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"Daddy!! Please!!" Ray screamed as she woke from her horrible nightmare. It took her a moment to recognize where she was but once she realized she was in her apartment loft, she walked to her bath room that was joined with her bed room and splashed ice cold water on to her face.

Why had she had that dream again? That wasn't how it happened. Her father had been assasinated by her mother when her mother was under the control of the Red Skull before she was ever born. Then when her mother did manage to escape the clutches of the Red Skull and had her, she ended up walking right back to the Red Skull and getting killed in an explosion caused by a rescue attempt.

Ray took a deep breath as she looked up from the white sink to the mirror and for a moment she could have sworn that she saw the Red Skull standing behind her. She spun around as fast as she could and was ready to fight but there was no one there. She closed her eyes and tried to relax but she still felt like there was some one in her apartment.

After her parents' deaths, Tony Stark had raised her and ever since Tony had told her the truth, she'd been having nightmares about the Red Skull coming after her next. When she had told Tony about the dreams and had asked why she was having it, he had told her it was probably the only way that her mind could deal with what had happened to her parents. Tony kept trying to reassure her that the Red Skull had been killed and his body had been found but something told Ray that he would be back for her in some way or another. Maybe it was just the fact that both her parents had been his targets but it was a fear that she lived with.

However, Ray knew that she couldn't let this fear control her life. She couldn't let it tell her what she could and could not do with her life no matter how afraid she was. So she had managed to push it to the back of her mind and would not allow it to control her.

Ray finally made her way back to her bed and climbed underneith her blue and black comforter and was just about to relax and go back to sleep when there was a knock at the door. Ray rolled over in her bed to look at the alarm clock on the nightstand and saw that it was only seven in the morning.

Typically at seven in the morning she was busy at S.H.I.E.L.D or at the superhero base camp training others younger than her but today was her day off. She had specifically and formally requested today off so she could sleep in and relax but of course when you are in the superhero buisness nothing goes as planned.

So reluctantly, she moved from her warm loving bed, wrapped her light blue robe around her chilled body and opened the door. On the other side of the apartment loft door stood a tall red headed woman dressed in a black uniform that held neatly placed holes down the sides of her legs.

The woman that Ray was looking at now, was her sister, Amelia Graves. She was born a few years before the Civil war. Her mother left when she was only a few months old and when she was seven; her father was killed in action. Thankfully, The Black Widow was a friend of Amelia's father. He'd stated in his will but never verbally voiced to Natasha, that if anything should happen to him, Amelia was to be left in her care. This came as a shock to the Black Widow but she took the girl into her care. A year later, Ray was born and since Tony practically raised Steve's daughter from infancy, he and Natasha helped each other become a parent that neither one of them thought they could be.

"What do you want?" Ray asked leaning her head against the door as she looked at Amelia through sleepy eyes.

"Good morning to you too Ray." Amelia said with a smile as she walked into the room. Sighing, Ray closed her eyes and said, "I'm not a morning person Amelia."

"Yea I know that." She said sitting on the arm of the reclining chair and continued to look back at her younger sister. She knew Ray wanted her to get to the point but sometimes it was fun to antagonize her little sister. After all isn't that what older sisters did? She watched as Ray closed the door and came over to where she stood and simply stared at her for a moment.

"So back to my question: What do you want?" Ray asked once more but this time, she let her sister know that she was serious about getting an answer. She did not like getting woken up at seven yet alone on a day that she was suppose to have off.

"Actually, it's not what I want." Amelia said, "Tony wants to see you."

"Why?" Ray asked cautiously. Tony never summoned her this way. Typically if he wanted to see her, he called for her personally or came and got her, himself. What was going on that he couldn't do what he normally did himself?

"I don't know. I didn't ask." Amelia said and Ray knew that was true. She had never been trained to ask questions about what she was being asked to do. Perhaps that was part of the training Black Widow gave her since it was in her training to begin with. "I was just sent here, after pulling the short straw, to come and get you."

"I'm….wait, you pulled straws to come and get me?"

"Yea. Told you, everyone knows you're not a morning person." Amelia said trying not to laugh. Everyone knew that Ray had a temper on her and no one wanted to be on the butt end of that temper and you never wanted to be the one who caused her temper to go off. She had controlled it over the years but that didn't mean that she was a morning person.

"I'm off. I'm not going in and you can tell Tony that for me." Ray said shaking her head. She had made sure that she had gone throught the proper channels to get her day off so that something like this would not happen and yet it still did. People who were in their line of business, really never caught a break did they? She had wanted to make sure that no one thought that she was getting special treatment from Tony because she was the "daughter" of the Director of S.H.E.I.L.D but apparently, that hadn't worked either and Tony was still calling her in but why? None of this was clear.

"Ray, you know better than to get Tony mad."

"That serious huh?" Ray asked crossing her arms as she watched Amelia nod her head. Ray knew it was not a good thing when Tony was mad seeing as how his temper was somewhat longer than her's. Maybe not by much but longer none the less. If he was in the middle of some huge mess with some baddies and he needed Ray and she didn't come, there'd be no getting out of hearing him yell at her for it later. So it seemed that she really had no choice but to go with Amelia and see why Tony was calling her in on the day that she had planned to do nothing but lay around and relax. She sighed and said, "Fine but I want a week off for this!"

"You'll have to take it up with the boss man." Amelia said as she watched Ray go into her bedroom and when she came out a moment later she was dressed in her S.H.E.I.L.D issued uniform. It may have been S.H.E.I.L.D issued but Ray had added a few things to it to make it her own. For instance I had added a leather bicker vest that she wore over the uniform and had added blue star shots to either side of her arms and legs. Amelia still wasn't sure why she had done this but she had and no one had really said anything about it so she figured that she would allow her younger sister to get away with it this time.

"Believe me I will." Ray said as she followed Amelia out of her loft apratment and to the hover car that would take them to S.H.E.I.L.D Headquarters.

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