Author's note: Okay folks this chapter is supposed to take place right after the events of the recent Marvel film Thor: The Dark World and takes place at the same time as the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode # 8 'The Well'. So if you haven't seen either one prepare to be potentially confused. LOL

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Location: The facility.

It had been several weeks since Carrie had been incorporated into the program and she was slowly but surely starting to come out of her shell. Nothing crazy or extravagant by any means, but she was now consciously choosing to interact with the facility's instructors and cooperating. Granted it had only been because of Coulson's urging. She'd been experimenting all day by using her powers in a variety of ways. Seeing if she could do things small and focused like flipping a light switch to acts more complicated like levitating water out of a cup without moving the cup itself and various other tests.

Currently Carrie was with one of the instructors in the warehouse that sat above the facility, standing in front of a red Honda Civic.

"Why am I doing this again?" Carrie asked.

"To see just how strong your powers are my dear."

"I already know that I can lift a car."

"You did that under extreme emotional duress. What I want to see is if you can do it when you are calm and under control of yourself. Now, shall we begin?"

"What if I do something to the car?"

"Oh, it's alright, its driver is a former acquaintance of mine that owes me money and used to date me before I found out he was cheating on me with Sara from accounting. So either way it's all good." The instructor said with a wicked smile, in turn Carrie managed to crack one of her own.

With that she outstretched her hand and focused upon the car sitting before her. Immediately it began to shake where it was and eventually one end of it lifted off the pavement. Soon enough the other end came up as well, but it was obvious that Carrie was straining.

"Don't push yourself too hard sweetie, just do what comes naturally." The instructor told her.

Then suddenly the windshield cracked and all four tires deflated, her concentration broke as the car dropped back down bouncing slightly upon its tires when it hit the concrete.

Carrie quickly drew her hands back into her own chest with a sort of 'uh oh' look upon her face as she looked over at the instructor, but the instructor looked very pleased.

"Well, you managed to lift the car and damage it all at the same time. I'd say you passed with flying colors." The instructor spoke with another grin.

Meanwhile though Carrie was suddenly hit with a dizzy spell and had to sit down as she knelt down on the asphalt.

"I…I don't understand." Carrie said honestly.

"Oh it's quite simple dearie. Though you have what can be considered a usual level of telekinetic power at your disposal, only intense emotional states enable you to exceed your normal limits."

"Like the prom, like Ghost Rider…like what happened with my…mom." Carrie said as her expression changed from confusion to remorse.

"Uh…yeah. Listen I…I didn't mean to bring up bad memories, I-"

"It's okay. It's fine." Carrie cut her off, trying to pretend that it didn't bother her nearly as much as it actually did.

After a few moments of awkward silence Carrie spoke again.

"So what does that mean? That I can only do bigger things with I'm…like that?" She said, referring to her…less than desirable state of mind she displayed at the prom.

"Maybe. Or maybe we just need to find a different emotional trigger to enable you to access your full power."

"What kind of trigger?"

"Well, hopefully…a good one. A real reason to use your powers aside from simply being angry."

Just then Coulson walked up to them.

"So how is she doing?" He asked.

"Just fine sir."

"Well I think you've earned yourself a break. We're going to take a trip."

"We are?" Carrie asked with surprise.

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Soon enough Coulson was sitting in the driver's seat of his prized car Lola with Carrie at his side as they drove down U.S. highway route seven.

"Where are we going?" She asked for the umpteenth time.

"I told you before, don't wanna spoil the surprise."

"I don't like surprises."

"You'll like this one. I'm taking you someplace very special."

But just then, Coulson's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Coulson, this is Hill. We need you in London asap."

"What for?"

"Apparently Thor just had a smack down with someone there."

"Who?"

"We're not sure as of yet, that's why we need you and your team to go in and debrief anyone and everyone connected to the event and perform damage control."

"That could be a problem, I'm currently in mid transit to North Salem, New York."

"We know, that's why we sent the Globemaster to intercept you. It should be over your position now." She told him as Coulson looked up to see it beginning to descend from high above.

"Well, that's all well and good, but I have Carrie White with me, she still has to be taken back to the facility." Coulson explained.

"No can do, time is of the essence, she'll have to tag along for the ride."

"Understood." Coulson said hanging up as the deafening roar of the plane boomed above them as it hovered down at last.

The Globemaster's cargo bay doors then slowly opened up before them.

"Are we supposed to go in there?" Carrie shouted over the roar of the plane's engines.

"Yep!" Coulson shouted back.

"Is it going to land?"

"Nope!"

"Then how are we going to get in there?"

Coulson just smiled as he reached down on the dash and flipped a switch as Lola's tires began to turn until the sides were facing down as built in hover jets activated. Carrie's expression went from confusion to a mixture of fear and wonder as they lifted up off the road and into the back of the plane as the cargo doors closed behind them.

Once they landed Carrie slowly looked over at Coulson with her eyes wide and her jaw agape.

"Sorry, guess I shoulda warned you."

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In short order Carrie found herself onboard the Globemaster as she took in the grandeur of the interior.

"Welcome onboard the Globemaster." Skye told her.

"Thank you." Carrie replied.

"Since we didn't have time to prep a temp room for you you'll be bunking with me, I hope that's alright?" Skye asked.

"Yeah, sure, but there's only one bed, where will you sleep?" Carrie responded.

"I'm good with the couch in the lounge, it's all good." Skye said.

"Are you sure? I don't want to be a bother."

"Relax, you won't be, kay?"

"Okay." Carrie finally relented.

"Cool." Skye retorted.

"Where are we going? Are we still going to that place you wouldn't tell me about?" Carrie asked as Coulson placed her suitcase upon the bed.

"Change of plan, that will be after we accomplish this mission we were just handed by HQ." Coulson explained.

"So where are we going?"

"London." Coulson told her.

"What for?"

"Emergency situation, that's why I couldn't take you back to the facility first."

When they landed at the London City airport, Coulson gave strict instructions for Carrie to remain behind onboard the plane until they returned. It was believed that she would be safe there.

Unfortunately that would not be the case.

A few hours later strange sounds began to come from outside as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents still stationed on the bomber went out to investigate.

Granted, when a large unearthly thirty foot long quadruped monster with charcoal colored skin and massive tusks charged onto the airfield, they were understandably surprised.

Both local authorities and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents opened fire, but their bullets seemed to do little more than irritate the creature as it started lunging and snapping at them while swinging at them with its spiked tail. Carrie watched all of this unfold from a window of the plane with a combination of both fear and awe.

"They're going to die, that thing is going to kill them all!" She thought to herself.

Outside agents, policemen and airport personnel alike were running for their lives. At one point one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents tripped and fell as the beast lunged ready to pounce on top of him…only to hit a seemingly invisible barrier. The agent looked up in disbelief to see Carrie standing there with her hands outstretched.

The creature, obviously confused grew angry as it threw itself at the telekinetic wall again and again. Carrie strained as she fought to hold it together. This was far beyond anything she had ever tried to use her powers on before. Far more stressing than when she stopped the car speeding towards her that Billy and Chris were in after the prom. She suddenly became aware of something trickling down from her face and dripping onto the runway…her nose was bleeding.

Invisible cracks that only she could see began to appear as the beast continued its assault but in the meantime the airport personnel and police were being given a chance to flee while the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents tried desperately to get people off of nearby parked planes that were in preparation for take off.

But there came a point when the barrier simply would not hold anymore as it finally broke down. The resulting telekinetic recoil sent Carrie flying backwards to a potentially painful landing on the runway, it was just dumb luck however that she landed on a parked luggage carrier that had a large duffel bag sitting atop it.

The beast proceeded to move toward her only to be distracted by the screams of the evacuating passengers as it turned its attention towards them.

Carrie slowly sat up trying to shake off the cobwebs as she looked over to see the monster slam into the side of one of the planes that was still in the process of being evacuated. It then turned its attention to the passengers. A woman carrying a baby screamed as the behemoth sprang towards it. The baby's own cry of terror triggered something in Carrie.

"NO!" She roared in a voice that did not sound at all human as a telekinetic punch raced across the airfield and hit the monstrosity with the force of a freight train, sending it flying back at least a thousand feet as it crashed back down.

The creature's expression of bewilderment matched Carrie's at that moment.

"Did I do that?" She thought to herself.

The giant fiend however quickly recovered and with renewed vigor and anger ran strait at Carrie like a mad bull in full charge!

"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!" She thought as she desperately tried to slow the leviathan down by slamming anything into it that wasn't nailed down.

Luggage transporters, air stairs and anything else that she could lift smashed into the brute, but it was to no avail as it barreled through everything undaunted. Any second it would be upon her, and then she would die. And being the God fearing young woman that her mother had raised her to be there was but one thought in her mind.

"Am I going to Hell? What's going to happen to me?" She pondered gravely.

The question however, would not be answered this day as suddenly a massive bolt of lightning struck the creature hard knocking it onto its side just before it reached her. Carrie looked in the direction that it came from to see someone dressed in armor of some kind with a red flowing cape flying through the air with a gigantic hammer outstretched before him.

"What on Earth?" Carrie spoke aloud as the warrior closed the gap and drilled the hammer into the side of the monster's head just as it was getting back up.

The rather strapping individual then quickly turned his attention to Carrie as he landed.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"Look out!" She screamed as the titan swung its tail around and hit her savior with it like he was hitting a baseball.

Thor flew through the air and crashed down onto the airfield as his body punched and dug holes in the asphalt and concrete as he skidded across it. The goliath bounded towards him as the Asgardian started to pull himself up. It was clear it would reach him before he would fully recover. Then at the last possible second a large airline catering truck rammed into the side of the beast pushing it off to one side. Carrie had gotten lucky once more, normally such a vehicle would be far too heavy for her to move, but the panicked driver had bailed and left it running when the creature had first appeared.

With Carrie having bought him the precious seconds that he needed Thor proceeded to twirl Mjolnir in his grasp as he bolted up into the sky and veered back around strait for the colossus. As it reared up on its hind legs it roared and opened its jaws wide…that was when Thor flew strait in and exploded out the back of the creature's skull as Carrie gasped at the sight.

Finally the monster toppled over for the last time, it would not rise again. Thor then came down directly in front of Carrie.

"Are you unharmed?"

Carrie was understandably awestruck for the moment by what had just transpired, as well as admiring the handsomeness of Thor, but she eventually did find the words she sought.

"Uh, yes, I'm fine, thank you." She stammered as she whipped a handkerchief out and wiped her nose.

"No, thank you for helping me out back there. I saw what you did, are you a sorceress of some sort perhaps?"

"Well, I'm uh telekinetic." She answered, but she could tell from his expression that the word held no meaning for him.

"Yeah, sorceress." She then said nodding as he did the same, "So who are you?"

"I am Thor, son of Odin from Asgard."

"Well, I'm Carrie, uh, daughter of Margaret from Maine." She said rather awkwardly trying to match his greeting as they shook hands.

"You should be proud. You are very brave for one so young. These people would surely be dead if not for you. You were a true hero today." Thor told her.

"I…I was?" She said with honest surprise.

"Indeed."

It took Carrie a few moments to snap back to reality after what Thor had just told her, but she finally spoke once again.

"What was that thing?"

"A demogorge or frost beast, it comes from the realm of Jotunheim. It came here by accident during the convergence while I was battling the dark elf lord Malekith."

Now it was Carrie's turn to be perplexed by Thor's words.

"Oh." She said simply as she looked at him with a blank stare.

"All that you need to know is that it is dead and no longer poses a threat. Now if you will excuse me, I must go. I'm afraid I must ask you to stand back." He warned her as she did as he asked, "Heimdall!" He shouted as the transporting beam of the bifrost came down and took him away.

"Wow." Carrie whispered as she watched him go.

No more than five minutes later Coulson and his team returned.

"Hey!" He called after her as she turned around, "What are you doing outside the plane? Did something exciting happen…while…we…were…" He trailed off as he and his team took in the devastation surrounding them.

Coulson then saw the Asgardian hieroglyph burned into the landing strip behind Carrie and then looked past her to the carcass of the frost beast lying dead in the distance.

All Carrie did was smile.

Just then however, different people began walking up to them as they started to converge on their location, Plane passengers, airport personnel and eventually the local police as well.

Thing is…none of them looked too happy.

"What is she?" One of them shouted angrily.

"Is she a mutant?" Another cried out.

"I saw what she did, she's a monster! She's another one of those things from another world!" A third proclaimed.

Just twenty-four hours after Malekith had nearly wiped the city off the map, the locals were in no mood for more peril and carnage, regardless of who or what was the cause.

"What's wrong, what did I do?" Carrie asked with sudden alarm and worry.

"It's okay, we'll handle it." Coulson assured her before turning his attention to the steadily growing mob.

"Let's just calm down people!" Ward said with a raised voice.

"There's no reason for alarm here, the situation is well in hand." Coulson said trying to diffuse the situation as he outstretched his hands in a calming gesture.

Just then the police stepped up coming through the crowd.

"She's coming with us." One of them ordered.

"I'm afraid not." Coulson told him.

"I don't take orders from you."

"Listen, there's no reason for hysterics, my name is Agent Coulson, I'm with-"

"I know who you are." The officer at the front of the group spoke cutting him off, "You and your little S.H.I.E.L.D. cronies think you can just go wherever you bloody well like and do whatever you want? Maybe we disagree." He finished threateningly.

The cop in question had been the same one who had tried to take Jane Foster into custody a day ago and then drew their guns when Thor tried to stop them. He didn't like super powered beings, in all truth he was scared to death of them. The entire populace for that matter had had their fill of fear as of late.

"I…I was just trying to help." Carrie said desperately, her emotions starting to get the better of her as more angry hisses and boos were launched at her from the crowd.

"Please, we can discuss this calmly." Coulson went on still choosing the way of diplomacy.

"We'll be calm when she's locked up!" Another angry passenger shouted.

"Bag that noise! Shoot the bloody twat in the head!" One more bellowed.

With that the police drew their guns much to the delight of what was quickly becoming a raving lynch mob.

"Send all the sodding freaks back across the ocean!" A random voice hollered as Carrie hung her head.

"We don't want you here!" A second added.

"You've caused enough pain and suffering." The lead cop accused.

Before Coulson could say anything back, Carrie spoke up instead.

"You think you know what pain is?" She said as she lifted head back up, her face full of tears, "You think you know what suffering is?" She continued as her voice grew in tempo as the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team looked back at her with genuine worry, "YOU KNOW NOTHING!" She shrieked as a massive energy wave reeled off of her that surged through everyone there.

But the wave…was not a telekinetic one…it was telepathic instead.

In that moment, everyone that was there…became her. They saw what she had seen, felt her pain, her sadness, her misery…it was overwhelming.

Everyone fell silent. The cops meanwhile dropped their guns in sheer awe of what they were experiencing.

All the former anger and bluster that the frenzied masse had mustered was literally drained out of them. Even the team was exposed to it.

There were several moments of silence…no one moved.

Then slowly but surely, the crowd dispersed, still in shock…except for one.

It was the woman and baby that Carrie had saved.

She then walked up to her.

"I…I just wanted to thank you for saving us, and especially for saving my baby." She said with genuine sincerity.

With that Carrie was snapped out of her emotional turmoil as tears of a different kind began to come down her cheeks.

"Yo-you're welcome." she finally managed to stutter out as the woman nodded with a smile before turning and walking away.

With that Carrie turned to face the rest of the team. Skye was the first to step up and wrap her arms around Carrie in a big bear hug as Coulson stepped up and placed a hand on Carrie's shoulder.

Later…

"What happened out there?" Coulson asked, "I thought that the tech that Banner and Stark designed was supposed to inhibit her powers when she was angry."

"Well, it sorta worked, it wasn't telekinetics." Fitz said.

"It wasn't her primary power that manifested." Simmons offered.

"Primary?" Coulson questioned.

"Yep, brain readouts showed it as being a telepathic wave." Simmons went on.

"So she pulled a Vulcan mind meld with everyone there." Skye stated, to which Simmons and Fitz nodded.

"She summoned another new power." Coulson realized.

"Whatever powers she has, that still doesn't explain why the device didn't work." May countered.

"Because it wasn't anger." Ward suddenly said cutting in, "It was despair, pure and absolute." He said as he tilted his head down and placed his hands on the diagnostic table.

"We all felt it, what she's experienced, what she's been through. What she's had to overcome." Coulson chimed in.

"I know that me and Carrie have for the most part buried the hatchet, but I really had no idea what she had been through…until now." Ward confessed.

"It's amazing that she could come back from that at all." Skye said.

"She's strong, allot stronger than anyone gives her credit for." Coulson began as he looked at his fellow team members, "And now we all know. This meeting is adjourned." He finished.

A few moments later, in Carrie's room.

"May I come in?" Coulson asked as he stepped up to the entrance of Carrie's temporary quarters.

"Yes."

"We finally know what happened."

"You do."

"Yes, you hit everyone with a telepathic wave. In that instant, every one of us felt what you were feeling."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. It just sorta…happened."

"Don't apologize, we should be thanking you, That crowd was getting ugly, you took care of that for us."

"I see. I guess that's a good thing then. So, I have telepathy?"

"So it would seem."

"What else do you think I will be able to do?"

"Hard to say, your various manifesting powers are as much a mystery to us as they are to you. But speaking of powers, I just got done watching the surveillance footage from the Globemaster's onboard cameras, you did good out there with the monster."

"Thank you." She said with a soft and grateful smile, " So are we heading home now?"

"Fraid not, we have a situation in Norway we have to deal with first. But this time I'm relatively sure that nothing crazy will happen while we're gone."

"I actually didn't mind it that much."

"Really? Weren't you scared?"

"Terrified, but…"

"But what?"

"It kinda felt good."

"What did?"

"Helping people."

"So how does it feel to be a superhero?"

"What? But I'm not-"

"That's what Thor called you didn't he."

"Well, he called me a hero, but that doesn't mean-"

"When someone from the big leagues like Thor calls you a hero it's nothing to sneeze at. Guess that means we're going to have to come up with name for you."

"Name? But I have a name."

"I mean your superhero name. All the greats have em. Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Spiderman and so on."

"Can't I just be Carrie White?"

"How are you supposed to scare bad guys just going by your real name, it's kinda like a Dread Pirate Roberts kinda thing."

Carrie just looked at him blankly.

"I guess you never got to see The Princess Bride?"

"No."

"I'll hook you up with a copy, you'll love it." Coulson told her as she snickered slightly.

"It's strange." Carrie said.

"What is?"

"According to everything that I was ever taught as a Christian, Thor and all of his kin were nothing but pagan myths to be discounted and shunned as blasphemy. And today I had a conversation with one." Carrie explained as she and Coulson shared a smile at the thought.

"Well, Thor isn't technically a God, just a being that is part of an advanced race from another realm. Sure considering his strength, powers and longevity it's no small wonder that ancient humans worshipped them as gods. But all preconceived notions aside, he's still a good man, a good hero, and a good friend."

"You know him?"

"Yep."

"Wow."

"And now that you know him do you still think he's blasphemous?"

"No, well…maybe some of the things I was thinking about when I was standing near him maybe." She said as she blushed slightly.

"Yeah, you and apparently every other female on the planet, even Skye and May."

"Yeah, but I'm not supposed to be thinking abut things like that!" She blustered somewhat embarrassingly.

"Christian or not you're still human aren't you. And full of raging teenage hormones no less, I think God would understand." Coulson reassured her.

"So what's next?"

"How about some physical training?"

"Huh, what for?"

"To help you cope with the strain that using your powers has on your body. I can schedule you for a regular cardiovascular exercise regime as well as some basic self defense courses for good measure."

"Sounds good, when will I start?"

"As soon as we get back to the facility if you like?"

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Location: S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.

Within a private communications room onboard the helicarrier, Director Nick Fury was in a conference with the World Security Council.

"So let me see if we've got this straight. You purposely omitted important Intel about the nature of the mission assigned to Coulson's team just so you could test the capabilities of an unstable telekinetic teenager guilty of mass murder against an otherworldly creature that could have killed hundreds?" One of the council members spoke.

"Pretty much yea." Fury said rather casually.

"We could have you court marshaled for this Director." A second chimed in.

"You could, but then again you said the same thing about New York too."

"This is different. She's a killer." A third added.

"Well, I don't know about you, but if a bunch of jack holes showed up at my prom and killed my date I think I'd go postal too."

"Do you think this is funny Director, that this is some kind of joke?" A fourth representative asked.

"Not at all, and I think Carrie White's performance proves my point."

"And what point is that?"

"That she could be a valuable asset…if given a chance to prove herself. She isn't the first troubled meta that we've dealt with. Way I see it, she deserves the same chance that everyone else got."

"But it was Thor that actually killed the beast, not Carrie White."

"True, but she held the monster at bay long enough for everyone to be evacuated and even saved Thor from it so he could strike the killing blow."

"You should have let the team handle it."

"With all due respect to Coulson and his team, it would have killed them all and both you and I know that. The way I see it, there was no other way this could have gone down."

After that there was a long pause as the council members stopped and looked at each other.

"Alright, we'll give you and this…Carrie White a pass…this time." One of the council members said.

"But don't let something like this happen again, is that understood?" Another told him.

"Understood." Fury agreed as the view screens went dark.