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Chapter Five:
"She doesn't remember you, Stark."
"Excuse me?"
"Just that," Fury said, handing him a data file. "This will tell you everything that you need to know…"
Tony sat in his dark office, replaying the conversation with Nick Fury over and over again in his head as he poured over the files that he had gotten from the head of S.H.E.I.L.D. From what he had been able to figure out was that in the car accident that had claimed his parents' lives, his sister had suffered a traumatic brain injury. And the reason that she had been hidden away from him was that as a result of the brain injury, she had sustained retrograde amnesia – everything about the first seven years of her life had been wiped from her memory.
No wonder she had been hidden from him. There had been no way that a cocky 17 year old year could have raised a seriously injured 7 year old on his own. She had been taken in by Peggy Carter who was a friend of his father's from the Second World War and raised as her niece. When she reached the age of 18, she became a full-fledged S.H.E.I.L.D. agent, who racked up more assassinations than anyone else. She seemed to be a skilled fighter – both with various weapons and in hand to hand combat – as well as a skillful spy. Tony even bet that she could give the Black Widow a run for her money.
But that left him wondering, why had she left S.H.E.I.L.D.?
"Daddy, why aren't you and mommy married like Jenny's mommy and daddy?" Audrey asked as Clint picked her up from daycare that afternoon. He and Emma had decided to divide and conquer that afternoon so that they could make it to city hall on time. She still needed to pick up her and Audrey's simple dresses, while Clint already knew exactly where he was going to get his nice shirt, slacks and a tie from. He had wanted to spend some time with his daughter, so he volunteered to pick Audrey up that afternoon from day care.
"It's a long story. But that doesn't mean I don't love mommy just as much as Jenny's parents love each other," he said picking her up and carrying her in his arms so that it was easier to talk in the busy NYC afternoon. "Besides we're getting married this afternoon. We just wanted to make sure you were old enough to be there with us. That's why we waited."
Audrey smiled and hugged her father's neck tightly as they made their way towards city hall, where they were going to meet Emma in just a few minutes.
Emma smiled as she adjusted the bag on her shoulder as she studied the titanium band that she had just picked up from the jewelers. It was perfect. A ring that was very hard to destroy. Perfect for Clint. God only knew what messes he would be getting into. It wouldn't be much longer until they would finally be married. She had found the cutest pink and white dress from Audrey and a sleeveless purple dress with a black sweater over the dress that she was going to wear. She knew how much Clint loved purple on her.
Up a head on the busy sidewalk there was some sort of commotion going on between two guys and a young woman. Almost immediately, her S.H.E.I.L.D. training kicked in. The entire situation looked like the young woman was being threatened by both of the guys.
As Emma slowly made her way past the scene, a flash of a silver blade held tightly next to the pants leg of one of the guys caught her eye along with the tears of the young woman. It was now or never. Within a split second, both of the guys were on the ground – not knowing what had hit them. Emma, still in a crouching position, told the young woman to run, which she did. But before Emma could get back onto her feet and escape herself, the guy who had the knife impaled it deeply into her stomach and pulled it back out.
"That's what you get, you interfering bitch!" he spat at her, before he and his friend managed to get up and get away. Unfortunately for them they didn't get very far.
"That's no way to treat a lady," Ironman said, stopping the two punks in their tracks.
By that time the police had arrived and arrested them, while Emma had taken a turn for the worse. Doubled over in pain, she had fallen to her knees as she pressed her hands to her stomach trying to hold in the gushing blood. But it was coming too fast and she was getting light headed.
"Up we go," a voice said as a pair of cold arms picked her up and went soaring into the sky as the world went dark.
Clint paced back and forth glancing down at his watch every so often. This wasn't like Emma. She was never late. Audrey had found entertainment playing with her father's cell phone for the time being. "Daddy, your phone is ringing," she said holding it out to him.
He glanced at the number – Nick Fury.
"Barton, you need to get back here immediately."
"But…"
"It's Agent Carter. She's been wounded."
