AN: remember that this is the rewritten version of children of the past, there would be som changes in the story of which is mainly Emily having a bigger part this she did in the winter soldier. For I found that part of the story too small for Emily, consider she is married to Bucky of who is he winter soldier. Considering she is the only thing that Bucky can remember that she deserved a bigger part and the winter soldier is a huge impact on her. There are some other changes, added some more details and changing a few other things around but overall it is still the same story and plot. Of where Emily learns to adjust two lives that of being the underworld princess and being Lieutenant USA.
This part of the note are my other stories, first off, I would add more to children of the harvest once I am done with this rewrite or even just repeat what I did with children of the past. Second, I have not abandoned Heir of Selwyn, Daughters of Hades or children of the Galaxy. Children of the Galaxy is on pause for the time being till the shadow witch avenger can catch up with it. As for daughters of Hades, similar thing expect every new chapter of the shadow witch avenger that I would put up a new chapter of daughters of hades. Maybe, it depends on what happens in the new chapter of the shadow witch avenger would determine of what may happen in my story. As for Heir of Selwyn, I do have a chapter in the works, I will try to post it as soon as I can.
The next day, Emily went back into New York and went to the apartment building that S.H.I.E.L.D. put Steve into. Emily went to the headquarters last night and spoke with Nick and Phil of where Steve would be living for the time being. They agreed for a while that Emily would stay with Steve and help him adjust to this world and time. She knows Hades doesn't mind that Emily was going to stay up for a while to help Steve with adjusting for he understood that Steve needed her help. When Emily got to Steve's apartment and knocked that he looked relief to see her standing there. Thankfully the apartment had two rooms and two bathrooms, so Emily took the second bedroom and pulled the things she brought with her into the room. When she was done that Emily went back to the living room of where Steve was struggling with the remote trying to figure it out. Emily was about ready to show him of what to is and how it works when there was a knock on the door.
For the next couple of weeks that Emily stayed with Steve to help him adjust to this world as best as she could. During this time that she used her normal appearance with her blond hair and blue eyes, thankfully no one had notice of who she was or who Steve was, or at least not yet. She had asked for delays in any missions after the last one she did for Hades, one afternoon, Emily had come back from doing some shopping for the apartment to find Steve gone. Emily had a feeling of where he went to, so she crossed the street and went into the boxing gym. Sure enough that Steve was there, Emily remained in the doorway watching him, Emily would admit that she has been though a lot in the last seventy years. But she couldn't begin to think of what this must be like for Steve, to crash in wartime only to be wake after about seventy years and the world changes. He was not the only going though something like that, Hazel was going though the same thing that Emily was sure of. However, Hazel died oppose to Steve who never died in the first place, since his soul never reached the underworld. Emily knew that Steve been looking at the files of the howling commandos and Lauren when she left the apartment.
She was sure that Steve may wonder of why S.H.I.E.L.D. thinks Bucky was missing in action as oppose to dead. Emily didn't have the heart to tell him that Bucky was alive, at times she has a hard time believing that herself and she went to where the spirits just to make sure Bucky wasn't there. She tried to find Bucky but she was never able to find Bucky at all so far all she could do was hope and pray that she would one day find him. For she knew a part of her heart was missing since Bucky was lost, the same goes for Lauren, but she had found small parts of her heart when she got to know Phil and Arsbella. That part of her heart returned when Steve was found, for that meant that she could have the closure she needed when it went to Steve as well as having someone to talk to other than Phil and Arabella. Not that she was unable to talk to them, it was just at times her brain goes back to the 1940s, neither Arabella or Phil lived in that time. There times when Emily felt like she needed to to so to someone without explaining certain things she says that were common in the 1940s when she doesn't make sure that she says something from that time frame. Than Emily heard footsteps, she looked to where she hear the footsteps coming from and it was Nick. When Nick reached the doorway, of where she was at, that he merely nodded at her when he reached the door and looked to where Steve was before he spoke.
"Trouble sleeping?" Steve looked away from the bag that he been hitting to where Nick and Emily stood, though Emily knows Steve knows that she didn't come with Nick.
"I slept for seventy years, sir. I think I've had my fill."
"Then you should be out, celebrating, seeing the world." Steve started undoing the tape from around his hand as Nick went further into the gym while Emily walked out from behind Nick and walked over to Steve to help him.
"I went under, the world was at war, I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost."
"We've made some mistakes along the way. Some very recently."
"You here with a mission, sir?"
"I doubt that's why he is here. I assume that you are here to talk to me as well about the mission."
"I am."
"Trying to get me back in the world?"
"Trying to save it." Nick handed a file to Steve, Emily looked at it when Steve opened it, it was the Tesseract. Both Emily and Steve know what it was and what it could do or have an idea at any rate. Though Emily had. A better idea of what it could do.
"Hydra's secret weapon."
"Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought what we think, the Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs."
"Who took it from you?"
"He's called Loki. He's not from around here. There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten even stranger than you already know."
"No kidding about that." Nick looked at Emily when she said that, she merely shrugged, Emily made sure to know all the myths about the gods. She knew that the Romans and the Greek exist, but if she wasn't sure if the others exist as well.
"At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me."
"Ten bucks says you're wrong." Steve picked up a punching bag from the floor and put it over his shoulder. "There's a debriefing package waiting for you two back at your apartment." Emily and Steve started walking out of the gym with the punching bag over Steve's shoulders."Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?" Steve turned back slightly before he spoke.
"You should have left it in the ocean." As soon as Steve said that, that Emily and Steve walked out of the boxing gym and into the apartment building. When they were inside their apartment that Steve put his bag in one corner and sat down on the couch and Emily sat down next to him. Steve had than looked at her.
"Did you know that they found that thing after I crashed?"
"No, I didn't. That was mainly because I didn't care about that at that time. There other things that I needed to do." Steve was about ready to say something. When Emily's phone rang, Emily sighed and pulled it out and accepted the call. As soon as she put the phone against her hear that she realized it was Phil.
"Are you in New York?" Emily had a feeling of why he was calling, she decided to have some fun with this since she hadn't seen him in the last two weeks.
"Are you bored because your cellist moved back to Portland?" When Emily said that, that Steve looked at her confused, he was about ready to say something when Emily mouthed at him, I will explain later.
"Very funny, Emily. That has nothing to do with why I am calling you."
"Really? So you called me up to say you are move to Portland too?"
"Emily! Do you mind if you tease me later?" Emily laughed when Phil said that, Emily has no idea if anyone was hearing him on his end but if he was on the street that Emily wished she was there to see his face.
"Couldn't resist, I am taking a guess you are calling because of the Tesseract right?"
"Sort of, Director Fury ask me to go and get Stark."
"Really? Why?"
"Emily, you know why if Director Fury spoke with you and Steve or at least Steve."
"He spoke with us already. But why are you calling me if I am not the one you suppose to get?"
"Simple, I want you to come along with me?"
"Why?"
"It would be amusing for both of us if we have to taser Tony and let him drool while we watch super nanny. So are you for it, if he doesn't want to help?" As Phil said that Emily smiled, she remembered that day so well.
"Well if he has homework, that wouldn't be fair now would it. But I will come along anyway, just for the fun of it."
"All right, I will meet you in front of Stark tower." Phil hanged up and Emily put her phone back into her pocket than she walked over to Steve.
"Look, I have to go out for a while." Steve looked around before he spoke.
"Where are you going?"
"Don't worry about that. I will be fine. I am not going to gone for long." Emily snapped her fingers and her appearance changed to her daughter of Hades appearance. Than she ran into a shadow and appeared in front the stark tower of where Phil was waiting for her. They went inside while Phil tried to get hold of Stark, than Phil overwritten J.A.R.V.I.S. as they rode up on the elevator and managed to call Stark's phone.
"Mr. Stark, we need to talk." Emily could over hear Tony as they went up the elevator.
"You have reached the life model decoy of Tony stark. Please leave a message."
"This is urgent."
"Than leave it urgently." Just the doors open to reveal Emily and Phil, Phil hang up his phone as they entered the level. As they entered that Tony spoke. "Security breach. It's on you." Tony said the last part to Pepper as she looked at them.
"Mr. Stark."
"Phil! Come in." Just as Pepper said that she got up from where she was sitting and walked over to them. Tony looked a little surprised by Pepper calling Phil by his first name.
"Phil?"
"I can't stay."
"His first name is agent." Tony said that as he joined Pepper, Phil and Emily.
"Come on in. We're celebrating."
"Which is why he can't stay."
"We need you to look this over as soon as possible." Phil held out the tablet to Tony.
"I don't like being handed things." Piper interrupted Tony.
"That's fine, because i love to be handed things. So, let's trade. Thank you." As she spoke that she took the tablet from Phil and gave him the glass she was holding. Than she switched the glass that Tony has with the tablet. Tony looked over at Phil and Emily.
"Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday." Emily tilted her head when Tony said that.
"Really? Since when did a consultation has a time? What makes you assume that this was a consultation?" Tony glared at her when she said that, Emily merely smirked but Phil spoke before Tony could say anything.
"This isn't a consultation."
"Is this about The Avengers? Which I...I know nothing about." Emily rolled her eyes as Phil looked at Pepper.
"The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify." He started to walk away as he said that.
"I didn't know that either." Tony turned back some to say something else,
"Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self obsessed, don't play well with others."
"That I did know."
"This isn't about personality profiles anymore." Tony started looking the things on he tablet.
"Whatever. Miss Potts, got a minute?"
"One moment." Emily and Phil remained standing where they were standing, Emily leaned to Phil and whispered to him.
"Exactly what is on that tablet." Phil gestured to where Tony and Piper were standing before he spoke.
"Watch, I am sure he will put it up on screen."
"I was having twelve percent of a moment. This seems serious, Phil's pretty shaken." Emily snorted when pepper said that, Phil glanced over at her with showing, what before he whispered.
"How is that she would be able to tell that?" Emily was close of snorting again, Emily whispered back to Phil.
"You have a girlfriend, figure it out yourself." Emily smiled he glanced her like you are no help at all so Emily whispered. "Well what do you expect that I give you my brain say here this is how a woman thinks." When Emily said that, that Phil put his hand over his face, like he does when she makes a comment like that. Phil didn't bother to say anything as Tony spoke.
"How did you notice? Why is he Phil?" Pepper didn't pay any attention to what Tony was saying and she was looking at the images that were on the tablet.
"What is all this?"
"This is uh..." With a flick of Tony's hand that he spreads all the profiles of the other avengers on the different compute screens. It was the different profiles of the other avengers that were selected to join if they accepted to join. Emily was surprised, she could see Bruce Banner on there as well as Bruce turning into the hulk. There was Thor, or who she assume was Thor, she heard all about what happen at New Mexico from Phil. At that time, Emily had been down at Camp Jupiter. There was also footage of Emily and Steve fighting HYDRA there as well, Emily heard that she scary when she was fighting in the war. She also heard that from the campers, in both camps, of the same thing when she helps them train with sword, powers or both. Emily would admit that the daughter of hades powers can be scary and her sword ability went up since she was adopted by Hades. But she hadn't realized of how scary she looked fighting before she become a daughter of Hades. She was sure that she looked ten times as scary now when she fights than back than. "This." Emily learned to Phil.
"You know I never watched the footage before while fighting among the howling commandos. I knew that after being adopted of how scary I could be when I fought, but I hadn't realized it of scary I could be before that adoption." Phil smiled slightly.
"I am not going to deny that, I am just surprised that the red skull didn't focus on you as much as he did your brother."
"He is your brother too."
"Half brother, but it is too weird to think of him as a brother."
"You managed it with me."
"Only because I got used to it." Emily snorted when Phil said that. Than Emily heard Pepper talking once more.
"I'm going to take the jet to D.C. tonight."
"Tomorrow."
"You have homework. You have a lot of homework."
"Well, what if I didn't?"
"If you didn't?"
"Yeah." Emily rolled her eyes, Emily could see Phil smiling a little bit out of the corner of her eyes.
"You mean if you finished?" Tony nodded his head than Pepper walked closer to Tony.
"Well, um...then... " Than she whispered something in Tony's ear and Phil looked away in embarrassment. When Phil did that Emily mouthed at him. 'Really, you are embarrassed at something that you can't hear?' Phil mouthed back at her, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what is it. Emily shrugged before she mouthed back, true, it doesn't but it still doesn't explain why you looked away embarrassed, more so when Aubrey does that to you as well. His static expression was close of breaking down when Emily said that and he was close of blushing. Emily smiled lightly and mouthed Men before looking from Phil of who snorted when Emily mouthed that.
"Square deal. It's the last date." Pepper kissed Tony.
"Work hard." Pepper walked back towards them.
"So any chance you're driving by Laguardia?"
"I can drop you."
"Fantastic. I want to hear about the cellist. Would I assume that she is the cellist?" Emily laughed and smiled when Pepper said that before she face palm herself than emily spoke.
"That is the second time something like that happened." Emily removed her hand as Tony looked over at the three of them than Phil spoke.
"No, she is not the cellist." Than Phil looked at her. "Second time?" Emily put one of her hands on his shoulder before she spoke.
"I will tell you later." Pepper merely shrugged before she spoke
"So, the cellist. Is that still a thing?"
"She moved back to Portland."
"What? Boo!" Emily removed her hand from Phil's shoulder as they started towards the elevator before they could enter that Tony spoke.
"Hang on a second." The three of them froze, Tony walked up to them and looked at Emily.
"Didn't you say your name was Rachel Blackthrone?" Emily raised an eyebrow when he said that.
"Yes, why?"
"Aren't you one of the agents?"
"I am more of a consultant but I do go on some missions, usually with Phil though."
"I noticed that you seem to be around where Phil is half of the time. Why?" Emily shrugged.
"Does that really matter all that much?"
"Yes." Emily looked at Phil, it was clear Phil didn't want to reveal that he was a demigod to Tony than Emily looked back at Tony. Emily didn't want Tony to know about who she was.
"Let's just say that is something that is not talked about, not even among S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents." Phil looked relieved when Emily said that.
"Fair enough. But I want to know one thing." Tony gestured to the poppy around her wrist. "Where did you get that?" Emily looked down at the poppy before looking at Tony. Emily hoped that Tony wouldn't noticed the poppy for the rest of the time she had the poppy covered her jacket sleeve. She didn't bother to put the sleeve over the poppy that night before she came here.
"Why do you want to know? What is so important about a poppy?"
"Simple, from the record and footage that Emily Rogers Barnes has a poppy that turns into a sword. She used to make the poppy grow to fight with or use it as a sword along with her staff. After Emily died that the poppy vanished and no one ever found it. I saw enough pictures of that poppy to know when I see that poppy and I know that the poppy that belongs to Emily Rogers Barnes. From what I heard that Emily never died in the first place for there rumors of her being sighted in the last two weeks." Emily tilted her head before she spoke.
"What are you getting at?"
"I think you are Emily Rogers Barnes ." Emily looked at Phil of who shook his head than emily looked at Tony.
"How do you know it is not sort of gadget?" Tony raised an eyebrow when Emily said that, Emily sighed and decided to drop it. "Just go back to what you were doing." Before Tony could say or do anything that Pepper, Phil and Emily entered the elevator and the doors closed.
The next day that Phil had picked them up in a plane craft as Steve called it though Emily thought of calling it a plane nut. But decided against it, Emily knew at they had advanced technology but she never thought the technology was like this. Phil had also showed the videos of the others that S.H.I.E.L.D. were thinking of calling in. Phil walked over as Emily and Steve watched on the laptop, Emily tried explain what a laptop was to Steve since he never saw one before now. It was odd to explain things to Steve, thankfully she didn't need to worry about cooking since when she showed him a few things that it took a very short amount of time before he was cooking like a pro.
"So this Doctor Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?"
"A lot of people were. You were the world's first superhero. Banner thought gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula." A footage of the Hulk's attack on the army at culver was being showed at the moment.
"Didn't really go his way, did it?"
"Not so much. When he's not that thing though, guy's like a Stephen Hawking." Emily was close of laughing when she saw the look on Steve's face, Emily may not have been up to date on every single thing in this world. Emily was close though, but she was far enough along to know who Stephen Hawking was. It was clear that Steve didn't understand what Phil had meet.
"He's like a smart person. I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially. I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping. I mean, I was... I was present while you were unconscious from the ice. You know, it's really, it's just a... just a huge honor to have you on board." As Phil spoke that Emily put the laptop to one side and the two of them stood up before going behind the pilots, Phil followed them.
"Well, I hope I'm the man for the job."
"Oh, you are. Absolutely. Uh... we've made some modifications to the uniform. I had a little design input."
"The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little... old-fashioned?"
"With everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old-fashioned." Phil than looked over at Emily before he had went on. "We tried to recreate your uniform but we were unable to finish it, due to the fact of your powers.
"I will have to ask Hephaestus look at it after this mission. I have to admit that it would be nice to have a second uniform. I might have him make it more for S.H.I.E.L.D. missions hat I might go on as Lieutenant USA after this."
"So do you know where your uniform is than?" Emily nodded when Phil said that.
"It is the blue bracelet. When I tug on it that it becomes the uniform and the green bracelet is my Greek armor and the poppy is my sword."
"What about the necklace?"
"If I swish it becomes a Stygian iron sword but if I circle it around that it becomes my staff from the war." Phil merely nodded when Emily had said that. Than the plane landed and they got off that Phil walked away from them and Natasha approached them.
"There was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America or Lieutenant America trading cards yet?"
"Trading cards?" Emily shook her head when Steve said that. Emily meant to tell him about that but there was so much more that she needed to catch him up on than telling him about the trading cards.
"They're vintage, he's very proud." Natasha looked at Emily, Emily spoke.
"I already signed those trading cards some time ago when he learned about me." Natasha raised an eyebrow when Emily said that. "That is a long story, Natasha." Natasha shrugged as Dr. Bruce Banner walked over to them and Steve shook Bruce's hand.
"Dr. Banner."
"Oh, yeah. Hi. They told me you two would be coming."
"Word is you can find the cube."
"Is that the only word on me?"
"Only word I care about."
"Must be strange for you two, all of this."
"Well, this is actually kind of familiar."
"Unlike Steve, that I hadn't been in the ice, so I didn't to adjust to this time as he has to since I adjusted along side it."
"Gentlemen and lady, you may wanna step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breath." Suddenly the air carrier started to shake as to prepare to dive into the ocean or at least that is what Emily was assuming was happening.
"Is this is a submarine?"
"Maybe for all we known. I am not sure if prefer to be under water or in the sky. Not a big fan of either. But I am not too worried about either." Emily was never worried about the sky or the ovens before till she was adopted by Hades. After that she worried slightly due to her status and the rivalry of the big three, thankfully her best friends or among them was a daughter of Zeus and a son of Poseidon. She knows Poseidon was never too bothered about Emily being in his domain, no matter of her parentage.
"Really? They wanted me in a submerged pressurized metal container?" Emily, Bruce, and Steve walked close to the edge of the carrier that the fans began to rotate and the carrier started to lift into the air. "Oh, no. This is much worse." When Emily, Steve and Bruce reached the meeting room that Nick was standing there he greeted them.
"Gentlemen and Lady." Steve walks up Nick and handed him a ten dollar Bill before walking back over to Emily. Emily smiled lightly when Steve did that, even after of what they been through that it didn't possible that Steve could be surprise again. Than Nick looked at Bruce.
"Doctor, thank you for coming."
"Thanks for asking nicely. So, uh...how long am I staying?"
"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the clear."
"Where are you with that?" Nick pointed to Phil to explain.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."
"That's still not gonna find them in time."
"You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?"
"How many are there?"
"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?"
"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please."
"You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys." Bruce and Natasha left the meet room, Emily remained by Nick as Steve went to the table and leaned against it and Phil walked over to him and started talking with him. Emily looked back at the two, it was amusing really to watch her two brothers talk, though Phil was being a fan boy or whatever what you want to call him. Nick than spoke
"Emily." Emily looked back at Nick of who was looking at her. "I know before this idea was scrapped after Phil talked to your half sister about the avengers. I want to call her in but I have no way of doing it... "
"I will contact Severus." Nick raised an eyebrow when Emily said that. "Severus is my nephew more or less and he acts like an uncle to Arabella and Severus watches over Arabella while she is at school." Nick nodded when Emily said that, than one of the agents spoke up.
"We got a hit. Sixty seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy nine percent."
"Location?"
"Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."
"Captain, Lieutenant, you're up." Emily nodded and tugged at her blue bracelet, the agents nearby grasp slightly as her Lieutenant USA uniform had suddenly covered her, as she walk over to Steve of who started to walk out of the meeting room that she took off her skull necklace and swish it in a circle so it turned into her staff. Emily put the staff on her back of where the strap was for her staff was, for the most her staff was on her back like Steve's shield was either on his back or on his arm. Emily went to board a Quinjet and a few minutes later that Steve had come into the hanger wearing the new Captain America suit.