Part 30

Third person point of view:

Bucky walked out of the elevator to check on Natasha. It had been a few hours since she had come out of her room so he went to see if she needed anything. He went to put his hand on the scanner to open the nursery door, but he stopped dead in his tracks. He heard Natasha singing old Russian lullabies and sat down to listen for a while.   

About an hour later Clint walked into his and Natasha's room to find Bucky sitting on the floor listening at the door of the nursery. 

"Hey Bucky. Whatcha doing?" Clint asked hesitantly. 

"Shh!" Bucky hissed and motioned for him to come to the door. "Nat's singing again. She's been doing it a lot and she sounds so beautiful, but if I bring it up she threatens to kill me, so I only listen at the door. Hey, when did you get back?" Bucky whispered. 

"I got back about an hour ago. I had to stop by S.H.I.E.L.D to get debriefed. How's Nat been while I've been gone?"

"All things considered she's holding up pretty well. She's worried about you though, and she's worried about the baby. To be honest I don't blame her. Her nightmares have been coming back even worse than before. She hasn't been sleeping much, but she is so damn excited for this baby, I mean we all are really." 

"That's great. I'll try and get her to sleep more. I have a week off before I have to get sent out on my next mission. What's she been doing in the nursery?" Clint asked him.

"She's been starting to set it up. Steve's going to start painting it soon. Pepper said she's starting to nest, whatever that means.  Nat's in what her seventh month now, right? I mean in like two months we are going to have a baby here, which is amazing. I mean Steve, Tony and I already started baby proofing everything. We put locks on the cabinets and Thor can't get into them and it's hilarious because he has to ask Pepper to undo them."

"That's great. Hey I'm going to go talk to Nat now so I'll talk to you later, alright?"

"Yeah man go take care of her." Bucky said getting up to leave. 

Clint opened the panel to the nursery and walked slowly up to Natasha so he wouldn't spook her.

"Hi love." Clint whispered getting her attention.

"Clint you're back!" Natasha said excitedly. 

"Oh I missed you," Clint said wrapping Natasha in his arms. "and I missed you too little one. Clint said kneeling down and kissing Natasha's belly."

"How's our little girl doing in there?" Clint asked. 

"She's doing great. Getting real comfortable in there, but she still is moving around a lot. Pepper is fascinated with her movements. I think she's trying to convince Tony to marry her so they can have a kid." 

"Oh please no. I love you to the ends of the universe and the same goes with the baby, and I love Pepper too, but the Avengers cannot handle two pregnant women back-to-back. We will absolutely disintegrate."

"I haven't been that bad have I?" Natasha asked looking slightly horrified. 

"No. No not at all. Well I mean the death threats have increased significantly, but other than that it's fine." 

"Oh my god. I'm sorry. I didn't know I was being that bitchy." Natasha said slightly embarrassed. 

"No. No. No. It's fine really. Speaking of pregnant ladies, how are you doing?"

"I'm holding it together. I'm just so excited for the baby to come I don't know what to do." Natasha said caressing her large bump. "Did you know that we have less than seven weeks until my due date?" 

"Of course I know. I also know that there is exactly forty-seven days until your due date."

"You're going to be here for the birth, right? Because I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this without you."

"Tasha, honey don't worry. I will not miss this birth for the world." Clint said wrapping her in a hug again. 

"OK. Hey it's starting to get late do you maybe want to get takeout for the team because I'm starving."

"Anything for you my love. What will it be tonight?"

"Chinese!" Natasha shouted as Clint finished his sentence. 

"Chinese, it is then. I'll go get the food, you round up whoever's here. How many are going to be here tonight?" 

"Us, plus, Tony, Pepper, Bruce, Steve, Thor, and Bucky."

"Perfect. I'll be back in like thirty minutes." Clint said grabbing his jacket and leaving. Natasha rounded up the avengers who were staying in the tower that night and had them sitting at the dinner table mostly cleaned up, about five minutes before Clint came back. Clint brought the food in and set it down on the table and started passing it out to everyone.

"OK, so I'm pretty sure I got enough food. I've got three boxes of chow mien, fried rice and orange chicken, two boxes of this other chicken thing I can't pronounce but we all like. I don't know what else I got. It's the usual order. The lady who works at the Chinese restaurant down the street has our order memorized so when I went to order she just said the usual and that's what we got." Clint said pulling boxes out of the bags and getting confused on about the sixth one. 

The Avengers served themselves and returned to their usual spots and the conversation started up almost immediately.

"So Nat. Your thirty-three weeks along now you have to have some names picked out. Care to share?" Tony asked trying to weasel information out of her.

"We do, and we have officially decided on a name, but we are going to wait until the birth to announce it." Natasha said, not giving Tony anything.

"Wait, we officially decided on a name?" Clint asked surprised.

"Yes, we did. Remember when we were talking last week." 

"Oh. We're going with that name. I thought..."Clint was cut off by Natasha.

"Shut up. We'll talk about this later." Natasha said glaring at him. 

"No Natasha. Let Clint go on I want to know." Tony said watching the two interact.

"No we are not revealing the name before the baby is born. We want all of you to be surprised when she is born because you guys already know everything. We want this to be a surprise." Natasha said sincerely.

"Alright fine. We will stop about the name. What theme are you guys going with for the nursery." Bucky asked ending the conversation about the baby's name. 

"OK. So here's what me and Nat were thinking." Steve jumps in excitedly. "We are thinking of going with a foresty woodland animal type thing but all of the animals are decorated to look like certain Avengers." 

"Oh that's cool. I like that." Bruce chimed in. The conversations about baby arrangements raged on for about and hour until Clint spoke.

"This has been great you guys. I've really missed our family dinners, I mean yes the conversation used to be very different but change is good especially this change." Clint said touching Natasha's belly. "I'm exhausted from the mission and I'm sure you guys have things you need to get done, so help yourselves to the food, because me and Nat are going to turn in for the night." 


When Clint and Nat arrived at their room they both showered and dressed for bed quickly. When Clint got out of the shower Natasha was already asleep in bed. He turned off the light and crawled into bed beside her.

"Nat. Nat are you awake?" Clint whispered without getting a response.

"OK. Hey baby." He whispered into Natasha's belly. "It's your daddy here. I know we haven't talked for a while and I'm sorry. I just have to make sure you and mommy are safe, OK?" 

"I know your listening in there so just hear me out, OK? I've been working a lot and I haven't really been home for you and mommy, but that's going to change as soon you are born. And don't worry I won't miss your birthday for the world. I'm not going to miss any of your big moments in your life. I'll even teach you how to shoot a bow as soon as you can walk, and when you go to school all of the kids will be jealous of you because you have the coolest family in the universe. Mommy will teach you how to not take any crap from boys, and boy do I pity the first boy you bring home to meet your uncle's. I mean your uncle Bucky alone will probably scare off any boys you meet so I don't have to worry about that. Or you might bring home girl, that could be cool too. I mean your uncle Bucky would probably scare them off still, but he'd would more than likely be nicer to a girl, I mean he is a gentleman after all. Oh, but your auntie Pepper would be a completely different story. She is going to spoil you so much and the same thing goes for your uncle Tony, you could ask for anything and he would give it to you. You are going to have all of us wrapped around your little finger from the moment you are born. Did you know your uncle Thor already tried to take you to Asgard three times. I told him no obviously because you haven't even been born yet, and your uncle Bruce he's going to make you his little science buddy. He's the one who is delivering you, you know? I trust him with my life and more importantly I trust him with your's and your mommy's life, That's why we are going to make him your godfather and your auntie Pepper is going to be your godmother. I mean she was the first person your mom told about you when she found out. Maybe your uncle Bruce will finally realize that he isn't what he makes himself out to be. You know I already know you are going to look exactly like your mommy, you'll have her red hair and her gorgeous green eyes. I hope that maybe you get my nose though. I really like my nose." Clint stopped because Natasha had started laughing.

"Tasha are you awake?" Clint asked at a normal volume.

"No, I didn't hear anything, continue." Natasha whispered back.

"You know sometimes your mommy drives me crazy, but I love her." Clint said at a normal volume.

"Oh come here you big sap." Natasha said hugging him. "I love you." She said giving him a peck on the lips.

"I love you too."                             

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