The Psychologist and the Phantom
By WriterHorse32
I do not own Ultimate Spider man because if I did White Tiger would totally have a boyfriend of course it would probably be Iron fist so on with the story!
"Uh Fury why do we need a psychologist on our team?" Peter asked still in his costume.
"Because I have a feeling that you all are driving each other insane," Fury responded.
"That's not true!" Ava protested. All Fury did was point at Peter and Sam trying to kill each other through mental combat which was impossible because neither of them were telepaths.
"Idiots," Ava grumbled.
"The psychologist will be here in an hour be prepared to meet him," Nick Fury commanded before walking away.
"What are you guys doing?" Luke asked.
"Trying to kill him telepathically," Peter and Sam said in unison, before glaring at each other.
"Idiots," Ava grumbled once again. An hour later the team was waiting in the meeting room for the psychologist only to see that he was late.
"Where is he?" Fury asked.
"Ever heard of being late?" came a male voice. They turned and saw a man with jet black hair, green eyes, and pale skin.
"It's about time Dr. Thorne," said Fury.
"Sorry about that Mr. Fury, but it is quite hard to get to a building that is oh you know flying far above the ground," Dr. Thorne said.
"Well this is the team, Ava Ayala, Daniel Rand, Luke Cage, Sam Alexander, and Peter Parker I'm sure you'll want to talk to them one on one?" Fury asked.
"That's correct so who wants to go first?" Dr. Thorne asked.
"I will," Ava said shocking everyone in the room, except for Dr. Thorne.
"Good, I assume you have a room available for private consultations," said Dr. Thorne.
"Of course, it's right around the corner," said Fury.
"Thank you," said Dr. Thorne. "Follow me Miss Ayala."
After an hour the team was getting worried about Ava.
"I wonder what's taking so long?" Peter asked.
"I don't know none of us know much about Ava's past we always figured she'd tell us when she was ready, but I guess she feels comfortable with this guy," said Luke. Danny looked slightly miffed after hearing Luke say that. He would admit that he liked Ava, well he'd admit it to himself, but not to anyone else. Thinking that Ava was more comfortable with a guy she had just met than him well it was enough to make him mad, lucky for him he had good control over his emotions.
"Okay who is next?" Dr. Throne asked as he and Ava walked out.
"I'll go," said Luke before following Dr. Thorne into the room.
"So was it a good session?' Sam asked.
"None of your business," Ava replied. It was two hours later when the entire team was done with the good doctor as Sam now called Dr. Thorne. Then Fury walked in.
"I have someone that I want you all to meet," said Fury. Just then a girl with blonde hair with black undertones, blue eyes, and skin as pale as a ghost with red lipstick on her lips walked in. She wore a black cropped tank top with white and black ombre jeans, a black and white striped blazer, and red sneaker wedges.
"MERCY!" Dr. Thorne yelled. The girl who the team guessed was named Mercy looked slightly shocked before returning to looking slightly nervous and excited.
"You know her?" Ava asked.
"She's my sister," Dr. Thorne said.
"Hi Damon nice to see you too," said Mercy.
"Why are you here?" asked Luke.
"She's your new team mate," Fury said.
"YOU'RE THEIR NEW WHAT?!" Dr. Thorne yelled.
"Teammate, Damon, You remember how I got my abilities don't you?" Mercy said.
"You really want to get into that now?" Thorne asked.
"Sure, after all you're always telling your patients to discuss what's bothering them why not me too?"
"Mercy now is not the time nor the place to talk about this."
"Oh really so when can we talk about it and hey maybe my foster dad ,Marcus, can come he'd love to tell you about everything that happened to me when you-"
"That is quite enough Miss Thorne, you two can discuss this later," Fury said. "Why don't you get acquainted with the team, Miss Thorne." Fury then walked out with Damon and left the teens alone in the room.
"Soo now what?" Sam asked.
"How about you guys get out of those uniforms and come over to my house," Mercy said. "With your foster dad Marcus?" Luke asked.
"Nah he's in jail now, so we'll be at Jake's place," Mercy said.
"Who's Jake?" asked Danny.
"He adopted me after Marcus went to prison," Mercy said.
"So where do you live?" Peter asked.
"You'll find out once you guys get dressed in regular clothes," said Mercy. About ten minutes later the group was walking around New York City with Mercy who was apparently leading them to Neal's house.
"Are we there yet?" Sam asked.
"Look, right over there, that's where I work," Mercy said while ignoring Sam and simultaneously pointing to a building with a sign that read 'Club Wicked' on the outside.
"You seriously work there?" Sam asked awestruck.
"Yep as a singer, now come on my house is right down this way," Mercy brought them to a really nice district in New York.
"You live here?" Peter asked as he saw the really nice apartment complex right in front of them.
"Yep follow me," Mercy led them to an elevator then to an amazingly nice penthouse. "Jake I'm home," Mercy yelled. "With friends."
"Okay, I'm gonna head out for some business dinner that Teresa arranged for me to go on with a few fellow authors," Jake said coming out with a suit on and his signature tie on as well.
"So when will you be back," Mercy replied.
"I'll be back around 11 okay sweetie?" Jake asked.
"Can I order a pizza or chinese?" Mercy asked Jake. Jake nodded.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do," Jake said. Mercy rolled her eyes.
"Jake if you haven't realized yet I'm the responsible one out of the two of us," Mercy said. It was Jake's turn to roll his eyes, but he still left them alone.
"This is so cool, your adopted dad is an author," Ava said.
"What does he write exactly?" Luke asked.
"He writes mystery novels, he wishes he could be an FBI agent, but he's not allowed because he has a record," Mercy said looking through some leaflets for a good delivery/takeout restaurant.
"What kind of record?" Danny asked.
"He was a forger and con artist," Mercy said stilling leafing through the leaflets.
"HE WAS A WHAT!" The team shrieked.
"Why did he quit?" Sam asked.
"He hit an all time low and he met me," Mercy said finally turning to the group. "You see Marcus had been a low-time con artist and had used me to well steal lots of stuff. I'm not proud of it, but I also didn't have a choice when I didn't go along with his plan he'd beat me till I bleed then he'd keep me inside for days." Mercy sighed "I couldn't get out, then Marcus set his eye on making Jake aware of who we were and how he was going to make Jake look like the low-time con artist. So he sent me into the FBI headquarters, alone, and made me steal Jake's file, because he had been doing research for his next book, but setting off the alarms was something he hand't told me about though."
"He made you get caught," Ava said. Mercy nodded. "I was then in interrogation and I decided that since Marcus obviously wasn't coming back for me to help the FBI catch him. Then Jake asked questions about… me," Mercy smiled.
"It was the first time anyone had asked me personal questions about myself when I wasn't being forced to con or steal from them. It was this great feeling. And then Marcus came after me."
"What did he do?" Luke asked.
"He almost killed me, again."
"What do you mean again?" Danny asked.
"I got my powers when I was nine, my parents had been watching a movie with me when two men with knives walked in and forced us on the ground," Mercy's smile was long gone now she looked close to tears. "They slit the throats of my parents and made me watch as they died, then the raped me multiple times before slitting my wrists."
"How did you survive?" Sam asked.
"I didn't," Mercy replied. "I died, but these wiccans who I had been friends with, cast a spell that brought me back to life with some… unexpected side effects."
"Let me guess your powers?" Sam asked.
"Yeah so now I have the abilities of a ghost so Flying, invisibility, walking through solid objects, telepathy, telekinesis-"
"Wait since when do ghosts have telepathy and telekinesis?" Ava asked.
"Since forever, how else do ghosts communicate with each other? And you know when ghosts move stuff in the room you're in, well, we're usually on the other side of the room, but I also have the ability to cast spells because well I practice Wicca." After an hour of having to explain Wicca to the team and her advanced wiccan abilities (another side effect from the spell used to bring her back to life) she finally managed to convince them that Wiccans were good and that she would never hurt them with her abilities.
"So you're a wiccan who can use her abilities better than other wiccans because you died, that makes so much sense," said Luke.
"Well I'm hungry and I don't feel like explaining again, so pick a restaurant and pick out what you want to order," Mercy responded. After two hours of eating chinese take-out and chatting about the other aspects of their lives as superheroes the team decided that they should go.
"So I'm guessing you're going to Midtown high right?" Peter asked.
"Yep I'll see you guys tomorrow," Mercy said as the team left.
"What do you think of Mercy?" Peter asked.
"She's cool," Luke said. "A little strange , but cool."
"She's pretty cute maybe I should ask her out," Sam said.
"She's too smart to say yes," Ava said poking fun at Sam. "I think it'll be nice to have another girl on the team."
"She is quite spiritual, but is willing to see and possibly understand other people's ideas," Danny said. Everyone stared for a second before blinking a returning to normal.
"Yeah I think she do fine with us," Peter said.
The Next Day
"Peter get up your friends are here!" Aunt May yelled to Peter. Peter literally fell out of his bed.
"They're here," he said to himself. He quickly got ready and ran down to see Aunt May was right there in his kitchen was Ava, Luke, Sam, and Danny.
"We figured since we already met Mercy that we should at least walk to school with her," said Ava. Peter nodded understanding and grabbed a bagel from Aunt May.
"I hope I can meet this new friend soon Peter," said Aunt May. "I want to make sure she's nice."
"You'll meet her soon Aunt May don't worry," said Peter. "Bye."
As the team walked towards Mercy's apartment they saw an FBI van out front. They shared a look before heading up to knock on the door. As soon as they did Jake opened the door.
"Oh hi, you must be here for Mercy, she'll be out in a minute," said Jake opening the door more for them to enter. As soon as they entered they heard some music coming from a room down the hall that they guessed was Mercy's.
"What song is that?" Sam asked.
"I don't know, I don't listen to this kind of music," Danny responded.
"That song is "For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic" by Paramore, Mercy loves that band," Jake responded. Just then they heard the music stop and saw Mercy walk out in a pink and black tied flannel tank with a black and white hoodie over it, paired with a black skirt, black combat boots, spike hoop earrings, a black bracelet with a black rose on it and her nails done with pink flames. (see link to outfit on profile.)
"Hey guys what are you doing here?" Mercy asked pulling her hair into a bun with the black hanging out.
"We wanted to walk to school with you," Ava said taking the lead.
"Thanks, Jake I'm heading out," Mercy said before catching an apple thrown to her by Jake. "Thanks for breakfast."
As they walked and as Mercy ate her "breakfast" they talked about what the school was like and how it was going to be just fine for Mercy. Once there Peter said he had promised to meet up with MJ before first period.
"Who's MJ his girlfriend?" Mercy said teasingly.
"He wishes," Sam said.
"They're just friends," Ava said. After four periods of boredom for Peter, Sam, Danny, and Luke, Four periods of entertainment for Ava, and four periods of actually knowing what was going to happen for Mercy, it was time for lunch.
What will happen at lunch? Well you'll see in the next chapter. Bye oh and I own only Mercy Thorne, Jake Gemcity, and Damon Thorne and that's it.