I don't own anything except Alex so... yeah.

9 MONTHS SINCE RESCUE

I was training with Triplett when the new guy walked in. He was tall, had blond hair, and I guessed to be about 29. When he saw me he looked utterly confused. "What is a 9 year old doing here?" he asked. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Mel walk in and she said, "She is training and she is a highly valued asset"

"For what, coloring?" the man said as he chuckled to himself.

Mel looked at him with her scary face on and said, "Go ahead, be my guest, try to beat her in fight. I would bet against you though.

"She 9! What's she going to do, cry that she wants a mommy?" he exclaims. I narrowed my green eyes at him and gave him the most intimidating look that a 9 year old can give. When he pulled out the mommy card, he took it a step too far.

I stepped out behind Trip's legs and stood right in front of the man and asked, "What's your name?"

"Agent Roberts, and what might your name be?" he asked, dripping with sarcasm.

Two can play this game I thought. "Alex" I replied. He gave me the sarcastic-oh-you're-so-cute-look that every kid hates and that I get a lot. So, I stuck my hand out to shake hands. When his hand touched mine I twisted his arm and flipped him on to the mat, hard. As I looked down and he looked up at me from the floor I smirked and asked, "Who's crying to their mommy now, Agent Roberts?"

Trip immediately started laughing and Mel just smirked. All of the other men that had walked in with Roberts were looking at me warily and took a couple steps back.

Roberts got up, brushed himself off, and gave us a glare of disdain. As he was walking off I waved and said, "I hope you enjoy your stay on the Bus!"

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10 MONTHS SINCE RESCUE

The Bus was relatively calm compered to usual. There was no one almost dead or dying, no alarms flashing, no one was yelling, and I thought this was weird. I walked into Phil's office and sat in one of his 'you're in trouble chairs' in front of his desk. He was typing something on his computer before he looked up at me and asked "What's up, kiddo?"

"Why is it so quiet?" I asked because truthfully it was scaring me a little.

"Almost all of the agents are on vacation for Christmas" he answered.

I had never heard of Christmas so I had no clue what he was talking about.

"What is a Christmas?" I asked.

Phil looked at me with a surprised look on his face and said "Christmas is a holiday that many people celebrate during the winter where they give presents to their friends and family"

Then he got a look on his face that Mel calls the bad idea face. Mel told me to never do anything Phil says when he has that face on. He spoke into the microphone and said, "All agents report to the control room, ASAP". He took me by the hand and we walked into the control room.

Mel looked like she had been waiting there, looking for some action. Trip was all sweaty from working out, Fitzsimmons looked like they had been in the middle of an experiment because they were wearing their lab coats and goggles around their necks, and Skye looked like she had just woken up from a nap.

"I just made an executive decision while talking to Alex that- "

"We are going to go blow something up?" Mel asked with a scarily serious look on her face.

"Go kick some Hydra butt?" Trip asked with a happy look on his face.

"See the new Hunger Games movie?" Skye asked.

"No guys, it's obvious! We are getting a monkey!" Fitz said with the most excited look on his face. Simmons promptly elbowed him in the ribs and rolled her eyes.

"No, and Fitz, we are never getting a monkey" Phil answered. "We are going to celebrate Christmas!"

Everyone was completely quiet and looked at him like he was crazy.

"Alex has never experienced Christmas" Phil explained. A chorus of "OOHHH"s was let out by the team.

"Everyone needs to buy presents, decorations, and if you need to, an enthusiastic attitude" he said while looking directly at Mel.

"One question, how are we supposed to fit a Christmas tree on the Bus?" Skye asked.

"I will make one fit".

So kind of out of season, but you know what? I don't really care!

Let me know what you thought!

Question #2: On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most, how excited are you for Age of Ultron?