Previously:

"Come on. It's time for the history lessons." He said.

"Coming." I said motioning Blackjack and Midnight to follow. This was going to be interesting.

CHAPTER 5

History lessons, family and love!

Jaden

Perci, her cat- Blackjack- and dog- midnight- were following me. We entered the central room of the New York Sanctum and I made a Sling ring to Kamar-Taj. Doctor was already waiting for us there. I knocked the open door.

"Come in." he said. We all entered.

"How did they come here?" he said motioning toward the cat and the dog.

"Um…. They jumped out of the shadows?" She said.

"What?" Doc and I said at the same time.

"I'll tell you later, after you're done explaining." She answered.

Doc started telling her the same story he told me when I first came here, 4 years ago, that is about magic, sorcery and how he became a sorcerer and the supreme sorcerer. When that was happening I was staring off into her beautiful kaleidoscope eyes which were green at present. She had an expression as if she was interested in the story. She was breathtakingly beautiful. What surprised me was, she didn't have any trouble believing.

"Okay. Jaden, your turn." She said.

"So, 4 years ago I was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. as I am now. I had my mom, dad and a little sister. I had a girlfriend who was 2 years younger than me and lived in San Francisco, where we were. I had a happy life until my family got murdered brutally. Delilah-" Perci got alarmed at that name "-blamed me for their death, distanced herself from me and disappeared after a few days. I was extremely depressed, lost all hope to live and then Doc found me and brought me here. He said he had an eye on me because I was special. So he trained me for the last 4 years. When I wasn't training, I was on missions with you."

"You said Delilah right?" She said.

"Yes."

"Does she happen to be Delilah Lode?" She said. How did she know?

"Yes. How do you know?" I asked.

"Nothing." She said.

"Whatever, tell us your story." She looked hesitant but started anyway.

"Fine, I'll tell you my story." She said. "So, what do you know about Greek Mythology?" She asked.

Time skip (AN: because I'm lazy to explain it all again. She says till the part where her mom abandons her.)

By the end of her story she was in tears and silently sobbing. I started regretting it that I asked her to explain her past. I kept a hand on her shoulder and she looked up and smiled at me. I smiled back at her. She was beautiful when she smiled. I felt happy seeing her that way. Smiling.

"Then, I got into S.H.I.E.L.D. met you, then met Hecate. She gave me this," She said showing the bracelet "and my 2 pets." She said motioning towards Blackjack and Midnight. She nodded at them and they suddenly turned into a horse with wings and a truck sized dog.

"What the hell?" I screamed. Doc's mouth flung open at the 2 creatures in front of us. Perci started laughing her guts out at our expressions. In other cases, I would've changed my expression but this was marvelous. Also I was happy to make her laugh. There were no signs of sadness on her face anymore.

"To answer your earlier question, Midnight here, is a hellhound and can shadow travel. So the 2 of them shadow travelled from my home to the New York Sanctum." Perci said smiling. Wow. She really was beautiful when she smiled.

"Oh. That is so interesting." Doc said. "Perci, what are you going to do now?" he asked.

"Honestly to say, I don't know. Everyone thinks I am dead because I was shot by 2 arrows and surviving that blast is impossible. I can't just go back and say, 'Hi guys I'm alive and I survived the blast of a very powerful infinity stone.' Right? So, I don't know what to do." She said.

"Will you join us? You know what we do, will you also do it?" He asked. I was now eager to hear her answer.

"Yes!" she said excitedly. I was relieved.

"Also Perci-" Doc started, "do you…. Mind if I adopt you?" he finished. The 2 of us were staring at him, awestruck. But Perci replied, "Sure…dad… I can call you that right?"

"Of course. I will be honored." Doc responded.

"You don't need to be. And please, call me Angel. Short for Angelina." She said.

"Sure Angel." I said and the 2 of us left with Blackjack and Midnight, after waving a good bye to Doc. We made a Sling ring to the New York Sanctum. After reaching there, I started training her. Doc decided that she be trained separately until he seems it fit to train her along with the others. After 1 month she was shifted to Kamar-Taj and trained with the others. She actually completed her entire training in only 3 months! And I took almost 4 years to complete it. Really, what is she?

I still went on missions and she was right, everyone thought she was dead. One day, 4 months after Angel arrived at the New York Sanctum, I got into a very big mission and didn't return to S.H.I.E.L.D. instead I went directly to Kamar-Taj. I was injured pretty bad, I was sure I broke and burnt my right hand and left leg real bad, confirming that I will have to stay in the wheel chair for a while. I survived an explosion no human was supposed to survive. I blacked out after reaching Kamar-Taj. I only remembered Angel and Doc running towards me, looking worried.

I woke up after a while, don't know how long that is, and saw Doc and Angel talking next to me. Angel noticed me and tapped Doc's hand.

"I will come back later." He said and left. Angel got up from her seat and sat at the one nearest to me. She pushed some button on my bed and my bed moved upwards and was now like an extended chair for me. We were face to face with each other. She then looked at me and slapped me right across the face.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"You Idiot! Just look at yourself. You had me so worried when you stepped out of the sling ring in that condition. I was worried out of my mind for you. I know what you did on that mission. Blowing up the base with you in it only to destroy the enemies is a horrible idea." She screamed at me. I opened my mouth to tell her to calm down but nothing could've prepared me for what she said next.

"I couldn't understand it earlier but now I have to accept that I am in Love with you." She whisper/scolded me, looked away and wiped her tears. Now, I was shocked out of existence. She loved me. I don't know whether this is real but if it isn't, I would be heart broken.

I moved towards her in a trance and kissed her on the cheek. "I Love you too." I said with our foreheads together. She looked me into the eyes and leaned forward and kissed me. She pulled away and said, "Don't you dare do that to me, ever again."

"Yes ma'am." I said faking a salute with my left hand. She just smiled at me sadly looked down.

"Hey," I said.

"Hmm" she said looking at me.

"I won't leave you, like he did. I swear… on the Styx." Thunder rumbled outside. She stared at me and then said,

"I know you won't Jaden." She said smiling wholeheartedly. "And Dad, I know you're right outside the door. Also smiling is not necessary." She said with an annoyed and frustrated look on her face.

"Sorry. I'm leaving." Doc said from outside. We looked at each other and laughed.

"Some people never change." She said and looked me into the eyes again. They were filled with experience. She was now one of the trainers along with Doc, Wong and me. Mordo never came back even after 4 and half years. But now all I was thinking was about starting a new life. Finally.

"By the way, how long was I out?" I asked. She slapped me, AGAIN and said, "2 whole goddamn weeks!" and continued with a Lecture. Man is she good at giving lectures. I am pretty sure I slept after the first few sentences.

AN: She absorbed the power of the space stone in the tesseract, shape shifting, creating illusions from Loki and mind-reading & telekinesis from the mind stone in Loki's scepter. So now she can see anything in all space and time, she can teleport to anywhere in space and time-travel, shape shift, create and break illusions and read others minds. But she can't control other's minds because she wasn't mind controlled by him and she couldn't absorb the power of it when she was possessed earlier.

Please R&R folks.