Rebecca found Fury on the bridge in the control room, standing up where he usually did, right by the table all of them first met at. She walked up to him confidently, anger in her eyes, and she make her presence known for him to turn around and see her standing behind him.

''What-''

''Phase 2, huh?'' she cut him off. ''Working on a big idea, are we?''

Fury sighed. ''Now is not the time-''

''No, the time would have been when I first agreed to work with you on this. Analyzing the Tesseract to record it's power and energy levels, helping to maintain the effect it would have if used improperly. But that's not even what I was doing, was I?'' she asked him. ''You had me hand over that information thinking that you were trying to help the world, you made me believe I was helping and making a difference when really I was just assisting you in making everything worse.''

''Phase 2 is not up for discussion.'' Fury told her. ''I don't know how you found out or what code you violated to get this information, but we are not talking about this now.''

Rebecca shook her head. ''You don't get to make that decision.''

''Oh I most certainly do.''

''Director Fury, I think we need to talk.'' Steve spoke up, walking over to them.

Fury sighed again, running his hand over his face. ''Captain, this is not the time for a discussion.''

''With all due respect director, I think we all need to have a discussion.'' Steve told him. ''There's been issues with the way we're all working and I don't think anyone's happy with how things are going, especially with how much has been happening behind our backs.''

''What's going on behind your backs doesn't concern any of you. You were brought here for one purpose, everything else is Shield's business, no one else's.'' Fury explained to them. ''Things would work a whole lot better if you would all focus on what you were called in for.''

''Things would work a whole lot better if we knew what we're helping you with. Getting that Tesseract back isn't so you just 'protect' it, it's so you can use it.'' Rebecca spoke up.

''This is not the time Miss Stark.'' Fury told her, his hands on his hips.

''I think it is.'' Tony's voice came from behind them. He stood with his arms folded in front of them, the others standing around him as an alliance.

Moments later, they all made their way back to the lab where all the information on the Tesseract was, just so they could easily call out Fury if he tried to deny what he was doing. Tony had all of Shield's files there, there was no way he could escape the fact of what he was planning to do. They forwarded into the room, forming a circle for them all to speak.

''Why didn't you tell us about the weapons?'' Steve asked, being the team's leader once again.

''These weapons have not been created, there's nothing to talk about.'' he defended.

''The only reason they haven't been created is because the Tesseract was taken before you could.'' Rebecca scoffed. ''Otherwise you would be pilfering all the energy into those weapons all thanks to me analyzing them under the impression you were actually doing something useful.''

Fury looked around the room, and there were no signs of support from the others except Maria Hill, who was professional as always and stood back until the situation called for her to intervene. He didn't know how to handle them yet, and right now his focus was getting there Tesseract back, not discussing confidential information with people who were already against him for what he was trying to do.

''Shield does intend to protect the Tesseract.'' he told them.

''What I wanna know, is why Shield is using the Tesseract to make weapons of mass destruction.'' Bruce pointed out, becoming frustrated.

Fury had had enough. ''Because of him!'' he pointed toward Thor, who was standing off to the side.

Thor looked back at him innocently, pointing back at himself for confirmation. ''Me?''

''Last year, Earth had a visit from another planet that had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned.'' Fury explained, referring to when Thor first arrived on Earth the previous year and Loki had caused destruction to New Mexico.

''My people want nothing but peace with your planet!'' Thor informed him, angered that Fury would blame him after he had already felt so much guilt for his brother's actions against Earth.

''You're not the only threat.'' Fury told him. ''The world is filling up with people that can't be matched, that can't be controlled!''

''Like you control the cube?'' Steve asked.

Rebecca looked back and forth around the room, watching as everyone else had the same expression on their face, anger. Anger that things had gotten so out of hand so quickly, and anger that they still weren't getting anywhere, still arguing.

''Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it... and his allies. It is a signal to the Realm that Earth is ready for a higher form of war!'' Thor explained.

''Higher form?'' Steve asked, wondering what could possibly be higher than what he had already seen.

''He forced our hand. We had to-''

''Nuclear deterrent.'' Tony cut in. '''cause that always calms everything down.''

Fury turned to Tony. ''Explain to me again how you made your fortune Stark.''

''I'm sure if he still made weapons Stark would be knee deep-'' Steve began, and was cut off by Tony once again.

''Wait a sec, hold on. How is this about me now?'' Tony asked.

Steve gave him a look. ''I'm sorry, isn't everything?''

''I thought humans were more evolved than this.'' Thor commented, angry to see them all arguing like this.

''Excuse me, do we come to your planet and blow stuff up?'' Fury asked.

''Are boys really that naive?'' Natasha asked, watching them argue. ''Shield monitors potential threats.''

''Captain America is on threat watch?'' Bruce asked.

Natasha looked over to him. ''We all are.''

Tony saw his chance and took it, turning to Steve. ''You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?''

Steve shook his head. ''I swear, Stark, one more wisecrack out of you-''

''Verbal threat! Threatening! I'm being threatened!'' Tony whined.

Rebecca stood back as they all argued, folding her arms. Here were all these adults who were supposed to be mature and work things out, and instead they were arguing like a bunch of high school kids over nothing. She knew that this was a big deal, but lately all they done was argue and it never solved anything and for once she would like to work on something and fix it instead of all this arguing.

''Are you all finished?'' she raised her voice to go over theirs, staring at them as they all turned to her. ''Feel better now? Got it all out? Because if not, please continue by all means, we'll just wait for the Tesseract to come to us instead, that'll work.''

They all looked down at the ground, avoiding eye contact with each other as they thought about what they were doing. This wasn't going to solve anything, but they each had a whole lot of anger that they needed to get out and that happened to be on each other. They felt ashamed of their arguing, but they couldn't help it, tensions were so high, they needed to get away from each other for a while.

Steve was the first to leave, nodding toward Rebecca as an apology before he disappeared from the lab. Natasha folded her arms and left the room without speaking or looking to anyone else, heading back to the control room to monitor. Thor stood quietly, and so did Bruce. Nothing was said, and they all looked between each other before Fury finally spoke.

''I need to speak with you two.'' Fury looked between Tony and Rebecca.

Rebecca shook her head. ''No.''

''Excuse me?''

''You heard me.''

Tony looked back to Rebecca, a little shocked that she would speak to Fury like that. Not that he blamed her, she had every right to stand her ground after all the childishness she had put up with from them and after all that Shield had Fury put them through that day. Bruce stood back awkwardly, sliding on his glasses and looking back to his work. Thor walked over to the screens near Rebecca's desk and looked at all of the images of the Tesseract and other sketches.

Fury sighed. ''Believe me, this is important.''

''I honestly don't believe a word that you say anymore.'' Rebecca scoffed. ''You'll have to explain what 'important' is.''

''I don't think you want to talk about this here.'' Fury gestured over to Bruce and Thor.

''No. If you have something to say, just say it, stop hiding things for once.'' Rebecca fought back.

Fury considered it, and realized the only way he would actually get her to listen was just coming out and saying what it was, even though he could anticipate her reaction, and it wouldn't be pleasant, but he told her anyway.

''It's about your mother.''

Rebecca's face dropped, shocked at what he said. There was disbelief rushing through her that this could be happening. The phone call this morning was enough to send her into complete shock for a week, always reliving the conversation she overheard of Katherine and her father, but now it was coming back as if she couldn't escape it.


''So, as you know, your mother was contacted by men under Loki's manipulation.'' Fury spoke to Rebecca as she and Tony sat in his office. ''Loki must have organized all of this before we got to him, which means he knew about you long before you knew about him.''

Rebecca nodded. ''I...still don't understand what you're telling me.''

Fury looked over to Tony, dreading his reaction. ''We thought you should know that we have to question her about her visit. She has information that might be vital, and we need all we can get at this point.''

Tony's eyes widened and he tensed up. ''You're not serious, right?'' he asked, and Fury looked back at him with a serious expression. ''What are you thinking? Why are you involving her?''

''Loki involved her. That was his plan from the beginning, to cause a rift between whoever he could. He's gotten to all of us, and he just happened to hit the jackpot by involving this one woman.''

Rebecca looked up at him, her eyes narrowing. ''When?''

''In about ten minutes.'' Fury told her honestly.

Tony did a double take. ''W- she's here?''

Fury nodded. ''This operation is top secret, we can't risk going to her, we had her brought in.''

Tony sat back in his chair, running his hands through his hair. ''I can't believe this.''

Rebecca shook her head. ''I don't want to see her.''

Fury nodded. ''I understand, which is why I thought it best to tell you now to avoid any unwanted meetings. I know your relationship is-''

''No,'' Rebecca held her hand up. ''You don't know, so please don't pretend you do.''

Tony looked over to Fury with a warning glare, and then back to Rebecca. ''Look, you don't have to deal with this, we can go-''

''No! I'm staying here and doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm not leaving because she's here.'' Rebecca explained. ''I'm going back to lab to work, I don't want to be involved, just do what you have to do and let me know when she's gone.''

Rebecca stood up and left the room, leaving a silence lingering between Fury and Tony as neither one of them were willing to speak first. Tony was furious, but he was sure Fury already knew that. Fury didn't want to cause something between them all once again, especially since he knew this was what Loki had planned from the beginning, but this was standard procedure and just because of the history and meaning that this woman holds with Tony and Rebecca doesn't mean Shield can ignore the fact that she has information that they need.

''You should have told me first.'' Tony muttered.

Fury sighed. ''Well I'm getting so much pressure to be as honest as I can lately, I didn't know why I should hide this from the one person it affects the most.''

Tony grumbled. ''Why has she got to be involved? Why her?''

''Loki knew how to get to you and Rebecca, he knew about you both before you met. This was his plan, to get inside all of our minds and pull out things that he knew would put us on edge and distract us from what was important, finding the Tesseract.''

''Yeah? Well right now I don't give a damn about the Tesseract when that woman is here.''

''I assure you, once the questioning is over, she will be gone.''

Tony stood up, making his way back to the lab as well. ''She better be.''


Rebecca never made it back to the lab. It was her intention, but on the way she seen an empty room and went inside, needing a moment to herself to grasp what was going on. Her mother was back in her life whether she wanted it or not, and although it wasn't a big part, she was still here and that scared Rebecca more than she was aware of. Having the woman that abandoned her in the same area as her was frightening, because she knew they were so close, but miles apart.

She hated her mother, truly hated her for what she had done and how much pain she had caused. Rebecca didn't want to make up with her mother and share memories together, she wanted her to know just how much trouble she had caused and how pained Rebecca had been through her life knowing that her mother didn't want anything to do with her. Talking to her mother seemed like a horrible idea that made her stomach churn, but Rebecca knew this was her only chance, and then she would never see her again. She needed Katherine to know about her, about what she had done. If there was one thing Rebecca regretted about her mother, it was not finding her and letting her know how much she had given up. She wanted her to know that Rebecca was happy without her, that Tony had done an extraordinary job raising her on her own and she didn't need her at all. This was her one and only chance to say everything that had been on her mind for fourteen years that she never thought she would be able to say, and she swore to herself that she would make herself proud and stand up to her mother.

''Come on, you can do it.'' Rebecca spoke to herself in whispered, pep talking herself into walking out of the room.

She thought of everything she ever wanted to tell her mother, and all the questions she stayed up late at night thinking of, and now it was time. Now she would finally prove to her mother just how mature she was and how grown up she had become. She wanted to show her mother that she didn't need her, that Tony was the perfect father to her, and that she didn't want anything to do with her. Rebecca took a deep breath, and after almost half an hour in the empty conference room convincing herself, she walked out in search of the woman who abandoned her, finally ready to face her.


Ah, hope you all liked that! So next chapter will have a lot of things I know you all have been wondering for the past two stories I've written and I thought I would finally explain some things so you all know. It's been quite the build up, but I'll finally have Rebecca and Katherine face to face and speaking about things and who knows that to expect. Thanks for reading and please review! x