The Hawk's Sister

Safe House?

Dahlia and Natasha hold hands as they climb out the Quinjet and start to walk towards Clint's farm house with the others, passing their barn as they do "What is this place?" Thor asks. "A safe house?" Tony questions. "Let's hope." Clint tells them. They all enter the house "Honey, I'm home." Clint calls out. A heavily pregnant Laura walks into the living room from the kitchen "Hi. Company. Sorry I didn't call ahead." Clint apologises. "Hey." Laura smiles before kissing Clint. "This is an agent of some kind." Tony tells Thor. "Gentleman, this is Laura." Clint tells the men of the team. "I know all your names." Laura adds. Just then they hear running "Ooh, incoming." Clint smiles as Lila and Cooper come running in. "Dad!" Lila exclaims making Clint pick her up. "Hi, sweetheart! Hey, buddy! How you guys doing?" Clint asks kissing their heads. "These are...smaller agents." Tony tells everyone. "Did you bring Auntie Dal and Auntie Nat?" Lila asks. "Why don't you hug them and find out?" Natasha smiles. Lila and Cooper run over and hug them, Dahlia picking up her niece as she does. "Sorry for barging in on you." Steve apologises. "Yeah, we would have called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed." Tony adds. "Yeah, well Fury helped me set this up when I joined. He kept it off S.H.I.E.L.D's files, I'd like to keep it that way. I figure it's a good place to lay low." Clint explains. "Honey. Ah, I missed you." Laura says. Natasha goes over and touches Laura's stomach "How's little Natasha, huh?" she asks. "She's... Nathaniel." Laura responds. Natasha bends towards Laura's pregnant stomach "Traitor." she tells the baby. Dahlia shakes her head and puts Lila down "Auntie Nat and I are going to go shower and change." she tells her. Lila nods and goes to play with Cooper

Dahlia rubs her hair with a towel as she walks out the bathroom, Natasha sitting on the bed already changed and clean. Smiling Dahlia sits on the bed in front of her girlfriend and kisses her softly "You alright?" she asks. Natasha shrugs "I was back in the Red Room, the graduation ceremony." she responds. Dahlia put her hand on Natasha's a squeezes it gently "You're here now and I'm not letting you go, ever." she tells her. "Good." Natasha responds, pulling her into a heated kiss. Dahlia smiles and runs her hands through Natasha's hair, only stopping when there's a knock on the door "You two coming back into the main house?" Clint asks. "How'd you get in?" Dahlia counters. "Spare key." Clint responds. "I'm gonna kill him." Dahlia mutters. Natasha laughs slightly "We'll be over in a minute." she tells Clint. "Okay, we've got a visitor so hurry." Clint says before they hear him walk away. Dahlia frowns "Visitor?" she questions. "No idea." Natasha responds, pecking her lips before standing "Come on." she adds, sticking her hand out to Dahlia. Smiling Dahlia takes it and pulls Natasha towards her, kissing her heatedly again. They both smile into the kiss before pulling away and walking out their room, back towards the main house.

The two of them walk in to find Fury stood in the house with everyone minus Thor "Where's Thor?" Dahlia asks. "Had something he had to do, something about getting answers on what he saw." Steve responds making her nod as she sits at the table with Natasha. Tony starts playing darts as Fury talks "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." he explains. "What about Ultron himself?" Steve asks. "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." Fury responds. "He still going after launch codes?" Tony questions. "Yes, he is, but he's not making any headway." Fury tells him. "I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare." Tony responds. "Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the NEXUS about that." Fury starts. "NEXUS?" Steve asks. "It's the world internet hub in Oslo, every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth." Bruce explains. "So what'd they say?" Clint asks, playing with his darts. "He's fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed." Fury responds. "By whom?" Tony asks collecting his darts. He turns to look at Clint who got bullseye with all three of his darts at the same time. Clint shrugs with a smile "Parties unknown." Fury says, answering Tony's question.

"Do we have an ally?" Natasha asks. "Ultron's got an enemy, that's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is." Fury responds. "I might need to visit Oslo, find our 'unknown'." Tony says. "Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that." Dahlia tells Fury. "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." Fury tells them. "Steve doesn't like that kind of talk." Natasha tells him. "You know what, Romanoff?" Steve says as Natasha smiles mischievously at him. "So what does he want?" Fury asks. "To become better. Better than us. He keeps building bodies." Steve tells him. "Person bodies. The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it." Tony adds. Lila runs over and gives Natasha and Dahlia a picture of a butterfly, smiling Dahlia kisses her niece's head before she runs off again "When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed." Natasha tells Tony and Bruce. "They don't need to be protected, they need to evolve. Ultron's going to evolve." Bruce says, looking at Lila's drawing. "How?" Fury asks. "Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Bruce responds.