A/N: Early chapter because I wanted to just get it out. Plus, I fell like you deserve it after the major cliff hanger I left you guys on last chapter. So, enjoy.


Peter watched as Danielle quickly dashed from the Cafeteria where the Winter Formal was taking place. Only moments ago she was in his arms slow dancing to some song he didn't know, now she was running said her life depended on her getting somewhere. Peter felt the hair on his back go up. Something was wrong.

Without thinking, he ran after her. He wasn't sure how she managed to run so fast in those heels she was wearing, but he couldn't catch up other until he turned the corner to a hallway and caught her running out the back door leading to the side of the school. He tried to catch up, but as soon as he burst out the door, she was gone. As if she had vanished into thin air. He ran out into the street and looked left and right. She was truly gone. But where?

The Compound.

Danielle had teleported from outside the school and immediately reappeared in her room back at the Compound. She whipped her head back and forth, slightly breathless from having to run across the entirety of her school's hallways. Something was wrong, Danielle felt it. The lights throughout the main living area were out, but the lights down the hall entering the office section had just flickered from red to regular white. It seemed like the attack was over, but Danielle needed to know if everyone was alright.

She made her way towards the downstairs area, but as she turned a corner, she saw the damage done. It wasn't immense damage, like she'd thought, only a dent in the wall here and a cracked window there. It seemed the only damage done was in this hallway. Was it just one person infiltrating the Compound? If so, who? But the most important question ringing in her mind was if everyone was alright.

She made her way past the cleaning crew and the rest of the damage to where she spotted Maria Hill talking with another agent. "Maria?" She called as she walked over.

Maria instantly spotted her and panic flashed in her eyes. "Danielle," She turned away from the agent she was talking to as the young teen approach. "What are you doing here?"

"Sharon texted me saying the Compound was being infiltrated." She explained. "What happened?"

"We caught the attacker-"

"Is everyone alright?"

"A few bumps and bruises, but the team's fine."

"Where are they?"

"They're in the interrogation room-" She didn't finish before Danielle was quickly walking off. "No, Danielle. Wait-"

Danielle had already teleported to the second floor before Maria could stop her. She made her way through the second floor halls until she came into the waiting room just outside the interrogation room. Wanda and Vision were standing outside, conversing silently with troublesome looks on their faces. They hadn't spotted Danielle until the clicking of her heels notified them of her approaching. And when they did finally spot her, the same panic Danielle saw in Maria's eyes ignited in theirs. "Dani, you can't go inside." Wanda started as she held her back by her shoulders.

"Why?" Danielle asked in confusion. "What's going on? Where is everyone?"

"They're inside interrogating the attacker and have requested we let them handle it." Vision explained calmly.

Danielle understood why Vision and Wanda be kept outside, they were new recruits on the team, as was she. But so was Jack. Where was he? "Where's my brother?"

"He's in the restroom." Wanda answered, but something felt off. She answered too quickly, Danielle thought. "We can go get something to eat downstairs, I'm starving. How about you?"

Danielle didn't want to fight with Wanda. She knew they couldn't keep her in the dark forever. She simply nodded and let Vision and Wanda lead her to the cafeteria downstairs. All the agents seemed to be working on the infiltration clean up leaving the Compound cafeteria near empty. Wanda was able to fish out a few of the workers to make them a couple of sandwiches with chips and a soda to eat while they waited.

"So, how was the Winter Formal?" Wanda asked as they ate their food.

Danielle sensed Wanda's nervousness as her words came out slightly rushed. She was trying to avoid the biggest elephant in the room and wasn't doing. Very good job with it. "Um, it was fun. I was only there for an hour and a half."

"Sorry you had to leave early." Wanda apologized.

Danielle nodded as the group fell into quietness. Vision was the one to break it by saying, "I believe this is what people would call an 'awkward silence'."

Danielle smirked slightly. "Yeah." Wanda bowed her head and tried to be preoccupied with digging a chip from the bag in front of her. "Wanda, what's going on? Something's wrong and you're keeping it from me. We never keep secrets from each other."

Wanda frowned and looked up at her. "Danielle, we were told not to tell you anything. I'm only keeping secrets to protect you." She admit.

Danielle's eyes widened slightly. "Who told you not to tell me anything?" Wanda didn't answer, so Danielle turned to the android. "Vision?"

"Captain Rogers thought it best if you were kept out of the matter of who infiltrated the Compound." He replied.

Steve was keeping her in the dark? Now Danielle definitely knew something was wrong. "Why?"

"Because of your affiliation with them."

Danielle turned to face Wanda who had a guilty look on her face. She knew something. "Where's my brother?" She repeated her question from earlier on in the night.

"Danielle," Wanda tried as she felt the nerves rising within Danielle.

"Where's Jack?" She pressed on as she began to stand from the table.

"Danielle, please." She tried again, but the teen was already running from the cafeteria. "Danielle!" Wanda jumped from her seat and ran after her. "Danielle, wait!" As Wanda turned a corner, Danielle vanished. Vision was at her side in a moment's notice. "Come on." She told the android as they ran to the stair case nearby.

Meanwhile, Danielle had already teleported to the interrogation room. She walked over to the door just as Sam and Rhodey were walking out. Danielle noted the bruises and black eyes the two had just as they noted her presence. Panic, again. "Danielle, hey." Sam tried to slowly shut the door behind them. "What are you doing-?"

"Save it." She said harshly before pushing past them into the room. Jack, Tony, and Natasha jumped from their seats at Danielle's entrance. "Jack?"

"Danielle?" He muttered as he walked over and positioned himself to stand in front of her, blocking her view from whatever Tony, Natasha, and him had been looking at on the other side of the glass. "You can't be in here. Where's Wanda?"

"She's back in the cafeteria." Danielle answered as she looked at her brother in confusion. "What's going on here? Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine, but you can't be in here-" He tried to push her out of the room slowly, but she was persistent.

"Where's Steve? Why doesn't he want me in here?" Danielle pushed her brother back.

"Danielle, please, I'll explain everything later. Just go back out-"

"No!" She snapped and pushed him forcefully away from her. Her view into the glass behind him became clear and her heart stopped literally. On the other side of the glass sitting handcuffed behind a metal table being interrogated by Steve was someone she'd never thought she'd see again. Someone who had died with her old life. Someone who had died with her father... Her mother.

She looked different, but the same. She had longer more fuller hair, curled at the ends. Her face was thinner, burner eyes were the same beautiful brown. She was more muscular than she remembered, but she knew that the woman inside that room was truly her mother. But how?

Before Danielle had time to fully process this, she was being pulled out of the room by Jack.

"No." Danielle tried to push back as her eyes remained glued on her mother inside the room. "No! Jack, stop it! It's her! It's Mom!" She tried to fight back as tears sprang from her eyes. Sam and Rhodey quickly ran in to try and pull her outside the room as Jack tried to block her view of their mother in the interrogation room. "No, let me go! You can't do this! Jack! Mom! MOM!" She cried out just before Sam, Jack, and Rhodey were finally able to corral her out of the room and shut the door behind them.


"Allison Harper." Captain Steve Rogers, the man Alice had been sent to kill, began as he stood in front to her in the bright, sterile interrogation room at the Compound she had broken into half an hour ago. After her son having seen her, they sedated her and threw her in here where she was handcuffed to the metal table in front of her and sat down in chair to be questioned. "You're supposed to be dead." The Captain said sternly as he stared her down with his blue eyes.

"Dead?" Alice gaped. "I was kidnapped by HYDRA almost four years ago and trained to be a cold blooded killer."

"And did you?" Captain Rogers prompted as he crossed his arms. "Kill people for HYDRA?"

Alice sat up in her chair to glare up at him. "After they trained me, they sent me out to kill. I, of course, refused at first...but after they told me that they'd killed Henrik and threatened to kill Jack and Danielle if I didn't do what they said..." She looked down at the handcuffs around her wrists and shook her head. "I did anything and everything they asked of me. I killed, tortured, spied on, leaked information to. They named it, I did it. So, yes, I killed for them and I hated very second of it. But you don't have kids, Captain, so you don't know." She looked up at him, anger fueling her words. "They held a gun to my babies' heads, and you can be damn sure that I did everything I could to make sure they didn't pull the trigger."

Steve listened to this pained mother tell her story and felt a twinge of anger at her words stating he didn't have kids. He'd practically taken in Danielle and Jack and knew how she felt. During missions if Jack was in trouble, he did everything he could to get him to safety. Whenever Danielle had snuck off with her brother to Slovakia, he did everything in his power to find and track her down. He knew why she killed, but there were still questions to be answered for. "HYDRA fell a year and a half ago. What we're you going in that time?"

Alice let out a humorless laugh. "You think just because you knock their paper airplanes out of the sky and expose them to the rest of the world that they're all gone? Well, I'm sorry to tell you this, Captain, but they're still very much alive. After D.C, lots of the top shots in HYDRA went underground, taking me with them."

"How'd you escape?"

"HYDRA didn't need to have a tight leash on me, they had an anchor tying me to them. They knew if they had them, they had me. So, they let me roam. They sent me unaccompanied to do their dirty work." She explained. "But a couple of weeks ago, I saw an image on a newspaper clipping of Jack in Sokovia a few months ago. I knew wherever he was, his sister couldn't be too far away. Sure enough, I saw the hero they called Eris in images in Sokovia as well. She was wearing a mask, but I'd recognize my baby girl anywhere. They said on the news they were the new Avengers, meaning they were safe from HYDRA. That's when I made my escape to come find them."

"It doesn't explain how you managed to find our facility."

"I have contacts. I'm an assassin and spy after all."

"Well, you're still going to have to answer for how you managed to take down some of the most highly trained agents in the world along with two military war veterans, a fellow deadly assassin, and almost myself."

"My mentor taught me well."

"Does that mentor have a name?"

"No...only an assigned one HYDRA gave him, but I don't even know if he's alive anymore. He disappeared after D.C."

Something in Steve clicked when she said all that. Could it have been? "The Winter Soldier?" He asked.

Alice looked up at him in surprise. "Yes... How'd you know that?"

"We've run into him before." He answered gruffly. He was learning a lot new things about his best friend's brainwashed life with HYDRA that he wasn't sure he wanted to know. "You said he disappeared after D.C.?"

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything? I just came to see my kids, now where are they?"

"I'm afraid I can't let you see them right now."

"You can't let me see my own kids?" She asked as anger began to grow within her. "I don't know who you think you are to them, but I am their mother. And no matter how much you try, you can't keep them from me. Now, where are Jack and Danielle?"

"MOM!" A faint cry came from the other side of the glass on the side of the room. Steve and Alice's heads instantly turned to that direction.

"Danielle?" Alice called out as she sat up in her chair.

"Stay put." Steve ordered as he quickly moved to the door.

"That's my daughter out there!" She protested as she stood from her seat.

"I said stay put!" He repeated before rushing out of the door, slamming it behind him as he left. Once he walked into the separate room he caught a glimpse of Sam, Rhodey, and Jack pushing Danielle out of the room. "What happened? What's she doing here?" He asked Natasha and Tony as he started to the second door.

"She pushed past Sam and Rhodes, caught a glimpse of Mrs. Harper in there, and went ape shit." Tony explained.

"Watch her." Steve told Nat before he walked out into the hallway where Sam, Rhodey, Jack, Wanda, and Vision tried to calm down Danielle who was trying to push past them to get into the interrogation room.

"Move, Jack! That's our mother in there!" She cried as she tried to push past him.

"We don't know at for sure, Dani. Just let us handle this!" Her brother true do calm her down as Wanda held her from behind.

"No! Let me see her!"

"Danielle." Steve spoke up as he walked over. The crowd dispersed and she stopped struggling against Wanda's grip. "Sam, Vision, Rhodey." He cocked his head back to the room and the three men walked back leaving him, Wanda, Jack, and the teenage girl in her dance dress still. "Danielle, you need to calm down."

"My Mom, who has been dead for almost four years, is sitting in that room right now." She retorted. "Explain to me where in this equation I'm supposed to calm down."

"I understand you want to see her, but we can't let you. Not until we know everything."

Danielle stated at him with an incredulous look. "She's my mom and she's alive. That's all you need to know." She stated before she used her powers to push the trio back before running back into the interrogation room. She pushed past the group inside and quickly rushed into the second door to stand before her mother.

Alice's head snapped up as she stated into the eyes of her daughter for the first time in four years. "Danielle?" She stood to her feet.

"Mom?" Danielle croaked.

"Oh, sweetheart." Alice moved to give her a hug, but the chain on the handcuffs pulled her back.

Danielle looked down and with a flick of her wrist, the handcuffs flung off. "Mom!" She cried before running into Alice's open arms.

"My baby, you're alright. You're okay." She cooed into Danielle's hair as she cried into her mother's chest. "I've been so worried."

"Where were you?" Danielle asked as she pulled away to look her in the eyes. "We thought you were dead. They told us they killed you."

"No, honey." Alice assured her as she wiped away the years coming down Danielle's cheeks. "They kidnapped me and made me do bad things to good people, but I only did it to keep you and your brother safe. And now you are and we're free from them." Alice pulled Danielle back into a hug. "No one will ever hurt you and your brother again."

"Dani!" Jack shouted as he entered the room to see his Mom and Danielle hugging.

Alice lifted her head up and saw Jack in the light for the first time since he and Rogers had apprehended her. "Jack?"

"Mom?" Jack had the same reaction Danielle did as he moved to wrap both his mother and sister in his arms. He was taller than his mom now and was able to lift the two both off the ground in a bear hug. Danielle, Alice, and Jack all laughed through the tears as he set them all down. "I'd never thought I'd see you again." Jack told his mother.

"I'm never leaving your side ever again, baby. You don't need to worry about that anymore." She told him as she brushed a piece of his long brown hair from his face and ran her other hand through Danielle's long brown curls.

Alice pulled her children in for another hug just as Captain Rogers and Tony Stark entered the room. They had obviously been waiting to enter for a while and probably had discussed what they were to do next about Alice. Rogers cleared his throat, gaining the trio's attention. Danielle and Jack hugged their mother tighter as they looked to the two men. "Don't take her away, Steve, please." Danielle begged.

Rogers's expression softened as he looked down at the girl. "We're not taking her away." He assured them. "But we are offering her a place to stay. She's your Mom, and she's welcome to stay here with you for as long as she wants."

"Seriously?" Jack asked in awe, a smile spreading across his face. Tony Stark nodded in confirmation causing the siblings to laugh and hug Alice's torso tighter. "Awesome!" Jack exclaimed.

"We have a room ready for you back in the main living area." Stark exclaimed as he gestured the way out of the room. "This way."

The kids released Alice, but stayed close as they followed Stark and Rogers out of the room. But it didn't escape Alice's notice when Danielle hugged Steve tightly and murmured, "Thank you." before following after them. Alice wasn't sure how to feel. Grateful her kids were taken care of or scared that Danielle and Jack had such a close relationship to the man she was assigned to kill. She had a plan, and she had to stick with it. This was only step one. She knew if she didn't complete the assignment, not only would she be dead, but her children too. And she couldn't risk that. Not at all. Not ever.

That night, the Harper family slept inside Alice's new room. It was near empty besides a bed, desk, and television, but the kids insisted on staying with her. They slept soundly except for when Alice snuck out of the room to where Jack and Danielle had shown her where the kitchen was to get a glass of water.

She was silently looking out the large windows lining the walls when Steve approached. "Couldn't sleep?"

She spun around to face him and slightly stiffened. She felt uncomfortable being alone with a man she had to kill in a few weeks time. She wasn't sure how to act, but she tried her best to act completely natural as she shook her head and replied, "No. You?"

"Kind of hard to sleep right now." He replied.

Alice sighed. "I know it's probably hard for you to trust me. To you, I was dead only a few hours ago, but I'm not here for HYDRA. Or for anyone." She assured him. "I'm here for my kids." Though some people may have believed her words to be untrue based on on her true intentions, they weren't false. In fact, they couldn't have been more true. Alice didn't kill for HYDRA. She did it for the safety of her children and that was it.

"Danielle and Jack trust you, I guess I have to learn to trust you too." He sighed.

"Your relationship with them is strong, I assume."

Steve nodded. "I feel like they're my kids in a way too."

"Thank you." She said earnestly. "For taking care of them when I couldn't."

"My pleasure, ma'am."

"Please," She shook her head and chuckled. "It's Alice."

"Alice." He corrected with a friendly smile.

She stared at him, the two smiling at each other for quite some time before she finally turned back to look out the window, finishing off her glass of water. "I should go back to the room before the kids wake up without me there."

Steve nodded. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." She said, walking to the kitchen to dispose of the glass before heading back to the room where she crawled back in bed beside her two children. She slept soundly the rest of the night knowing her kids were back in her grasp. But the small sting in the back of her mind reminded her that they weren't safe. Not until Steve Rogers was dead. And nothing would keep her from her mission.


A/N: DUN DUN DUN... I'm not sure if anyone actually predicted their Mom coming back or not or even Silencer being their Mom, but if you did, great job. This is going to cause some serious problems all the way up until Civil War. So, be prepared... MWHAHAHAHA.

Song for this chapter is; Coming Home Pt. II by Skylar Grey

Notes on reviews:

PondLake: I know, weren't we all enjoying a little bit of Peter snd Danielle bonding? Expect more in the next few chapters. A smidge next chapter, but not a whole lot. But the chapter after that is lots of bonding.

Incorrect Quote of the Chapter:

Steve: Swear words are illegal now. If you say one, you'll be fined.

Dani: Heck.

Steve: You're on thin fucking ice.

Dani: ...

Steve: ...

Steve: Oh no...