SHADOW [Avengers: AOU]

XV. Raise The Dead

After finishing her talk with Steve, Jacqueline went out to look for Vision. But he was nowhere to be found. So instead she just went back to her room. She lays down on her bed. Completely motionless while staring up at the ceiling. She couldn't sleep, she didn't want to. Instead she  daydreamed of how things would have gone if Ultron was still alive in the meantime. She saw them both hovering in the air over a wasteland of what use to be earth. She also daydreamed of how life here was going to end up for her.

Did she ever see herself changing and becoming an Avenger...now sometimes she actually did. Maybe that was just Steve rubbing off on her. Along with Vision and Lena's words getting stuck in her head. That, and she began to wonder when Clint would come back or if he'd visit. The four of them were all starting to grow on her like a fungus.

She was so into her daydreaming that she didn't hear the door slide open, and someone come to stand beside her.

"Good morning, Ms. Woods."

Jacqueline turned over onto her side, looking up at the figure of Maria Hill who stood before her. She groaned,  throwing her arm over her face.

"Ugh. Go away."

"No I don't think so. These past few days Wanda Maximoff has been very eager with pestering me about the T.A.H.I.T.I. protocol. Now she isn't level 7, or anything higher. So how does she know? How could she know? Do you have any idea how she found out about that?"

Though Maria already had a big hunch that it was the teen. Jacqueline shook her head with a grin.

"None what so ever, Agent."

"Oh really?"

"You don't believe me? I'm hurt."

"Wanda kept demanding permission to bring one of her fellow Avengers back from the dead. Of course I took the only lead of action, called a meeting with all the Avengers, discussed the matter."

"I've heard."

Jacqueline stretched out on her bed, before placing her arms underneath her head.

"Wanda, that poor girl, you just shut her down."

"Shut her up is more like it."

Wait--What.

She sat up in her bed. Looking at Maria with disbelieving eyes.

"No...you're messing with me." Jacqueline said.

The corners of Maria's lips lifted slightly. The Agent took a step back, holding a hand out towards the open door.

"Don't believe me? Go see for yourself."

And so she did. Jacqueline ran out of her room and speeds down the hall. She didn't know where she was going, but only what to look for. She passed by the meeting room and squeaked to a halt on the shinny marble floor.

Inside there was Steve, Natasha, Sam, Wanda, Rhodey, Vision, even Clint who she was surprised to see. But not as surprised at seeing the person they were all huddling around.

"Oh my god. Pietro." Jacqueline whispered.

Not a second later after his name was spoken his head turned away from his twin to look behind him. Their eyes locked and Jacqueline thought she forgot how to breath. A hug grin broke across the resurrected enhance's face.

"Shadow!"

He was gone in a blur out of the room, and she was suddenly swept up into the air being twirled around, a squeal escaping her lips.