Chapter 18

By: MysticFantasy

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"The Hydra base was completely destroyed and the lab was set on fire. I had teams double check to make sure that nothing was left. The blood samples they took from Rogers and Romanoff were destroyed in the fires. Not that they would have gotten much from it." Fury announced.

"Won't stop them from trying." Tony pointed out.

They all stood in Steve's private recovery room as the diretor gave them the news.

"A few Hydra agents cracked and told us their plans of trying to recreate the super soldier serum. They wanted to figure out the one Agent Romanoff has in hopes of figuring out the serum Rogers has. They were barely able to seperate the plasma and blood when we arrived and shut them down. I'm going to go ahead and let all of you have a few weeks leave."

Tony and Clint high fived.

"Rogers will be out of here tomorrow and you can all start your vacation then. Today is just going to be finishing paper work."

"Way to kill the celebration." Tony muttered. "Fine. We can wait until tomorrow."

"Good." Fury said. "So, enjoy your time off Avengers. You earned it."

"Dang right we did." Tony exclaimed. "You might want to take one too."

"That'll happen when you stop building suits." Fury replied causing the other Avengers to chuckle and laugh.

"Well, safe to say that we got a nice vacation going after a hectic mission." Tony mused. "Where should our first vacation spot be?"

"Do we have to go anywhere?" Bruce asked.

"Yeah, can't we just relax at the tower?" Clint added.

"What?! You guys don't want to go to Hawaii or something? Beach in Florida? Some place we can get massages on the beach?!"

"Well, that does sound tempting." Clint said.

"Of course it does." Natasha said with a playful smirk.

"Hey, some of us are still single and ready to mingle." the archer replied. "You might want to keep an eye on Cap when we get those massages."

"Unlike you and Tony, I know his eyes, and hands, won't wander." Natasha said.

"I'm keeping my mouth shut." Clint said.

"Smart move." Natasha said. "Why don't we just stay at the tower for a few days and then go somewhere else?"

"I can accept that." Tony said.

"Me too." Clint, Thor and Bruce said in unison.

"That sounds good." Steve said.

"Great. I'll start looking for private beach houses and best night clubs in the tropical paradise." Tony stated.

"I'll help." Clint offered.

"Well, I'm just glad that everything is back to normal." Bruce said. "Our version of normal, anyway."

Steve lightly chuckled and felt Natasha wrap her arms around his neck from where she stood next to his bed. He reached up and held her hand gently.

Yeah, this is their new version of normal and it suited him fine.