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Natasha and you had been dating a little over a year when she asked you to come with her to spend the weekend at the Barton’s. She loved going to their home and spending time with Clints family. She never before asked you to join her, which was completely fine. You felt honored that she wanted to share this with you.
Now you’re shifting in your seat aboard the quinjet on your way to Missouri with your girlfriend. You’re nervous, what if they didn’t like you? As you were an agent working with the Avengers, you knew Clint, but you never met his family. You only knew them by the pictures Nat had shown you and the stories she had told.
Natasha, who was flying the jet, noticed you had been quiet most of the flight. “Is everything okay, my love?” She asked looking around. You smiled at her “yeah, just a bit nervous”. She put the jet in autopilot and walks over to you. “What are you nervous about?” she asks as she sits next to you and puts her hand on your thigh, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
“Just meeting Laura and the kids” you confide in the woman. “Oh детка (baby), you have nothing to worry about. They’re going to love you, I promise”. You nod. With another reassuring squeeze she gets up, kisses your cheek and heads over to the front of the jet again. “We’re about five minutes away”.
Hand in hand you walk up to the front door, Natasha knocks and shortly after Laura opens the door. “Nat, you made it!” the woman says giving Natasha a big hug. “y/n, it’s so nice to finally meet you!” she says pulling you in a hug as well. “Come in guys, Clint and the kids are in the backyard”.
You walk through the house to the garden, where Natasha is immediately met with Lila jumping in her arms “Auntie Nat!”. “Hey kiddo” Natasha replies twirling the girl in the air. You walked over to greet Clint. When Nat put Lila down she’s met with a big hug from Cooper.
“Hey kids, I want you to meet someone special okay. Do you remember the picture I showed you last time I was here?” She asked them. “The one with the pretty girl?” Lila asked. “Yeah that’s the one” She looks up at you with a big smile. “That’s her, her name is y/n”. You waved to the kids, from where you were standing with Clint.
“Tag you’re it, Auntie Nat!” Cooper squealed before he ran off. Nat ran after the kids, catching up to Lila and tagging her. You were looking at the three of them running around and smiled. You had never really seen Nat with kids. Lila came walking up to you “do you want to play with us?” the girl asked with a hopeful look in her eyes. “Yeah, I’d love to join. Who is the chaser?” You ask. Lila tags you and yelps “you are!” running away quickly.
You look around seeing where the others are. Cooper is the least far away so you try to go after him, you manage to tag him. He goes running off tagging his sister. Who then tags Nat. You look at them, Nat locks her eyes on yours. She sends you a challenging look, your eyes widen and you start running in the opposite direction. You might also be an agent, but definitely no match for Natasha’s speed. She catches up to you easily and then you are the chaser once more.
“Kids, dinner is ready” Clint chuckles. As the four of you walk back over. “y/n, can you come sit next to me?” Lila asked. So of course you did. Laura walk over to the table with little Nathaniel in her arms, he just woke up from his nap.
Soon the garden is filled with chatter. You getting to know them and them getting to know you. All nerves you had felt before, completely gone.
You had been sitting outside for a while when Laura announces that it’s bedtime for Cooper and Lila. They both ask if they can get a bedtime story. “Sure, who do you want to read it to you tonight?” Laura asks. “Mommy” Lila says at the same time as Cooper says “dad”. The adults laugh.
“Well since Auntie Nat and y/n are here we can make that happen, are you guys okay with watching Nathaniel for a little?”. “of course, but only if you come give Auntie Nat a big hug first.” Your heart melted. They gave her a big hug and then both walked over to you and gave you a hug as well.
“Do you want to hold him?” Laura asked. You smiled and nodded. Laura gave you the baby. “Hey little man” you said, your free hand stroking his head. Clint looked around and saw Nat putting an arm around you. He smiled wide, while snapping a picture of the view of the three of you snuggled up together.
Clint and Laura joined you outside again when the older kids were in bed. The conversation started up again as little Nathaniel fell asleep in your arms. Laura asked if you wanted to help put him to bed. The two of you went inside and put the baby to bed. Leaving Nat and Clint outside.
“You’re in trouble” Clint said with a smirk on his face. “What, why?” Nat said back with a confused look on her face. “oh come on, I saw the look on your face when y/n was playing with the kids and then when she was holding the baby. Admit it, you’re whipped.” A slight blush crept up the woman’s cheeks. “She’s amazing Clint and I love her so much. But I guess we never really talked about kids, or the fact that I can’t have any. More so scared to talk about the latter.” She confides in Clint. “She clearly loves you a lot, I’m sure that everything will be fine once you tell her.”
You and Laura come back with some beers for everyone. And end up hearing the story of how Clint and Laura met. And telling Laura about the first time you and Nat met. Once your beer was empty you snuggled into Nat. They continued talking, but you were slowly dozing off. Nat nudges you “let’s get you to bed, детка (baby).”
As you say your good nights, you head up to the spare room. Both changing into your pj’s. “What’s going on in that beautiful head of yours, gorgeous?” You ask sitting down on the bed next to your girlfriend.
“There is something you should know… about me. And I’ve been putting it off, because I don’t want to lose you.” She says not meeting your eyes. “Honey, you can tell me anything. There is nothing you could say that will make you lose me.” You grab her hand in yours and give it a reassuring squeeze, before intertwining your fingers.
Natasha takes a deep breath thinking of how to tell you. She settles on “I can’t have kids” and looks up at you to see your reaction. Your eyes soften “I know baby” you say, squeezing her hand once more. “Wait you know? How?” confusion written over her face.
“Remember that mission I went on with Yelena right after we started dating? There was this other agent, complete idiot, he asked her if she was on her period or something. She told him about the graduating ceremony. Shut him up real quick.” You explain.
“Y-you knew from the beginning? Why did you never say anything?” the woman asks. “Because it wasn’t my place. Plus it doesn’t matter to me, I love you no matter what okay.” You lay her down on the bed and put your arm out so she can cuddle up to you. “I love you too.”
You lay in a comfortable silence, running your fingers through her hair. “Nat?” you say breaking the silence “did you ever wish for kids?”.
She looks up at you “I used to not let myself think about it, you know with my childhood and everything. Until I met Clints kids and became their Aunt. I love those kids with my whole heart, something I never knew would be possible. And I guess somewhere along I realized that I wouldn’t mind raising a kid or two with the right person alongside me." Nat shared. "How about you?”.
“I guess I’ve always imagined having kids one day. When I was around 14 years old, I used to babysit all the kids on my block.” You say, smiling at the memory.
“You know, when I saw you interact with Cooper and Lila, I fell in love with you all over again. And I know we’ve only been together for a year, but when you were holding Nathaniel, I realized that I could see you as the right person alongside me.” Natasha says looking into your eyes. A smile creeps it’s way onto your lips. “Yeah?” you ask. “yeah” Natasha confirms. You grab her face a pull her in for a passionate kiss.
Chapter 2: Two years later
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* Two years later *
You look at your wedding ring as you think back to the doctor’s appointment you had five days ago. You and Natasha wanted to have another child, a year and a half ago you had adopted your little Emily. You’re trying for your second child through IUI. Before you started the process your doctor had mentioned that the first few tries were most likely not going to result in you getting pregnant, that on average the third or fourth time were the most successful. Five days ago you had your third appointment, so you were very anxiously waiting until you could take a pregnancy test.
“Darling, can you come here? Emily had a bad dream” You hear you wife call out from you daughter’s bedroom. You run into the room and see Natasha holding your crying three year old. “Same one?” Natasha nods “Tony is lucky he’s out of town.”
A week ago you had celebrated Emily’s birthday at the compound. Cooper and Lila were talking about the Battle of New York and Emily wanted to know what that was. Tony offered to enlighten her. At the mention of aliens Emily’s eyes widened in fear. “Tony” Natasha snapped. “Oh, uhm right she’s just a kid” Tony mumbled before saying “don’t worry kid, the aliens aren’t here anymore. They’re hidden away.” After seeing the expression on Natasha’s face, Tony had quickly left the room.
Emily had nightmares about aliens hiding in her room ever since.
“Mommy?” Emily cries out. “Yes sweetheart, mommy’s here” you say while taking her from Natasha’s arms to hug her tight. You take her to your bedroom while Natasha investigates the room like she promised Emily.
“All clear honey, no monsters hiding in your room” Nat says as she comes into your bedroom and kisses Emily’s forehead. “do you want me to check in here?” your wife asks as she sees Emily look at the walk in closet. With a small nod, Nat goes in full spy mode looking around the room and clearing spaces.
When she’s done you softly start singing “I’ve got the magic in me, every time I touch that track it turn into gold. Now everybody knows I’ve got the magic in me” while stroking the young girls hair. When she finally fell into a soft, peaceful sleep, you lay her down on the bed. Natasha tugs her in and kisses her forehead softly.
“You really do have the magic in you, I love you” Natasha says laying a hand on your side. “I love you too Nat, good night” You intertwine your fingers as you snuggle closer to Natasha, with little Emily in between you.
The next morning you are woken up by giggles. As you open your eyes you see little Emily trying to climb out of the bed. “Good morning sweetheart” you say as you pull her closer and hug her tight. You look over to your wife, who is still fast asleep next to you “how about we go make some breakfast for mama?”
About ten minutes later Natasha walks into the kitchen and stops to admire you from the doorway. She smiles at the sight of you and your daughter making pancake batter and giggling in your pajama’s. “Mama!” Emily squeals while running into her arms “good morning honey. It smells so good in here, what are you making?” she asked while kissing her forehead. “Pancakes” Emily says with a big smile.
“Good morning love” she greets you with a kiss on your cheek as you flip the first pancake.
The three of you have breakfast and then get ready for the day. You both had to go to work and since both of you worked at the Avengers compound Emily got to go with you. They added a little daycare for all personnel with kids.
Since you adopted Emily you decided to stop doing field work, instead you’re now one of the combat trainers. Natasha is still an Avenger, but she stopped doing missions where she had to be away from home for more than a week.
A couple hours into work you got a text from Natasha saying that she had to go on a mission later that day, but that she would come say bye before she left. Another few hours passed before Nat showed up at the training facility on the other side of the compound. “Hey babe, we’re about to take off” she says as she pulls you in for a hug. “I should be back on Sunday, I’ll meet you at the Barton’s?” she questions. You planned to spend the weekend at the Barton farm.
“Yes I’ll meet you there” you say as you kiss her goodbye “be safe, I love you Nat”. “Always and I love you too” and with another kiss she’s off.
When you’re done with work you go pick up your daughter. “What do you want for dinner?” you always let her choose what she wanted to eat the day Nat left on a mission. “uhm.. mac and cheese!” you smile at her excitement. “Okay kiddo, let’s go to the store and get some.”
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The next morning you wake up feeling sick. You slowly get up but immediately feel the urge to puke, so you ran to the bathroom. You brushed your teeth and went to Ems room to take her downstairs for breakfast. You decide on some cereal, easy and simple. But after a few bites you stand up and ran over to the bathroom again. The feeling of nausea didn’t seem to be leaving, so you texted Yelena.
y/n: Can you come over? I need your help with Em.
Yelena: I’ll be there in ten. Wanda is coming too.
Shortly after you hear the front door unlock and you feel the tension in your shoulders leave, knowing there is someone to look after Emily.
In the living room Yelena is met with a worried looking Emily. “Hey kiddo, where’s mommy?” she asks as she lifts her up in her arms. “Auntie Lena, mommy’s sick” she points in your direction. “Okay, I’m going to help mommy, how about you go play with Auntie Wanda for a little.”
The girl loved playing with her little Avengers figures and loved it even more when Wanda made them fly for her. So that’s exactly what Wanda did.
Yelena finds you sitting on the floor next to the toilet. “Thank you for coming over Yel” you say with a small smile you managed to give. “Of course y/n, now tell me what’s going on. Can I do anything to help?”
“I just feel so nauseous and at the same time I have this weird craving for cheeseburgers at 9am” you say with a confused look on your face. Yelena looks you up and down “do you think you might be-“ before she can finish her sentence you grab her arm with your eyes wide “do you?”
“Only one way to find out right. I can get you some tests from the store if you want?”
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Half an hour later you’re sitting on the couch with Wanda on your left and Yelena on the right with Emily in her lap. On the table in front of you the pregnancy test lays facing away from you. In your hand your phone is counting down the minutes until the test is done. You hold both Yelena’s and Wanda’s hands as you’re nervously awaiting the results.
Then the timer goes off, but you’re afraid to look, so you ask Wanda too. She leans forward and grabs the test. The outcome still faced away from you. Your eyes are locked on Wanda. A smile creeps up her face when she tells you the test is positive. Happy tears stream down your face as you slump back into Yelena, releasing all the tension you were holding.
Yelena hugged you tight while congratulation you. After Wanda gave you a hug as well, you turned to your daughter. “Remember when mama and I were telling you about maybe getting a little brother or sister? It’s going to take some time, but here in mommy’s tummy a little sibling is growing.” Emily places a hand on your stomach “in here?” she says while looking at stomach.
“Do you guys have plans this tonight or tomorrow? We’re going to the Barton’s and I want to tell Nat the news there and would love for you to be there.”
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The four of you arrive at the Barton’s, when you’re done saying your hello’s you ask Laura if the two of you can have a moment while Yelena and Wanda hang out with the kids.
In the kitchen you start “I was wondering if you could make Emily a t-shirt, one like you made for Nathaniel to reveal his name.” Laura gets some juice boxes from the fridge “yeah of course, I still have all the stuff I would need upstairs. What you want it to say?”
“So I would like it to say Big sister” Laura’s jaw drops and she runs over to you. “are you serious? Oh I’m so happy for you! Does Nat know?” she says full of excitement while she’s hugging you.
“I found out this morning, so she doesn’t know yet. I was hoping you could make the shirt and Emily and I could tell her here tomorrow.”
You walk out to hand the kids the juice boxes while Laura goes to make the t-shirt. When Laura gets done she helps Emily put it on to see how it looks.
When she did you heard jet engines coming closer. You quickly grab Emily her jacket and put it on, zipping it up. In case it’s Nat and Clint coming back early.
It was, you hugged Natasha tight while greeting her. Emily runs in for a hug as well, when Natasha puts her down again she asks “Mama can you help take my jacket off?” just like you practiced.
Natasha kneels down to unzips the jacket and takes it off Emily, who is puffing out her chest to make sure her mama would see the shirt. Natasha reads the shirt and looks up at you. You nod with tears in your eyes. Natasha gets up and runs into your arms. You stay like that until both your faces are covered with tears. You put your foreheads together “I can’t believe in nine months Emily won’t be the baby anymore.” Natasha whispers.
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