I am Katrina Stark ( an Avengers fanfic )

Chapter 3- Friends

"Katrina rise and shine darling" Phil shook Katrina silently as she began to stir in bed. She squinted up at him and looked around. This wasn't her bed, and this defiantly wasn't a place she had been in before.

"where are we and what time is it?" She asked impatiently but politely. Phil chuckled and helped her off the bed as she seemed to be struggling. "Kat welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D this will be your room for now but before I tell you too much, there's a few people I'd like you to meet." He said reassuringly before taking her hand and leading her down a couple of halls.

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"Director Fury this is our special guest" Phil opened a large door to find a tall man in a black coat and a woman in a leotard like suit standing near a desk. Both turned swiftly and Katrina tried not to gasp as she saw the man with an eye patch covering his left eye.
He smiled which Katrina already had a feeling like that wasn't something he'd done very often and bent down to knee level so that their eyes were matched.

"So may I know the name of our VIP guest" He looked her in the eye. Although he already knew very well who this was.

"This is-"

"I am Katrina Stark call me Kat" she interrupted and spoke in a very professional life voice making everyone in the room look shocked. Both the men chuckled and Director fury reached out to shake her hand. "Well it is a pleasure to meet you Ms.Stark I am director Fury and welcome to my humble abode. This over here is Mrs.Hill but feel free to call her Maria, she and Phil will be taking care of you and teaching you." The woman smiled widely and she instantly knew she would get along with her. Director fury began to speak in a hushed tone to Maria and started to walk towards another door in this glass office.

"Wait. What about you?" She interjected. Fury cocked his head in a confused manner at her. "What do you mean?"

"I mean won't you be taking care of me also?" Fury glanced quickly at Maria and then at Phil who both gave sympathetic looks. He sighed To himself and mumbled a few words. "Um sure if you want" she smiled to herself.

"So you said something about teaching me stuff..... So I'm going to be doing school right?" Maria nodded and opened her mouth to speak but never got the chance to when Kat continued to talk. "I'll have you know that I am an advanced learner so technically I'm learning at grade three level already"

"Well don't we have a smarty pants here, just like Howard, I like her." she cringed at the mention of her fathers name.

"Well unfortunately I have a business meeting to attend but Maria and Phil will have you meet a friend and a certain person whom I think you might like...... Actually Maria make reservations for Katrina and I for dinner tonight at the Olive Garden."

"Right away sir" Maria glanced down at her board and punched in a few buttons before leaving the room with both Phil and Kat who kept glancing back at fury and waving to him. As she shut the door she caught up with Phil who was talking to Kat.

"That's a first" she laughed out loud, as did Phil.

"I know I haven't seen the man smile like that before, you missy are one special person" he tapped Kat's nose making her giggle contagiously
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A voice rang through Maria's earpiece, she quickly answered it leaving Phil and Kat to keep walking.

"I like it" She said breaking the silence as they turned into a stairwell.

"Really oh I'm glad you do Kat, Look I know this is hard for you and I'm trying my best to make this feel like home although it may not but I'm so glad you are here and you like it." Phil said with a prompt smile on his face. He looked back up at the stairwell and thumping of footsteps were heard.

Katrina wasn't sure what to do but she had never been the shy type, typical stark manner, so she stood there curiously wanting to know who the footsteps belonged to.

She watched as two strangely looking people with cuts and bruises all over their body made their way down the stairs skipping two each time which Kat always found a challenge where as going up by two each time never seemed to be a problem.

The woman look frustrated and had medium length red hair. And the man who was clinging onto the lady like he was guarding her or holding her back was dressed in a purple uniform with a S.H.I.E.L.D symbol on the side. His short brown hair was sticking out in all places and most of his uniform was either cut or really dusty.

"Barton what is she doing here?" Maria suddenly came out of nowhere and was questioning the man next to the woman.

"You've compromised this mission do you realize that?!" Her voice suddenly got louder making Kat slightly shiver.

"And I did it for a damn good reason." He shot back and then looked at Coulson.

He contemplated for a second before responding. "Well I better hope so."

"Look I don't even want to be here with you assholes." The woman finally spoke up. She had a slight Russian accent but it was evident that she was working on speaking better in English.

"Ms.Romanov-" Coulson started but was cut off by Kat who finally felt the need to talk.

"That's a bad word." Everyone's head whipped to Kat whom none had taken notice of before. She just looked like an innocent child just holding her stubby little fingers onto the ends of Phil's suit.

"Well I don't give a damn, and what is this, S.H.I.E.L.D's now using younger spies?" The red head tsked.

"Natalia Romanov I have a preposition for you, think of it as a 'fresh start'." Phil said completely ignoring Natalia's comment.

Natalia was hesitant at first, could she really start over , with that much red in her ledger? Her face remained hard as stone till she finally thought about how free she could be without the KGB up her spine.

"I'm listening"

"We'll wipe as much of your name as we can as long as you can prove to us that you're just as good as these agents." Her breath hitched. Maybe things could get better. But was she ready?

"Wait I want to keep my name, it will let others fear me.........when do I begin?" She asked now looking up at Phil. Maria didn't look too pleased.

"You're first assignment is taking care of Katrina Stark" he said gesturing towards Kat which everyone took by surprise.

"Sir-" Maria began but Phil continued.

"I'm sure you've heard of Howard stark, well this is his daughter, you are to keep an eye on her and train her thoroughly."

"охуел?" She hissed out through her teeth. "Are you kidding me? This is my first mission, I'm not here to babysit, now way!" She yelled Phil making Kat cringe and back away.

"Do you wanna be free or not, cause by all means I can take you back to that miserable place-" Clint took part in the conversation now.

"Fine! Alright. But you better do as you say or else I will kill everyone you love before you can see them slowly die." She threatened now really close to Phil. Clint grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

Phil straightened his posture and fixed his tie, unfazed by the previous events. "Right. Well I'll leave you to take care of Kat, and I trust you." He warned.

Clint, Maria, and Phil began walking out the door to the main lobby of the Triskelion. Before the door closed Natalia called out. "Clint."

He turned around swiftly and looked at her. "Thank you" she said in almost a whisper. Both had not expected that to come out of her mouth. But for once in her life, she really meant it.

"No problem." He said awkwardly before shutting the door and leaving them to slowly walk back up the stairs.

Kat fought the urge to Aww when she saw them two talk, she saw something between them that she had seen through her mom and dad, through Tony and his 1001 girlfriends.

Love.

"Okay kid lets get this over with" Nat sighed to herself as they climbed the last few stairs and entered the training room.