I don't own the Avengers or Harry Potter.

I do own my OC, please don't use her or copy her character.

This is the rewritten version of 'There is Always Hope', I hope that everyone likes it as much as I have like rewriting it. The basic storyline is still the same but a fair few things have been adjust to fit the timeline and to give the story more background. I would also like to thank Aeroza for being the Beta Reader for this story.

Warning: This fic will be AU and will be Fem Harry, there will also be Bad!Dumbledore, and Dumbledore and most of the Weasley's Bashing.

But Fem Harry is not a Horcrux in this fic.

Each chapter will be between 1500 and 2500 words long.

There is Always Hope - Chapter 1

Washington DC - August 2001 , Barton-Romanoff Apartment, 12:39

"She is so cute Tasha." Maria Hill commented quietly to Natasha.

"Thanks, she was worth all the stress and pain to get her here," Natasha said while holding onto the infant.

The six of them were sitting in Clint and Natasha's Apartment, their Director; Nick Fury, had only just left since he had been eager to meet two of his best agent's new daughter. Now Clint and Natasha, and their friends Melinda May, Phil Coulson, Maria Hill and Bobbi Morse were left admiring the little one month infant, Taylor Ruby Barton.

"So are you finally going to tell us who gets to be her godparents?" Phil asked the two new parents as Clint saw Natasha nod, did so, "Yes, we will tell you. We decided that Maria and Bobbi should be her godparents, but we promise if we have another child, Mel and Phil can be their Godparents." Clint told them.

It had been hard to decide who to make Taylor's Godparents, but in the end they had decided mostly on Maria and Bobbi as Maria had been recruited by Clint, and Bobbi had been trained by Natasha, and they felt that they could trust them to look after things if there was anything wrong occurred, or anything should happen to them.

"I thought for sure that you would be choosing either Mel or Phil, I mean you have known both of them longer. But all the same I am honoured to be this little one's Godmother… Or one of them anyway." Bobbi said while hearing Taylor coo softly.

"Same here. I am more than happy to be her Godmother, even if I do have to share with Bobbi," Maria teased her friend, and then gotten a playful punch to the shoulder from Bobbi as she did.

Natasha looked over at her other two friends, and she hoped that they weren't upset by their decision, and if Clint ever persuaded her to have a another baby, Mel and Phil would be the only ones she would consider for Godparents.

"We aren't bothered that you chose Bobbi and Maria at all, we will still get to be in her life just as much as they are. Their names will just be on the forms," Melinda assured them and she was still the only one that could read Natasha, and at time like this it was very helpful, at other times Natasha did wish that her friend didn't have that particular skill.

"Thanks guys." Clint murmured while looking relieved as Natasha.

They stayed for a while longer; Bobbi and Maria made a point of holding Taylor again before they had to leave. Bobbi and Melinda had a mission to go on, Phil had a mission to run, and Maria had meeting with a couple of higher level agents to go to.

Washington DC - December 2001; Barton-Romanoff Apartment, 16:00

"Do you think it will always be like this?" Clint asked.

He and Natasha had been away on a two day mission, and now they couldn't wait to get back to their six month old baby. Who they had to leave with a couple of agents that Director Fury and they themselves had background checked as Phil, Mel, Maria and Bobbi were all unavailable to look after Taylor.

"Missing her like this, in some ways I hope so, in others... I hope it might get a little easier as it is very distracting and getting distracted could get us killed." Natasha only told him.

Clint nodded as he unlocked the door and disabled the security alarm, it was strangely quiet and it put both Natasha and himself on high alert. They moved quickly and silently through their apartment; finding one of the agents that should have been looking after Taylor… Were dead in the hallway that lead to Taylor's own nursery.

Both of them rushed into the nursery, and instantly found the second agent dead on the floor of the nursery with dazed-like blank eyes, and other than her, the room was empty and yet to their worry… There was no sign of Taylor.

Clint had called in for back up, and tried to comfort Natasha; who appeared to be in shock. Director Fury had come to their apartment himself along with Maria, and none of them could figure out how the kidnapper had gotten into the apartment.

Just like the Medical Examiner couldn't figure out how the agents that had been looking after Taylor, had been killed, and they were both perfectly healthy; other than the fact that they were dead. There were also no wounds, no poison in their systems, no broken bones, they were just dead with no apparent cause.

Clint and Natasha took months off to search of any lead to find their daughter with no luck, eventually Phil and Melinda sat them down and got them to talk and both came back to SHIELD with the promise that the case would be kept open but only Director Fury, Maria, Phil, Melinda, Bobbi and themselves would know about it.

Every now and then Natasha and Clint would take a couple of days to try, and find Taylor again with no luck.

Godric's Hollow - October 2002; Potter's Cottage, 21:48

"James, it's time to put Taylor to bed," Lily gently said while coming up to her husband and daughter, "Okay, okay. She spoils all our fun doesn't she Tay?" James agreed and handed Taylor over to her mother.

Lily was just about to head out of the room and upstairs to Taylor's nursery when she felt the wards around their cottage were suddenly breached, and one look at James told her that he had felt it too.

"It's him, take Taylor and run Lily! I will give you time to escape." James ordered while Lily shook her head, "No! I won't go without you!" Lily exclaimed yet he gently shoved them away as they heard the door, "You have to keep Taylor safe, Lily, please go!" James shouted.

Finally Lily nodded and rushed up the stairs with Taylor hoping to either portkey or apparate out and alert the Order of the Phoenix of the attack. Only she found that she couldn't apparate because she had left her wand downstairs and that they portkey wouldn't work, Voldemort must have put up anti-portkey wards before he came in.

She quickly barricaded herself and Taylor in the nursery, then she heard a thump and footsteps coming up the stairs. Lily just knew that it was Voldemort that was coming, and that James was dead. Lily told her little girl while kissing her forehead gently, "Taylor, Mummy and Daddy love you. Always remember that, my beautiful, brave girl."

Then she turn to face the most dangerous Dark Lord of this century as he blasted through the door, and she even begged him to spear her daughter's life, pleading with him to have mercy she was just a baby. The last thing Lily saw was a flash of green, and then nothing.

Taylor watched the man in the black robes curiously, though she was a little uncertain that her Mummy hadn't got up yet the man; The Dark Lord known as Voldemort, pointed his wand at her and then whispered, "Avada Kedavra."

She saw a bright golden light come around her just as the spell was whispered, and then quickly felt pain on her forehead that made her start crying, then there was a crack, and a couple of minutes later a man in purple robes came into the room.

He looked a the empty robes and wand that had clattered on the floor after the spell had been cast yet the man smiled to himself, and knew everything was going to plan… Now he just had to wait for Hagrid to come pick the girl up, and take young Taylor to her aunt's as he couldn't be having young Sirius Black on obtaining her; Magical Vow or not.

Once he had contacted Hagrid, he apparated to Number 4 Privet Drive, Surrey, and waited for Hagrid to arrive with the girl. Minerva had tried to stop him from leaving Taylor with her aunt, but a mild Compulsion Charm had her forcibly agreeing that he was right.

That night on the 31st of October, 2002, Albus Dumbledore left little Taylor Potter on the doorstep of her aunt's house.

Yes, everything was going according to his well laid out plans.

February 2004; SHIELD Base - Location Classified, 04:07

This should not be happening… It wasn't right, and it wasn't fair to her little girl, how could she have let this happen. Natasha thought while she was sitting on the floor in the private bathroom that was connected to their rooms within this SHIELD Base. Clint was still asleep, and she had come in here to try and prove to herself that this was not happening, and had failed.

Stupid tests, why did they have to be positive?

"Tasha? What's going on?" Clint asked sleepily.

Obviously Clint was not asleep anymore, but for once she found that she didn't know what to say to him, they had always been able to talk to each other about anything and right now she didn't have a clue how to tell him.

Instead she showed him the positive pregnancy tests that she had been agonizing over for the last half an hour. Hopefully Clint would know what to say otherwise they might just end up sitting in silence, he took one look at the pregnancy tests that Tasha was show him and he instantly knew why she was so confused and upset.

"Oh Tasha, we aren't betraying Taylor's memory. We will still look her for, and it's not like we planned this, if she were here I am sure that she would want a younger sibling." Clint said trying to comfort her.

"But she's not here Clint. We failed her, we haven't been able to find her and what if we fail this little one too. I can't go through that again Clint," Natasha murmured for once saying exactly how she was feeling to him.

"We won't fail again Tasha, and Taylor is still out there; We will find her eventually, I promise we will. We can keep this little one safe, I promise." Clint told her, as right now he needed to reassure her, he knew that she didn't fully believe him though.

"Okay, you know I believe about half of what just came out of your mouth. Right?" Natasha commented in slightly better spirits.

"Oh, I know. Just as long as you believe that I am just as happy about this baby as I was about Taylor, and that we will get through this; That is enough for now. Now how about we get back to bed, it's early even for us." Clint grumbled at the end.

Natasha laughed and nodded as Clint had never liked early mornings, and she followed him out of the bathroom and then back into their sleeping quarters.

Washington DC - June 2004 ; Barton-Romanoff Apartment, 18:10

They hadn't told anyone about the pregnancy other than a trusted SHIELD Doctor and Director Fury, and they had decided to also wait to tell their friends until a bit later in the pregnancy. Which was why they now had Phil, Mel, Maria and Bobbi in their apartment eating Chinese for dinner.

Natasha was wondering which one of them would ask why they were really here first, she had bet that it would be Maria, while Clint thought it would be Mel.

"So not that it isn't nice to get together, but why are we really here?" Maria asked yet they were amused by Natasha while having a hand out, "Oh yes, pay up Clint." Natasha said holding out her hand for the ten dollars that she had Clint had bet on who would ask first.

"Really, that is the last time I bet on you Mel." Clint whined as he handed the money over, all four of their friends looked amused still, it was nice to be like this again as their friendships had suffered when Taylor was taken, and it was nice to be almost like normal again.

"What exactly were you betting on?" Melinda asked.

"Who would ask 'Why you were really here' first, and I thought rightly that it would be Maria, yet Clint thought that you would ask first Mel," Natasha explained.

"Well, are you going to tell us why we are here?" Phil asked before Bobbi added, "Other than the free Chinese and company that is." Seeing there was no time to waste, "We wanted to tell you that I'm pregnant, so obviously I won't be in the field for a while and Mel and Phil get to be godparents." Natasha told them softly.

There was a long pause in which all of them knew that the others were thinking about Taylor, and the last time that Natasha had told them that she was pregnant… "Congratulations guys." Bobbi said to them.

"Thanks, just because we are having this baby doesn't mean that we are going to stop looking for Taylor. It just mean that when we find her she will have a little brother or sister," Clint told them.

"Of course. We never thought that you would, we haven't either." Melinda promised.

So this is Chapter 1 redone, I hope you liked it and I will just let you know the timeline that we have gone through in this chapter.

Story Timeline:

Taylor is born in July 2001

She is kidnapped in December 2001

Lily and James Potter are killed by Voldemort and Taylor goes to the Dursley's in October 2002

Natasha finds out she is pregnant in February 2004

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