3rd Person's POV

The Avengers aircraft lands at the Avengers headquarters where Barton is taken to have his wound tended to.

As everyone goes separate ways, Maria walks up to Stark.

"Lab's all set up, boss."

Tony smiles and shakes his head while pointing to Steve, "Uh, actually, he's the boss. I just pay for everything, and design everything and make everyone look cooler."

Steve face goes serious as he walks over while carrying Sammie, "What's the word on Strucker?"

Maria frowns for a second while glancing at Sammie in his arms then replies, "NATO's got him."

"The two enhanced?"

"Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. Twins. Orphaned at ten when a shell collapsed their apartment building. Sokovia's had a rough history. It's nowhere special but it's on the way to everywhere special."

Steve shifts from one leg to the other. He wants to know more about the twins but he also needs to get Sammie to a doctor.

"Their abilities?"

"He's got increased metabolism and improved thermal homeostasis. Her thing is neural electric interfacing, telekinesis, mental manipulation."

Steve looks at her funny.

Maria smiles as she rephrases the statement so he can understand, "He's fast and she's weird."

"Well, they're going to show up again."

"Agreed. File says they volunteered for Strucker's experiments. It's nuts."

"Right. What kind of monster would let a German scientist experiment on them to protect their country?"

"We're not at war, Captain."

"They are." He says frowning while looking down at Sammie.

"What happened?" Maria asks almost too quietly.

"Clint said the boy twin, Pietro, knocked her as he ran past her and she hit a tree. Knocked her out instantly. Nat said she didn't see any outside injuries and there was no blood so we're assuming she's okay."

"Get her checked out either way." Maria says nodding her head.

Steve agrees as he walks past her to the closest doctor.

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Waking up Sammie opens her eyes to the bright white hospital room.

"Ugh I feel like I honestly live here."

She hears a low chuckle and instantly knows who it is.

"Stupid twins."

Steve smiles as he looks at Sammie in awe, "You okay there sunshine?"

"No. I feel like I've been hit by a bulldozer. Next time I see Speedy Gonzales I'm gonna fry his a-"

"Sam... do I have to say it?"

Sammie looks over at Steve with a huge smile on her face and love in her eyes.

"Nope I'll do it for you... Language Sam!... See that was good. Sounded just like you."

"Yes you did doll." Steve laughs as he leans over and kisses her forehead.

"So no injuries right? I feel fine... I don't see a cast or sling anywhere."

"Yep you are good to go."

"Awesome."

Sammie jumps off the bed a little too fast not aware of her lack of coordination and starts to fall to the ground. Steve quickly stands and catches her.

"Where's the fire? Careful Sam."

"Sorry." Sammie smiles sheepishly as she stands on her tiptoes and kisses Steve on the cheek.

"Let's go see how Clint is doing."

Steve nods and then holds onto one of her arms, guiding her to the others in Bruce's lab.

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"How's he doing?" Steve asks as he walks in the lab with Sammie by his side.

Tony shrugs, "Oh, unfortunately, he's still Barton."

Bruce smiles, "That's terrible."

Tony waves his hand, "He's fine. He's thirsty. Alright. Look alive, JARVIS. It's play time. We've only got a couple days with this joystick so let's make the most of it. Update me on the structural and compositional analysis."

"You sure he's going to be okay? Pretending to need this guy really brings the team together." Natasha asks Dr. Cho as she tends to Barton's wounds.

Dr. Helen Cho nods, "There's no possibility of deterioration. The nano-molecular functionality is instantaneous. His cells don't know they're bonding with simulacrum."

"She's creating tissue." Bruce says excitingly as he looks very closely at Cho.

"If you brought him to my lab, the regeneration Cradle could do this in twenty minutes."

"Oh, he's flatlining. Call it. Time?" Tony jokes as he looks at his watch.

Clint laughs lowly while shaking his head, "No, no, no. I'm going to live forever. I'm gonna be made of plastic."

Stark hands Barton a drink, "Here's your beverage."

Dr. Helen Cho smiles while looking down at Clint, "You'll be made of you, Mr. Barton. Your own girlfriend won't be able to tell the difference."

"Well, I don't have a girlfriend."

"That I can't fix. This is the next thing, Tony. Your clunky metal suits are going to be left in the dust." Dr. Cho smiles.

"Well, that is exactly the plan. And Helen, I expect to see you at the party on Saturday."

"Unlike you, I don't have a lot of time for parties."

She hesitates a moment before asking, "Will Thor be there?"

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"Let's go! Training in five! You got five minutes to get downstairs!!"

Sammie sits up in her bed then looks over at the empty space beside her, instantly hating her husband. She hurries to the door and peeks her head out seeing Steve knock on every door in the hallway.

She groans and closes the door then heads to the bathroom. As she steps in the bathroom, a weird feeling comes over her. She rushes over to the toilet and throws up. Confused, she flushes the toilet and stands looking at herself in the mirror.

'I don't look sick. Maybe it's a bug. Or just the aftershock of being catapulted into a tree.' She thinks to herself.

After brushing her teeth and putting her hair up, she jumps into the shower. She hums and washes her body without even noticing the door slowly open.

"Doll I said five minutes not hours."

Sammie jumps slightly in surprise then looks over to see Steve standing by the shower with his back turned.

"Steve you do realize you've seen my body already."

"I know but still it's not respectful to look unless you want me to."

Sammie can see the red blush form on his cheeks even in the somewhat foggy bathroom.

"It's okay Steve. And I'm almost done. I'll be down in like two minutes."

"Alright."

He starts to walk towards the door but stops when Sammie calls his name.

"I love you."

"Love you too doll."

Steve finally leaves the bathroom and heads downstairs where all the avengers are except Sammie and Tony. After five minutes is up Tony comes prancing into the room.

"Sorry Tony you're late. You gotta run a lap."

"Wait you were serious about the five minutes?"

Steve nods. Tony frowns then sighs and runs off to do his lap around the workout room. After he finishes he stands beside Thor who is smirking.

"Don't say a word."

Within another five minutes, Sammie interrupts Steve's breakdown of the warm up for the day by running in late.

"Sorry I'm late boss."

She walks up and pecks him on the lips. Then she goes and stands near Natasha. Steve shrugs and then starts to lecture again.

"Wait a second, Capsicle. How come she gets to be late without punishment? I'm late two seconds and have to run a lap... She's late ten minutes and gets a kiss?"

Sammie looks over at Tony and smirks as she waves at him.

"It's because she's your wife... isn't it?"

"Don't hate me cuz you ain't me Tony." Sammie smirks as she puts her hands on her hips.

Tony sticks his tongue out at her making her copy him.

"You two are literally children." Natasha says as she stands in their view of each other.

"No you are!" The two say at the same time, "Jinx... dang it... Jinx. Ugh stop copying me."

"My point exactly." Natasha shakes her head.

Everyone chuckles then finally gets serious. The warm up for the day is fighting each other. First person to give up obviously loses.

"Alright and last thing... no serious injuries. We need to stay sharp and focused at all times."

Everyone stands behind a glass window and watches the first duo go against each other. Natasha and Steve fight until surprisingly Natasha gives up. The fight lasted almost forty five minutes. Sammie and Tony walk into the padded room while both smirking at each other.

"You ready big brother?"

"Oh I was born ready little sis."

A horn blares making the two run towards each other. Sammie ducks and weaves to the right as Tony throws an arm up to punch her. She quickly stands up straight and kicks his side making him lean over holding his abdomen. She pulls her leg up again to kick him but he catches her leg and throws her to the side. She somersaults and stands back up. The two circle each other until Sammie takes a first step and quickly punches Tony in the face.

"Watch the face Dylann! This is the money maker."

"Righhhtt."

Tony frowns as he holds his arm out making his iron man suit appear onto his body.

"Oh so you wanna play the hard way." Sammie smiles.

Tony blasts five small rockets at her and she weaves out the way of every single one. She flips forward and kicks Tony's helmet making him shuffle to the side. As he stumbles she holds her hands out to shoot him with an electric wave but nothing happens. She looks down at her hands and sees that no blue sparks are appearing. Looking confused she holds her head to the side forgetting that she was fighting Tony. At the last second she glances up to see Tony's Iron Man suit kick her. Sammie was pulled off her feet violently and was thrown across the floor. She skidded and tumbled along the ground, uncontrolled until she finally stopped at the other end of the room.

"Ouch that hurt."

She groans as she rolls onto her back looking up at the ceiling.

"Shit Dylann! Are you okay?"

Tony steps out his suit and runs over to her.

"Yeah I think so."

The door bursts open as Steve storms over to the two, "What the hell happened Tony?"

"I don't know. Sammie what was that? Why'd you just stand there?"

"My powers weren't working..."

Everyone stays quiet, silence is the only sound for a minute until Tony speaks up.

"Wait what? What do you mean?"

"Exactly what I said. I tried to use my powers and nothing happened. Like at all."

Everyone's face holds confusion and worry as they watch Sammie struggle to stand up. Tony goes to her left side and holds her arm as Steve goes to her right. The two look at her face which at the moment was growing pale then glance at each other.

"Let's go see Bruce."