"ACHOO!" Danielle sneezed and the vase sitting at the coffee table was knocked over. "ACHOO!" She sneezed again and the coffee mug Sharon had just filled her morning drink in spontaneously exploded, causing glass and coffee to spill all over the counter. This had been continuing for a few days since Danielle returned from Thanksgiving Break at the Compound. Whether it was from her Eris Outbreak or the fact that it was November in New York and she just had a minor cold, Sharon wasn't sure.
"And you're saying she's just been sneezing all day?" Steve asked on the other line of the phone call Sharon was making while Danielle continued to sneeze as she curled up on the couch. Many of the accessories in the room falling or breaking each time she sneezed.
"Not to mention, coughing, sniffling, and the occasional barfing in the toilet every so often." Sharon replied as she paced behind the couch. "I already called into work for the day to keep an eye on her."
"How bad is it?" He asked.
"She's..." Danielle sneezed again in the background causing Sharon to wince when she heard a loud crashing sound. "Well, maybe you should see it for yourselves..."
There was a pause before Steve replied. "Tony and Dr. Cho will be there in ten minutes."
"I'll keep the door unlocked."
"ACHOO!" Crash.
"And Steve, please tell them to hurry."
Thankfully, Dr. Cho and Tony arrived in a whopping seven minutes. They were staying at the Tower when Steve had sent a distress message to them and were able to take the Stak Industries chopper to fly out to a nearby skyscraper and take a car down the road to try and refrain from giving away the location of where Sharon and Danielle were living.
When they did get there, Sharon greeted them at the door. "Doctor Cho, Tony." She opened the door and allowed the two to come inside, but the pair paused and stared in awe at the mess of a living room. Sharon grimaced. "Yeah...it's kind of bad."
"ACHOO!" Danielle sneezed followed by a crash, yelp, and groan. "Sharon, I need another soup bowl!" Danielle called from down the hall. "And some tissues please!"
"Her sneezing is causing her to break things?" Tony asked.
"Is it because of the incident during the break?" Cho wondered as they made heir way through the broken glass and knocked over furniture to get to Danielle's room.
Sharon shrugged. "I'm not sure. She's never had a fever or even allergies since she's been staying with me."
"Hey, Danielle?" Tony knocked on her door upon entering the messy room with Dr. Cho and Sharon.
Danielle sat up slightly in her bed. Taking one good look at her, Tony and Cho knew she was just sick. Her skin was a pale sickly color, her eyes had red bags, and her nose was beet red. She saw Tony and Dr. Cho and immediately threw an incredulous look at Sharon. "You called Tony and Dr. Cho?"
"Well, actually she called Steve who called us." Tony corrected.
"You called Steve?" Danielle groaned before falling back onto her pillow.
"Complaining about Steve? Oh, yeah. She's definitely sick." Tony quipped.
"ACHOO!" Danielle sneezed causing a picture of Wanda, Pietro, Jack, and herself to fall off her vanity. She gasped and jolted upright and held a hand out to catch the photo with her powers. Thankfully, she was able to catch it and set it back on the vanity before it hit the floor. She sighed and sat back in her bed, but she didn't get to celebrate for long when a tickle began to rise in her throat. "ACHOO!" She sneezed causing her small snow globe on her desk to fall and crash on the floor.
Dr. Cho chuckled. "I think it's just a common cold. You can try to give her regular cold and cough medicine and...maybe keep breakable things out of a two yard length of her." She instructed. "If it escalates, then call us."
Danielle sneezed causing another thing to fall. Sharon winced before nodding. "Thank you, Dr. Cho, Tony."
"Yeah, no problem, Agent 13." Tony replied. "By the way, are you free Saturday night at any given time?"
Sharon raised an eyebrow. "Yes, why?"
"Great, so is Steve. Put him out of his misery, get him out of my hair, and help everyone out by just agreeing to go on a date." Tony practically begged.
Danielle laughed as Sharon glared at the eccentric billionaire. "I'm sure Steve will ask me on a date when we both feel comfortable. But thank you for trying, Tony. And thank you for coming at such short notice for Danielle."
Tony turned back to face Danielle who was smiling nonstop. "No problem, Agent. Get better soon, kid."
"Bye, Tony. Better luck next time." She called from her spot on her bed.
Tony laughed. "Damn right, kiddo. See, she agrees you and Steve need to hurry up and get together already."
Sharon shot a glare to Danielle. "Don't encourage him, Danielle."
She shrugged. "Sorry, Sharon. Steve's a sad lonely soldier. He needs a partner in crime."
Tony laughed and laughed as Sharon blushed. "I'm poisoning your chicken noodle soup, Missy." She said before turning to Dr. Cho. "Would you like me to show you out?" Dr cho agreed before the two women started for the door.
Tony, however, stuck around in Danielle's room. "Heard about what happened over break." He told her as he took a seat on the edge of her bed. Danielle tucked her face slightly under the covers, and Tony could see the guilt in her eyes. "Wanna talk about it?"
"You actually care?" She wondered.
"Of course I care. I pay for your...well, everything." Tony exclaimed. "Plus, you seemed really shaken up about it and I know a thing or two about being afraid of what you can be capable of."
"You do?"
"Remember Ultron?"
"You mean the homicidal AI that broke me out of the HYDRA base and made me nearly kill you along with the rest of the team?" She asked with a small smirk.
"Yeah, that one." Tony replied causing Danielle to laugh a bit. "Well, did he ever mention that I created him?"
"He said he hated you, but I didn't know you created him." She replied.
"Believe me when I tell you, it's scary being afraid of what your own mind can cause. You're afraid to make so much as a bowl of cereal. Or sometimes hesitate when using your mind for good. But you can't help yourself, can you? Because your power and mind is apart of you."
Danielle nodded. "Sometimes I look in the mirror and see a flash of gold in my eyes. I go to sleep at nights and see the damage I've caused. I feel her constantly waiting for me to lose control to break free of the cage I built for her. Steve... I..."
"What about Steve?"
"I made a mistake, Tony..." Danielle bowed her head. "I asked Steve to promise me that if Eris ever got out, if I ever lost control, that he would have to kill me in order to stop her. But...he cares too much for me to make that sacrifice. Tony, please, he can't do it and if he can't, then you have to."
"You trust me enough to kill you?"
"I trust you enough to make up for your mistakes by saving everyone else from me."
"That bad, huh?"
"My file." Danielle lifted her gaze to meet his. "My file HYDRA kept on me. They should have documented what she's capable of."
Tony nodded. "I'll look into it." He started to stand up when Danielle called after him.
"And Tony, can you try to convince him?"
Tony shook his head. "I can't do that. You'll have to do that. In a non-deadly way. Sorry, kid."
"Thank you."
"No problem. Just, get well. Jack says 'hi' by the way. He told me you ignored him the rest of break. Should probably give him a call, answer his texts. Steve too, we don't need him getting a stroke because you're ignoring him."
"Steve can't get a stroke."
"He's old enough. You may just trigger it." He joked. "But seriously. If Sharon doesn't put him out of his misery, you at least should."
Danielle nodded. "I'll think about it."
"Hey, look at that." Tony said as he started to the door. "You haven't sneezed in over three minutes. My presence is already getting you back to your normal self."
"Don't get too cocky, your helmet may not be able to fit into the Iron Man helmet next time you put it on."
"I'll make it fit." He replied. "See ya, kid." He called before heading out of the room into the hallway.
Danielle heard a few small goodbyes before the front door shut and Sharon returned a few minutes later with a steaming bowl of chicken noodle soup. Danielle blew on it for a few moments before looking up at Sharon. "You didn't poison it, did you?"
After a few days of suffering and cleaning after Danielle got better, she returned to school where everyone was hyping up about the Winter Formal. It became a popular topic and Liz, Betty, Cindy, and Sally talked about nothing else.
"I haven't even decided which dress to wear yet." Betty complained as she picked at her granola on her lunch tray.
"Who are you going with?" Cindy asked.
"I thought about just going with Jason, but maybe we could all go as a group." She suggested.
Cindy nodded as did Sally. "Liz? Danielle?"
Liz smiled and nodded. "Sounds fun. Danielle?"
Danielle shrugged. "What's a Winter Formal again?"
The girls giggled. "It's a dance." Sally said once the laughter passed.
"It's her first dance, guys now we have to go together." Cindy exclaimed.
"Alright, it's settled." Betty concluded. "Now we just need to get Danielle a dress"
"I-I don't even know if I can go." Danielle said. "When is it anyways?"
"Next Saturday night." Liz answered.
Danielle looked down at her lunch tray. "Yeah, no, I can't go."
"Why not?" Sally asked.
"I-I'm visiting my family that weekend. In Northern New York again."
"You can't get out of it this weekend?" Liz pleaded.
Danielle shook her head and pursed her lips. "I'm sorry. Maybe another dance." She stood up as the bell rang and started to her next class.
After school, she was on her way to the subway when Peter ran into ate beside her as she crossed the football field. "Hey, Elle."
She jumped slightly at his sudden appearance. "Hi, Peter."
"Hey, I didn't get to ask you on the subway this morning, but how was your break?" He asked.
"Um, it was...same old same old, I guess. Yours?"
Peter frowned slightly. "It was kind of difficult. My Aunt May and I's first Thanksgiving since Uncle Ben died."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
Peter shrugged. "It wasn't your fault."
"It wasn't your fault either, Peter." She assured him. "You wanna talk about it?"
Peter quickly shook his head. "No, I actually have to catch the bus to go...across town."
"Oh." She said simply. "Then why are you walking to the subway? The bus is the other way." She pointed out.
"I-I just wanted to...talk. I guess."
"About?"
"The, uh, the Winter Formal's coming up," Peter started, but stopped when he saw Danielle's obviously uncomfortable expression. "What? Is it something I...said?"
"No, no, no. It's just... I can't go." She explained. "Family trip back to Northern New York and all. Are you going?"
Peter averted his gaze to his feet as they walked. "Um...no. I've got...stuff to do that Saturday."
"Looks like we're both kind of busy then, huh?"
Peter nodded. "Yeah, we'll, it was nice talking. I've gotta go catch the bus now."
"Be safe. I'll see you tomorrow." She waved as he turned on his heel and headed off in the opposite direction. For some reason, a large sense of guilt and sadness filled her as if she'd done something wrong during her conversation with Peter. But what?
As Danielle stood on the subway, her phone buzzed in her back pocket. When she fished it out, she read she had another unread text from Steve along with another text from Liz. The one from Liz came first; 'Decathlon meeting tomorrow afternoon.'
Steve's text made Danielle weary to even read. He had been trying to call and message her the past few days since the incident at the Compound and despite what she had told Tony about putting him out of his misery, she still wasn't ready to talk to him yet. But it seemed she would have to face him soon. 'Urgent meeting at the compound this Saturday'.
The next day, Danielle counted down the hours until the Decathlon meeting. When it finally arrived, she was greeted with open arms to the team. Everyone from the football game was there including Mr. Harrington who sat at the very end of the table in the library with the rest of the team. "Liz, would you do the honors of calling our meeting to order?" He asked the team captain.
Liz nodded as she stood from her seat and knocked on her binder. "Alright, everyone. I now officially call the last Midtown High School Academic Decathlon meeting of the first semester." Everyone around the table gave a small applause as Liz sat back down.
"Thank you, Liz." Mr. Harrington said before gesturing to the girl at the end of the table seated between Michelle and Peter. "And welcome to the team Miss Danielle West." A small applause for Danielle from the team before attention was called back to Harrington. "Alright, we have one more teammate meaning we have quite the advantage this year for Regionals coming up in January. Then if we win Regionals, we can go to State in April. And if we win to State-"
"We got to Nationals!" Abe exclaimed causing the team to cheer and laugh.
"In D.C." Cindy added. "The Capital of our Nation."
"Isn't the place still trashed from Captain America's SHIELD take down last year?" Flash asked. Danielle shifted in her chair at the mention of Steve. She'd have to ask him, Sam, and Natasha about what happened in D.C. She also had to remember to maybe ask Sharon about it too.
"It's only damaged where those giant flying boats crashed at SHIELD's old headquarters." Ned explained.
"Guys," Liz cut into the conversation. "Let's focus on Regionals before we get ahead of ourselves." Everyone quieted down and nodded. "Now, our last practice tests revealed our strongest subnet and our weakest subjects. One of the hardest hitting subjects are Elements, Astronomy, Psychology, Algebra, Geometry, and Anatomy. The weakest subjects are Languages, History, Literature, Engineering, and Philiosphy. So, due to our new additions we've decided to switch out our alternatives with the results of our last tests. Meaning, Flash, you've moved to alternate and Danielle you've become a main team member. Congrats."
Danielle's jaw fell slightly as the team applauded. Flash looked beyond angry, but Danielle didn't care. She was too busy basking in the way Peter looked at her with admiration as he pay her arm lightly. "Told you you didn't need to study, Elle."
She rolled her eyes slightly and looked down at the table as she fiddled with her fingers. "Thanks." She said simply.
"Now to working to get those language stats up..." Mr. Harrington carried on throw out the rest of the meeting that Friday afternoon. Danielle had realized how long the meeting was actually getting carried out until her phone was buzzing on the desk in front of her while her Peter, Michelle, Ned, and Abe were all practicing on square roots.
"Uh, Danielle?" Ned caught her attention. "Steve...is calling." He pointed to the phone on the table.
Danielle quickly grabbed it before Ned had the chance to look at the contact photo of Steve wearing an Iron Man helmet for Halloween that year. The helmet was closed, but his muscles were still in the shot and she didn't want anything to even get them suspicious. She quickly stood up and backed away from the table. "Um, I have to take this. Be right back." She said before she walked to the corner of the library to answer the call. "Steve, now's not a good time."
"Danielle, where are you?" He replied.
"What do you mean 'where am I'? I told Sharon I had Decathlon meeting." She answered.
"For how long?"
"Um, until seven." Danielle answered. "I thought Sharon told you all of this. I wouldn't be at the Compound until maybe ten tonight."
"Didn't you get my text about the meeting?"
"Well, yeah-"
"Danielle, it's urgent. We're calling you in."
"Now?" She asked wearily as she watched the rest of the team work from a distance.
"Yes, Danielle. Now."
Just when she thought she was normal, things like this had to happen. Because she had to face it, she wasn't, nor would she ever be, normal. "Alright, I'll be there in five."
"How are you going to do that? Happy is here at the Compound with Tony already."
"I teleport, remember?" She whispered into the receiver. "Now if you want me there in five, I need to go."
"Alright, be safe."
"Okay." She answered before the call ended and she walked back to the table.
As soon as she returned, Michelle already had a game of twenty one questions going for her. "Who's Steve?"
"A secret boyfriend, West?" Abe wriggled his eyebrows.
"He's my...caretaker." She replied awkwardly. Ned and Peter snickered at Abe's obvious discomfort. "Um, I have to leave." She said as she sung her bag over her shoulder. "Sorry about this. My family has had an emergency occur and I need to leave. Tell Mr. Harrington and Liz what happened. I'll see you guys Monday." She explained quickly as she headed out of the library, but the moment she stepped out of the door she didn't walk into the school hallway, she walked into the Compound conference room where the team was currently sitting around the large table. All eyes were on her the moment she walked into the door. "What was so urgent?" She asked.
Steve met her gaze before turning to Tony who stood in front of the large screen at the front of the room. "I got those files you asked me for." He explained. "I think you might want to take a look at them."
Danielle didn't argue as she took the remaining seat at the end of the table as Tony clicked on the first file footage. It opened with Strucker inside of a glass room with four other agents and a man crying on his knees in front of him. On the other side of the glass were two armored agents beside to figures tied down to white lab chairs. Danielle immediately recognized the scene. It was the first time she had ever been exposed to the Sceptor that was being held in one of the armored agents' hands. That was her and her brother tied to the lab chairs.
"No! Please! They're my children!" Danielle heard her father beg and sob. "I promise! I will continue to work on other people, but not them. Please."
Strucker smiled a bit and leaned down to his height. "I'm sorry, Dr. Harper, but consequences must go into play." Danielle watched as an armored soldier holding the Sceptor nside the glass made his way towards Jack. "HYDRA does not tolerate weaknesses." He stood back up and nodded to the soldier inside the glass.
The soldier walked over and pressed the Sceptor into Jack's chest and out pressure onto the handle. "NO!" Danielle's dad tried to run at the glass, but the soldiers on his side held him down.
A bright yellow light appeared within him as Jack's screams filled the glass room. He kicked and thrashed as the yellow light and crackles of electricity erupted within him. "MOM! DAD!" He cried out.
Next to him, the camera showed a small ten year old Danielle crying as she watched her brother suffer through immense pain. "STOP IT!" She shouted at the man with the Sceptor. During real time in the Compound conference room, Jack had already bowed his head, unable to watch. Danielle, however, kept her eyes focused up. She watched with a blank expression. She'd lived these memories in her nightmares so much it was like she was in a loop.
After Jack was finished, Strucker gestured to Danielle. Jack was knocked unconscious from the pain he endured and had never seen his sister undergo her experiments. He lifted his head up from the table in real time to watch as the armored soldier walked to his sister to press the tip of the Sceptor into her chest. The yellow light erupted in her chest and Danielle let out a blood curdling scream. Wanda flinched from her seat beside Steve and Danielle was sure she saw everyone else in the room wince slightly as she cried and screamed, pleaded and begged for death.
"NO!" Her father cried on the video and sunk to the ground as the man removed the Sceptor from her chest. Everyone in the conference room, however, noticed that unlike Jack, Danielle had stayed awake after her experiments and was tryi to calm her breathing as her eyes remained open. Bright gold shone from her irises as she stared at the ceiling. She was so encaptured in her trance, Danielle on the screen didn't witness her father being shot by Strucker on the other side of the glass. The gunshot rang out and the video ended.
The next one started up. It was at the Sokovia base this time. Jack was nowhere to be seen on the other side of the glass wall, only Danielle. She was handcuffed to a metal table and sat on a chair. She was looking down at her hands and her hair blocked the view of her face. Strucker entered the camera view on the other side of the glass. "Miss Harper, good afternoon. How are you this evening?" She was silent and Strucker continued. "I'm aware that your powers have been made present to you as has your father's death. I'm very sorry for your loss." No response. "I'm also very upset to inform you of your mother's demise." Danielle on the screen's head shot up then. "Yes, we sent in our best men to kill her after we kidnapped you and your brother. Very sorry, but you're an orphan now. Don't worry, we'll take care of you."
Danielle on the video screen looked aggressive. Her hands were shaking on the top of the table and she closed her eyes. It looked like she was calming herself down, but when her eyes reopened they were glowing gold like the first video. The handcuffs on her wrist vanished into dust and the table in front of her was thrown into the wall with such force it was like an elephant had rammed into it. The chair she was seated on was thrown with just as much force as she stood up and walked to the glass window.
The camera showed Strucker panicking along with the rest of his scientists as they rushed to try and subdue her. Danielle looked at them with a wicked grin on the screen. Her eyes still gold as she said, "You'll take care of me? Really? You?" She scoffed. "You act like a false god, but you have no idea of what's to come. Me? I'm your worst nightmare." Her grin fell as she threw a hand forward. The glass seperating them flew back into a million pieces and the soldiers lineup to shoot at her. The bullets richoted off an invisible shield and with a simple flick of her wrist, Danielle watched as all the men groaned and cried out in pain as they clutched their heads and fell to the ground. With a closer examination in the video, the men looked as if they were having seizures. How had she done that? Danielle wasn't even sure how Eris had even given them seizures.
The video then fast forwarded to where the soldiers capture her and subdue her with a shock collar that keeps her from using her powers. Then the screen went black and all eyes in the conference room were on Danielle. "Now you know the dangers of her, how do you plan on stoping her?" She prompted the team.
"We don't." Steve replied. "We plan on helping you kill her from within."
"And how do you expect to accomplish that?" Jack spoke up.
"Eris is inside Danielle's head, right?" Tony asked. "She comes from your power?" Danielle nodded. "What if we defeated her from the inside? That way you didn't have to get hurt."
"It would be very difficult." Vision exclaimed. "Hypothetically, Eris is a personality that resulted from Danielle's power. A power so great that it had the ability to create a. Mind of it's own. What you're suggesting is to cut out the tumor in her brain, when really zeros is like the other half of the brain. Cutting it out would ultimately kill the whole brain."
"What if we got Danielle to control the entire brain? What would that take?" Steve prompted.
"It would all depend on her own strength." The android replied.
"I'm not strong enough." Danielle exclaimed.
"You held up an entire meteor the size of a city." Sam said.
"And I nearly killed my brother just last week because of the dent it left in the cage I trapped her in all those years ago."
"You trapped her in a cage?" Natasha asked.
Danielle nodded. "Like you saw in the video, Eris used to make herself known through my rage. Even the sourest break in my mental stability and she was able to take control. I had to trap her in a cage inside my mind to where she only ever is free when I strain my power usage."
"Like in the training room." Rhodey chimed.
"Exactly."
"If you're strong enough to put her in the cage, then you're strong enough to disable her all together, right?" Sam asked.
"I didn't put her in the cage alone." Danielle's gaze fell onto Wanda.
Wanda shifted uncomfortably in her seat as all eyes fell on her. "With Wanda's help-" Tony started, but Wanda cut him off.
"I can't do it." She exclaimed. "My power... I'm only able to project someone's fear..make them see things and have a slight telepathic connection, but tamper with someone's actual mind... I've only ever tried it once with Eris and she..." She shuddered and trailed off.
The team picked up on how all three young enhanced shuddered and looked down at the table in front of them. "She what?" Steve prompted.
Wanda took a deep breath before meeting the Captain's gaze. "I didn't get inside her mind...she got inside mine."
"How is she even able to do that?" Rhodey asked. "Danielle's power is telekinesis, not telepathy."
"Then how do you explain the seizure gang back on the video?" Natasha retorted.
"Colonel Rhodes isn't wrong about Danielle's telekinetic power. But on a scale, if Eris is a more advanced version of Danielle who has unlocked her full power capabilities already, then theoretically she would be able to move things inside a person's body. The seizures were most likely caused by rapid vibrations Eris caused inside the brains."
"And the Wanda-mind-intrusion?" Sam asked.
"Maybe Eris has slight telepathy of her own." Jack shrugged.
"Which makes her even more dangerous." Danielle muttered.
"Maybe we don't send Wanda into her mind." Tony said. "What if we sent you inside your own mind to lock her up?"
"What do you mean?"
"You said she only gains control when you lose it?" Danielle nodded. "What if you're always in control? You become as powerful as her to the point where you don't need to worry about losing control."
"It's not a bad idea." Natasha shrugged.
"How do you suggest I do that?" Danielle asked. "I'm out of control almost all the time. Just this week I had a cold and was knocking things over throughout the entire apartment."
"More practice. With enough of that, you'd be in complete control and be able to never have Eris as a problem again." Steve said with determination. "Are you willing to try?"
Danielle nodded. "But only on one condition." She looked up to the entire team. "I've already made this offer to both Tony and Steve, but if this doesn't work. If despite all the work we put in and Eris gets out, you all have to try your absolute best to stop her. And if that means killing me to stop her, do it. Understood?"
No one protested and no one answered. The silence was broken when Natasha spoke, "I think we're in agreement."
Danielle let out a small smile. "Good. And also...Um, this may be a really terrible time to say this, but I'm going to a Winter Formal next Saturday and was wondering what I should wear..."
Wanda immediately gasped. "You're going to your first school dance, Dani?"
"With a boy?" Jack demanded.
"Yes to Wanda, no to Jack." Danielle answered.
"Who are you going with?" Natasha asked.
"My group of friends."
"Does that group of friends include a boy?" Jack asked.
"Enough about boys, Jack." Danielle replied.
"He does bring up a good point," Sam piped up. "Will there be a boy involved."
"No. No boys." Danielle assured everyone and was pretty sure she heard Steve sigh in relief from beside her. "Now, can I please get some sleep before you hound me with anymore questions? Teleporting and reliving my terrible childhood makes me tired."
"Goodnight, Danielle." Steve dismissed her.
"Night everyone." She said as she took her backpack from the side of the conference room table and teleported to her room where she fell asleep as soon as she hit the pillow. That night, she didn't get much sleep as the screams of the ones Eris had killed and the screams of her brother and father in the first video echoed in her nightmares. Steve may or may not have checked in on her and heard the small whimpers from her as she slept, but decided against saying anything until another time when everything wasn't this tense.
Silencer had been called in by Rumlow for the first time since she declined assassinating Captain Steve Rogers a week ago. She made her way into the rundown office building she had visited before and noted the upgraded security detail of HYDRA agents with heavy duty armor and machine guns lining the halls and standing outside his workshop door. When she entered, Rumlow's back was turned to her as he worked on his suit.
"You called for me?" She spoke as she stood just a few yards in front of the door.
"I did." He replied as he turned to face her. "For this." He tossed a familiar file onto the desk between them and met her eyes.
Silencer looked down at the file and looked back at Rumlow. "I already declined the assignment." She told him sternly.
"You don't get to decline, Silencer. I saved you, you do this for me! It's your job!" He stood up and raised his voice, but she didn't even flinch.
"Then you should have killed me when you had the chance, Rumlow." She spat back. "I'm not killing Rogers for you. Final say."
Rumlow chuckled humorlessly. "You think you have a choice anymore, Alice?"
Silencer raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"
Rumlow sighed before he jerked his head towards one of the agents beside the door. He stepped forward and threw a smaller file onto the desk in front of her. Silencer took one look at the set of images in front of her and all blood drained from her face as her heart fell to the floor. "You are going to kill Steve Rogers for me, Alice. Because if you don't, now you know I can put a bullet in those kids' heads at any time." He hissed in a low tone as the Silencer held up the three photos. One was of Danielle Harper, Jack Harper, and the one they called Scarlet Witch walking around the Coney Island Boardwalk in broad daylight. The second image was of Danielle sitting at the top of some school bleachers laughing with a brunette boy. And the third of Jack standing beside a large window at the Avengers Compound standing beside Tony Stark.
"What's the time line?" The Silencer asked in a shaky breath.
"You have as long as it takes, but if it doesn't get done, I'm coming for those kids and then you're next." Rumlow said as he shut the photos of the Harper children and slid her the file on Steve Rogers. "I'd suggest you prep yourself for the flight out to New York, Alice."
Silencer didn't reply as she took the file on Steve and quickly walked out of the room and out of the building. She had work to do.
A/N: More angst on Eris and awkward talks with Peter and Danielle. Also, a bit of Tony and Danielle bonding. Here is an early chapter because I can. Enjoy.
Side note: I'VE MADE A PLAYLIST FOR THIS STORY. It's called 'Migraine Playlist' and my channel name is 'Seemed Like A Good Idea'. Here are the songs so far:
1. Für Elise covered by Hidden Citizens [Danielle's theme song]
2. Unforgivable by Hidden Citizens [The song for the first Battle of Sokovia]
3. Sentenced To Death by Powerful Action Hybrid [The song for the Avengers v. Team Ultron in African Boatyard scene]
4. Neptune by 2WEI [The song for Danielle lifting Sokovia Meteor]
5. First Step by Hans Zimmer [The first song Danielle plays on the piano at the Compound]
6. Sirens by Cher Lloyd [Danielle's new life at the Compound theme]
7. Waving Through A Window covered by Owl City [Danielle and Peter's theme song for when they hang out on the subway or study on the bleachers]
8. You Make Me Feel... by Cobra Starship ft. Sabi [Highschool Party Theme]
9. I Wanna Get Betted by Bleachers [The song Danielle and Jack sing on the car ride to the airport]
9. Young & Beautiful (Acapella) by Lana Del Rey [The theme for the childhood home exploration]
10. Tongue Tied by Grouplove [The Football Game Theme]
11. You, Me, And The City by Josh Tobias [Peter and Danielle's song for walking through the city to their houses after the game]
12. Rollercoaster by Bleachers [Danielle, Wanda, and Jack's Coney Island Birthday Theme]
13. Sledgehammer by Rihanna [Eris's breakthrough song]
14. Blue In My Eyes by NLSN [Eris meeting song theme]
Have fun listening to it all.
Incorrect Quote of the Chapter:
Tony: Where's Peter?
Danielle: *clears throat* It's Wednesday my dudes!
Peter: *in the distance* iiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOO
Danielle: Found him.
