Nurture

"Daddy! Daddy!" Francis says, running towards the door as Steve makes his way inside after talking with Bruce.

"Hey, buddy!" Steve says, kneeling down so he can hug his son. "Where's your mother?"

He looks around the front room, trying to spot Bucky anywhere, but he can't find him. Maybe he's resting? Steve hopes that's what he's doing.

However, he does spot Sam walking over to them from down the hall.

"Daddy!" Francis says. "Iron Man made mommy cry."

Steve looks at Francis, surprised to hear that, but at the same time he's also not surprised to hear it. Though he wants to know exactly what Tony had said and done to make Bucky cry.

"What?" He asks, looking up at Sam as he stops near them, looking ready to tear someone's throat out. "Sam, what happened?"

Sam sighs. "Stark happened." He says. "Buck and I went to get Francis, and Tony's daughter, Morgan, and that Spider Kid, Parker, was there. Tony came running in not long after and yelled at Bucky. Telling him he doesn't want him going anywhere near his daughter. Among other stuff."

Upon hearing that, Steve has to stop himself from running out of the room and giving Tony a piece of his mind. Although he's still going to have a word with him for sure. No one makes Bucky cry.

"Where is he now?" He asks, standing up.

"He's shut himself up in your room." Sam says. "Wanda has tried to get him to unlock the door, but he won't budge." He frowns. "I think he'll only open the door for you."

Steve is off towards the bedroom before Sam is even finished speaking. He needs to comfort Bucky, and tell him everything's okay. Then afterwards he needs to go have a word with Tony.

A word that probably won't be very friendly, but he doesn't care.

"Steve." Wanda sighs in relief as she spots Steve heading her way with Francis trailing along behind him. "Finally! He won't unlock the door."

Steve nods, standing in front of the door as Wanda moves out of the way. He knocks on the door, listening for any movement on the other side. When he doesn't hear anything, he knocks again a little louder.

"Bucky, it's me." Steve says. "Can you open the door, please?"

No reply.

"Bucky." He sighs. "Please. It's okay."

"Open the door, mommy!" Francis says, knocking on the door before pressing his ear up against it. "Mommy, don't cry!"

Steve rests a hand on his son's shoulder as he looks down at him. He has the side of his face pressed to the door as he knocks on it. His eyes screwed shut as he tries to listen for moveen on the other side of the door.

"Why he not opening the door, daddy?" Francis asks, looking up at Steve.

Steve shakes his head. "I don't know, buddy."

Actually, he has a few guesses. Some he doesn't wish for Francis to hear. Though his biggest guess may be because Bucky just wants to be alone right now. He hopes that's the case any way. He's not sure what he'd do if Bucky's done anything stupid.

"Bucky, please." Steve sighs. "Please open the door. Don't make me break it down."

He'd rather not kick the door down, but unless Bucky unlocks it or gives a sign that he wants to be left alone right now, then that's exactly what he'll have to do. Even if it gets Tony more pissed off at them, but that's the least of Steve' worries right now.

Hearing a click, Steve stands back as the door finally opens. Though Bucky doesn't say a word as he returns to the bed.

Steve makes his way into the room, Francis following behind him, and walks over to Bucky as he lays on his side on the bed facing away from him.

"Buck." Steve starts, sitting on the bed next to him and rubbing a hand around his back. "It's okay."

"No it's not." Bucky says. "Tony will do whatever it takes to get me out of here. He doesn't want me here and you know it. He believes I'm a danger, and I shouldn't be around children." He lets out a small whimper. "We should never have left Wakanda. We should have never left the one place where we were most welcome."

Steve has to stop the growl rising in his throat. How dare Tony say that! He does understand why Tony has all this hostility towards him, but that doesn't give him any right to say that.

And maybe Bucky's right. Maybe they shouldn't have left Wakanda. They definitely felt and were much more welcome there than they are here, but they've got to get Bucky's trial over with. They had to come back here to take care of Bucky's trial.

Maybe they should've just found a place here for themselves instead of going to Tony for help. That way they wouldn't have to deal with Tony acting so hostile towards them.

Hopefully after they've spoken to the others about everything, they can take Tony aside and speak with him in private. That is.... If he's willing to listen to what they have to say. So far, he's shown no signs of willingness to talk with them about what happened.

On the other hand though, Steve isn't sure if Bucky's ready to talk about it either.

It needs to be done though, and all they can hope for is that Tony will at least try to be civil about it and not so hostile. Judging by his clear feelings towards he, right now though, they might be asking for a little too much.

Bucky rolls over so he's looking up at Steve. "Maybe we should just leave." He sighs. "Give Tony what he wants."

It would give Tony exactly what he wants. And that's for them to leave. But Steve isn't so sure that they'd be able to find somewhere for themselves so easily and quickly. He has a look at some houses online, but it likely wouldn't be very quick and easy for them to get one just yet.

"I know." Steve sighs. "I've had a quick look at some places online, but I doubt that it would be very easy for us to get our own place so soon."

Bucky nods, but doesn't say anything. He knows Steve is right. It won't be easy for the to get their own place. But he doesn't want to stay somewhere where he's not wanted. And he's clearly not wanted here.

"I don't wanna leave." Francis says, as he climbs onto Steve's lap. "I like it here, daddy."

At least someone likes it here....

"I know you do, buddy." Steve says. "But we've gotta get our own place eventually. We can't stay here forever."

"Why do we have to?" Francis asks. "I wanna stay."

Steve sighs, looking over at Bucky who's watching their son with sad eyes. Their son wants to stay here, but Tony doesn't want them to stay here at all. They're not wanted here.

The only ones here that have been welcoming to them are Sam and Wanda. And Vision, but somehow Steve feels as though he's only being kind and welcoming to them to keep Wanda happy.

Though he's not so sure about Clint and Natasha. He hasn't really spoken with them since he and Bucky came here. He'd suspect Clint is welcoming to them, they did fight on the same side five years ago, but then again... that might not mean anything.

Then Natasha.... He's got no idea on how she feels about all of this. She's not easy to read after all.

"We just can't stay here forever, bud." Steve says, not having the heart to tell him that not everyone is very welcoming here towards Bucky. "There won't be enough room."

Technically there's plenty of room here for them all, but it would be best for them to find their own place. Somewhere out in the country away from the city maybe.

Francis nods. "Can we get more goats?"

"Of course we can." Steve says, as he notices the way Bucky looks up at him as soon as the word goats came out of their sons mouth.

Steve knows that Bucky loves goats. Though, they're not exactly the type of animal that Steve was expecting Bucky to love the most. But that all changed after T'Challa had put him in charge of looking after all the goats in Wakanda.

"You like the sound of moving out into the country and raising a goat farm?" Steve asks.

Bucky nods, moving around so he's sitting up a little and leaning on Steve. "Of course." He smiles, resting his head on Steve's shoulder. "That sounds perfect."

"Great." Steve smiles. "Well we can do that." He assures him. "Just as soon as your trial is over, we can do that."

******

"What the hell is your problem?" Steve says, as he walks into Tony's lab, finding him doing some sort of modification to one of the Iron Man suits.

He finds Bruce and that spider kid, Peter Parker in here too, but he's not worried about them. All he's worried about is having a word with Tony. A friendly word though? Decidedly not. There won't be anything friendly about what he's going to have a word with Tony about. Especially not when the guy made Bucky upset.

Tony looks up, frowning as he sees Steve standing there, clearly pissed. "Well... my problem right now is fixing up my new suit." He says. "I don't think I know what you're talking about.

Steve rolls his eyes. Of course Tony would try and act like he doesn't know what's wrong.

"You know what the fuck I'm talking about, Stark." He says, as he grabs Tony by his shirt, pushing him up against the wall next to them.

Of course Tony knows what he's talking about.

"Oh, that. Right." Tony says. "Your psycho omega was near my daughter. And I don't want him anywhere near her." He says, trying to pry Steve's arms off of him. "Not when he can snap at any moment and hurt her."

A growl rises in Steve's throat. Tony called Bucky a psycho and accused him of being unstable. Bucky is neither of those, nor would he ever harm someone, let alone a child.

"Tony, Bucky would never hurt your fucking daughter." He growls, pushing him up against the wall more. "And he's not a psycho."

"Get off me!" Tony says, finally getting himself free from Steve's grasp. "You just haven't seen it yet, Rogers. Just wait. Barnes will snap, and when he does, I just hope you make the right choice and take your kids far away from him."

"Well he'll fucking snap if you or anyone else tries to take our kids from him." Steve says, just about ready to tear Tony's throat out.

He can't believe what he's hearing. Tony truly believes that Bucky's a danger. He's most definitely not. All of Hydra's programming is gone, and it's Hydra's version of the Winter Soldier that's the danger, not Bucky. Bucky hasn't been that in five years. The Winter Soldier isn't who Bucky is anymore.

"M-Mr. Stark?" Peter says all of a sudden, as he slowly walks over to both Steve and Tony. "Bucky wasn't going to-" He doesn't get to say the rest of his sentence as Tony stops him.

"Shut up, kid!" He shouts. "This doesn't concern you."

Steve notices Peter shrink back and move over to Bruce - who's not said a word this entire time.

"Tony." Steve says. "You don't have to yell at the kid."

He knows from experience that a lot of omegas don't like being yelled at. Bucky doesn't like being yelled at, especially while he's pregnant, and especially not after all that Hydra had done to him.

"I'll do whatever the fuck I want, Rogers." Tony says. "And if you want you and your omega to stay here, then you best shut up and deal with it."

Steve goes to retaliate, but the warning glance Bruce sends his way stops him. A fight wouldn't be the best idea, but that doesn't stop Steve from wanting to rip Tony's throat out.

Instead, he just punches Tony in the face, before he turns to leave. And thankfully, Tony makes no move to follow him. Steve doesn't want Tony to follow him anyway.

Though he only gets about halfway down the hall towards the elevator when peter comes running towards him.

"Steve." Peter calls, running over to him. "Wait!"

Sighing, Steve stops, turning around to face the kid. "What?" He asks, as Peter stops next to him. "What is it?"

Peter shifts on the spot a little, not meeting Steve in the eye. "I-I uh..." He starts. "I just want to know if Bucky's alright."

Steve smiles a little, nodding. "He's okay." He says. "He will be okay."

He's sure Bucky will be okay, though he knows for sure that Bucky will be much better once they find their own place once the trial is over with.

And Steve just hopes the trial goes well.... Bucky's lawyer, Benjamin Linus is hopeful that it'll go well, but Steve truthfully isn't too sure. Bucky may not be free of all charges, but he can only hope that if he gets locked up, it won't be for very long.

Peter nods. "I'm sorry for how Tony is treating him." He says. "I-I'd try and talk with him, but I don't think he's willing to listen."

Steve nods. "Thank you." Hey says. "But you don't need to do anything."

He appreciates it, but Peter doesn't have to do anything for them. He doesn't expect him to do anything for them.

"I know." Peter says. "B-but if there is ever anything you both need, I-I don't mind helping."

"I'll keep that in mind, thank you." Steve smiles, finding himself glad that Peter is being kind and willing to help out if need be.

Peter smiles. "Great." He looks over his shoulder back towards Tony's lab. "I uh... should... probably head back now." He says. "I have to finish putting new modifications on my web shooters."

"Alright, kid." Steve says. "And thank you."

With that, Peter nods, before he's running off back towards Tony's lab.

Steve watches on after him, glad that there's one other person here that's welcoming towards them. Though he wasn't exactly expecting it to come from Peter, but then again he barely knows the kid, nor does he know how old he is - and he finds himself not wanting to know how old he was when Tony had recruited him five years ago during the breaking of the Avengers in Berlin.

Shaking his head, he heads towards the elevator and makes his way back to Bucky and their son. He's had his talk with Tony, and now all he wants to do, is get back to Bucky and their son

And the sooner he does, the better.