They didn't find her body... all they did find found just a burned left arm in the snow with Melly's great Aunt's engagement ring on the ring finger... As Shannon knew it was originally given to Melly's great Aunt from Bucky. Shannon took it off the hand to put on her ring finger on her right hand for safe keeping since she couldn't find Melly's tags to present to her family. Melly wore it to have the jerks back off her ass at the clubs, Shannon remembered... Melly sure loved to dance and Skate she thought to herself sighing sadly.

"Sinthea got away, but we have a lead to where she was taken to." said Cartier when the gang found Shannon alone in a bar with a purple haze.

Shannon just stared at the drink, "It was Melly's favourite."

Cartier, Dee Dee, Gimli, Lucy, and Jackie sat down with her.

"When I first met Melly the first thing I called her was smart ass." Said Dee Dee, "She kept cracking jokes on the battlefield to lighten up the mood and our moral because of the damn heat."

"Melly stopped me from using a explosive on a camel spider nest." Said Jackie, "I thought she was crazy but then again that Atlantic Canadians for you."

"Oh I remember that she had a better idea." said Lucy, "I know you made a robot that looked like a camel spider that had explosives in it so you snuck it into enemy territory, scaring the shit out of them with a boom."

The gang laughed as they cried together as they shared the drink around telling stories of the good times with Melly.

"Guys, thank you."

"Melly would have wanted us to talk about the good times, you know that," said Parker, "Are you going to take her last words to heart?"

"After we catch Sinthea and hull her ass to jail... That's what Melly would have wanted as well."

Unfortunately that mission didn't go as planned either as Cartier got killed in the process saving Shannon's life as Sinthea pulled a gun on them when Shannon wasn't looking. Shannon was pissed as she broke Sinthea's back with a punch. The gang managed to capture Zola's grandson Dr. Arthas Zola, now in custody at SHIELD. Shannon was heartbroken she wanted something else to punch besides a sandbag but she knew better. 'Don't get mad just get even.' Melly's family motto.

"We weren't able to recover much from their servers." said Coulson.

"The Gang and I need a break." Shannon spoke.

"Your welcome back any time when you're ready," said Coulson.

Although Shannon had her brave face on in truth she was still devastated, losing both her best friend and her first boyfriend all in the same month. Melly's funeral was huge in a small little church as people from all over both Shannon's country and Melly's country to say goodbye to her best friend as Shannon was a pallbearer carried the flag draped casket that contained a replica of Shannon's old shield, Melly's original Bucky jacket, copies of photos and all her sketchbooks in a time capsule within the casket.

The view was perfect postcard perfect as she watched the casket being put into the ground. Shannon looked at her hand as to see the Rings that both Melly and her Great Aunt wore from Bucky. As Shannon remembered that Melly's parents told her to keep it in her memory, that way she was with with her even in spirit.

"I promise you Melly I'll protect both our homes." Shannon promised at the grave... And She never came back. Doing the same at Parker Cartier's funeral in Montreal the following week. Facing both families brought back too much pain to her as she decided to use it as her motivation to never hurt like this again.

2011

Shannon woke up in her New York apartment from the nightmare of seeing Melly's death again. It haunted ever since she returned SHIELD part time here in Brooklyn, New York... Shannon was getting help but she was having other problems related to her post traumatic stress disorder. Being in Archives and doing field missions kept her skills sharp... Yet she had more comfort with her Great Aunt Peggy who was now getting Dementia or maybe Alzheimer's. Either way it was still bad.

Tony Stark has been a pain in SHIELD's ass, no surprise that Coulson took the case, then another in New Mexico. News had been buzzing from the Arctic about a man found frozen in a old prototype plane owned by the Nazi's... Then a blonde haired man escaping the New York office... On Shannon's day off of all days, there were so rumours in the rumour bin in SHIELD that outweighed the truth and people told to hush up about it for now. Shannon felt she needed to get away from it, the less she knew the better. Then this morning she saw Coulson at her door look like he literally needed a stiff drink.

"Coulson is everything okay?"

"Melly is Norse descent right?"

"She was proud of it." Shannon said as he came in as she asked again, "Are you okay?"

"No we lost PEGASUS."

"How?"

"I can't exactly tell you unless you join the Avengers Initiative."

"I rather work with my team."

"You're team-mates are all married and becoming mom's in the next few months. You're still wearing both the rings Cartier gave you and Melly's rings..." Said Coulson as he noticed the rings on her left hand was actually Melly's rings.

"Okay so you gave them back to his family after the funeral."

"I figured I do the same as she did to keep the jerks off my ass."

"Hmm why don't you put them on your right hand?"

"Coulson!" Shannon said glaring.

"Where are you going?"

"I need fresh air, don't bother following me."

"Dammit." He muttered, as he picked his phone up and dialled Fury, "Fury please you had better luck into convincing Captain Rogers?"

"He's reading the packet I can say that." Said Fury on the line.

"I can't convince her."

"Then how about you get her and him to meet and he do all the talking? Rogers is at her favourite cafe near Stark Tower right now as we speak with the files of all the Avenger files I told him to read hers first."

Coulson lighted up as if he had opened his Christmas present, "Okay plan C.A. it is." He said as he hung up, "This might be the best day of our lives."