Chapter 4
Landing on the top floor, Tony and Natasha arrived at Stark tower. They were greeted by Pepper, who then promptly told off Tony for turning his phone off. Natasha smiled as she saw Cooper and Lila sitting around one of Starks many coffeé tables colouring. Heading over she noticed Cooper had drawn the symbol that had been back at the farm.
"Hey you two. Are you ok?" Natasha asks kneeling down next to them. Lila nods.
"Yeah" Cooper responds, "this was that symbol, wasn't it?"
"Yes, it was. Do you mind if I borrow that?"
"No, you can keep it." Cooper says and grabs another piece of paper from the table. Natasha gets up and rejoins Tony and Pepper.
"It is alright if they stay here for a bit?" Natasha asks Tony.
"Yeah, of course" Tony says.
"Also where's Nathaniel?"
"He's asleep in one of the bedrooms" Pepper answers. Natasha nods then heads off in that direction.
"Don't forget you still owe me an explanation Romanoff!" Tony calls out.
Natasha finds the room where Nathaniel is and gently picks him up. He wriggles a bit but doesn't stir. She rocks him in her arms slowly, walking towards the massive one-way window. The city looked so pretty at night; all the twinkling lights that where just being turned on, the gentle hum of vehicles passing by on the streets below. It was so peaceful from up there. The door of the bedroom opened.
"Natasha?" It was Steve.
"Hmm"
"You ok?" He asked walking over to join her at the window.
"Yeah"
"What you watching?"
"Nothing really, except all of the lights turning on." Steve nodded, then pointed into one corner of the visible sky.
"Look."
"Ah, it's one of New York's night flyers jets." Both of them transfixed for a moment watching this tiny object drift across the sky. Natasha yawned. Steve took Nathaniel from her arms and put him back into his cot, that Pepper had found.
"Come on Natasha." He said guiding her away from the window and towards the bed. She collapsed onto it the second it was in reach. Steve lifted back the covers and tucked her in, before heading towards the door.
"Goodnight Natasha." Steve closed the door and Natasha drifted off to sleep.
Light broke through into Natasha's slumber causing her to wake. Siting up she looked around and remembered the events of the previous day. Her head turned to look at Nathaniel's cot. He wasn't there! Panic took over and she rushed into the main room. There was Pepper and Steve cooing over Nathaniel. Natasha let out a breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding and walked over to Pepper and Steve.
"Morning" She said.
"Rough night?" Steve asked pointing at her hair.
"What?" Natasha asked confused, then looked in the mirror and totally understood. "No. I always look like this."
"Ok. I presume you want this little bundle?" Steve said.
"Um, yeah" Natasha says her maternal instincts taking over and takes Nathaniel into her arms.
"Charge!" Shouting came from one of the corridors before Lila ran in screaming being chased by Cooper and Tony, whom were dressed like knights.
"Auntie Nat help me" Lila playfully cried and ran in circles around Natasha. Natasha passes Nathaniel back to Steve and crouches down. Lila climbs on her back and then they run back towards Cooper and Tony. Cooper splits from Tony and they chase Natasha with Lila on her back round and round and round the coffeé table. Pepper was laughing her head off and had to hold onto the bar behind her to stay standing. About ten minutes later Tony just lies down in the middle of the floor.
"Attack!" Natasha shouts as Lila jumps off and join her brother in flattening Tony. Natasha grabs three cushions off the sofa and passes two of them to Cooper and Lila before hitting Tony with them.
"Alright, alright" Tony laughs, "I give in"
"No knights don't give in they surrender" Cooper said.
"Fine I surrender" Tony says getting up and going over to Pepper who's finally managed to stop laughing.
"It's a good job you're not one of the knights at the round table" Pepper joked.
"Very funny" Tony says grabbing a beer out of the fridge. "Hey Cooper do you wanna use one of my laptops?"
"No thanks. Computers are boring." Cooper says before leaving the room.
"What's wrong with him? A kid who turns down a laptop?" Tony asks amazed.
"Well him or Lila aren't aloud anything that has Bluetooth or WiFi access" Natasha says "He can't even watch TV."
"What is that sad life?" Tony says.
"It was for security reasons."
"Can he even use a PC?"
"Yes. He's very good at hacking" Natasha says "They have stayed at my house before." Tony nods still not believing it. Cooper re-emerged carrying a book that was probably thicker than a watermelon, in his other hand was a thinner purple book. He sat down on the sofa and passed the other book to Lila. About an hour later Tony walked passed and they were still reading, but this time Natasha had joined them. Tony sat down in between Lila and Cooper.
"What are you guys reading?"
"My Secret Unicorn book 11." Lila answered.
"Lord of the Rings The Two Towers" Cooper said.
"Wow, I think just watching all the films is hard never mind the books." Tony exclaims. Natasha gets up and signals for Tony to follow.
"Can you keep an eye on them for a couple of hours? I need to run an errand."
"Yeah sure" Tony replies.
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