Hey readers! Sorry for not updating yesterday I had a gazillion other things to do.
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Angela POV:
I suppose the first thing I noticed when I woke up was the pain. God, my head feels like it was repeatedly struck by lightning while Clint sings Kumbaya (horrible time don't even ask). I try to move a little and am grateful that I'm not strapped down to anything. But, the movement shifted my aching head and I let out a slight groan. I hear someone speaking but my head can't quite make out what their saying, something about their hand? At that time I just notice that someone's holding my hand (way to go Agent Jackson), so I squeeze it getting a little reassurance that someone was there. I can hear a little better now, the voice I heard before is definitely male, deep, and very familiar. "Aj, can you open your eyes for me please?" My head is still spinning, what happened again? I was in Rio, got separated from Clint and Natasha and then….. My eyes shoot open, the brainwash, me almost killing Clint, Adam alive, all of it. Unfortunately when I opened my eyes I lurched forward and aggravated my head. Even though it was getting better since I woke up, it still throbbed like no tomorrow. I lie back down and look over to see who's holding my hand and I see Steve. "Aj, talk to me" "Hey, Steve" He sighs in relief "Good, I didn't know if you were still out of it or not." I smile sheepishly at him "Sorry, it took a minute for it all to make sense." I look at him closely and see bags under his eyes and worry written all over his face, his smile isn't fooling me. "Steve" I half-glare at him "you have not been here awake the whole time since I was gone have you?" He can hear the warning in my voice, but just gives me a sheepish look "Uh….." I sigh "Steve, for crying out loud, I'm an agent, people get hurt on missions." He gives me a hard look "Sure, but not every gets, shot, drugged, brain-washed, fight one of their best friends, and nearly taken advantage of all in a course of two days" I just stare at him for a second wondering where on earth all of this concern is coming from, sure we are friends, very good friends, but still what's going on? I can tell that my confusion is all over my face because he drops his glare sighs loudly and smiles slightly (which just confuses me even more) before explaining. "I could barely deal with you fighting in the first place, powers or not, serum or not, training or not, from when I'm from women didn't see a lot of action, but that's a minor factor. Your my friend Angela, and no idiotic two-faced b****** is going to take you away from me, and Clint and Natasha of course too" I just stare at him incredulously. Did he really just say what I think he just did? "Also, I've uhhh…. Ummm… ugh! I'm no good at this" I give him a weird look at that comment. He looks at me seemingly searching from something and seems to find it because his face sets into a determined one which I recognize and plows on "look, I'm just gonna come out and say it, I have feelings for you Aj, I care for you probably way more than I should." His face is a little unsure as he continues while my world is turning upside down. "When I received my mission to recruit you I really wanted Fury to give the job to an actual agent, but I'm so glad that I accepted. And Angela I" but he cuts off there as I lean over, ignoring my head, and give him a kiss right on the mouth to shut him off. I hehe, meant for it to be a quick one, but in my defense Steve is a Fantastic kisser, and my brain kind of shut down all thoughts as it happened. He pulled away after a little bit smiling gently at me I smile at him and say "Stripes, I would gladly go out with you on a date sometime, heck, you can come stay in my apartment since I Know the one you have is a complete dump, plus there is an old time gm nearby, so you will still have that factor, I have an extra room. But, if you're too uncomfortable about it that's fine you" he cuts me off by kissing me on the check and with a small laugh says "I will gladly move in with you, it gets kind of lonely over there anyway" He then frowns at me "How's your head" I roll my eyes "I can barely feel any pain now, it will be gone in the next five minutes, two if I'm lucky, ten seconds if I had some water I'm too lazy to get some myself" He just shakes his head and hands me some water gives me a kiss on the check and says "I'm glad that you're okay, I have to go get Clint before he kills me for not getting him as soon as you woke up. And umm…" He looks really cute when he stutters. "Are we um… together then" "Absolutely Steve-o, and I expect that date soon, I want a break." He just laughs at me and waves as he goes out the door. Right after he leaves I drink all of the water, it immediately turning my raging headache into nothing and I sigh in relief. I quick find my clothes slip them on and am just tying the laces to my boots as I hear the door open. "What are you doing?" I pause a little at his tone before replying "I'm tying my shoes flippers what did you think I was doing shooting some arrows or spying on my "friend" ha ya right friends my a** you guys are so together, don't deny it" I turn around and give him one of my best smirks "This room needs some redecoration it doesn't flow well Fun Shwei, was one of the cool things in Asia that I learned and I definitely is needed in this room." His glare softens a little bit and his mouth is half open letting me know he was going to answer the Natasha comment but my last comment surprised him. He comes a little closer and his eyes are full of badly hidden concern "Are you okay, Aj? You shouldn't be out of bed. I'm so sorry for letting this happen. I just can't believe it and" I cut him off simply by reaching out and giving him a big hug hoping he'll understand that I don't blame him, already would've forgiven him if I had and that he's being dumb. He sighs in relief and mumbles something I couldn't quite make out into my hair backs up and says "come on I guess there's no way to keep you in here is there" I smirk at him "You know me well, besides I've seen the blueprints finally, so I know these ships well, with all of their little "secret" rooms and all." He just rolls his head and says "Whatever you say Seaweed Brain" and leads me out of the room and towards the debriefing room. I give him a questioning look "oh, we wanted to wait to debrief Director about the mission until you got back." I just nod back, not looking forward to repeating what happened, but the arm around my soldiers reassures me that at least Clint will be there.
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2 Months Later
"Uncy Phil, is my sword finally ready?" I whine to Phil as he stands next to me while we wait for Natasha and Clint to get done having a meeting with Patches. "It's been five months and Patches said I could have it in a day, seriously Phil how much "modifying" does it need?" Phil finally sighs "Fine, you can have, I was going to give it to you as a birthday present, but since you have to have it I suppose you can have it now, this way Angela" I smile victoriously as he leads me to the weapons area of the New York base. We stop outside of the room that reads "Specialty Weapons: Clearance Level: 8" I smile glad that I got upgraded last month to the same level as Clint and Natasha. Phil, scans his card, and then I do and we step into the room. Phil, walks over to the left, through a door I hadn't seen at first and comes back with two big suitcases and a small box. He smiles at me and says open up. I gleefully open up the first suitcase to find, two gleaming bronze 12-inch daggers. I look at them in awe "Awesome" I mutter. Next to them are two knife sheathes and a neon green belt. I look to Phil, "neon green isn't exactly easy to blend in Phil" He sighs, I know you can change the color and it glows in the dark, only when you want it too however, now open the next one" I open the next suitcase to find two katanas definitely pure silver with a blue-green vine pattern engraved into the blades. I immediately turn around and squeeze Phil like there's no tomorrow "thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Uncy Phil, you're the best!" He just chuckles and says "The katanas are retractable into knives and eventually they can look simply like this" He grabs one of the blades from me and hits a button I didn't notice and the katana shrinks into a needle. Cool! "Oh, the katanas will only retract to your touch, and all of the vine patterns glow, especially when you're using your powers" I nod in understanding and examine the last box, it looks like a jewelry box. I open it and I gasp. Inside is one of the coolest rings ever! It's silver and bronze, with a diamond in the middle. Engraved into the diamond in a jade stone is a capital R. In between the diamond and the outer layer is a ring of Hawaiian blue. I look at Phil "this is beautiful, thank you Phil" He blushes a little and says "That's not all it is, but it on your finger and twist the top" I look at him in confusion, but do as he say as I put it onto my middle finger, twist it, and to my amazement a gleaming bronze three foot sword emerges, with a R engraved on the handle in emerald green. The sword has the same vine pattern as the knives and katanas. I look at Phil and then back to the sword, and notice that it's perfectly balanced. I look back to Phil and yell "This is awesome!" I run back over to Phil, give him a big hug shrink my sword and my katanas, throw my belt on with the knives in the sheath and start to run to the door to train with my new weapons when Phil's next words stop me. "Hold on" I turn around and frown at his words. "All five of those blades can withstand your powers, so they won't break and we did coordinate the colors with your uniform and powers if you were wondering." I think back to my navy blue and black SHIELD suit and nod "Thanks again Phil, you're the best!" and run out of the room straight to the elevator to get to the gym floor, but I hear something along the lines of "Oh, dear God, what did I just do" before the elevator door closes.