Hi friends! Sorry this took so long, I've just been really busy. I thought I'd have more free time during the break but I guess not. This is the new chapter! Enjoy and review please! :) Happy holidays! :)

(JADE POV)

I woke up next to Jason and right now I didn't want to move. I didn't want to go anywhere. So I stayed right there and didn't move a muscle.

I closed my eyes and memorized the feeling of this, because who knows how long it'll last? The feeling of safety and security.

He woke up and looked at me. I kissed him on the lips and he deepened it.

After a few minutes I pulled away and wrinkled my nose jokingly. "You have bad morning breath." I teased.

He smirked and kissed me again. I didn't pull away this time, instead moving closer.

After a long time of making out we separated. "We have a mission to take care of. We have to get up now." I said reluctantly.

He pulled me down next to him. "Red! I'm exhausted. I don't know when the last time I got a good night's sleep was." He protested.

I sighed. "Same here, but I have some sense of responsibility Jase. Cmon!" I told him.

"But-"

"No."

"Uggghhhhhhh. Just stay here." He muttered, pulling me closer. I got up and glared at him lightly from where I was standing.

"Get up." I told him. He groaned and got up reluctantly, rubbing his eyes. "Now go change and wash up." I said. He rolled his eyes.

"Yes ma'am." He muttered, grabbing his clothes and heading to the bathroom.

He tried opening the door and it wa jammed shut. Completely. Not even his super strength did the trick. I tried as well to no avail.

"Okay… Now how to get to the outside bathroom without being seen." I thought out loud.

He grinned cheekily at me. "You know, you could just change here. It's nothing I haven't seen before."

I hit his arm semi hard. "Ow!" He helped, although I know I didn't actually hurt him.

"You deserved that." I informed him before quickly changing into my SHIELD tactical suit.

He did the same and then we grabbed our toothbrushes and combs and whatever else we needed and headed out to find another bathroom.

(MARLIN POV)

I heard the water running and splashing noises from the bathroom, and I saw the door open so I peeked in to find Jade and Jason attempting to brush their teeth over the same sink.

"Jase! Move over!" I heard Jade protest.

"Red! You're taking up all the water!" Jason replied.

"Stop pushing me!"

"Then you stop pushing me!"

"Um guys, there's another sink right over there." I told them, pointing right across the hall.

They blushed. "Um thanks." They said, and Jade moved over to the different bathroom. I gave both a look before walking off.

I went into the kitchen to see Ria already up and eating. She just looked at me pointedly and I sat down and ate as well.

Jade and Jason walked in, looking exhausted and worn out already. Ria looked at me pointedly and I shrugged. Of course they're worn out, they didn't really get much sleep last night from what we could hear.

Last night we had looked through their files and it was honestly shocking. Everything on there was a little overwhelming to be honest. For two teenagers they've been through a lot. So Jason can feel emotions and control fire, while Jade is telekinetic and telepathic. And they're both super soldiers? No wonder they're senior agents.

Oh and did I mention that they live in Avengers Tower? FREAKING AVENGERS TOWER?!

"Jason, are you eating all of that?" Ria asked, looking at the amount of cereal he had poured into his bowl. He laughed and grinned.

"Yes. I need to eat extra because of my faster than normal metabolism." he said. Then Jade sat down next to him with her cereal, around the same amount he put in his bowl.

"Yeah, so meals have to be a bit larger, although we've both gone months on end without food, so you know, we're good." she said nonchalantly. I glanced at Ria.

"So we're going to leave in half an hour. We have to check the site, search for the body, try and identify the murderer." She said.

"Okay, but there are some things you need to know. Can we trust you?" Jade asked, giving us each a piercing look, as if scrutinizing every detail of our lives. Actually, she probably is.

"You tell me." I replied. She smirked.

"Okay, cool. So anyway, Aria Rogers is my half-sister. Born out of my dad's DNA, she is a super soldier. Also, she's lived through the impossible before, and no body was found. We're guessing that she's alive and in hiding. She should be 28 right now." Jade replied.

Jason was giving us each an intense look, silently warning us that if we betray them, we won't make it out alive. And to be honest, I don't doubt it.

"Okay, so we're looking for someone then." Ria summed up.

"Yeah. Basically." Jason said.

(LATER JASON POV)

We were in a forest area with lots of trees, green grass, and mysterious patches of dry grass.

We landed the plane and suddenly Jade bolted out of the plane, heading off in a specific direction. I looked at a distant point and saw a blond woman running away from her, equally as fast. Aria. I bolted after them leaving Ria and Marlin completely confused.

Jade made a tree crash in front of Aria and the woman in question turned around and her eyes widened.

"Mom?" she asked, but then her eyes narrowed when Jade got closer and she flipped over the tree, continuing her run. She probably thought that Jade was Aunt Tasha. Jade followed her and crashed three trees in front of her and around her and I put a ring of fire around her and she stopped in her tracks, drawing her guns and shooting at us. Jade stopped all the bullets telekinetically and grabbed her icer, shooting it at her sister.

She approached the ring amongst the gun and she was struggling to deflect all the bullets. I moved the ring of fire for just a moment so she could get in and then I followed, watching them go at it.

Jade took the guns away and knocked them into the fire and then Aria pulled out knives from her sleeves and Jade pulled out hers. They were going knife on knife and were so equally matched it was a little scary. Except Red can read minds.

Eventually I joined in, going two on one. Quickly we overpowered her and she smirked. "So. The great Jade Rogers." she said, looking at Jade.

"Yes, and you must be my older sister that I knew nothing about." Red hissed back.

"You know, for a second there I thought you were Mom." Aria said. Jade unsheathed one of her knives and pressed it against her neck quickly.

"Distracting me won't work. Yes, I actually am your sister. And no, dad didn't tell me about you. And yes, I can read your mind." she said sharply.

"Prove it." Aria replied.

"Mom was pregnant with me when you were kidnapped. Dad, Uncle Clint, Uncle Tony, Uncle Lincoln, Uncle James, and Uncle Bruce all came to save you. I can call dad if you want." Jade said, already calling.

Jade: "Hi dad, I have somebody here who needs proof of who I am." she said.

Steve: "Hi Jade. Are you okay?" he asked completely ignoring the second half of her statement.

Jade: "Yes I'm fine. Aria is right in front of me and doesn't believe that I'm your daughter."

Steve: "Aria?"

Aria: "Hi dad."

Steve: "Aria! How are you doing?"

Aria: "I'm good dad."

Jade: "Ehem! Back on topic."

Steve: "Aria, meet your little sister Jade."

Aria: "Yeah we're already acquainted. She kind of attacked me." she said dryly.

Jade: "You were shooting guns at me. And you had every intention to kill me if necessary."

Aria: "You don't know that."

Jade: "Yes I do. You also thought I was mom for a second. I'm a telepath remember."

Aria: "Right, how did that even happen?"

Everyone went silent and Jade hung up the phone. Aria narrowed her eyes at us and Jade just shrugged.

"We don't discuss that." Red said nonchalantly. But I know her better than that. She doesn't want to talk about it to anyone else. Of course, Aria probably has ways to find out.

"How about you two bond. I mean you are sisters." I suggested, ignoring the glares they gave me. I've been best friends with one of Aunt Tasha's daughters since I was born. I'm practically immune to those glares.

"Fine." Aria said sharply.

(JADE POV)

I looked at my sister. She has dark blue eyes and long straight blond hair. Basically the opposite of me.

"So. How old are you?" She asked. I rolled my eyes and gave her a look.

"18. And you're 28." I replied. "How about favorite color?"

"You know that shade of green that is slightly lime but not really? That's my favorite color. Kind of like mom's eyes. And yours too I guess."

"That my favorite color too. Favorite cereal?" I asked, a little surprised.

"Honey bunches of oats with almonds." She said. I grinned.

"I live off of those." I told her. She grinned and spotted something on my shoulder, stopping me and looking at it. When I saw what she was looking at, I surprised myself by not pulling away. As weird as it sounds, I trust this lady who was shooting at me a few minutes ago.

"Where did you get these?" She asked me, looking concerned at a patch of scars on my shoulder from where a piece of cloth had gotten cut off.

"I was kidnapped when I was 14. For a month. That's how I became a telepath. It's also how I became inhuman and how I got even stronger than dad."

"Jade-"

"No. It's fine. I don't want to go back into that. Just forget about it." I said shortly.

"But why did they make you more powerful?"

"They wanted me to become those personal weapon. They wanted me to betray my own family. And I didn't. So this happened."

"Jade, I know you're struggling with this. From what I can see you haven't gotten a full night of sleep since then except for maybe a couple of times, and you probably have panic attacks every once in a while. It's okay to not be okay after something like that."

"It's been four years. I need to get over it." I said shortly. I'm not going to break down in front of her. Not here, not now.

"Believe me, I get that. You know that I do. And I'm still not over what happened to me 18 years ago. But it gets better. Once you accept what happened and the fact that it's part of who you are today, you can truly move on. Pushing it away won't do anything." She told me gently.

"But what if I just want to forget? What if I don't want to accept it?" I said, glaring at a random tree as though it had committed some terrible crime.

"That's the thing Jade, you don't. Think about it. How would you live without your telepathy now? I can already see that you are highly dependant on it. Those things that happened to you, however the means of them happening, happened for a reason." she said.

Thinking about it, I know she's right, but I don't want her to be. Thinking about it, I'm thinking of something else that happened in the past. When I was sick and Aunt Wanda told me that I had to put down my barriers in order to get better. She told me I had to accept what was happening. I had to accept my powers. Then I got it. I whipped around my gun and aimed it at Aria, sending a telepathic message to Jase for him to stop.

"So Aunt Wanda, you thought you could fool me that easily?" I asked sharply. Her form shimmered and she turned back to her real look.

"I did what I had to do." she replied, her accent thick.

"Where's Aria?" I asked sharply. I can't believe I just- I trusted this lady. I thought she was my sister. But no, she's just another liar. Another person who I can't trust. I had thought she was trustworthy after she helped me with my sickness but not anymore.

"I cannot tell you that." she said. I glared intensely at her and searched her brain for anything.

"Okay." I replied, finding what I was looking for, and shooting her in the shoulder. She blacked out almost instantly. My icer is officially my new best friend. Sorry Jase.

I dragged her over to the plane with Jase by my side. He was silent the whole way there and once we got on the plane I looked at him.

"Okay, what's up?" I asked him. He had an intense gaze fixed on the floor, deep in thought.

"What?" he asked, startled out of his concentration. He looked at me. "Oh, nothing. But I think Aunt Wanda was right. I don't think she was just making up any of what she told you."

"I don't want her to be right." I muttered, crossing my arms and looking away.

"Yeah, me neither. But sometimes the only way to get what you want is to be patient." he said quietly. That was the last straw for me, and thank god we were in a locked room, because I think Ria and Marlin would be absolutely terrified.

"What if I don't want to be patient anymore? What if I've been waiting for the past four years for life to just get better? What if I don't want to wait anymore? I'm just so done with everything. Just forget it. What's the point of even living like this? Constant nightmares, panic attacks, random triggers, what is the freaking point?" I rampaged. I could see the look in his eyes. The pain, the sadness, the brokenness, and I hate myself for causing that. I hate it.

"Red-" he started quietly.

"No Jase. I just cause everyone more pain, including myself. Why am I still here? Why do I even continue living like this?" I was screaming at this point, tears flooding down my face and he just pulled me into a tight embrace.

"Because Red, even if you think that nobody else needs you, I do. Maybe it's selfish of me, but I need you. Without you, I have no point of living either. But you're here. And we're together. So it'll be okay. Red, I promise you, it'll be okay. Just don't- don't leave me." he whispered into my hair, his voice breaking lightly. And I hate myself more now. Because how could I be so selfish? How could I even ask why I'm still here. Jase is the only reason I'm still here. If not, I would've ended things four years ago.

"I won't. I won't, Jase." I promised, holding on tight. And we stood there like that for a long time. Because on the outside, to everyone else, we can be strong, we can be indifferent and nonchalant and hide the horror that plagues us. But inside, inside we're still shells of the people we used to be. But maybe, maybe we aren't shells.

Maybe I'm comparing myself to who I used to be. Maybe I'm just different. Maybe- no. No. I'm just broken and miserable and pathetic. This is my brain trying to raise hope where it doesn't need to be. I'm not going to think, dream, that there could possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel, and then have it get ripped out from under me. Not again.

I just cried and let it out into his chest, because what else am I supposed to do at this point? He had buried his face in my hair and we were holding on to each other like lifelines, because honestly, that's what we are.

Without him, I would've ended things long ago, and I like to think he could've been stronger than me, and carried on without me, but I highly doubt it.

I sighed and pulled away reluctantly. "We should probably go talk to Ria and Marlin, maybe talk to my parents and see if they can help." I said.

He nodded and then it was back, the indifference. The mask that we both put on to the outside world, showing a confident and healed smile. When really, that's not how it is. Too much has happened for that to be the reality.

"Hey guys. So the lady that's unconscious in the interrogation room is Wanda Maximoff. An avenger that doesn't live in Avengers Tower. So she's trustworthy, but she also knows where Agent Aria is and refuses to tell us. For what reasons I have no idea." I said as we walked into the room. Marlin nodded and pulled something up on the screen.

"Okay, so I ran facial recognition to see if any video cameras anywhere have picked her up. We have three hits. All three in the same region of Alaska." he said.

We nodded and he zoomed in on the location. Jase flinched lightly seeing what was there. It was the exploded ruins of the place where they had tortured him. Basically rendered him completely broken after only a single day. "Of course." I muttered under my breath.

"Okay, I'm going to call up my parents and see if they know what on earth Aria could be doing in Alaska of all places." I said, trying to sound indifferent. I pulled up a video connection to all of our parents, and Nat and Riley were there.

"Auntie Jay!" Riley said excitedly. I smiled and waved as she banged on the screen, slightly confused as to why she could see and hear me, but couldn't touch me. Baby thought are amusing.

"Okay RIley, they probably have important things to talk about honey. Let's move away." Nat said, pulling the baby away. She pouted.

"Anyway, you all remember Aria? Well our mission is a murder investigation for her. But she's not dead. So we're searching for her. We thought we had found her in the woods, but it turns out that it was just Aunt Wanda pretending to be her. She refused to tell us where Aria is and we figured out where she is: Alaska. Well, not just anywhere in Alaska." I said, transmitting a file of the location that shows up on their screen.

I could see the simultaneous confusion and recognition in their faces. "What is Ari doing there?" Nat muttered, scanning the screen. Apparently they're really close, even to this day.

"Well, she probably has her reasons. And she knows how to disappear off the radar if she needs to. I taught her that much. So where would you go if you had to go off the radar as dead for a while?" my mom mused out loud.

"Well, I would probably go somewhere that nobody would even think of going to, somewhere that has no currently standing buildings with technology, none of that." I replied. She nodded and pointed at her screen.

"This place meets all of those requirements. There's a reason she was only found my three cameras in the whole world. She was probably under the assumption that those cameras weren't working. Although that's highly unlike her. Most likely she wants to be found. But that doesn't make sense either." my dad said.

"What if she isn't hiding from you? What if she is trying to lure you down there?" Agent X asked. My eyes widened.

"But why? Why would we need to go down there? We already set course for there, so we'll be there in about 15 minutes." I said. I glanced over at Jase who was gritting his teeth and glaring at the ground.

No way am I going to make him go down there if he doesn't want to. I remember when we got to that old shack on the outskirts of New York City, I broke down. He can't afford to break down, not now, not ever.

"Aunt Skye, do you think you could hack the NSA again please? We can use the satellite footage. Because there is always the chance that she messed with the cameras." I asked. SHe nodded and grabbed her laptop.

"Man, they've upped the security." she muttered, then after a few seconds, she looked up. "Got it. Okay, so she's still in Alaska, same location. There's absolutely no way she could've hacked the NSA's satellite feed." she said, showing us the footage on our screens.

"Guys, just don't hurt her okay? I know you're capable of it, but be careful. She's not a bad guy." Nat said.

"I know Nat. We won't. Besides, she probably won't put up a fight once she knows who we are." I said. She nodded.

"What about Wanda?" Uncle Clint asked us. Aunt Laura was away visiting Cooper and his family. Uncle Clint couldn't tag along because he was away on a mission when she left and he's leaving later today.

"She's in the interrogation room. I know she's an avenger and that technically she's not a bad guy, but I don't really like or trust her at the moment." I said.

"Why not? What did she do?" Uncle Bruce asked us. I tensed ever so slightly and I know at least half of them noticed.

"Let's just say she attacked me and was shooting guns at me and then betrayed my trust when I opened up to her." I summarized. They looked at me skeptically but didn't push.

"Okay, can we talk to her?" my dad asked. I nodded and left the room, bringing Aunt Wanda back with me.

"Your daughter doesn't trust me." She said, giving me a look. I glared back.

"No I do not." I muttered.

"Wanda, why were you disguised as Aria?" my mom asked. She grimaced.

"I had to. As to why, well, that is for Aria to tell you, not me." she replied. I glared at her harder and my mom gave me a warning look through the screen.

"Fine then." my dad said, pulling out his phone. He called Aria and surprisingly, she picked up.

"Dad?" she asked hesitantly.

"Hi Aria, it's me. Are you done with your mission?" he asked. She hesitated before answering.

"Sort of." she said. "Is mom there?"

"Well, everyone is here." he replied.

"Okay, so I kind of have to pretend to be dead for a little while, okay? So don't tell Eddie! I have some . . . business to take care of." she said.

"Aria, don't do anything dangerous." my mom said over the phone, using that tone reserved only for Juliana and I.

"Well mom, I kind of have to. It's necessary." she said cryptically.

"Ari? Why can't Eddie know?" Nat asked.

"Because Nat. If he does, bad things will happen. I need a select two people to follow me here, and nobody else." she said insistently. Nat grabbed the phone from my dad and walked out of the room.

I focused in on their conversation through Nat's mind.

Natalie: "Ari, do you have any idea where you are right now?"

Aria: "Nat-"

Natalie: "No. Aria Rogers, I swear to god if you harm single freaking hair on my brother or his girlfriend, I will find you and murder you slowly and painfully. Understand?" she hissed.

Aria: "Natalie, I'm not going to hurt them."

Natalie: "Not physically. I know what you're planning Aria. You have no ideo what that'll do to him. You need to stop."

Aria: "You don't know what I'm planning."

Natalie: "Well your sister does. Remember Jade? The telepath? She's probably listening to this conversation right now."

I grinned. Nat knows me so well. Everyone looked at me confused. They had been talking about god knows what, and I just randomly started smiling.

Aria: "Nat, please. She's not my sister. I've never met her."

Natalie: "And who's fault is that?"

Aria: "Natalie, you know I would've but-"

Natalie: "No Ari. You could've but you didn't. Now you think you know what's best for them? Leave them out of this."

Aria: "You can't make me."

Natalie: "You don't know who you're dealing with. I suggest you stop before I have the whole of SHIELD after you."

Aria: "And how do you plan to do that?"

Natalie: "My husband's the director of SHIELD, my father-in-law is the former director, my parents are two of the best agents to ever have worked at SHIELD, not to mention that I live with the freaking Avengers."

Aria: "My mom and dad won't stand for that."

Natalie: "They're Jade's parents too, or did you forget? They wouldn't betray her for the world, and you know it. She's been through too much for them to just betray her because they knew you first. They raised Jade, tried to be there for her as much as they could, and where were you? You were off being a secret agent! You left all of us because you thought you were above this. Above actually knowing your little siblings."

Aria: "Are you suggesting that my parents would betray me? Because they wouldn't."

Natalie: "No. I'm just saying that they won't betray Jade." she said before hanging up the phone.

I then sobered up and dragged Jase into a separate room, leaving everyone in even more confusion.

He looked at me and sighed. I looked back at him concerned. Going back to that place won't be good for him. I know it for sure. But if he wants to go, then who am I to stop him?

"What do you want to do now? You don't have to go if you don't want to." I told him. He sighed a little bit.

"I don't know. I really really don't want to. But I can't let you go there alone either." he said quietly.

"Then don't come. I can handle things for myself. Also, well, Aria is planning something. I can't read her mind that clearly because I'm so far away, but I do know that it's not going to be pretty." I said quietly.

"But I can't just stay here and take the coward's way out. I need to deal with this." he protested. I looked at him and how much he'd changed in the past year and a half.

"I know. I get it. But I don't want you to put yourself in danger for me." I said.

"Please Red. I'll always put myself in danger for you." he said. However cheesy it sounds I know he means it. I smiled.

"I love you Jase, you know that right?" I said.

"I love you too Red." he said. I leaned up and kissed him slowly. I still find it odd even after a year and a half that he's that much taller than me. That I have to lean up!