Chapter 16-Picnic
By: MysticFantasy
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Promt provided by Book Girl Fan.
A/N: Not totally sure what a teddy bear picnic is but I did the best with what I cound find.
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"Cute thought though." Tony said. "Our little baby bird was being watched by our resident mother hen."
"Only thing is, I can ditch mine any time I want. You go to bed with yours." Clint replied with a smirk.
Tony lightly glared at the man but didn't deny his words.
"Speaking of mother hens, did Clint ever tell you guys about the time he had to be a babysitter?" Natasha asked.
"No! Tell!" Tony demanded.
"No! Don't tell!" Clint pleaded.
"Tell!"
"Don't tell!"
"TELL!"
"NO!"
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"I can't tell you how much I appreciate this." Mrs. Scott stated with a smile.
"Anything for Mike." Clint answered with a smile. "We go way back. You just go out and have a great night. I'll make sure Susy is in bed by the time you get back."
"Thank you again." the woman said before she walked outside the house.
The SHIELD agent locked the door and did a quick sweep of the house before heading to the room belonging to the young child he was assigned to watch.
Upon entering the overly pink room, Clint found it a little hard to believe that this kid was the child of a known weapon's dealer.
"Hi Susy." he greeted to the little girl dressed like a fairy tale princess sitting at a toddler table.
"Hi." she greeted happily. "Will you play with me?" she asked innocently.
"Sure." he answered.
"No shoes." she declared before he was able to walk into the room.
Looking down at his black combat boots, Clint decided it was best not to argue against the kid he was sure was spoiled and would throw a tantrum if she didn't get her way.
He removed his boots and left them in the hall before walking over and sitting on the floor in front of the little table.
"Do you watch the horses race like my daddy?" she asked as she served him pretend tea.
"Sure do." Clint lied easily. "That's how we met."
The little girl smiled and continued on with her pretend tea party. It was all going smoothly enough that it was making Clint wonder why so many female undercover agents he knew complained about it so much.
"I wanna have a picnic." Susy suddenly stated.
"A picnic?" Clint repeated.
"A teddy bear picnic." she confirmed before jumping out of her seat and hurrying to gather a little picnic basket and then running out of her room and toward the kitchen.
"I'm starting to see what the women complain about." Clint said as he stood.
After quickly putting his boots on, he hurried to the kitchen in time to see the young girl try to reach a box of cookies left on the counter.
The archer easily grabbed the box and handed it to her. The box was right away placed in the basket and then she dashed around the large kitchen to grab more snack items.
Clint watched with amazement as the little girl filled her basket. It soon became full and too heavy for her to pick up.
The temporary sitter easily picked it up for her.
"Go outside." she said before running back to her room.
Deciding to continue his plan of just listening to her, Clint walked out to the backyard. His sharp eyes took in the area. Making mental notes of where possible enemies might be hiding if there should be an attempt to kidnap the girl.
He placed the basket on the single picnic table under a shady tree and waited for the young girl to arrive.
He didn't have to wait long for her to show up with an armful of stuffed teddy bears.
"Oh boy." Clint muttered to himself.
Susy made it to the table and began to arrange the bears on the table benches. Once they were to her pleasing, she began to go through the basket and arrange it like an actual picnic.
"Sing the picnic song." she requested.
"The picnic song?" he repeated slightly confused.
"The teddy bear picnic song." she answered. "Sing it."
I better be getting a big pay for this babysitting stuff. Clint thought to himself. It took him a second to recall the words of the song that he had to learn from his days in the circus.
"If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise
If you go down in the woods today, you'd better go in disguise
For every bear that there was will gather there for certain
Because today's the day the teddy bear's have their picnic."
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Tony clutched his side and had to use all his will power to keep his drink from falling out of his hand.
"Did you really have to sing that?" Bruce asked with a smirk.
"She made me sing it twice." Clint answered.
"Were you rewarded handsomely for watching the child?" Thor asked.
"Barely." Clint answered. "Fifty bucks."
"You're right. What an outrage." Tony declared with fake anger.