I wake up early and get dressed in a suit, comb my hair, half of my bangs down in front, the other pulled back. I scribble a note on a piece of paper and set it on the coffee table, along with a spare key to the apartment. I slip out and head down the stairs, resume in my bag, along with my gun, dagger, hand sanitizer, my phone, IPod, ear buds, a notebook, pen, along with other various other items.
Instead of taking a cab in the crowded rush hour of people trying to get to work on time, I walk, it's only a couple blocks over to Stark Tower. I look up at the tall building before entering and going to the front desk.
"Yes. Hello. I'm here to meet Mr. Stark. I'm his new personal secretary." I say, leaning against the desk.
"Name?"
"Kodiak Aurora."
The guy looks up, gives me an odd look, but enters the information in. "He's in Lab 8, on the 88th floor."
I nod. "Thanks."
I go to the elevator and enter it, and tell the AI, JARVIS, to go to the 88th floor. Having seen the layout of the building before, I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I leave the elevator. I enter the lab. Both Dr. Banner and Mr. Stark are in the room, Banner at a computer doing research, and Stark messing with computer parts and metal.
"Mr. Stark. Dr. Banner." I say, announcing my presence.
"Uh... Hello..." Banner says, looking up.
"Hey, kid." Stark keeps working, not looking up.
"I am your new personal secretary, Kodiak Aurora."
"Since you already know who we are, there is no need for us to introduce ourselves, right?" Banner asks.
I grin. "Correct."
Tony finally looks up. "Pepper hire you?"
I turn to him, arms crossed. "You could say that."
And, of course, at that moment, Miss Potts walks in.
"Oh! You're the new secretary, right?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"I'm Virginia Potts, but everyone calls me Pepper."
"Pleasure to meet you, Pepper. I'm Kodiak Aurora."
"That's a unique name."
"Thanks." I say, and it starts to get a bit awkward, until she goes over ot Tony and starts to talk. I shrug and go over to Bruce, taking a seat on the opposite site of the table and reading what he's looking at backwards.
He eventually looks at me. "Your eyes... are purple..."
"Yep. And your's are brown."
"Are they naturally like that?"
"Yeah. Just like my hair is naturally this blue-green color it is. No dyes or anything of the sort."
"How did that happen?"
"No idea. It's been like that since I remember. Which is about 10 years."
"You only remember 10 years of your life? You're at least 20. Did you get brainwashed somehow?"
"I guess it was something like that."
The conversation dies and I sigh. "Well. I'll be off. Gotta take a tour. Explore. Bye."
I leave the room, Stark still talking to Pepper. I wander down the hall a while, passing several doors, until I reach a main room, it has a huge couch and a large TV, and a bar at the back. Three people are in there, and the two guys look up at my entrance. The redhead female doesn't, though.
"Hey, Kodi."
"Hi, 'Tasha." I greet, looking at the others. Clint Barton and Steve Rogers.
Steve looks confused and Clint is just watching me.
"I should probably introduce myself. I am Kodiak Aurora. Stark's new personal secretary. My eyes are naturally purple, and my hair is also naturally the color it is." I roll my eyes and flop on the couch next to Natasha.
"I haven't seen you since you went on that mission in Italy a year ago." she says, glancing up.
"Oh, wow. I was stuck there for six months. Learned Italian, though."
"I thought you already knew Italian."
"So did I." She cracks a grin. "Did anything exciting happen while I was in Italy?"
"The whole H.Y.D.R.A. thing with the Winter Soldier."
"Oh..." I contemplate telling Steve about the fact his best friend is at my apartment, but decide against it. "Well, its over now... Ever find out what happened?"
"Not really." Steve speaks up. I look back at him.
"Okay. Just wondering." I go quiet and turn my attention to the TV. Nothing exciting. Just the news. Some more people enter the room and I look up. It's Thor and Loki.
"Hey-o!" I greet, waving from the couch.
Both of them look over but Thor stops.
"I do not I have had the pleasure to make your acquaintance. I am Thor, son of Odin, and that is my brother, Loki."
"I'm not your brother, Thor." he retorts.
"I'm Kodiak Aurora, nice to meet ya. The coloring in my eyes and hair are natural." I state, looking back at the television. "What time is it?"
"Noon." Tasha answers.
"God. I have to stay here until five. I don't wanna."
"You know Stark probably won't notice if you leave, right?"
"Yeah. I'm here on Fury's orders, though. Don't want to get into too much trouble, considering I jacked up a previous mission about a month ago, and he's still pretty irritated about it."
"What did you do?" she asks, with a sigh.
"It wasn't my fault the people I was teamed up with were idiots. I had to reveal myself to save their sorry butts, and the hostage's butts, too. I got a pretty bad injury, too." I grumble. "Right across the abdomen. Hurt like hell, and it still isn't healed completely."
"Idiots."
"Yeah. I know. So I haven't been put on any exciting missions, I'm kinda stuck here."
"So you have to deal with us."
"Yeah. Probably Stark the most, though. It depends on how lazy he is."
"He can be pretty lazy. He usually won't sleep for several days, then he'll collapse, most likely in the lab. For awhile after he does that, he'll lounge around."
"Brilliant." I drum my fingers on my arm, tired of sitting around and watching the TV. "Well. I'm going off. See everyone later."
I get up, wave, then leave the room, heading back to the lab. Stark is still working and Banner has left.
"Stark! Do you have paper work that you need to do that you'll make me do?" I call. He looks up.
"Yeah, Sonic, over there." he motions to a stack of papers in the corner.
I sigh and go over and start, completely focused on my work, pen in hand, reading over the contracts, and other official documents. I organize them into piles and in chronological order, the ones with the nearest due date on top. Five agonizing hours later, hand aching, I finish and take my bag from the counter, which I had left in the lab all day, and leave, walking home.
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Hey, guys. I need some help in a nickname that Tony would call Kodiak. I came up with sonic because her hair is kinda bluish, but I don't think it fits, or its something that he would come up with. Please leave your suggestions in the comments.
Thank.
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