(Third POV)
The whole ship was quiet.
Everyone was still trying to process what had happened.
Clint was piloting the ship, saying he was taking them to a safe house. Tony was talking to Maria about if Bruce had a warrant for arrest. Bruce was half asleep but couldn't sleep knowing he hurt a lot of people. Nat, Thor and Steve were still in a daze about what they had seen.
Nova was sitting thinking of what she had saw and trying to hold back her tears so she didn't come off as a wimp in front of the whole team.
Sage was still in her nightmare but she seemed almost peaceful, so everyone just left her alone thinking maybe she woke up and fell asleep from exhaustion. That was until she started squirming and crying in her sleep.
Nova was the first to notice her sisters distress and looked over at her.
"Sage", she whispered and was about to stand up and go to her, but Tony just gave her the look to stay sitting and went to check on Sage himself.
"Sage", he said, kneeling next to her. "Sage, your alright, it's not real, wake up."
All Sage do was start to let out little whimpers and started clawing at her head like there was something in there she was trying to get out.
Tony quickly grabbed her hands and kept them on the ground so she would stop and started shaking her.
"SAGE, please wake up, cmon, snap out of it!", he yelled worriedly.
The rest of the team just sat there in shock watching what was happening, not knowing how to help.
With one final shake Sage snapped her eyes open and sat up straight and into Tony's arms as she hugged him.
"Your okay", Tony whispered, rubbing up and down her back.
"My head hurts", Sage said, but not in her happy child-like voice, but in a more voice that sounds mature and her age.
It kind of scared everyone because she only usually talks like this in missions are when she doesn't realize.
"Yeah, you were clawing at your face", Tony told her.
"No, It hurts on the inside", she explained, putting her hands on her head.
"It was probably because of the girl being in your mind", Clint told her.
Sage didn't think that was it but she just nodded and sat down looking up at the ceiling and thinking about the past.
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When the jet landed they could see they were in the middle of nowhere and a farm house sat happily.
It looked peaceful, was what Nova had thought as she got out and Clint went to help her.
"Nah, I'm fine", Nova waved him off, before half way to the house she fell face first into the mud and Clint just laughed giving her a raised brow before helping her the rest of the way.
Tony was helping Sage who was still acting more mature then she was and not talking any nonsense like she usually would. Which actually worried him a lot.
"Honey, I'm home!", Clint yelled when they entered and Nova laughed thinking it was a joke until she saw a woman turn the corner.
Clint let go of Nova and went over to the woman to give her a kiss and when she looked down her eyes widened at the baby bump the woman had.
"I have company. Sorry, I didn't call ahead", Clint said to the woman.
"This is an agent of some kind", Tony whispered.
"Gentleman and gentlewomen, this is Laura", Clint told everyone, after turning around to their confused looks.
"I know all of your names", she smiled at all them.
Before they could say anything they heard two pairs of footsteps running towards them.
"Oooo, incoming", Clint said, as he bent down to hug the two kids who came running in.
"Dad!", the girl yelled.
"Hi sweetheart, hey buddy", Clint replied giving a kiss to their heads.
"These are smaller agents", Tony whispered again.
Nova was shocked to say the least she wasn't expecting this. She was kind of sad Clint didn't tell her he had a family, but she would be lying is she said she wasn't jealous, because here the person she thought as a father had his own life and kids that she knew nothing about, but that will always be her life the only family she had is Sage.
Clint was still talking with his kids and Nova just decided to turn away from it so no one could see her sadness.
She heard something and looked down to see Thor had stepped on a lego structure and broke it, and then decided to kick it under the couch to hide the evidence.
This made Nova smile a bit until she remembered that toy was one of Clints kids toys and that he had kids which saddened her.
But could she really expect Clint not to have kids or a wife and just think that maybe one day they could move to the country side to live a happy life as father and daughter.
"We don't have enough rooms so everyone will have to bunk up", Clint told them.
And this is how it went.
Nat and Bruce
Tony and Sage
And Steve and Nova
Well Steve said he would sleep on the couch so Nova could have the bed and Nova didn't mind at all.
Thor had also just disappeared into thin air so none knew where he went but that just means more bed space.
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Tony had left Sage upstairs in the bedroom Clint said was there's before going down and outside to see both Steve and Nova chopping wood.
"Where's Thor?", he announced his presence.
"Thor didn't say where he was going for answers", Steve answered, grabbing another piece of wood. "Some of my teammates don't tell me things", he then looked at Clint, who was helping his son, which made Nova glare at Steve. "I was kinda hoping Thor could be an exception."
"Yeah, give him time. We don't know what that Maximoff showed him", Tony said.
Nova internally shivered remembering what the girl- Wanda -had showed her.
(Otherauthor: I bet your all sad Freddie character isn't shivering from those cold blue eyes)
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"Earths mightiest heroes, pulled us apart like cotton candy", Steve said to Tony.
"Seems like you walked out alright", Tony shrugged.
Nova felt very uncomfortable just listening but they were doing it right in front of her so she just kept chopping her wood while listening.
Yeah, turns out chopping wood isn't Nova's strong point. She definitely wasn't the best at chopping wood.
"Put down the axe before you decapitate yourself", Clint told Nova sternly, pointing at her but with a smile on his face nonetheless.
Nova raised her hands in surrender, dropping the axe in the process and it hit the ground, barely missing her foot and almost giving Clint a heart attack.
Nova picked the axe back up when Clint was looking away and went back to absolutely torturing the wood.
"Is that a problem?", Steve questioned as Nova tried to yank her axe out of the wood as it got stuck.
"I don't trust a guy without a dark side, call me old fashioned", Tony said chopping a piece of wood.
"Well, let's just say you haven't seen it."
"You know Ultron's trying to tear us apart, right?"
"Well, I'd guess you'd know. Whether you tell us or not is a bit of a question", Steve said, Tony rolling his eyes.
"Cause it's so bad we're doing research-"
"That would affect the team--"
"That would end the team! Isn't that the mission? Isn't that 'why' we fight, so we can end the fight? So we can go home?", when Tony said this it really got Nova thinking.
If the team ends and they all go home where would Nova and Sage go. They don't have a home, only each other. Would they go back to S.H.I.E.L.D? Or would they leave them out on the streets? They had nowhere to go if this team falls apart. And seeming as Clint has a life and family, Nova can't really ask him to live in the country side with her like she wanted to.
She only snapped back into the conversation when Steve angrily ripped a piece of wood in half with his hands.
It was hot Nova would admit, but seeing as she remembered Steve did it, who she thought of as an uncle, a disgusted face replaced her in awe one.
"Every time someone tries to win a war before it starts, innocent people die. Every time", was what Steve said.
Before Tony could answer a voice cut into the conversation asking for him. It was Laura, Clint's wife.
"Sorry. Mr Stark, Clint said you wouldn't mind, but our tractor doesn't seem to want to start at all. I thought maybe-"
"Yeah", Tony cut her off with a wave of his hand.
He turned around walking towards the barn before turning back for a second, "Don't take from my pile", before walking off.
It was quiet for a few seconds before Steve looked around and saw a bucket before turning around back to Nova with a grin.
"I bet you can't fit your foot in that bucket."
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That was how Clint was running away from where he was with his wife to where Nova was.
Nova had tried fitting her foot in the bucket and when she tried taking the bucket off it got stuck.
And when Steve couldn't pull it off he went and woke up Sage who was less then thrilled about being awake, which was weird for her, as the pain in her head was still there.
When Clint turned the corner he was met with the sight of Steve pulling the bucket on Novas foot and Sage with her arms under Nova's underarms and pulling her backwards.
"What the hell! Do I look like a stretchy toy to you?", Nova yelled.
"Maybe", was Sages blunt reply.
They then started pulling again causing Nova to scream and try get out of their grips.
"What happened here", Clint laughed walking up to them.
"Nova got her foot stuck in a bucket", Steve said.
"You told me to!", Nova yelled.
"No, I said I bet, I never told you to", Steve corrected.
"Same thing!", she said.
"Cmon, let's go inside and get some soap to try get it off", Clint smiled, grabbing Novas hands and helping her up.
"And of that doesn't work?", Nova questioned as she limped because her foot was still stuck in the bucket.
"Then we get Tony to use his suit to laser it off", Clint joked, but Nova didn't know that.
"WHAT!", she screamed.
"I'm joking, well unless the soap doesn't work", he told her.