what was going on;

"You need to know because we're gonna get hurt again don't you?"

Steve opted for the truth, there was no point in lying, and at the end of the day; this was still Clint Barton; his friend and teammate.

"Yeah buddy, but we're working on fixing that, alright?"

Clint nodded and took the pen, scrawling a few notes down before sitting back in his seat. Shield had Clint's medical file, which was almost complete anyway, they knew most of what was to come, but coming from an abusive family meant it was quite possible most of his injuries, especially when he was younger, were hidden and disguised.

Tony and Pepper spoke to Natasha, despite them both knowing she had figured it all out too.

Her medical file was significantly less complete than Clint's, infact they had virtually nothing from when she was Natalia Romanova; those files having been long lost or destroyed.

"Natasha-"

"I can't"

"Why not?"

"Because I don't know, I don't remember"

Tony glanced uneasily at Pepper, who was knelt on the floor beside Natasha

"You can't remember anything?"

"I can remember, but I don't know what is real and what's made up..."

"This just got a whole lot harder" Tony whispered to Pepper

"Have I mentioned how much I hate the Red Room?" she responded quietly

"Not in the last 60 seconds..."

They managed to get a few things scribbled down from Natasha, but she, like her adult self, seemed reluctant to talk about her past. And for the first time; Tony understood why.

Most of what they'd gotten out of her were training accidents, and injuries obtained from the other girls, but they suspected there was a lot more she wasn't saying. Both Tony and Pepper knew she was tortured as part of her upbringing in the Red Room, and they dreaded the day they'd have to deal with that.

Once they'd handed in their notes to the doctors they were allowed to leave, the kids got changed back into their clothes and Steve and Pepper took them back to the tower while Tony stayed to work with Bruce.

Pepper and Steve found themselves constantly reassuring Clint and Natasha that they'd be fine, they they'd find a solution and they'd fix it; but it was more for their own sake than the kids.

"Do you think they'll fix us before we get real little? Like babies?" Clint asked, long after they'd gone to bed. Tony still hadn't come home and neither of them could sleep.

"I think they'll try" Natasha answered honestly, gazing at the photo Pepper had given her on the first day. Natasha looked at the way her adult stood leaning into Clint, content and happy; Clint's adult form had his arm over her shoulder and was smiling at her. They both looked comfortable, surrounded by their friends; the team looked happy and Natasha fell asleep hoping they could be happy like that again.