Welcome, avenger.
Arianna shuffled in her chair, scratching the handle of her duffle bag full of clothes with her perfectly manicured nails; playing with her waist length, wavy hair. It was a bright blonde, almost white, but it was natural, making her pale face look like it was made of porcelain. Awkwardly she was sat in the open lounge of the Avengers Apartment; waiting for Tony to come back with the keys to her new room.
She chewed her bottom lip viciously, the red lipstick still staying perfectly in tact; she was nervous, very, very nervous to be exact. All throughout her life she'd been mistreated; her parents were scientists, who had her purely to experiment on. When she was 7, she went blind, randomly one day she woke up and couldn't see a thing. This intrigued her parents to test on her again: they injected her; scanned her; they even fed her numerous chemicals. She was only 7.
She knew the other avengers were different, but inside she was still petrified of being mistreated and not accepted again.
In some sense, she was thankful for having such work-obsessed parents. Because of them, she had her power.
Arianna had passed all of her self-defence; karate; martial arts; boxing; fencing; and even shooting classes, but that wasn't why she was here. Arianna was different.
After years of being chemically prodded, she started to change. The first symptom was regaining her vision, the second was her athletic skills had boosted, a lot, and thirdly she could control things purely by seeing it in her mind.
She first found out her 'power' when she was at school, her tutor was scolding her for talking which obviously would annoy Arianna, so in her mind she saw the book case behind them falling on top of her tutor, and it did. The exact moment she'd seen it in her head, it actually happened. At first, she presumed it was a coincidence, but it kept happening again, she imagined things, those things happened. Of course all the usual mush that children think of like unicorns and fairies didn't appear, but when she thought of a door closing, it would; when she couldn't reach something on a shelf, it rolled off; when something heavy needed moving, all she had to do was imagine herself moving it, and she could. To begin with Arianna loved it, her life seemed easier and felt more individual as she'd kept it from her parents knowing they'd just experiment more. Soon enough, things started to go wrong, Arianna would lose her temper when attending lessons and things would catch fire, peoples limbs would break and rooms collapse. Obviously her parents noticed, excited what they had created they took her to some sort of science centre, where scientists from across the world would come and ask questions, make her give demonstrations and test on her. This happened until 4 weeks ago, Arianna was now in her early twenties, she'd been giving a demonstration of how she could set things alight when Nick Fury walked in. Being kept in a science centre all her life she had no idea who he was and presumed he was another foreign scientist come to offer a load of money to use me in his own country. Fury was speaking quietly to her parents so she couldn't hear what he was saying. After what seemed like forever of talking, Fury went up to her and told her she was to follow him, she looked to her parents in confusion; they nodded and waved, not seeming at all bothered. The Director led her out of the centre and drove her to SHIELD, where she learned of the avengers and whatnot; after a month they decided she was ready and took her to the Avengers Apartment where she'd finally meet the 6 people she'd spend the rest of her life with, defending her country.
"Here ya go" Stark smiled, tossing the key on to her lap making her jump back to the present "if you'd like to follow me." She did so, walking along the hi-tech and classy hallways, most of the building was glass, making everything bright and cheery. They stopped outside a white door labelled 'Arianna.'
"You were expecting me?" she asked Stark as she traced her fingers along her indented name
"of course" he chuckled "Fury informed us the moment you were picked up from that centre place"
"Oh" she replied, feeling a little stupid.
Stark opened the door to reveal a large bedroom with simple and plain furniture consisting of: a king sized for poster bed; a desk; a closet; several sets of drawers; a door which probably lead to her bathroom; a vintage dressing table; and a large square window with a window seat.
"This is for me..?" she asked quietly, admiring the whiteness of the room
"It sure is!" Stark chuckled, patting her shoulder "this is your room and tomorrow you'll be receiving money to do whatever you like with the place" Arianna turned to face him, she beamed, it was obvious she wasn't given a proper bedroom before, never mind things to call her own.
"Thank you" she said looking up at him "I really appreciate it"
"Nah, don't thank me" he laughed, patting her arm "I'll leave you to unpack" he told her before walking back down the corridor.
Arianna sighed and sat on the edge of the bed, stroking the soft white sheets. She really couldn't be bothered to unpack so she just lay on her bed, mentally preparing herself for the meeting of the other avengers.
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After about an hour of idling and thinking, she heard Stark's voice call her name from down the hall, she knew why, everyone had returned home. Quickly she hauled herself off of the mattress and stood in front of the full length mirror on the back of her door. She was wearing pale green tights, white ankle canvas shoes and an oversized Metallica t-shirt which stopped a little above her knee. Flattening her hair back down she swallowed hard, opened the door and strolled down the corridor to find all of the avengers sitting and chatting on the huge red sofas. As she entered they all stopped and looked up to her, she noticed Stark patting the space beside him on the edge so she sat there playing with the curly bits at the end of her hair.
"Hello Arianna" smiled Natasha, who she recognised because of her copper hair
"hello" she replied, a little quietly, damn she hated being so shy
"it's great to have another female around here!" Natasha grinned, making Arianna laugh.
Next along was Clint. "Hey" he waved, Arianna recognised him as the archer.
"Hello" Arianna nodded, a little more confident than before.
Next was Bruce, who she knew not to annoy, he seemed nice though, smiling at her warmly. Then it was Thor, who came across as the slow but friendly kind, he gave her a huge grin which made her giggle. Finally was Steve, who hugged her lightly and told her it was a pleasure to meet her which made her smile, you don't get many real gentlemen like Steve anymore.
"Basically, this is your family now" Stark said to her, sweeping his arm out to point out all of the avengers "don't worry, we accept you, we're all freaks deep down" he nudged her arm gently, making her as well as the others laugh. She instantly relaxed knowing they were fine with her.
"Show us what you can do then!" called Clint, causing the others to send him daggers and Natasha dig him in the ribs "if that's okay" he added kindly, rubbing his sides. Arianna swallowed hard, she really should show them seeing as she's the new addition to their weapons, but she didn't want to burn down their home. Sure, she'd had plenty of practice but she wasn't so get when her nerves kick in, like they were doing right now.
She stood up and faced the giant, empty fireplace, taking deep breaths and closing her eyes. Just as she was about to command her mind, there was a loud POP from in front of her, confused to what happened, she opened her eyes to a green eyed man in front of her, his dark hair swept back and a large green cloak covering his shoulders, she shook her head, surprised, which caused her to stumble backwards and having to be caught by Stark.
"Oops" the guy chuckled.
"Loki!" Thor snapped "what in Asgard's name are you doing here?!"
