"Ahh well so are most of us here, welcome to the tower." Bruce said and smiled at Claira, she smiled back.
The next day she went back to her apartment and waited outside for SHIELD to arrive.
"You a Mystery?" the agent said, obviously not getting that he was told to say that because it's Claira's 'name'.
"Yes, but isn't everybody?" She respond creepily. She get in the back of the car and smirked when she saw the guy's confused face. They drove back to the SHIELD base in silence. When they arrived Mystery was taken directly to Fury's office.
"Ahh Mystery, I see you came back. I must say I'm a little surprised." Fury had said when she walked in.
"Good to see you to director Furry." Mystery said. He glared at her, she smirked, he rolled his eyes. "I've got to have a chat to you." she said. The talk was easier to do with Fury because she didn't have to act professional here at all.
"Oh, and what would that be about?" He asked sarcastically having had no intention of adhering to anything she said. He didn't trust her, and she didn't trust him. They didn't really need to yet.
"I can only work every second month." she said nonchalantly.
"And why would that be?" he asked in the same sarcastic tone.
"None of your business, you didn't really expect me to work by your agenda did you? I'll work hard while I'm here and do the job I'm told to but I can only do that every second month!" she said defiantly and leaving no room for arguments.
"Fine, but after your training I imagine that time will be spent on a lot of missions leading to a lot of paperwork that MUST be done or this arrangement will not work out!" Fury said coldly. "Now, you will start your training today. First combat, you will be escorted to the gym. Oh and you'll be under guard the entire time you are here, so don't try anything." He explained.
"Fine!" Mystery said exasperatedly and strolled out of the room. An unnamed agent took her to the gym and stood inside as her Supervising officer, as he called it, found out how well she could fight.
"Alright, we'll start by sparring to see your skill level first." she took him down in under a minute, her mother being the cavalry and all, she taught Mystery to defend herself when she was younger, she enjoyed it so May taught her more. That was until Bahrain.
"Okay, I'd say we can move past that. How are you with weapons?" he asked, she made an okish sign with her hand. They moved to a shooting range. "Well let's find out then." He said he handed her a gun which she loaded having seen her father do it on numerous occasions. They had not how ever taught her to fire one. They didn't want her combat ready. But she shot the target six times, four of which hit the centre. It occurred to Mystery then that all this would only make Fury more suspicious of her. That would be funny.
"OK, fine there as well. How are you at lying and keeping a cover?" he asked. She looked at him with her 'are you serious' look. He seemed to remember why he was doing all this then.
"Right, never mind. Um what about interrogation?" he asked. She shrugged her shoulders.
"Ok, well we will start with you being interrogated then the other side of the table." He explained. Mystery nodded an allowed herself to be escorted to another room with a table and a chair. To which she was directed. The second she had sat down a hologram began of people interrogating her. St the time she didn't know how it worked. But she knew she would find out. And she was right.
So she got interrogated and didn't spill anything. She even got some information out of him. She however had no idea what to do when she had to interrogate someone. It ended in them escaping.
"Well, we'll have to work on that." Was all her S.O. said. She just shrugged it off. At the end of the day she also knew how to fill out and file paperwork. Before she could leave she had to see Fury while her S.O. filled him in on the events of the day.
"Well sir, as long as she doesn't need to interrogate someone she's ready. Her combat results were up there with Agents May and Romanoff. Her shooting was of a more average agent but was still good. She excelled at being interrogated, she got information out of them without slipping up anything. But when she had to interrogate someone they escaped." Her S.O. finished. Fury looked at Mystery confused. She just shrugged her shoulders.
"Alright, your recommendation?" Fury asked the agent.
"She's ready for active field work." He responded.
"Alright dismissed. Now Mystery, there is one more thing you have to do before you go on a mission." Fury said after the agent had left the room.
"What's that?" Mystery asked.
"Not today." Fury said the smallest of smirks on his face.
"Well, then next month. Until then, can I leave?" she asked, Fury nodded. She was taken back to her apartment. When the car was out of sight she counted to a hundred before making her way to the tower before her first day of work there.
"Welcome back Ms May." JARVIS said when she got up to the door.
"Thankyou Jarvis." Claira responded while she opened the door. She went into the elevator when she saw the icon again on the button. Of the suit and the poppy, unable to contain her curiosity she pressed it and allowed the elevator to take her there.
When she got out she found herself in a dark room, she turned on the lights to see huge writing on a wall directly across from the elevator. It read 'Phil Coulson, The real superhero." All around the room were flowers and pictures of Coulson. There were six very clearly different spots, Claire went up to each of them and noticed that they were spots for each avenger to leave things and notes and pictures for Coulson. Claira realised this was a memorial for her father, they still believed he was dead but realising how important he was to them all she couldn't help but shed a few tears before getting back in the elevator and heading up to her room.
She got changed into less workout and more normal clothes and went up to the kitchen. She found Bruce, Tony and Pepper there at the dinner table. She grabbed some food and was about to leave when Bruce called her back.
"Claira, please join us." He said. She nodded and took a seat next to him.
"So I went into shieelowwer um shielower today," Stark said stopping himself just before he said SHIELD but covering it up badly. "And everyone is talking about the new girl named Mystery. They don't know anything about her, not even her real name Fury gave her that nickname when she didn't give up her name." he continued.
"I can't believe Fury hired her." Pepper said.
"It does seem oddly out of character, anyway how about we talk about something that Claira can actually contribute to." Bruce said, Claire smiled at him friendlily. By the end of the night they were all laughing together, it was ten o'clock before any of them even left the table. But they all decided to turn in at that point. Claire went to sleep thinking of her father's Memorial, just a few floors below, and her father, a few thousand miles away. It just didn't seem fair.