TRIGGER WARNING- This chapter contains graphic and disturbing descriptions, read at your own discretion.

As you come around to consciousness you immediately feel the pounding in your head, it was thumping so hard you felt like you couldn't open your eyes. You try to put your hand to your head and immediately start to panic. You try to kick your legs but it was of no use either.

'Don't make things worse for yourself...' You hear a voice call out, sending shivers down your spine. You finally feel the urge to open your eyes and when you do you're hit with the brightness and blurring of daylight. You try and move your head but it was also paralysed. You become suddenly cold and that's when you feel the breeze against your stomach. You were topless.

'Well...now that you're awake. You won't get to miss out on all the fun!'

A man towers over you. He was old and wrinkled. Glasses on the edge of his nose and a sickly smile on his face.

'Shall we begin?' He asks excitedly.

'B-begin?'

'Your Caesarean section!' He cheers and you feel your breathing shallow.

'M-my baby...'

'MY baby, or should I say...Hydra's baby' He mocks and you feel yourself jamming your arms and legs, pulling on them so viciously you feel your joints starting to tenderise as something cold touches the bottom of your stomach and trails across and over your bump and up to your cheek. It presses lightly on your skin and you let out a light hiss from the sharpness, feeling the warm trickle of blood run down your face, you'd been cut.

'See? That didn't hurt too badly did it. Now all I have to do is...'

He lines the scalpel at the top of your bump and you cry out as he traces it centimetre by centimetre along your stomach. You feel the sickness in your throat and as you look you see your stomach bursting with blood as the opening grows bigger and bigger. You close your eyes as you feel yourself overrun in pain.

'That's it...go to sleep. Say goodbye Daisy. You were one hell of a soldier!' The voice is the last thing you remember before the adrenaline starts to pump in and a ringing in your ears commence. You take a deep breath and give one final tug at your right wrist. It snaps but it loosens the shackle and your arm breaks free.

The man stops for a quick second in disbelief but that was his mistake. You whip the scalpel out of his hand and jab it straight across his throat. He falls to the floor and clutches his throat as the blood streams from his neck. You begin to pant and as you free your wrist and then your ankles. You manage to stagger to your feet as the man below you succumbs to his slit throat and you look down to see the damage that had been done. You were cut from just under your breasts to the middle of your stomach. Blood was pouring out of you and you had to think fast, grabbing a sheet in the corner of the room and tying it tightly around you before you fall to a heap to the group. You begin to sob and cry as you bleed out.

'I'm sorry baby...' You whisper to your stomach. 'I'm so sorry!'

'Not giving up that easily are you?' A familiar voice asks you confidently.

As you look up you see him. Loki. His long slicked black hair and his wide devilish grin. The tesseract glowing in his hand. 'I told you I would see you again soon, pet' He crouches down and scoops you up into his arms.

'L...Loki?'

'Shhhhh' Loki soothes you. His hands swirling green as he holds you. 'It'll be okay'

The next moment you and Loki vanish, he uses his teleportation and you're at the compound within a split second.

'LOKI?!' Bruce calls out and Loki rushes you into the medical room as fast as he can.

'She passed out before I had chance to find anything out but...'

Loki lays you down on the table and Bruce unwraps the sheet you had tied across yourself and he gasps. Loki becomes more ghostly pale than usual.

'Is she...I mean...' Loki begins to stutter in sheer panic and Bruce walks up to him and shakes him violently.

'Get it together Loki because me and you are about to deliver the baby!'

'Deliver...Bruce I...'

Bruce glances at Loki once more, this time, a flash of something comes over Bruce, aggression. Loki gulps and nods and Bruce places a pad on either side of your stomach.

'The babies heart it still beating! So Is Daisy's!'

'So...so what does that mean?!'

'Get the mask over her face! The oxygen mask!' Bruce points over to the tank and Loki goes along with whatever Bruce tells him.

Bruce picks up a scalpel and holds it to where the incision was already started. His hands trembling as he lines himself up.

'Is there another way?!' Loki asks and Bruce takes a deep breath. 'It's the baby's only chance of survival'

'You can do it' Loki encourages and Bruce exhales, tracing the incision all the way down and pulling the baby from your cut open stomach.

'SUCTION!' Bruce shouts out in desperation and Loki fumbles to reach the suction tube. Bruce inserts it into the baby's mouth, removing blood and the baby begins to cry.

Bruce and Loki's legs both start to shake in relief and disbelief.

'You did it...oh my God you did it!'

'Loki...' Bruce says steadily. He holds up a shear and snips the umbilical cord before handing the baby over to Loki. 'I need to stitch up Daisy. Keep him warm and comforted'

'H-him?'

'It's a boy, now go!'

Loki whisks the baby away and Bruce begins stitching you back up, hanging a transfusion of O-negative blood to pump back into your system. The monitors start to beep as you go into cardiac arrest as Bruce finishes the last stitch.

'Dammit Daisy!' Bruce immediately jumps up to your chest and starts performing CPR.

'Come on Daisy! You've come this far. You have to stay alive. For Steve. For your boy. For us! For yourself! Come on Petal!' Bruce shouts and the monitors start to beat in rhythm again.

Bruce collapses to his knees as his hands shake violently.

Tony bursts into the room along with Steve and Bucky. Tony helps Bruce to his feet and notices the room looking like something out of a horror movie.

'B-Bruce?' Steve whispers.

'She's alive...she's alive...'

Steve pulls Bruce into the tightest hug possible and Bruce lets himself cry, as the actuality sets in of what he actually just performed. 'They should still go to a hospital but..they're alive' Bruce says it again, just needing to hear it again.

'T-they?' Steve asks now shocked.

'As in...Daisy and the...'

'Surprise' Loki announces quickly and quietly as he walks in. The baby wrapped up in a blanket that had the same print as Steve's shield on. 'Thor, knitted it while we were in Asgard' Loki gestures to the blanket but not one of them could move.

'Is that...'

'Your baby, Captain Rogers' Loki confesses proudly as he hands the baby over to Steve who accepts him in his arms as natural as could be.

'And...is it..'

'A boy, yes' Loki confirms once again, after reading Steve's mind.

Bucky rubs Steve on the top of the back and everyone becomes overjoyed.

'My boy...' Steve whispers. Placing a kiss at the top of his forehead.

'I also managed to get this' Loki reveals the tesseract and Tony gives it to Bruce. 'Thankyou Loki, we managed to take down hydra. Their gone' Tony says back and Loki smirks. 'Good riddance'

'H-howard' Your voice barely musters out and everyone turns around in complete and utter revelation.

'Daisy?' Steve asks distraught.

'H-Howard...' You say again. More pronounced this time.

'No...no it's me. It's Tony, I'm Howard's son' Tony announces.

You shake your head as best you can and smile. 'I know that, I meant the baby....'

Tony frowns and looks at Steve, completely unaware of what you meant.

'The baby Tony. We've decided to call him Howard' Steve finally breaks the news and Tony immediately fills with tears. 'Howard...' He says to himself and you smile sweetly. 'Yes Tony, Howard, Howard James Rogers'

'J-James?!' Bucky now speaks up, his voice cracking.

'End of the line pal, or did you forget?' Steve teases and Bucky throws his arms around him as Tony takes baby Howard and places him in your arms.

'My boy...' You whisper. You look up at Bruce and smile at him kindly. 'You called me petal'

'I...I...'

'It's what made me wake' You say as a tear rolls down your face, remembering that's what your father called you. 'Thankyou Dr Banner. For everything'

Bruce comes to your side and gives your hand a small squeeze. 'It was my honour, Petal' He calls you the nickname again and you can't help but let the smile come over your face once more.

Steve comes to your side and plants a kiss on your forehead before gently rubbing his thumb across Howard's little hand.

'So what now?' Bucky asks, lightening the mood around the room.

'If I remember correctly, you promised to walk me down the aisle, Barnes' You say kindly.

Bucky beams and Tony also perks up 'If you'll allow me, I'd love to pay for the wedding, and hire you both, as avengers but not out in the field, that life isn't for you now you have this little guy'

'I'm not mopping up after you either Stark' You tease and Tony laughs. 'Steve, I want you as my eyes and ears on missions, in the control room, if you'd agree?'

Steve nods agreeingly.

'Daisy, my assistant?' Tony asks hopeful.

'If you think I'm bringing you coffee every hour you've got another thing coming!'

'Coffee?! I want whisky!' Tony says back playfully and all of you laugh.

Howard let's out a yawn on your chest and you caress his cheek softly. 'You have no idea how loved you are' You kiss his head as everyone celebrates.

'Oh he will know' Natasha now enters the room along with the other avengers.

'Of course he will' You chuckle sweetly. 'He's one of Earth's mightiest heroes'

(THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR READING THIS STORY! It's been one hell of a rollercoaster! Hope you enjoyed the ending! Wanted to end it somewhere that allowed you to imagine how it all panned out for happily ever after! Appreciate all your support. Love Ella-May xx )