A/N: I normally never leave Author's Notes before chapters, but just wanted to point out the fact that I updated the new cover image for this story... That is all. I'm just proud of it. It took me a few minutes or so because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but eventually I came up with the one you see now. Yeah, that's it. Just wanted to point it out because I'm just so proud of my work.

"What are you even listening to?" Danielle complained as Jack blasted some weird remix from the speakers in the Lab. She just didn't understand his taste in music sometimes.

Jack merely laughed as his sister covered her ears from where she was perched on top of one of the many counters in the Lab. He had convinced her to join him while he worked on one of his many aimless projects he had lined up for the coming months while just waiting for the Accords Committee to call upon what was left of the team to do whatever it was they wanted them to do.

But, Jack tried not to think of it. It was why he decided to work in the Lab to distract himself. And now he had Dani to help him. Or... try to help him. Key word: 'try'.

"What? This is great music," he defended himself with a scrunched up facial expression as if he were judging his younger sibling across the room.

"No, it's not. It's just somebody ruining a perfectly good, and classical song," his sister argued as she continued the task he had assigned her to: cleaning out tools that were either coated in oil, gasoline, or a mixture of other liquidsand oozes that came out of his experiments.

Jack scoffed at his sister's antics. "Oh, please. Like your taste in music is any better."

"Hey!" There was abrupt thud hitting the side of Jack's head. When he glanced down at the floor, he found it to be an empty can of Monster. When he looked up at his sister, she had a smile full of mischief as she stated, "Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, Freddie Mercury, and Lana Del Rey are all legends."

"Freddie Mercury, unquestionably so," Jack agreed as he picked up the can from the floor. "All the other options are... Eh." When his sister scoffed in offense, he took the opportunity to chuck the can back at her. He watched as it hit her side before she ducked and scrambled behind the counter. And the war had begun.

Meanwhile, Pepper and Tony were navigating their way through the Compoumd to the Lab with some company. None of the group could've expected what they walked into.

Once inside, empty energy drink cans were being flung from one side of the Oab to the other. Each time one sibling threw a can from behind a counter or a desk, the other would retaliate by throwing another. The cycle continued and every once in a while, someone would try to move in their position to grab a can on the ground only to get hit by an oncoming can, setting of a chain of laughs, groans, and giggles. All the while, the remix to a Paul Anka song played in the background.

Pepper, Tony, and their guest watched with very different expressions on their faces. Pepper, in shock and horror. Tony tried to hide his amusement and had to stop himself from joining in. While their guest merely smirked at the scene playing before them.

Finally, the one person with their head in straight brought order back to the Lab. "FRIDAY, mute sound," Pepper called out to no one in particular. But, the AI heard and the music abruptly came to a stop. As did the War of Redbull, as it would later be dubbed by Tony after he had FRIDAY send him the recording of the mini-fight between the Harper Siblings. Not even a week back with the little one and already both kids were wreaking havoc and causing chaos in the Compound. Well, they didn't call Danielle the Goddess of Chaos and Discord for nothing, he supposed.

Hesitantly, two heads slowly raised frm behind their hiding spots, looks of embarrassments and short and meaningless apologies crossed their faces as they turned to see who was standing at the Lab entrance.

"Hi, Pepper," Danielle greeted, a grimace in her face as she quickly dropped the empty can of Redbull from her hands and let it drop to the floor with a loud clang in the silent room.

"Hey, Tony," Jack greeted, looking less apologetic and more relaxed. It wasn't like he could get into trouble, the kid was turning 22 next month for Christ's sake. Tony tried and failed to hide his smiles amusement, and instead sent a playful wink his way as if to say 'she may be pissed, but I totally would've joined in'. Jack attempted not to laugh and covered it up with a cough. "So, what brings you down here today?"

"I actually came down here looking for Danielle," Pepper stated matter of factly.

Danielle's eyebrows raised in perplexition, before she turned and exchanged a look of question with her brother. With no way of giving her answers to her unasked question, JE shrugged and they both turned their attention back to Pepper. It was then that Jack noticed the third body positioned behind Pepper and beside Tony. All he could make out was a long leg and crossed arms, but his interest was peaked just from that. "Who's your guest?"

"That's what I'm here to explain, if you two are done playing with aluminum cans," she scolded in a passive aggressive tone that made Danielle and Jack just want to hug her even more.

"Sorry, Pepper," Danielle muttered sheepishly with a bow of her head.

"You're fine," she waved it off. "But, I did want you to meet someone."

"Yeah, remember that French chick I told you Pepper knew that was a possible candidate for taking care of you while you were at school?" Tony asked. Danielle didn't remember, but she nodded nonetheless.

"French? Seriously?" The siblings heard someone mutter from beside Tony.

Jack chuckled as Pepper rolled her eyes. "Well, we brought her here because Jack told us you might've wanted to go back to school. So, we set it all up. Meet your new caretaker, Raelynn Sable."

Just then, the third body positioned behind Pepper stepped out. She was a tall woman with the best posture Danielle had ever seen anyone stand with, and she'd spent a year and a half with Steve. Had a slim, yet muscular build and pale skin with a hint of olive, much like Danielle and Jack had. And then there was her hair. It was long and fluffy, falling into natural, volumous curls over her shoulder, the bangs and stray hairs falling just above her cold, hard set grey eyes. She was the human embodiment of the word mystery and Danielle couldn't decide whether or not to run up and introduce herself or run and hide.

"It's just 'Rae'," the woman corrected, not extending her hand or offering any other greeting aside from that. Definitely a scary woman, Danielle decided right in this moment as she stood before her.

"Rae's going to be taking care of you while you continue going to school," Pepper explained.

"Which means, make sure you stay out of trouble and to make sure you don't accidentally somehow get yourself killed by somehow managing to try and pull a Pop Tart out of the toaster with a spoon," Jack muttered from beside his sister.

Danielle, infuriated, turned towards her brothers with wide eyes. "That was one time," she defended herself with a pout.

Suddenly, the silver-haired woman turned to Pepper and spoke in a different language, something that sounded like French. But what Danielle was most impressed about, aside from how fluent and off the tongue it sounded, she made it look so easy to switch from a complete American accent she had just moments before to an unfamiliar accent that fit perfectly with the words she was saying. The puzzle just kept getting pieces added.

It wasn't long after the woman spoke to the strawberry blonde that Pepper replied in the same tongue, only with less of an accent. No one in the room had a clue what was being exchanged. Dani and Jack merely looked back and forth between the two and between one another. When the pair of siblings turned to Tony for answers, he just had a frown on his face, cleary upset about something going in between the two women. Did he understand a word they were saying?

"Anyway," Pepper returned back to English as her attention was re-diverted to Danielle. "Tony already re-enrolled you back at... Midtown, was it? You start back in half a month, giving you and Jack plenty of time to get to know Rae better, and-"

The silver-haired woman cut Pepper off abruptly, back in the previous language they were speaking in before. Miss Sable was clearly upset and distraught about something the strawberry blonde had said.

A few more words were exchanged before Pepper turned back to Danielle. "Well, turns out you won't be getting to spend a lot of time with Rae until the school year comes around. She's a pretty busy person with a very... demanding job." Danielle and Jack didn't let the hidden meaning behind her words slip. "But, I do hope you eventually get to acquaint yourselves, sooner rather than later." Pepper said, gritting her teeth on the few last words as she looked pointedly at the woman beside her.

Instead of acknowledging the clearly upset CEO of Stark Industries, Raelynn Sanle merely turned to face Danielle and Jack to nod, giving them her final words before taking her leave. "It was nice to meet you both," she said, very little emotion or meaning behind her words as she spoke. "I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks." And with that, the silver-haired woman began to exit the Lab, briefly pausing to exchange a few words with Tony (a conversation that didn't look all too pleasant), before finally vanishing behind the closed door, leaving nothing behind but tension and a lot of unanswered questions.

"Well," Pepper exclaimed, clasping her hands together. "That was about as good as I expected it to be." Jack and Dani exchanged worried expressions, a feeling of uncertainty settling in both of their stomach's at just how weird and standoff-ish Pepper's 'friend' seemed to be.

Neither of them got to think on it for too long though, when Pepper finally glanced around the Lab and noticed what a complete and utter mess the Harper Siblings had made during their little 'Energy Drink War'. She scrunched her nose up in distaste slightly before turning to the pair, "Please clean this place up. It's bad enough when Tony comes down here and somehow manages to form a blockade of fast food bags at the front door–"

"–It was one time!" The billionaire protested from behind her, mimicking Danielle from earlier. Danielle and Jack snickered.

"–But we don't need three slobs trashing the place, then having to bring the cleaning staff down here to clean up the mess before you decide to perform more mad science experiments down here," Pepper exclaimed in a tone that made Danielle think of a mother or perhaps a strict Aunt. She was sort of maternal at times, but sometimes Danielle thought it might've had something to do with the fact that she had had to basically parent Tony for years.

"Yes, ma'am," Jack said with a small salute. "We'll get right on it... Even though she started it. Ow!" Jack laughed when a small hand swung to smack him lightly in the shoulder.

Pepper could only smile adoringly at the pair, giving them one last glance as she then started out of the Lab, her heels clicking on the ground as she left. Tony, hesitant to follow her, glance at Danielle and Jack and gave them a mischieviously smile. "Yeah. Have fun with Rae. She can be a bt rough around the edges, but... Yeah– no. She's just rough around the edges. I doubt it's going to change anytime soon." The genius watched as their smiles faltered, and a grin spread across his face. "Good luck with cleaning!" He shouted just before swiftly exiting the Lab, quick to catch up with his strawberry blonde partner.

Danielle let out a heavy sigh once the pair was gone. She missed Sharon.

"Raelynn Sable," Jack murmured beneath his breath as he typed in the name into a search bar. The screen was projected a few feet away on a hologram. Once he hit 'enter' a small profile appeared and sure enough, the picture was of the pale-faced, scary woman the siblings had met only half an hour prior to this search. Only, she didn't have silver/white hair in the headshot features on her Stark Industries profile. In fact, it was a light, sandy brown color.

"Hmm," Danielle hummed, perplexed with the woman projected in the screen as she scanned through the rest of her profile from where she was perched on top of one f the Lab counters. Jack, standing behind her, walking around from time to time to pick up am energy drink can they had thrown.

Jack shrugged, clearly catching on to what his sister had caught onto. "Maybe she just dyed her hair white recently. I mean, this picture was taken like two years ago, according to the date. And, apparently, that was when she started working for Tony... or, technically, Pepper," he stated as he bent down to pick up yet another empty can. He turned towards where the trash can was on the ther side of the Lab and stood up on the tips of his toes, raised his hands, and tossed the can towards the bin... missing it by a foot and letting it fall to the ground with a clang. He groaned.

While her brother was busy with his multi-task of cleaning and playing around, Danielle continued to scroll down the profile. "Born October 15th, 1979–"

"Yeesh," Jack cut in. "She's almost as old as Tony." Danielle turned to glance at her brother over her shoulder, giving him an unimpressed look. Jack simply laughed and shrugged. But, when he looked back at the screen, something seemed to catch his eye. "Huh. That's weird." The enhanced Harper sibling stepped forward and held his hand up to zoom in on the holographic screen. As he scanned through the profile, his confused expression quickly turned to a weary one. "There's no birth certificate, driver's license... Not even a prior record before 2014 and hardly any record after that either. This chick is basically a ghost."

Danielle looked uneasy as she glanced between her brother and the face of the woman on the profile image. "Maybe Tony just couldn't find her files," she tried to use as an explanation.

Jack scoffed as he went back to cleaning up the cans. "She works with Pepper. I doubt Tony wouldn't dig up any and every piece of info he could on her before even letting her near his company and his girlfriend... or whatever him and Pep are now. It's weird."

Danielle frowned. He had a point. Tony was known for having the best access t anyone and everyone's information, even when he wasn't supposed to have it. She knew the genius probably had over a hundred just on her alone, probably a few hundred more on her brother and sister. But, he didn't use them as black ail, he used the, for protection. Keeping the files from getting to anyone else that might use them for blackmail.

So, if he managed to have everyone else's, why didn't Tony have Raelynn Sable's files? It just wasn't adding up. And Danielle's uneasiness about allowing this woman to come into her life and become her caretaker grew stronger each minute she spent studying and looking into her file. Eventually, the teen got so fed up, she eventually just shut off the projector completely with a huff.

"Give up already?" Her brother asked as he threw yet another can into the trash ban, and missing as expected.

Danielle sighed. "There's no point in looking," she exclaimed as she slid off of the Lab counter to help Jack with cleaning. "Like you said, she's a ghost."

"Mhm," he brother hummed in agreement as he threw sme more cans, missing over and over again. "GAH!" He shouted in frustration. Danielle chuckled beneath her breath at his failure. She was a bit surprised when he heard her laughing and turned to face her with an incredulous look. "Oh, if you think it's so easy, why don't you try?" He prompted.

Danielle opened her mouth to explain that she hadn't said that, but clamped it shut when she saw an opportunity. With a small smile playing at her lips, Danielle walked over to a cam on the ground and turned towards the trash bin with cans littered all around it. She pushed herself onto her tippy toes, leaned forward, held the can up, and tossed. The siblings watched as it flew across the Lab and hit the edge of the bin. Danielle's breath caught in her throat as she watched the can teeter on the edge of either falling in or falling out.

With the clench of her fist and the glared here eyes, Danielle concentrated and focused all her energy on trying t make that can get into the trash bin. She wasn't sure if her powers would work, but she prayed the they would. Not because she wanted to win this little game her brother was playing wit her, but because she just needed this win with her powers, she needed to know they weren't gone forever and that there was a chance that she could rehabilitate them.

So she concentrated, and concentrated, and focused, and focused. And she watched with painful anticipation and strained energy, as the can abruptly came to a stop on the rim of the bin until with one final push from Danielle, a swift wave of invisible force knocked it int the trash bin.

Danielle gasped then clamped her hands over her smile as she squealed a bit in delight. They worked! They actually worked! There was a chance, a chance that her powers would come back! Beside her, Jack tried to hide a smile, but did a terrible job s he watched his sister happily celebrate her small win with a bit of jumping and spinning and squealing. The most excited he'd seen her in what felt like years.

But, it wasn't long before Danielle's little victory party came to an abrupt halt when a small pain in her head started to cause blotches of spots in her vision. The teen's jumping and squealing slowly stopped while Danielle tried to blink away the spots and massage away the headache that had just sprouted inside her skull.

"You alright?" Jack was at her side within seconds, a panicked look on his face.

After a couple more blinks, Danielle was sure that the blotches were starting to fade, as was the headache. "Mhm," she said with a nod. "It's just a headache."

"You sure?"

She nodded again. "It's already going away. I'm fine," Danielle assured her brother. But, he was far from convinced.

"I think we should take you down to Cho's, just in case," he insisted, wrapping a protective arm around his sister's shoulders, not waiting for her agreement as he started dragging her down to the Med-Bay.

It took only a few minutes to transport Danielle from the Lab upstairs to the Medical Area, and by the time they had finally exited the elevator on the floor, Jack was already hauling Danielle in with an arm wrapped around her waist to keep her from falling. Se wasn't unconscious per say, but she was just s caught up by the growing pain in her head that she could barely concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other to walk. Eventually, the pair made it, and they were greeted by who looked to be a welcoming committee who obviously wasn't expecting them.

It was a decent sized group of both familiar and unfamiliar people all gathered around Dr. Cho's office space. There was Cho, her team, Dr. Selvig, and two other women Danielle had never seen before. However, they all jumped to their feet the moment they noticed Jack's entrance and Danielle's obvious state of pain and discomfort.

Cho was the first to approach. "Danielle, what's wrong?" She asked the teenage girl.

Danielle could only grit her teeth and press her fingers to her temple, trying to push the pain away in her head. "It just hurts a little."

Cho looked unconvinced and immediately looked up to her brother. "What happened?"

Jack shrugged. "I don't know. We were throwing cans in the trash and she used her powers to knock one in... You don't think that whatever thing inside her head is...?" He trailed off, his eyes going wide at the notion.

The doctor looked up at him with fearful eyes. "I'm not sure," she answered truthfully, causing his blood to run cold.

It was then that Jack finally noticed the group of people surrounding Cho's office and the projector they had all been staring at before he he so rudely interrupted with the entrance of him and his sister. Plastered the projector was undoubtedly a scanned picture of a brain. But, something was off about this brain. There was a gold streak across the front section of the brain. He didn't remember that being possible during MRI scans. "What's going on here, Cho?"

"I'll explain everything later," she dismissed as she pressed a hand to Danielle's forehead. "But right now, we need to get her under a scanner. Stat." Jack didn't have time to protest or even ask any follow up questions because suddenly Cho was shouting orders at her team and they were there snatching Danielle away from him and ushering her into another room before he even had time to comprehend what was going on.

Danielle wasn't quite sure what was happening until she found herself being set down into a large chair, surrounded by a bunch of doctors. She tried to move to get up, to find Jack, but a hand came to rest on her arm, holding her down. "Stay still, Ms. Harper. We need to conduct a few tests to figure out what's going on inside your head." It was Dr. Selvig that spoke, but Danielle couldn't seem to focus her attention long enough to get a good look at him with all the commotion going on around her. So, she just laid back and let the doctors do their work. She trusted Cho and her team.

As she was sat on the chair, she began to feel people pressing small suction cup things to her head and face. It tickled and the delusional part of her wanted to giggle and squirm, but she quickly remembered what Selvig had instructed, so she bit bad her laughs and stayed put.

"Is she knocked out?" A new voice asked as the sound of a door echoed through the room Danielle was in. She didn't remember falling asleep, but she could only see a bit of dim light. Her eyes must've been closed. When did that happen?

"We can't have her unconscious for the procedure. Her brain needs to be active for this to work," another voice chimed in. "Cho?" Right, Cho. That was her doctor. She remembered that. Where was Cho? Where was Selvig? Where was Jack?

"Uh, what are you doing with that needle?" The first voice asked in an uneasy voice. Danielle almost sat up at the mention of a needle, but there was suddenly two hands gripped on her arm keeping her anchored to the chair.

"It's just a small dose of adrenaline to wake her up," Cho explained. There was Cho.

Suddenly, Danielle felt a hard pinch in the crease of her elbow that was being held down. She hissed and tried to sit up, but another pair of hands moved to hold her shoulders down to the chair. Danielle obeyed the unspoken instruction and slammed herself back down into the chair as she threw her head back and let the needle take it's course through her veins. She didn't feel anything until Cho seemed to withdraw the needle. Then everything became clear.

Danielle suddenly shot up with a gasp, her eyes flying open to scan the room for her brother. "Jack?" She called out in a hoarse voice. It wasn't long before her brother appeared in front of her, a hand coming to rest other shoulder.

"It's alright. I'm right here," he assured her. His expression then turned grim as he looked over his sister's shoulder at someone unseen. "Cho, what the hell are you guys talking about? What procedure?"

There was a pregnant pause. Finally, the second voice Danielle had heard earlier answered. "We believe that we can figure out how Danielle's mind correlates with her powers and the being that seemed to be connected to it," the doctor explained.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" Jack prompted.

"By activating a live feed of her neurological activity when she uses her enhancements," Dr. Selvig explained.

Danielle turned to give the doctor a blank expression. "What?"

"They want to see what happens in your head when you use your powers," her brother translated for her.

"They still hurt right now," she said.

"Oh!" A brunette woman in the far corner jumped up and down as she began digging something out of her denim jacket pocket. Eventually, the woman produced a small bottle that she opened and dumped a few of it's contents out into her hand before extending it out to the teenager in the chair. Danielle hesitantly glanced between the pills in the myster woman's hand and her. "They're ibuprofen. They help with my headaches all the time. I have to carry them around 24/7 because Jane can be a real pain in the ass most f the time," she explained.

"Darcy," the voice Danielle had been hearing all this time hissed at the pill-woman. When Danielle glanced back to the source of the voice, she fund it to be a formal looking brunette woman standing beside Selvig. Who were these people?

"What?" 'Darcy' said, throwing her free hand up in defense.

After finally deciding that she could trust the pills in 'Darcy's hand, Danielle scooped up a few before tossing them down her throat one at a time. She'd swallowed a few pills before for pain meds or for the flu, so it was relatively easy to just toss them back, no water needed. Wanda and Jack always gawked at her like she was crazy. As did Darcy.

"Dang, girl," she said with a smile. "Pop them pills."

"Darcy." It was Selvig's turn now to grumble at the woman.

"I'm sorry," Jack cut in. "Who are you again?" He asked, directing the question at both 'Jane' and 'Darcy'.

'Jane' was the first to step forward, extending a hand to Jack. "I'm Doctor Jane Foster, I'm a friend and consultant of Erik's," she explained as they shook hands. "And that is my intern, Darcy," she added, gesturing to the brunette who was currently dosing her own pills, following it up with a quick swig from a plastic cup of what Danielle assumed to be coffee.

"Wait," Jack spoke up. "Jane Foster? You mean, Thor's Jane Foster?" Danielle glanced over her shoulder at the doctor and saw her immediately pale. She had remembered Thir mentioning he had a lady friend named Jane, but she always just assumed that he was talking about a woman her had waiting for him back on Asgard, not a doctor from Earth. Huh, who knew?

Darcy winced from behind Jack. "Ooh. A bit of a touchy subject," she exclaimed.

Jane glared at her. "It's not a touchy subject."

"True. It's kind of simple, actually," Darcy began. "Basically, Thor and Jane were 'dating'-" she specified with little air quotations. "-but then he left for like... a few years, fought a bunch of aliens, then came back when Jane got possessed by some creepy alien artifact that blew crap up whenever she touched something."

"Cool," Jack breathed in awe. Danielle nudged her brother and gave him a small look that reminded him of the looks Wanda gave him when he would say the wrong thing. "Not cool," he quickly corrected himself.

"No, it was pretty cool," Dr. Selvig quietly agreed from beside Jane, receiving a look of surprise from Dr. Cho and a glare from Jane.

"Seriously?" She asked incredulously.

"Dude," Darcy interjected. "We got to fight alien elves from space and save a bunch of realms! I count that as cool."

"We nearly died!"

"But we would've died as heroes!"

Jane gave up with an exasperated sigh, bowing her head and pressing her fingers to the bridge of her nose. "Dear God," Danielle heard her mutter beneath her breath.

"Anyway," Darcy continued. "After that whole ordeal, Thor left– again– then came back to stop an evil robot from crashing a meteor into Earth."

"We know," Jack interjected.

Danielle nodded. "We were there."

"Oh, yeah," she chuckled. "Forgot you two were like, superhero siblings... Well, not right now, you're not." Danielle frowned.

Dr. Cho finally stepped in. "Which is why we're here," she stated, turning to Danielle. "We want you to use your powers so we can see what exactly occurs in your mind. Using the information we collect, we can then determine how your powers work, if they can be restored, and whether or not the Entity in your head is really dead or not."

Danielle took a deep breath. She wanted to go through with it, of course she did. But, she glanced up at Jack just in case. He noticed her look as a request of permission and sighed, looking up at the group of doctors on the opposite side of his sister's chair. "Will it hurt?"

Dr. Selvig shook his head. "The procedure itself will only analyze what's already there. If it hurts, it's just her body's response to her trying to use her powers."

Dr. Foster glanced down at Danielle and placed a hand on her shoulder. "How is your headache now?"

"It's... going away," she answer truthfully. Well aware of the fact that the compression in her head was near nonexistent and she could see clearly and hear perfectly once more.

Dr. Foster nodded. "Good. So if it starts to hurt again after the procedure, I'm sure a few more ibuprofens won't hurt."

Jack nodded, handing down at his sister one last time for verification. "You sure about this?"

"I need to find out eventually, don't I?"

Her brother lets out a heavy sigh before turning to Cho. "If anything goes wrong-"

"It won't," the doctor quickly assures him before the group back away from Danielle, already hooked up to the machines.

Danielle watches as all the doctors crowd around their computers and scanners, switching flips and turning knobs. It all reminded her of her time in Sokovia, being tied down to a large metal chair while scientists poked and prodded her with their experiments, pushing her to her extent and farther. But, this wasn't Sokovia. This wasn't HYDRA. She had to stay calm and focused. And she did.

"Alright, Danielle," Dr. Selvig began as he approached and placed a small plastic cup on the ground in front of her before stepping away once again. "I want you to concentrate on lifting this cup with your powers." Danielle nodded, taking a deep breath before looking down at the small plastic cup. It wasn't that hard, she told herself. She could do it.

The teenager looked down at the cup and narrowed her eyes. Just like the can, she told herself. Just like the can. She concentrated, long and hard. She tried to imagine the cup moving. She used her core. She used her chest. She stretched her hands and pushed and pushed. Until, finally, the cup budged a foot away from her and into Darcy's leg.

"Awesome," the intern exclaimed with a smile. "Although, I was expecting a bit more from the chick that lifted that meteor a year ago." All eyes turned to Darcy, but Danielle couldn't have cared less. She had gotten it to move. She had done it.

Aside from Darcy, Jack was the first to speak up. "How'd the analysis go, Doc?" He asked, leaning over towards where Cho, Selvig, Foster and Cho's team all huddled around their computer screens and monitors.

Cho glanced at Jack with an uneasy glance before turning to one of her team members she muttered something in Korean and Danielle and Jack both watched as the Doctor began to press a few keys on his computer before the large projector began to project an odd image – or multiple images – on the side of the wall.

Tentatively beginning to tear off the pieces of machinery attached to her, Danielle glanced up at the images. They all were pictures of graphs, another was an actual scan of her brain it looked like, and another was a weird algorithm of a bunch of numbers. It all seemed to be apart of some odd puzzle. Then again, that about summed up the entirety of her being.

"What is it?" The teenager asked.

"The first two are graphs of large amounts of hormones your body produces when you use your power. It seems to be a type of adrenaline hormone, specific to you and you alone," Dr. Foster began to explain as she waked around towards the FRNT of the desk of computers.

"And the others?" Jack asked, pointing up at the one photo of his sister's enlarged brain where a large flash of gold appeared on one end. "What's that?"

"That is what we were trying to figure out," Dr. Selvig explained. "It's a weird anomaly occurring in her brain each time she activates her powers."

"Every time?" Danielle wondered aloud. Her voice was a bit hoarse as she felt the small migraine beginning to form in the front of her skull from her use of power. The ibuprofen were starting to wear off it seemed.

"Well, we've only just now begun to test and analyze your neurological activity and it's correlation with your enhancements," Dr. Cho exclaimed. "These streaks of gold could've been there before, or they could only just now be appearing after the death of your alter-ego."

"But you wouldn't know because, once again, you didn't test her brain before," Jack concluded.

"Precisely," Dr. Selvig confirmed just as Danielle felt someone nudge her side. When she glanced over to see who it was, she found Darcy standing beside her, holding her pill bottle out. Danielle got the hint and extended her palm to which Darcy dumped a few pills into her hand. Danielle smiled at the intern before downing the pills, already feeling the relief from the pain in her dull catching on quickly from the medication. She really needed to get herself her own bottle.

"Still doesn't explain what the hell they are," Darcy interjected.

"I thought that was pretty self explanatory," Dr. Selvig exclaimed, claiming all the attention in the room. "They're her powers."

"So, her powers are a physical sensation internally... But an invisible force externally," Dr. Cho breathed out in amazement.

"What does that mean?" Jack asked.

"It means that your sister and her powers are an anomaly to anything known to man," Dr. Foster exclaimed with a beaming smile.

Danielle stared at her wide-eyed. "What... What do you mean?"

"Think of it like this," Selvig began to deconstruct the explanation. "In all of the universe, every living thing is powered a certain way. As scientists, we are able to break it down to a molecular level and study, take apart, and analyze how something works. It's why no one believes in magic in this field we work in.

"But you... You are... Amazing," Selvig continued. "Your brain is anatomical minefield of power and light. So much, that there seems to be some sort of energy invisible energy connecting it that's so unique and confusing d unheard of that it hardly even exists." Danielle stared blankly at the scientist Ashe leaned forward towards her with eyes filled with amazement and joy. "Your powers are the very definition of magic, Danielle."

The brunette wasn't sure how to feel. Her powers were magic? Something that, prior to this meeting, was impossible and nonexistent to most everyone in the room, including herself. Magic! There was no such thing. At least not in the way Danielle thought of it. Like unicorns, trolls, wizards, witches, and warlocks (oh my!). But, magic? Inside of her? It seemed impossible. Yet, here was Selvig, telling her the very fabric of her powers' being was impossible.

"So... They can be restored?" Danielle finally uttered.

Cho was the one to answer. "With precautions and extensive practice, I believe your powers can be restored to an extent, yes."

Danielle felt a smile spread across her face. She had her powers back. Not all the way, but this was just a stepping stool. A way to get to the way it used to be. She could have her old identity back of Danielle Harper, an Avenger, Eris, and Enhanced. It was all going to be okay. It was all going to come back to her. Eventually...

A/N: THANK YOU ALL FOR 300 FOLLOWERS AND OVER 200 FAVORITES (watch them all go down after post this, lol). I never expected this story to get this much attention (literally, I fucking thought this fic would have like five favorites and four views a chapter), but all of you guys came thruuuuu. I love you all and appreciate the support. I send my love in this hard time for the people in the Marvel Fandom. Also spread the love to the people in the Game Of Thrones Fandom, we are also suffering. As well as the Supernatural Fandom, we are awaiting the last season of our show, RIP. The Sherlock Fandom still waiting for our new season (that probably won't come). And the Star Wars Fandom, ready to get hit with the last movie (or so they say) of the saga. And then me, in all these fandoms just taking hit after hit...

I literally cannot stop thinking about Endgame. I already know what I want to do with Danielle and Jack during Endgame and Infinity War, I've got it all planned out. And then there's Far From Home that I have am idea of what I want to do. But still, it's taking me a lot longer than I expected to get over the emotional trauma that Endgame gave me. I laughed, I screamed, I cheered, and I cried... still am. I just... It was my childhood and now a huge part of it is gone. Not forever, of course, but it's just hard. Those of you who have seen the movie must know how I feel. All heads bowed to the actors, creators, and writers of this fantastic Universe. Thank you for a precious childhood, and an even better gateway into a new world where anyone can be a hero.

"I love you 3000."

Chapter Songs are Put Your Head On My Shoulder Remix by Floreyyyy as the song Jack was playing in the Lab, Don't Threaten A Bitch a mash-up of Panic! at the Disco and Marina and the Diamonds [Rae's theme] and Karma by AJR (their new album Neotheater is my everything right now) for everything following Rae's introduction.

Reviews:

Hyraeth: Yes, their relationship will be a lot different than it was before now that a lot has come to light and bridges have been a bit burnt. But I feel like fter Civil War, they've both matured a bit... sort of. Yeah, it should. Be aware of that light. Danielle's powers are very complicated nd complex and I don't think anyone will fully understand them until her arc is finished or at least until like Endgame. I have big plans for Endgame. Yes, we must kee the spoilers to ourselves (even though it's been like a whole week and if you haven't seen it already, what are you doing with your life?) Glad you enjoyed the chapter, hope you like this one.

GhostRyder13: Mmmmmmmaybeeeeeee.

cheshirekadi: Ah, yes. I also made it through. I was so scared that would need to go so I just didn't eat or drink anything all day leading up to the showing. I starved for my happiness and also inevitable depression. Glad you liked it, here is a bit of an explanation, but not a full explanation. Enjoy.

smilin steph: Sis, a week?! Hon, you better avoid the Internet like the plague. If anyone ever spoiled the movie for me I would be devastate.d that movie is too good to spoil. But go see it with tissues and a friend who can understand your pain when it's over. Have fun, don't die.

Incorrect Quote of the Chapter:

Jack: *holds a knife to emotions*

Jack: Stay back, slut.

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Dani: I'm just gonna drink my sorrows away.

Dani: *opens up a Capri-Sun*