starks daughter | avengers au fanfic

41 | pincess bubblegum

"Princess... bubblegum..?" Steve asked slowly. "You named her.. Princess.. bubblegum?"

"Morgan suggested it, but it's cute. We can call her bubbles for short." Madeline smiled, hugging her new pet.

"Okay." He nodded and then left, passing Bucky on his way in.

"Hey doll, how's the cat?" He asked, taking a seat on the edge of her bed.

"Very energetic. Me and Morgan named her Princess Bubblegum."

"Cute." He smiled, and then turned a little more serious. "And how are you? You feeling okay? Better than yesterday?"

"Yeah, a little. My head still hurts but a lot less than before."

"Yeah, I bought you something for that." He smiled, going into the other room for a moment to get the bag of things he'd bought for her.

She looked in the bag and gasped, a huge smile on her face. "Diet Coke, paracetamol, gummy worms, and cherry ice! You know me so well, Barnes."

"Well, it was Wanda's list.. and she read your mind." He chuckled, and she let out a small laugh too.

"At least she got all my favourites."

"Yeah.. what is that cherry thing anyway?"

"Don't worry about it." Maddy smiled, and then leaned over to give Bucky a kiss on the cheek. "I'm gonna watch Rick and Morty, you wanna join?"

"Cant. Training with Steve." He groaned, standing up.

"Ah, yes. The most impossible thing to get out of."

"And yet, you've been dodging it for weeks."

"What can I say, I'm just built different." She shrugged.

"I'll see you later doll." He said, looking back before he shut the door behind him as Maddy waved, only for him to immediately return holding Alpine.

"Bucky?"

"Please keep her up here? She keeps getting lost, and I really need someone to just keep an eye on her." He pleaded, looking at her with a hopeful smile.

"Of course, give her here." She said, excitedly taking Alpine in her free hand, holding Princess Bubblegum in the other. "Wait take a picture of me holding both of them!"

Knock knock

"Come in, oh hi Bruce." Maddy smiled, trying to sit up without disturbing the sleeping cats on her lap. "Everything okay? Cho said I was free to go, nothing but nausea for a few days."

"Yeah, that's what Cho said." Bruce groaned, already dreading the coming conversation. "Can I..?"

"Of course, sit." She nodded, and patted a spot in front of her on her bed.

Bruce took a seat, and then a deep breath. "There was something.. unexpected. On one of your tests."

"What? What was it?"

"Well, the second we got you in the lab, we ran a few tests, and we ran the same ones the day before you woke up."

"Okay, so.."

"Madeline, I need you to tell me what made you come back to New York." He finally said, and Madeline went pale.

"Well, I'm guessing you know. Or you wouldn't be asking me this, but anyway, that's none of your business, it's my... problem. Not yours, not my father's, mine." She said, getting louder with every word to the point where she was yelling.

"I know." He said, also raising his voice, and then moving to a more hushed tone. "Maddy, you were pregnant."

"... Were?" She whispered, not meaning for it to come out so quietly.

"The drinking, the.. whatever you were doing while you had disappeared, the chemicals. It killed her."

Maddy fell silent. She had come to New York because she needed an abortion, as she wasn't allowed one in London. But when it came to actually asking her father for help, it became a bit of a problem.

Hence why she restarted using substances, nicotine, and alcohol.

And even though her actions were destructive to the baby, she became a little attached to it, even thought of a couple names for it.

"Maddy are you okay?"

"Yeah. I think. I will be." She mumbled, and was surprised by an impulsive hug from Bruce.

"I'm here for you." He said after pulling away. "I know your father's not the most understanding person, so if you need to talk."

"You'll be the first person I come to." She whispered, forcing a smile.

I was SO DRUNK while writing the second half of this chapter I have no idea what I was doing but I don't have anything else to publish so I guess we're just going with it .... Sorry. I'm not gonna lie, give it a couple chapters and this whole thing will be forgotten because what was I doing like girl..

Sorry.