For so long shield was Phil Coulson`s whole life, ever since he was 21. He dedicated all his time to being the best, most loyal agent there was. He did all I had to help shield. He always wanted a family, wife, kids….just never had time to settle down. But he found a little girl named Hayley everything changed.
He was on a mission with his team. They were chasing down some hydra members. The hydra agents ran into a carnival, to try and get away from the shield agents. Suddenly Coulson heard the screams of a little girl coming from the back room of the freak show stage. He went back there to investigate. There he saw a tall man beating a little girl. They girl had light skin, wavy blonde hair and green eyes. She was 7 years old. The girl was on the floor crying. She looked up at her father with tears in her eyes and blood on her face.
"Stop! Stop! Please! I`m sorry!" the girl yelled.
Coulson hide behind a huge statue backstage so they won't see him. He got out his cell phone and contacted the police and told them his location and what he was seeing. He made sure to speak softly so the girl`s father wouldn't hear him and run. Coulson looked out from behind the statue and saw the girl`s father kicking her.
"You try to make a fool of me! How dare you!" the man yelled. "You stupid little cunt! You are my property you do as I say! And if I say get more applauses you do whatever it takes to get more applause!"
"I tried, father! I promise I tried!" she screamed.
He slapped her in the face.
"Don't lie to me!" the man yelled. Then he grabbed Hayley by her shirt. "You don't know what I am capable of I can make your life a living hell, I can make you wish you never had been born."
"Leave her alone!" Coulson said stepping out from his hiding place. He couldn't take it he had to do something. Even if it meant the man might run, he couldn't just sit and wait for the police anymore. Coulson pointed his gun at the man. "Put her down gently or I'll shoot you."
The man did as he was told and put the girl down gently.
"Who are you?" the man asked.
"I'm your worst nightmare." Coulson answered.
"I don't want any trouble." The man replied.
"Well you started trouble when you started hurting this girl."
"She is my daughter! I can do what I like!"
"Not according to the law."
Suddenly they hear police sirens. Coulson smiled.
"And speaking of the law, the police are here to take you away." Coulson told him.
"You son of a bitch!" the man yelled. The man ran toward Coulson, but Coulson swift moved out of the way.
The police rushed in and put the man in hand cuffs and escorted him to the cop cars. The little girl sat in corner in fear. Coulson walked over to the girl then sat next to her on the floor.
"Are you okay?" Coulson asked.
She didn't answer. Coulson took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood off from her face.
"Thank you, but don't bother." She replied. "I can heal myself."
Suddenly the cuts on her face disappeared and the blood was gone.
"That's amazing." Coulson replied.
She nodded in disagreement.
"No it's bad. I have other powers too lots of them, it makes me a freak. That's why my father put me in his show. He said this was all I could ever be good for."
"That's not true. Being different isn't a bad thing, it's a very good thing. People who are different go on to do great things, people who are normal never do anything amazing."
"Really?"
Coulson nodded.
"My name is Phil by the way." He said putting out his hand.
"I'm Hayley." She said, as she shook his hand.
"Phil, what's going on?" she asked. "Where are they taking my father?"
"Your father is going to jail, he will be punished for how he has treated you, your gana gain a new family, a family that will love you and take care of you."
"You can do that for me?"
Coulson nodded. An officer approached Coulson.
"Agent Coulson, the CPA is here to take the child." The officer told Coulson.
"She is a mutant, she has to come to Shield first." Coulson told the officer. "We have to do standard tests. Make sure she isn't a threat, although I very much doubt she is, but Fury requires it."
The officer nodded in understanding.
Agent Coulson brought Hayley to the shield. She looked around was afraid, she had never seen anything like this place before.
"Why am I here?" Hayley asked.
"Were just gana do some tests to make sure that you're healthy. I promise no is going to hurt you here. If you want I can be by your side the whole time."
She nodded.
"I'd like that, thank you."
He took her hand in his and led her to the testing room. During the tests he held her hand and assured her everything would be okay. She trusted me, she didn't fully understand why but she did. Somehow she knew he wouldn't let her get hurt. She stayed at shield for a week and within that time the two became good friends.
Hayley sat in her room drawing pictures on the pages of old shield handbooks. Coulson knocked on the door. She lifted her head up. Then when she saw Coulson, a huge smile came on her face.
"Phil!" she said excitedly. She ran over to him with one of her drawings in hand.
"Look I drew the team."
"Wow! This is great. But why did you draw May looking angry."
"Well I never seen her smile."
Coulson laughed.
"So I got you something." Coulson told her.
"Really!?" she said excitedly. "What is it?"
"Close your eyes and open hands."
She did as she was told.
"Okay open your eyes." he told her.
As she opened her eyes she saw a pink teddy bear dressed in a blue dress in her hands.
"This is for me?" she said shocked.
He smiled.
"Yeah of course it's for you."
"I've never gotten a present before! Thank you so much!" she said as she hugged him.
"…Hayley I need to tell you something-"
"Agent Coulson can I speak with you for a moment." Agent simians called.
"Can't it wait? I was just gana tell Hayley the important thing I needed to tell her."
"I think you should hear this first."
Coulson walked out of the room.
"What's wrong?" Coulson asked.
"Nothing, she's fine. It's just I know you were thinking adopting her and I just thought you may want to know. She has extremely strong abilities. She has many incredible powers, she is able to control her abilities. But it still may be a bit of a task to raise her."
"Powers? How could she have other powers she`s been here for two weeks and I've only seen her heal herself."
"She didn't want you to know. She said she's afraid that you wouldn't be her friend if you knew about her many abilities. She's lost friends because people think she's weird. She didn't want to lose you too."
"Well she won't. No matter what kind of powers she has I'm gana stick by her."
Simmons smiled.
"I was hoping you`d say that."
"So what kind of powers does she have?" Coulson asked.
Simmons looked down at her clip board.
"she can read minds, can control objects with her mind, can make objects appear and disappear, can transform into any animal, can heal herself, and can transport herself and others to different places."
"Wow! All that? That's crazy! Did she saw how she got them?"
"Her birth parents were scientist and they used her as there lab rat, which resulted in her many powers. She was taken from them when the CPA found out, was put in a foster home for a while then was adopted by Hank Owenson the man you met."
"Yeah didn't like him."
"I think this is really nice what you're doing for her. I just want you to know. Me and the rest of the team were talking. We will help you out. When you're on missions with the team. Me and Fits can watch her, and we`ll all help as much as we can."
"Thanks. That means a lot to me."
Coulson walked back to Hayley`s room. She was playing with her new teddy bear.
"Hayley?" Coulson called.
"Yeah?" She replied looking over to him.
He walked in and sat next to her on the bed.
"I want to ask you something. I wanted to know if I could adopt you, which means you`d be my daughter. And I would take of you from now on."
She was silent for a moment.
"Anyone who's ever became my parent hurt me. What if when you became my dad, you become hurt me too?"
"Hayley, I could never hurt you. Being your parent is just a title it's not gana change how I act towards you, I promise, the way I am towards you will stay the same. I`ll still protect you and read to you and play with you. Then when I go to work I'll make sure someone is here to do the same."
Hayley smiled.
"Okay you can be my new daddy."
Coulson hugged her.
"But I have to tell you something, but you have to promise not to get mad."
"I won't, what is it?"
"I have powers other than the healing. I can-"
"I know, Simmons told me. Its okay."
Hayley had a big smile on her face.