His Detka

3. Meeting the Team

"Sweetheart, I am so proud of you!! Congratulations!!" Jamie shouted as I walked through the door of our apartment. He had champagne, a little cake, and of course my favorite, pizza. We were fixing to celebrate my accomplishments.

"Babe, you'll never believe the offer I got today when they were handing out assignments."

"What'd you get, sweetheart?" he asked as he looked at me lovingly. 

"Jamie." I paused for a dramatic effect. "They asked me to be apart of the Avengers Initiative."

I think I broke him. He was definitely in a state of shock. He knew who my Papa was, hell, he'd even met the man, along with Natasha and even though he was a police officer for the NYPD, I'm pretty sure he was more afraid of them and their wrath than he was of dying. Which I mean, who wouldn't be afraid of them and their wrath if they broke my heart?

Once he regained his composure and himself, he looked at me asked "You accepted, right?!" He was proud, I could hear it in his voice.

"Of course I did! I start tomorrow. They wanted me to move into the compound but I told them about you and that we were living together and that for now I preferred to live off-site. I'm not entirely sure Papa knew we were living together, but Nat helped out with that one."

He tried really hard to stifle a laugh, but I know him better than he knows himself and caught it. He picked me up and twirled me around. We celebrated the entire evening. We had just finished eating dinner when PC Frank Reagan called Jamie to ask how my graduation went. As far as Jamie's family was concerned, the only one who was aware of my employment with S.H.I.E.L.D. was Frank Reagan, mostly because in the event if anything happened to Jamie and they couldn't get ahold of me, then him or his assistant, Baker, could get ahold of Tony. The rest of Jamie's family though, they thought I just graduated college, they didn't know about S.H.I.E.L.D. and they would only find out about the Avengers if something was posted by the media. As an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., we had to do our best to hide it all from those around us. Jamie's family was great. I loved them almost as if they were my own, and in a couple months, they would be part of my family, officially.

The Next Day

I gave Jamie a kiss goodbye as we both reached the parking garage of our apartment complex. We got into our vehicles and headed out in opposite directions for our work day.

I pulled up to the Avengers Compound and the guard at the gate already knew who I was. He handed me a badge, a parking sticker with my respective spot written on it, and a gate opener for my car.

I parked in my new spot and grabbed my stuff and walked up to the elevator in the garage. As the door opened, Papa & Nat hopped out and embraced me. 

"How was the drive over, Detka?" asked Papa.

"It was pretty decent. I love that this isn't in the city and it's out in the 'country-side' of New York."

"You ready for your first day of training with everyone?" asked Nanny. 

"Born ready." I said with a giant smile on my face. 

It was time to meet the rest of the team and then I'd head to the gym for my first sparring session with them as well as training with them.

We got to the common room floor and the team was seated at a giant dining room table all eating breakfast. There was an empty spot between Nanny & Papa and I took it quickly. My nerves were fixing to get the best of me, so being around them was comforting and helped ease the anxiety creeping in.