Last Day of School 1998

It was hard to believe I had recovered fast, and without scar a single scar. I had been treated for PTSD with other soldiers as they couldn't believe how I got the disorder at such an early age. I had a feeling me just being there made them feel different... as if they didn't want to see a teenager like me go through hell that she being me doesn't remember.

Adjusting back to school life wasn't hard surprisingly, my friends and teachers were taught the signs of a PTSD attacks, surprisingly I didn't have any episodes at school. I was even surprised my grades had drastically improved. I joined the school running team as I kept beating my records daily, I even joined into Army Cadets under my former grade 7 teacher Mr. Wadup's guidance. I even decided to keep going to that Christian girls group... Somehow I felt it helped the most spiritually.

"Miss Melanie Hansen?" called a man's voice as I exited out my High School's doors to the bus stations.

"Who wants to know?" I asked.

"I'm Agent Phil Coulson from SHIELD, it's a honor to meet you Miss Hansen. Mind if we take you home in style?" as I saw he was beside an old classic 66 convertible Chevy red car.

"Oh man that's a sweet car. Aww... now I really wish I had my driver's license."

"Just enjoy the view." He said as he let me in the passenger's side. Along the way home, "So I take it that you still don't remember anything that happened months ago."

"We tried everything the health system can offer but nothing worked, I guess the only clue I have in my journal at the front page was to return once I achieved my goals and training."

"And that's to become something more?"

"Is that's why you're offering me a ride home Coulson? I thought SHIELD doesn't recruit teenagers?"

"You are an exception. Did you look at your report cards from both school and Cadets since you got back from the hospital months ago?"

"Yeah I highest grades after what I been through, I knew I was good but I can't explain how I got better than I was before."

"What does your parents say?"

"It's a gift of god."

"And what do you think?"

"It's a second chance for me to prove to people of how wrong they were about me."

"You want to punish them?"

"No, that's not exactly the Canadian way of life here. We forgive but we never forget, then the saying don't get mad just get even is a family saying too."

"So what do you want to do with your life from now on?"

"I'm still undecided is that why you're here Coulson? To steer me the right way?"

"The Director and I believe you have great potential, and I think you're just as curious as we are about yourself."

"I'll say yes, but don't throw me to the wolves just yet."

"Wasn't planning on it."

"Just to make something else clear, if my friends ask about you can I say you're an Uncle of mine from the States?"

"Sure I can go along with that." He agreed with a smile.

"Had you been here before Coulson?"

"Nope, but I think I might want to get a ice cream cone later, why?"

"You just took the highway to take us to PEI."

"That's where they're meeting us, besides I always wanted to go there."

Mid Summer

My Grandmother Aretha got her hip broken badly. My family and I rushed over to PEI to see her. She was calling everyone by other relatives names as she had then called me...

"Melanippe you're alive! I thought you died in the war shortly after Bucky did?"

I didn't know how to react I was speechless, it haunted me as I watched my Grandmother being buried beside my Grandfather the week later.

"Mom, Dad who's Melanippe?"

"Apparently she was a Canadian who who worked with Dr. Cheyenne Gamble in the SSR during the WW2." Began Dad, "Captain America and her were cousins and both chosen for the super soldier program."

"You were named after her Melanie. She was willing to give her all, and she never gave up as she fought hard all the way through to the end."

I found myself smiling as I looked at the two pink roses I held one with my name as the other had my late twin sister's name... Melissa.

SHIELD boot camp

"You wanted to talk Black Mare?" Colson asked. Black Mare was the codename I was referred as...

"Dr. Cheyenne Gamble who was she?"

"She was a the first female Raider she taught Steve Rogers' cousin Melanippe Johansen everything she knew. Funny the code name we gave you is what her name translates to."

"Raider? As in Indiana Jones and... Lara Croft?"

"Yep."

"And the person I was named after? How much do you know of her?"

"Not much I'm afraid, she was to herself, helping Dr. Gamble and assisting Captain America with Bucky. She only spoke stuff to them, not to her. Although she saved Cheyenne's life a few times. A bit of a running joke Cheyenne was teased about it that she loved to do it on purpose."

"Like Lois Lane style?"

"Oh no not like that," Coulson chuckled, as it looked like I got him good as he laughed more than I seen him do.

"The last time I saw Grandmother alive she called me Melanippe... My parents said they named me after her. I don't understand how she knew about Melanippe and Bucky though..."

"There isn't very many pictures of her, but I heard she, Bucky and Steve shared the same journal."

"Where is that journal?"

"Wherever Steve is so is the journal."