G.I.Joe fanfic book 1: all is fair in love and spies

Face Off! Part 2

AN/ Yay! New Chapter! Ok the movie will start in another half dozen chapters, maybe. I do not own G.I.Joe or Marvel. Please, no flames, but I welcome constructive criticism. I am still excepting OCs too. Enjoy!

Chapter 9: Face Off! Part two

A small tap on Katherine Ramses's shoulder jolted her out of her thoughts, and she turned to face the person. She smiled, a wicked smile when she recognized the short dirty blonde hair and intelligent, focused hazel eyes. "Long time, no see, Clinton Barton." Clint was dressed in a sharp black suit with a dark purple stripped with a variety of other shades of purple tie.
"Hello to you too, Bastet." He said, joining her by leaning his back over the railing of the patio on her right side. Normally, she hated being called 'Bastet' but when Clint or one of her familia said it, she didn't despise the name. " Awfully cheerful for someone who might become a lab rat." Clint always knew of Bastet and he always understood why.
"Thanks for that vote of confidence, Birdboy. Here, I thought you only like to look at things from afar. Did Fury send you?" Katherine asked the Marksman and added, dryly." I have faith in Nick and Phil."
Clint leaned in close to Katherine's ear and whispered,"I decided to get a closer view this time." And pulled away to say," You look great in that, by the way." Katherine couldn't stop the appearance of a dash of red that dusted her tanned cheeks or that her mind took a trip down memory lane to their time in Budapest. Katherine and Clint had a thing in Budapest, just a thing. They were and are good friends, now.
"Hush, you." Katherine said with a small mock flirty laugh and swatted his shoulder, playfully after she subconsciously smoothed out her pure white, thigh-length dress and added." You will make Jackie jealous." The meeting was going to begin in a few minutes and Katherine needed to clear her head before it and Clint was not helping in the slightest. He was being quite bothersome.
"I'm almost certain, she's not. The last I saw of her, she was flirting with your cousin."
"She is and she is also very drunk." A smooth female voice cut through their conversation, Natasha. The Spy was dressed in a blouse, black pencil skirt and deep red heels, not bright scarlet but a deep, dark red almost the color of blood.
Katherine's eyes sparkled mirth and mischief at them as she said," I wonder who gave her the booze."
"Easy way to find out." Clint said.
"Oh, I already know who did it." Katherine proclaimed to the two SHEILD agents." I wanna see if the perpetrator will admit to the scandalous crime." She said with a very dramatic gustures with her hands.
"Scandalous?" Clint questioned with an amused glint in his eyes.
"I'm on 'trial'." She said, using emphasis on trial, she knew that that was exactly what this meeting was about." So, yes, scandalous crime."
Natasha smiled, slightly and said,"Stark is looking for you."
"Oh, is he now?"
"And your Joes." Natasha added, dryly.
"Hmm." Katherine hummed and pursed her ruby red lips in thought." Well, I'd better go and see what they want before they send a search party for yours, truly." She stood up away from the railing and gathered her handheld purse from a nearby table. She turned to face the assassins and gave them her famously infamous smirk," Let's see if I can infuriate any politicians."
"Katherine.... You do realize that, that mask you wear. We can see right through it." Clint called her out and her smile fell off her face just as her well-armored mask.
"I just want to get over this obstacle then I'll deal with the next as it comes. I'll roll with the punches.... Enough with psychoanalyzing me." Katherine said, hotly. Before Clint could say something else, she spun on her rich golden heels that were as expensive as they looked and strode away to find Tony Stark. She entered the large lobby, filled with mahogany wood trim, tables and chairs.
She honed in on the female laughter and there he was in the middle of a hoard of PAs, a drunken Jackie, and a slightly amused Melody Brooks; was the one and only, Tony Stark. He wore black slacks and suit jacket, white shirt, no tie and the first couple of buttons undone. His outrageous hair was so him. Tony spotted her and disentangled himself from the whining personal assistants and moved to her.
"Hello, Kit-kat." He said with the attitude that could only be his. the attitude that made you love him and hate him at the same time." so, you have officially ticked off at the least a dozen countries. Congratulations, you have beaten me."
Katherine laughed at her dear cousin's antics and said," I didn't know it was a competition but... What did I win?"
Tony opened his mouth to make another smart comment and was interrupted by an annoyed Scarlett, who was dress in the same manner as Natasha. It started to make Katherine wondered if they were related in any way. "You're not preparing for your speech? You could get fired or worse."
"Ah, I have an insurance policy with many options. This here is one of the two." Katherine said and patted Tony on the chest, he returned the affection with an arm thrown around her shoulders. "Why should I prepare? I only gave a lesson in life to the hag which is more than she deserves."
"You destroyed property." Scarlett deadpanned at the spy.
"Which I can pay for."
"With your cousin's money?"
"No, I can pay for it my self. I do have money and it's not Tony Stark's." Katherine retorted back to the redhead. And added after a second thought, "The only thing I'm remotely worried about is becoming a lab rat."
"Which won't happen on my watch." Tony cut in, and turned to Katherine and said," Do you have a store called Redheads 'R Us, where you get all of the attractive angry gingers?"
"Tony..." Katherine warned with a sigh but her cousin was quite bullheaded, today like any other day.
"There's Pepper, Natalie, Melody, and now this. Is there a buy one, get one free event that I do not know about?"
"Now, I see where you get your humor and that Tony Stark lives up to his reputation." Scarlett said, crossly." Goodbye." and she spun away and walked off to the other Joes.
"Anthony Edward Stark!" Katherine hissed at her infuriating cousin and pulled away from him to follow Scarlett. She was half way across the lobby when Dominatrix stepped out in front of her with a victorious smirk plastered across her smug face.
Katherine halted and leveled a cold glare at the woman," Get the hell outta my way, hag." Katherine grounded her words out through her clenched teeth, eyes glittering in a growing rage towards the woman. She really hated this woman with a passion.
"No, Bastet." she chimed, cheerfully. Katherine froze and thought one word, How? "Follow me, so we can talk a little more privately."
Katherine reluctantly followed Dominatrix to another room and didn't realize that they were followed. "How did you find out?" Katherine asked, her back facing the wood door. She was unaware to the unwelcome guest slipping in behind them.
"Not exactly rocket science, Bastet. A few under the table deals and boom! I uncovered the secret of the century. Katherine Eliza Ramses is the cold blooded killer, Bastet!" She laughed to herself with a toothily grin as she waved her pale petite hands for emphasis. "I have her in front of me, unarmed!"
It was two minutes for Katherine to regain her self control and Katherine opened her mouth and she spoke very quietly and evenly," You couldn't be even more wrong, Bethany Stryker." Bastet's predatory yellow-golden eyes bore into Dominatrix's soft baby blue eyes. Katherine took a step forward into Dominatrix's personal space and she continued on with an unpleasant smile," I have killed people with these hands bare of weapons, I have killed people with a unique creativity that could make the Devil wince at the cruelty. And you just pi$$ed me off." Katherine growled.
Dominatrix sensed that she overstepped her boundaries and backed up before straightening," You can't hurt me." She said, boldly. Katherine knew she wasn't going to back down from her.
"I have insurance." Came Katherine's simple, yet foreboding reply. "You best remember that before you open your mouth to someone else about this." Her tan hand slipped behind her back, grasping a small dagger that she kept on her person. One swift move and she could kill Dominatrix and her secret would remain a secret.
"You were feared by everyone including your own family! But now, you're just a coward with many rules to hold back the monster you really are!" Dominatrix snarled, standing her ground.
"Monster? Yes. Rules? No, just self restraint." Katherine snarled, preparing to strike Dominatrix down. She lunged for Dominatrix's throat with her dagger and Dominatrix drew a pistol in retaliation. A blur of red knocked both woman away from each other. Katherine looked for the intruder, a little dazed. It wasn't everyday that someone got the jump on her.
"Katherine? Is that true?"
Katherine spun to face the female Joe, startled. " Scarlett-."
"Is it? Are you the Bastet that the Americas buzz about? Are you the Champion?" Scarlett interrupted Katherine in a clipped, detached tone.
"Yes but just listen to my reasonings." Katherine said, mind and heart frantic. How did ever thing end up like this? Oh, that's right. She decided to teach the blonde bimbo a lesson.
"What would that be? You killed innocent civilians."
"No, my colleagues did. I never touch an innocent person in my life." Katherine retorted, hotly. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Dominatrix move away. She flung her dagger and it embedded into the wooden table and sheered through Dominatrix's prada sleeve, pinning her there. "Stay." Katherine ordered. Katherine turned back to Scarlett, she ignored Dominatrix's cursing her in multiple languages.
"That's not an excuse! You stood with murderers, crooks and people who kill for what they want." Scarlett spat, Katherine recognized the look in her eyes. Scarlett was lashing out because of hurt.
"Do you think I had a choice?" Katherine asked in a quiet voice, memories of the dangers she put herself through to protect her sisters. She did what she did as Bastet to supply and defend her sisters. "I never had a choice, it's my job to make sure that they have everything they would ever need."
Scarlett closed her mouth, clearly taken aback," Your sisters?"
"Yes."
A rapid knock on the door caused both woman's heads to snap up to the door. Natasha poked her head in and didn't spare a glance towards Dominatrix. She said," Their ready for you, Ramses."
"Understood. Thanks, Nat." Katherine gave her friend a shaky smile.
"Need assistance?" Natasha asked and she fully stepping in the room closing the dark stained wooden door behind her with a soft click.
"With the hag here, yeah." Katherine jerked her head to Dominatrix, who was still cursing her. "She is needed for the hearing but if she tries to...."
"Got it. Clint is going to be behind you through out the trial." Natasha said as she moved to Dominatrix's side and yanked out the dagger embedded in her sleeve and table. She tossed the small dagger to Katherine, who caught it and hid it back in it's sheath.
Katherine turned back to face Scarlett, her eyebrow was raised in a silent question. Her stomach twisted in anxious thoughts of what Scarlett would do with this new found information. Just mere seconds felt like hours to the spy as she waited for Scarlett's answer.
"I won't tell." Scarlett began," But I need time to... wrap my head around all of this."
Katherine watched, sadly as Scarlett left the conference room. She placed her 'mask' back on to hide her emotions, she had to be on her A game for this trial. Then she followed out the door, almost immediately after she exited the room Clint fell in behind her. She strolled in to the hearing like she owned the place, she kept her head held high, physically and mentally. She felt the Joes' eyes on her and she saw Tony, Pepper, Jackie and the still slightly drunken Melody sat right behind where she would sit, laid back and a glass of scotch in one hand. She walked up behind him and whispered," I do hope that's for me, cuz."
"This? No but this, yes." Tony replied and handed her a glass bottle of black cherry vanilla coke, her favorite. Katherine smiled and accepted the cold drink, thankfully. The carbonated liquid some what calmed the butterflies fluttering in her stomach when she took a large gulp.
"You do know how to spoil me, so." She said and she moved around to her seat. Clint sat to her right. Katherine looked up and focused her attention on the large rectangular table at the back wall, where the officials sat like a jury about to give a death sentence. Nick Fury sat on the far left, Phil next to him and Abernathy next to Phil. Sitting up there with the tree were several others that Katherine vaguely recognize or didn't at all. The short, fat man in the middle spoke with snide voice." Katherine Eliza Ramses? That is your full name, correct?"
"Katherine Eliza Ramses-Ravenwoods." Katherine corrected, stiffly.
"Ravenwood being?" He prompted.
"As in the surname of my deceased husband." Katherine said, finding it slightly difficult to utter those words about Andy.
"But you go by Ramses, you're maiden name because he is dead. You are no longer Katherine Ravenwood."
"Yes. You asked me for my name." Katherine pointed out," You didn't specify."
"You are Katherine Ramses!" The man snapped at her.
"I dunno am I?" Katherine asked with a smirk. She glanced back and saw Scarlett hang her head in disbelief at Katherine's silly jokes. Heavy Duty and Breaker were holding back laughs and Snakeeyes just stared at her. She turned back to the table and saw Nick glaring at her and Phil with a smiling look on his face. She gave them an sly, impish grin.
"Your mother is Agent Elena Ramses and your father is Officer Adam Ramses?"
"They're dead but yes." Not strictly true, as far as Katherine knew her mother was alive... Somewhere.
You also have an older brother, Nathan Ramses and two younger sisters. The twins, Estrella and Lyra Ramses."
"You're not staring the obvious or anything." Katherine noted with implied sarcasm.
"You were engaged to a deceased Andy Ravenwood and together you had two daughters by the names of Tatiana and Gabriella Ramses."
"Why is this relevant?" She questioned. She shot a look at the Joes, most of them didn't know about her twins. Most were of shock and Katherine turned her attention back to the table with the officials.
"Answer." he ordered.
"Yes."
"Moving on, did you or did you not blow up a jet that contained Bethany 'Dominatrix' Stryker?"
"No."
"No?" He repeated her, puzzled.
"No. I did not blow up the jet that contained the hag." Katherine deadpanned at the fat man.
"There are multiple eye-witnesses statements that-"
"I said that I didn't blow up the jet with the hag in it." Katherine pointed out," I hack her system and deployed her parachute, then I had a friend blow the jet up."
"By friend you are meaning SHIELD, correct?" The fat man asked, clearly losing his patience with Katherine, she felt a flare of pride in herself for her abilities to get under people's skin.
"No, the wicked witch and her flying monkeys." Katherine retorted, sarcastically and then added. "Yes, SHIELD. SHIELD and I go way back."
The fat man looked to the ever stoic Nick Fury and Nick gave him a nod. "That still doesn't explain why you blew up government property."
Katherine rolled her eyes, let an long sigh and took a swig of black cherry vanilla coke before answering him." I taught her a valuable life lesson and I said I would pay for it."
A wiry woman on the fat man's left side leaned on the table and asked Katherine," The life lesson is?" She was clearly intrigued, eyes dissecting Katherine. Trying to pick her apart and without touching her.
"The universe doesn't revolve around her big a$$ head and to follow the orders given to her by her superiors."
"Interesting." The woman mused to herself.
"Why do you find that interesting?"
"All in good time, Miss Ramses." The blonde haired woman answered Katherine with a reassuring smile.
"All in good time my arse." Katherine snapped," Based on your physical features, I'd say you were a scientist."
"Director Ramses!" Abernathy reprimanded.
"Don't." Katherine warned," A bloody scientist?." She hissed at Nick and Phil.
"Yes." came the simple response from the fat man.
"Why?" This came from Coulson.
"We thought her.... mutations might have an effect on her mind." the scientist answered and Katherine glowered at her. The scientist was wise and shrank down, trying to escape Katherine's dark gaze.
"An effect on my mind? What? Like Wade Wilson aka Deadpool? I'm nothing like that pervert."
"I never-."
"You implied it, you sorry sonva bitch. You take your clipboard and shove it up your ass." Katherine cut the woman off with another glare, shrank away from Katherine's lethal sight.
"I don't think that's why we called this meeting." Director Nick Fury finally spoke since entire meeting." I suggest Melody Brooks to watch over Katherine and her progress for the next few months."
At the same time as Melody gasped in shock behind her, Katherine stood up and exclaimed," A babysitter!" She felt insulted and based on the fish like noises that Melody was making behind her, so did she. "What the actual hell?"
The fat man nodded, he agreed with Fury. "Good idea, Director. General, what do you think?" He asked Abernathy.
Katherine turn her scalding glare on him and like always he met the glare with one of his own. He said, "I say the more the merrier, John."
Melody breathed out behind her," You have got to be kidding me." Tony was laughing at Katherine and Melody's expense.
"You're telling me," Katherine grumbled back to her friend.
"Then it's final." The fat man proclaimed," If Melody Brooks reports any other outlandish behavior from Director Katherine Eliza Ramses will result in her discharge from the G.I.Joes. Do you understand?"
"Clearly." Katherine growled. There was nothing she could do now. The fat man dismissed the trial and everybody stood up and started to leave. Katherine stood up, grabbed her coke bottle and started heading to Nick Fury. When she got to him, he spoke before she got the chance to. "You owe me, again."
Katherine scoffed," You call that owing? You got me a babysitter!"
"That is a SHIELD agent and your childhood friend." He pointed out to her.
Katherine deflated, giving up because Nick had a point. It could have been a complete stranger."Fine."
Fury turned and left with Coulson behind, not even saying goodbye. Phil gave a nod and his own form of goodbye left his lips. Katherine said her goodbyes to him, her cousin, Pepper, Natasha and Clint.
The plane ride home was awkward and tense. Melody being there seemed to break some of it with odd questions and small jokes. Scarlett kept stealing curious glances to Katherine when she thought Katherine wasn't looking. Snakeeyes sat on Katherine's right side and Jackie on her left side. Katherine tried to sleep but couldn't so she started to talk to Jackie and Melody about random things and then she drifted off to sleep. Katherine's head rested on Snakeeyes' shoulder, softly breathing with a look of serene and peace...

Snakeeyes's POV

Snakeeyes looked down on the sleeping woman on his shoulder with a look of longing. Her black strands of hair falling in her peaceful sun-kissed face. He secretly admired Katherine, she was a fierce fighter with a good heart and a wonderful woman in general. Though, she would never admit to it having a good heart that she kept guarded with sarcasm and a fiery temper. Snakeeyes reflected that she has been hurt one to many times but he saw that goodness when she was around her sisters and friends. She just needs to heal the wounds inflicted by whoever has committed such atrocities on her. Snakeeyes ignored the amused looks given to him by Jackie, Heavy Duty and Breaker. Careful to not wake her, he grabbed the black trench coat that he wore to the trial and he covered Katherine with the clothing. she snuggled closer to him and Breaker laughed. Snakeeyes shot him a glare in which the laughter died down.
A few minutes had passed and Katherine still slept. The plane started to shake from turbulence and Katherine's head started to fall from Snakeeyes' shoulder. he wrapped an arm around her waist to keep her up right, close to him. Now his arm was concealed underneath his trench coat. Her petite fingers brushed against Snakeeyes' gloved hand, he smiled behind his mask and intertwined their fingers together and squeezed. She smiled back in her sleep.....
They've been in the plane for hours and Snakeeyes sat there, patiently. Jackie told him about Katherine's insomnia an that this was probably the most sleep she has had in two weeks. Katherine stirred and Snakeeyes tightened his grip on her. A soft sigh escaped her lips and she opened her golden-yellow eyes. She saw Snakeeyes' dark visor and blushed dark scarlet. "Sorry." She mumbled and Katherine straightened, her hand falling out of his. "Where is everybody?"
"Asleep." Snakeeyes signed.
"Then why didn't you wake me up?" Katherine questioned, he sensed she was getting annoyed.
He signed back," And would you have gone to bed?"
Katherine looked away, unwilling to answer him. He grabbed her hand to get her attention and she looked back, meeting his visor."No." She admitted.
"Jackie told me about your insomnia." He signed.
Katherine groaned and let her head fall bak on Snakeeyes' shoulder. Snakeeyes's stood and picked her up, bridal style. "I can go back to my room by myself." She protested. Snakeeyes shook his head and walk out of the plane and towards her room, he skillfully avoided any unwanted attention. Within a few minutes they arrived at her door and he, gingerly set her down and nodded his head in a goodbye fashion. Katherine bit her lower lip in thought then before she could change her mind, she reached up and placed a soft kiss to Snakeeyes' lips. He stiffened in shock and she smiled. She turned and entered her room, closing the door behind her. She lefted a tensed Snakeeyes in the hallway feeling dazed.....

Katherine POV

Katherine saw Scarlett in the abandoned mess hall in the dead of the night. She was waiting for her, Katherine realized. Katherine approached the plain pale grey table with caution. Scarlett looked up at Katherine, her eyes tired and she said," I have time, now tell me."
Dread filled Katherine with cold as she sat across from Scarlett. She owed it to her to tell the truth. she let out a tired sigh and opened her mouth and started to talk about how and why she became Bastet," It all started when I was six years old and....."

-end of chapter 9: Face Off! Part 2-

A/N: Ok, to better explain Katherine's personality is that she has a short temper and she is suffering through her own version of PTSD. and I'm starting a spin off of this story call the Origins Of Katherine Ramses and the title says it all. It will go through her teenage years and her life before she was a Joe. so, please read it. On another note, the next chapter is mature, not for smut or anything but their going to be talking dirty because their consuming alcohol. Vote! Comment! Words 4015! See ya! Loves, bye-bye!