Chapter One: Welcome to SHIELD

Katherine Pierce had, had a rough couple of months.

After Elena Gilbert had forced the cure down her throat she had run away as fast as she could and settled down temporarily in an assortment of little towns in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kansas.

She had traveled by bus, by foot, and occasionally with the occasional truck driver who would leer at her and smell of deep fried fish and fries while he chattered on about his dog and his parakeet. She had taken an large amount of cash from the bank before she had been turned, but never in a million years she had though she would use it. She was now saving every penny.

Katherine even refused to look at herself in the mirror, she noticed that children often gaped at her in these streets in horror, and she couldn't exactly blame them. She looked as if she were part of a horror film.

Her hair was a messy, tangled mess, she hadn't worn makeup in weeks, and her current outfit of choice was baggy jeans and an old Elvis t-shirt. She looked like she belong in the streets.

The situation hadn't exactly bettered when she found out that she had pissed off a lot of people. Namely people, who weren't afraid to kick her ass until she was black and blue.

She desperately wanted to crawl into the nearest corner and cry her eyes out.

She had tried damn it, she had tried everything in her power to make sure that she turn back into a vampire, but so far nothing had worked. She had tried the traditional method, but all she had received was a bad head ache. She talked to other vampires, witches, anyone that could help her out but they all had the same response for her, I'm sorry there is nothing we can do.

Katherine Pierce was human, Truly human with no exit out. She was living in her own nightmare.


The cool breeze felt good on Katherine's sweaty face. Next to her the truck driver who had been kind enough to give her a ride was blabbing on and on about his third wife Paula, Peyton? She honestly couldn't remember, while Katharine ignored him and tried not to feel as if she hadn't shower in three days.

She couldn't believe that she was finally in New York city, her destination. She had an old vampire "friend" you could say in the city who might be able to help her out for a few days. She only had about a hundred dollars in her wallet and unless she wanted to starve to death, she had to find a place to stay.

"Here's good," she said suddenly to Charlie, the truck driver. She was still a good three miles outside of the city, but honestly she couldn't take any more of Charlie's insane talking.

"Are you sure?" Charlie frowned, disappointed to see her go.

"Yep, positive." Katherine didn't look back as she slammed the door. A soon as she started walking she wanted to cry out. Her feet hurt. She had been running so much that her feet had blisters, but maybe it was her fault for insisting on wearing heels.

She was just a few miles outside of New York when a black car pulled in next to her. She stopped and looked on quizzically as several cars did the same. A man wearing dark sunglasses approached her, holding up a badge. "Miss Katherine Pierce?"

"Yes," Katherine nodded uneasily. What now?

"I'm Phil Coulson," Phil said kindly. "I would like you to come with us for a few minutes. I just want to ask you a few questions."

Run, that was what Katherine's instincts told her. Run like hell. She didn't trust this guy with glasses nor any of his dark suits friends.

"I'm going to have to pass," she said dryly as she prepared to turn around, but she found a red headed woman with sharp green eyes blocking her way. She shrugged. "You choose the hard way, sorry."

With the quickest reflexes that Katherine had ever seen in a human she injected Katherine with a strange liquid. She tried to fight back, but they kept a tight grip on her. Her vision blurred and then everything turned black.


"A vampire," Tony Stark snorted, rolling his eyes as he stared at Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner as if they had just said that bunnies talked. "You're kidding right? So you're telling me that Dracula is going to work with us?"

"Former vampire," Bruce corrected, ever the diplomat. "Fury told us that she was given some cure that made her permanently human."

Steve frowned. He had been born in the forties a time where there wasn't anything supernatural and only the unexplainable could be explained by God. Though his feelings had changed ever since aliens had attacked New York and two gods had come to earth. "How old is she?"

"Um," Bruce looked down at the file of KATHERINE PIERCE that Fury had given them and that no one had bothered to read. "Close to six hundred years."

"Hey, cap," Tony slapped him on the back. "She could totally be your girlfriend, you're like ninety, what's a few centuries?"

Steve threw him a dirty glare. "She's going to be our new teammate Tony. The poor girl is probably scared, we should welcome her, not sexually harass her."

"Another woman on the Avengers," Thor said cheerfully. "A friend for Lady Natasha, what joy, our team is growing."

Tony rolled his eyes. "Yeah, Natasha doesn't make friends, besides Barton is like her little sex toy she surely doesn't need-"

"TONY!" Steve roared blushing. "Don't. Talk. About. Stuff. Like. That."

Tony smirked as he opened his phone and started texting.

"Thor, how is your brother doing?" Bruce asked hoping to switch the conversation. Loki was currently under security. Exile, was most likely and currently probably plotting their destruction.

Thor sighed. "My brother is being as stubborn as ever, hopefully this time in. . .exile will be good for him."


"Are you awake, Miss Pierce?" a voice barked.

Katherine slowly opened her eyes and found herself staring at a man with an eye patch and a black trench coat who probably had never smiled in his life. Next to him was the woman that had put her to sleep and a blond hair man who had a boyish smile on his face.

"Miss Pierce, are you awake?" he said impatiently.

"I heard you the first time," she said annoyed.

"Then why aren't you answering?" he snapped back.

The blond guy chuckled. "Geez, Fury cut the girl some slack, Nat put a sleeping dart on her she's barely waking up."

Katherine grimaced.

"Clint Barton."

"Natasha Romanoff," Natasha said. "Sorry about the dart, I wasn't sure how much restraint you were going to put up."

"Katherine Pierce and believe me I'm not exactly in the mood," she looked down and noticed that her hands were tied up. "Can you. . ."

Fury raised an eyebrow.

"I wont run away." she said annoyed.

"Fine,"

Natasha took off the restraints. Katherine relaxed a little. "What do you want with me? I haven't done anything."

"SHIELD specializes in finding information about the unknowns for the sake of the world. As you may recall the alien attack a year previer."

Katherine nodded. She had been in Spain during that time.

"And of course anything supernatural," he plucked a file in front of her. It said her name in big bold letter. "I have been trailing you for a long time Miss Pierce, especially in the last decade. We haven't contacted you because you had certain advantages, but now as a human you may be of used to us. You have qualities that I admire in someone who works for me, you're clever and that's good."

"What are you saying?" she kept her brown eyes focused on Fury's eyes, (well, one eye)

"I'm saying Miss Pierce," Fury said. "That we'd like to recruit you as an agent for SHIELD."

-End of Chapter One-

Hope you liked the first chapter, please review! Who should I pair Katherine with, Tony, Loki, or Steve?