Nadia’s concerns about being rendered infertile by her past had long since been dismissed. If anything, they should have been concerned about how Bucky’s little swimmers were effected by the knock-off serum he’d been given. The Barneses had long since disproved that whole idea of a couple’s sex life taking a nosedive after they get married, let alone have a kid. Seven kids in seven years later, Nadia had finally put her foot down: she just wanted a full night’s sleep where she wasn’t woken up by a tiny foot to the spine or someone climbing into bed with them, damn it.
In steps Grandpa Hank. Without letting on, he’d booked Nadia and Bucky into a hotel. In Paris. For a week. He could handle the kids that long, he’d assured his worried daughter, and it wasn’t as though he’d be put out of anything with them. After all, there were three guest rooms in that big victorian in San Francisco, and Mrs. Pevensie, the housekeeper, already treated the little Barneses as her own grandchildren.
Nadia had made token protestations, saying that leaving them kid-less for a week in the most romantic city on Earth was the perfect recipe for an eighth grandkid. Her father had just reminded her that the dates weren’t fixed, and they could take him up on the offer whenever they were ready.
Which was how James and Nadia Barnes had ended up on the quietest international flight either of them could remember. Even if Nadia was still breastfeeding their youngest and thus couldn’t share the bottle of champagne with her husband.