"Please Don't Be Angry. I Didn't Mean any Harm."
I know for sure that Seraphine can interact with technology. Based on the video that I just saw of her hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files, she can probably control technology too, which would explain how she can hack into otherwise practically unhackable systems like JARVIS. I know for a fact that JARVIS changes his own security encryptions and firewalls every hour. He also changes said encryptions and makes new ones when someone other than me is trying to get access to his system.
In the few minutes Seraphine and Coulson have been here, Seraphine re-wrote JARVIS security protocols to give Coulson access to the private elevators and the Penthouse. She gave JARVIS a language upgrade to include sign language so he could translate her trying to communicating with me, and took control of the holographic monitors to write to me using them. I'm sure that she has control of JARVIS since Coulson entered the Lobby, which would explain why JARVIS didn't say anything to me about her and didn't warn me about his security protocols being overwritten until only a few moments before the door of the elevator opened to reveal Coulson inside.
JARVIS didn't realize anything was wrong until Coulson was entering the elevator without any restrictions in a clear violation of his security protocol. JARVIS probably still doesn't know that he is being controlled. No wonder the pirate doesn't want Seraphine anywhere near his S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base. That is a very impressive ability, and if it weren't for the fact that Mystic trust her and she is worried that S.H.I.E.L.D. will use her for their own purpose, I would be alarmingly concerned right now. Mystic trusts Seraphine, and more importantly, she loves her. That means that I trust Seraphine too. I know that Seraphine isn't trying to be malicious or doing anything that could harm me, JARVIS, or Stark industry in any way.
Seraphine must have sensed I just realized that she has been controlling Jarvis because she pointed to a Starkpad that is on the holographic table. When I picked it up, she had written, "please don't be angry. I didn't mean any harm."
"I'm not angry with you. Why didn't you tell me about it from the beginning? Why did you asked for access to my systems if you already have access to them? You are controlling my AI," I wrote on the pad aware of the fact that she is probably trying to hide this conversation from Coulson.
"I knew you would realize that I'm inside your system, and I can control JARVIS if I showed you the video. I was scared you wouldn't trust me if I told you about my ability to control technology. Other than my Khalilahs, you are the only person that hasn't treated me like a thing, a tool, or a weapon, something to be used. I didn't want to upset you. I haven't accessed any files, and won't give any information that you show me to anyone." I sighed.
"I trust your word that you won't share any information you see in any of my files with anyone other than me or JARVIS. Next time, tell me about something like this. I promise that I won't get angry if you tell me about it. I understand how it feels for people to try to use you to their own advantage, and I won't do that to you. If I ever want something from you, I will ask you first. I'm going to try my hardest to earn, keep, and not betray your trust, but that means that you have to do the same with me. You aren't the only one who has problems with others treating you different because of what you are. I have completely forgotten what it is for someone to be genuinely interested and want to get to know Tony Stark the person. You are one of the very few people that have done that, and I can count them with one hand. I think we have a lot in common." I wrote back to her.
Seraphine stared at me for a moment as if contemplating saying something and then wrote. "I have something else to show you, but I think that you will be scared of me and won't like me anymore once you see it. I would like to interact with JARVIS a little more. Can I stay with you tonight? I can return to S.H.I.E.L.D. in the morning. I don't think Director Fury wants me near his computer system more than necessary."
"That's perfect. I was going to ask you to stay so I could ask you some more questions about you and about the files Coulson brought me. I don't think that anything you show me is going to change my mind about you so don't worry about it." I said to her, and she smiled.
"I agreed to help the Avengers, take Loki into custody, and locate the Tesseract, but after that, I don't trust the Director not try to capture me or try to control me in some way. I saw the way he looked at me. He thinks of me as a weapon. They think I'm an AI and may look for a way to try to reprogram me to follow the Director's orders. However, my decisions are my own. The only one I take orders from is my Khalilah, and even then, I can choose to disregard her orders if I find a good reason not to agree with them. My Khalilah doesn't like to order me to do things. She would ask me if I want to do something unless it's really important, or she is worried about something that she thinks affects my well-being. I can't be programmed or be made to do anything I don't want to do."
So, she already thinks that the Director doesn't have the best intentions towards her. She is right about that. After the whole thing with this Loki guy is over, S.H.I.E.L.D. is most probably going to turn its attention to her and try to get her into their custody by any means necessary wherever she is willing or not. I have to get her away from them.
"Don't worry. I will get Coulson to let you stay. You don't have to go back to them if you don't want. You can stay here in the tower as long as you like." I wrote.
No way I will let the Pirate get his hands on her. Once he realizes that he can't control her and she starts to show signs of not wanting to follow his orders, he is going to have her captured and try to kill her and dissect her. They are going to want to study her to try to reverse engineer her so that they can attempt to make more of her. Mystic only told me that she is worried S.H.I.E.L.D. would try to get Seraphine to do unethical stuff. She told me Seraphine isn't in danger from them. How can Mystic not be worried about S.H.I.E.L.D. trying to control or harm Seraphine? Mystic must know about the danger that Seraphine is in if she stays with S.H.I.E.L.D. So, why isn't she worried about it? Unless "other than the ability to interact with technology and control it, what other abilities do you have?"
"You will be scared of me once you know what else I can do." She said again to me.
Coulson told me she is dangerous. I know that there must be a good reason why Mystic isn't worried about Seraphine being in danger from S.H.I.E.L.D. Mystic is confident that Seraphine can take care of herself, which in turn means that Seraphine is very dangerous. Dangerous enough that a whole secret intelligence organization full of highly trained dangerous people and all sorts of very advanced weapons and technology isn't a threat to her. Whatever Seraphine's powers are, they are extremely dangerous, which is confirmed by her saying that I will be scared of her once I find out about what she can do. She is scared I will reject her because that's probably the reaction she normally gets.
"I won't." I wrote to her after a few seconds.
She pointed to the monitor she was previously using and showed me a man dressed in a green and gold leather outfit with a wickedly dangerous-looking stuff with a sharp curved blade and a blue gem embedded on the blade. The man was throwing blue energy blasts and killing Agents while dodging and reflecting bullets like they were annoying flies. The video then stopped and started again to show a zoomed in the image of the same man, but this time he was moving around and trying to hit with the stuff an object that was cutting him repeatedly so fast that the only thing visible of the object was a blurry streak and the cuts being made.
"Ooh wow. I guess you weren't kidding when you said you were created to be able to cut through almost anything. You forgot to mention that you are unbelievably fast. Those are really impressive moves you got there, kiddo." I said to her smiling and impressed.
If she is expecting me to recoil in terror from her now, then she is going to be very disappointed. The tiny doll can pack a lot of damage. No wonder the Pirate is so interested in her. Hell, a few years back I would have been interested in the same thing the Pirate wants with her too. Thank god, I'm not like that anymore. Now, I can't even stomach the idea of Seraphine being used in any way like that. Before Afghanistan, I really was a spoiled son of a bitch. How could Mystic even stand me for so many years? Seraphine is a child. No matter how dangerous or powerful she may be, she is a kid, and she is a good kid. She only wants to help and do good things. I won't let S.H.I.E.L.D. or anyone else take advantage of her or hurt her. Now I understand why Mystic asked me to keep her safe even though she knows Seraphine is more than capable of protecting herself.
I smiled widely at her and said. "Now I really need to meet these creators of yours, if they can make someone as amazing as you, then I want to learn some pointers from them."
She smiled at me genuinely and happy and wrote: "I'm sure my Khalila and Master Totosai will like you."
"You have to introduce us sometime in the future," I replied back to her not missing a beat.
Then, I turned to Coulson and said to him, "so, Agent now that you are sure that Seraphine and I are not going to kill each other or cause another global disaster worse than the one S.H.I.E.L.D. wants to prevent right now, can she stay here tonight? I promise that I will be on my best behavior and not annoy her, too much that is. I will be busy studying the notes and the files you gave me to do that anyway."
"Seraphine, would you like to stay with Stark? you can go back now with me if that is what you want." He said to her. She nodded her head twice.
"The Director will be Ok with that, but he asked me that if she decides to stay here tonight that she needs to return to the Hellicarrier with you tomorrow if you accept to help us capture Loki. If you don't accept he said for you to contact me in the morning so I can pick her up and return with her to the Hellicarrier. You need to contact me no later than 7:00 AM if that is the case. The Director also wants for Seraphine's existence to be kept a secret and for you not to mention anything about her to anyone including the others Avengers until we had confirmation of the location of the Tesseract. Loki knows about Seraphine, but he will believe that she is back to being inactive and hibernating if he doesn't see her or hear the others mention anything about her if we encounter him before we can locate the Tesseract." He said to me.