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"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Chapter 5: Once Like You

Alison

The cool breeze might have felt good, but on her wet raw checks it's felt like a whip brushing over her face. She wiped away the trailing tears and dried her face. She had been there, in that same spot for what seemed like forever, letting the wind pass over her and let her tears run wild on both her face and emotions, but really it had only been a couple hours, there wasn't much wind and when there was its was soft and warm, and she had only just started crying maybe an hour before. She wondered if they were looking for her, hell she wondered if they even noticed she was gone yet. They probably had these people weren't idiots. She wondered how much time she had left. Not just until the found her, but everything. Not even a day ago she had almost died, and her she was again like she always was going over everything. Not just the career she had decided, thou that didn't really help. But then again she was a damage girl, who seemed to know only how to do bad in this world, which was all she was, and all she ever was going to be. She sniffed the air as she looked around.

"Just a girl and her thoughts..." Alison said trailing off as a raven flew down a couple feet from her.

"Okay, just a girl, her thoughts, and a bird," She said looking off into the horizon were the sun was just starting to peak up from, "On a roof." Alison said snorting and rolling her eyes.

"The last place that they would expect anyone to be," Alison said looking over to the bird.

"Well except you."

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Coulson

They had looked everywhere. They had gone through all the security footage. They saw her walk out of the ICU room, go down the hall, go through the emergency exit, then BAM! Blind spot and the next camera or any other never picked her up again.

"She has to be around her somewhere." Clint said as they walked right where the last camera picked her up.

"Barton there's nothing here there's just the wall and grass over there." Coulson said as he watched Barton pass.

"But if she went out here the other cameras would have picked her up." Clint said grabbing his walkie-talkie and talking into it.

"Jameson, tell me when I go off the camera and into the blind spot." Clint said slowly walking forward.

"There, you are in the blind spot right there."

"Now tell me when I come back into view." Clint said again walking slowly.

"There, you are back into view right there."

"Coulson, it's only a three feet difference." Barton said looking at Coulson.

"So either there's a trap door under there or-" Coulson tapered off looking at Clint, they looked right at each other, then Barton looked up at the gutter drainage pipe that was on the wall.

"No." Coulson said looking at Barton, "It's too easy."

"Some say the easiest explanation is likely to be the right one."

"But, Barton," Coulson motioned to the roof, "Really, no one thought of that before."

"Why should they, she wasn't anywhere near any of the logical ways up there."

"But I could barely get up there myself-"

"Barely?"

"Barton."

"Yes." Barton looked over with a grin and Coulson flipped him the bird.

"I could probably barely get up."

"She's younger-"

"Watch where you walking there Barton." Coulson said giving Barton a look.

"She's young, she fit, and determined."

"She might be determined, but three hours before hand," Coulson said motioning to the pipe, "She had just come out of a major surgery, with blood lose-"

"So she's not up there?" Clint said cutting him off.

"Barton."

"Yes?"

"Let's go." Coulson said motioning towards the roof.

"Ladies first." Clint said motioning towards Coulson to go. Coulson shock his head and started walking.

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Alison

I could hear whispering down below; I knew I didn't have much time left. The sun was rising over the horizon causing the sky to turn shades of reds, pinks, and yellows. It was pretty, especially when it combined with the darkness of the rest of the sky. I sat cross-legged on the gravel, leaning back against one of the vents. I closed my eyes for just a few seconds, relaxing to the peacefulness. I could hear footsteps coming towards me. My time was up and there was no way out this time. I waited till the footsteps got within a few feet of me before I opened my eyes. He was right there, not even two feet away from me, not even turned towards me.

"The sunrise is beautiful today." He said not even looking at me.

"Yeah it is." I said confused with his tactics. Shouldn't he be handcuffing me and interrogating me? He looked down at me and our gaze met. His eyes were the same sharp blue-gray with the same intensity in them. I couldn't meet them for long, usually could hold anyone's gaze no matter how hard, but he was different. I couldn't hold his gaze. I looked back at the sunrise.

"Are you going to take me in?" I asked getting straight to the point.

"Not just yet." He said sitting down next to me. I could just make out his body by the corner of my eye. It was a ballsy move to do.

"Why didn't you kill her?" he asked so plainly it shocked me. I didn't know what to say at first. I turned and looked at him.

"Why do you care?" I asked. He kept looking forward ignoring my gaze.

"Because I was just like you." He said looking back at me for only an instant then looking back at the sky.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused and wondering.

"I was once like you, caught in the wrong profession and caught with the difficulties that come with it." He said looking at me, meeting my gaze and this time keeping it. His gaze that was so sharp and intense seemed to soften as it met mine.

"I got on their radar, and someone believed in me enough to help me now do good."

"Why are you telling me this?" I asked.

"Because something tells me we aren't that different."

"You don't know the first thing about me." I said trying to put my walls back up that seemed to have fallen. Maybe this was an interrogation, and he was that good, and I couldn't tell.

"I might know more about you then you should be comfortable with." He said, I swear I saw a faint smirk when he same me almost double take on what he said. I had to really stop myself from doing it. I might know more about you then you should be comfortable with? What was that? Was it a tactic or did he know…

"How-do" I stumbled over the words, by the little smile that appeared on his face he was enjoying his little victory.

"Would you like to start over?" He asked so simply that I had to really think about what he was asking.

"Like you have a time portal and I can go back and start over?" I asked sarcastically to which he gave a small smirk.

"No like right now, start a new life one that the past has nothing to do with it."

"I'm too far gone to come back; my past will always follow me, no matter where I go."

"Your past is your past, I'm not saying you can change that, no one can change their past, but I mean to start to do good."

"I don't think I can do good."

"I didn't either, but there's always trying." He said getting up, I watched him going through our conversation.

"Now what?" I asked looking up at him.

"A choice."

"And what would it be?"

"Coming over to the good side or staying over on the bad."

"And what would happen if I choose bad?"

"Let's just say you probably shouldn't."

"I don't, didn't seem like it took that much to really get away from you guys." I said with a smirk.

"Ouch, watch where you put that flamethrower."

"So what would happen if I choose good?"

"Do you want a full summary?"

"Skip it to the main ideas please."

"Those people that come after you, you wouldn't have to worry about looking over your shoulder, which you might not want to do for a while, because last time I saw it, it didn't look too good. Oh and you can learn that sometimes it's okay not to be alone." I thought over everything, sure I was tired of running, and it seemed like an easy decision.

"So have you decided?"

"I am tired of running away all the time, it's just." I looked away, "I don't really do well with others."

"It's okay you aren't the only one." He said offering his hand, I looked at it for a while then reached up and took it.

"Alison Dalton welcome to the good, I'm Clint Barton, we have been waiting for you." He said with a cocky smile.

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Fury

Not many things drove Nick Fury mad, and unfortunately one of those things was something he wasn't allowed to kill. And that thing had to be the council. The five people and more in depth, the five as you would say leaders of S.H.E.I.L.D., Fury might be the director, but the council always had the last say in everything, and would never let Fury forget it. If he went against one of their orders, let's just say he didn't want to go against their orders, because Fury was not a stupid man and only either a very stupid man or a very fearless man would go against them.

"Director Fury you can't do this again, you had orders to have her killed and now what?" one of the council members said. Nick Fury stood in a dark room, with the only light coming from the screens of the council members, funny; Fury sometimes thought good never came from them.

"She is at one of the S.H.E.I.L.D. bases as we speak and is-"

"And you lost her for how long was it? Almost 5 hours. Tell me director, how do you lose someone for 5 hours?"

"For most of that time we did not notice she was gone-"

"You didn't even notice she was gone! How do you not notice someone like Alison Dalton, a major security threat gone for hours?" Fury was getting pretty tired of being interrupted, but he knew how stupid it was to go against and argue with the council.

"We did not know that she was gone, because we did not expect anything to happen."

"You didn't expect anything to happen from the woman who already had taken down five S.H.E.I.L.D. teams?"

"No sir."

"And you're just going to let her become a S.H.E.I.L.D. agent?"

"Not exactly, she will first have to go through the same training and probationary period everybody else goes through, and in the end if she passes and makes it through then yes, yes she would be a S.H.E.I.L.D. agent."

"Fury we will not allow her to become an agent, and you as a director of S.H.E.I.L.D. and a protector of our country cannot and will not allow this woman to do this."

Fury was not a stupid man, but Fury was a fearless man.

"Council members I see your disagreement with my decision, but Alison Dalton will be given the chance to correct her past, and she will pay for her mistakes, but she will also be given a chance."

"You can't make this decision."

"I just have." Fury said then with one hand motion a tech cut the feed. Letting out a sigh Fury grabbed Alison Dalton's file and opened it up to where there was an acceptance form that only need Fury's signature at the bottom.

"Just don't let me be wrong about this one." Fury said quietly grabbing his pen and signing his name.

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