Its dark in the alley and only a little light shines from the street into it. I sigh and walk slowly out of it, before I start jogging home.
As I get near my home I already see a few agents and the presence only increases. A few cars are outside our home and I sigh again. It will be a pain to explain everything.
I walk up to my door and unlock it. I enter our house and walk to our living room. I see Nick sitting menacingly in an armchair. My mother stands beside him with a clearly unhappy face.
“Hi, Mum, Uncle One-eye. Sorry it took a little longer, something happened.” I greet them with a sheepish smile and try to sound apologetic. My rather cute voice helps and I mime the shy innocent girl.
It didn't work. “Lillith Hill! Where were you this late in! I was worried sick about you!” She sounds angry and was seemingly worried about me.
“Mum, I am seventeen now and it's only eight! It isn't that late!” Yes I fall back to the good old whining. I am still short and cute. I am sure this will work.
Or It is not. I guess my mum knows all my tricks already. “Yes, if you wouldn't just vanish! You forgot your phone and didn't even tell me where you are! So what do you have to say for yourself?” She has her arms crossed and I drop my shoulders in defeat.
“I am sorry mum. I didn't expect to be this late out and have a really good reason for it! But can we sit down first? It has something to do with what I told you on the phone.” I just plop on the couch on the opposite side of Nick. He just watched me with his one eye and squints a little.
My mum huffs. “Fine. I will decide on your punishment later.” She sits on the couch between Nick and me and both of them look at me expectantly.
My eyes shift from mum to Nick and I lose a little bit of my mirth. These matters are now a little bit more serious. “Nick please deactivate all the bugs in this house or room. Better if you have some kind of tech to just disable all electronics so that nobody can listen in. And I mean absolutely nobody. I only trust you and mum with these infos.” I look at him sternly, what likely doesn't work that good with my general short appearance and still in pink clothes and even used his names instead of his nickname so that he hears how serious I am.
He just rummages in the inside of his coat and gets a little round object out and put it on the tish. A small stand comes out and the top part opens up. It looks like a mini satellite. His focus is on me again and he just stays silent. That is really creepy at that point.
I huff “Do you have to be so melodramatic Uncle One-Eye I didn't ask you to blind your other eye.” I stick my tongue out at him. He only raises a brow slightly.
“Anyway I hope that thing works, because I'm going to tell you some really really sensitive information.” I had to subtly get the information across. I had to use something really shocking without revealing anything. I looked to mum. “Ohh mum, do you still have your old pager from when you were an agent?” I smiled lightly and looked from mum to Nick. I had to be really paranoid with Hydra. Mum looked a little confused and that must have finally clicked in Nicks mind. He grabs another thing in his coat, a little small disk and pushes a button, before he throws it at the middle of the table. All lamps go out and we sit now in the dark.
“Motherfucker, How do you know about that?” And there is the famous cursing Nick. At least he takes this now really serious enough. I chuckle a little bit and my mum looks shocked to Nick.
“Language. She is a child!” And now she scolds Nick. I giggle at that and get a glare shot my way.
“Its okay mum and I will tell you. I just had to get your attention enough that you would put up the big guns. So now can nobody hear us?” I ask again. Am I too paranoid? Maybe, but I dont want to poke the snake nest too early.
“Yes, girl we are. That bloody thing was designed and built by Stark and I had my own scientist go over it to look for hidden bugs and then I went over it. This thing disables all electrical devices and all sounds that get out are turned to static. Does Not have a huge radius, but for this room its enough. So now talk.” He ask me glaring fiercely at me.
I fidget a little bit in my seat and sigh. “Okay, but do not interrupt me. I have a lot to tell. First I know that both of you work for SHIELD and that you are pretty much spys. Granted that isn't all what you are doing, but it sums it up pretty much. I know everything you are doing and what you did. I know that you, Nick, are the Directer and mum is your Deputy. I know that Thor visited Earth and is from Asgard. I know about Banner and Stark and about your Avengers Initiative. I know about Carol Danvers and that she is currently patrolling the universe.”
Here I pause and look on the faces of mum and Nick. Nick still glares heavily at me and mum just frowns a little. I start to fidget a little bit more even if I already prepared myself what I wanted to say its really hard. Of course that doesn't escape the two.
“And well I know all this, because it all happened already in another universe. This isn't my first life and I reincarnated into this universe.” I say and my voice gets smaller and smaller the longer I talk. I look at the ground, because I don't really want to see the face of my mum.
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Mentally I am way older than these people, but the memories of this life have fully integrated with me and I just don't want to see their reaction. What if mum hates me now? What if she throws me out? As I slowly spiral down my thoughts I am suddenly being hugged. My mum got over when I was distracted and hugged me. She slowly stroke my hair.
“Ohh, sweetheart, don't cry. It doesn't matter that you lived before. You will always be my cute little daughter.” Did I cry? I didn't even notice and just hugged my mum back and sniffeld in her arms. We stayed like this for a few minutes, before we slowly separated. I rubbed my eyes a little and I bet they were now puffy. I took a deep breath to calm myself again.
“But why didnt you tell me this earlier?” My mum pouted a little bit and it was weird to see her do that. I scratch my head.
“My memories only came back today actually. They were suppressed for the same reason why my abilities were. More to that later. But you actually believe me?” I asked them. I mean what I just said sounded a little crazy. Nick just snorts.
“Kid I saw people throwing thunder like it was nothing, flying with nothing but space juice and alien shapeshifters. What I first thought you were. So yes I bloody believe you its just landing on top of the crazy pile. Granted other damn universes will be fucking annoying, but that was theorized for some time already.” Nick answered and my mum just threw him a glare again.
“Sir, please at least try to not curse in front of my daughter.” She huffs and turns to me. We are now sitting side by side or more like I sit nearly on her lap. “And Of course I believe your. Sure its sounds a little crazy, but we do see more and more stuff like that and you are my daughter if this is your first or second life doesn't matter for me.
I chuckle at that. “Well this is actually my third life. My first one was completely unrelated and I was a powerful cultivator. But that isn't important. Just In my second life we knew about this universe, well more Multiverse. I know a lot of stuff about this universe and universes similar to this one. And with a lot I mean stuff that actually happens in the future. But I can't divulge that stuff. At least not yet.”
I see that Nick is already frowning hard and I continue before he speaks. “It isn't that I don't want to say more, but if I tell you now all that I know this knowledge will likely be useless, because the future is changed. I need a certain Event to happen. That is in my opinion an integral one of this universe that has to happen. The other ones after that are maybe important, but I don't care about them.”
Nick just sighs. “Then why am I even here?!” I grin and just point to the device on the table and he glares at me as I giggle at that.
“No this isn't the only reason Uncle One-Eye. I can tell you something, but you absolutely don't have to act overly much on it. That information is way I wanted you to set this thing up. Under no circumstances can you share it with anyone. Maybe Clint and Natasha, well maybe only Natasha for the beginning. Again I can stretch this enough, don't talk about it dont note it down someone.”
I sound like Nick himself with how paranoid I am speaking. Both of them raise the eyebrow on how stubborn I am at this. “Girl, we know how to keep secrets. You do know I AM the Director of SHIELD so I know pretty much every dirty secret there is. You can't surprise me that much. Yo out with it. It isn't like you will tell me HYDRA is still around.” I deadpan him as he jokes and sigh.
“It's even worse. HYDRA has infiltrated SHIELD and many governments to further their goal. And yes I'm not joking. HYDRA is alive and still around. But as I said don't do anything know. IF you would start a witch hunt now SHIELD is going to collapse and we do need it. Wait a few months after that I will help you. I know of a few things that can make this easier. And just to get the point across how deep they are, Alexander Pierce is HYDRA.” Now that got their attention and Fury was alert and he was deep in thought.
“That is troubling. I will trust you for now, but the moment you can share more I want to know everything.” He still has furrowed brows and probably thinks of many contingencies.
“Let's get to the last information I want to share and they are way better News! I found out who my dad is!” I tell them excitedly and grin at my mum. “I didnt know that you have a thing for old man!” I giggle loudly and see my mum getting lightly flustered. Nick just raises a brow.
“I have no idea what you are talking about!” Mum denies and I can even see the lips of Nick twitching. My mum coughs a little. “But who is your dad? And how did you find out? Did you meet him?”
I shake my head. “Nope, I met someone called the Ancient One. Sorcerer Supreme of earth and defender of the planet against all the magical and mystical threats. And yes magic is real, but you don't have to worry about that for now she told me about him!” Both of them sigh heavily. I kind of get why I tell them one outrageous thing after the other. They just look at me and wait for me to go on.
“Anyway I have to give it to you mum, not every woman can seduce a King! Or a God or in other words a Godking. I am the proud daughter of the Allfather Odin!” I declare and dearly hope that neither Odin or Heimdall heard that. I didn't want to go there and wanted to surprise them! I just look at both of them.
Mum blinks and I see she has a hard time processing this. Meanwhile Fury curses again. “Motherfucker, how many things are you hiding? You are half asgardian? Well damn that explains your escape. I hope you can’t shoot lightning like thor.” “Language…” My mum mumbles as she hears the cursing. I pinch her that she gets back.
She shakes her head. “How do you know that? Is this sorceress right? Why me… Oh god doesn't he already have a wife?” Now mum is spiraling. I just pet her head.
“Dont worry Frigga is nice she will more likely beat Odin up and be mad at him. You should too! I will drag him to you so that he can apologize to you! And he suppressed my asgardian half as a baby. I am not sure, but I think I am now 100% Asgardian. And now Lightning is Thors Domain. I have to go to Asgard to train in the future. So I am just strong, fast and can take a beating.” I grin a little.
“But that was it for the time being I don't have more groundbreaking news to share. So I would like to finally celebrate my birthday with my mum.” I make shuu motions with my hand at him and he just chuckles and stands up. He walks to the exit.
“Take that thing as my birthday present, girl. And Happy birthday. Deputy Hill. You are free tomorrow. Spend some time with your daughter. Have a good evening you two.” And then he was out of the house and I looked up to my mum.
“Now lets celebrate and eat something. I am hungry!”