*Very mature content*Altered timeline* Slow burn* Aria Lark is a former assassin for The Crimson Sparrows. Once tasked with killing Tony Stark, he convinces her to spare his life and abandon the Sparrows. Eventually recruiting her to the Avengers where she becomes an amazing asset to the team. Her mutant abilities allow her to conjure blades of all kinds as well as the ability to channel a person. She can literally become the person she channels. Taking on their personality, memories and feelings. It's the closest Aria ever comes to bonding with another person. Not having a normal childhood leaves Aria without the know how to form connections with her new team. Open hostility and avoidance is how she protects herself from everyone. Aria's thinking is why should she be forced to be friends with everyone as long as she does her job? An unsuspecting Aria comes home from a mission and accidentally channels Bucky Barnes cementing her need to keep her distance from everyone. That is until a public encounter with Bucky forces Steve Rogers to set aside his feelings for her and give her an ultimatum: Aria has one month to bond with at least one team member to prove she can be trusted more than feared by her teammates. Having nowhere else to go she decides to do it. But can Aria learn to open up and let them in or will she be forced to leave the only safe haven she's ever known?
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