Four years.

It had been four long years since the rogue Avengers had last laid eyes on familiar surroundings. Their old home, the tower, had been stripped and sold by Tony after Civil War had taken place between them. Their new home, in Steve's opinion looked much nicer.

Cozier even.

It looked...nice for a three story building laid out over almost twenty miles of land, while the rest of it was a training facility. Looking out of the window of the Quinjet, he could see miles upon miles of nothing but training areas, carefully put together for the purpose of sparring, enhancing speed, close quarter's combat, long distance combat and many other things.

"It looks nice." Bucky's voice mumbled from somewhere over his shoulder, causing him to turn his head and look at his childhood friend as he peeked over the back of his seat.

Steve would have thought that after the events that had happened in Siberia, that Tony would never forgive Bucky for his role in the deaths of his parents.

However Tony had spent the past four years re writing the accords, pushing them through the accords committee, who then passed them through congress, got them signed by the president and hereby gotten them all- former fugitives from the law, pardoned of their crimes so that they could come home.

"We'll be landing in a few minutes." Bucky said as he studied the scenery from over Steve's shoulder. Uncertain about what would happen once they landed.

Steve made a humming sound but didn't really say anything in regards to how things might go once they were off the jet and face to face with Tony again after so long. After all things could only go so many ways.

Either Tony had forgiven them. Or he hadn't.

All he knew was that Tony hadn't donned his armor and come up to shoot down the jet with them inside it- so...he was kind of hopeful that things would go well?

It was raining like piss pouring out of a boot. And she was dripping wet, again. Tony thought to himself as he looked his girl over from head to toe.

All of the work that she had put into choosing some nice, but comfortable clothing for today's occasion- what little bit of makeup that she had bothered to wear. Hell even the nice up off of her nape hair style that she'd had- were all ruined. And to make matters all that much worse for her- he, Bruce, Vision and Thor were being pains in her proverbial backside.

Almost literally.

"You shouldn't be out here in this whether-" Tony started after taking several moments to flat out glare at her with barely suppressed fury at her for not having the common sense to either get out of the fucking rain or at least bring a damned umbrella.

She sighed knowing that he was only angry with her because he was worried about her. And apparently didn't like her 'neglecting' her own health when he and the others were simply trying to take care of her.

She understood very well where he was coming from. Truly she did.

After all, she and Tony were blood kin.

Though he had chosen to never tell anyone of her so that she would remain safe from harm. The whole staying safe thing had sort of blown up in everyone's faces three months prior when she had been 'ransomed'- actually that was too nice a word for what had really happened.

In actuallity she had been kidnapped by her own step father and older brother, pimped out, raped multiple times by unknown assailants, gotten pregnant, and then sold back to Tony whom had received a video of her being assaulted and then threated to be hacked into little pieces by her bastard of a brother.

To say that Tony had been pissed at what had happened would of course be the understatement of the century. Especially after he had taken such painstaking care to ensure that such things wouldn't happen to her at all.

Her step father and brother had put themselves directly on his shit list.

And when someone was on Tony's shit list, they fucking stayed there until they drew their last dying breath. Although in Tony's case, this particular shit list involved capturing the two along with some of the men who had assaulted her- and torturing them all to ensure that they begged for mercy before handing them over to the proper authorities.

"Could we please not argue again?" She asked in a pleading tone that had Tony's furious expression softening considerably.

"Only if you develop some common sense and get out of the rain," Tony said as he held his umbrella out to her before then tacking on. "You really shouldn't be out in this whether sweetheart. It's bad for you. And it's bad for the baby. Thor, would you mind letting our very own lovely little drowned rat borrow your cape to keep warm until the meet and greet is over and she can go back inside and change into something dry?"

Thor grinned and slipped his cape off of his shoulders and carefully draped it over her head to help protect her from the rain and keep her warm. "There we go, is that better?" He asked curiously.

"I- yes, thank you Thor. Thank you."

"I live to serve lady Cassie." Thor said with a cordial bow in her direction.

"I'm aware big guy." She said as she reached out and gently pat him on the bicep. Thor chuckled and merely resumed his impassive stance to await the other's arrival as Tony moved in closer to her and whispered,

"I know that I invited the others back and all, but I want you to stay close to me so that I can protect you."

"I doubt that the others are going to say much less do anything to me Tony."

"Maybe they will and maybe they won't. Clint and Nat aren't exactly the most trusting people in the world. And neither is Steve. I'm also worried about what will happen with Barnes running around since he'll be living here too."

"Your worried that they might start some shit with Cassie?" Bruce asked Tony curiously in a low tone so that Cassie wouldn't hear him.

"It's been four years since they've been home and a lot has changed. Honestly, I'd be shocked if a few of them didn't try starting something." Tony replied quietly as Thor distracted Cassie by engaging her in a thumb war.

"Which one's do you think will be the most trouble?" Bruce asked.

"Honestly? Nat, Clint, and Cap aren't my greatest fans at the moment. So it wouldn't shock me in the least if any of them went after Cass in an effort to cause discord."

"What do you think they might pull?" Bruce asked so that he could warn Thor and Loki and the others that had become attached to Cassie in the short time that she had been at the compound.

"They might demand that I throw her out on her cute little ass. But then, it's my home and they have no right to demand anything of me here. Actually, I may have to set up a place in the compound that is just for her as a precaution- that way she has somewhere to go when things get stressful."

"Sort of like a panic room?"

"Something to that effect, yeah." Tony said as a sudden gust of wind caught them off guard. Automatically turning his head, it was on the tip of his tongue to call one of his suits to come to their location when he caught sight of Thor partially turned away from the landing Quinjet with Cassie wrapped in his arms- trying to protect her from the abrupt onslaught as the jet finally landed and the wind slowly but surely died down.

Giving Tony enough time to look over Cassie before then ordering her to stay close to either Thor or Bruce as the former rogue Avengers walked down the jet's ramp and into view.

"Tony-" Steve called out in his usual friendly manner. Making Tony gnash his teeth at the way Steve acted like today was just any other day and Siberia had never even fucking happened at all.

So instead of greeting the foolishly naïve man back, Tony instead turned to his bestie Barnes and called out, "How's it going Frosty? Did you get all fixed up by T'challa and his docs?"

Barnes balked for a moment as if he wasn't sure how to respond to his question while Steve frowned at being ignored. Finally Barnes said slowly, "Yeah. The docs fixed me up real good. Are you gonna try and kill me again now that I'm...myself?"

Tony laughed at the absurdity of the question and waved his hand at him before saying, "God no. I've had more than enough time to process what happened and no longer blame you for anything. Hell, I shouldn't have blamed you to begin with. You didn't deserve that on top of the rest of the shit storm that you found yourself in, and I understand that. So I owe you an apology Barnes. And not a half assed one either, my girl would box my ears if I gave you less than you deserved. So when you're ready to hear it- bring Cap with you and we'll talk."

"Y-Yeah, okay." Bucky stammered out awkwardly before Tony then shifted his attention to the others, noting automatically that Nat, Clint, and Steve had already zeroed in on Cassie and were each glaring at her as she peeked around Thor's back at them like a shy, small child.

"And as for the rest of you- welcome home. I hope that it is everything that you expected and more. There's been some changes in personnel. We have one civilian living here who is kin to one of the Avenger's. She is off limits in every capacity that you can imagine. Scott, Clint, and Sam, there are log cabin style houses just to the left of the compound over towards the woods. Each comes with several miles of fenced in land and you're families are currently residing there," Tony said absently before then saying to Steve, Nat and Bucky. "You three, follow Brucie Bear, and he will take you to you're rooms while I take sassy Cassie here and get her to change her clothes out of those sopping wet rags before she starts sneezing." As he reached out and took Cassie's small hand in one of his and pulled her away from Thor's side and began maneuvering her towards the nearest door.

Completely ignoring the weird looks he and Cassie were getting from everyone as he gently pushed her, protesting the whole way, he might add. "Hey! Tony! Stop pushing me! I haven't even- Hey! I can walk on my own."

"That remains to be seen, Cassie my darling. My love. Light of my life." Tony said in an overly chipper tone as he continued to gently push her.

"Stop laying it on so thick- we both know that you'd be dead without me!"

Tony merely hummed and pushed her through the door where no one could see them anymore before quickly scooping her up in his arms and dashing off towards the closest elevator.