Who Needs Powers?

Chapter 14: Having a Hard Time

When they got back, Logan took Katie straight to the suite the family used and told her to get cleaned up once he got the bathtub started for her.

"What happened?" Clint asked, obviously worried when he saw how much blood Logan had on him, not to mention how upset Katie looked before Logan got her squared away.

"Hydra got ticked off," Logan said, wincing where Katie couldn't see him.

Clint frowned at that. "'Cause of Mom and Carol?"

"Yep," Logan said, nodding. "They were tryin' to get bio data from Cap — and used Katie to make him behave."

Clint narrowed his eyes. "So, when are we going to go make 'em pay?"

"We're not," Logan said. "Cap and your mom are probably filetin' Von Strucker right now, if how ticked off she was is any kind of indicator. Tony was inbound ... they'll be back when they're done." He paused and turned toward Clint. "And I'm not exaggeratin'. It was Von Strucker. Your mom was ticked enough she was tryin' to bait him."

"Oh wow," Clint said, both eyebrows high on his forehead. "That guy is so dead."

Logan nodded. "Last I heard, Steve said they were going after him and K was callin' the baron a few choice things in German — so she wouldn't be misunderstood."

Clint snickered. "Oh yeah. Well, that's one super bad guy down. We're on a roll, huh? First stupid vampire face and now a Hydra head!"

"You did tell her that we needed to kill Hydra," Logan said. "And she was mad she didn't get a clean shot at the Skull before James came along."

"She coulda taken him down too," Clint agreed fervently.

"Oh yeah," Logan agreed, nodding slowly. "I can tell you for a fact a few of those guys were wettin' themselves."

"Betcha smelled it," Clint snickered.

"Hard to miss the big dark spots," Logan said dryly.

Clint grinned crookedly. "Well, I'm glad you got Katie outta there. She's too little to fight bad guys yet, even if she's gettin' good at some stuff."

"Yeah, it was just chance that I'm the one that brought her back and not K," Logan admitted.

"Well, you had to get her back," Clint said with a shrug. "And Mom's still mad she didn't get to stab Sinister."

"She'll get over that eventually," Logan said.

"You gonna?" Clint asked, one eyebrow raised in a troublemaking little smirk.

"Get over not stabbin' Sinister? Done," Logan said. "Kinda wish I could see the look on Cap's face right now, though."

Clint grinned and then straightened up to see if he could do a good approximation of a horrified Captain America. "Sorta like this?"

"You might be surprised," Logan chuckled, then looked over his shoulder toward the bathroom. "When she gets outta there, I'm gonna need to get the blood off."

"Right. I'll listen for James. He's still sleeping," Clint said, more than ready to find a way to help when the rest of his family was having a rough time.

"Good," Logan said, then paused for a moment. "You wanna get Hank in here for me?"

"Got it!" Clint said, rushing off to go find Hank — and bringing him back with Susie as well, since he figured Katie could probably use her big sister around if she'd been grabbed by Hydra.

Susie rushed off to help Katie get changed after she got out of the bathtub, which left Hank frowning at Logan.

"I had to block her from gettin' shot," Logan said. "Don't look at me like that."