A.N: Ok, so this is my first fanfic and it is in the point of view of my own character. it might change POV in later chapters. I hope you like it and give me feedback about if you like it or not. please read and review and maybe subscribe? thanks :)
CHAPTER 1 – Unexpected Visit.
I was in the kitchen cooking dinner with my brother when I heard the first knock on my front door. I don't often get people knocking on the door these days. Not since my brother and I had inherited a relatively large fortune from our late mother.
I can remember that a representative for the bank that held the money came to us at our foster home in Mississippi a few days after we turned eighteen. I can remember that my brother and I had been set to the task of cooking dinner for our foster family and we had just finished cooking it and we were plating it up when we heard the loud knock, knock, on the front door. Our foster sister answered it, and shortly came into the dining room with a short, slightly round man with a balding head, walking right behind her. I remember him asking my brother and me if our last names were Aldavir, our mother Silvia's maiden name. We never wanted to change our names to our foster parents, because we were close to our mother and we wanted to keep her as part of us as much as we could, so we kept our birth names. After Dimitri, my brother, replied with a curious, but cautious yes, the man pulled out an envelope and handed it to him. Demitri opened it to reveal a letter addressed to us that was written by our mother. It stated that my mother had left us a family fortune some that was given to my mother from our father, whom we had never met, and the rest that had been handed down from our maternal great-grandparents. Overall, the total sum added up to over 15 million dollars. The letter also said we had inherited a large farmland that was five minutes outside of New York. After we finished reading the letter we looked to the bank agent and started asking questions. Questions about when did we have access to the money and if there was a house on the land we then owned. The agent said we had inherited and had gained access to everything on our eighteenth birthday and that there was a large mansion on the property. We asked when we could take a look at the land and move into the mansion and we organised to travel so we could get there and go to have a look at everything the following day.
The mansion, and all the land that came with it, had its own type of majestic beauty, like that of which you would find in a fairy tale. Both Dimitri and I were instantly captivated and we moved in within the week. So we didn't have to rely on the money, we both still got small part-time jobs in New York and bought ourselves a car each. We never divided the money in half, because we trusted each other and we promised to not spend too much of it. We spend a portion of the money on the mansion to remodel and clean the place up. We halved, and turned the top floor into our own, separate bedrooms. The floor below us we kelp as guest accommodation with fifteen comfortable bedrooms with separate bathrooms for each room, for if we had friends over; The floor below that, we divided and we turned the separate rooms into a science lab, a gym/ exercise room, a recreation hall and a library, and on the main floor of the house was the kitchen, dining room and lounge room, with the addition of large a garage off to the side for our cars, and for a place for Dimitri or myself to do some mechanical engineering if we felt like it. We built a large swimming pool out the back out the house, with a porch around the whole bottom floor of the house. Each room had its own little deck where you could sit and enjoy the weather if it was nice enough. There was a garden to the left of the pool area, and several Cherry Blossom trees scattered around the property. Because of how much money was invested into our home, we fenced off the whole property, and payed for constant security after some drunk party goers broke into our house and trashed the living room. And it was because of our tight security that only the closest people to us gained access to the house. But even they didn't knock.
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Dimitri left to answer the door, while I continued to cook our dinner. We were having Apricot Chicken. We remember our mother cooked it for us the night before she died and it was one of our favourite meals. I heard the door open and a man with a deep voice introduce himself to Dimitri. I didn't hear his name but blew it off so I could focus on not burning our food. I just finished cooking the chicken and I was adding the apricot sauce when Dimitri called out to me.
"Eliza, it's for you." He called, with a nervous tone in his voice. It was strange to hear his nervousness because he has always been a confident person.
"What do they want?" I call back out, letting the apricot juice soak into the chicken a little while I get some plates out for us.
"They say they will only discuss it with you. And that they won't leave until you see to them." He replies, walking around the corner from the door with a group of three men. One is tall and muscular, with blond hair to his shoulders, the other shorter, with short black hair and some facial hair whom I immediately recognised and the one and only Tony Stark. The last was a man with dark skin, bald head and was wearing an eye patch. He had a serious expression on his face and I could tell he was here on business. He had a small emblem on a black duster coat that had the initials S.H.I.E.L.D. the most prominent feature.
"Can I help you?" I ask, my guard up as to what they would be here for, not entirely trusting the look the man with one eye was giving me.
"Good evening Miss Aldavir. My name is Nick Fury, and this is Mr Stark whom I am sure you recognise, and this is the God of thunder, Thor Odinson. We are all a part of the Avengers Initiative program, and we are in dire need of your assistance." The one eyed man explained.
You. Have. Got. To. Be kidding me. I think, increadiously.
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