[ xvii. seventeen ! ]
❛ 𝙷𝙰𝚄𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙳 ❜

❝Steve dosen't like that kind of talk❞

    𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 she had been run over by a bus, she was very tired and everything hurted like hell. Right now everybody was back on the Quinjet, the whole team was pretty wrecked.

"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", they heared Maria Hill's Voice through the loud speaker.

Ana sat in between Nat and Steve, they all were silent and all in their owne thoughts about what had happened to them.

"Stark Relief Foundation?", Tony asked her curious. "Already on the scene. How's the team?", Maria questioned Stark.

Tony looked at the others for a moment, "Everyone's—we took a hit. We'll shake it off."

Anastasija laid her head against her seat as she closed her eyes.  She just wanted to get under a shower and be on her own for a while.

She had to deal with the fact that she just had been reminded of all the bad stuff that happened to her.

"Well for now I'd stay in stealth mode, and stay away from here", Agent Hill advised them. "So, run and hide?", Stark asked her while looking at the Monitor where you could see Maria.

"Until we can find Ultron, I don't have a lot else to offer", she answered him simply. "Neither do we", Stark said before he switched off the monitor and ended the call.

After a few hours, it was day again,
the Quinjet landed outside by a large farmhouse.

Ana recognized it immediately because it was Clint's and Laura's house. She was pretty often here and visited the Family.

They all got out jet and walked one after the other towards the house. Ana needed to hold onto Steve because she was still weak.

"What is this place?", Thor asked them following Clint who held Natasha by the arm. "A safe house?", Tony questioned looking around.

"Let's hope", Clint joked opening the door. They all entered the house, when Clint shouted for his wife,

"Honey, i'm home!"

After a moment Barton's heavily pregnant wife, Laura walked into the livingroom. "Hi, Company. Sorry I didn't call ahead", Barton apologized to his wife.

"Hey", she greeted him with a soft kiss. "This is an agent of some kind", Tony said while he turned to Thor.

Ana smiled she hadn't seen Laurel in few weeks, she looked at Laura's belly it was really big now the baby would come in the next two months.

Clint introduced his wife to the team,
"Gentleman, this is Laura"

"I know all your names", Laura said to them while she waved. They all look at her awkwardly, suddenly they heard a couple of footsteps.

"Ooh, incoming", Clint said looking at Natasha and Ana, in that Moment Barton's son and daughter entered the room.

The little girl, shouted happy, "Dad!", before Barton picked her up and exclaimed, "I see her!"

He kissed the top of his son's head and said, "Hey, buddy! How you guys doing? Ooh- "

The Avengers watched the exchange between Barton and his kids, Tony still couldn't believe it. He turned to Thor again and said, "These are smaller agents"

In the Background you could still hear Clint, "Look at your face! Oh, my goodness!" Suddenly the little girl asked, "Did you bring Auntie Ana and Nat?"

Ana looked at Natasha, she was still very weak and leaned against the kitchen table. So Ana tried to smile and said, "Why don't you hug her and find out?"

Barton's daughter rushed towards Anastasija, who quickly picked her up in her arms, a big smile on her face.
Natasha approached the boy and hugged him.

"Sorry for barging in on you", Steve apologized politely to the Woman.

He lookd at Anastasija with the kid on her Arm. Ana had a wide smile on her face while talking to the little girl.

For a Moment Steve thought about how it would be to have a Family, Kids and then he busted himself how he imagened Anastasija as his Wife.

He shook his head, he wasn't sure if he could ever have that, this Job was dangerous.

"Yeah, we would have called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed", Tony said to them, bringing Steve back to reality.

"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. I figure it's a good place to lay low", Clint explained to them.

A little later the two Russian's made their way over to Laura greeting her with a big hug. "How's little Natasha, huh?", Nat asked her while softly touching her Stomach, Ana chuckled.

"She's Nathaniel", Laura answered her while making a face. Natasha's smirk faded and she bended towards Laura's pregnant stomach.

"Traitor."

Suddenly Thor walked out of the house, Steve right after him. "Thor!"

Thor turned around, "I saw something in that dream. I need answers, I won't find them here." And with that Thor used his hammer to fly out of there.

Steve turned to enter the house when he heared Peggy's voice from Wanda's vision, "We can go home."

Steve stopped and looked at the ground for a moment, then he turned around and walked to the field infront of the house.

Laura checked Barton's wound that Pietro had given him. "See you worried for nothing. Can't even feel the difference, can you?", he told his wife.

"If they're sleeping here, some of them are going to have to double up", she said ignoring his statement. Barton laughed, "Yeah, that's not going to sell", he said walking to the bathroom.

Laura followed after him, "What about Ana and Rogers? How long has that been going on?", she asked him curious.

"Has what?", Clint asked her confused, Laura laughed. "You are so cute", she exclaimed looking at him.
"Ana and, and Rogers?", Clint asked disbelieving.

"I'll explain when you're older. Hawkeye", Laura joked. "Oh. Okay", Clint said while putting on his Jacked.

"It's bad, right? Nat and Ana seemed really shaken", she asked Clint, he walked towards her saying

"Ultron has these allies, these - uh, kids, they're punks really. They carry a big damn stick and Nat and Ana took a serious hit. Someone's going to have to teach them some manners", he explained to her before walking past Laura to the window.

"And that someone be you. You know I totally support your Avenging, I couldn't be prouder. But I see those guys, those "Gods", she explained to Clint while walking after him.

"You don't think they need me", he said to her, they both looked out of the Window where Steve and Tony talked to each other.

"I think they do. Which is a lot scarier. They're a mess", she answered, looking at him with love in her eyes.

Later that day, in the evening Ana walked out of the house, the crickets were chirping and the sun slowly begann to go down.

She had just showered, but when she wanted to go back into Natasha's and her room she had overheard a conversation between Natasha and Bruce.

They wanted to run away together after this was finished, of course Ana was happy for her Twin but she was also a little sad and hurt that Natasha didn't told her about her plan.

When she wanted to walk down the stairs she saw Steve sitting in the field watching the Sunset.

"Why are you all alone out here?", she asked him before she sat down beside him.

"Just needed to think", Steve answered her as he glanced sideways at the women.

She nodded her head looking at the field as well. The Sun started to go down, it was a beautiful view, Steve looked at her.

"How are you doing?, You know, after Maximoff's mind games", he asked her worried. Ana breath hitched for a moment, she didn't knew if she was ready to open up to him.

"Oh, uhm, I'm good", she hesitantly answered him. She felt like he was staring into her soul. "You know I expected you to be a better liar", Steve chuckled.

The woman cleared her throat, before she started talking, "I had this, um, dream. The kind that seems normal at the time, but when you wake- ", she explained to Steve while she looked at the sunset.

"What did you dream?", he asked her curious, looking at the sunset again.

"That I was an Avenger, that I was anything more than the assassin they made me", she answered him,her eyes teared up, she looked at her feets.

"I think you're being hard on yourself", the blond man told her while he nudged her shoulder with his.

"Here I was hoping that was your job", she said to him forcing a sad smile on her face.

The both looked at each other for a shirt moment and then back at the sunset. Ana couldn't sit anymore so she stood up and walked a bit forward.

She turned around looking at Steve, "In the Red Room, where I was trained", she paused still looking at him while she fiddled nervously with her hands.

"Where I was raised- um- they have a graduation ceremony." She looked up at the sky for a second, trying to not start crying.

"They sterilize you", she choked out quietly. "It's efficient, one less thing to worry about", she continued. Ana bit her lip but it didn't help, a tear made her way down her cheek.

"The one thing that might matter more than a mission, it makes everything easier", she shook her head and whipped the tears away.

"Even killing", she finished looking back at Steve, the tears made their way down her cheek again.

She hesitates a moment before she walked towards Steve aging and questioned, "You still think Banner is the only monster on the team?"

Steve got up from the ground and approched her, "Ana, I am sorry that this things happened to you”

She looked at the ground the last thing she wanted was pity. Steve slowly stretched his armes out for her but she hesitanted before she slowly wrapped her arms around him and started to cry into his chest.

"You are not a Monster!", he told her rubbing her arms, she breathed out and leaned back, theire faces were now only centimeters apart.

They looked into each other's eyes, their faces moved towards each other, but their moment was interrupted by Tony.

"Fury wants you two inside— now!", Steve and Ana literally jumped apart. He looked at them suspicious. The two looked back at him a little embrassed at the Situation.

"Did I interrupt something", he asked asked them with a smirk. Ana clapped her hands together, "Uhm- No let's get inside boys", she told them walking past Stark into the house.

Fury stood in the kitchen when he informed the Group on the newest information from Ultron.

"Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. 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", Fury explained to them while puring himself a glass of water.

"What about Ultron himself?", Steve asked him leaning against the door frame.

"Ah. He's easy to track, he's everywhere. Guy's multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit. Still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans though"

"He still going after launch codes?", Tony asked while he was playing darts. Nick looked at Stark, "Yes, he is, but he's not making any headway"

"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare", Tony said to the group a little proud of himself.

"Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the NEXUS about that", Fury replyed to Stark with both of his eyebrows raised. "NEXUS?", Steve asked curious still leaning on the door.

"It's the world internet hub in Oslo, every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth", Banner spoke up from where he was standing.

"So what'd they say?", Barton asked them looking concentrated at a dart.

"He's fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed", Fury told them while he cutted some vegetables for the Dinner.

"By whom?", Tony spoke but was distracted by Clint who had thrown a dart right past his nose in the center of the dart board.

Tony gave him a look but Barton held up his arms shrugging.

"Parties unknown", Fury said to them, "Do we have an ally?", Natasha asked her Boss. "Ultron's got an enemy, that's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is"

"I might need to visit Oslo, find our "unknown", Tony informed the others. "Well, this is good times, boss. But I was kind of hoping when I saw you again, you'd have more than that", Anastasija spoke up for the first time.

Nick looked at her and then at the team while he pointed at them he said, "I do, I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere, ears everywhere else. Here we all are, back on earth, with nothing but our wit, and our will to save the world. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard !", Nick finished his Speech.

"Steve doesn't like that kind of talk", she had a innocent look on her face looking at the Captain. "You know what, Romanoff?", Steve said to her smirking, Ana smiled mischievously at him.

"So what does he want?", Fury asked curious interrupting their moment.
Steve looked at him, "To become better. Better than us. He keeps building bodies."

"Person bodies. The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it", Tony analysied Ultron's behavior while he walked through the room.

"When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed", Natasha said while she looked at Stark and Banner.

"They don't need to be protected, they need to evolve. Ultron's going to evolve", Banner said to them looking at the table. "How?", Fury asked now sitting at the table as well.

"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?"

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