This is my first Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D story so please bare with me.
I apologize in advance if any characters are OOC
Disclaimer: I do not own the show or any characters, or anything else that has been heard of before, besides any OCs that appear.
"You're joking right?" May said as she stared at Coulson, trying to control her shaking hands. "Please say you're joking."
Coulson just shook his head. He wasn't joking, he was reading what it said on the page. And it clearly stated in black printing that he, Philip Coulson, was Mei's father. And she, Melinda May, was Mei's mother. Mei.
The girl who came with only three things holding her belongings. The girl who once went and sat in the gym while Skye did her training for sixteen days and just drew in silence, only being accompanied by the sound of fists hitting leather, a pounding heart and heavy breathing. The girl who once bought five sets of dominoes just to knock them down again. The girl once told May that they were all a large family with her and Coulson as the parents.
They were the parents.
Her parents.
May didn't know how long Mei knew for. She must have known for a long time though, having said that. "She once told me that we were all like a large family with me as the mother and you as the father," May told Coulson as she sat down on the chair. She was trying to get herself together. She couldn't break down. Nope.
"Why didn't she tell us?" Coulson asked. "Wait, how long has she known?" May doesn't answer him. Coulson doesn't seem to notice though. "Maybe that is why she wanted to go to New York, to hide away…"
May was staring down at the floor. While Coulson was trying to figure this out, out loud, she was internally. Why would Mei not tell them?
"We need to go to New York," May said suddenly. "We'll take the BUS, just the two of us. Grab Mei, find out what is going on,"
Coulson nodded and took a deep breath. This was going to be a long night.
"Wheels up in an hour"
One day later
After being told about the banquet that Tony was holding, Mei was told she had to attend because she was a resident in the tower, even if it wasn't permanent.
She was going through her backpack, trying to find something for her hair, when her hand hit something at the bottom.
Mei pulled it out and saw it to be her glasses case, which she had forgotten about.
"Mei, are you almost ready- what's that?" Maria looked into the room and saw the girl holding the case.
"My glasses that I never wear," Mei said as she opened the jelly bean pink case and pulled out the glasses. They were stereotypical hipster glasses but with a back frame that the bottom of were mint green.
They matched her mint green, floor length dress perfectly.
"Mei, wear them," Maria said with a smile. Mei nodded and opened them, putting them on. Maria grinned at the girl before helping her braid her hair.
The two then left the room and started down for the banquet room.
When the doors opened and the two were announced she saw Pepper grin at her from the table.
Her dress was mint green and went down to the floor, but from the waist up with was a white lace, while down it was a flowery mint.
The two sat down at the table with the Avengers, but Mei noticed there were two other seats across from them, empty.
"Who's sitting there?" Natasha asked as Tony sat down and the first course was served, soup.
"Two guests that we'll all be happy to see. Their flight was a little late," Tony explained.
Mei looked at him suspiciously but ate a bit of the soup. She wasn't that hungry, but knew there would be a lot of food at this.
They were into the course of salad when the doors opened and quietly, without anyone noticing two people walked into the hall.
"Agent Coulson! May! Glad you could make it," Tony said and Mei struggled to keep her head from popping up. What were they doing there? Well, it had been two weeks, probably coming to get her sorry ass back to the playground.
The two sat down across from them as Mei looked down at her food and suddenly felt aggressively unhungry.
There was some chatter around the table but not a lot, until people were allowed to get up and dance.
"Mei, why don't you teach Cap how to dance?" Tony said jokingly.
"I don't know how to dance," replied Mei as she looked up from her plate and over at Tony.
"We can fail together," Steve said with a shrug as he stood up and helped Mei stand. The two walked out into the group of people dancing, fading out of sight.
Nobody at the table said anything for a few minutes as they all looked for the two in the crowd, but only saw the swoosh of a mint dress once in a while.
"How long have you known?" Coulson asked Maria.
"Yeah," Tony said as he turned to the dark haired woman. "How long have you known he was alive before you told us?"
Coulson and Pepper turned to give Tony a look at the exact same time. "There is a time and place for this conversation, Tony, and this is not one of them." Pepper said as she shook her head. "That goes for you too," she said and looked at Coulson. "You do not have conversations like these in groups of people. That is how rumours spread,"
Coulson sighed but nodded, knowing it was true.
Mei slipped out of the banquet when it was midnight and went back upto the floor to go to bed. She didn't tell anyone, she didn't want to be cornered by Coulson and May
Maybe she was being paranoid, maybe she was being correct. But her idea was that if Coulson and May saw a chance to be alone with her they'd ask her how long she'd known. How she felt about it. If she wanted to call them mom and dad.
She went thirteen years without parents. She wanted them, but could she just accept them coming into her life so quickly? Could she accept being pushed into this never changing life?
She was used to being Mei Sung, a girl who lived with an insanely serious ex-agent, skate boarder, artist, and a girl who didn't let people push her around but was still quiet. Could she become Mei Coulson (or Mei May), a girl with two parent who lives on a secret base and has to go undercover to stop hydra?
Since she was little, Mei never wanted to do anything that involved her working with police, law enforcement, anything to do with a gun. She just wanted to be normal, be an actor or an artist. Skate board, get married, have kids. A normal life.
That didn't seem to be the way things were going though, and the longer they went on the more Mei realized that nothing was going to go back to normal.
She'd always held onto that hope, and now that she realized that it wasn't happening… she didn't know how to feel. She didn't know what to do. There was a feeling or total loss of control, that feeling was not notice. Not at all.