[Comprehensive British and American] Avengers Parenting Manual

When Jo opened her eyes again, a gentle voice came from above her head: "Are you awake?"

Although her head was still not quite awake because she just woke up, she didn't bounce because she couldn't recognize the voice, but continued to lie quietly on her side in this person's arms.The woman's hazy eyes gradually became clear due to the passage of time, and then she took a deep breath and let it out slowly, then raised her chin and rubbed her forehead against the man's cheek: "Bucky?"

"Yesterday you fell asleep holding me." Barnes took away his hand holding her waist and patted her back twice, motioning her to get up.

Obediently, Joe straightened himself up slightly to get out of Barnes' embrace, then yawned loudly, sniffed and looked at Barnes.

The latter also looked at her, raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

"I didn't dream last night," said Jo, looking at Barnes, with a little smile—although Barnes thought she was taking credit for it. "That guy I hate didn't come to me either."

This suggestive language made Barnes narrow his eyes uncertainly. He looked into Joe's bright eyes in silence for a few seconds and then tentatively said, "So?"

"So let's sleep together in the future!" Probably because he slept comfortably last night, Qiao looked at Barnes's excited proposal full of energy, but immediately asked cautiously, "Is it okay?"

Although he vaguely guessed it, Barnes was still a little helpless when he actually heard it.He reached out and patted Joe's back to let her get off his feet first, and Joe obediently supported the edge of the bed to stand on the ground and stretched her hands forward because of the aftertaste of sleep.Barnes looked amused, and reached out to meet her palm.

He withdrew his hand and beat his legs twice, then crossed up and patted the bed to signal Joe to sit down.Joe, who had just stood up, looked at him with some doubts, but imitated him and sat down cross-legged without hesitation.

"Joe, you must remember what I'm going to say next." Perhaps influenced by Barnes' serious attitude, Joe also looked at him seriously, but nodded firmly in doubt.

"First." Barnes looked at Joe, "Don't fall asleep in front of unfamiliar people."

Joe looked at him, and it took him a while to react and nodded quickly.Then, before Barnes tried to speak, he got it: "Second."

Barnes paused when he was about to speak, and squinted slightly at the innocent Joe, with a smile on his lips: "You are not allowed to rub into the arms of the opposite sex, not even us."

The woman responded quickly this time. She raised her chin and wanted to nod, but suddenly thought of something and stopped.She stared at Barnes with her chin up and slowly revealed a look full of doubts, and slowly tilted her head. She frowned and looked at Barnes, looking hesitant to speak.Barnes looked at her like this and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Joe watched as Barnes moved his mouth and said something Barnes couldn't hear, and he didn't press the question, just continued to stare at Joe and let her think for herself.

"But..." Joe finally asked, "I hugged you to sleep yesterday."

"So I can't do this in the future." Barnes looked at Joe's still frowning, and quickly added, "And there is no discussion, even if you are unhappy." Of course he can read her face now. I am very unhappy and I am not happy, but so what if she is not happy?No way is no way.

Barnes blew away all the joy that Jo had had from a good night's dreamless sleep. She lowered her head slightly, wanting to say something but didn't know how to express it, which made Barnes angry and angry. funny.In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore, leaned over and stretched out his hand to pat Joe on the forehead, and said with a crisp 'snap', "You've grown up now, and there are many things you need to start paying attention to."

"So those two things I just said are the first things I need to pay attention to?" Joe flinched from being hit, feeling no pain, and Barnes didn't hit hard.

"That's right," Barnes said, straightening up with his hands propped by his sides, "so don't be so reluctant."

"Then I'd rather not grow up." Joe's muttering did not escape Barnes' ears, and Barnes laughed when he heard this: "You never hugged me to sleep when you were a child."

Joe thought carefully about what Barnes said, and nodded after a few seconds: "You're right." After a pause, she frowned immediately, "But when I was young, my dreams were not like this..." Her voice stopped abruptly. He stopped, kept his mouth open and looked at the man for a while, then closed his mouth abruptly.

Barnes looked at her. In fact, he didn't care about Joe's behavior of closing his mouth suddenly in the middle of speaking. They all knew her character.Only this time, the man wasn't going to just let her get away with it.But he didn't expect that before he was about to say something, the woman who was sitting obediently across from her turned her head quickly and made a gesture to get off the bed.But her movements were too fast and hasty, and she didn't notice that she was sitting on the edge of the bed, and the result of reaching out with one hand was that she felt empty and threw her whole body forward.

The most important thing is that she is still staring forward with the expression of 'what happened'.

Barnes accurately crossed her shoulder with one hand to stop her pounced forward, then flicked the guy's head with the other hand and said, "Why are you so anxious?" Joe looked at the guy with a guilty conscience. His expression language with the upper lip wrapped around the lower lip is very similar to when she was a child - but Barnes snapped his fingers up again: "The third thing, don't act like a baby."

"I'm not acting like a baby." Joe let go of his lips and frowned, then said weakly, "Bucky, I want to wash my face and brush my teeth."

Barnes let go of her graciously, and watched her immediately get out of bed and run into the bathroom in the room. Joe said: "The fourth thing, you come out and put the shoes on for me!"

When Joe closed the bathroom door again, she didn't wash her face and brush her teeth as she said just now.Instead, she leaned her back against the bathroom door and stared at the snow-white tiled floor in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking, her brows furrowed more and more tightly, and finally she squatted on the ground with an expression of frustration.Putting his chin on his arm, Joe frowned and reached out to pat his forehead twice, vaguely gnashing his teeth.

"Jarvis, am I stupid?" she said suddenly, looking up at the bathroom ceiling.

It's just that Jarvis, who always responded to her, remained silent this time. She stood up helplessly after waiting for a while, and let out a sigh of relief: "Okay, you don't have to think about giving me the answer."

Barnes didn't pay attention to what Joe was doing in the bathroom. He put the earphones in Joe's bedside table last night in order not to hear the voices of those guys interrogating the ability user they captured.As soon as he put it on and opened it, he heard Romanov say, "I'm probably sleeping comfortably with Joe."

Although there was no subject, and he didn't know what they said before, but he understood the sentence: "It seems that your progress is very encouraging."

The voice over the earphones suddenly became much quieter, and finally, as Barnes expected, it was Steve who spoke first: "Bucky, you're awake."

"Didn't sleep much." Barnes said calmly, "Let's not talk about this, what's the progress."

Romanov raised his eyebrows and looked at the gray-haired man in front of him who was indifferent no matter how she hinted, how to attract his attention, how to seduce him to talk, took a deep breath, squatted down and tilted his head to see that he was similar to Joe before. With a face that was too pale, he said without thinking: "Joe is awake."

The gray-haired man still didn't look at her, but Romanoff noticed that his fingers were opening and closing a little slower.

"Do you have anything to say to her?" In the corner of Romanov's vision, the man's fingers stopped completely.He stared at his fingers for a few seconds, then slowly raised his eyes to meet her, but just when Romanov thought he was about to say something, he lowered his head again as before.

Romanov frowned, stood up abruptly, left the room where Castor was being held, and walked straight to where her colleagues were.

"He still didn't speak." Steve asked first when he opened the door and saw her.

"His condition is a bit similar to when one of us lost his memory." Romanov opened the long chair and sat on tiptoes slightly, ignoring Stark's gaze, "And only for Joe's name There is a reaction, maybe I knew Joe before." She looked at Banner, who was a little pale.

Banner pulled the corner of his lips to her to indicate that he was fine, and at the same time said: "So we are going to bring Joe to him now?"

"No." It was Barnes' voice in the earphone that rang along with Stark present.There was a moment of silence between the two at the same time, and then Stark asked, "Bucky, how did Joe sleep last night?"

"According to her own words, she slept well." Barnes recalled, "and she woke up very refreshed just now." But when he thought of this, he remembered Joe asking to sleep with him and his expression after he refused ——To be honest, I thought it was nothing at the time, but now that I think about it, the more I think about it, the more... my heart softens.

"At least wait." Romanov smiled and glanced at the silent Stark, and the others, including Saul, also showed a clear expression, "Not to mention that Joe himself is starting to remember..." Her The voice fell, but it was obvious that the sentence was not complete.But she doesn't need to tell the whole story.

They have not forgotten Ruth's evaluation of the memory buried in Joe's mind, and Joe's fear of some things and people that she is still hazy.

Looking at her silent colleagues, Romanoff suddenly realized that it seemed that from the beginning, their attitude towards Joe's problem had been procrastinating, and it was not the first time she realized this. It's not a good sign - this sudden realization made her a little dazed.

Barton patted Romanov on the back lightly, she turned her head and picked the corner of her mouth at him, and the previous sense of anxiety surged up again.