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lucky-bishova-42 · 1 month

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Anniversaries

(oneshot that takes place between chapters 16 and 17 in Malen’kiy Yastreb)

May 4th.

Most people celebrate this day by bingeing as much Star Wars content as possible.

Others go out to get supplies for margaritas and tacos for the next day.

And some, mostly the people in New York City, they take the day to parade, celebrate, and remember the time the Avengers banded together and saved the city.

But for Kate, it is a day that is filled with heaviness and sorrow.

Kate knew that this year was gonna be different. But she didn’t realize how different it would feel and she definitely didn’t realize how much harder it would hit her.

She barely felt like getting out of bed.

In fact, she didn’t.

Which is why around 10:30 she hears a knock on her door.

“Malen’kiy yastreb?” Natasha calls from the other side of the door, “can I come in?”

Kate lets out the tiniest, “yes.”

Natasha comes into the room and softly makes her way over to the bed. She sits down on the side facing Kate and gently brushes a piece of Kate’s hair back behind her ear, trying to inconspicuously check to make sure Kate doesn’t have a fever like last time she stayed in bed so late.

“Are you okay, malyshka?” Natasha asks, momentarily relieved that she found no evidence of fever or other illness.

Kate shrugs and Natasha frowns, immediately racking her brain to try and figure out why her daughter would be so down.

Then it dawns on her as she remembers and her heart clenches.

That day, for Natasha and the rest of the team, had been victorious but also had its fair share of darkness associated with it. But it is also the day she had found this dysfunctional family.

Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she looks back down at Kate, who still has dried tear marks on her cheeks, “How can I help? Is there anything you usually do today or is there something specific you want to do? Or would you like to just have a cosy day? It’s totally up to you, dorogoy.”

Kate thinks for a moment before responding. When she does, her voice is slightly hoarse from crying earlier, “There is something that I usually do. And I usually do it by myself, but… I think… I think I want you to come with me this year.”

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Kate holds Natasha hand as she leads her down to the familiar path. Once she reaches the stone, she feels Natasha give her hand a gentle squeeze.

Kate looks up at Natasha, who senses Kate’s need for some space and sends her a small comforting smile before releasing Kate’s hand and starts to wandering down the next few aisles.

Kate watches as Natasha slowly distances herself from her. Releasing a breath she didn’t realize she was holding, Kate slowly makes her way closer to the stone and takes a seat on the grass in front of it.

“Hey dad,” she starts softly, “I didn’t bring you any flowers because I know how much you hated them…

“And I want you to know that I am not mad at you for being involved with Kingpin. Unlike some people, I know you were only doing it to build a better life for me. But I won’t lie. Because of that, this past year has been tough. I broke some ribs. There was a nasty trial. Bishop Securities has been dissolved. I was involved in a high speed chase, which was kinda scary but also really cool. Mom’s in jail. She was even more involved with Kingpin than you ever were. And, well, mom’s not even my mom anymore. She fully signed her rights away… and to be honest, I am not even mad about that.

“But as you would always tell me, things happen for a reason. And it’s true. Because of all that, I now enjoy the life I live. I have some great new friends at school, I am on track to win the archery championship in the end of May, and my home life is infinitely better than when it was just me and Eleanor…”

Kate looks up to see Natasha leaning against a tree far enough away to give Kate her privacy but close enough to keep a protective eye on her.

Kate smiles.

“And you’d be happy to know that I finally have a parent that cares and loves me just like you did. You would love her. She is both overprotective and understanding as well as funny and sweet. And—no big deal or anything—but she is literally an Avenger. She is the best thing that has came out of this whole mess. She is the reason I am still here today.

“Just know that now I am finally safe, loved, and being taken care of.”

Kate gets up, dusts her pants off, and leans closer to the stone. She kisses her hand and then rests her hand against it, “love you daddy and I miss you so much.”

Kate walks over to Natasha and throws her arms around her, tucking her head into Natasha’s chest. Natasha immediately reciprocates the embrace and holds Kate tight, dropping a kiss to her temple.

“Are you okay, malyshka?” Natasha asks, softly.

Kate nods, slowly pulling her head back to look at Natasha with a soft smile, “Love you Tasha.”

Natasha kisses Kate softly on the forehead, “I love you too malen’kiy yastreb.”

#mama spider #mama nat #natasha romanoff #kate bishop #nat is kate's mom #oneshot #derek bishop #hurt/comfort #marvel #malen’kiy yastreb

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the-widow-sisters · 1 year

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“So apparently the 'bad vibes' I’ve been feeling are actually severe psychological distress...” with Kate and Yelena please

A/N: Thank you for the request! I felt pretty uncertain about my ability to accurately do this one justice, ngl, lol 😅 Emotional stuff for these two is difficult and has to be handled in a delicate balance because it's not really their thing, but I feel like I mostly captured it 😅💖

Also, this one references a lot of the happenings in A First Time for Everything, so it might be good to read that before getting into this one.

I hope you enjoy! 🥰

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“Okay, so apparently the ‘bad vibes’ I’ve been feeling are actually severe psychological distress,” Kate declared as she sat down not too far away from Yelena.

The blonde shifted her gaze over to Kate as she slowly looked at her, offering her a onceover.

There were a few beats of dead silence outside of the TV that was running as Yelena regarded her for a long moment before finally speaking up.

“And you’re telling me this why exactly?” Yelena asked, her voice level as she just stared at Kate. Kate shrugged uncertainly, pursing her lips as she shifted a bit in her seat.

She honestly was not sure why she was telling Yelena all of this. Yelena was not someone that she would usually share these sorts of things with. She would usually either go to Natasha or Darcy with Natasha being her first choice.

Kate had just gotten back from the mandatory therapy session that had been assigned to her in the aftermath of the disastrous mission from not so long ago when she had been kidnapped by Kingpin and his men. Her leg was mostly healed since the incident, and she had found some sense of peace since everything as well.

However, when agreeing to be an Avenger, there were apparently a lot of clauses, and one of those allegedly included the requirement to attend at least one therapy session in the wake of particularly traumatic missions.

Kate had honestly not been sure why she had to go to one since most of the Avengers overlooked that clause when it came to themselves, but she suspected that it likely had a lot to do with Natasha pushing in favor of it. She wanted what was best for Kate, and she must have thought that therapy would not be a bad idea.

Even though Kate had expressed objection to it.

“I don’t know. I just had to go to that mandatory therapy session that apparently all Avengers are supposed to go to after they’ve experienced a traumatic situation? Which I didn’t know that was part of the agreement, but apparently it is, so—”

“You went to therapy?” Yelena interrupted, seemingly rather surprised. Kate blinked before answering her.

“Yeah,” Kate agreed.

“Huh…”

“You sound surprised?” Kate questioned, her voice lilting up a bit at the end of the question as she watched Yelena and tried to gauge her response.

“Well, yeah. I mean, the rest of us have went through ‘severe psychological distress’ before, but we didn’t get therapy,” Yelena stated, and Kate’s mouth was agape as she stared at her for a moment, trying to evaluate whether Yelena was being serious or not.

Kate was sure that they had told her that it was in everyone’s contracts, but maybe they had forgotten Yelena’s for some reason.

Kate finally deciphered that she had to have been serious after Yelena remained quiet for a long moment, her expression unchanging as she looked at the television before her.

“Gosh, Yelena, I didn’t know. That’s awful! Maybe we should—”

“Calm down. I am screwing with you. I just did not elect to go,” Yelena deadpanned, raising an eyebrow as she stopped Kate in her tracks. Kate paused, letting her words die on her tongue as she nodded awkwardly.

“Got it.”

“So why do you have ‘severe psychological distress?’ They should’ve said you have crippling depression,” Yelena commented, allowing herself a chuckle after her joke. Kate narrowed her eyes a little, unimpressed.

“My leg’s not hurt anymore,” Kate told her.

“Meh. It was a good joke anyway,” Yelena muttered, and Kate rolled her eyes halfheartedly, shaking her head with a slight huff before thinking back to the first part of Yelena’s words.

“I basically have severe psychological distress that’s apparently been untreated since the loss of my dad? But truthfully I’m fine. I mean… I still miss him and stuff, but it doesn’t consume my life anymore or anything. And then the lady said putting my mom away brought it all back,” Kate trailed off, remembering everything the therapist had said as she tried to think of a way to articulately put it all together in coherent words.

“Well, do you feel like that is the case or something?” Yelena questioned, and Kate looked at her with some surprise.

It was shocking to her that Yelena was actually electing to have the conversation for this long. She normally was not one for emotional discussions unless it was with Natasha, but Kate was going to take what she could get without looking a gift horse in the mouth.

“Well… Kinda,” Kate admitted, and Yelena did not say anything, presumably waiting for Kate to continue speaking.

“I don’t know. I guess you just never stop missing people that you lose. Whether you knew them for eight years, all your life, or just for a few hours,” Kate explained with a small, forced shrug.

Her thoughts were dwelling upon her father, her mother, and Alice with those statements. Alice’s death in particular had deeply impacted her and was still affecting her terribly, but that had been one subject that she had refused to discuss at therapy and was not going to discuss now.

Yelena was quiet for a long moment, and Kate watched her as Yelena looked down at her lap, not even pretending to pay attention to the television before her any longer. Yelena did not say a word, and Kate could read the trepidation in her face as she debated whether or not she would say anything.

“That is the one truth in life,” Yelena spoke, and her words were so soft that Kate almost missed them with the sound of the television playing, some loud and annoying commercial showing at the moment.

“You never stop missing people and grieving their loss,” Yelena expressed, and Kate could hear the heaviness in her voice. She sounded like she was confessing something, and Kate knew that she was expressing something personal that she held close to her heart and tried to hide from the world.

It was her grief that she had for Natasha when she had died for that period of time, and it was mourning for all of the time that she had lost with the redhead over the years due to external circumstances. She was likely even grieving for the life she had lost with her faux parents as well. Kate was honestly just surprised that Yelena had chosen to open up enough to say as much as she had to her.

It was one of those rare days that Yelena was actually genuine and vulnerable. And even though Kate knew the moment was passing quickly given how Yelena was looking away at the moment and her face was hardening back into its usual mask, Kate was thankful for Yelena choosing to say anything at all.

“Have you seen that movie?” Yelena questioned, and Kate knew that was the end of any real, meaningful conversation between the both of them.

However, with Yelena’s statement, she realized that she had officially left her completely confused.

“What movie?” Kate asked cluelessly.

“That movie,” Yelena pointed at the television, and Kate furrowed her brow, turning to look at the television more fully.

There was some large yellow transformer robot on the screen and he was with some girl that looked straight out of the eighties. Kate squinted a little, and Yelena looked between the girl on the screen and Kate as she raised an eyebrow.

“You look just like her,” Yelena proclaimed, and Kate instantly drew back a little.

“What? No.”

“You do,” Yelena shrugged, looking back at the screen, and Kate huffed as she shook her head.

“I look nothing like her.”

“You look just as doofy as she does but just without the ugly bangs,” Yelena pointed out, and Kate just stared at her in surprise.

“I thought her bangs were kinda cute,” Kate admitted, gesturing to the girl.

Yelena simply slowly shook her head.

“Identical twins,” Yelena stated, and Kate rolled her eyes at her, unable to help a smile.

However, she could not help the feeling of contentedness as she realized that Yelena had managed to completely distract her from the bad feelings somehow while also acknowledging her pain.

Yelena was something. Certainly insane, but somehow caring in her own strange manner.

And Kate somehow appreciated it.

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artblooger19moon · 1 year

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Hawkeye Series

Season 1 : November 4 - December 22 2021

#hawkeye series #marvel #marvel series #clint barton #kate bishop #yelena belova #eleanor bishop #echo #jack duquesne #kingpin #echo marvel #derek bishop #Armand duquesne #kazi #lila barton #laura barton #pizza dog

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tvandcomicsita · 2 years

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#Hawkeye - So This Is Christmas? (S01E06) #SeasonFinale

#Hawkeye – So This Is Christmas? (S01E06) #SeasonFinale

E siamo al gran finale di stagione, un finale in cui diversi nodi vengono al pettine ma che non mette propriamente la parola fine al gran caos che si è generato.. (more…)

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stycerutti · 2 years

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#Hawkeye - So This Is Christmas? (S01E06) #SeasonFinale

#Hawkeye – So This Is Christmas? (S01E06) #SeasonFinale

E siamo al gran finale di stagione, un finale in cui diversi nodi vengono al pettine ma che non mette propriamente la parola fine al gran caos che si è generato.. (more…)

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toogay2besaved · 3 months

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“What makes you happy?”

Playing Sims 4 for hours making houses and character from shows that deserve to be together and giving them the life they deserve.

Emily and JJ got the house and marriage they were MEANT to have. 🥲

Carina and Maya have a set of twins 🫡 HAPPY AND HEALTHY 🥲

#criminal minds #emily prentiss #aaron hotchner #derek morgan #jemily #jennifer jareau #spencer reid #david rossi #penelope garcia #station19 #maya bishop #carina deluca

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userchappell · 4 months

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pretty people in all black suits <333

#i keep having a type......... because they are also superheroes with parental issues #hawkeye #titans #gen v #kate bishop #dick grayson #jordan li #hailee steinfeld #brenton thwaites #london thor #derek luh #and yes..... i started gen v so this came to mind during my watch so ajsjdjjfjf #jaiden rants

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gold-onthe-inside · 22 days

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criminal minds: our darkest hour (5.24)

"And out of the darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men."

#criminal minds gifs #my gifs #oc: dr piper bishop #criminal minds x oc #spencer reid #derek morgan #emily prentiss #david rossi #penelope garcia #aaron hotchner

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marie-swriting · 6 months

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Need More Fanfics ? Part.2

Marvel

Killer (Kate Bishop x reader) by @upat4amwiththemoon

Clint's Stray (Kate Bishop x reader) by @maximoffsmuse

Never Let Go (Kate Bishop x reader) by @lightupthemoon

Unpacking (Carol Danvers x reader) by @yelenasdiary

Care Bear (Carol Danvers x reader) by @captains-simp

Home For Christmas (Bucky Barnes x reader) by @onceuponastory

In Every Lifetime (Bucky Barnes x reader) by @wkemeup

Bi (Bucky Barnes x daughter!reader) by @alyswritings

Criminal Minds

Starry Night (Emily Prentiss x reader) by @criminalmindswhore

Secret Santa (Emily Prentiss x reader) by @max-the-d0g

I Guess Sometimes We All Get Just What We Wanted (Emily Prentiss x reader) by @bi-bard

Showing The Bird (Spencer Reid x daughter!reader) by @letarasstuff

Sneaking Out (Derek Morgan x daughter!reader) by @rachaelswrites

Top Gun

My Heart Will Go On (Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw x reader), Titanic AU by @averagewriter-inthedark (⚠️TW : deaths and light smut, Minors do not interact as the author wishes!)

Driving Home From Christmas (Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw x reader) by @callsign-phoenix

Outer Banks

Thunder = Luke (JJ Maybanks x sister!reader) by @alyswritings (⚠️TW : mention of abuse)

Supernatural

Those Christmas Lights (Light Up The Street) (Dean Winchester x child!reader) by @yourmomxx

I'll Always Cath You (Dean Winchester x sister!reader) by @winchesters-favorite-girl

Stranger Things

Fall For You (Chrissy Cunningham x reader) by @tommiruewrites

Say You Want Me Too (Robin Buckley x reader) by @sparklingsin

Come Into The Water (Robin Buckley x reader) by deactivated account

Bridgerton

Angel In The Sky (Benedict Bridgerton x reader) by @inkedobsidian

Enchantment (Benedict Bridgerton x reader) by deactivated account

#masterpieces by other creators #criminal minds oneshot #emily prentiss x reader #top gun one shot #bradley bradshaw x reader #marvel one shot #kate bishop x reader #outer banks one shot #jj maybank x reader #bucky barnes x reader #supernatural one shot #dean winchester x reader #spencer reid x reader #stranger things one shot #chrissy cunningham x reader #robin buckley x reader #bridgerton one shot #benedict bridgerton x reader #derek morgan x reader

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the-widow-sisters · 1 year

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I was wondering if you could do a fic where Kate's mom had a storage unit that no one new about and needs to be emptied for some reason, and the girls help Kate move the stuff into her room at the compound. There are just a few boxes left to get and Kate goes get them while the others start to unpack the boxes. One of them finds some old video tapes and Yelena puts them in thinking it was something embarrassing but they are actually old videos of Kate and her father. And it leads to emotional and happy stuff Kate cause she never thought that her mom kept them or anything. I don't know it was just an idea for you to consider if you weren't busy.

A/N: Thank you for the amazing request!! 💖💖💖 Hopefully this is everything that you hoped it would be! I’ve been super low on inspiration lately, so I was doing my best to post this one for you! 💗

I hope you enjoy! 🥰🥰🥰

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“Ugh, your family obviously did not believe in letting things go. It’s like they took and loaded every single item from your childhood and put it into one huge storage container,” Yelena declared as she entered Kate’s mini-apartment in the compound, putting the boxes down behind the couch in Kate’s living room. Yelena let out a deep breath, shaking her head.

Kate did her best to maneuver in behind her, Natasha trailing after.

Kate had gotten a notice not too long ago that there was a storage container with the Bishop’s name on it that was overdue for a payment. Kate naturally had been very curious, so while on a walk one day with Darcy and Lucky, she had gone and visited it. It was then that she found out about all of the family heirlooms and memories that were stored away in boxes inside of it.

Therefore, she had regrouped and got Yelena and Natasha to come back with her so that they could load everything in Natasha’s car and bring it back to Kate’s place at the compound. Kate herself did not have access to any of Bishop Security’s funds so she could not really pay for the storage given the fact that it was a ridiculously large amount of money to rent, and she also just wanted to have pieces of her father and her family there in the compound with her.

Kate honestly had no idea why there had been a notice after all this time. She supposed that Bishop Security must have been cutting expenses that they deemed unnecessary or her mother had paid it in advance to a certain extent and her forward payment must have finally ran out. Nevertheless, Kate was exceedingly thankful that she had found out about it and that she now had access to all of these things.

“Hey, they believed in letting stuff go. Just not the important sentimental stuff apparently,” Kate pointed out, shrugging as she struggled just a little with her particularly huge box. Kate suddenly found her box being taken from her, and Yelena met her eyes, complete sass written in her features.

“You know, there is this thing called hoarding. It is a real problem,” Yelena suggested, nothing but the most sarcasm coating her words.

“There’s also a thing called sentimentality,” Kate replied boldly, and Yelena scoffed dismissively.

“You know, there seems to be a fine line between that and hoarding,” Yelena deadpanned, and Natasha just sighed, shaking her head at the both of them for their argument.

“Where is Carol?” Natasha questioned, and Kate instantly knew why the redhead was asking. Natasha likely wanted the woman’s insane super strength, but she also probably wanted to create a bit of a distraction for the two younger women’s bickering that was going on at the moment.

“Doing something with the niece figure. Doing the opposite of being useful,” Yelena replied, sitting the large box down.

Kate came over to help Natasha with some of her load, taking a few boxes off the top of her stack. Natasha glanced at her gratefully, and they took the remaining boxes over the huge stack in Kate’s living room at the moment. Lucky was inspecting them, sniffing like crazy, and Kate could not help but feel her heart warm at the sight of him, a chuckle rising in her throat as a joyful smile came onto her face.

“Well, at least we’re done,” Natasha replied, looking at the two of them.

Yelena reached down, patting Lucky’s back where he happened to be sniffing nearby her. His tail wagged in acknowledgement, but he never lifted his head from where he was sniffing around, all the new smells gaining far too much of his attention.

Kate headed over to the particularly heavy box, curious about what was in it, and she quickly noted the presence of tape there. She gazed over at Yelena where she was currently more preoccupied on Lucky.

“Do you have a knife on you?” Kate asked, and Yelena looked at her as if she were some manner of complete moron.

“That is a stupid question, Little Bishop. I always have a knife on me,” Yelena declared, holding it up, and Kate grinned fleetingly, extending her hand for it.

“Can I use it?” Kate requested, flexing her fingers, and Yelena looked at her completely emotionlessly.

“No,” Yelena instantly replied, and Kate’s smile faltered. Yelena then wordlessly moved over, sliding her knife over the tape there that was sealing the box, and she met Kate’s eyes, far too pleased with herself.

“They say never let children play with knives,” she declared, and Kate rolled her eyes with a huff, and Natasha shook her head, moving in between them.

Not for the first time, Kate could easily see how the three of them seemed like a trio of siblings. Natasha was the oldest one keeping the peace between the younger ones. Yelena was the middle child that idolized the oldest one, and Kate was the youngest that adored both of them and wanted the middle child to like her as much as Kate liked her.

It may not have been the dynamic of most sibling trios, but it made a lot of sense to Kate at least. She was not someone that had grown up with any siblings, so how was she to know anyway?

This was the best family she had. Her father was gone and her mother was questionable at best. And these two people had become solace for her. Them and Clint, of course.

“What’s in here, Kate?” Natasha asked, and Kate shrugged, not entirely sure.

“I guess we’re going to find out,” Kate huffed as she pulled the box open, popping the bits of tape that Yelena had not happened to cut as she forced it open.

Once she opened it, she was quickly surprised to see the old purple blanket that she had carried around as a child. She could not help but huff just a little at the sight of it, odd memories coming back to her mind. It was odd. Even back as long ago as that before the Avengers even existed officially, she was gearing up for becoming a Hawkeye.

“Let me guess, that was your blankie from when you were a baby Bishop,” Yelena smarmily commented, and Kate could not help the slight bit of embarrassment. Primarily from Yelena’s sarcasm.

Kate laughed a little before conveniently and far too quickly tossing it away and toward her bed.

“No, just something that was saved from my childhood. I don’t know. It was never that important,” Kate attempted to dismiss, trying to save herself the humiliation.

“Definitely her blankie,” Yelena muttered, far too self-satisfied, and Kate barely glanced in Natasha’s direction, hoping for a rescue. Natasha just smiled at her knowingly and with the slightest bit of amusement, catching her glance.

“What’s this?”

“Spirit. Just the best movie I ever had the privilege of watching,” Kate shrugged with a grin as she most particularly centered her attention on Natasha. Natasha raised her hand and gently touched Kate’s back as she stroked it lovingly. Yelena scoffed lightly in reply as she bumped into Natasha’s shoulder lightly on the opposite side of Kate.

“Wow… A cartoon horse with eyebrows drawn on. A real blockbuster,” Yelena deadpanned, and Kate just did her best to ignore Yelena, digging deeper down. She had the weirdest instinct that there was something else inside this box that was more important than what they had found so far.

“We’ll have to watch it together soon if you want,” Natasha volunteered easily, seeming genuinely interested in the film as she subtly squeezed Yelena’s neck playfully. Yelena scrunched her shoulders up to try to ward her away.

Kate smiled widely as she pulled out several stuffed animals from the box, very pleased with Natasha’s offer and the idea of watching the movie with two of her favorite people. Yelena grabbed one of them and Kate let out a deep breath, waiting for the inevitable teasing that was to come.

“Huh… Cute dog,” Yelena complimented, much to Kate’s shock.

Kate glanced at her in surprise as she fumbled around in the box. However, as soon as she touched something surprisingly box-shaped and a little hard, she furrowed her brow, redirecting her attention to the contents of the cardboard box.

To her surprise, there were a whole ton of video tapes there in the box. Kate reached inside, pulling one out, and she raised her eyebrows as she looked at the label scrawled on the tape.

It was her father’s handwriting and written on the tape in sharpie was “Kate’s First Bike Ride.”

“Oh, my gosh… I didn’t know where all of these went,” Kate trailed off, excitement building within her as she looked at the tape. Kate looked over at Natasha happily, contemplating putting the tape in, and Natasha just eyed her lovingly, her light greens soft and warm.

“Mind if I put it on?” Kate asked, and Natasha shook her head immediately, quick to agree with Kate’s request.

“Go ahead,” Natasha nodded her head in the direction of Kate’s television set there in the room.

Kate grinned widely, hurrying over to pop it in. She set the television to the correct settings, and she hurriedly sat on the couch. Natasha sat next to Kate and Yelena, grumbling the whole way, took a seat on the opposite side from Kate.

The VHS came on, and they were met with the sight of a younger Kate sitting on a bright purple bicycle. It had a white basket with pretty fringe hanging from the handles. Kate remembered that day, and she remembered that it had been the day after her seventh birthday party. She had gotten the bike the day before.

“Here she is… The greatest cycler of our generation. The ripe old age of magic seven and preparing to break records,” her father’s voice came in over the television. Kate instantly felt a lump in her throat, and she smiled a little as she found herself positively enraptured, her mind returning to the memory and that happy place in time.

“You ready to go?” he questioned, and the young Kate on the screen was beaming.

“Is your helmet on well? And your kneepads?” Eleanor questioned, moving in front of the camera more fully as she checked the young Kate’s equipment.

Kate swallowed, remembering that version of her mother. Eleanor had always been a worrywart and somewhat of a killjoy, but she had been the best mother that she could have been despite the fact that she was nowhere near as fun as Kate’s father.

“Wow, the old bat looked a lot younger then. Not like such a hateful bonebag,” Yelena pointed out, and Natasha shushed her scoldingly. Kate could not even bring herself to reply to her, her mood unable to be dampened by Yelena’s teasing.

“Alright, Katie-Kat, you ready?” Derek questioned, and the young Kate offered him a big smile and a thumbs-up. He took a position behind her, holding onto her seat as he prepared to help her bike. His hand momentarily came into view as he extended it to help her.

“Pedal! Go, go, go!” he encouraged, and young Kate proceeded to start pedaling as hard and fast as she could. Derek hurried behind her for a moment, but as she seemed to be holding herself up just fine, he finally let her go.

“Go, go!!!” he cheered her on, and suddenly, young Kate veered over to the side unexpectedly. She screeched as she went directly into the bushes.

“Woah, woah, woah!!!” Derek cried, the camera shaking as he moved quickly.

“Why did you let her go, Derek?!” Eleanor demanded, coming over near young Kate instantly, touching her face and inspecting her thoroughly.

“Kate, honey, are you okay?!” Eleanor demanded, her eyes wide as she looked at the young Kate on the screen. Young Kate clambered up a little, trying to gain purchase as she grabbed Eleanor’s arm.

“I’m okay! I’m okay!” Kate’s small voice called from where she was lying in the bushes.

Derek laughed heartily once he had been assured she was alright, and Eleanor groaned deeply as she rubbed her head from where she was standing over Kate. Her father’s hand came into view on the camera, and he helped Kate out of the bush she was stuck in.

“That was her, folks. Hot Rod Katie the stuntwoman,” Derek pointed out, taking on an announcer voice as he pulled her out. Kate laughed a little, her nose scrunching a bit as it continued to do even to this day.

“Daddy! Stop!” Kate laughed, her hand coming up toward the video camera, and he laughed joyfully. The video then cut off shortly after that. Kate just stared at the screen, her heart full but aching at the same time as she took it all in.

“Hot Rod Katie, huh? Wow, you’ve been Kate Bishoping since age seven,” Yelena quipped, and Kate groaned deeply. Natasha huffed, smiling fondly as she looked at Kate.

“You were a really cute kid,” Natasha commented fondly, and Kate just blushed a little, covering her face as she tried to hide it.

Natasha’s comment was really sweet, but she knew the older woman was enjoying Kate’s mortification far too much. Natasha, however, was nevertheless being genuine as well. It was evident in the utter warmth and affection in her voice.

“I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing another one,” Natasha requested gently, and Yelena huffed, nodding emphatically.

“Absolutely. This is the best entertainment I’ve had in a while,” Yelena pointed out with a laugh.

Kate looked over at her with some humiliation, knowing that Yelena was joking but still finding herself terribly embarrassed. Natasha raised an eyebrow at Yelena before quickly poking her side. Yelena let out some noise between a bark and a laugh, jumping away swiftly. She quieted begrudgingly, and Kate moved over to go and get another tape, honestly more than wanting to see another one herself despite Yelena’s endless supply of sarcasm and teasing.

This was a walk through her childhood and almost like revisiting her father. She had never been so glad to hear that accursed nickname of hers in her life. It was his nickname for her, and always would solely belong to him.

Kate moved to the box, pulling out another video.

This one had been labeled “Kate Gets Kitten.”

Kate came over and put it in, sitting back down as the videoed memory started to play.

Once again, it was her dad recording. He always had been the one to do the videos, and after he passed away, Kate and her mother had not really recorded anything else much.

“Daddy, why do you have your camera out?” the young Kate onscreen asked, and he chuckled warmly.

“No reason. I just wanted to,” he tried to be subtle as he angled the camera up to what was behind the couch while still capturing Kate’s face. Eleanor was coming in with a kitten in her arms, and young Kate was just looking at her father.

Eleanor came near, tapping Kate’s shoulder, and the little girl turned around to look at her quickly. Her eyes widened and she gasped as she looked at the little kitten there in her arms.

“Oh, my gosh!!! A kitty!!!” the kid cried excitedly, and Yelena raised her eyebrows as she looked away from the Kate on the screen. Kate gasped a little, suddenly remembering something awful about what she had named the dumb thing.

“Is this the cat that you lost?” Yelena asked, obviously remembering the time that Kate had told her about the cat when Liho had gotten lost. Kate flushed embarrassedly, caught between embarrassment about the name and the fact that she had lost the creature, and Natasha looked between them with some confusion, not ever getting in on Kate’s cat story from when Yelena had.

“Yeah,” Kate trailed off, admitting to it. She was deeply dreading the name she had for the cat, and she was really hoping that this video was not the one that had captured her naming it.

Natasha huffed, apparently realizing that this was something that was some sort of inside thing with Kate and Yelena. Kate was honestly glad that the older woman did not choose to ask. They would have to bring up the fact that Kate lost Liho in the first place a while back and Kate honestly still felt a little bad about that.

“She’s so pretty! Wait… Is it a boy or a girl?” the young Kate onscreen questioned excitedly, looking up at the camera with sparkling eyes.

“It’s a girl,” Eleanor answered, squeezing her shoulder as she moved around the couch, and Kate in her present form could almost feel the touch. Of course, it might have been the fact that Natasha had her hand on her back and was rubbing it, so it was not hard to imagine.

It honestly made Kate miss that version of her mother. But of course, as she thought about it, that version of her mother was not truly gone. Eleanor had always been that person, but she had just been unapproving of Kate’s decisions and Kate’s wants. Not to mention the fact that Eleanor was mad at her right now.

But Kate would not trade what she had right now for anything.

“What’re you going to name it, Katie?” her father asked, and the younger Kate furrowed her brow, thinking hard as she looked down at the kitten. She lifted it up, squinting a bit as she tilted her head. She then brightened considerably, looking back at Derek once again.

“Pinnas!” she declared proudly. Yelena instantly snorted hard, laughing heartily, and current Kate let out a deep and long groan, holding her head in her hands as she suffered deep embarrassment all over again. She knew it was an absolutely horrible name and it was far too similar to the word for male genitalia.

“Pinnas?!” Eleanor seemed utterly offended as she echoed Kate. Kate nodded proudly, innocence shining in her eyes, and Eleanor looked toward the camera as if she were going to kill Derek. He was barely managing to hold back his laughter.

“Pinnas?”

“Pinnas,” Kate declared resolutely, and current Kate felt like she was going to die from the mortification.

This was worse than any clumsiness she could pull off because at least that would not be something positively inappropriate. Yelena was laughing harder with every time the word left young Kate’s mouth.

“Well, hon, you heard her. Pinnas it is,” her father agreed, allowing a bit of a laugh to infect his voice. Eleanor narrowed her eyes, starting to speak to him as Kate proudly held her new kitten.

“Derek—”

The video cut off conveniently then, and Yelena managed to get ahold of herself for just long enough to allow a small pause. Kate readied herself for what was doubtlessly to come.

“Pinnas,” Natasha pointed out, her voice amazingly level, and Yelena instantly lost it all over again. Kate looked at Natasha, terribly embarrassed but allowing herself to laugh just a little.

“Tasha!!!” Kate cried defenselessly.

Natasha was smiling far too widely, and Yelena was laughing way too much.

“Get another one, this is killing me,” Yelena laughed heartily, and Kate sighed, knowing that she was probably asking for it, but figuring that it probably could not get much worse than Pinnas.

Kate headed over to the box, looking inside as she randomly flicked through the tapes.

Kate finally withdrew another from the box, not bothering to check the label, and she popped it in as she took her seat back with the sisters. Kate allowed herself to smile, admittedly excited to see what would come on. She could not wait to see if this one could possibly have her father’s actual face on it.

To her surprise, it did indeed, and she felt her heart swelling as all the embarrassment faded away. However, he looked a bit more resigned and tired than she would have expected for a happy home video.

“Eleanor, if you’re listening to this, then… Well, I’m probably not around anymore,” he began, huffing a little from where he was looking down at the camera where it was sitting on the table.

Kate instantly felt her smile falling as she realized that this tape was completely different than what she had expected. Yelena and Natasha immediately sobered and went quiet. However, she could feel their gazes on her as they seemed to be as surprised as she was.

Her father scratched his cheek before running his hand over his beard. He took in a breath.

“I wanted to record this because things with my job are getting in a little too deep, and also, it’s just good to have things like this as a contingency plan so those you leave behind have at least a little bit of an idea what to do,” he explained, chuckling as he shook his head tiredly.

He looked exhausted and Kate could not help but wonder how old she had been when he had done this. She could not help but think that it was slightly before the attack on New York, but she was not completely sure.

“Well… For starters, I’m not as squeaky clean as I might’ve made out I was,” he confessed, going silent for a few moments as he let that hang there in the air for a few.

Kate swallowed, looking at the screen before her. She looked at her dad’s features carefully, remembering the kind man that was her father and her first and greatest hero. It was honestly extremely hard to hear him talk about something that had come to be such an evil in her life. It was a conflicting feeling to see someone that she loved so dearly talk about these things in a way that told her that he had been thoroughly involved.

He took in a breath before speaking up and admitting the truth of it all.

“I’m kind of indebted to the biggest crime lord around, and that debt was caused mostly because I wanted this life for us. If I made the sacrifices, then you guys could have everything you ever wanted, and that’s all I ever wanted,” he explained, those gunmetal blues shining with love and affection and life. All those things that Kate missed so deeply and so much.

“But if you’re watching this and the time is now, you have to know what you’re dealing with. Kingpin… My boss… he’s not a kind man. He’s dangerous, evil, and otherwise just horrid. So just… I’m asking that you stay on his good side. I would never want to see anything happen to you. Or Kate,” he told the camera, nothing but heartfelt emotion in his eyes as he spoke.

“When I got into it, I didn’t really know it was going to end up being nearly this bad, but I’ve been trying hard to find ways to end up on top while also getting this monkey off my back, so to speak,” he stated, an inexplicable sadness in his gaze.

Kate felt her heart ache for him, surprised yet somewhat relieved to know that he had gotten into this evil of a business at least somewhat unknowingly. It meant that her dad truly was not a monster.

But he was in the wrong for staying. But there was also the fact that he likely had no other choice without endangering Kate and Eleanor.

“I know you never asked for this. But for Kate’s sake… please don’t get her involved. Whatever you do, please make sure that she never knows about any of this or gets involved. I want her to be able to grow up and be a normal kid away from all this,” he tiredly declared, the weight of the world seeming as if it were resting on his shoulders.

“But enough with those morbid thoughts. I don’t even know for sure if you’ll ever even have a reason to have to be watching this,” he chuckled a little, a smile on his face as he looked at the screen.

“Daddy?!” a voice called, and he looked up and to the side in the direction of the voice. He grinned fondly, looking back at the camera as he leaned in to turn it off. Just before he did, he looked at the camera.

“Katie calls. I love you, honey,” he expressed as he turned off the video. The tape came to an end, and Kate swallowed hard, looking straight ahead at the television despite time being up.

Natasha rubbed her back, pulling Kate into her side. Kate somewhat absently followed the tug as she leaned into her. Yelena simply watched them, remaining quiet as she listened.

“You okay?” Natasha asked softly, and Kate nodded, looking down as she huffed just barely.

“Yeah… I just… He really was involved in all of this,” Kate pointed out, and Natasha sighed as she moved nearer and kissed Kate’s head. Her hand was on the other side of Kate’s head as she held her near.

“I’m sorry, sweetheart,” Natasha whispered against her temple. Kate shook her head.

“No, it’s okay… It means that my mom really was telling the truth. And Mom still didn’t ever rat him out and make him into the bad guy until the very end when she absolutely had to explain herself. And she tried to protect me for all that time,” Kate explained, the realization hitting her like a ton of bricks.

Eleanor had done a lot of wrong in Kate’s life and had not been the mother she should have been in a lot of instances. However, there were also a lot of spots in Kate’s lifetime where Eleanor had been a good mother and had even been a good mother in ways that Kate would have never even known had the whole Kingpin ordeal not come out the way that it did.

Eleanor was bad but she was not evil or horrible. And she loved Kate. For whatever it was worth, she loved her.

And honestly, despite how odd it was, Kate found that somehow healed a piece of her deep down.

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