Future talk
Clint was alone with the kids for the day. Steve and Bucky had to go on a mission so here he was, being stared out by two out of three children. He smiled sheepishly at Bruce and Natasha's stares as he tried to explain. "So yeah, Stevie and Buck-a-roo have a mission that might take a few days, they promise to call if they can but..." He shrugged a little, Natasha snorts a bit.
"You realise we are not really children?" The small girl asked, her green eyes almost glowing in annoyance. "We do not need re-assurance that Barnes and Rogers will be returning." She says with crossed arms, Clint scoffs a little at that.
"I'm sorry but who cried for an hour the other night because both of them forgot to tuck her in-shit" He dodged a fork being thrown at his head and glares at her. "That's not nice Natasha" He warns and she turns her head away in annoyance. Bruce takes the opportunity to speak.
"S..So does this mission have anything to do with getting us back to normal?" He asks tentatively and Clint gave him a sad look. He sighed heavily.
"We are still struggling to find a way to reverse it. SHIELD got intel that one of the HYDRA bases we know of have the formula to reverse this....but we haven't found it yet. They'll keep looking but we're having to look into some stuff for now until then." He says awkwardly, Natasha and Bruce share a look.
"Like what?" Natasha finally asks and Clint cracks a small re-assuring smile.
"Well...School for you and Nursery for Bruce, day-care for Tony. We don't know how long you'll be stuck like this and if we can't..." Bruce sighs heavily.
"Then you might as well get us on the right track." He finishes for him. "What about me and Tony. Tony can't really disappear from the public eye." He reminds and Clint nods softly.
"Tony already gave permission that if there's no reversal that he wants the public to know he's been regressed and that when he's comfortable enough for them to see him then he will return to the public." Clint shrugs and Bruce stares in shock, Natasha snorts but nods a little.
"I see why he'd want to. It'd be too much work for Pepper alone." She mumbles but a small shift to the side shows how uncomfortable she is. "I don't want to go to school. Children are...loud." She finishes and Clint lets out a loud laugh of his own.
"Natasha. We'd send you to a school for the gifted. You'd be around peers, same goes for Bruce if he gets old enough." He shrugs a bit and they both groan simultaneously, Bruce jumps down from his chair with a small pout on his lips.
"And what? You expecting us to run home all excited like 'look what I made today'?" Natasha asks, watching Bruce shuffle over to the fruit bowl and grab an apple. Clint shrugs a little.
"Not really but like I said, you might learn new things whilst your this young. We'd be staying out here anyways" He responds casually taking Bruce's apple, to his protest, and pealing it and handing it back.
"I'm not going." Natasha states simply, Clint shrugs.
"I mean...you could keep trying to refuse but SHIELD's already working on a school, nursery and Day care for all three of you, and I'm sure you don't want Fury showing up to drag some freshly spanked butts to school" He responds and Bruce looks up from his apple in confusion. Clint smiles at him a bit. "Like I said, don't worry about it now but we'll talk more when the time gets closer." He says casually.
"Now go watch TV whilst I wake diaper butt" He shoo's them away and leaves to deal with Tony.
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A large group of construction workers and SHIELD members wondered around the almost complete building. Phil Coulson and Nick Fury watching over everything that goes into it, Nick raised an eyebrow at the especially colourful room. "This is going to be the day care?" He asks, wondering around the large room, Phil looks over.
"Mhm, it's out fitted with the latest Stark Tech and is made to be as 'exciting' and safe as possible." He pauses. "So do you think we should mention that they're not the only ones who got affected." Phil mentions and Nick glares at him slightly.
"We'll mention it IF we need to. I'm hoping that if we fix them before the end of the week then we can just sell this school." He mutters in annoyance. "Don't get me wrong, I don't mind having them around but it's so hard dealing with them, especially without Clint." Nick mutters and Phil gives him a teasing grin.
"You just want him around because he's good with kids." Nick snorts a bit in annoyance and Phil just grins a bit. "On the bright side, if they can't go back to normal this school goes all the way up to college with some of the best and most regarded teachers in the world." Phil shrugs a bit. "Come on, we need to make sure they're putting things in correctly. May's probably holding back on stabbing people" Phil says casually and Nick chuckles, landing a small kiss on the back of the mans neck before leaving Phil standing there blinking
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Bruce sat with Natasha quietly as the TV played some animal documentary. Bruce was sat with Clint's tablet in his hands whilst it played, trying to access his emails but his hands weren't co-ordinated enough. Natasha glanced at him with a small smirk and brought her hand over to help him write his Email in. "I can do it." He grumbles and she just chuckles.
"I know, but I wanted to." She states and he puffs out his cheeks, writing in his password he finally starts looking through his emails. Natasha leaves him be as she looks around the room and spots a very angry Tony sat in a baby bouncer that was attached to the door. He couldn't move without it bouncing him a little and it was clear it was annoying him, Natasha smirked at him a bit as he flushed in either embarrassment at being looked at or anger over her smirk.
"Out" He demands, giving Natasha a pointed look. The girl grins a bit more and shuffles over to the baby, Tony watches her closely and chokes on a sob as she pokes his diaper.
"Oh wow you.." She pauses seeing his tears. "Sorry Tony, I'll get Clint" She says softly, the smile leaving her face as she saw how distressed the boy was. She left the room quickly to find Clint. The man himself was on the phone. "Clint." She says softly.
"No. I don't care, if you have to torture it out of him we need the cure. They have lives they want to get back-....I'll call you back." He hangs up the phone and looks at Natasha with a soft smile. "Hey Tasha, what's the matter?" He asks, getting on his knees a bit. The girl flushed a brilliant shade of red and had to breath deeply to get through the childish feeling on running into his arms.
"Tony....needs a change.." She points to the front room, Clint raises a brow.
"I literally changed him ten minutes ago, he did not seriously have more pee in him." He says surprised, Nat shook her head lightly and sighed.
"He urm...didn't....pee" She mumbles and Clint's face goes blank, the three adults had been concerned because Tony wasn't really using his bowls since he'd been shrunk. That'd been a week ago and they'd started slipping laxatives into his formulas, of course Bucky and Steve just had to go away on a mission when this happened.
"Ok. Shit yeah-wait urm.." He goes into the front room, Natasha trailing behind him as Tony covers his face and lets out a heart broken whimper. Clint felt his heart twinge in sympathy for the boy as he lifted him out of the bouncer. "Hey big guy" He mumbles, Tony shoved his head into Clint's should and sobbed into it and Clint felt even worse. "It's ok, this was bound to happen." He rubs circles into his back gently and smiles as the boy starts to calm, making his way to the nursery to begin the change.
"No go again." Tony mumbled after the ordeal, Clint winced at the ten wet wipes and sighed a bit as he taped the diaper up. The boy whimpered again as Clint then clipped the vest in place and lifted Tony up.
"I know it's not fun big guy" He mumbles, his hand running over Tony's back as the boy sobs more into his shoulder. "I know, I know. But you can't just not go Tony. You have no control" He mumbles and winces a bit as Tony lets out a loud sob. "I promise no ones gonna tease you about it. The most you'll get is stink bug." He mumbles and he feels a small smirk on the babies face.
"Like Pe'er." He mumbles and Clint grins nodding.
"Yeah like you do to Peter when he comes back from patrol. All smelly and gross." He grinned a bit as the boy giggles. "You can stay in my arms whilst I make dinner if you want. I'm not going to leave you alone in the bouncer again." He mumbles, Tony sniffles a little and nods into Clint's neck.
"...Stay wit' 'oo." He mumbles, his thumb finding it's way into his mouth. Clint smiled a little and holds Tony closer to him as he leaves to start on food. Tony didn't let go at all, not until it was bath time, But that's another story.