AN: Nick Fury appears in this chapter. At the moment, he is not the director that won't for at least another five years maybe, I don't know. But here would be another time jump after meeting neck or somewhat. For I will cover some things that happen in the next few decades till Arabella comes. When Arabella comes along that time will start to slow down and that is when we will get to the main part of the story.

The rest of the day was spent playing with Phil's new things or training him to use his abilities, after Emily hugged Phil earlier that she noticed a letter near the shield. She put the letter into her pocket before moving on with the day, as soon as Phil was in his bedroom asleep that Emily took the shield to her bedroom. Emily put the shield into her closet, of which were it would be till she figured out where to put it or which place the underworld or her cabin of where she should keep it. Once the shield was in the closet that she got onto her bed and pulled out the letter that was clearly written by Hephaestus. Emily unfolded the letter and started to read the letter once it was unfolded.

Dear Emily,

I am sure you surprise when you saw the shield and what it looks like. I am sure that you know that Phil is unaware that of who you are, I will admit it was amusing when he came up to me and ask me for help to make you that shield. I have to say that I am surprised he is a son of Demeter, afte the showed me what he had in mind with his drawing as well as showing a little model of it that he made from using scraps that came from something that I tried to claim him but it didn't work. Seriously he seems rather good with his hands, though I will admit he is not quite up to the same level as my demigod children. So he might be a legacy of mine.

But this is not why I wrote this letter to you, usually I don't take requests from demigods. So you might be wondering why I did this time. To tell the truth, I wanted to help you in a way after everything that happen and I was unsure of how to help with that. For I don't understand people all that well, for machines are much easier to understand. When your half brother came to me on the winter solstice, while you were talking with Ares about his newest demigod, and ask me for his help with making this shield that I just couldn't refuse him. In a way, I hope that a piece of your twin will come back to you through this shield, I managed to use the same metal that your brother's shield has in it as well as Celestial bronze. I hope that maybe one day you could use this shield.

Hephaestus

Emily smiled lightly, throughout the years the gods tried to cheer them it and some of them took a while to do that. The last major god that hadn't so far was Hephaestus, to be honest she wasn't sure of why he hadn't done that quite yet. Emily folded the letter and put it in the drawer of her nightstand before putting on her nightclothes and going to bed.

The following seven years that Emily started to feel more like herself back from the war and before, she still felt sad and lonely from time to time when she wondered where Steve, Bucky, Lauren and the Howling commandos were. However during the last seven years that managed to gain a half brother that by no means replace Steve. But he helped heal her in so many ways, not only that but he didn't even really realized of how much he meant to her. It was really amusing to look at his bedroom for his room was basically covered with vintage things or things that concerned Lieutenant USA or Captain America but it was more Captain America than Lieutenant USA. When he was fourteen that Emily decided to trust Phil enough not to wander to far form the cabin when she went to Nee Rome for a few days. She made sure that Phil had enough to eat as well as make sure the garden was fine and he knew what to do to grow the good.

When she came back from New Rome that everything was the same as she left, okay it was a little messier than how she left it but it was not a surprise since Emily figured it would get messy no matter if she was there or not. After that, that she would leave Phil by himself from time to time but she still would talk to camp Halfblood so he would be with other demigods. It was a couple months after Phil turned seventeen that Emily was making her way back to the cabin. Emily just shadow traveled there, this was one of the times that she left Phil at the cabin instead of taking him to Camp Halfblood. As soon as she entered the cabin that she could tell something was off, for either something terrible happened or something overcame Phil and she wasn't sure which one she preferred. She expected the place to be somewhat messy but the place looked like a mix of cleaning and a tornado hit it. For pillows were tossed in one corner and chairs were in another corner, the table was up next to the wall as well as the other things as if they were ready to be clean but no one bothered to clean.

Emily held her hand out and used her plant ability and moved everything back to how it was. The walls of the cabins responded and out everything back, that was the plus of having a cabin made out of living trees. For she could control it with ease and her plant abilities had become stronger because of that simple fact. Emily looked around in slight worry as she couldn't see Phil and he didn't emerge from his bedroom when the noise of the room be arranged back was made. Emily hoped that he was close by and would be back soon, she crossed the room and went into her bedroom. As soon as she entered that she noticed Phil was sitting on her bed with a look of disbelief on his face with a picture in his hand. Emily was glad that Phil was all right for Phil had her worried there for a minute, Emily put her backpack down and walked over to him as she spoke.

"Phil, you had me worried when I saw the room looked like you were going to clean but than it looked like if you were kidnapped or something." When Emily stood in front of him that he looked up at her with the look of disbelief but at the same time he wasn't sure of how to act at the moment. Emily waved her hand in front of him as she spoke. "Phi! Phil! Are you all right? What is the matter with?" Phil didn't say anything, instead he held the picture to her, Emily took it and spoke as she did so. "What caused a picture to make you like ... "

Emily didn't bother to finish as she looked at the picture properly, it was a picture of a group of people. There was Howard Stark, Colonel Chester Phillips or Daedalus, Thomas, Luke, Richard, John, and Gabe as well as the rest of the howling commandos. In the middle of the picture was Bucky, Lauren, Steve and herself, Emily was standing between Bucky and Steve with Bucky's arms around her and she was looking at Bucky of who was looking at her. Lauren was behind Steve with her arms Steve with her head leaning against his back looking at the camera, Steve was doing his best to look back at her. It looked more like a celebration at the stork club than a war time picture, Emily panicked slightly as she looked at the picture. Ever since Phil came here that she did her best to his the pictures of herself form World War II and before to make sur eye doesn't seen them and figure it out. Up till now, she managed to just that, but apparently Emily forget to put this picture back to where she hid it.

"How come you didn't tell me that you were Lieutenant USA?" Emily sighed and lowered the picture as she ran her fingers, she would have answered but Phil spoke up once more. "Not only that but how did you get a second appearance?" Emily put the picture on the nightstand before she sat down besides Phil.

"First off, I want you to remember what you read in the comics as well as what you learned about me. As you know my husband fell off the train that Zola was on, at first I thought he was dead. Than about a week later that my brother crashed into the water and once more I thought he was dead. It wasn't till Hades adopted me and made me princess and heir of the underworld that I learned the truth that they were not dead but lost. I have no idea where they are, for all I know that someone found Bucky and is using him for some purpose or something. The list is endless in that, as for Steve, he is somewhere in the oceans or on an island and I have no idea if he is lost or even made his back here. Once more the list is endless, than about ten years after Steve crashed that Lauren and the howling commandos vanished." Emily looked at Phil as he watched her closely. "I lost a husband and brother in about the space of a well while ten years later that I lost my best friend that I consider a sister as well as a group of males that I consider as brothers. Four of which I knew since I was ten. Ever since the age of six that I lost so ring but in time I found some of the things I lost but than I lose them. But this time I haven't been able to find them, not even using the family connection I have can help me the way I hope or want. You can understand what it is like to lose something, so I wasn't sure if I was ready to tell you." Phil lowered his head and spoke.

"I remember you brought you wanted another sibling? Were you hoping for another Captain America?"

"No." Phil looked up at her in slight surprise. "I really didn't want another Captain America or as I think of him as Steve Rogers, my twin brother. What I really wanted was a sibling hopefully a brother, for I missed not having a sibling around or a demigod sibling. But I don't deny that you remind me of Steve in many ways but I don't expect you to take his place in anyway, even with the fact that you look him to him that I don't want to try."

"I want to protect people like you and Steve did." Emily touched his shoulder.

"You can, but in your way and what you can do." Emily looked around the room before going on. "We are demigods, we have fates but each one of us makes our choices that lead to our fate. Some of us are fighters, others do movies, some of us even train the next generation of demigods." Emily looked back at Phil of who was looking at her.

"But how can I protect people?"

"It depends on you, sometimes it is not always clear of what we are meant to do and sometimes it is not always clear of who are we till it is time." Phil looked unsure at what she said. "Phil, don't worry you will figure it out of how you can protect people." Phil smiled lightly but looked down, Emily got off the bed and went over to the wall of where the shield that Phil gave to her for the first Christmas they spent together. Emily took the shield off the wall and went to the other side of the bed before smacking Phil in the back of the head with it. Phil jumped off of the bed and turned to her. "Lesson one, don't turn your back on your enemy or you will get smacked." Emily quickly ran out of the room as Phil ran after her.

A year later

Emily wanted Phil to go to college and he agreed but he decided to what till next semester to sing up for he wasted more time to figure out what kind of major he wants. He couldn't do fighting as a major though Emily told him that would be pointless since he knows basically every known fighting style including roman and Greek. Though guns, Greek and roman fighting were Phil's strongest suits when it went to fighting. Honestly Emily was surprised to how well Phil fought with the roman style since he was Greek, some,of the roman styles that she taught him took her a few years to learn of where it took Phil a couple of months. Though she figures part of it was because of the fact that she was older than Phil was when she learned the roman styles. Though she was twenty two when she started so that was rather young for most people but thirty five years had went by. So she was fifty nine but she still looked like she was twenty two, the immortality she had was a mix of both the hunter's immortality and the god's immortality. For she still could interact with the mortals but she was harder to kill than a hunter but still much easier than a god. At the moment, Emily and Phil were sitting in an empty diner eating sundaes talking about what majors he should talk at the university he was going to.

"How about Math?"

"Be serious."

"Performing arts?"

"Maybe, though I would more likely prefer it as a side thing."

"Horticulture?" Emily thought for a minute.

"Most likely one so far. However, you really didn't need to know any more about that since you were programmed with it." Phil closed the book.

"I am out of ideas, the only major that I can think that I may want is a spy major of which a major that the university doesn't have." Emily was about ready to respond when she heard a male voice behind her.

"No university has a spy major. A spy is trained either by another spy growing up or trained before they become agents." Emily and Phil turned around in their seats, a man stood a few feet away from the booth thus were sitting in. The man was black, he was wearing a black leather trench coat, a black shirt, black pants and black combat boots. To top it off, the man was bold and was wearing an eye patch like a pirate, he looked about ten years older than Phil so he looked about six years older than how Emily looks. Emily was close to snorting for the man seem to scream a spy or even a pirate for his clothes seem to say spy but his eye patch seems to say Pirate. Emily spoke up.

"Who are you?" The black man walked over to them and sat down on the other side of the booth that Emily and Phil were in.

"I am NicholasFury, I am the director of Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division." Emily raised her eyebrows when the black man said that but it was Phil that spoke first.

"Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. That is a long name."

"We are working on it."

"But what is it?" Emily was the one that responded.

"It was original SSR or it started as but after World War II that the SSR changed into Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. It is an extra governmental military counter terrorism and intelligence agency, the agency was organized to protect the United States and it is growing out to cover the entire world for,mall possible threats." Phil and Nick looked at Emily. "I knew the founders before they founded it, after I seem to vanished that I watched them, so I am aware they help created the agency." Nick raised an eyebrow.

"If you did know the founders than why didn't we had files on you before you went on our radar?" Emily raised an eyebrow.

"So you have a file on me than?" Nick pulled out two files and dropped them in front of them, Emily reached for one while Phil reached for the other one. Emily opened the file and saw it read, Rachel Blackthrone with a picture of her in Central Park ten years ago when she had be wandered around New York taking in the new sites since she last saw it twenty five years before that. She giggled when she saw it says age unknown as well as birthday unknown, there was also many other gaps in her file but among the file was the list of the things that she could do with her demigod abilities. There was also some history of her in the last ten years but that was about it, before at it seems like she didn't exist. Emily looked over at the folder that Phil as and saw it was a file on Phil, however there was no mention of his demigod abilities of which Emily was glad of. But she noticed that were was mention of her after Phil was ten and there was some information gap in the last eight years since Phil had been under her care. Emily closed the folder and dropped it to the table before looking at Nick. "What do you want with us? You have been watching us for the past twelve years or at least for Phil but about the last ten years for me. By the way, my middle name is Emily and my maiden name is James, I was born in July 4th 1923 and I am fifty nine years but physical twenty two." Nick stared at her with his one good eye.

"May I ask of how you look like you are in your early twenties when you are in your late fifties? Not only that you still didn't answer my question of why we didn't have files on you already."

"Simple and is will answer some of your questions, I am an immortal demigod and have been when I was twenty two. As for how I wasn't on your files before, let's just say that I needed a break and started using a second name of which is Rachel Emily James Blackthrone." Nick looked at her carefully, but than Phil spoke making Nick look at him.

"May I ask of why you been watching us and approach us now instead like say a year or two ago?"

"First off, we hadn't see you two much in public but when you were that we kept close eyes on you two. For different reasons of course, for Rachel, we took guess she could be an alien or maybe a demigod. But we were not sure, no matter which one Rachel was at we were hoping that she could help us make an alliance with her race or whatever Rachel refers to her as. As far as you are concern, Phil. We noticed she has been training you in different fighting stances and teach you how to use a gun. We figure that you both have about the same skill set though yours might be weaker since Rachel been using the fighting stances and guns for a much longer period. But with the kind of training you both have are pretty close to what our agents have and we would like to recruit you both into the agency."

Emily and Phil looked at each other, Emily could tell what he was thinking when she looked at him. That is was what he was hoping for, even though he would most likely not be very well known for protecting people. Ever since meeting him that the one of the Inge wanted to do was to protect people like Steve did, one of the other things was meeting Steve and for a time meeting Emily till Phil learned of her she was last year. Emily could tell that he wanted her to join this agency as well, but she wasn't sure if she should for she was looking for demigods and did her best to make sure they protected and were trained of which was mostly sending them to the camps. Emily and Phil looked back at Nick, Emily spoke first.

"First off, I will join for a time as an agent but after a certain amount of time, I would have to ask to become a consultant." Nick leaned back.

"May I ask of why you request this." Emily leaned forward.

"First off, I am a demigod an immortal one at that. Second, I am the princess and heir do the underworld, for half of the year of which is during this time unless if I am needed up here that I am usually down in the underworld. Third, I made a promise a long time again that I will do the best I can to protect the demigods, the best I can do in that regard is take them to keep and make sure he are training and can defend themselves as well as look out for them when they are not in camp if I can. Plus for the last eight years I have been training Phil personally at his father's dying request after the car was in the accident eight years ago. But when I am Consultant that I request going on missions with Phil or apt he few other agents I believe I can work with." When Emily reached the part about Phil's father that she couldn't help but think, thank the gods for the mist. Nick merely nodded when Emily said that and Phil nodded.

"I will gladly join." Nick nodded when Phil said that.

"All right, come on, it's time to show you the headquarters."