Hey, everyone!

I'm glad some of you are still reading this! :)

Anyways, here's chapter seven. You're almost caught up with 'Where my Fathers Died'.

There's a lot of musical stuff in this chapter, so sorry about that if you don't know much about it. I wasn't sure how to describe key signatures for people who don't know what they are. It's really rather hard to explain, I suppose I should know since it's kind of my job to know... but... this is what I came up with. Anyways! I hope it's not too confusing. :)

Thanks for reading!

-randomblueboots


Kathryn Maria Rogers

Kate smiled when she entered the dining room area of their new SHIELD-based Avengers facility. Tea was on her mind as everyone was sort of in a slow part of their investigation. Eric and Elsa were trying to track where Danny went after the battle with Tyr, and Aspen had contacted James Barnes and now they were waiting to hear back from them if they received any reply from Asgard. She stepped into the kitchen, turned on the stove and filled the kettle. Then turned around, waiting for the pot to whistle. She caught sight of the huge grand piano that Fury had found for Eric, almost as sort of a bribe to get them to live here. She stepped over towards it, on the other side of the large table and sat on the bench. She carefully tapped a key, and a soft, high note was played.

She had seen Eric play. To him the music, whether in his head or on paper, was almost like English. It spoke to him. He could listen to a note and he knew what it was trying to say. She heard that note and all it was was a note, pretty and simple. It's language was not one that Katie knew. She heard footsteps and looked up to see Eric himself, standing in the doorway. He was smiling gently, his arms crossed, his dark thick hair combed as neatly as his curls would allow.

"You look very nice sitting there." He said. She felt the blush on her cheeks, and stood up quickly.

"I was just... it makes such nice sounds." She said. "Though I really don't know what they mean besides knowing that it's music."

"Come here." Eric sat on the bench and she sat next to him, barely any room left between them. "In music we have these things called key signatures." He said. "I guess the best way to describe them would be... they change the tone the music is played in. That's not technically what it means, but that's an easier way to understand. So I could play a song in C Major. This is the C Major scale." His fingers danced across the keyboard. "Or D Major." Again he played, and it sounded the same, but different. It had the same pattern, but with different sounds.

"Can you play any song you want in any key?" Katie asked.

"Technically, yes, but songs are usually given a key that's easiest for them to be played or sung in. Do you want to learn a song?" He asked her.

"Really?" She looked up at him with wide blue eyes.

"First you're going to learn the C Major scale." He warned.

"Okay."

"Hold your hand like this." He gently lay her right hand fingers on the first five keys of the C Major scale. "Now you're just going to play all the white keys up until the next C. That's eight keys."

"I don't have enough fingers." She said, knowing there was a trick. He laughed.

"I'll show you, just follow me." He put his own right hand on the C below the one she was on. "Now play. One... Two... Three... thumb under-"

"Thumb under?" Katie asked. He showed her how to tuck her thumb under her middle finger to play the next note. Then they finished the scale on their pinky fingers. After practicing a few times Katie turned to her friend.

"Will you show me the song now?" She asked. "I've learned the scale." He grinned, and reached his arm around her shoulders and placed her hand at the top of the scale.

"You just have to play the scale backwards to hear the song." Katie eagerly began, but heard nothing impressive about the scale being played backwards. She looked up, disappointed. "Not like that. You've got to hold out a couple different notes- the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 7th." She slowly followed his directions as he helped her along, and when she finished she instantly recognized the song.

"Joy to the World." She gasped.

"Yes. That's one of the first ones my mother taught me." His eyes filled with sadness at the memory. She leaned on him slightly.

"Will you play it with me?" She asked, hoping to cheer him up.

"Of course!" He grinned. "Lets go over it again!"


Emma Danielle Everett

She collapsed into the front seat of her car after an exhausting shopping trip. She had been out of groceries for weeks now- always eating over at the new Avengers Facility with Alexei and the others. It was past time to get her own food. At last she had done it but it had taken all day, and on top of that she had stopped in the women's section for clothing. She pulled on her seatbelt after breathing in and out consciously for a moment. She was just about to start her car when an alarm went off on her phone. Damn, what am I forgetting now? She grabbed her phone and looked at the name of the alarm. Doctor's appointment. Tonight? Why so late?

She had totally forgotten about this appointment. She shoved her phone into her purse and started her car, intent on taking a shower before having to leave for this appointment. Suddenly her phone beeped, indicating that she had received a text. She yanked it out of her purse.

Alexei

R we still on for tonight?

What? Oh right! I invited him over for dinner. Dammit. Everything has to be ruined.

Emma

srry, I have an appointment I totally forgot about.

Can we reschedule?

Alexei

What's going on? R u alright?

Emma

I'm fine, just forgot about it. made it ages ago.

But cant cancel on it now, so we'll have to reschedule.

Alexei

R u sure you're alright. U have been acting strange lately.

Emma

I'm fine. C u tomorrow?

Alexei

yup, I love u.

Emma

3 u

He was suspicious, she knew, but she wanted to wait until after this appointment to tell him. It was important that she made very sure that this new situation in her life wasn't going anywhere any time soon. It was better to know for sure than to tell someone and look like a liar.


Ryker No-One

"Teo! What are you doing down here?" Tyr appeared in the doorway out of no where. He looked furious. Ryker groaned inwardly. His mother had been so close to telling him, and now it was all ruined.

"I'm sorry, Tyr." Teo gasped. "I was just checking on Artie- Ryker, You know I meant Ryker."

"Leave us, woman!" Tyr bellowed. The moment Teo left the room, shivering in fear, Tyr turned to Ryker. "You. Did you finish the door?"

"Yes, lord." Ryker nodded.

"Good, I want you to go to Midgard."

"Midgard? Why?"

"I need you to break into the organization called SHIELD and find me some files on their precious computers."

"What sort of files?" Ryker asked, already thinking about the files he might be able to find on his mother. If Ryker was born on earth and there was a birth certificate to prove it than there would be files about Teo in SHIELD's database. Ryker knew SHIELD's database was enormous.

"Well, we have already established that the Avengers' children are threats."

"Yes." Ryker nodded.

"We know a great many things about the Avengers- their fears, their dreams, their hopes, their loves... but we know nothing about the children. I want you to hack into SHIELD's database and find out everything you can about them."

"Of course. When do I leave?" Ryker questioned.

"Now, son. You leave now."


It wasn't very long until Ryker was on the ground of Midgard again. It felt like he was back home, it made him smile. It's such a strange thought to think that I was born here. That my father is midgardian as well. He was a pure-blood midgardian, when not long ago he believed he was part asgardian. It was easy to get into SHIELD with the new asgardian technology they had retrieved from Odin's vaults. From there he hacked the computers with ease. His mother always encouraged his love of technology, though Tyr never understood it at least he found it useful.

For a moment Ryker actually thought about doing Tyr's bidding, but decided to go with his desires first rather than his duty. He quickly searched his mother's name. Of course there were regular files like his own- her birth certificate, her high school diploma and so on. But there was one that caught his attention- a folder of SHIELD files. He opened it and noticed one labeled "TRANSFER".

There were many things redacted in the file, but one thing was very clear: his mother had once worked for SHIELD and was transferred to Paris from New York not too long before he was born. That had to mean his father lived in New York, but why had she left? Ryker began to grow angry as he looked at the rest of the files and more and more seemed to be redacted. There was no way for him to learn what had happened in New York except from the mouth of the woman herself: Theodora Erikson.


Daniel Bruce Banner

He came to slowly, in a small hospital-like room. Groaning, he looked around. Things were blurry at first but in only a moment he recognized Sam Wilson, Scott Lang, and Pietro Maximoff.

"Hey, kid." Sam grinned. "You gave us quite a scare back there."

"You directed your gamma energy to your heart so that it was beating far too fast." Scott explained.

"You had a heart attack, Dan. Are you feeling alright now?" Sam asked.

"Storm had to bring you back from the dead." Pietro said. "Are you alright?"

"I... I feel fine." Danny nodded.

"Good, because we're here to give you the verdict." Scott said.

"Alright." Danny was ready to hear the worst.

"You were fantastic." Pietro said, happily.

"What?" Danny frowned.

"You have fantastic control over your gamma levels, Danny, you're just too terrified to admit that to yourself. Just like your brother and sister it comes naturally. What you need to do is learn how to not fear your powers. It's part of you." Scott said.

"What Lang said." Pietro nodded. "I'm going to teach you not to be afraid of running really fast if your promise never to direct your gamma rays at your heart ever again."

"Yes, sir." Danny grinned.

"Great!"

"Alright, we start tomorrow!"