Part III

Chapter 4:

Safe house

Evyn sat on the floor near the pilot seat looking back at the others before looking up at Clint then over at Tony. She shrugged when Tony looked down at her with a sigh escaping his lips when Hill's voice rang out from the com.

"The news is loving you guys. Nobody else is. There's been no official call for Banner's arrest but it's in the air." Hill explained.

"The Stark Relief Foundation?" Tony asked brining his hand up to his lips in thought.

"Already on the scene. How's the team?"

"Everyone's…." He trailed off looking down a Evyn who pulled her hood up, then over at the others before continuing. "We took a hit. We'll shake it off."

"Well, for now, I'd stay in stealth mode and stay away from here." Hill suggested.

"Run and hide?" Tony asked.

"Until we can find Ultron, I don't have a lot else to offer."

"Neither do we." Tony sighed. He leaned over at turned the video off and look at Evyn. "She got to you too?"

"It's something I already know and accept." Evyn stated looking up at Tony. "It doesn't really phase me."

Tony nodded and walked up towards Clint placing his hand on the head rest. "Hey, you wanna switch out?"

"No, I'm good." Clint stated glancing at Tony then back at the dashboard. "If you wanna get some kip, now's a good time because we're still a few hours out."

"Few hours from where?" Tony asked.

"A safe house." Clint stated.

Tony nodded and walked back to his seat, looking at Evyn. "You know where this safe house is?"

"I have an idea." Evyn muttered bringing her knees close. "You should get that checked out."

Tony brought his hand up to his bruise and sighed. "Yeah…how's your wound?"

Evyn look down at her bullet wound that all but healed. "It's good, all healed up."

Tony nodded and leaned over burying his face into his hands.

After a few more hours, Evyn lifted her head up when she noticed the quinjet slowing down and coming down for a landing. She slowly got up walking up to Clint. "We here?"

Clint nodded his head. "Yeah. We are." He look up at her. "Get everyone ready, I'll handle Natasha."

Evyn nodded and pated Tony's shoulder. "Come on, we're here."

Tony nodded and got up to rally everyone.

Evyn looked around the field while following Clint up to the large house and lead them up the stairs to the porch and to the front door.

"What is this place?" Thor asked looking around the house then over at Evyn and Tony.

"Safe house." Tony shrugged.

"Let's hope." Clint stated as he opened the door. "Honey?" Clint called out. "I'm home."

Evyn looked around the house noticing the mess. She turned her head over to the left where she guessed is the dining room, and a woman with long brown hair walked over with a bulging stomach.

"Hi." Clint smiled. "Company." He added in walking towards her. "Sorry I didn't call ahead."

"Hey." The woman smiled kissing Clint.

"This is an agent of some kind." Tony muttered looking at Thor then at Evyn.

"Gentlemen, this is Laura." Clint stated introducing the woman.

"I know all of your names." Laura stated looking at them. She smiled at Natasha who smiled back. She turned her attention to Evyn, and smiled softly. Evyn nodded her head.

Suddenly loud thumbing sounds from the stairs caught their attention. Evyn turned her head over towards where she remembered seeing stairs.

Clint smiled turning around. "Incoming."

"Dad!" A little girl with long dirty blonde hair braided back shouted with a large smile on her face as she ran towards Clint.

"Hi, sweetheart!" Clint exclaimed picking the girl up in a right hug. He then wrap his arm around a young boy with short brown hair. "Hey buddy. How are you guys doing?"

"These are smaller agents." Tony muttered looking at the kids.

"You're impossible." Evyn huffed.

"Look at your face! Oh my goodness!" Clint gasped placing a kiss on the girl's cheek.

"Did you bring Auntie Nat?" The little girl asked.

"Why don't you hug her and find out?" Nat asked walking over and immediately caught the little girl and lifted her up in a hug.

"I'll go grab Patty." The boy stated looking up at Clint and then running off towards the stairs.

"Wait…" Evyn muttered looking at Laura and Clint in shock.

"She's here?" Clint blinked surprised.

"Mr. Morrison dropped her off here yesterday." Laura stated licking her lips nervously.

Clint nodded and look at Evyn. "Why don't you hide behind the couch."

"Too late." Evyn stated hearing another thumbing sounds from the stairs. She turned her head and caught a blur of blonde that immediately ran and hugged her waist. "You saw me not too long ago."

Patty looks up at Evyn with her signature pout. "Not too long ago equals to months ago!"

Evyn chuckled and patted her head. "Come on, it was not months ago."

"Your time table is really messed up."

"Yeah, I know." Evyn hummed with a smirk on her face. She look up at Clint who still has his arms open for a hug from his niece. "What's wrong Barton?"

"My own niece ignored me for a woman who could give her nightmares." Clint stated looking at Evyn and Patty. "I'm hurt."

Patty giggled and ran over giving her uncle a hug. "There. Better?"

"Yeah." Clint hummed ruffling her head.

"Sorry for barging in on you." Steve apologized looking at Laura and Clint.

"Yeah." Tony agreed. "We would have called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed.

"Yeah, well, Fury helped me set this up when I joined. He kept it off Shield's files. I'd like to keep it that way." Clint stated with a smile on his face. "I'd figure it's a good place to lay low."

Evyn smiled and watched Patty head to the kitchen. She looked over at Laura and walked over.

"How's little Natasha?" Natasha asked placing her hands on Laura's stomach.

"She's…" Laura stated looking at Natasha with a strained smile. "Nathaniel."

Natasha's smile faded and got down whispering to the baby. "Traitor."

Evyn smirked. "Glad to know I was right about one thing."

Natasha gave Evyn a glare.

Evyn shrugged and look over at Laura. "How's Patty holding up? It's only been 5 months' after Nina's…"

"She's coping." Laura muttered looking at Evyn with a small smile. "She's only been with her mom for at least a year….and then ripped away."

"What are you going to do about her?" Natasha asked looking at Laura. "Did Nina's will say anything?"

"No…" Laura sighed. "In a sense she still belongs to the orphanage of Capulet City."

"I take it Morrison has been dropping her off every month or so." Evyn muttered.

Laura nodded. "Yeah, or sometimes he would drop her off when Mr. Dante has a job that takes him out of the city."

Evyn nodded her head. "That makes sense…I would help out but…"

"No it's okay." Laura smiled. She made sure Clint wasn't listening and leaned over to Evyn whispering. "The constant money drops helps."

Evyn chuckled. She frowned seeing Thor walk out with Steve right behind him.

Evyn raised an eyebrow watching Patty shuffling the deck of cards. "Don't tell me you've been teaching your cousins how to play poker."

"We don't bet anything." Patty huffed glaring at Evyn.

"I think she cheats." The boy, Dax, stated with a frown.

"Alright kids. Don't fight." Clint sighed walking down the stairs. "Wait…are you two playing poker?"

"Patty brings it up when these two debate on who's going to do chores at night." Laura stated with a smile. "I don't know who taught her."

"I'm not sorry." Evyn stated looking over at Laura with a weak smirk. She then turned her head to Patty. "You said you didn't bet on anything."

"Chores isn't betting." Patty and Dax stated.

Evyn rolled her eyes and got up. "Geeze, I'm starting to regret teaching you the basics."

Clint chuckled. "Alright, come on."

Evyn smiled watching them leave.

Later that night, Evyn found herself at the dining table staring at Fury with a raised eyebrow.

"Ultron took you fold out of play to buy himself time." Fury explained looking at the Avengers. "My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing."

"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asked.

"He's easy to track. He's everywhere." Fury stated with a shrug. "The guy is multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit. It still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans, though."

"Is he still going after launch codes?" Tony asked.

"Yes, he is." Fury nodded. "But he's not making any headway."

"Wonderful." Evyn huffed revealing a straight flush. She flashed Patty a smirk who returned with a huff.

"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare." Tony stated with a shrug.

"Well, I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that." Fury added in.

"Nexus?" Steve asked.

"It's the world internet hub in Oslo." Bruce explained. "Every byte of data flows through there. Fastest access on earth."

"So, what did they say?" Clint asked looking at the darts in his hand.

"He's fixated on the missiles." Fury said. "But the codes are constantly being changed."

"By whom" Tony asked. He quickly moved his head back when 2 darts flew past him hitting the bulls-eye. He turned his head over to Clint who shrugged his shoulders.

"Parties unknown." Fury said.

"We have an ally?" Natasha asked.

"Ultron's got an enemy. That's not the same thing." Fury stated. "Till, I'd pay folding money to know who it is."

"I might need to visit Oslo and find out unknown." Tony said.

"Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that." Natasha sighed.

"I do. I have you." Fury stated looking at the group. "Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere. Ears, everywhere else. You kids had all the tech you could dream up." He sighed walking up to the dining table. "Here we all are, back on Earth, with nothing but our wit and our will to save the world." He took a pause to scan over the Avengers and continued. "Ultron says the Avengers are the only thing between him and his mission. And whether or not he admits it, his mission is global destruction. All this, laid in a grave." He turned around to look at them again. "So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard."

Natasha said. "Steve doesn't like that kind of talk."

"He scolds us when we use that type of language." Evyn added in looking at her new hand.

Steve turned his attention to the two women. "You know what Romanoff, Sparda."

The two females look at each other with a smirk on their lips.

"So what does he want?" Fury asked with a raised eyebrow.

"To become better." Steve supplied. "Better than us. He keeps building bodies."

"Person bodies." Tony added in. "The human form is inefficient. Biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it."

Natasha raised her head up to look at Bruce, who's staring at the picture of a butterfly that Maddie, Clint's daughter, gave her, she asked. "When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed."

"They don't need to be protected." Bruce muttered. "They need to evolve." He looks up at the others. "Ultron's going to evolve."

"How?" Fury asked lowering his drink.

"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Bruce asked.

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