In 2011 Cassidy Taylor was forced to flee earth with the mother she never knew when the Kree came for her. Three years later she's working for the Nova Corps on Xandar with her mother when her mother is killed in an attack by Ronan's soldiers.
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Oh, I'm just a girl, living in captivity Your rule of thumb makes me worrisome Oh, I'm just a girl, what's my destiny? What I've succumbed to is making me numb
Just your average day in Nova Corps - staking out a courtyard on Xandar, waiting for the daughter of the Mad Titan to show her face. No big deal. Tackle the galaxy's most deadly assassin to the ground and arrest her. Cassidy Taylor could do that, right?
There were rumours that Gamora was also working with Ronan and the Kree. It made little sense to Cass that she would be casually running around Xandar if she was working with Ronan. Ronan whose Sakaaran soldiers were responsible for an attack on a Nova Corps fleet a few months prior that resulted in her mother's death.
She swallowed the lump that formed in her throat. It hadn't been long she'd known her mother - only three years, really. But they'd only just become family after 30 years apart.
And now she was gone.
In the span of three years she'd lost everything. Her father had sacrificed himself so she and her mother could escape the Kree on Earth. And now the life she was just starting to build was erased in the blink of an eye.
Without thinking, she reached up to toy with the pendant hanging around her neck - a bright golden star her mother had gifted her.
Cass blinked back the tears that threatened to spill.
It wasn't the time.
She leaned against the railing in front of her and scanned the crowd. A pretty average day, in her opinion. Happy families, friends, strangers. The air was filled with laughter and chatty voices.
Three years ago, searching for a green-skinned assassin would've been easy. Odds were, on Earth anyway, everyone around her wouldn't be green. But on Xandar? The universe had so much more flavour out here. More skin tones, more abilities, more languages, more...everything. The fact that she had to have a universal translator implanted just to function day to day was amazing.
Glancing down toward the fountain she saw what looked like a tree and a raccoon, and the tree was drinking from the fountain. A soft giggle bubbled up as she watched them. The idea of a raccoon and a tree walking around and having a conversation.... Was this real life or a Disney movie?
When she turned away, she was biting down on her grin when a man with light brown hair and blue eyes smirked at her and threw her his best Blue Steel. He wore a dark red leather jacket over his blue shirt with a brown cross-body bag draped across his chest. While he wasn't exactly filthy or caked in dirt, he was somehow dirtier than the average Xandarian. On Earth he wouldn't look out of place, but here? There was something she couldn't put her finger on.
Cass rolled her eyes and bit down on a smile. He was cute, but it would take a lot more than a bad Blue Steel to win her over.
"Got a smile," he said as he walked past her. The man spun around and tossed her a wink before continuing into a nearby pawn shop.
