S: Come on. We have to go.

Natasha was still crouched with the baby in her arms, next to her mother's dead body.

Steve grabbed Natasha's arm and got her to her feet.

S: Let's go!

Natasha and Steve ran to the building they were going before and immediately went up the stairs to the last floor.

S: Do you think we'll be safe here?

Steve didn't hear Natasha respond, he was doing an on-site survey, he walked over to her and Natasha was sitting on the floor, holding the baby who was still crying.

Steve saw tears coming down Natasha's face and crouched next to her.

S: Nat?

N: She is alone in this world.

S: No, she is not. We found her.

N: If we hadn't stopped as you said...

S: But we stopped! We saved her! She'll be fine.

N: Her mother...

Natasha couldn't stop crying.

N: It's not fair. This is not life. We must defeat Thanos.

S: We will.

Steve hugged Natasha and sat down next to her.

S: Can I try?

Steve reached out to pick up the baby and Natasha handed her to Steve.

Steve looked at the baby and moved her from one side to the other slightly.

S: Sh... Hush, hush... You're fine... Sarah. It's your name, right?

Incredibly the baby stopped crying and just kept mumbling, looking at Steve.

S: That's my mother's name, you know that? You're beautiful like her.

Natasha looked at Steve and she watched the way he treated the baby.

It was so unfortunate that he hadn't the opportunity to see James at that age and his unborn daughter, Maggie... He's a good father and to have taken this opportunity from him, it was totally mistaken and she'll never forgive herself for it.

Natasha got up and walked to the window, she watched the sky getting darker and looked at Steve.

N: We made a mistake. I made a mistake!

Steve looked at Natasha and frowned.

S: What are you talking about?

Steve thought Natasha was referring to the baby's rescue.

N: We need to go!

S: It's getting dark. We can't.

N: I know, but she'll be hungry, she'll cry and scream. We have nothing to feed her here. We have to go!

Steve understood what Natasha said and nodded, he stood with Sarah in his lap, and the two of them made their way down the stairs quickly, until they reached the ground floor and ran as far as they could until they left the perimeter of the city.

After a few hours of running, Steve looked at Natasha who came a little further back.

S: You need to rest, we have to stop.

N: No, we can't stop. I'm afraid that some of them saw us coming this way. We have to continue.

S: It doesn't matter, we do like the other time, we skip flying in the opposite direction until we get back on the route.

N: I can go on, the distance is shorter now...

S: Yes, we are almost there. Just one more hour.

And the two of them ran on an arid region with little vegetation and a few rocks.

Natasha still had to stop once or more to catch her breath, she demanded that Steve continue and that he should go without her if necessary, but of course he refused.

S: I'll carry both of you, if necessary.

Natasha, who was sitting on a small rock, tried to catch her breath and shook her head.

N: Come on.

Natasha gathered her last strength to run to the plane on a lower level valley, so the plane was out of sight of any creature watching them from the city.

Steve and Natasha got inside the plane and Steve closed the gate.

Natasha threw herself on the floor, feeling exhausted.

Steve approached her.

S: Are you okay?

Natasha nodded.

N: Water...

Steve went to the nearest closet and got water for Natasha, he handed the bottle to Natasha who opened it and took a long sip.

S: I need to take off. Can you hold her?

N: Yes. Just bring me a blanket.

Natasha held out her arms and Steve handed Sarah to her.

S: Can't you stand up?

N: Not now.

S: Will you stay with her there, on the floor?

N: Yeah. Just take the blanket and let's get out of here.

Steve went to one of the benches and pulled underneath that bench, a kit with a blanket, sheet, lifejacket, and a few other things.

Steve took the blanket from the kit and handed it to Natasha.

Natasha put the blanket on the floor beside her and laid Sarah on the blanket, she wrapped her with the blanket.

Natasha looked at Steve.

N: Go.

Steve was worried about the baby being on the floor, but then he remembered that Natasha had taken care of James, she must know what she's doing.

Steve went to the pilot's seat, he sat down and activated the airplane's turbines, then took off.

Steve piloted manually just to detour the path to detect possible threats and then he put the plane back on the route and activated the autopilot.

When Steve got up to check Natasha and the baby, he noticed they were both asleep. Natasha was laying on the floor and she left the baby close to her body to keep her warm and secure.

Steve took another kit under the seat and removed another blanket, he opened the blanket and put it over Natasha's body.

Natasha opened her eyes in fright as she felt the blanket over her body but she calmed down at the sight of Steve and noticed where she was.

Steve sat on the bench facing Natasha.

S: Do you feel better?

N: Yes.

S: How is she?

N: Complete.

Natasha sighed and looked at Sara.

N: Tony will freak out.

S: I'll talk to him.

N: You know the procedure... She will be isolated. 72 hours.

Steve shook his head.

S: I'll stay with her there for 72 hours, if necessary.

Natasha looked at Steve and he was determined.

When they arrived with the baby in the bunker, there was no other way. Tony and Logan complained a lot about the baby and demanded the 72-hour isolation.

Steve kept his promise, he spent the 72 hours in the F-wing chamber along with the baby.

S: They're taking a lot of blood from you, aren't they? Every day they come and stick you. It hurts, I know. It's ending, I promise.

The baby was looking at Steve and just blinked.

S: I know it's a lot of news to you that is so tiny, but you're going to be well treated here. I'll guarantee that. We will find a family for you or you'll stay in our mini-orphanage that's not too bad also...

The baby made some sound that Steve understood as if it was a protest, he gave his finger for Sarah hold while talking to her.

S: It's not bad, but you're going to have to share Aunt Pepper's attention with a lot more kids, but you're the youngest, you'll get special attention.

The baby made another sound and Steve smiled.

S: I'll visit you yes, I'll always see you.

Steve smiled again and shook Sarah's hand.

Steve went silent for a few minutes watching Sarah and reflecting on his lost daughter.

S: Would Maggie look like you? You don't know who she is, I know. I think you remind me of her because you're a baby too. I'm glad I found you.

- I think James would be jealous.

Steve nodded toward the chamber door to watch Natasha coming in now.

Steve looked at Sarah and shook his head.

S: He has nothing to worry about.

Natasha approached Sarah's crib and smiled at her.

S: After all she's going to our orphanage.

Natasha looked at Steve.

N: Are you sure?

S: Well, no. I didn't want her to go to that place, do you think any family would accept her? It's so hard for someone to want a baby. It would be a lot better if she got someone who really cares about her and treats her in a special way.

N: You mean like you?

Steve looked at Natasha.

N: Steve, you're alone. You can keep her.

S: What? Me? I can't keep her.

N: Why not?

Natasha walked around the crib to get closer to Steve.

N: You certainly have a huge void inside you... You were already expecting a baby that never came... But now, you found one and I don't think it was random.

Steve was staring at Natasha with an expression of who was thinking about what she had just said, he sighed and looked at the baby.

S: I don't think I can, I'm not married. She needs a mother.

N: Steve... If she goes to the orphanage, she will have no father and no mother. But with you, she would at least have a father.

Steve was smiling like a fool, even without realizing, with the possibility of he staying with Sarah.

N: She will have the best father.

Steve looked at Natasha, impressed.

N: James thinks you are.

S: He's very young.

N: And he's already crazy about his dad. He's been asking for you.

S: I'm missing him so much. I should have come up to get him, but...

N: I know. He will understand.

Natasha stroked Steve's arm and looked at Sarah.

N: She's beautiful. You deserve her.

Steve looked at Sarah and smiled.

S: I'm going to need help.

N: Well... You can count on me. And there are a lot of people to help out, Steve.

After another 24 hours, Sarah was released to join the bunker community and because she's a child, there is a public hearing to decide her fate.

Some family could offer to take care of her and if no one volunteer, the child is sent to the orphanage in the care of Pepper Potts and now also in the care of Jean Gray, who joined Pepper to help orphaned children.

During the hearing of Sarah, there was a committee formed by civilians and there were the final judges, the professor Charles Xavier and Tony Stark.

As soon as Tony asked who wanted to adopt Sara, there was a great silence in the middle of the audience.

Children mean responsibilities, cost and time. No one wanted to stay with children, especially babies, who tended to get sick in an environment like the bunker.

Natasha was next to Steve and looked at him.

N: Go.

Steve looked at Natasha, still feeling uncertain whether or not to ask for Sarah's custody. It's a lot of responsibility and inside the bunker, he already has several responsibilities.

S: What if they call me for an emergency? How will I take care of her?

N: The way I do with James, I leave him with someone that I trust until I get back.

S: What if I don't come back from this emergency? How does she stay?

N: I always wonder that when I leave James with someone and honestly... I don't know... you'll never know... Steve, you will always be afraid. That's what it means being a father, it's living in fear that something may happen to your child all the time, and it's forever.

T: Well, if no one here is going to volunteer, I would like to apply.

Natasha and Steve looked at Tony in amazement.

T: I am the owner of the bunker because I built it, I am still rich in different ways... Me and Ms. Pepper, we're in a serious relationship again and this time it's for real. Anyway, we talked and decided that a baby would help us to keep our relationship healthier and since the baby came here in the bunker, we thought: Why not? And I think I'm quite capable of taking care of the baby. And don't forget that Ms. Potts works with children, she takes care of the children at the orphanage very well, right Pepper?

Pepper who was in the first row with Sarah in her arms stood up, smiling and nodded.

Pepper: What Tony wanted to say is that Sarah will be loved and safe with us, which is more important.

T: Pepper, honey, I told you to call her Dorothy. That's the name we chose for her.

Steve and Natasha were so incredulous, that they couldn't react immediately.

Natasha approached the counter.

N: Tony, you were even complaining about her arriving here in the bunker.

T: Just as I complain about anyone who comes from outside to here. For security and protocol reasons, it was nothing personal against the child.

N: Tony, you can't do this, she has a name and you want to change it.

P: I told him that, Nat.

T: She's very young, she doesn't even know her name is Sarah yet. Anyway, why are you getting into this?

S: Because I want her.

Again, a silence filled the room as everyone looked back to stare at Steve Rogers, who was now approaching the counter and facing Tony.

T: Excuse me? Did I hear you right?

S: I'm sorry, Tony, I was going to say it earlier but you soon announced that you wanted her too and I was in too much shock to react.

Tony stood up from the counter and walked over to Steve, Natasha and Pepper.

T: I think if we were in a real court, the guard would be mine, because I have a bride and it's the healthiest home for a baby to be.

S: What do you understand about children, Tony?

T: Nothing, but I have Pepper.

S: And I have James.

T: Oh for God's sake, Rogers, you've been a father for what? A year?

S: True.

N: It wasn't his fault, Tony. Steve deserves to be with Sarah, she is already used to him, he knows how to make her stop crying, he stayed 72 hours next to her in isolation. How many times have you visited her there?

Tony was silent.

Natasha looked at Pepper.

N: And you?

Pepper shook her head.

Sarah got scared by everyone screaming near her, she woke up and started crying hysterically.

P: Sh...

Pepper shook Sara lightly, but it was only making her crying worse.

Pepper looked at Natasha and then at Steve.

P: We didn't know you intended to be with her, Steve. We thought she would ended up at the orphanage and we thought we could take care of her and make her ours, but that decision only came a day ago.

Steve looked at Pepper and realized she was being honest.

S: I didn't say anything either, I was still thinking about it.

Steve stroked Sarah's back to try to calm her down a bit, then Steve looked at Pepper.

S: I'm sure you and Tony would be great parents to her.

P: You too.

Pepper handed Sarah over to Steve.

Steve looked at Sarah and moved her from side to side. Sarah was still bawling a lot, but Steve began to talk to her in a lower tone and gradually her hysteria subsided and she was silent.

- I think that says a lot.

The four of them turned and looked at Professor Charles Xavier approaching in his wheelchair.

CX: You can have her, Steve.

T: Excuse me, but what?

Pepper intertwined Tony's arm.

P: We can wait for another baby.

CX: Or maybe you're already expecting one.

Pepper's eyes widened and she looked at the professor.

P: Am I?

T: Really?

Charles smiled and nodded.

Pepper hugged Tony and kissed his lips to celebrate.

Natasha looked at Steve.

N: Congratulations, Dad. You have a baby girl now.

Steve looked at Natasha and smiled.