in 2010, natasha romanoff rescued anya avilova from the red room and made the questionable decision to take anya in herself. four years later, anya has left her time at s.h.i.e.l.d. behind and is living as sasha rushman, Normal Teenage Girl™. then nick fury shows up at her apartment to pull her back in, and suddenly, sasha finds herself battling hydra and an eating disorder all at once. ★★★ (ca:tws) (natasha romanoff's daughter, kinda) (in between parts 1 & 2 of killswitch)

unbeknownst to steve rogers, when he went into the ice, he left behind a daughter with peggy carter. ten-year-old alexandra carter disappeared off the face of the earth in 1956, kidnapped by hydra in an attempt to replicate the super serum with her blood. when that plan failed, they turned her into an assassin known only as killswitch. when fragments of her past come back to her during the fall of hydra, killswitch is alone and confused in a modern world she doesn't know how to navigate. in the process of researching who alexandra carter, she stumbles upon leaked hydra/s.h.i.e.l.d. files revealing that captain america, the man she fought just yesterday, is her father. by chance, the two of them meet again at peggy carter's nursing home. steve is just as surprised as alex was to discover that he's her father, but he's got a one in a quadrillion chance to connect with his still-teenage daughter nearly 70 years after leaving her. he's not going to miss it this time. ★★★ (post-tfa + post-ca:tws) (steve rogers) (posted in tandem with always okay)

when s.h.i.e.l.d. fell, natasha romanoff and sasha, her sort-of-adopted russian assassin kid, were forced to assume new identities. and by taking in his daughter, ex-hydra assassin alex carter, steve was officially harboring a fugitive. they had no choice but to stay under the radar too. nearly a year later, the avengers reassemble to take down what's left of hydra. step 1 is acquiring loki's scepter. once they have it, all is well and good until tony stark decides to mess with the stone and creates Ultron. add the impending threat of pietro and wanda maximoff, and the avengers are going to need help. unfortunately, the best they can find is an ex-child hydra assassin and a smart-mouthed, moderately unstable teenage genius from the same place that produced natasha romanoff. ★★★ (progeny series book 3) (age of ultron)