Lady Light

Asha grumbled and curled closer to her pillow, annoyed at the sun. It was much to bright, didn't it know that she was sleeping? She covered her eyes with an arm - her other one pressed against her pillow - and huffed as she heard voices. She felt her pillow shift on its own and cracked open an eye, only to find that she was sleeping on a broad chest. She closed her eyes, and debated if she should get up on not, before she grumbled and sat up, falling off the couch in the process.

Asha heard laughing and used her wind power to whack the laughing ones on the back of the head. "Ss'not nice to laugh." she informed the floor, as she was still face down on the floor. She heaved herself up and looked at them with bleary eyes. Asha was not a morning person in any way, shape, or form.

Tony, Clint, and Sam were the ones who were laughing, while Pepper and Natasha both held cameras. Asha stuck her tongue out at them and stands, sighing as she stretched, listening to things go pop. She wandered over to the kitchen to start breakfast, and the others followed her.

"Who all is coming to breakfast?" she asked softly. She opened the fridge and pulled out some eggs to cook with.

"Thor, Jane, Darcy, and Erik are somewhere, working. Well, Thor is with Jane watching her work but still, he's not here." Clint shrugged, handing her a whisk. He was perched on the back of a chair, watching the room like the Hawk he was named after.

"Fury and Hill are at Shield, working." Sam chimed in. Asha started mixing the eggs.

"Coulson and Rhodes left for something." Pepper told her. She sat down at the table, where Tony pulled her so that she was practically sitting in his lap. Asha smiled happily at them, extremely happy that they had gotten their happy ending.

"So that leaves: Steve, Tony, Pepper, Pietro, Wanda, Vision, Clint, Bruce, Sam, and you and I Asha." Natasha said, quickly working through who was left in the tower. Asha smiled and poured her eggs into a frying pan to cook. She spent a half hour cooking up mounds of pancakes and other breakfast foods while chatting with the others. They fell into the same routine that they had when Asha had been a child, where they would avoid certain topics until Asha reminded them that she was sixteen and they no longer had to. It made them all fall silent as they realized they had missed her growing up.

The family dynamic of the group had started to shine through strongly. Tony and Bruce had become like the groups Fathers. Tony was the one who dished out love, presents, and spoiled them. Everyone loved Tony once they saw through his mask, as he was always ready and up for one on one time. Bruce was the understanding Father. He was willing to listen to anything someone had to say, and always had great advise. He was non-judgemental, something that everyone appreciated. Both men were overprotective of their family, but loved for being so.

Pepper was the undisputed Mother of the group, smothering everyone with love and affection until they complain with a giant smile on their face. She constantly worried about everyone, and made sure that if anyone had a bad day that that persons comfort food were in the house. Everyone adored Pepper.

Asha, Pietro, Wanda, and Vision were the youngsters of the group, the babies of the family. Everyone looked after them. It took Pietro and Wanda by surprise with how much they all cared. They had been waiting for the other shoe to drop. After a few days, they came to the conclusion that that wouldn't happen and then they truly started to open up.

Steve, Bucky, Sam, Thor, Darcy, Natasha, Clint, and Jane were the older brothers and sisters despite Asha labeling them as Aunts and Uncles. Darcy, Sam, and Jane, had been excited to fill their rolls, and took to it like ducks to water. Steve was half in the older siblings category and half in the younger siblings category. He was happy that there were now actual young ones to take the younger sibling role. Bucky and Thor were the easiest ones who adapted. They were use to being the older sibling and it was as easy as breathing to take the others under their wings. Bucky and Thor were the older siblings within the older siblings.

Erik and Nick had adopted almost Grandfatherly roles, though it came easier to Erik than it did to Fury. All of the siblings still cared for them though, and Fury was getting much better at the family thing. Maria Hill, James Rhodes, and Phil Coulson had become like favoured Uncles and Aunts.

Asha turned around suddenly, and when the others did the same thing they saw Steve follow in Asha's foot steps. His hands patted the couch around him, looking for something. When he couldn't find what it was, he rolled over - and met the floor. The group watching blinked as one, and burst out laughing at the same time. Steve sprung up from the floor and looked around wildly, completely disoriented. The group watching laughed harder when Steve, who took a step back to get away from the noise - he was still half asleep - and tripped over the coffee table and smashed it by landing on it. The group howled with laugher, while Steve laid on the broken table in a daze.

"Utterly worth the broken table." Tony chortled, wiping tears from his eyes. Sam and Clint were holding each other up, gasping for air. Pepper and Natasha had managed to compose themselves, while Asha had turned back to her food, shoulders shaking with repressed laugher.

"What did I miss?" Bruce asked groggily, still in pajamas. The children were following him, looking at the fallen Steve curiously. Bruce simply blinked, very use to the antics of the Avengers.

Clint and Sam lost their battle with saying upright and fell over, holding their sides. Pepper giggled, Natasha snorted, and Tony started laughing again. Asha simply stepped over Clint and Sam and put a bowl of eggs on the table.

"Capsicle fell off the couch and smashed the table. Think he's trying to take over your job Green Bean." Tony chuckled.

"It wasn't that funny." Steve glared -coughpoutedcough-

"Your Captain America, the team leader, and you fell off the couch. We watched. And then you tripped and broke a table. It was pretty damn funny." Natasha pointed out. She started to fill her plate with a couple of pancakes and a fruit salad Asha had made using magical knives.

"I'm sorry I missed that." Bruce chuckled, seating himself and heaping a plate of food. Pietro and Wanda sat in between Tony and Steve, while Vision sat between Clint and Sam who had managed to pick themselves up off of the floor.

"Don't worry, Jarvis recorded it." Tony looked at Steve smugly, who groaned and rolled his eyes. Asha continued to pile the table high with food, and then Wanda's and Visions plates as they didn't take enough according to her. It was something that she had done since she had gotten back, and they hadn't asked why. But now that they had had their night of confessions, they felt that she would answer their questions.

"Why do you fill our plates with so much food?" Vision asked. Asha blinked and head butted him gently on the shoulder.

"True hunger is one of the worst feelings in the world. You will not experience it if I have any say in the matter." Asha told them fiercely.

"How often did you go without food?" Clint asked. Asha smiled sadly.

"From the time I was kidnapped when I was nine until I turned twelve I was allowed two slices of bread and two glasses of water, one in the morning and one at night it I behaved. If I did not, I would get no food for two days. When I turned twelve I was thrown onto the front lines of War and placed in command of the resistance, and food was scarce. I was lucky to eat every other day, and a piece of bread at that. As I had gone the past three years with so little, my magic had evolved to the point where I could go a month without food and I could function perfectly normally. I still get the pains of hunger but I know how to ignore them." Asha shrugged. She turned her serious eyes onto the others.

"Now that I am back none of you shall ever know what it feels like. And if you do know what it is like, the memories shall fade because of me over feeding you." Asha was deadly serious.

"You don't eat enough." Pietro pointed out.

"I can't eat much anymore. I have to slowly reintroduce my body to food. This is because my magic has been running on survival mode for years now and doesn't remember how to act when I'm well fed." Asha shrugged, uncaring. The others went back to their meal.

"Where's Uncle Bucky?" Asha asked, looking around the room. Normally he was one of her biggest eaters, Matching Steve and Bruce and almost on level with Thor.

"He's in the gym. He's been there since he left our discussion last night." Sam told her. Asha frowned at the door, she though she could will him to appear for breakfast. Heaving a sigh when it didn't work, Asha heaped a plate full of food and poured a glass of milk and a cup of coffee.

"I'll go talk to him." Asha said and walked off. The table fell silent until Clint broke it.

"YouTube?" He asked, looking at Tony. Tony smiled evilly back and nodded.

"YouTube." He cackled. The other Avengers cracked up while Steve glared.

"Hey, Uncle Bucky?" Asha called, the door opening as she neared the door. A punching bag flew across the room.

"Hello Asha." He said quietly. Asha smiled at his back as she padded up to him.

"You missed breakfast." Asha's voice was heavy with a gentle disapproval.

"I'm not hungry." Bucky walked away from her stiffly and picked up the broken punching bag. Asha frowned, and sat the plate of food, glass of milk, and coffee cup down on a table Jarvis made appear.

"Thanks Uncle Jarvis." Asha said before following after Bucky.

"What's wrong Uncle Bucky? Talk to me." Asha asked gently, reaching up and putting a hand on his shoulder. He remained silent, not giving her an answer. Asha heaved a sigh, her emerald eyes dimming.

"Do you remember how we met?" she asked. Bucky snorted.

"No one could forget their first time meeting you." Bucky rolled his eyes and sat beside her on the floor, remembering how she made him remember his life before he was the Winter Soldier.

~~Asha hummed as she skipped down a hallway in Shield. The tiny eight-year-old knew something was wrong, and so Asha had followed her Aunt Natasha, Steve, and a man named Sam into Shield headquarters. She had quickly lost track of them, and was wandering around. Her magic was telling her that something big was going to happen, and she listened to her instincts like her Uncle Thor had taught her. Thor may not have had magic but he had been around when Loki had been taught so he had been teaching her what he knew.

As she was so wrapped up in her thoughts, she forgot to pay attention to where she was going and ran into a wall. Looking up, Asha spied a man with a metal arm, shaggy black hair, and black eye makeup surrounding his eyes, that she had thought was a wall. He was staring at her with cold, unfeeling eyes before he started to walk away.

"That's not very nice, mister." Asha told him. He didn't even pause while he walked away. Asha frowned. She had been taught to always say sorry for what she had done, but he wasn't letting her.

Asha smirked, concentrated, and made ice shoot out of her hands. It made the man slip and fall, a look of confusion on his face. Before he could get back up, Asha clambered up and sat on his chest.

"See what I can do now? Daddy was so proud, though Uncle Clint couldn't stop laughing. I didn't know why he couldn't stop laughing until Aunty Nat said it was cuz I learned to make ice because of Frozen. Have you seen Frozen? But if Elsa can do it, why shouldn't I be able to?" Asha told him, looking proud of herself. The man just looked back at her blankly, thinking that she would make a good asset to Hydra but something held him back.

"You haven't? That's ok. Oh! I stopped you because I wanted to say sorry for knocking into you. I didn't mean to, it was an accident. I'm Asha, by the way. Asha Lily Stark. Who are you?" Asha looked at him expectantly. He simply pushed the girl off of him and carefully made his away from her on the ice. Asha pouted and was angry. She sent another blast of ice at him, but because she was angry it froze one of his feet to the ground. His frozen foot made him stumble and fall, and Asha once again sitting on his chest.

"It's not nice to not introduce yourself when someone else introduce themselves. And you should have said 'it's alright' when I said that I was sorry. Steve always is trying to teach everyone in the tower manners. Well, mainly Daddy, Uncle Clint, and sometimes Uncle Thor when he forgets that he is on Midgard and not on Asgard. Are you like Daddy? He didn't use many manners til I came to him and now he just forgets. Or like Uncle Clint? Uncle Clint just ignores you if he does something wrong. Or like Uncle Thor? He forgets." Asha watched the utter confusion break out on his face.

"Do you know your name? I heard Steve and the new guy talking about how someone Steve knew had no memories. Is that you?" Asha asked, poking his nose. Asha sat back on his chest as a sudden thought struck her and she froze his hands - which were moving towards a weapon - to the ground with a jab of her hands. She froze his metal arm all the way up to his skin as she didn't know what it could do.

"Are you him? Cuz if you are, then your an assassassin. Like Uncle Clint and Aunty Nat. But your letting me sit on you. Why? You really don't have any memories do you? I'll help you! I'll get them back!" with out waiting for him to say yes or no, Asha called her power to her. It was golden and sparkly, and Asha smiled at it before poking the man on the forehead. It did nothing other than make his head jerk back.

"Did it work?" Asha asked excitedly. Seeing him glare back and struggle to get out of the ice Asha pouted.

"It was suppose to work." Asha jabbed his head with her finger again. And again. And again. By the eighth time, Asha was extremely angry that it wasn't working.

"WORK! GODS! DAMN! YOU!" Asha finally snarled and her power exploded from her. It blasted her across the hall way and dissolved the ice trapping the man.

"Wow." Asha moaned as she sat up. Shaking her head to clear it, Asha got up and skipped back to the man who was now holding his head.

"Oops? I didn't mean to make it that violent. But did it work?" Asha asked eagerly.

"Yes it did. Come, you need to get out of here." he said. He stood, picked up Asha with his metal arm and started to carry her away.

"But what about Aunty Nat, Steve, and the new guy? And what's your name?" Asha asked.

"James Buchanan Barnes, but you can call me Bucky kid. Do you know where Steve and your Aunty Nat are?" he asked as he walked down a hallway silently.

"Yeah. But they're going to be angry at me for following them." Asha nodded. She gasped suddenly and Bucky tensed.

"Don't tell Daddy that I said a bad word please!" she looked up at him with big, pleading, green eyes.

"I won't as long as you promise not to do it again." Bucky told her. Asha smiled.

"I won't! I promise!" Asha screwed up her nose and the next thing Bucky knew they were standing next to Steve, the new guy, and Aunt Hill.

"Hi Steve!" Asha chirped from her safe spot. The three adults gaped. "Are you okay?" she asked, her head tilting to one side.

"Asha, what did you do this time?" Steve sighed, looking at her with fond exasperation.

"I gave him his memories back! He says I can call him Bucky, and that I was suppose to come find you, that person, and Aunty Nat. Where's Aunty Nat?" she asked, looking around.

"She's dumping all of Shields and Hydra's secrets onto the internet so that everyone will know everything. That way we can shut down Hydra, and the Shield/Hydra." the new guy said helpfully. The three tensed as Bucky set Asha down.

"There is no need for that. I know every single Hydra agent that exists earth, I can take them out." Bucky was interrupted by Asha.

"Ha! I was right! You are an assassassin!" Asha looked incredibly please to have figured this out on her own.

"It's 'A-sass-in' kid." Sam corrected absentmindedly before turning to Bucky. "How do we know your on out side? How do we know that your you?"

"Cuz I'm with him Til the end of the line." Bucky said seriously, looking Steve dead in the eyes. Steve searched his eyes for a moment before breaking out in a big smile.

"I'm glad your back, Buck. You sure you know all of the Hydra agents?" Steve questioned. Bucky nodded once.

"That's good enough for me. Natasha, we have the Winter Soldier with us. He's on our side now. Plans have changed. He and I, and anyone else who wants to, are going to take down their agents. We'll clean up and out Shield and make it what it's supposed to be." Steve said, pressing the ear piece on his ear.

"We have to shut down those other Helicarrier. Or many people will die." Bucky told them seriously.

"We know. We're going to go there next. Asha," Steve started when she cut him off.

"I'm going to go to Daddy." Asha told him. Steve nodded.

"Good." Steve ruffled her hair as she hugged him. She hugged Sam, Hill, and Bucky before she left again with a pop.

"I'm glad that you remember." Asha sighed deeply. Bucky Looked at her, sensing something was off.

"Your memories make you who you are, but I can erase your memories of being the Winter Soldier. I have perfect control over my powers. You would not even know that you have memories missing. I can blend your abilities that you gained into other memories from the war. You personally will change, but you will not know why or even that it has changed." Bucky was looking at her completely speechless. Asha smiled kindly at him.

"I can tell your memories pain you. I do not like to see my family in pain. This is something that would be easy to do but, many things would change, including your relationships with people. It is your choice." Asha told him gently. She curled into him while he thought.

"Thank you, but no. I like my life as it is. I don't want you to try to change my memories." Bucky told her.

"Will you allow me to take the pain from your memories at least? It wont change anything but it will allow the memories to fade enough so that you won't keep having nightmares about them. I know that you do, as I do too. I can't do anything about my nightmares, but you don't need to suffer with them anymore." Asha looked up at him with her big green eyes.

"Sure, kid. Do what you want." Bucky allowed. Asha smiled at him warmly and the next thing Bucky new, all of the memories that he had from when he was the Winter Soldier were hazy. They seemed to have taken on a dream-like quality that hadn't been there before. It made him able to clearly see that he had been forced against his will to fight for them. Looking around, Bucky found that Asha was gone and that there was a plate of food beside him. He ate it, and found that it was still nice and warm.

"Uh, Jarvis, where is Asha?" Bucky asked, walking towards the elevator.

"Miss Asha is in the communal living room, along with Mister Barton, Prince Thor, Miss Wanda, Mister Pietro, Vision, Mister Wilson, and Mister Rogers." Jarvis told him calmly.

"Thank you." Bucky pressed for the floor and was soon entering the floor, and entered a room where he could see off to the side of the living room, only to freeze. The room which was large, was done up to make a giant fort with blankets, pillows, and some chairs from the doorway inwards. There was an entrance and he could see lights and hear hushed noises, over the laugher.

"Hello? Can I come in?" he called out. He could hear shuffling and then Steve's head appeared in the opening.

"Sure, come on in Buck." Bucky followed him into the fort and laughed as he entered the 'main room' of the fort. Wanda and Asha had Pietro and were tickling him while Thor, Sam and Steve lounged in a pile of pillows. Vision was reading some notes, while Clint had somehow managed to make a hammock and was up high watching over everyone. Bucky sat down on a pillow next to Steve and watched as Asha and Wanda abandoned their torture of Pietro and all three were tickling Vision, who was laughing so hard he had tears in his eyes.

Tony, Pepper, Natasha, and Bruce made their way into the fort, and were showed into 'rooms' that had been made. Tony, Pepper, Asha, Pietro, Wanda, Vision, and Steve all ended up in the biggest room, while Bruce and Natasha, got one larger room, and Bucky the other. The two other rooms that were the same size, both just big enough for two people. Clint stayed in his hammock, while Thor and Sam each got a smaller room to sleep in.

"Steve?" Pepper asked hesitantly. The four kids had just fallen asleep, with Vision and Wanda using Pietro as a pillow while Tony and Asha were curled together. All had been asleep for a small while and Pepper wasn't sure if Steve had fallen asleep too.

"Yes, Pepper?" he answered.

"You ever, EVER, hurt my daughter, I will kill you." she told him in a fierce whisper. Steve blinked, looking at her in shock. He didn't think that she would say something like that to him, but he wasn't surprised. He didn't take it personally, as Tony and Pietro had said much the same thing to him. He knew that they were just looking out for the second youngest member of the family.

"I swear to you, I will never hurt her." Steve promised. Pepper nodded.

"Good." she said simply before laying down to go to sleep.