AN: this is my first published fic i really just had to get it off my chest it hasnt been beta'd so any mess ups are my own fault if anyone wants to beta please pm me and please R&R id love feed back and now on with the story I DO NOT OWN THESE marvel and disney and the great joss whedon do all hail them
"Sir, there's someone at the door demanding to see Howard Stark's son and Peggy Carter's man, her words exactly." JARVIS announced to the living room full of Avengers. The humour that had just been in the room dissipated and tension replaced it.
"Will she give you a name to run?" Pepper Potts asked simply whilst Tony Stark and Steve Rogers looked ready to pass out or blow something up. The AI buzzed at the front door and a name was said in between hisses
"Juliet Greyson." The young woman growled and waited in the lobby tapping her foot next to the elevator; waiting for someone to let her up. JARVIS started a database search and immediately came up with several red flags and warnings.
"Sir, she seems to be on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watch list and she seems to have known your father. Even though it seems impossible I believe it's true." Sharp inhales and silent conversations pasted between Clint Barton and Natasha Romanov before anyone could react.
"JARVIS let her up, they need to meet her sooner or later. Please inform her that Clint and I are here." The AI did all but nod as the elevator slid open and shut, informing Juliet that the Russian assassin and the sure shot archer were in the same room. As the doors slid open a rush of Russian and French spewed between the three people and confusion covered everyone else's faces.
"Natasha Romanov and Clint Barton well, well, well god damn it's good to see some familiar faces. Before I continue lovelies, Tony stark you should remember stories about me and cap Peg says you're late sir." With this said the young woman walked up and decked captain America.
With a chuckle and quick hands Natasha and Clint grabbed the girl and held her back, Bruce Banner and Pepper looked shocked while Tony laughed and remembered the stories his dad and aunty Peggy had told him.
"Oh, ho, oh so your Julie nice to meet you, I didn't think you'd actually do it." Three heads snapped to face him and gave him crazy questioning looks. "Aunty Pegs always told me that she asked a mutual friend of her and dad to deck him for being late if they ever met. Never thought she was for real." Tony put out a hand and the young girl shook it firmly.
"That's me nice to meet you Stark, Tash, Killer let me go would you?" she looked at the two assassins and they let go, holding back smiles. Captain America was still nursing his jaw and his face was red, confused by the young woman looking at him.
"What the heck I can... just what?" The hero asked. Tony slapped him heartily on the back and chuckled, pouring a scotch for himself, pulling out a bottle of coke tossing it carefully towards Juliet, catching it in stride she put it down for a moment.
"Capsicle, you might want to get comfy, this is a long story." Tony said inhaling his scotch and sitting in his place in the lounge. Everyone seemed to realize it was time to get comfy and listen. Bruce ducking into the huge kitchen and grabbed an ice pack, handing it over before getting comfy on the floor nearest the exit, pepper curled up next to tony and the two assassins took their places either side of the new addition. Steve Rogers sat in his usual spot ice on his jaw. She really packed a punch.
"Alright then I'll start it off. I hope that Peg and Howie didn't exaggerate about me." Juliet said, hands reaching out for her drink and taking a large swig before she began her tale of almost a century. "This is going to be embarrassing, but oh well. Ok it started my last year of high-school, I was seventeen, I was being stupid and I had depression so I'd run away from home just for a little while and I got kidnapped for three months. I was injected with so much stuff I don't remember half of it, but the part that keeps me alive now are nanites..." Juliet took a breath and let them process the story.
"... they changed my body the..." the young woman looked ill and a second voice spoke up.
"the sick twisted rapists that took her controlled her body, everything she did. After three months they were getting ready to kill her and dump her body when S.H.I.E.L.D found her they sent Clint and me in to retrieve the chemicals that had been stolen from an outpost and if we could save the girl, we went in and she didn't put up a fight to start off with..." Natasha said, trying to state it quickly and accurately. Juliet squeezed her leg and her hands slowly stopped trembling.
".. Like hell Tash! She broke my arm and two ribs..." Clint muttered, rubbing his arm at the memory. Juliet chuckled and nudged him before drinking down half the bottle.
"Like I said, she didn't put up a fight to start with. When I tried to get her out she attacked Clint though and when we got her back to base she had a serious case of P.T.S.D..." Tony chuckled and raised a glass her.
"Join the club, Dad and aunty Pegs told me about the club and the raid." Juliet winced and nodded at him, finishing her coke and curling up across the assassins who just simply moved to accommodate her, which surprised everyone.
"so she had attached herself to the both of us and Phil as well. It took Clint and me a while to get used to the extra shadow and even though she told us she was useless and klutzy she was eager to learn and she asked us to teach her." Juliet nodded that she was ready to continue. Natasha nodded and brushed the hair from Juliet's face. The room had tensed at the start of the story and all eyes were fixed on the three of them. Their faces were either sympathetic or furious. The windows of Stark Tower had actually darkened for several floors and calming music (for all but Tony) played lightly throughout the room.
"After letting my family know I was alive and safe – well, safer- I spent a month there with these two and the doctors, trying to reverse most of the affects, but one day there was an accident. I was getting x-rays and the usual check-ups when I was hit with a higher dose of medication and my body adapted by throwing me five minutes into the past to stop it happening. I didn't realise until these two were shocked when there were two of me in a room." She stopped for a moment and stood from her spot, walking around the huge living room, hands trailing over any surface she could reach, avoiding eye contact.
"After that I went home I spent a month with my family and then they were killed, all but five of us. My life, my family, the people I loved... dead. So I basically tried to go back and warn them but it didn't work I reached the 1940's instead and after living with these two I figured I could live here for a while. The kids had been sent to family that wasn't me. I was "to unstable" to care for them." Juliet looked to Tony now to let him take it in. Tony took this in stride and tosses a pillow at her.
"At this point it was about a year after you were frozen Capsicle. This young girl appeared at the club- Dad and Pegs bought it rebuilt it- and aunty Pegs took her in. The girl looked lost and she had needed someone to lean on, and slowly this girl had joined them, telling them everything and every Friday the club would have a dance and every Friday she and Dad would dance." Captain Steve Rogers aka captain America at this point finally stood, understanding to some degree what was going on.
It was now almost five o'clock and the streets of New York were filled with aggressive drivers pushing to get home or out to bars. Inside the Tower there was dead silence. The music had died and no one was willing to say a word yet. Juliet was watching the road and Steve Rogers had stood up and walked close to her. The two assassins were sitting pensively, watching the pair and Pepper had left to finish the last of her paperwork, promising she would return with shwarma, pop tarts and doughnuts. Bruce had excused himself and Tony had left to find more scotch.