Things were going better than I thought: no pedophile tried to kidnap Mary and Laura, no alien attacks, no terrorists, no eldritch gods somehow wanting to meet me to turn me into their wife.
" Adrian?"
Have I spoken too soon? These glasses were supposed to hide my identity, though I guess they won't work if the person already knows me.
" Yes, Agent Romanova?" I didn't even turn; I had known about her approach way before she had even entered Cony Island. Was it delusion to hope they wouldn't interrupt my day?
" Nice day for a stroll, I have to say, would you care to walk with me?"
" That would imply I have some interest in the things you have to say, or just interest in your existence."
" That is what Fury thought you would have said, but a job is a job, and I'd like to be paid by the end of the month." She shrugged and sat on the bench, right next to me, too close for my comfort.
" So it's monthly? Here I thought it would have been like a stripper, and you would have been paid based on "job"."
Yes, I just called her a bitch, no, I will not regret it.
Her jaw clenched for less than a second, but dozens of years as a spy made her a very good actress, not good enough to hide those movements from me, though.
" Would you be interested in a job?"
I saw it, time dilated, each second felt like years as her hand tried to move in a way that would have me feel like I was cheating in Rogue, and I can be a lot of things, but a cheater isn't one of them.
Her system shut down for a second, the brain didn't receive oxygen, blood stopped, muscles flexed, bones trembled, her nerves received a shock of pure electricity, and I didn't even need to use my own mana to do all of this; I just asked her body to do it, and it listened.
Her breath became ragged as she felt like she had died and returned from the dead in under a second. I have to say, though, that her mental fortitude is greater than I would have expected, as she quickly returned to normal and looked at me warily.
" If you want to ask me something, just do it. If you think slutty tactics would work against someone like me, then I have to say Fury is more stupid than I had given him credit for."
She took a last big breath of air and then composed herself, her previous joking manner gone, replaced by a face of seriousness.
" We n-"
I stopped her from talking as I felt both Mary and Laura approach us.
" Daddy, we won a Big Bear in the shooting range," Mary shouted while jumping up and down. On her side, hidden behind a bear as big as me was Laura, who had stars in her eyes as she continuously nodded.
" Well, aren't you a very good little American (IT'S A JOKE)," I said while ruffling her hair.
" Why is she angry?" Mary pointed at Romanova, who was now starting to lose all the composure she had. Mary seemed good enough at reading people to notice it, which was unexpected.
" Because she thought she could have taken me away from Rogue."
"Is she one of those? What did you call them? A gold Digger?"
I thought about it for a second.
Wants something from me? Check, uses her body to get what she wants? Check, gets angry when discovered and called out? Check.
" I guess you could call her that."
" Bad woman, Rogue is cooler than you," Mary told her, and then rushed back to play some games while leaving the bear with me, which I intentionally placed between Romanova and me.
"... Adrian," Romanova said, and I felt the vein on her forehead pulsing.
" Yes?" I said while sticking my head from the other side of the bear.
" We have reasons to believe there is an extra-terrestrial entity who is quickly rising in power and trying to erase half of the universe for unknown reasons."
" I know."
" You what?"
I could feel Furty and every single member of the Avengers also ask that inside the flying ship they were on, miles above us.
" You think me being me, I wouldn't have known that? I can see, hear, and feel everything. I know how Tony has problems with alcohol, which I just cured with, I know you are older than you make everyone think, and that you have infertility problems, not anymore by the way, I know Hulk is not just an alter ego but an actual existence with emotions and thoughts, call if you need to talk with a therapist, people say I am quite good, what I mean to say is, I know. "
"... And you said nothing?" She was trying her best to show her emotions at discovering she could finally have her own family, but her heart didn't do a good job at hiding how fast it was going.
" I didn't say anything to a government that tried to bomb their own city, tried to stop me from healing every ill person in the world, and is still trying to have their agents plant locators on my daughters."
Those last words were said with a tone that she recognized; it was the same of when I closed the portals above New York.
Before she could talk, 4 people dressed casually appeared in front of me; no one else beyond us two saw such a thing.
" I have 4 of your agents now, I could erase them from existence, remove their name from history, make their whole family tree disappear in the wind, but I do not make the actors pay, the culprit is the one who wrote the script."
"... Please don't kill everyone." That actually came from her.
" Kill? No, this will go beyond death, for their intentions were not against me, but against people who do not know any better, whose fate had been set to hell, and whose fate I changed with my own hands. They think of themself as untouchable beings above everyone, whose intellect can change the universe however they want. We will see who wins in the end."
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Break the Shield
Goal 1: Discover the reason behind the incessant attempts against you from the ones behind S.H.I.E.L.D.
Goal 2: Understand the "Silent Truth"
Goal 3:???
Reward:???
Accept?
YES/NO
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