AN: This is the chapter when Phil and Arabella first meet. Clint will make his first appearance with his family, his two kids would be three to four years younger than Arabella. Plus they will have another child five years before age of Ultron and Laura will be with another child at the time of age of Ultron.
The following year was similar when Arabella was between the ages of three and four, for Emily was just as busy with doing SHIELD missions, Project Demigod, taking care of Arabella, underworld duties, helping the demigods, trying to find Bucky and Steve among other things. In a way, Emily was glad of how busy she was for it helped her to focus and feel more like herself from the war. It was shortly after Arabella's birthday that Arabella ask about her wedding rings, Emily told her that the rings were giving to her by her best friend or one of her best friends. That when they are as close to each other as Emily was with her one best friend that they give each other rings. That was not a lie, for that was the truth in simple terms, Emily was unsure if Arabella would fully understand what marriage was. She was unsure if Arabella ever asked Hades and Persephone of what they were to each other. Emily could have explain things more to Arabella but she was unsure of what to tell about marriage and Emily knows that at the age of five that the kid wouldn't understand everything about a marriage.
When Arabella turned six that Emily couldn't help but smile since more gods meet Arabella and they loved her. That was also when Arabella pulled her first prank that made Hermes love her at once, it was when Hermes was going to leave when Arabella used the shadows to stop Hermes from flying away. She wrapped the shadows around the wings of his shoes as well as somewhat around his shoes. When Hermes saw the shadows around his feet that he first looked at Emily of who shook her head before they both looked at Arabella of who was smiling but the smile quickly turned innocent when they looked at her. Of course that lead to day full of pranking each other in the underworld or they pranks Persephone and Hades. After that day, it was a prank day when Hermes came down to the underworld, in a way that Emily felt like she was back at camp on those days. When Arabella reached seven when Emily took Arabella to her cabin for the day, something Arabella was glad for the change from the underworld. Other than Olympus, Emily was pretty sure that Arabella never saw the world outside of the underworld.
Being out in the middle of a forest was something new for Arabella, Emily showed Arabella round the cabin and had her meet Mrs. O'leary as well. Mrs. O'leary was glad to meet someone new, Arabella played with Mrs. O'leary for the good part of the day. When it was lunch time that Emily managed to get Arabella to eat but Arabella managed to get her to eat outside of which was fine with Emily. As they sat there that Emily heard a car engine, Arabella looked around puzzled and Arabella looked a bit worried. After a couple of minutes that a cherry red Chevrolet Corvette came flying through the trees as some of them bend out of it's way. Arabella quickly went behind Emily as she stood up, as Emily walked over to Lola that Phil flicked some switches and the tires return to their normal spot. Phil climbed out of the car as Emily reached the driver's side of the car.
"Phil, what are you doing here?"
"Nick wants us to go on a mission."
"Seriously, I told Nick that I won't be able to go on mission not until August second. That is tomorrow, Phil."
"That is why I told Nick that we will start the mission tomorrow while I come here to tell you as well as stay here for the night." Emily was close of saying something when she felt a tug on her leg and she looked to see Arabella standing there. She was looking at Phil in slight wonder as she spoke.
"Who is that?" Phil looked down at Arabella in slight surprise before looking up at Arabella.
"I assume that this is Arabella, the one you spoke of?"
"Yes, this is Arabella." Emily knelt down besides Arabella and gestured to Phil. "Arabella his is Phil Coulson, son of Demeter, one of our cousins." Arabella looked up at him.
"I thought that not many demigods would live as long as you see, to have. Unless if they are immortal."
"Well, Arabella there are few demigods that can reach adulthood but there are not too many of them. I am just one of the few that have and still is living."
"What's a mission?" Emily looked at Phil of who looked back at her, Phil seem unsure of how to respond to that. So Emily decided to answer that question.
"A mission is something I do from time to time for Hestia or for SHIELD."
"SHIELD?"
"Yes, SHIELD is full of people, though not demigods but there are some demigods in SHIELD, that try to help protect the people and help them."
"Can I join?"
"No you are far too young at the moment."
"But I have been training."
"I know. But if you even go on a mission with me, no matter from SHIELD or from Hestia, that you need to be a little older and have some more training." Emily looked up at Phil before looking back at Arabella. "But come on, let's play out here for a while." When Emily said that, that they played hide and seek, of which was not a game that she played with Phil when he was younger, along with a few other games. One of the last things they did was get into a pillow fight, it was so funny, partly because it was an odd number to do pillow fights. But it was mostly because of the end result of the pillow fight as well as their ages, for seriously how many times does one see a man in his thirties or forties, a woman in her early twenties and a seven year old girl get into a pillow fight. After the pillow fight that Emily took Arabella back to the underworld and to her room before Emily went back up to her cabin where Phil was sitting on the couch waiting for her. As Emily walked over to him that Phil spoke.
"The last day I play this many games was the day I learned who you are."
"Yeah, you were hyperactive for the following month." Emily sat down besides Phil. "So what is the mission anyway?"
"We are going to pose as father and daughter while we watch a Clint Barton." Emily looked at Phil.
"May I ask of why we are watching this man?"
"Well, from the files that we have on him that he grew up on a homestead. From what we gathered from people who know Clint Barton that he has one of the best marksmanship that was seen. SHIELD has great marksmanship among it's membership but from what we gathered that Clint seems to top them all. As far as we know he still lives there, maybe with a wife or girlfriend and maybe some kids. We are not sure on that though but if he does have a family that Nick told us not to add them to the file for their protection provided that Clint joins SHIELD." Emily nodded.
"So we will be recruiting but making sure he has the right skills for the job right first?"
"Right."
"All right, where we would be staying?"
Emily got her answer the next day when Phil drove a pick up truck to an old farmhouse at the edge of a forest but she could see a couple of other farmhouses. Phil pointed that the closest farmhouse to them was the Barton farmhouse, once Phil turned the truck off that Emily unbuckled herself and got out of the truck. She looked up at the house, the farmhouse reminded her strongly of what the big house at Camp Halfblood looks like now. For it was light blue in color with white trim but there was an old feeling to it but yet it was kept up well. Instead of the farmhouse being four stories that it was two stories, three if one counts the attic. There was a barn that was the normal size barn with the normal colors, she could barley make out the sounds of animals coming from the barn.
Thankfully Emily and Phil changes clothes before they left he brain, Emily was wearing a white tank top with a button shirt that was unbutton, blue jeans and boots. Phil was wearing something similar but he was wearing a white shirt as oppose to a white tank top. Emily walked over to Phil and was about ready to say something when she heard a yell from down the road. Emily and Phil looked down as they watched a man about ten years younger than Phil walk up the road towards them. He has short brown hair, blue eyes and lightly tanned skin, he was wearing a button down farm shirt, blue jeans, farm boots and a blue shirt under the button shirt. Emily wasn't sure if this was Clint Barton or not, but she didn't think much of it for there was a woman with him as well as a four year old boy and a three year old girl. The father spoke as he came closer to Emily and Phil.
"Aren't you the two that brought this house?" By the time the man finished that he reached them along with his small family.
"Yes, I am Phil James, this is my daughter Rachel Blackthrone." Emily glanced at Phil when he said that his last name was Phil and gave the name Emily has been using since Hades adopted her. The man looked over at Emily in curiosity.
"You are married?" Emily noticed the slight panicked look on Phil's face, thankfully Emily was ready if Phil used her last name or even use her birth name.
"Yes, it was recent in the last two weeks. However my husband is trying to set up our house and trying to get a job. He wanted to make sure I was stable for the time being he is stable. When my father brought this house a couple of weeks that my husband wanted me to come out with my father to help him out. When my husband is ready that he will send for me."
"Nice to meet you, Rachel. As well as you, Phil."
"You can call me Emily if you prefer, Emily is my middle name." The man nodded.
"I am Clint Barton, by the way." Emily glanced at Phil of who looked relieved that the first person they meet was Clint but a bit worried of the fact that Clint was married with children. He gestured to the boy in his arms. "This is my son, Cooper. That is Lila, my daughter. This is Laura, my wife." They greeted each other, when they were finished that Laura spoke.
"When we heard when you were moving in that we wanted to ask you if you wanted to join us for dinner tonight." Phil and Emily looked at each other briefly before Phil looked at the Barton family.
"We will be glad to join you." For the rest of the afternoon that Phil and Emily spend at the Barton farmhouse, during that time that Emily and Phil forget about why they were living the farmhouse.
For the following month that Emily and Phil got into a routine, thanks to their demigod abilities that it was easy to do what they were doing on this mission. During that month that they watched Clint and his family, after that month was when they told Clint and Laura everything or at least about their mission, SHIELD, and the offer to Clint of joining. They even told them that they were not really rathe and daughter, but they didn't bring up that they were demigods. After telling Clint and Laura of this that Clint and Laura went to the kitchen to talk about it, so Phil and Emily sat there. After a while they came back and Clint accepted the job offer from SHIELD. Once he accepted that Emily used her abilities from Hestia to put up some protection around the house. Once they got to SHIELD that Clint took some training to help him, Emily and Phil helped him. After a month of helping Clint through the training and become an agent that Emily went to the underworld.
In the next three years that Emily found herself training Arabella more as well as not doing as missions with SHIELD or Project Demigod. That was partly due to her duties in the underworld and Arabella needed to have some training when it was time for her to go to Hogwarts. Even though Arabella was unaware of the fact that she was a demiwitch, even if Emily hadn't known since Arabella came to the underworld that Emily would have figured it out soon enough when the magic started to come up. Though the accidental magic could pass off for her demigod abilities or even the fact that Hecate blessed her. Arabella never asked of how she could do some things, so Emily guess that Arabella figured it was a result of one of those things. But Emily noticed the slight weaken state of the bond that Arabella has with her twin brother, it was like what happen with Phil. But there was one thing that was clear to Emily, that the bond between Arabella and her twin would never go away.
Partly due to Emily's blessing on Arabella so that it would never be gone, Emily would have gave Phil that blessing but the bond between Phil and his twin sister needed to be as strong Arabella's bond was when Emily put the blessing on Arabella. The other part, due to the bond as well as wherever Arabella's twin was, that Arabella's twin brother was now didn't consider the people he was as his really family or home that. He considered it more as a safe place to go to or a place to go to. Emily wished that she could do something for Phil's twin sister or tell Phil about her, but she promised her mother that she wouldn't tell Phil about his twin sister. Sometimes her thoughts would go to Steve, Bucky or Phil's twin sister when she didn't have something to do or think about. At the moment she in her room in the underworld and she was thinking of Phil's twin sister and was wondering of where Phil's twin sister was when she heard a knock at the door. Emily went over to the door and opened it, it was Arabella.
"Arabella, what brings you here?"
"I kept hearing you talk about SHIELD. I want to visit the headquarters." Emily stood there and looked at Arabella thinking, ever since Arabella and Phil meet that Arabella wanted to know more about SHIELD. Not only that but when Phil accidentally brought up Arabella to Nick that Nick had wanted Emily to bring her to Headquarters. Emily told him no, when he insisted that she settled it by saying that Arabella was seven and that Arabella had more worries than being watched by SHIELD and that Arabella fell under Emily's protection of SHIELD. Since anything that has to do with demigods that Emily has to deal with it, that was Emily was a demigod and knows the in and outs of the demigod world. Emily was unsure if she should show the headquarters to Arabella and have her meet the agents there or more of them than Emily and Phil.
"Arabella."
"Please. You should when I am old enough that I can go there and I am ten already." Emily didn't say anything right away as she looked at Arabella.
"We can go tomorrow." Arabella smiled before she went down to her own bedroom while Emily closed the door to her bedroom.
The next day that Emily took Arabella up to SHIELD headquarters and showed her around, the agents that knew Emily asked who Arabella was. When she told them that Arabella was her half sister on her father's side that they were surprised by that fact. It was clear from their faces that they didn't expect Emily to have a younger sibling, even though they meet another younger sibling of hers. Though no one in SHIELD but Phil and Melinda were aware of that simple fact, when it reached lunchtime that Emily took Arabella were the agents eat. Emily and Arabella joined Melinda, Eric, and Phil at the same table after getting their lunch, Eric looked at Arabella curiously. Emily introduce all of them, Eric was the happiest of the three since he finally got to meet someone his own age or close to it since Arabella was a couple years younger. As they spoke with each other that Emily heard a yell of her name from across the lunch room, so Emily turned to the source of the yell. It was Clint and Nick, she noticed as they walked over to her that np they noticed Arabella, when they were close enough that Nick spoke.
"You know I have accept trainers before they start training."
"Arabella is not going to be a trained as a shield agent, she is training to be a demigod and she has been asking to be showed around the headquarters after learning about it." Nick looked at Arabella.
"This is the Arabella that you spoke of?"
"Yes, remember what I told you when she was first brought up." Nick looked at Emily, Emily gave him a serious look that made it plain, like always, don't mess with her. "What brings you two here anyway?" Clint sat down in one of the chairs and he snatched a sandwich from Phil maki Phil shake his head before he spoke.
"The pirate is here for lunch, I need a snack. However the main reason I am here is because the pirate wants that two of us go a mission."
"Yeah?" Emily took a bite of her sandwich as Clint nodded, Emily shallowed her food down. "All right, but I am not leaving Arabella here."
"She can stay at my place."
"All right, but we are going to finish lunch first. We are not going to finish till the pirate leaves to get his food." Emily, Clint and Phil smirked as Nick walked off muttering under his breath of how much she was like a nanny looking after him.
