With his dad still alive but busy dealing with the information they had been sending him. Tony was able to take over the day to day operations of Stark Industries. He kept things as close to how they went as before but he worked to branch out away from weapons. The Ark Reactor being one of the things. He built one for both the west coast headquarters and Stark Towers in New York. He also had Stark Tower remodled for the Avengers to use once they were reformed.
Two of the administration things he did was hire Pepper again to be his assistant. Since she did not know about him and the others he would have to wait to try to build a relationship with her.
The other thing was keep an eye on Obandiah Stane. He could not just fire him and have him arrested till he had prof of his illegal activities. So Tony just watched and waited.
This time around Tony would keep the powered suits a secret and his role as Ironman a secret too. No since of giving Obandiah a suit of his own this time around.
Tony also helped feed intel to his father and Peggie about Hydra and Red Room. Since it was to dangerous for Natasha to meet with Howard or Peggie again Natasha would mail the intel to him and he would forward it to his father. This also gave Tony an excuse to question his father about what was gong on. Howard never said much but every now and again he would make a comment or two.
Tony also help set up ID's that Steve and Natasha could use in public. First thing he did with Natasha's help was get them SSN and fake birth certificates under the Names Grant O'Leary and Natalia Rushman. They also had a marriage certificate made.
Once that was done Steve and Natasha bought a farm near the farm Clint and Lura would inherit from Laura's Grandfather. They lucked out and got one that was down the road from the Barton farm. There was only a small place between the two.
Steve and Natasha decided they needed a place to go when not needed as Avengers. After fighting for 10 years against Ultron they both decided they wanted to spend time as a family and maybe add to it.
So they bought the old farm that came with around 500 acers. The old farm house was worn down so they had it torn down and a two story house built. It had a large living room, dinning room, kitchen on the ground floor with a office and a room for Steve to do is art that Steve sold under the Name Grant O'Leary. The second floor had the master bedroom with its own bathroom. There was another large bathroom and 5 bedrooms that made up the rest of the second floor. The house also had a basement that had a place for Natasha to dance, a rec area and a hidded safe room. The whole house had a wrap around porch.
The house was at the end of a long drive. On either side of the drive was 2 50 acres pastures for horses. When you came to the end of the drive was an open area. To the left next to the left horse pasture was a large barn that had 8 stalls for horses a tack room and a feed room. It also had a hidden basement that Steve and Natasha used to train in. Next to it was a small vehical shed where Steve and Natasha kept their four wheelers and gators that were used around the farm. To the right of the open area was a large hay barn with a tractor shed next to it. The house was on the far end of the open area from the drive. It was surrounded by a white picketed fence. The rest of the land was divided into 6 equal size pastures. Four were used to rotate two seperate heards of cattle and the last two were hay fields. The four cow pastures and the two hourse pastures each had large water troughs that were spring feed.
They had 200 cattle that were split in two 100 cattle heards. They would rotate the two herds between the 4 pastures to keep the pastures from being worn down. They had 8 horses that could be rode. They rotated them between the two horse pastures.
To help run the farm they hired some of the local youths to help out and watch the place when Steve and Natasha had to run missions. They sold their cattle to a meat packing plant that near by. With the money they made from that they ran the farm.
Even though they didn't plan it Natasha got pregnant 2 years after Steve was unfrozen. They had been living at the farm for over a year at the time. So in early 95 Steve and Natasha welcomed a son and daughter they named James and Sarah. After the kids were born if Steve and Natasha had to take a mission to bring an end to Red Room or a intel gathering mission against Hydra Tony would take some time off and head to the Aspin Cabin and watch them.
Steve and Natasha took a couple long term missions before Natasha became pregnant to Europe to take out some of the people running the Read Room. After the twins were a year old the did some short term missions to Europe but most were intel gathering missions that they sent the intel to Howard and Peggie.
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Shortly after James and Sarah celebrated their 4th birthday Clint and Laura moved it to their new farm. Natasha knew that both Fury and Phil knew about it and helped them get settled in so they spent some time at the Aspin Cabin. They also took a vacation to Disney World and Sea World in Orlando Florida.
They returned to their farm 2 months after Clint and Laura moved in to their farm. The plan was for Natasha to meet Laura while in town while Clint was away. Even though Natasha had blond hair when she meet Howard and she had her red hair around the farm they didn't want to take a chance on her being reconised by Clint too soon. They didn't know if he had been brought in on the fact Howard and Peggie met her.
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Clint walked into Fury's office with his partner James Barnes. They had spent the last month checking out old Hydra bases around the Germany Austria boarder. They had seen some sighns that there had been or was activity at some of the old bases that the Howling Commandos took out during WW2.
"Barton, Barnes have a seat." commander Fury.
Both sat before Clint spoke. "We the intel we recieved was right. Those bases had or still do have some activity going on. We gathered what intel we could and got out without leaving any traces we had been there."
"Good. I will go over the intel and figure out where to go from here. We haven't had any knew information the last few months. We don't know how to contact them or do we know if they are still gathering any more information at the moment." Fury informed them.
"I still find it hard to believe Steve is running around with Natalia. When I was one of her trainers she was the best. That's why she survived and was given the title Black Widow. She did what she had to but I know that when she graduated they did some of the same things to her memory as they did mine. Out of over a 100 girls that went through the training program only 5 ever made it and Natalie is the only one I have ever heard of defecting." Bucky explained.
"I can't believe she is almost the same age as Captain America." Clint said.
"Well its the serum they gave her. It's a little better then mine but not as good as Steves." answered Bucky. "Fury I take it we have not had any luck figuring out where they are based out of."
A fustrated Fury replied "No, we had sightings of them only twice that we can confirm are them in the last 7 years. Once in Germany the second in England. We still don't know if they have any help or are on their own. When Rogers was rescued from the ice there were two of them. One we think is Natasha and the other we only seen him in a suit made of metal."
Clint asked "Any luck back tracking the data that is sent to Tony Stark?"
"No. Always sent from differant parts of the world." explained Fury.
"Could Stark be part of the team. I mean why send him the data. Why not just send it to Howard or Peggie. I saw the pictures and that is one advance suit. From what I heard he is smart enough to build something like that." asked Clint.
"I'll look into it. Now we don't have anything new so Barton take some time off and head to the farm. Take Barnes with you. He doesn't take his time off when you leave for yours. Put him to work on the farm for a while." ordered Fury.
"Yea I need to get home for a while. Out of the 6 months we had the place I have been gone 3. I'm sure there is a lot Laura wants done. James can help out and maybe I will get it all done before I am need back here again." replied Clint.
"What am I free labor."
"Yes, plus you love Laura's cooking." answered Clint.
"Fine you win. I'll take a break from looking for Steve. I can't believe he has stayed hidden all this time. When he was a kid he was always it trouble." replied Bucky.
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While Steve was out with the farm hands fixing some fence that was torn up durig the last storm Natasha was sitting on the front porch watching the kids play with their German Shepard dogs and talking with Laura. Laura had brought over a apple pie to thank Steve for all the help he gave fixing the dmage from the same storms that took down part of their fence.
"So when are you and Clint planning on having kids?" asked Natasha.
"Not for another year or two. We want to get things going good at the farm first and have a little money saved up first. Plus with his job he travel a lot." answered Laura.
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"When will I finally get to meet him? I'm starting to thing you made him up to keep me from setting you up with some one." said a joking Nat.
"Oh he is real and you can meet him tomorrow. I heard from him a little while ago. He will be home tomorrow and he is bringing a friend of his with him." answered Laura.
Natasha was surprised. She couldn't think of who Clint would bring. She was surprised he brought her in the old time line. He only did it because Phil suggested it to try to help her out. Phil figure having Laura for a friend would help me adjust better.
"Yea his friend James will be here for a week or so before he has to head back. James is a work aholic and hardly ever takes time off." said Laura.
It was only Natasha's years of training for her to react to James's name. There was only one James she could think of and if it was Bucky then Steve could finally stop worrying.
Laura left a couple hours later and Steve and the others finally returned from fixing fence. Natasha had dinner ready when Steve got back and they all had a good dinner before it was time to put the kids to bed. Natasha decided not to say anything about Bucky unless she was wrong. She didn't want to get Steve's hopes up but she did tell him Clint would be home tomorrow.
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A couple days later Steve was at the store with the kids picking up some groceries for Nat when he saw Clint walk in with some one. He couldn't tell who it was since he just saw the back of his head. He decided it was time to go before Clint spotted him. They still had no idea what Clint might know.
"Come on kids time to go, we got what we needed and I'm sure mommy is missing you two." said Steve.
He headed for the register to pay. When he got here he started unloading the buggy while trying to keep the twins from adding candy from the shelves by the register.
Once he payed he headed to his truck. When he got out to the truck he reconized the truck parked beside his. It looked like the one Clint owned. He reconized it from the times he helped Laura out. He hurried up and got the kids buckled in and the bags put in the back. Once done he headed home not seeing the two men walk out the store and stop when they saw him.
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Clint and Bucky had stopped by the store to pick up some steaks for dinner that night so it only took them a few minutes. When the walked out Clint was teasing Bucky about the cashier that was checking him out. They had not gone half way to the truck when Bucky froze and just stared. Clint looked to see what caught his attintion. He just saw a guy with two kids getting in his truck and leave. The guy look familar.
"James what is it. Do you reconize him?" asked Clint.
"Yea I would know him any where. I grew up with him." answered Bucky.
Clint looked back over the way the truck was going before telling Bucky to get in the truck. "Come on. If you are right them we need to find out where he is going."
They both jumped in and Clint drove after Steve's truck. Bucky was watching the truck head down the road to make sure they didn't lose it. "I can't believe he just drops in our laps like this. This might explain why we haven't been able to find him. I don't think anyone even considered this and who's kids were those?" Bucky rambled on.
"Yea I think Fury as been looking all over Europe and big cities here in the US. No one thought to look at rural America." answered Clint.
They followed at a distance so as to not be spotted following him. "Hey isn't this the way we came from your place?" ask Bucky.
"Yea there are a few places out this way and and a couple father out. That big farm Laura was talking about is the last place. It's just a couple miles past my place." repied Clint.
"What did Laura say their names were O'Leary." Then it hit Bucky. O'Leary. Sarah Rogers maiden name. Damn. "I think I know where they are going. Put more distance between us. We don't want to take the chance he sees us." Bucky told Clint.
Clint slowed down. "OK, how do yo know where he is going?"
"O'Leary is Steve's mothers maiden name." replied Bucky.
The two drove past the Barton farm and when they past the O'Leary drive the saw dust in the distance. "Looks like you were right. OK, lets head home and figure out what to do."
"Let's wait to tell Fury. Lets talk with Steve first. He had two kids with him. This may be his place to get away and be normal. I don't want to ruin that for him if that was him and he has a family. They might not even know who he really is." explained Bucky.
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Steve arrived back at home. He grabbed some of the bags after getting the kids out of their car booster seats. The kids ran off to play with the dogs who came running out of the house when they pulled up. Natasha showed up a minute later to help. When she got to the truck she gave Steve a kiss.
"Like your greetings Nat." stated Steve.
"Um, I like see you back. Thought you were going to be gone longer." commented Natasha.
"We were but Cint and someone with him came in the store. Since we still don't know what Clint knows and I didn't know who was with him we came home." answered Steve
"We will find out soon I'm sure." relied Natasha.