#hawksprogeny

[daddyofstarks]

hawksprogeny She saw him once before. Howie's sure of it. Somewhere full of green and blinding suns. A place with a tiny little house meant only for a small family. A mirage really in the escape from patient abuse. She felt something strange come over her and glanced towards the kid who was walking around. She was in the break room, hand on a chess piece, ready to toss it at him to see if it'd go through his visage. She held back because a part of her knew it wouldn't. "You know if you're going to keep staring at the walls maybe we should switch places. You'll have a blast in crazy town."

[virtusetfortitudo]

[ hawksprogeny ]

She was done playing around.  Strucker and Rumlow and anyone else who stood in her way were going to die.  Alke was going to get Sasha, Aliana, and Nate back and she was going to bring back Shane to do it.  It was breaking all kinds of rules but the goddess didn’t give a shit.  She hid her son in one of the more secure safehouses she had.  “Kalikaraki, I need you to stay here.  I’m going to go to the Elysium, get your Uncle, and he and I are going to rescue Aliana, your father, and your Aunt.  Okay?  But to do that safely we need you to stay here.”

[xanimos-archive]

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Aliana frowned deeply and climbed into the bed carefully, even though Alke had healed him she was worried about hurting him.  “How’re you feeling, Papa?”

[xanimos-archive]

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“Papa?  Can you tell me stories about Daddy?”  The little girl asked in Russian, climbing into her adoptive father’s lap.

[shieldshawk]

Headcanon times!

So when Coop, Lila, and Nate all get a bit older, and less tiny child, Clint asks each of them if they’d like to be like their dad, and be agents, or if they’d like to do something else, no judgement, no ‘but you should totally be an agent’ kinda thing, just whatever they wanna do, Clint will support them in. Overwhelmingly, they all wanna be agents. And they all wanna be Hawkeye. Clint explains about Aunty Kate, and how they’re Hawkeye Squared. It can totally be Hawkeye to the fifth, if they’re ok with that. The name does not discriminate. But the love of eye-searing purple is a must.

[virtusetfortitudo]

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“Congratulations, Nate.  I never had any doubt you would do it, darling.”  Alke said, smiling at her acolyte.  Nate was a good boy, had stolen her heart when he was a toddler, and had chosen to be oathbound to her when he was seventeen.  He never missed a prayer and she guided him through life as best she could.  She was so very proud of him and so she wanted to make sure he knew.

“Come here.”  She gestured for him to come hug her.

[virtusetfortitudo]

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“You called for me, darling?”  Alke knew that Shane would let the boy choose who he wanted to be oathbound to on his seventeenth birthday - but she’d known Nate would choose her long before that and had already accepted him as her own.  A small wrapped present in hand, she approached him in long strides and embraced Nate, kissing his cheek.  “Happy birthday, dear one.  You must be excited, seventeen is quite a milestone.”

[virtusetfortitudo]

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She came to visit Shane in the aftermath of the rescue.  Alke could tell the boy needed some care after going through that and little Nate wouldn’t be hurt meeting her either.  Some courage in the face of what had happened to him would do him some good.  

The goddess, clad in an armored corset and leather pants, tossed her long braid over her shoulder as she walked into the room Shane and Nate were in.  The Russian looked up and smiled, standing respectfully with Nate balanced on his hip.  “Alke, it’s good to see you.”  He said, kissing his cousin’s cheek gently.  “Malyutka, this is Alke.  She’s one of the goddesses I pray to.  She helped me have the strength to rescue you.”

The goddess set her sword aside and smiled, approaching the two mortals.  “Hello, little one.  It’s wonderful to finally meet you in person.”