"I work for S.H.I.E.L.D." Helena said simply taking a sip of her iced tea before smoothing her chocolate hair back behind her ears. Holly had pulled her out of the elevator and demanded they go elsewhere to talk. A few blocks down Helena had been pulled into a restaurant bustling with the lunch rush and seated at a table in the thick of the crowd. Holly had sworn that they would be safe and Helena was thankful for that. Now she watched as Holly's face cycled through a handful of emotions and finally settled on disbelief. Holly downed the rest of her drink before covering her face with her hands and giving an exasperated sigh.

"Let me get this straight- You work for Nick Fury." Holly spoke.

"Yes."

"Did you know I worked for him?"

"No of course not. I didn't know anything about your whereabouts until a couple of days ago. I recognized your alias immediately when Fury told me I'd be working with you and it only cemented my decision to be on this project."

"What project? What is your job exactly?" Holly demanded, her eyes narrowing at her sister.

" Director Fury said that I was to work with you in assisting the Avengers."

"Uh huh." Holly mused as one of her eyebrows raised. Helena shrugged and procured a file from her bag.

"If you don't believe me it's all in here. I'm supposed to give this to Ms. Potts."

"It's not that I don't believe you it's just…you as an assistant? You don't exactly blossom around people you don't know." Holly teased as her sister's cheeks reddened.

"Oh it gets worse." Helena murmured as Holly's eyes scanned the file. It was full of the elaborate back story and family records that Helena and her handler had created for all of them before they had split up.

"How so?"

"My assignment is a little more specialized than yours. See, while you were told to watch over all of the Avengers, Fury said that my main focus should be Steve Rodgers." Holly's eyes shot up and settled on her blushing older sister.

"You!" she snorted.

"I'm supposed to try and help him get better acquainted and familiarized with today's technology and in return he's supposed to help me with my people skills. Fury said he can be a people person?" Helena was fidgeting with her napkin and Holly couldn't help but smirk.

"He's definitely polite." Holly said as she started to wonder if she had been assigned to someone and Fury had just neglected to tell her. She closed the file and handed it back to Helena who replaced it in her bag. Conversation died for a few moments as the servers brought out the food they had ordered and brought them refills of their drinks.

"So have you heard from Hannah?" Holly pried.

"Of course. Did you really think she was going to stay undercover for long?"

"Well no knowing her."

"She's good. She was working as a medic for the military overseas before she showed up on S.H.I.E.L.D.s radars. They got in touch with her of course and she's out on a mission right now."

"She works for S.H.I.E.L.D. too!?" Holly yelped practically slamming her drink down on the table. "This is starting to seem way to fishy to me."

"Calm down." Helena growled as she grabbed her sister's arm and cast a cursory glance around the restaurant. "They're not onto us and they don't know we're related let alone sisters."

"Are you sure about that?" Holly shot back giving her sister a warning glance. Helena sat back and bit her lip. She pushed some food around her plate nervously as a pit in her stomach formed.

"I'll look into it." Helena said just loud enough for Holly to hear. Holly fidgeted in her seat and the sound of rustling paper caught her attention. She reached behind her and her fingers touched the envelope she had received in the mail- the one that had ruined an otherwise perfectly normal day. I should tell her, Holly thought until she saw her sister's smiling face. It was Helena's way of diffusing a family situation and it only made Holly replace her hand on the table. Helena didn't need to know about the note yet. No need to worry her on her first day of work.

"Thank you again for lunch." Helena smiled bumping shoulders with Holly.

"Don't thank me. You can thank Pepper for giving me a Stark Industries expenses account later." Holly smirked as she thought of the look on Tony's face. The girls had ended their lunch on a good note and had decided to head up to Holly's suite to catch up on everything that had happened.

"My room is that door right there. Did you want anything from the kitchen?" Holly asked as she headed back towards the common area.

"Just a water bottle." Helena called as she disappeared into the bedroom. Meeting everyone so soon would only stress her out.

Holly moved around the kitchen and grabbed cold water from the fridge. The common area was almost eerily silent except for the bass she could feel in the floor coming from Clint's room. Blaring music was something he liked to do when he was "home alone" and needed a distraction. Holly didn't mind it and had learned to work around it. I hope they like Helena, Holly smiled to herself as she practically skipped back to her.

"Anything interesting on the television?" Holly asked amused by the odd looking reality show that her sister had flipped to.

"Not really." Helena sighed and turned the TV off. "Just the same garbage that's usually on during the middle of the day. I can't imagine we'll spend our days watching that crap."

"I don't. The only time I watch TV is on laundry day and I usually just watch old reruns of Friends. I keep pretty busy around here ."

"Oh really? If I wasn't here right now what would you be doing?" Helena pried.

"Um…I would be throwing dinner in the over, at the gym with Steve, or probably upstairs in one of the labs messing with Tony's hologram projections. I could do that here but it is a lot more fun in a room full of projectors."

"Sounds like fun. Do you think I could see that room?" Helena asked her fingers itching to play with some technology. Holly shrugged.

"I don't see why not. We can drop off your file to Pepper on the way." Holly said gesturing for her sister to follow her out of the room and back onto the elevator.

Holly was surprised to find that Pepper was already back from lunch when she knocked on the office door. Seeing Tony first thing when she opened the door soured her mood slightly but she brushed him off for Helena's sake. Holly introduced Helena as her sister handed over her file and received a file and key cards in return. Holly watched as both Pepper and Tony seemed to size Helena up as she stood quietly in front of the desk. Pepper hadn't done that to her so obviously but she also hadn't shown up as a surprise. Fury had already set Helena up for failure.

"I don't mean to inconvenience you both but there isn't a bedroom set up for her since we didn't know she was coming. She'll have to stay with you while we make arrangements." Pepper said shortly.

"Not a problem." Holly smiled. Both of her bosses looked at them suspiciously.

"Really?" Stark scoffed.

"Yes. We're both professionals here and from what I've gathered so far she will be easy enough to live with." Holly said.

"And you're okay with showing her around." Pepper asked looking between the girls. Holly nodded and Pepper smiled.

"Okay then. Nice to meet you Agent Minis and welcome to Stark Industries." Pepper stood and moved around her desk to shake Helena's hand. Helena smiled and nodded to both Pepper and Tony before turning to follow Holly. When the door was safely shut Tony sighed with agitation.

"What?" Pepper asked.

"Another one? I don't like having one spy for Fury let alone two."

"Oh please Tony. Natasha and Clint are more likely to spy and report on you to Fury than Holly. Don't get me wrong- I don't like having another person just mysteriously show up at my doorstep but we can't just turn her away."

"Yes we can." Tony corrected.

"No we can't. Helena has a more specified project than Holly- she's here to help Steve adjust."

"I can do that. Problem solved. Now send her away." Pepper rolled her eyes at Tony.

"Uh huh. In less than an hour you two would have the fight of the century going and all of us would be doomed to hear about it for months. Give this girl a chance. You didn't like Holly at first either and you're finally coming around to her."

"I am not!"

"She brings you donuts to the lab."

"So. I could go get donuts myself."

"And yet, you don't. Just give it time." Pepper kissed Tony on the lips and ran her finger through his hair. He practically purred and pulled her into a long embrace. She always knew just the right buttons to push.

"So this is Research and Development?" Helena asked as she stepped out of the elevator.

"Yup. This is where Tony and Dr. Banner spend most of their time. I just come here for the toys." Holly chuckled.

"Can you tell me more about the others? I was only given information on Steve and you can only learn so much through the media and by word of mouth."

"Sure. I'm sure once I get you on the computer you'll be able to bring up all the information you could ever want. I'm sure Jarvis will be able to help and if not, you're smart enough to override him. I haven't been able to so you'll be doing us both a favor." Holly smiled as they passed the lab where Bruce was working. He met Holly's gaze and smiled as he waved to her. She waved back at him and innocently tucked a strand of hair behind her ear as her stomach was suddenly full of butterflies.

"And that was?" Helena asked as Holly closed the door of the conference room.

"Doctor Bruce Banner. He's a good guy, but I don't know much about him."

"Well we can fix that. Where's the computer?" Helena asked looking around the room. It was almost completely empty except for the conference table set in the middle of the room.

"Jarvis…" Holly spoke softly. She slowly swept her hand across the empty air before her and she heard Helena gasp as a blue holographic keyboard appeared in the air where her hand had been. Holly typed her access code on the and the room came to life with other holographic images. Helena seemed to be at a loss as she silently walked around the room looking at the images that had appeared. There were a few labeled folders and word documents but nothing that screamed "Look at me!"

" Jarvis, open a model of the Milky Way."

"Right away." the AI answered and the model appeared in the empty space between Helena and Holly. Helena gasped and leaned slightly forward to study the intricate details of the projection.

"Helena." Holly whispered to get her sisters attention before grabbing the projection with both hands and expanding it to fill the entire room. Another surprised gasp escaped from Helena's lips as she turned in circles. Holly leaned on the edge of the conference table as her sister walked around and played with clusters of stars by zooming in on them and turning them.

"This is remarkable. I'll have to get some of this technology from Stark before I leave."

"Good luck with that." Holly chuckled as she closed the solar system. She opened a folder that had files with all of the Avengers names on them and moved the folders to their own places in the air.

"Why are there double files?" Helena asked as she noticed each file had two documents.

"One contains notes that I have taken since I got here. The other-" Holly opened all of the secondary files side-by-side. They instantly flashed red. "- contains the classified personal profiles that I don't have high enough clearance to access on my own. I was sent in with no information and apparently Stark plans to keep it that way…or maybe it's Fury. Either way I need your help." Holly murmured as Helena came to lean beside her.

"It should be easy enough. There's one thing that I need to do first though." Helena said as she moved to a single laptop that was located at the head of the table. "Jarvis I need you to upload this alright?" Helena said as she plugged in a thumb drive to the laptop.

"Jarvis?" Holly asked but there was no reply. She turned to see her sister typing away on another holographic keyboard and smiling rather menacingly. The walls around them went dark and Holly swore she heard the lock on the door click.

"You seriously walk around the a virus in your pocket all day?"

"You never know." Helena chuckled. Her fingers were flying so fast across the hologram the only way Holly was able to follow her movements was due to years of practice. It took her no time to crack the security on the profiles and she sat back looking rather proud of herself as the red "Access Denied" banner disappeared and took a second to pull her hair up.

"Who do you want to learn about first?" Helena asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe Tony? He one of the ones I know the least about." Holly pulled Tony's file out of the bunch and bit her lip as she held it before her, the light from the icon casting an eerie glow on her face. Helena had seen the serious expression that overtook her sister's face as Holly's eyes glazed over momentarily.

Pounding on the door brought Holly back from her flashback and she looked at Helena as her heart started racing. They were caught for sure. Helena went into overdrive on the keyboard as she closed everything out and cleared everything away.

"Who's in there?" came a muffled voice from outside the door.

"What do we do?" Holly whispered.

"Go open the door." Helena commanded as she pulled the drive from the computer. Holly smoothed her hair as she hit the door release. She plastered on a smile as a furious looking Tony and Steve came into her view.

"Something wrong gentlemen?" she asked with feigned innocence.

"Jarvis went offline a couple of minutes ago while doing routine maintenance before this entire floor shut down. This room in particular was the only one that was locked." Tony growled as he took a step towards her and glowered down at her.

"Really?" Holly asked blinking up at him.

"Know anything about it?"

"No. I mean the room went dark but I just figured it was, as you said, part of routine maintenance."

"I'm sure what Stark meant to ask was are you both okay?" Steve butted in peering at both of the girls.

"Oh we're fine. I was just showing Helena how to use the interface." Holly said gesturing for her sister to join her. Helena stood beside Holly with a forced smile that did nothing to conceal her discomfort.

"Steve this is Agent Helena Minis of S.H.I.E.L.D. She's been assigned to work with me here at the tower." Holly nudged Helena.

"Nice to meet you ma'am." Steve said as he shook Helena's hand.

"You as well. Director Fury told me you were having some issues with some technology and was hoping I could be a better help than Mr. Stark." Holly tried to stifle a snort as Tony's eyes widened and a huge grin appeared on Steve's face.

"Did he now? We'll have to look into that later but for now Pepper wants to clear the floor until the cause of the crash is discovered. Ladies, if you would." Steve stepped aside so the girls could move out of the room.

"No problem. I'll just show her the rest of the interface from my room. See you at dinner." Holly smiled at Steve and Tony and pulled Helena after her. Holly looked into Bruce's lab as they passed but it was just as dark and empty as the rest of the rooms on the floor. The girls entered the stairwell and Holly smacked Helena on the arm.

"You shut down the entire floor! Are you trying to get us caught!?" Holly growled quietly.

"It's not usually used on a system this vast. I'll have to tweak the programming a little so next time it will only block out the room we're in…and make it appear that the system is still online." Holly stopped Helena on the stairs.

"There can't be a next time now. Tony will be watching the grid like a hawk to try and catch another slip in the system."

"Oh sis, you worry too much. Besides, it was worth it." Helena mused as she pressed the thumb drive into Holly's palm and continued down the stairs.

"What do I need this for?"

"I had time to download the files onto that before the door opened. You can plug it in and read them at your leisure now." Holly stuffed the drive into her pocket and continued down the stairs to the next floor.

"Don't look so sour. I'm sorry okay? If I had known I was going to crash the system I wouldn't have risked it." Helena said to Holly who looked bothered. They had caught the elevator down on the next floor and Holly had been quiet.

"This is the kind of mistake that would have cost us our lives back in the day and could potentially cost us our covers now and you're acting very nonchalant." Holly spoke in a low voice as she rubbed her thumb over the drive. Helena seemed to deflate a little and grabbed her sister by the shoulders.

"Don't worry. I will go in and make sure we can't be traced. If my virus did what it's supposed to it shouldn't have left behind any clues. I promise I will be more careful." Holly could only nod at her sister.

"So that was Steve."

"Yup that was him."

"Talk about dreamy." Helena teased lightly. Holly broke a smile and shook her head at her sister.

"He's definitely something. I wish you the best of luck with him. He tends to think computers are too slow."

"Well he's never been on one of my computers." Helena grinned as the elevator opened to an empty common room. The girls stepped out and retired to their shared bedroom until it was time to start preparing dinner. The girls reminisced over old times of cooking meals for everyone as people slowly started to trickle back into the space. Holly watched Helena slowly start to try and introvert into her shell but the Avengers didn't exactly allow you to do that. Clint became instantly indebted to Helena when she jumped in to save his computer from a virus. She stopped it mid-download and Holly took quiet enjoyment in the mix of irritation and appreciation on Clint's face. On the one hand she had snatched the laptop out of his hand but on the other she had saved him money and a scold/gloat fest from Tony.

With the table set and everyone present at the table (including Tony) Helena stood up from the table and looked around at everyone. She cleared her throat but it didn't stop her voice from cracking at first.

"Hello everyone. My name is Helena and I've been assigned to work with Holly. While my forte is electronics I am here to help you with whatever you need."

"So go easy on her." Holly added in noticing the mischievous unspoken exchange between Clint and Natasha. They had been rather cruel to Holly the first few weeks.

"Happy to have you." Steve said raising his glass to her and the others, though apprehensive, did the same.

"Welcome to the family." Clint chuckled.