Hello my fine furry friends and welcome to my newest story, Poor Unfortunate Soul! This is a future Pietro/OC story, introducing my new character who is a telekinetic. Of sorts. Won't get too much into the details, don't want to spoil the story or anything! So read on, have fun, and y'know, I don't own Marvel and stuff.

This is a post-Age of Ultron fiction, and, obviously, Pietro is still alive (because honestly I deny with my everything that he is actually dead. I DO NOT BELIEVE IT FOR ONE MINUTE, MARVEL STUDIOS. Don't play your tricks on me!).

Oh, also, I picked up the title from the song Holy by PVRIS, super song, you should check it out.

Ex-Director of SHIELD, Nick Fury, was the last person on Earth Tony Stark thought he would be seeing on a Sunday morning at the new Avengers installation. It had been weeks since the Ultron incident, he hadn't expected a visit from the Sky Pirate since then. Unless of course the world was facing impending doom once again.

"Fury."

"Tony." The Director returned his curt greeting. They still weren't on the best of terms, but who was really on good terms with Tony Stark?

"What can I do you for, Director?" Tony opened the door for Fury to let him through, but paused when he noticed another figure behind Fury. And she looked… Peculiar. The girl looked at him, unblinking. Tony stared back. Nick interrupted their staring contest with a cough.

"Perhaps we could talk about this over a few drinks, Stark?"

As Tony Stark led the two through the installation he couldn't help but observe the girl as they walked. She couldn't have been much older than 21 or 22, her hair looked like that of a mermaid's, it was long and fell in cascading waves of purples and blues - though her dark brown roots were showing. Her eyes were wandering around, looking everywhere except for the spot just to the left of her. It was as if she was trying to ignore someone who wasn't there. Her eyes were blue, but they were glassed over as her mind was miles away. She looked like she hadn't slept or eaten in days. To be honest, she was looking a little grungy, now that Tony looked closer.

The group had soon arrived in the dining area, and Tony began pouring them drinks from a fancy glass bottle of what could only be scotch.

"None for the girl. Not right now." Fury dictated. No alcohol for the space case. She snapped out of her daze just long enough to give Fury a short glare.

"Tea. If you'd kindly." She finally spoke. Her voice was hoarse. Tony was guessing that she didn't speak much, or she had just woken up. It sounded like morning voice.

"Right." Tony nodded. He disappeared into another room for a moment, then returned with a cup of tea for the woman. She nodded thankfully, and returned to mentally checking out of the conversation. Both Nick and Tony watched her for a moment, both for different reasons. When Fury was sure that she was definitely not paying attention to them anymore, he turned to Tony.

"So. Gonna tell me who the kid is?" Tony asked in a quiet voice. He suspected that Fury didn't exactly want her to know what was going on.

"This is Thalia Steele. I still have a few records from SHIELD, the ones keeping track of "possible threats" to the world. She was one of them." Fury explained.

"Was?" Tony inquired as he sipped his scotch.

"For a short time she was… Incapacitated. No longer deemed a threat. Thalia was…" Fury paused and looked at the girl. Her eyes were darting around the room, not particularly captivated by any one thing. She was still gone. "Thalia was locked away in a maximum security mental asylum." Tony choked on his drink, definitely not expecting that.

"Then what the hell happened? Why is she here, Fury?" Tony seethed. He couldn't bring an unstable, SHIELD classified 'threat to the world' into his home! What was Fury thinking?

"Let me explain Tony." Fury growled. Out of nowhere, Thalia slammed her fist on to the table. Her dazed eyes were looking through Tony, and then suddenly they focused on Tony. She looked frightened.. Confused.

"They hurt me in there…" She said in a small voice. Fury looked down and away from her. He knew how much it pained her to be in that place. Thalia's eyes took on the dazed look once more. "I stopped taking the pills so I could.. So I could think. So I wouldn't be foggy. And then…" She trailed off, her voice hitching slightly. Thalia didn't finish her sentence, she was off in her world again. Fury looked to Tony once again. The emotions on Tony's face were indecipherable. Fury knew he wouldn't turn down a kicked puppy like Thalia though.

"Like she was saying.. Thalia has special abilities that work in tandem with her… Condition. They stuffed pills down her throat so her mind and her powers were, for lack of a better word, broken. I had checked in on her regularly while SHIELD was still intact, but after it fell, I had to go under the radar, as you know. I knew HYDRA would have staff there, in case I ever tried to show up. I had to leave her. HYDRA infiltrated the place, and began doing experiments on the gifted people locked in there. Thalia, was one of the more heavily tested. From what I can gather, she started faking taking her pills, and then she would hide them. Even though her delusions would come back, her powers would too."

"A sacrifice she had to make." Tony nodded somberly as he observed Thalia.

"So it seems. After she regained enough of her power, she managed to escape. Two days ago I found her wandering the streets. Starving and as insane as ever.

"Stark, this is where I need your help. She needs training. She can't control her powers if she can't even control her mind. Frankly, I'm surprised she made it out of the asylum." Tony was watching her once more. Thalia looked like she was trying her damnedest to ignore someone sitting next to her. Every once in awhile he'd see her look over and hold a finger to her mouth, shushing someone who wasn't there. Thalia was absolutely mad.

"You want me to train her, with the other Avengers?" Tony asked, finally getting to the bottom line. Fury nodded.

"She needs to control this, Stark. We can't lock her up again, and if she runs rampant without knowing what she's doing, Thalia could hurt a lot of people." Tony tore his gaze away from the ever-peculiar Thalia Steele and looked to Nick Fury with a furrowed brow.

"What exactly is it that she can do?" Nick shifted awkwardly. From that response, Tony wasn't exactly sure he would like the answers.

"She's a… Telekinetic… Of sorts."

"Of sorts?" Tony asked, giving the one-eyed man a look.

"Her hallucinations. Her imaginary friends… She can make them real."

Tony sat back, staring at Thalia in amazement. She paid him no mind. He had never seen powers like she had, never even heard of anything remotely like it. No wonder HYDRA had experimented on her, hell, he wanted to run a test or two. The ability to cook up anything in your mind and make it a reality? An incredible gift… Also, incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands. Tony frowned.

"You can see my problem, can't you?" Nick asked as he watched Tony. No place was safe for Thalia. Not out in the real world. Not while she was in the state she was in. "She hasn't taken her medication in weeks, she's barely functional at this point. With the right dosage she can subside the psychosis enough to function. I still have connections, I'm sure I can get that. While she's here, I need you to make sure she's taking her pills. Lest she end up like this, again." Fury motioned to Thalia. Grungy, unwashed, unfed, unaware Thalia. Tony was mulling over the situation in his head, even if he just taunted the idea of keeping her here, there's so much trouble that would have to go in to it. As he was thinking over the situation, movement caught his eye. Beside Thalia, her tea cup was floating in midair. Every so often it would tilt back, as if someone was drinking the tea (though the tea in the cup would disappear… Like an invisible person actually was drinking it), and then it would return to its position on the table. Thalia, no longer attempting to ignore the presence, would look to the blank space with a wide grin. She nodded every so often, as if listening to a story, and then she burst into a loud laughter.

This girl was 100% off of her rocker.

Tony watched with wide eyes, and Nick just watched with a somber gaze.

"Stark…Tony. I need your help with this one. Thalia needs your help." Nick Fury was on the verge of begging. He never begged.

"I…" Tony was still staring as Thalia carried on her conversation with thin air. He finally snapped his gaze back to the Director. "We'll do it. We'll take her in."

Hello all, and welcome to my new story! I do hope you like this first chapter, it was fun to write. I hope you enjoy Thalia, because she is going to be a handful in the future! At least the Avengers are giving her a loving home. 3 Anywho! Please give me some lovings with comments and criticisms and plot ideas if you guys have any you might like to see! Love you all, and see you in the next chapter!

-Alice