Sorry it's been a while since I updated (especially with that cliffhanger) I just haven't had much time to write lately, but I finally have this chapter up! Now that we're going to be seeing more of Emily, I should tell you that she's portrayed by Nicole Kidman. I know Emily's accent is English and Nicole is Australian, but she's all I picture when I think of Emily. Hope you enjoy!

All Melody could do was stare up at Emily. It all seemed unreal. She had no idea what to say. Seventeen years of unspoken words were dancing on her lips, tingling all over and all Melody wanted to do was get out of there. She stood up and ran to the door, everyone watching her, not being able to do a thing as she was out of the door in seconds. Clint just sighing while throwing his head back. "I knew she was gonna run."

He got up from his seat and calmly walked outside to see Melody trying to break into the town car. He shook his head as he studied her. "What are you doing?"

"Leaving."

Clint saw that she was really trying to break in. "You do know that this is a government vehicle from a secret division, right?" She looked to him and shrugged, not understanding his point. "You think you can just break in with a lock pick?"

She turned to him annoyed, throwing her lock pick to the ground. "Stop destroying my thunder." With an angry sigh, she sat down on the ground so Clint walked over to join her. "I don't want to talk to her."

He shook his head and turned to her. "Then don't talk to her." She looked to him, actually getting a good look at his eyes which she felt like she hadn't seen in ages. "Talk to me."

She laughed a little and turned away from him. "I don't really want to talk to you either."

He sighed, feeling that sentence hurt him. There was a time when all Melody wanted to do was talk to him. "Who do you want to talk to?"

She thought for a moment and nodded. "Tony."

"Do you know about the palladium?" She looked to him with a confused face and that's when Clint knew that she didn't know. "Shit." He cursed under his breath.

"What about palladium?"

"It's nothing." He said while standing up quickly.

"No." She told him while standing up and getting in front of him so he wouldn't try to walk away. "It's definitely something and you need to tell me." He just looked at her. He felt like his hands were tied. That was something he had to tell Melody, but he knew Fury wouldn't like it. "Clint," She pleaded. "Talk to me."

That was his breaking point. The way she looked at him was the one thing that could break him. "The palladium in the arc reactor in Tony's chest is-"

"Leaking into his blood stream and poisoning him." Melody finished with her eyes wide and her voice dazed. Clint nodded while looking down. Melody shook her head, her eyes growing angry. She leaned forward and punched him in the arm. Clint automatically gasped, realizing how strong she had gotten. "Why the hell didn't you tell me that in the first place?!"

"Emily!" He spoke as he continued to rub his arm.

Melody was completely done with SHIELD and her mother. She charged into the restaurant and slammed her hands down on the table they were sitting at. "When were any of you ass hats going to tell me that my uncle is dying?!"

Emily looked to Melody, putting her hand on hers. "Melody, honey, calm down."

Melody ripped her hand away from Emily's, hating that she thought she had the right to touch her. "I will not calm down!" A few workers began to look over, but Melody didn't care one bit. "How dare you even tell me to calm down?! He was more a parent to me than you ever were!"

"I think we should take this conversation someplace else." Natasha told Fury.

Melody threw her hands in the air. "Fine. I think all of you owe me at least one drink."

Clint, Natasha and Fury were waiting outside in the car as Melody and Emily sat at the bar. The two didn't say anything as the bartender gave them their drinks. Melody picked up her glass of bourbon and began to sip on it. Emily smiled down at the drink. "That's your dad's favorite."

"I've been told." She answered casually.

Emily had no idea what to say. She had never been more nervous in her life. "I heard about Obadiah." Melody turned to her with an annoyed face. As if she wasn't okay with this family meeting, but now she had to bring up a soft spot. "Are you all okay after everything that happened?"

"Yeah." Melody spat out.

"Melody, I'm just trying to-"

"Just trying to what?!" Melody yelled at her. "You sold me off as an experiment to SHIELD and then you abandoned me." She shook her head and picked up her drink, taking a sip. "I want no relationship with you."

Emily sighed while looking down at her hands. "Did you get the letter from your father?"

"Yeah." She said in a raised voice while turning back to her. "I'm not too happy with him right now either."

"Melody, you were never just an experiment to us." She told her in a comforting voice.

"It doesn't matter." She told her in an exasperated voice, feeling tears beginning to collect in her eyes. "I spent my whole life just dreaming about you and wishing that you would come back. I wished that we would have this great slow motion running into each other's arms thing that you always see in the movies and that you would have an amazing reason for leaving." Melody shook her head as she wiped a tear off her face. "But you sold me. Make all the excuses for it you want, but you sold me."

"I know," Emily said while moving closer to her. "There is nothing I can do to make that better and I can't excuse that ever, but, Melody, we love you so much. And you have to know that we didn't have you because of that. We had you and then Fury approached us about the option." Melody turned to her with her eyes wide. "That still doesn't make it sound good, but I want to apologize for it and I want to get to know my daughter."

Melody shook her head while taking a deep breath, knowing that this was going to be one of hardest things she had to say. "I don't want any of that." She turned to Emily and bit her lip to keep her from crying. "And once Tony is fixed, I never want to see you again, understand?" Emily also had to bite on her lip to keep from crying, both of the blonde haired, blue eyed girls holding back their emotions from the one person they wanted to tell the most.

When they finally found Tony, he was in the doughnut on top of Randy's Donuts. "Oh, my god." Melody spoke as they pulled up in the separate car with Clint. "This is really happening."

They watched as Fury got out of the car and walked to where Tony would be able to see him as Natasha and Emily went inside. "So," Clint began as he noticed Melody's eyes had went from Tony to Emily. "You haven't talked about it."

Melody turned to him while shaking her head. "Aw, but Clint, I was just starting to enjoy our time together. You really want to fuck it up now?"

"What is with you?" Clint asked as he turned all the way in her direction to look at her.

She shrugged while giving him one of her bitch looks. "What?"

"No offense," Clint began while leaning into her. "But you're being a real bitch." She rolled her eyes at him and turned back to Tony and Fury as Clint studied her worriedly, afraid that this is what she had become in a result from the secrets he and SHIELD kept from her.

Fury put his hands on his hips as he stared up at Tony who was casually eating his doughnuts like this was a regular occurrence. "Sir," Tony looked down at him, wanted to scream that this guy had come back. "I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the doughnut." He had to move down his sunglasses to make sure it was really him.

After that, Tony got down from the doughnut and joined Fury inside the building. Melody and Clint then got out of the car, but Melody quickly realized she had been in these huge heels all night, causing her to begin to stumble on the parking lot. "You okay?" Clint asked her as he turned around, once he heard her struggling.

"Fine." She told him as she straightened herself out and began to walk very wobbly.

"Do you need help?" Clint asked her as she walked past him.

"Nope." He sighed and rolled his eyes before following her. Clint loved her, but she could be beyond difficult when it came to doing things by herself.

Fury and Tony were sitting down at a table, Tony's sunglasses still on, feeling the hangover from last night and leaning close to the window, feeling tired from not sleeping at all. "I told you," He sighed out. "Mel and I don't want to join your super-secret boy band." He took his coffee and began to sip it, thinking about how he had really pissed Melody off. "That is if she's talking to me."

Fury began to laugh, knowing he had Melody halfway through the door. "No. See, I remember you two doing everything yourselves. How's that working out for you?"

Tony sighed and began to stutter, wondering if he should explain last night and his now relationship with Melody when he decided he didn't want to. "I'm sorry, I don't want to get off on the wrong foot, do I look at the patch or the eye?" Fury laughed, but obviously didn't think much of his joke. "Honestly, I'm a bit hungover." Fury chuckled a bit at the fact that Tony wasn't aware how completely obvious that was. "I'm not sure if you're real or…"

Fury leaned forward, his face getting serious. "I am very real. I'm the realest person you're ever gonna meet."

"Just my luck." Tony mumbled before looking around the restaurant, noticing no one was around. He didn't know that while he and Fury were outside, Emily arranged for everyone to get out. "Where's the staff around here?"

Fury grabbed his shoulder, stopping him from looking around, noticing the "high tech crossword puzzle". "That's not looking too good."

Natasha walked forward in her SHIELD uniform, followed by Emily in hers. "I secured the perimeter, but I don't think we should hold it for too much longer." Emily spoke, causing Tony to spit out his coffee at his sister-in-law and assistant wearing the identical uniform and his sister-in-law actually…here.

Tony sat there for a moment, trying to figure out what to say. "You're…fired." He directed at Natasha.

Emily shook her head and moved in to sit next to Tony. "That's not up to you." Natasha told him as she sat next to Fury.

"Tony," Emily began with a smile while looking to Natasha. "I want you to meet Agent Romanoff."

Natasha turned to him with a smile. "I'm a SHIELD shadow. Once we knew you were ill, I was sent in by Director Fury and Supervisor Barnes."

"Supervisor," Tony commented while turning to Emily. "So, that's where you've been for the past seventeen years? At SHIELD?"

Emily shrugged while turning to him. "That's where I've always been."

"I suggest you apologize." He spoke as he looked back and forth from Emily to Natasha.

"You've been very busy." Fury told Tony, all of them looking back to him. "You made your girl your CEO, you're dealing with the attitude change on your niece, you're giving away all your stuff, you let your friend fly away with your suit. Now, if I didn't know any better-"

"You don't know any better." Tony cut in while shaking his head. "I didn't give it to him. He took it."

"Whoa." Fury spoke as he put his hands up, annoying Tony. "He took it?! You're Iron Man and he just took it?!" Tony looked outside while taking a deep breath. "The little brother walked in there, kicked your ass and took your suit?" He turned to look at Natasha and shrugged. "Is that possible?"

She looked at him with a slight smile. "Well, according to Mr. Stark's database security guidelines, there are redundancies to keep from unauthorized usage."

Tony stared at her for a minute before looking back to Fury and Emily, knowing they were the real ones in charge. "What do you want from me?"

"What do we want from you?" Fury repeated as Natasha and Emily got up from their seats.

Natasha and Emily walked to the kitchen where Melody was making the lithium dioxide to temporarily counteract the symptoms of the palladium poison while Clint was watching her. "Are you done yet?" Natasha asked as Melody mixed it around in a test tube they had given her in a kit along with the synthesized elements.

"It's not that easy to counteract palladium poisoning." Melody sang out as she pulled out a syringe and poured the liquid in that to give it to Tony.

"I have bigger problems than you to deal with it!" Fury yelled at Tony as Melody sat in the booth right next to Tony and Clint sat down right next to Fury.

"Mel," Tony began in a surprised voice that she was here.

"Yeah, yeah." She spoke as she stuck the needle in his neck and pushing down the plunge to send the liquid into his bloodstream.

"What are you gonna do?!" He yelled at her as she began to study his neck, the marks slowly beginning to fade away as Natasha and Emily watched from their standing position. "Why are you working with them?! Are you gonna harvest my kidney and sell it?!"

"A simple thank you would suffice." She told him as she pushed his neck back forward. "Lithium dioxide." She told him with a shrug. "It's counteracting your symptoms for now. You're welcome."

Tony shook his head, trying to wrap his brain around everything. "What are you doing here? How do you even know about this?"

"SHIELD filled me in." She slapped him on the back of the head, Tony putting his hand on his head while whining from the pain. "That's for not telling me that you're dying!"

He began to stutter, trying to come up with an excuse when he stopped, shaking his head. "I have no excuse for that."

Melody turned to Emily with a smirk. "At least someone knows there's no excuse when they've done something completely morally wrong."

Emily opened her mouth to protest when Clint spoke to get everyone back on the important topic. "It's not going to be an easy fix." They all turned to him, Tony seeming slightly happy at seeing him again.

"Trust me, I know. I'm good at this stuff." Tony told him. "And it's nice to see the one person from SHIELD who I don't want to kill every time I see them." Clint nodded with a smile. "I've been looking for a suitable replacement for palladium. I have tried every combination, every permutation of every known element."

Melody opened her mouth about to get upset that he had never included her when Fury spoke. "And I'm here to tell you that you haven't tried them all."

Kyle got into Hammer Industries right when Justin was pouting about how Ivan was making a drone instead of a suit like the Iron Man suit. Once he saw Kyle, he looked him over, saw his swollen lip from the stitches that had to be put in and a cast around his wrist. "You look like hell."

"Yeah," Kyle spoke as he followed him upstairs into his office. "Melody Barnes." He spoke right when they walked in and Joey looked him over with wide eyes.

"Melody did this to you?" Kyle nodded and Joey began to chuckle. "A girl did that to you?"

Kyle pushed him down into a chair nearby before looking back to Justin. "Point is that I can't keep track of Melody anymore. She kind of dumped me."

Justin turned back to him, obviously fuming over what Kyle had just told him. "How stupid are you?!" Joey automatically stopped laughed and Kyle watched him, suddenly getting scared. "I asked for one simple task by you and you couldn't even do that."

Kyle shrugged and looked around, trying to avoid eye contact with his uncle. "So, what do we do now?"

Justin sighed as he began to run his hands through his hair. He was starting to feel everything unravel. First Ivan and now his eye on Melody was diminishing. Everything was changing and he had to adapt. "We're gonna have to move our plan for Melody up."

Joey stood up from his seat nervously, not sure if he was ready for the plan to happen this quickly. "How soon?"

Justin looked to the two of them and sighed, not liking the thought of the idea either. "As soon as possible."

What do they have planned for Melody?! Please review!