The Captain And The Black Widow(Next Avengers/MCU)

Reunited

"I'm so glad to see you, Daddy!" Nikki said, breaking her hug with her father, but not letting go. "I was worried we might not see you again."

"So did I, baby girl," Steve said with a smile, his entire brooding mood from eyeing Alexei gone and replaced with the face of a loving father.

"How did you find us?" Jamie asked, looking at his father, then to his mother.

"Actually, I called them." Melina stated. "After we found you, I called your parents and told them to come here."

"Well, before that, we saw you on TV," Natasha said matter-of-factly.

Instantly, Nikki winced at that. She then listened as her mother talked about how she, Steve and Sam had narrowly escaped an explosion at one of Mace's former spots. After that, the three had called in an extraction from an old contact of Nat's, but waited — undercover, mind you — in a diner. As they did, though, on a TV, they saw a news report of three teens fighting armed gunmen in Baltimore. "And then we got your call and made our way here."

"Wow. You've been busy," Jamie said with surprise.

"Could say the same about you." Steve retorted, not exactly scolding his son, but definitely hinting he and Natasha weren't entitled happy with this whole...thing.

A sheepish look came to Jamie and he chuckled nervously.

"Don't be so hard on him," Alexei said, coming up and patting Steve hard on the shoulder. "They did good work for first time out!"

"Technically, it's not our first time out." "Yeah, we did save the world." The twins kindly countered. "Yeah. Universe, actually!" "But thank you for the help, Poppa."

Though Natasha wanted to argue about her kid's disobedience, she couldn't deny the truth of what Alexei said. They had good. More than that, they survived.

Deciding to punish later and be proud now, Natasha scoffed and shook her head before hugging her kids close, and they her. Following suit, Steve joined in, completing the family quartet.

Melina, Alexei and Yelena looked on happily at the family, as did Sam, Bucky and Shaun.

"Well, since we're all here now and you've all come a long way, why don't you all go freshen up and I'll make some hot chocolate?" Melina suggested.

"YESSS!" The twins said together, doing a fist bump. Seeing their parents and uncles, meeting their grandparents and aunt, traveling to Russia with them, an NOW HOT CHOCOLATE by their grandmother? Aside from the danger and assassins, the past three days were a complete win!!!

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***Living Room***

"Does that hurt?" Yelena asked Bucky.

An hour had passed and Bucky still hadn't taken his shower. Steve and Natasha did, and now it was Sam's turn. Meanwhile, Bucky sat on the couch with Yelena next to him playing nurse and treating his "injuries" he received on arriving. Her attire was different from earlier with a pair of dark green sweatpants and a white sports bra, while Bucky wore his black pants but was shirtless. At the moment, the blonde assassin was lightly applying vodka to the cuts on his fleshly arm and chest.

"It tickles." He said under his breath. Which was true. He felt the sting but it didn't bother him really.

Yelena snorted at that. That was nothing compared to what was coming. There was still metal in him — more than just his vibranium arm — from the bullet Melina had shot earlier. It was still in his waist. Thankfully, it wasn't too far in there and Yelena was going to extract it.