10 YEARS LATER

Juliette Danvers looked at the glassed building, she hadn't seen so many glass windows and glass doors in just one building. This was the moment for Juliette to prove herself that she was worth being in here, she could be part of SHIELD, Juliette was ready.

Opening the glass door she walked inside, people in suits passed by, the sound of chatting, typing, and telephones were heard all around her, it sounded as she was inside a beehive, and right now she needed to find the queen - or in this case, the king -, the tapping of her heels were almost a whisper in the middle of the loud.

"Miss Danvers." Someone had called out her name, a man in a suit and short hair was making his way to her. "I'm Phil Coulson, Director Fury had told me you were coming in." The man stood straight, both of his hands were together in front of him, he had a kind smile, eyes that seemed too tired and wrinkles at the end of them.

"Coulson, nice knowing you," Juliette didn't know if she had to shake his hand or stand still "I have a meeting with Fury, I imagine you came here to show me the way?" Her dark blonde hair fell behind her shoulders, she felt as a ponytail would be helpful right now and would make her look even more professional, but she had no tie on either of her wrists.

"Please, follow me Miss Danvers." Coulson bowed his head for a second, he turned around and made his way towards the elevator. Juliette followed behind, was she supposed to be next to him while walking or being in the back look right? No one gave her a book of instructions when it came to an important work interview.

The hallways to the office were clear by people but noise could be heard coming from every single room, conversations, technological sounds, not a single room was silent. The door just at the end of the hallway had on its entrance Director Fury. Juliette took a deep breath as Phil Coulson knocked on his door, the brunette could feel her heart picking up its pace, her lips were getting dry, and suddenly there was the feeling of instant regret.

"Come on in." Juliette recognized Fury's voice, Coulson opened the door for her to walk in first, she took another deep breath and took steps forward. Fury had his office organized but somehow empty too. A desk, chair and drawers around him, Juliette couldn't find a piece that had color besides grey, black or white. Coulson didn't walk in with her, instead he closed the door behind her and left them alone.

"Afternoon Director Fury." Juliette Danvers walked over to his desk and stretched her hand out to him.

"Why the modestly Juliette, you know I go by Nicholas with you." Fury stood up from his chair and walked around his desk, opening his arms he hugged Juliette Danvers. "How are you doing? It's nice to see you again after all this time." Fury pulled her back and she noticed that his eye patch had changed, it wasn't a piece of cloth anymore, it was black leather now.

"I've been doing great Nicholas, moved out from Maria's two years back and found my own place." Juliette could feel her smile on her face, a smile she didn't remember on wanting to have.

"I've heard, it is a nice small apartment you got." Nicholas Fury returned to his seat and motioned Juliette to do the same, for her, it was confusion that overcame. "Since your sister's leaving, I had kept my eye on you, always protected, or that is what Carol had told me to do." Chuckling was heard by him, and Juliette smiled again, the last time she had heard him laugh was those years back.

"Well, I would thank you for doing that, but I guess, I had come here since now, I wanna do the protection over being the protected." Juliette went straight forward with what she wanted and Fury picked up on that too.

"Right, so, on SHIELD, we do things differently, we don't just protect our people from themselves, we protect them from what's outside, you know that." Danvers nodded her head, knowing what he was talking about. "What I had planned for you was working undercover for us, get us information about certain people who could be working on some sketchy and even dangerous works." Fury leaned forward, a file was slipped towards her. "I had planned on partnering you up with a new recruit, Maria Hill, you two are new to our program, together you will learn combat, handling firearm and working on small cases at first to know about your progress." Juliette opened the file, she saw a woman, black hair and dashing blue eyes. She didn't smile on her picture, she looked professional, and Juliette regretted that she had smiled just a little bit on her picture.

Juliette Danvers didn't know she would start right away and with a partner. She wasn't against the idea of teamwork, actually, she enjoyed doing such thing. Danvers looked up at Fury, her blue eyes crinkled at the ends as a grin appeared on her lips.

"And when do I start?" The pace of her heart picked up again, this time it was excitement that showed up. She wanted to be here, she was going to be here, and she knew she had to work hard to keep her place. If she wanted to make herself proud, this was the place. Fury stood up from his chair just like Juliette did, his hand was stretched out, the woman took it gladly, gripping it not too tight but not too gentle, gripping it enough to make her stand.

This was it, Juliette Danvers had become a SHIELD recruit, she had to prove herself now to everyone, specially to Fury, Juliette Danvers wasn't going to let him down and make him feel like he didn't do the right thing about recruiting her into the program.

author's note
this is all over the place I am so sorry