Page After Paige

10. Trouble

Chapter 10

Trouble

Natasha~

Paige slept with her head on my chest and a thumb in her mouth. I removed it a few times, but it seemed to find its way back. How comfortably she slept on my chest had me surprised. I would have gotten up, but I didn't want to wake her.

I closed my eyes and just enjoyed the silence until I heard four footsteps heading towards the elevator.

"You guys are in soo much trouble" I said quietly but loud enough for them to hear. It was true, and If I'm not the one punishing them, Pepper will be.

Clint~

Natasha's voice sent chills up my back. And not the good kind. She always had to have that affect on people. I had a pretty good idea of what she was gonna do during our sparing time...

//

"All of you... are idiotic... assholes!" Nat said while trying to kill me. I was caught off guard a few moves before and by the looks of it, I might have more bruises than expected. Paige sat against the wall looking through a picture book with her teddy bear, completely ignoring what was going on.

"We apologized you know" I blocked a punch and avoided being kneed somewhere uncomfortable. She just kept coming at me. Eventually she stopped violently attacking me. It was my mistake to relax a bit. She ended up having me in a thigh-choke hold. While I was struggling to breathe I glanced at Paige who still paid no attention to us. "Sorry- sorry, we're sorry" I said still trying to breathe. It was a few seconds afterwards she let go. I coughed and took in big breaths of air leaving me with a headache. She walked towards her towel and picked it up before leaving the training room. Paige innocently following behind her. "good talk" I muttered to no one.

//

I limped into the lab hoping to find Bruce to patch me up. I honestly think Tasha broke something. To my luck Bruce and Tony were just testing things out and writing a few things down.

"Hey Bruce" I croaked. He looked up from his paper and his eyes widened in surprise when he looked at me.

"Ouch, Did Natasha do that to you?" Tony asked.

"No, it was the puppy" I deadpanned. "Yes, it was Natasha" I said. I hissed in pain as I accidentally leaned on my bad ankle.

"Glad she took it out on you and not us" Tony muttered.

"Tony" Bruce scolded. He motioned for Me to sit before taking a look at my ankle.

"Oh, she's not done yet. My best bet is that she's have cooled off slightly by the end of the week"

"Slightly?" Tony said incredulously.

"Tony, she left us alone with Paige for one night. We were goners the first time she started crying"

"In our defense we thought she was asleep" he said.

"It was that damned bear. I put a tracker in it by the way." Tony stated.

"Smart" Bruce said.

"But what I really want to know, is why all of a sudden she decided to have a kid in her life."

"She wanted a distraction. Something to keep her occupied-"

"Yeah but I thought she'd get enough of that in between the sheets with you" I gave him a hard glare.

"If Natasha had heard that you'd might as well already be dead" I said giving him a pointed look.

"Sir, Ms. Potts is approaching you" JARVIS announced.