As before, reading this before 1/6/2014 will be different because I'm in the midst of rewriting all of these, just to neaten and clean up a bit, not a lot of details will be changed, I'll place all changes on another chapter.
"Talking…"
'thinking…'
"whispering..."
CHAPTER 3
"We are agents from SHIELD and we would like you to come with us." Two men in black stood beside the brothers.
"And why would we do that?" Hamish's eyebrows rose.
"Don't worry. We are not taking you into custody, it's just certain procedure." Agent Coulson came out from behind the two men.
"Procedure?" The younger asked.
"Yes, supernatural beings procedure."
Before Cadel opened his mouth again, Hamish whispered to him. "Let's see what they have for us then."
"Alright, so where are we going?"
"Oh, that's confidential, but don't worry, you will not be in harm's way." Agent Coulson said.
"Well, pleasure working with you, name's Hamish, he's Cadel."
"I am Agent Coulson, we'll be there in a few minutes, just take some time and relax." They were already in the car on the way to headquarters, to meet Director Fury, and maybe Captain America.
"Are you sure it's safe, I don't really feel like dying before time..." Cadel hugged closer to his brother.
"It's alright, I'm here to protect you." Hamish smiled and pumped his fist against his heart. Cadel laughed at that.
Hamish would have to be careful though, it was dangerous to follow them. One, because they knew they were supernatural. Two, well because generally, following random strangers around isn't good.
"Cadel, think you could put an invisible one on my leg, if I limp I'm going to look weak." Hamish sighed, what a bother that leg of his was.
"Sure." Cadel muttered the spell under his breath, made a few small mostly unnoticeable hand motions. Hamish breathed a sigh of relief, feeling the invisible leg brace under his black jeans. Agent Coulson shifted uncomfortably, sometimes not understanding what other people were saying was actually more disturbing than you could've thought it was.
"Rest assured agent Coulson, I was just calming my brother down, he gets nervous about these formal things."
"Ah, I see. Well don't worry too much, it's just registering into the records and filling in some of your personal details. Captain America will be there, if it makes you feel any better."
"Alright we're here."
They got out of the car and went through the metal doors and into the cold corridor. They passed through door after door, all with every kind of security measure you can think of. "This is the last one, I promise." Agent Coulson said as they neared door with two guards standing at the side holding two metal sticks.
"Metal detectors, you're going to have to leave everything metal you have out here." One of the guards held out a tray for them.
Hamish chucked nervously, Cadel just laughed at his brother.
Cadel reached into his pocket and took out his phone, a few blocks of solid metal, a few pens, and his wallet. He pulled out his laptop from his backpack and raised both his hands. The other guard scanned him and Cadel smiled when it didn't beep.
Hamish reached into his black coat's pocket and took out a handful of guitar picks, picking out the metal ones and putting it on the tray while keeping the rest of the plastic ones. He reached into his other pocket and pulled out several daggers, pen knives, and needles. He flipped his backpack onto his front and took out his laptop, wallet and phone. He bent down and reached into his shoe and plucked out a knife. "That's all."
The guard scanned him literally from head to toe, but before it could reach his toe, it beeped on his left leg. The guard raised an eyebrow.
"Errr.. That's built in..." He grinned sheepishly. They didn't ask anymore but kept in their mind to pay closer attention to the elder of the brothers.
They walked in and were greeted by Fury's expressionless face and the Captain's bright blue eyes.
"Hello, pleasure to meet you, I'm Steve Rogers, you can call me Steve." The Captain offered his hand.
"Pleasure to meet you too, Steve. My name's Hamish Smith, you can call me Hamish." He grasped Steve's hand and gave a firm shake. Cadel was kind of hiding behind Hamish. But when Steve offered his hand to Cadel, he was a little shocked, his brother was always the one to do the formal greetings, but his brother had left out his name.
"Uh hey, I'm Cadel Smith, you can call me Cadel." He grabbed the captain's hand and shook.
"And I presume you are Director Fury, yes?" Hamish reached out for Fury to shake. The director looked a little hesitant before reaching out and shaking his hand, Hamish smirked.
"Alright, the reason I called you here was to get a file on you both, because apparently our wide base of information does not have a single trace of information on both of you." Fury led the way to the meeting table.
"Just stamp your thumbprints onto this column here and fill out the rest."
"We get to fill it in ourselves? What if we lie?" Cadel asked, intrigued.
"Do you see those cameras at the side? They're sort of like lie detectors." Hamish spoke before anyone could say anything else.
The other three occupants in the room mentally filed in the elder brother's observation abilities.
Hamish's POV
Haha, they seemed shocked that I know, how could I not know? One does not simply walk into an unknown territory.
Back to the form, it looks like school all over again, not that I attended long enough to remember anyway...
So it went like this: (A/N: for the forms, in my AO3 i have the images so it looks more real, but I can't insert images in fanficdotnet, ( archiveofourown works / 541462 / chapters / 3677984) there, just get rid of the spaces, oh and i made one for cadel too)
Name: Hamish Smith
Age: 26.
Gender: Male.
Sexuality, wait what? Why in the world do they need my sexuality? I looked over to my brother, I saw he left that empty too, but he had a red tinge in his cheeks, I nudged him with my elbow and wiggled my eyebrow.
"Oh, shut up." He said as he turned back to his form. Then I guess I'll just leave it empty too.
Occupation: Odd Jobs. (Haha, let's hope my brother writes the same thing.)
Eye colour: Pretty Forest Green.
I could see my brother peeking over to see what I had filled and how I filled it, probably didn't know what to write for his, oh my cute little brother.
Skin colour: Pale-ish?
Hair colour: Black.
Height: 180cm.
Species: Don't know.
-Family-
Mother: Don't remember.
Father: Don't remember.
Siblings:
Younger brother - Cadel Smith
Background: We travel around.
Criminal Records: Okay this is getting insulting... So I left that blank.
-Supernatural Ability Details-
Type of ability: magic. (Technically I'm not lying because I have absolutely no idea what type of power mine is considered as.)
Super-strength: None
Super-speed: None
Well that was easy, not as many questions as I would have thought. I passed the form back to the Director.
THIRD PERSON POV
Fury looked over both their forms, comparing them, taking notice of the 'don't know's and 'don't remember's.
"You don't know what you are?" Fury asked again, making sure.
"If I knew I wouldn't be here." Hamish said. It was the truth, he had an inkling to what they are, but he wasn't sure, and you don't write what you're not sure down on official documents.
"Could you show us your abilities?" Steve spoke up when he saw all they had written was 'magic'. And he wanted to see if what Agent Natasha had seen yesterday had anything to do with these two.
"Sure, what do you want me to do it on?" Hamish shrugged, no big deal, no reason to not show them if they aren't going to kill them.
"How about water?" Hamish looked around and saw the cup of water sitting right in front of his face, meant for him to drink.
"Alright, Caddy wanna have a lil' fun?" Cadel frowned at the nickname but nodded and waited for his brother to pass him the water.
Hamish cupped his hands around his lips, closed his eyes and blew (like those animal call things). Fury and Steve watched in not so much amazement as the water came up in one thin line and flowed elegantly towards Cadel.
The younger of the brothers muttered a few words and moved his finger like a puppet master manipulating his puppets. The water had taken a shape of a kitten with a green glow around it. Cadel giggled as he let go and let the kitten run towards Steve and cuddle up to his muscled arms. Hamish put his hands down and opened his eyes, laughing a little as he saw the Captain trying his best to pet the kitten softly.
"It's alright, it won't break, my magic is stronger than that." Cadel gave a smile to Steve. The captain smiled back and scooped the kitten up into his arms and cradled it.
'He looks so cute!' Cadel giggled inwardly, then stopped. 'Did I just call the captain cute? You need to snap out of it Cadel! You haven't met him for 24 hours and you think he's cute already, snap out of it!' He scolded himself.
His concentration wavered, the magic containing the kitten disrupted and water splashed down the Captain's suit.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I got distracted..." Cadel mentally scolded himself again, he just made a fool of himself.
Hamish whistled again as the water pulled out of Steve's blue spandex and back into the cup.
"There, problem solved." Hamish smiled victoriously.
"Is this what you do when you meant by street performer?" Fury asked.
They looked at him and nodded.
"Anyway, doesn't matter what we do. The streets of the city is filled with cops, they'll be on our asses before we even get a penny." Hamish sighed.
Cadel laughed.
"Will you be traveling elsewhere anytime soon?" Steve asked concerned.
"Probably not, maybe gonna pick up a few odd jobs here and there." Hamish shrugged.
"I have a better proposition for you." Fury jumped at the chance.
Hamish raised his eyebrows. Inside his head he was celebrating, everything was going according to plan, if he offers what Hamish thinks he's going to offer, he won't have to find ways to get money to afford hotels anymore.
"Stay and help out The Avengers, you can stay at the Stark Tower if you wish it." Steve said.
Just as Cadel was about to turn down the offer Hamish spoke up, "That's a good offer, we'll take it. God knows I ain't gonna get a decent job." he muttered the last part.
In his heart he danced with joy, things were beginning to get exciting. But what he didn't know, was that the reason for them staying was worlds apart from what Steve had just told them.
"Do you have anything else to attend to? If you do not then I can bring you to the Tower now, and get formally introduced to the Avengers." Steve offered.
Hamish smiled in agreement. They went out -taking all their 'metal' with them as well- and into the car they came in, destination being the Stark Tower.
Steve contemplated trying out his luck and seeing if they had a reaction if he brought up the incident yesterday, but he decided better let the master assassins do their job.
"So, powers?" Steve tried to make small talk. "Yup, had it since I was small. Comes in handy at some times." Hamish grinned.
"Haha, 'handy' being getting food and a roof over our heads." Cadel laughed. "Yeah, we never use our powers as fancy as you guys use it. The famous Avengers, saving the world, and us, the kids that use their power to get food, what a joke." Hamish meant it to be a light-hearted joke, and he was lucky Steve didn't think anything of it.
"I'm sure your powers can be of use to help save the world too, I believe your powers to be much more advanced than you let on." Steve said.
"Smart, as expected from the super soldier." Cadel chided in.
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