Here you go, the finally for my story since I've been talked into putting it up. For that one person all I can say is *HUGS!*

Epilogue~

I awoke nine months later to screaming; pure, unbridled painful screaming. I shot up in bed to find my wife writhing on the bed, her hands on her swollen stomach as she panted,

"My, water, broke!" a tidal wave of emotions swept over me as I ran for the pager system that links the Banner apartment to the Avengers apartment, separate floors within Stark Tower.

"Guys, call the hospital, the baby's coming!" I said into the box before rushing over to my wife as she screamed just as another spasm rocked her body. I held her hand and tried to have her focus on her breathing, we had been planning for nine months for this day and now it was here. Our bedroom door opened as everyone rushed to help; Pepper and Tasha going to support Sara while Thor picked her up gently in order to carry her to the waiting car. Tony, Steve and Clint had to hold me back as Hulk didn't understand why Sara was in so much pain.

"Come friend Banner!" called Thor shaking me out of my thoughts and causing me to run in order to catch up with them. The elevator ride was mind numbing as Sara's screams got worse and worse, the spasms pushing her boy to the extreme. As a doctor I had tried to plan everything out beforehand but I could never anticipate the amount of pain my beloved would be in. She looked to me in the elevator, her eyes pleading with my to give her something so I dug around in the bag I had put together, got out a syringe filled with a small amount of pain medication and said,

"Here love." I said slowly putting the needle into her vein, injecting the numbing pain medication into her bloodstream. She sighed as the medication started to take effect just as we exited the elevators, Thor calling out to everyone in the lobby,

"Make way good citizens! Make way!" everyone parted as we headed for the waiting car where we were greeted by,

"Agent Hill! Back the hell up!" Tony said pushing her aside to try and get to the car, but it was then we realized that the car had the letters 'S.H.I.E.L.D'.

"No way in hell!" I shouted breaking free of the hold by Steve and Clint pointing one finger at the woman growling,

"You're not taking my wife." she rolled her eyes saying dismissively,

"You are all asked to come to the SHIELD field hospital, so that Mrs. Banner can give birth in peace."

"And what, no hidden agendas? No hidden meanings? No hidden plans directed by the All Mighty Council?" Tony asked sarcastically but we were all cut off by Pepper saying,

"Guys she needs help now!" not needing to even look at one another; we all got into the car and headed for the SHIELD field hospital aka the taken over hospital downtown. I sat with Sara in my lap, whipping her forehead with a cloth murmuring,

"Stay with me darling, stay with me." the car shot through the traffic that is NYC, a siren whaling to get everyone the hell out of the way. Tony tried to lighten the mood with jokes, Clint was holding Natasha, Steve comforting Pepper and Thor looking grim with worry as Agent Hill had me keep Sara's pulse and update her with any changes.

"Bruce, I—I think it's a girl." Sara breathed as the car came to a stop and I handed her over to Thor to carry saying as I never let go of her hand,

"I believe you Sara, I believe you." when we arrived at the hospital we all rushed into the as Thor set Sara down on a gurney so nurses and doctors could surrounded her.

"She seven millimeters dilated."

"She's loosing too much blood."

"Get her into surgery!" the doctor said as the pushed her out of my sight and behind a set of double doors, one nurse stopping me saying,

"You can't go in, there moving her to surgery."

"But, she wanted a natural birth." I said trying to keep a grip on reality as I could still hear her screams in my head. The nurse gave me an empathetic look as she patted my shoulder saying,

"She's too far gone to have it natural, the doctors will do everything they can sir." and then she told us to wait upstairs in the waiting room for operations, three stories up. As we headed for the elevators Agent Hill was talking to the same nurse who had told me I couldn't see my own wife. I didn't like that, I didn't like it one bit. In fact, I hated it. As we got into the elevator Tony said to me,

"Don't worry, I put a mini microphone on the good agent, anything she says we'll be able to hear." and true to his word, Tony got out a small speaker and when we all looked shocked at him he said simply,

"That's my goddaughter in there." before he turned on the speaker and we listened in to the conversation, probably breaking some law of SHIELD's or something.

"When the baby is ready we would like to run some tests on it." Agent Hill was saying but the nurse cut her off shouting,

"You have no authority!"

"Actually I do, and I will have those tests done one way or another." just hearing this made me punch the elevator wall, causing it to list dangerously to one side at the impact. If anything happened to her, if anything happened to my child, I'd rip whoever is responsible into shreds and that would be before the Hulk got a hold on whatever was left. Everyone did their bests to calm me as we got out of the elevator and took seats in the waiting room, Tony hiding the speaker in his jacket pretending it was an Ipod he was listening to. He updated us on the conversation, that the nurse after an hour or so of debating with Agent Hill finally caved and agreed to the tests. I bit my lip so hard I drew blood trying to soothe the Hulk with explanations and reasons and promises. He didn't settle down until four hours later when he grew tired of raging around, and by then I had started to worry. What was taking them so damn long?! By hour five Thor had gone to get us all coffee, taking two cups for himself greedily as we tried to stay chipper and optimistic and positive. By hour six I started to pace the room, hands behind my back so I didn't pull out all of my hair. By hour seven Tony had joined me pacing and Pepper had started to cry softly to herself trying not to let us see. At hour eight the operation doors opened to reveal a surgeon in scrubs covered nearly head to toe in blood. When we saw him we held our breaths waiting for the news, my heart ready to explode if I wasn't told soon.

"Mr. Banner, there were, complications with her pregnancy. The baby's umbilical cord was wrapped around its neck, we had to do a C-section but—"

"Is she alright?" Natasha asked coming to stand beside me, the others following suit behind her. The surgeon sighed deeply, pealing the hair piece off his head before coming to stand before me, and putting a hand on my shoulder said,

"As soon as I know more, you will too." but as soon as he said it the doors swung open again and a nurse came out smiling weakly, as if she had been in battle herself. Patting the surgeon on the shoulders she said turning to me,

"Your wife and baby girl would like to see you sir." with a heart overwhelmed with emotions, I slowly entered the hospital room where Sara lay with a pink bundle in her arms. She looked utterly exhausted; eyes bloodshot, hair wet, sweat on her brow but in that moment she couldn't look any lovelier to me. When she caught my eye with those silvery orbs she smiled the most heartwarming grin anyone could receive.

"Oh Bruce, look at her, she's prefect." she said softly causing the baby to coo gently. Taking a seat beside her I took a moment to see my daughter. I could vaguely make out the beginnings of black hair but her eyes where mine; she had my eyes!

"Here, would you like to hold her?" she asked me before handing the pink bundle over.

"No, no I—" but she placed the infant in my arms without any more words so that I had to cradle her head and tiny body. She smiled up at me, the same eyes that I see in the mirror everyday staring up at me.

"Oh dear heart—" I breathed before turning to my wife to say,

"What's her name?"

"Marie, Marie Banner." and in that moment the world couldn't have been a more wonderful place for me, everything was utterly perfect but one thing loomed over my head; Director Fury and his Council….what would happen to my child now?