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Another day has come and gone, and yet I feel uneasy about it. It's been one month since I've last seen Agent Clint Barton. One month exactly and today is usually the day that Clint comes to visit me, not that I care. Although he's never been late before and I'm almost positive that it's dusk already and he still hasn't shown up. The only reason I know this is because I received my dinner some time ago, and Clint usually comes sometime after lunch. Now many will tell you, "Oh he finally gave up on you and moved on with his life." But that's not the case. See, Clint Barton doesn't give up on someone. He's the kind of person who knows what he wants and doesn't take no for an answer. He may take a break ,but he never gives up on someone.
Thump, thump, thump. Maybe I spoke too soon, he's still late though.. I hear the guard start to speak to me through the slot on the door, "Rodriguez you have a visitor, you know the drill." I groan in response as I prepare myself for the next few minutes.
Ten minutes later, I once again find myself in the same room we always meet in. I pause momentarily at the entrance. I never expected to see her of all people visiting me in prison, with her stone cold face and indifferent attitude. After a minute of just looking at her, I allow them to move me to my normal seat and chain me down as per protocol. I noticed that today they put more restraints on me as I sat down in my usual chair. I smirked at the thought that they really believed they could contain me, but I suppose they feel the need to take more precautions than usual. When they finished, they left the room leaving me alone with Agent Maria Hill. Out of all the people in the world why did it have to be her?
"Well, you haven't changed one bit from when I last saw you. I heard you turned 17 some time ago, congratulations." She said with her cold and indifferent voice.
"Why are you here, Agent Hill?" I asked with mild annoyance. It's already bad enough Clint doesn't leave me alone but now her? She doesn't even like me.
"I'm here on a mission." She told me bluntly, "A mission to recruit you."
"I'm sorry, what?" There was no way. I told S.H.I.E.L.D. I wasn't helping them with their problems anymore. It was a one-time thing and from here on out, they needed to leave me alone. Apparently, someone didn't get the memo.
"I'm here for you. We have a job that we need you to come in for." She stated as if by simply saying that I would magically go with her and do whatever she said.
"No. I'm not getting dragged into another crisis, Y'all are on your own this time." I tilted my head to the side in dismissal. "By the way, next time you see Clint, tell him not to send you in his place. If he doesn't want to come see me then that's fine, but it doesn't mean any of you can come in his place."
There was a moment of silence before she spoke again, "Agent Barton couldn't come and see you today."
"As if I care," I told her with as much indifference as I can muster, even though I was a bit curious about why he couldn't make it.
"Of course not. You only ever think about yourself." She said as she stood up to leave "Why would you care that Barton has been taken by enemy forces?"
"Wait, what happened? How did this happen?" My mind was racing at this point, and how could it not when she just dropped a bomb on me like that. How could this happen to Clint of all people? This was arrow shooting, funny, smart, and dependable Clint Barton, how could he get taken?
"Loki happened." She proceeded to briefly explain to me how Loki turned Clint into his mindless robot, or at least that's how it sounds like what happened. "He now has the Tesseract." she finished
"What's a tesseract?"
"A power source which has the potential for good or great evil. Not that it matters now." She stated.
"Why wouldn't that matter?" I was so confused I didn't know what to do or how to process any of this.
"Because you said that you were done with all of this, so I'm not wasting any more of my time on you." She turned around and started to leave.
"Wait!" I said as I jumped up, once again breaking through my countless restraints. "Is he going to be okay?"
She paused before quietly saying "I don't know. I'm assuming you're happy by these turn in events knowing that he's finally in trouble." No, that wasn't true. It was the opposite if I'm being honest. Sure I was mad at him, but that doesn't mean I don't care about his safety and well being.
"I'll help you!" I blurted out.
"What did you say?"
"I'll help you with the, well whatever it is okay. I'll help you, but once you get Clint back to safety, that's it. I'm out, got it?"
I could see her thinking it over before she told me "Alright, but answer one question for me then." I nodded my head in affirmation. "Why are you helping us?"
I stayed quiet for a moment, thinking it over. Why am I helping them? I don't owe them, and if anything they owe me for everything that has happened to me. That's when Clint popped up in my mind and everything he ever did to try and help me, "Because he never gave up on me, even when I gave up on him. Clint never left me. Not even when I yelled at him and blamed him for everything." So how can I leave him now.
"So you admit that what happened to Cristina and Christopher wasn't his fault."
"No, I never said that. I still blame S.H.I.E.L.D. for what happened to them that day. If you had just left us alone and dealt with the problem yourselves then they would be alive, and I wouldn't be in prison trying to get away from the rest of the world." I hissed back at her.
"Calliope, Christopher is still alive," Hill told me softly
"His body is alive, but not his mind. Y'all ruined his mind and soul, and left me an empty shell in his place." I reminded her. They can say all they want, but I know the truth. I was there the entire time as I watched my world fall apart before my eyes in a matter of seconds.
"Alright then." She said trying to get back on to the main subject, "In your room, you'll find an information packet for your assignment. I will return tomorrow to take you to the base." After that, she left and I tried to hurry back to my cell.
It took forever to get back to my cell because the guards were upset I broke another set of restraints. Which I felt offended by because those things were so flimsy it's hard to not break them. Once I was back in my cell, I noticed the packet Hill told me about and I dug right into it. Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, and so much more was inside of this packet, it made my head spin. Let's just say I didn't get any sleep that night and leave it at that.
The next morning I was being processed and made ready to leave the prison. I never thought this would happen, but then again who knew that any of this would come to pass. I get in the car and immediately I come face to face with Maria Hill, as a free woman. We nodded at each other as the car began its journey to the jet that would take us to the base.
"You do realize you don't have to wear that uniform right?" She said as she looked at my prison clothes.
"This is just a reminder that I'm not here to stay. This is only temporary and I'll be back in prison in no time." Just have to save an idiot first, shouldn't be too difficult. Right?
Authors note: Okay so the first two chapters are really short for a reason. Since they were more of an introduction to the story I chose to keep them short but the next chapter will be longer. Also I wanted to let all of know that when it comes to Calliope's past you're going to learn about it in little snippet's instead of all at once. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
