The people looked like tiny ants, as the wind ruffled my feathers. I had a strange urge to go make a nest, but followed tony instead. Jim was gracefully gliding between the solid lakes of buildings. His jaw was set in determination, the skyscrapers reflections catching the glint in his eye.

I noticed the stark tower coming up close. But now, only signaling a A. Stark landed on a spinning, mechanical device. It began to strip away his suit, the metal gleaming. Jim swiftly tucked next to him, inspecting the patio. I began to transform back to human, so when my feet landed on the concrete, it was human feet.

"What's going on?" I questioned, because Jim was just following Tony in silence. "Fury needs to talk to you,"

The blood drains from my face, and a sickly, pale feeling hung around me. Inching closer to Jim, I brushed him with my arm. "Maybe we should run," I whispered, quietly. "There will be no running," Tony called, not even turning around to face us. Jim rolled his eyes, "just follow the idiot,"

Tony started walking backwards, now facing us. "You guys really suck at whispering," he said, before spinning back around and opening some doors. Jim scoffed, just as we walked in.

Fury sat, just kinda sitting on a couch. There were a few armed guards peering at us, and I gulped. Either they're here to protect us, or protects other from us. "Since we haven't formally met, I'm director fury,"

He stood up, and held out his hands shake. I hesitantly took it, and put on a serious voice. "So I've heard," I remarked. Jim shook his hand as well, and had also plastered on a professional face. "Director, is there a purpose to our summoning?" Jim said, quite sassily.

All I need is for Jim to be bitter, say something he'll regret, and then us once again, fighting for our lives.

"We would like to alert you, that you are being put on the index," he said., quite matter of factly. The index? "What's that?" Jim asked, crossing his arms.

Fury sighed, "you might wanna sit down,"

I refrained from rolling my eyes, and plopped down in a soft, luxurious chair. Tony was seated as well, intently listening. "I have someone here to help explain. Noted, let's not waste her time. She has a team to get back to," he stated, calling over a guard. As fury murmured to a guard, I raised an eyebrow at Jim. He had turned to me, and was making ridiculous faces.

I had to stifle a giggle, and put on a stern face. I slowly shook my head, and his face slowly went back to normal. I couldn't help the little smirk though.

The doors opened, letting a rush of cold air dance through the room. And in she walked. The woman wasn't very tall, and she looked of Asian ethnicity. She wore all black, and had a gun strapped to her side. Her hair was black, and flowing downwards. But her expression... Stony.

"I'm agent Melinda May," she stated, shaking Jim and I's hands. "I'm Emily, and that's Jim. Sorry, no agent or director titles. But I've had the labels creature, monster, abomination. And sometimes, I've been called, stop-eating-out-of-my-fridge," I said. If they were bringing in important looking agents, and directly talking with the director, then we were in big trouble. So, to keep my cool cover, I'm going with comedic sarcasm.

"This is not a matter of fun and games. Basically, your future is depending on this conversation," fury said. Jim slightly chuckled. "We decide our own futures, thanks," he said, scoffing. "Would you like to know about the index or not?" Agent may asked, obviously in a no nonsense mode.

"Yeah sure. Go ahead," I sighed. Fury cleared his throat, and began. "The index is basically a big list of people like you. People with powers. It marks who you are, what your power is, and we have to do a personality stability evaluation," he explained. "I'm sorry a what?" I asked.

"A personality stability evaluation. It's to see if your probably going to use your powers on a homicidal spree," agent may explained. I looked at Jim, and he opened his mouth to say something, and then closed it. I don't think there's really something to say, when someone wants you to take a test that determines if you're a psycho or not.

"Okay..." I mumbled. "There's more," may said, and she glanced at fury. "It also has a part where we review a way to, stop your powers if needed," he said, slowly, as if I would understand.

Oh I understood.

While I stay, wide eyed and mouth agape, Jim began to laugh. He literally just began to laugh. As contagious as his laugh is, I was wondering how he could laugh right now. "I'm sorry, is this funny?" Agent may asked, looking at Jim in disbelief. "No, no. It's just..." Jim paused, chuckling slightly, before turning his mouth in a sinister smirk, "you think you can stop our powers. Like we'd let you," he spat, standing up.

Agent may shot up, and so did fury. The guards lifted their guns. So about 5 guns and 2 agents were aimed towards us. Great. "Jim-"

"No! All of you! Get away from her! From us! You don't care about people like us!" He screamed, an arm reached out protectively across my body. "Jim, stand down. We're here to help," agent may soothed, but her hand rested on her gun.

"Icers only," fury called. Jim furrowed his brow. "Icers? What is going on!?" He screamed, "what are you not telling us?"

Fury seemed to think about his answer, and Jim moved himself in front of me. "We know all your stories. We know your moms. We know Emily's parents genetic code research. A secret lab? Who do you think lent it to them? It was SHIELD. There were agents there. Protecting the people who escaped. Agent may was there, we were supervising everything," he explained, and I almost started crying. "After everything you knew," I took a breath. Don't lose control.

"You still tried to kill us!" I screamed. "After you knew what I had been through!"

May tried to calm me down, "Exactly. We were trying to protect you. But when you had your accident we-"

"SHUT UP! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT! I couldn't stop that! You think I wanted to kill him? You think I was born a killer!? You weren't going to help me!" I gasped, the realization hitting me.

My throat felt as dry as a desert, the words tumbling out. "Jim and I, was it your lab?" I whispered, and Jims eyes widened. "You were going to experiment on us," he said, his voice small. "No. That wasn't our lab. We have cause to believe that the lab may have been hydra. Hydra has shown interest in supers before," agent May said, and I relaxed a little. Jim put his arm down, and grasped my hand. "So, about this index. I want you to know that we're on the good guy side. We will be on your side," Jim paused, "if you guys are always the good guys,"

Fury chuckled, the sound deep and raspy, "that's the plan,"

The guards lowered their guns, and agent may dialed something on a phone. "Come with me. I'm bringing you on my bus, I have some scientists that will do your evaluation," she said, and began to walk out the door.

"Bus? I thought SHIELD would have like top of the line subs or something," Jim questioned as we tried to keep up to mays pace. "Let's just follow what they say," I sighed, the floors reflecting our faces when we look down. "And stark? We just kinda left him there," Jim commented, looking back at the now far away doors. "Looks like him and Fury are gonna have a chat,"

Jim left all the questions alone after that. To think, a few days ago, we were living out of a van, actually kind of happy in life. We break into tony Starks house, go to New York, find out I can heal myself, get called a monster, see my life long friends, get called a monster again, and now getting put on this "index".

Sighing exasperatedly, I realized Jim and i's hands were still intertwined. They feel like they fit together..... STOP! Stop thinking of cliché things that will never happen in life. I don't like him that way...

I undid our hands, and couldn't help but feel the strange cold that overcame me. But I didn't have enough time to dwell on it, because we had reached the roof. It functioned as a landing pad of sorts. And there was definitely not a bus.

"They have a plane," jim said, astonished. I nodded, because we were also about to board it.

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