Prologue (Fixed)

Marina had been working at S.H.I.E.L.D for about a year now. She is 22 years old, and as far as level 6s knew she was a nobody with a level 6 clearance level. The truth was, she was the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D's daughter. Marina had a level 10 clearance level just like her father, although she worked as a level 7 desk assistant.

Her father, Abaddon Goodwell had always said, 'to rule the world you have to start small.' At least that's what he told his co-workers. What they didn't know was that he never started out small.

You see, Marina Goodwell has powers beyond imagining. She can control anything and everything, and her father used that to become the president of S.H.I.E.L.D. All Abaddon wanted was power, the blood-thirsty tyrant would stop at nothing to get what he wanted…

One day, many years ago, Marina was working at her desk when she heard her boss, also her father, yelling. Marina's curiosity got the best of her and she leaned on the oak wood door to listen. She could just make out what he was saying.

He sounded drunk, Marina didn't hear anyone else, so she entered. All Marina could do was stare at her father, he looked furious.

"What are you doing in here girl!" He placed his glass of vodka on his desk and looked at his daughter with hatred.

"I am sorry father. You have a meeting in five minutes, I thought you should get ready."

"Don't tell me what to do you waste of life! Now make me sober quickly!"

"Yes sir." Marina snapped her fingers, her eyes turned a shade of light purple then back to their original hazel. Marina winced at the slight pain as her powers took the alcohol from his blood and made it disappear without a trace. Her father once again was sober, he stepped closer to his only child a smirk on his face.

"Thank you my dear. I hope that didn't hurt you to bad, although I hope this does." Without a second thought he swung his arm back and smacked Marina across the cheek. She grabbed her face in pain, this was not the first time he had hurt her. The more power she used, the more pain Marina felt. Which made her evil father very happy.

"Now get out!" His voice rang throughout the office as he threw a stack of papers off his desk at Marina.

"Y-yes sir" Marina ran out the door and down the hall, her crystal tears streaming down her face.

She ran down the empty corridor, leaving the stacks of papers he had thrown at her on her desk. No one had seen her slip silently away from her desk area. Marina continued to whisk herself down the hallway, her destination growing closer. Once in sight, she began to quicken her pace.

Her intended destination was an abandoned janitor's closet that was just a two minute walk from her father's office. Less than half of that if she ran, and most of the time she did. It wasn't the first time she had been to the tiny room either, she considered it as her safe haven from all of the stress her father was constantly pressing down on her. Although it was small, it was usually empty. The tile floor was spotless except for a few chemical stains trapped under the glossy floor wax. As for the walls, they had been redone at least twice. At one point there were tiled too, but now they were covered in metal panels. It was completely sound proof, so if she were to cry no one would hear. Except today she was too angry with herself to cry.

Once inside, she shut the door, but not entirely, and sat on the cool floor. The closet wasn't cramped, at least two people could fit comfortably inside. Marina curled up in a ball in the far corner, furious with herself for letting him treat her like he did, but it was probably better that it was her and not someone else.

There was only one way to calm herself down, and that was to sing. One song instantly came to mind, 'Somebody to Love.' There was no denying that she knew the song word for word by heart, sp she quietly began to sing to herself.

Across the hallway was an office filled with cubicles for the level 7 field agents, most of them were either out on some sort of mission or on a lunch break. But there was one agent that was still looking over field reports. Then something suddenly caught his attention, he could distinctly hear someone singing. He stood up for a moment and scanned the cubicles, but they were empty. After a moment he sat down, but the singing continued. This time, when he stood up, he began to focus on where it might be coming from, eventually finding himself looking towards the hallway at a slightly cracked door. Slowly, he began approaching the door.

Marina finished her song and felt much better. She knew that eventually someone would notice her absence and began to get up and leave, when she opened the door she came face to face with a man.

"I loved your singing." Marina jumped, alarmed that she had not sensed this stranger was close by. The man was rather handsome and he had a kind face, his hair was a dark brown and his eyes were something that would remain in her mind forever. His intimidating eyes were as blue as the Caribbean Sea, but his smile... His smile made her heart skip a beat.

After a long pause he finally spoke, "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to startle you. Your singing is quite beautiful." Marina didn't say a word.

"It was you singing, right?" he asked with a bit of a nervous tone.

"Yes," she replied shakily.

"Oh thank goodness. Agent Coulson," he introduced himself and stuck his hand out to her.

She shook his hand firmly, "Goodwell. Marina Goodwell."

A year was all it took for Marina and Phil to fall in love. One day he finally asked her to marry him and she said yes! Later, in the afternoon, they snuck off to be married in secret. Marina's father never would have allowed her to be married, he never liked Agent Phil Coulson.

One day Agent Coulson confronted Abaddon Goodwell about how he treated his daughter, but he got an angry response. Abaddon and Phil fought and the incident almost got Coulson fired. That same day was the day that Phil and Marina were to be wed. Abaddon had followed them and saw the wedding, after that, he was never seen again and Marina assumed his position.

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