BUTCHERED TONGUE - MARVEL

❝ You may never
know your fortune.
Until the distance can be shown
between what is lost forever,
and what can still be known. ❞

AGENT DANA PIERCE spent the better part of her twenty-four years living a lie. The last two, she spent risking her life for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division-the United States government agency responsible for protecting the public against super powered threats. She had been happy, or at least, deluded herself into believing she was happy. She had her father, the strongest, bravest man she had ever known. She had her friends, a group of elite S.H.I.E.L.D agents/scientists tasked with uncovering the greatest mysteries and secrets Earth, and the worlds beyond, had to uncover. She had her truth-or at least what she remembered of it. Dana's past had been haunted for years. A load of trauma's wrapped with a neat bow in her head.

That was until her past came unraveling, and she was thrown into the lion's den of 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes'. The lions weren't just hungry. They were starving. And Dana herself might just be the tastiest meal they'd caught wind of in years.

Now on the run with Captain America and The Black Widow-Two of S.H.I.E.L.D's most wanted criminals. She's forced to confront her worst nightmares. While learning the truth about the organization and the man she called home. If only The Winter Soldier, Hydra's rabid dog, wasn't on her tail. She might have been able to think more clearly.

But what was it that her father always told her? About 'expecting the unexpected?' She couldn't quite remember. Perhaps Project Morningstar could reboot her computing memory?

♡︎ fem!OCxBuckyBarnes

started: 10/12/25
finished: TBD