From the Multiverse with Mild Annoyance

Alexei did what?

"So nothing happened?" Jen said from the back seated as the three of them experienced a very awkward and tired silence in the small blue Chevy truck. "What an anticlimactic recon."

Sonya chuckled, "was this your first scouting mission or something? Recon is full of disappointment. You get used to it."

"Great," Jen rolled her eyes from her position in the backseat.

"Saw that," Clint was looking at her over his shoulder. "Oh come on. This was fun. And we didn't kill each other."

"Oh yeah," Sonya chucked, "nothing like looking at an empty field in the dark. We try again tonight?"

"Unless," Jen spoke up, "we could just confront Natasha and ask her what the hell is going on with her."

"That's a good way to get a widow bite to the throat."

"Yeah," Sonya looked at her through the rearview mirror, "I hate to admit it but I agree with gramps. We don't handle confrontation well especially if she is altered somehow. Recon is best for now."

They pulled up to the front of Kate and Yelena's house. Immediately, something felt off when the two dogs were laying on the driveway, waiting for something. "We are coming in with you," Clint was already reaching for his bow when they stopped the truck in front of the dogs.

"I should've brought a weapon," Jen said to nobody when Sonya got out of the truck and readied her gun.

"You brought all your personalities," Sonya winked at her, "fully loaded and ready to go."

"Kids," Clint shushed them and the two dogs when they came over wagging their tails. "Seems the pups aren't hurt."

"Yelena would've skinned them alive if they hurt her babies," Jen went to put her biometrics in the garage door when Sonya whistled and nodded towards the back. They looked through the front window and saw the backdoor was wide open, "guess the mystery is solved on how the dogs got out."

They quietly entered the house and saw the apparent struggle that happened. The couch pillows were destroyed, chairs and tables flipped. After checking downstairs, it was clear that the struggle happened just in the kitchen and living room, "he's not here. I'm going to call Peter."

"Shit," Sonya said before motioning for Jen to follow her up the stairs.

"Do you think they took her too?"

"It looked pretty rough down there," Sonya stopped in front of the upstairs guest room before pushing the door open.

"You have got to be kidding me," Jen entered the room where Cassie was sprawled out, face down and passed out. Still sleeping as if nothing had happened during the night.

"And I thought Ekaterina was a heavy sleeper. She's got nothing on the baby here," Sonya went over to the side of the bed and patted Cassie on her cheek, "rise and shine baby bug."

The two women watched as the brunette started showing signs of waking. As soon as the girl realized she wasn't alone after a big stretch, she startled awake, "why are the two of you in my room?"

"Ahh sleeping beauty has finally joined us," Sonya delivered the line in a deadpan that impressed Jen.

"Cassie, did you sleep through the night?"

"Did I miss something?"

The two older women shared a look before Sonya motioned for the lawyer to continue, "you can say that. You didn't hear anything last night?"

"Stop punching each other's bush and give it to her straight," Sonya rolled her eyes when Jen gave her a look signaling that she definitely got that idiom wrong. "Your dad is gone. We assume he was taken in the night. Natasha didn't leave the house last night so our leads are nothing at this point."