Today is the first day I get to meet aria. Peter convinced her to be my personal intern. I'm not sure why but I'm a bit nervous.

I look at bucky, who is standing next to me, waiting for steve. "What if she doesn't like me? What if she hates me?" I say.

"it's ok. She's going to love you. You got this." He says, patting my shoulder. I smile at him and the elevator dings.

Out steps Peter, Steve, and who I assume to be aria. She has bob length black hair, and half of it is almost covering her face.

Aria walks over to me and I shake her hand, I can tell she's trying (and failing) not to smile. "hi! I'm aria Smith! Pleasure to meet you!" She says.

"well aria, I'm natasha romanoff. I'm glad to meet you!" I say. "want anything to eat or drink?" I say.

"no thank you ms.romanoff." she says. "well I can have letter give you a tour of the gym, and the pent house" I say.

While Peter gives her a tour of the pent house and the gym, I make us all some food. I make some for aria just in case she gets hungry.

I sit down in the living room with Steve and bucky. "either of you seen stark or strange?" Steve asks. "they have meetings all day. Like, till 11:00" i say.

"any one else notice how tall that kid was?" Bucky says. After thinking about it I realize that she was really tall.

After Peter gave her the tour, they both joined us in the living room. "thanks for making food ms.ramanoff! Are you sure you don't want any aria? Ms.ramanoff cooks the best out of all of us." Peter says. I hear bucky scoff.

"no thanks. I'm not hungry." She says. We all talk and eat. Aria looks really confused. "excuse me ma'm. When is the internship going to begin?" She asks.

"well, I guess since you aren't eating, I could have you sort a pile of papers." I say, trying my best to think of what interns do.

"ok. Where are the papers?" She asks. I lead her to a spare office with a tv, couch, and phone. I set a pile of paperwork on the desk infront of her.

"just go through and sort them by which hero is the focus. I can take it from there." I say. She smiles at me and I walk out into the hall.

I feel kind of bad. She's what, 15? 16? Even though its fairly simple, I feel bad for making her sort paperwork. A lot of paperwork. I don't expect her to get all of them done. I just want to see how her work ethic is.

About 4 1/2 hours later I go check on her, see how much work she got done. I only except to her to be halfway through the stack when I get there.

As I open the door I see aria, asleep on the couch. I look at the desk and to my surprise, all of the pile is sorted, it even has little labels showing whose pile is whose.

I walk into the hallway and grab a spare blanket from the closet. I walk back into the room and drape the blanket over her. I write 'well done! :)' on a blank paper and leave it next to her.

I wall back to the living room, and I guess I was smiling alot. "what's up with the big ass smile?" Bucky asks. "LANGUAGE" peter shouts, trying to sound like cap.

Cap sighs. "aria fell asleep." I say. Steve stares at me. "she sorted the entire pile of paperwork I gave her. She sorted all of the avengers most recent paperwork." I say.

I wake up on a couch in an unfamiliar office. Then I remember how I fell asleep after sorting papers for my internship.

I sit up and see a note next to where my head was. I pick it up and read it. 'well done! :)' it only then hits me that I fell asleep on the job.

I check my phone and find put that it's 6:30 I'm the morning. Panicing, I run out into the living room and see Peter, Mr.rogers, mr.barnes, ms.romanoff, and someone i don't recognize.

"good! You're awake! We should have some clothes that fit you, but you should have some breakfast first." Ms.romanoff says.

"no thanks. I have to get home. It's not to far so I can just walk." I say. I get a stare from Peter. He knows that I live awhile away.

"ok, ill get you a change of clothes and have happy drive you home." Ms.romanoff says. I smile, nod, and go back to the office.

Ms.romanoff brings me a change of clothes and after I get dressed, a grumpy man, with the name tag happy, drives me home.

As soon as I open the door, my dad shouts. "where were you?!?" He yells. "I was at my internship, I told you. They were nice enough to let me stay the night but my phone died." I say, calmly, and a bit scared.

I've never seen my dad angery and drunk. I've seen both individually, but not at the same time like this. It's scarier than I thought it would be.

On Monday, I walk into school and look sit with ned, mj, and wade like I usually do. But recently aria has been joining our group.

Today when she wasn't in first period, I got a little concerned. But, when she didn't show up by lunch, I was really worried, all four of us were, mj the most.

When aria did arrive, it was the beginning of lunch. She sat down at our table without getting her food. She had her hood up and her head down, like she was hiding her face.

"aria? Are you ok?" Mj asks, puuting, a hand on arias shoulder. When aria doesn't reply, she asks again, more calmly.

"aria, if something is up you gifts tell us." Ned says, looking more worried. It's not until we hear crying that wade steps in.

"aria Smith. Listen to me. No matter what happened, you can tell us, you're safe here. It's not happening here, not now." He says, calmly.

Aria looks up at him and that's when I see the bruises. the black eye, the almost broken nose, the bruised cheek, the bleeding lip, the bloody nose, the bruised collar bone, ect.

As soon as she realizes I can see her face, she puts her head back down. But it's to late, I already saw. And given the still wet blood, I know who did this.

A/n I wanted to establish how/why aria would spend a lot of time with the avengers, clint Peter and natasha to be specific. Also as I was writing I included a homophobic line from arias dad, but I ended up deleting it.