Jennifer sat in the cockpit of the quinjet, as she flew it toward the helicarrier. It was in an undisclosed location off the coast of New York. She was trying to ignore Agent Colson. Jennifer had known him for years. Since Director Fury gave him the job of looking after the unnatural things S.H.I.E.L.D. came across. Right now, however, he was doing an excellent job of embarrassing himself in front of his childhood hero Captain America.
"I watched you while you were sleeping," Agent Colson said. Steve was polite, but Jennifer could tell that he was very uncomfortable.
"We're about 30 minutes out sir," Jennifer called back through the comms.
Steve had been surprised to see her when he arrived at the plane.
"I thought that you were a doctor?" he said.
Jennifer wanted to ignore him, but she had nothing else to do. Her co-pilot, Mark, was getting the plane ready and she was waiting for the last passenger to arrive. Steve was cold and seemed to look down on the world around him. Sure, everything was different, but that didn't mean he had to come on to her nice plane like it was a dumpster. The quinjet was state of the art he was lucky he was allowed even to know it existed.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted me to be a trauma doctor." She looked down at her hands for a moment. "But other things happened, and I couldn't do that anymore so now I'm a pilot." She let out a louder sigh than she wanted.
"But you still go by doctor." Steve pointed out causing her to glare at him.
"Yes, because I'm still a doctor. I still do the occasional medical thing for S.H.I.E.L.D. that is just second to being a pilot." Steve looked as if he wanted to press her for more information but was interrupted by Agent Colson boarding the plane. Jennifer took that opportunity to see if they had clearance to take off. She wanted to get to the helicarrier as soon as possible.
"So, this Dr. Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me," Steve said pulling Jennifer from her thoughts.
"A lot of people were trying to do it," Colson replied. She shivered slightly not wanting to think about it. When her abilities had first appeared, many had hoped that she was the key to the serum. However, like many before her, it was determined that she was nothing more than a monster. The people that had killed her parents and taken her had failed, and Jennifer had to live with their mistakes. She started to talk to Mark hoping to drown out Steve and Colson's conversation. She didn't want to think about the dark times, and they were not making it any easier for her. She let out a sigh of relief when the helicarrier finally came into view. It was still in the water, but if everything went to schedule, it should be taking off right after they landed.
Jennifer pulled the plane into its position letting everyone off while she and Mark shut it down. An alarm went out signaling that everything was going to go airborne, Jennifer locked the plane up looking out through the windshield seeing the helicarrier slowly raise out of the water. Mark let out a small laugh.
"That just doesn't get old does it, ma'am." He asked looking over at her.
"No, it doesn't."
Jennifer stepped off the plane needing to head in now that the carrier was airborne. Natasha walked over to her, and they greeted each other in Russian. Natasha had taught it to her over the years. She had informed Jennifer that if they were going to be friends that she would need to be able to speak Russian. Considering she had been there for her during the early years at S.H.I.E.L.D. Jennifer agreed. Natasha also was often correcting Jennifer's form when she worked on her hand to hand combat. She didn't mind it most of the time. After all, Natasha was the much better fighter out of the two of them. Jennifer probably would never have become an agent if she didn't have her powers. She turned walking over to Dr. Bruce Banner.
"It's nice to meet you, Doctor." She said taking his hand. He seemed jumpy being surrounded by so many people. Jennifer didn't blame him considering the last time he was in a crowd like this he almost destroyed a city.
"Ah, Dr. Shylow. I have heard about you, glad to know that you don't have to deal with the other guy."
Jennifer let out a forced laugh. "Yes, if only Captain Rogers came back sooner you and I might not be on this ship."
Banner smiled, but there was a twinge of sadness that crossed his face. He had tried to remake the serum, and it had given him the Hulk.
"We should head inside its going to get hard to breathe," Natasha said grabbing their attention.
Steve and Dr. Banner followed the two of them into the center part of the ship. Jennifer made her way over to the large table and took a seat putting her feet up on the table. Steve walked over to her, eyeing her. Taking a deep breath, she removed them from the table, and he handed her a ten-dollar bill walking away. Jennifer smiled looking at the money. It had just been an expression, but she didn't mind she would use it for a decent cup of coffee. Natasha took Bruce to one of the labs where he could work in peace. This left Jennifer to watch as Agent Colson slowly worked up the courage to ask Steve to sign his Captain America trading cards. Before Steve could respond there was a hit on the facial recognition. They had finally been able to locate Loki. Fury looked over at Steve.
"Captain your up."
