Prologue

Mr. and Mrs. Peterson had been blessed with the perfect daughter. Mrs. Peterson was pleasantly shocked when her baby girl came out with pale blonde hair and shockingly bright blue eyes despite the fact that almost everyone in her family and her husband's family had brown or black hair and green or brown eyes. And Mr. Peterson was delighted to find that his child could be calmed simply by a touch.

But the happy couple soon found that all of the children who came into contact with beautiful little Elizabeth Peterson were horrified of her. They said that she knew secrets about them and that she was strange. It wasn't hard to figure out that their daughter had a very special gift, especially when a man named professor Xavier came to take her away to a school for the gifted and talented.

At her new school Effie's gift was seen as useful and special, not creepy and weird as people would say to her whenever people touched her. To put it very simply; Effie's gift was the gift of empathy. If she chose she could either dive into someones memories and experience their emotions or she could make them feel hers, with nothing but a touch. Over the years she had learned to control her gift, now she could touch others without seeing their most profound experiences, what made them who they are.

Her gift was so useful, in fact, that she was hired as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D, whenever there was a very serious dispute between the other operatives or whenever Director Fury needed to know what someones motives behind a serious crime were he would call Effie. Yet no one called her that, everyone called her by her codename; epiphany.

Recently, a series of events had happened that had changed everything. The S.H.I.E.L.D base had been infiltrated then blown to kingdom come by a mysterious man named Loki, and the Tesseract had been stolen by him in the process, a team that Director Fury was calling "The Avengers" had all come on board the hellicarrier, the carrier was almost shot out of the sky, the hulk had rampaged through the carrier and nearly killed more people than the potential crash, new york was attacked by an alien army controlled by that damned man Loki, and because of it; new york was nearly nuked. Now after all the craziness Director Fury had ordered Effie on a jet to go to a secret location.

This can't be good.