Prologue
I paced around the conference room. Rows upon rows of chairs were empty leaving a hollow feeling inside of my stomach. The black door-the only means of escape- looked very tempting to me as my hysteria grew. The clunk of metal reminded me of just who was in control of this meeting. The hand-cuffs that were tightly secured around my dainty wrists gave me no choice but to cooperate. A sliver of light caught my attention as a well groomed man stormed into the room with a black eye-patch covering one eye.
"Don't force yourself to get up Miss Crawford" his deep voice smiled. Obviously I couldn't get up let alone twist around with these handcuffs. Does he want to get hit once I get free of this metal contraption? Clearly he does.
"So what pleasure do I owe in having this lovely, might I add illegal meeting?" I decided to play the nice card, well, you know since I'm cuffed and all. He didn't so much as crack a smile at my joke, crinkle an eye or snort- nothing! It made me wonder how insensitive he was.
"It seems what I've heard is true. My name is Nick Fury, representative of SHIELD."
I smirked at what he said before replying, "It's my assumption then that what you heard was the truth, which is fairly hard to come by these days don't you agree?" He simply blinked at my interruption. I winked before adding, "I love your little clubs group name by the way." He bluntly ignored my retort. What a meanie. He wouldn't be much fun at a party.
My attention drew to the impressively large folder that he dropped onto the conference table. Its sides bulged with paper and plastic sleeves in assorted colours. The contents of the folder hitting the table echoed around us. "I didn't merely drop by to chat but to rather offer you a placement in SHIELD. Your…" he looked down at me as he tried to find a word, "…talents would be most useful in our current predicament." My eyes tore from the intimidating files to his piercing gaze. It had so much weight and stress held all together by a single bind of rage that it left me feeling adrenaline pump through my veins.
"I just recently secured a stable job and found a house I like; what makes you think that I will just drop it all to be put on a leash by your little posse?" His anger fuelled my voice. Dammit I forgot to control myself. Instead of hitting me like I feared at my outburst, he merely cracked a smile. It actually scared me more because his face told me that he rarely ever smiled. His left hand reached into his back pocket and produced a key. My heart lightened at the thought of my freedom. He leaned into the table as he placed the key and a card on the intimidating sized folder.
"The Earth is experiencing a huge threat and we need all the available assets we can get in order to prevent the Earth's destruction. I leave the key and files to you." My eyes followed his figure as he retreated to the door. His head swivelled to my direction and I blinked feeling anxious for the first time in my life. "Oh and if you do decide to join us, my contact number is on the card." He pointed to the small white rectangular piece of paper that he previously placed on top of the files. This was all too much so I did the only thing that I could do.
"How did you know it was my birthday?" I grinned widely at his discomfort of my ease in the situation regarding the impending doom being brought to Earth.
Hello!
So this is my first ever proper fanfiction (you can probably tell). This is just a snippet of the story I have install for Avengers. I simply adore ALL the characters and felt like adding one of my own to insue a lovely romance blooms between my character and a certain someone...
Read to find out!
All my love, cake, tea and cookies!
~ Jess