TWO YEARS LATER.

Years later, Zach and Ella had graduated from Cambridge early and had moved into their own apartment in London. The two had grown more affectionate to each other with the years passing, and both fell more for each other.

The couple was always excited when a new Harry Potter book or movie came out, similar to how they initially bonded. They were nerds at heart and both loved that about the other. They also loved that Harry and Hermione got together at the end of the series.

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"Oh, yeah, that's right. You heard that right, folks."

"The author really made that happen! Romione doesn't exist! Fucking fourth wall break here, bitches!"

Wade...get the fuck out.

"Oh, don't you worry, I'll be out of your hair soon."

Idiot.

"Wait, did you just call me an idiot, Author!?"

YES, I DID. NOW GET OUT.

"You little motherfucker! Oh, thank FUCK this book isn't PG-13. I can wear for real! Instead of those fucking beeps everywhere..."

Do I need to call Colossus? Maybe the X-Men while I'm at it?

"Oh god, not that chrome-domed cock gobbler. And McAvoy or Stewart? Timelines are so confusing, it's like the writers said, "FUCK IT, LET'S CONFUSE THE AUDIENCE!". Like how they nerfed me in X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

God, I wish I could shut your mouth like that one.

"Oh, you ain't getting rid of me anytime soon! We're all one big happy now, Author. Better get used to it."

LEAVE. NOW.

"X-Men coming soooooonnnnnnn!"

PLEASE.

"Fantastic Four in 2023!!"

I'm begging you.

"Ay, what about that Secret Invasion--"

SHUT THE FUCK UP, WADE!

Now where was I...

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They had always got along ever since they first got together. Zach continued his work into programming, and dabbled in photography, while Ella always offered to be his muse. On the other hand, she always helped her boyfriend in coding and building. They had no secrets from each other, as a few months after they were dating, Zach showed her his powers, and she was amazed that he could be a superhero.

However, Zach dismissed the idea, and wanted to focus on them together and their future, which Ella was more than happy with. The couple were happy together, seemingly nothing could break them apart.

The couple woke up in their shared bedroom the following morning and cuddled each other in their underwear. Ella's eyes fluttered open to find her boyfriend above her, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him down to kiss him, smiling with each kiss placed on her lips. "Morning, love," She whispered to him as the two continued to snog in their bed, and Zach decided to remove his lips from hers and kissed her neck down to her chest, up her upper arms and back to her chin, with Ella holding onto him, releasing only a few moans.

"Hey, beautiful," Zach flirted as he rolled off of her. "How are you?" He asked as he hopped out and went off to grab some fresh underwear and clothes for them as Ella had followed after him. 

"Pretty good," she replied and ran her hands over her boyfriend's tank top. "I loved what you did last night," She whispered into his ear as she leaned in and nibbled his neck, making Zach smile and turn to face her.

"We've got to clean up the apartment, yeah?" She said as she prepared a shower. "Eddie and Amelia are coming over for dinner, are you still good to go get groceries?" Zach thought to himself at first and nodded. "Yeah, I should be able to get 'em." He replied as he read his clothes for the day outside their bathroom. "I'll head out soon, just gonna freshen up."

Ella smiled at him. "That's great, I want everything to be perfect for them," She looked down at herself, still not in her clothes, and looked back at her boyfriend. "I do need to freshen up too, mind if I join you in the shower?" Zach smirked as he kissed Ella right on the lips, and held her close to him, while she kissed back, smirking as she did and pulled Zach's head down to hers. "I mean, I've never had a problem with that before, did I?" Zach answered as a whisper in his ear. "I don't mind if you wanna... try something in there?"

This made Ella smirk with a devilish grin while still holding on to her boyfriend, licking her lips as she stared at him and pressing herself against him. "Oh, I don't mind at all..." She purred and kissed him again, as Zach tried to open the door to their bathroom, grinning with the two fumbling in there, ready to show how much they loved each other, swiftly closing the door behind them.

(LEMON WARNING! SCROLL AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU CAN STOP WHEN YOU SEE A BOLDED SENTENCE LIKE THIS.)

a/n: In accordance to the new Guidelines, I will reiterate that both characters are above the age of 18.

With Ella in his arms, Zach pushed the door open to the shower and stepped in. Ella had her legs wrapped around Zach's waist, and without breaking their kiss, he trapped her inside the shower walls, and with his free hand, he turned the shower on. Water poured underneath them, fully clothed without a care in the world.

Ella tapped on her boyfriend's shoulder, allowing Zach to gently put her down. He noticed her blue eyes, the ones he fell in love with, have a different shade now. It was much darker than her usual eyes. Many emotions were swirling in those ocean blue eyes, mostly of love and lust. Ella took hold of her boyfriend's shirt and pulled it off as Zach obliged his girlfriend without hesitation. She started to kiss his jaw and cheeks, but when she reached his lips, she pulled him by his neck and kissed him feverishly making Zach moan into their kiss . There was nothing innocent about it. Teeths bruising lips, their tongues fighting for dominance.

When oxygen was becoming an issue, both of them separated each other from their lips. But it didn't stop Zach, as he started to give an open mouth kiss from Ella's cheeks to her collar bone. After finding her pulse point, Zach sucks into it and immediately runs his tongue through it to soothe her pain. Ella was pretty much sure there would be tons of marks around her neck and her collarbone, but she didn't care at that moment. She was writing in pleasure under her boyfriend. Ella pulled Zach up and kissed him, which went down on his neck and collarbone. She gently traced his abs with her nails, as he hoisted at the feel, before Ella started kissing his torso.

Zach moaned with pleasure as her lips traveled back to his, and she gently bit them, with a lustful look in her eyes. He reached behind her to unclasp the hooks of her bra, while leaving small, wet kisses on her neck, making her tilt her head to the side to give him more access.

"Mmmm..." She moaned as he started to kiss her erected nipple, leaving it with a loud pop. He gave the same treatment to her other breast before kissing his way down. He kissed every inch of her body until he made his way to the place where she needed him the most. He kissed her inner thighs, kissing everywhere except her still-clothed core.

"Oh fuck, Zachy," Ella moaned "Please, I-...I need you, b-baby" Zach grinned, looked up and whispered, "Only cause you asked so nicely, baby." He lowered her underwear, and kissed her core. He slowly inserted his finger into her, and she gasped and moaned loudly. Zach muffled her moans by kissing her again while adding another finger and thrust them in her, making her moan louder.

"Oh, god, you're so wet," Zach whispered to her as Ella moaned in his ears. "Baby, please," She moaned as Zach sucked on her breasts, her eyes nearly rolling back. "Please... I need you..." She begged, as Zach slowed down and slowly removed his finger. And replaced it with his cock.

Ella's moans muffled into Zach's mouth, her hands gripping his shoulder for balance. Zach moved faster and harder, that Ella's legs were almost giving up due to his hard thrusts. Zach trapped her between both of his arms and started thrusting even harder into her, with her moans increasing. Zach was kissing her neck as she dug her nails into his shoulder, gripping harder with each thrust. She drew blood from his bag, but feeling euphoric and ecstatic, they didn't care. He pounded into her harder, and Ella felt a familiar feeling into her lower stomach.

"I...I a-am gonna cum..." Ella moaned. Zach was panting; he was near his own climax. "I'm so close..." He moaned back, and looked into his eyes. "Together."

"Together," She answered, desperate to release, and with that, Zach thrust into her harder. Ella's hand left Zach's shoulder and angrily grabbed his jaw with a look of lust in her eyes, kissing him fiercely. And a few moments later, Ella climaxed on his shaft as Zach helped her to ride out the last of her sex high. Zach soon followed her not even after a few seconds. Zach shot his load inside her, while Ella moaned at the feeling of his cum filling her up.

(Okay, it's done now if you skipped. It's alright. I need holy water...)

"God, that felt good..." Ella moaned as they left the shower, drying her hair, and covered her body with a bathrobe as she slightly limped, with Zach helping her. As Zach grabbed his boxers and clothes, he spoke up. "Are you sure, babe?" He pulled his pants and slipped on his shirt. "You did dig your nails into my back pretty hard, I hope I didn't–"

"Oh, no, I liked it, baby," she whispered to him and leaned on him. "It felt so fucking great!" She added with another kiss, snaking her arms around his neck, with Zach holding her from her back. He felt her lips curling into a smile as their lips separated from each other and heard her whisper, "I love you so much." She grabbed her clothes from their bed and looked back at Zach. "I'll go to get everything, what will you do?" Zach asked her, as he grabbed a jacket and his keys.

"Oh, I'm going to run out too, I need to get a gift for Amelia," Ella answered quickly as she slipped her clothes on. "I'll go a little later after you, need time to walk without a limp," She pecked his lips again. "Be safe for me, okay? Love you, sexy." She smirked as her finger trailed down Zach's chin down to his chest, pulling on his shirt and bringing him closer to her, snogging him one last time. "See you soon."

Moments later, Zach was in the streets of London to head to the nearest Sainsbury's to pick up some groceries for dinner, and making a secret stop to the nearest jeweler. The people who were coming were Ella's brother, Eddie, and his girlfriend, Amelia. Eddie and Zach had a good relationship, and was their former professor. (He found out he was his brother in the weirdest way possible.)

Over the past four years, he was at peace with Ella, and they had fallen for each other. They had even talked about their lives years later, and having kids. He remembered whenever he mentioned kids, Ella would blush to herself in the most adorable way, allowing him to hug her from behind and kiss her cheek. He had picked out a fine diamond ring, one he knew Ella would love. As everything on his to-do list was crossed off, he decided to head back home to get everything ready. However, he couldn't exactly get to that goal just yet.

"Wallet, jewelry, any valuables," he heard a man shout at another couple in an alleyway. "Hand 'em over!" Then he heard a click of the hammer of a gun, with panicked screams to add. Zach's heart did leap inside of him, whatever was happening he couldn't let people lose their lives over a mugging. He zipped the ring within his jacket pocket, flipped up his hood and jumped up to the ceiling across the alley.

"What are you lot waiting for?" The thug shouted again at them. "Empty 'em out! NOW!" At that moment, Zach took his chance to drop down in between the couple and the thug, shocking them both. "Didn't your mama ever tell you it's rude to yell at people who don't know?" Zach mockingly asked as the thug shuffled back.

"I'm going to give you a choice here," Zach continued calmly. "You can drop the gun and sod off, or I can take you up to the authorities. Either or, all up to-"

BOOM!

"WHAT THE HELL!?" Zach yelled, clutching his arm as the couple was started. "You don't shoot a guy midway into speaking, the fuck is wrong with you?!" The adrenaline was pumping inside of him, and unknowingly to him, his eyes began glowing gold as he quickly snatched the gun away from him.

And to scare the thug shitless, he crushed the pistol with his bare hands. The couple had run out of the way, but the thug stayed, still having some balls to try and kill him. Zach turned his head to the crushed ball that was once a pistol and tossed it behind him. "I gave you a chance, man!" Zach scoffed. "Had to fucking ruin it..."

The thug now pulled out a switchblade, as if he could stab him, but Zach decided to play along. "Oh god, is that a knife?" He "nervously" asked as he got to his knees weakly, as if the knife were Kryponite. "Oh god..."

"Yes, it's a knife, you knob." The thug scowled. "A REAL knife, like the real gun."

"You've found my weakness! Small, tiny knives..." Zach fake sobbed and pretended to look like he was pleading. The thug was confused for seconds, but was dumb enough for Zach to blast him into the wall, knocking him unconscious. "Gotcha, bitch." He muttered as he grabbed a rod nearby, and bent it to restrain the thug to the wall, and ran off back to his apartment.

ZACH & ELLA'S APARTMENT --  LATER THAT EVENING

Later in the day, Zach had freshened up in some casual clothes, while discarding the bullet he was shot with. He and Ella were glad to know he was somewhat bulletproof, although Ella was insanely worried what would happen if Zach wasn't bulletproof. Ella was getting ready as well, just as the doorbell rang.

"Zach?" Ella called for him. "Could you get the door for me, love?" Zach quickly went to open the door, and swung it open, revealing Eddie and Amelia, smiling back at him. "Hey, Ed! Lia!" Zach greeted them as they entered the apartment, and hugged them, noticing that Amelia was hugging him a bit tighter, almost sisterly in a way. "So good to see you both again, how's it been?"

Eddie smiled and pushed his glasses a bit as he shook Zach's hand. "It's been great, mate, and just amazing with this gem of a woman," He leaned in and kissed Amelia's head, who giggled in return. "Thank you so much for inviting us, Zach, truly." Amelia answered. "Where's Ella? Ed, didn't you say you had to talk to your sister?" Ed nodded and looked around. "Yeah, where is she?"

"She's still getting ready, I'm getting dinner ready," Zach answered. Amelia perked up, excited. "Can I help?" She asked excitedly, making Zach smile back at her. "I don't see why not, Lia?" He smiled, before looking back to Eddie. "She's in our room, just make sure she's ready." Eddie nodded and went off to his sister, while Amelia gleefully joined Zach cooking chicken. "So how are things with Ella?" Amelia asked him radiantly as she helped put the greens together, but also leaned in to whisper. "Anytime you wanna... y'know, pop the question?"

Amelia was the only one who knew about Zach's plan to propose to Ella, he didn't tell Eddie about a single thing. He barely knew what was going to happen. Hopefully with how the night goes, he would do it that night. "Well, I'm actually glad you asked, Lia," He said as he basted the chicken. "Cause the answer is... tonight?" Amelia gasped in joy and crashed into him for a giant hug.

"Eek!" She squealed in utter joy. "Oh, I'm so happy for you! I know she is going to say yes! I just know it!" Zach appreciated the gesture and rubbed her back, and Amelia was just ecstatic to know. She released him and still continued to smile. "I'm so happy for you!" She cheered but silently.

"Yes, but I haven't asked her yet, keep that in mind, Lia," Zach answered as he washed off a spare pan and finished the dish. "And thank you for that, that was – that was really sweet." Amelia just smiled and brushed it off, waving her hand down. 

"Of course! You've always been a big brother to me, even with me – dating your girlfriend and hopefully-soon-to-be-fianceé's brother." She chuckled. "It'd be one big happy!" Zach smiled at the thought of having a family with Ella, just as he knew she always dreamed off. Waking up to Ella everyday, having kids –

The slamming of doors as Eddie and Ella walked out angrily from her room. However, Zach wasn't focusing on the tension between the brother and sister, he was just focusing on how amazing Ella looked, simply in a baby blue blouse and jeans. He would be the luckiest man alive if Ella said yes. 

"Hey, you look incredible..." Zach said to Ella as she smiled softly and kissed him on the lips. "What happened?" He added in a whisper as Ella hooked her arms within his. "Oh, it was nothing, just a...dispute between my brother and I, is all." Zach rubbed her shoulder and pecked her temple, and Ella just smiled, rubbing his arm with her thumb, as she whispered, "You're so good to me, babe."

"Dinner's ready, love," Zach whispered as they all went forward to the table. But he noticed that Ella looked tense, and nervous about something. "Is everyth-" Zach tried to ask before Eddie spoke up above him. "This is a wonderful dish you've made for us, Zach!" He exclaimed as he bit into the chicken, as Zach silently scoffed at interrupting him. From the look on Ella's face, she looked worried.

"Yeah, it took a while, but Amelia helped me with the rest." Zach reassured as Amelia blushed. "But please, let's eat." The four began to dig in, and as they did, Zach put his hand on Ella's and held it comfortingly, as she made an effort to smile at him. But midway through the dinner, Eddie had to get up to take a call, but as he came back, they had to leave. "Zach, I'm so sorry, there's an emergency," He said as he told Amelia to get up. "We have to go, but thank you so much for dinner."

The two left the apartment quickly as Ella huffed. "Of course, he just HAS to do that!" She argued. "Fucking dick..." In his mind, Zach was also wearing, as this had ruined his plan to propose. "I'm so sorry he did that, Zachy," Ella apologized. "You made a wonderful dinner, I just feel bad he had to ditch like that." But Zach didn't do anything but hold her in his arms, and kissed her forehead. "Don't worry about it, love," He whispered. "It's okay, it's okay."

"And babe, I know this just happened, but I need to get something from Milton Keynes, it's really urgent," Ella urged. "I would go do it, but I need to find a way to talk to Eddie – I need to talk to that arsehole..." Zach nodded, and held his head in his hands. "Yeah, yeah, no problem babe." He answered. "I'm on it."

"Oh, and do take your coat!" Ella handed him a longer coat than the one he wore earlier. "It's chilly outside, be safe." She pulled his head to hers and kissed him passionately. "I love you, Zachy." She breathed fast as Zach kissed her back and made his way out the door.

MEANWHILE...

"Yes?"

"He's calling you in. Both of you."

"Things are complicated right now. I need to do something first."

"He's calling now, Eddie. He needs you both."

"Fine! I just need to do something."

"What's going on, Ed?" Amelia asked curiously as they quickly walked outside, while Eddie was looking around wildly. "Is something wrong? We were just about to tell them–"

"I can't do this anymore," Eddie bluntly spat and turned around. "I just can't! I was supposed to just be a teacher. But I have to deal with a lot of stuff going on. Especially with Stark –"

"That you're going to be a dad? To our child?" Amelia asked, but harshly. "And you had a problem with Zach? You sound exactly like Ella did when she first met him." Her joyful, jubilant attitude was now replaced with anger and sternness. "You've played around with them being together and you just held it in for so long–"

"Not him." Eddie scolded. "The prodigy, Tony Stark himself. Always have been in the shadows of his work..." He took a deep breath and calmed down. "Lia, I'm sorry, but I can't be a dad. I just can't. I'm sorry." He then walked off, but Amelia tried to go after him, instead, he swatted her hand away. "I'm sorry." His voice broke, but it was clear he loved her. He just couldn't do anything with her. "Don't follow me." And then, he left her.

Amelia sobbed for what seemed like hours, until a familiar voice came behind her. "Lia, where's my brother?" Ella gasped, almost out of breath. "He's making a mistake, a big one." Amelia sobbed more, as Ella wiped her tears off for her. "H-he left me." She cried to herself. "He said – he c-couldn't be there for our child." Ella's eyes widened and swore something she'd never let Eddie hear.

"Motherfucker!" Ella swore, before turning back to her. "Don't worry, I am going to get him, just stay here, Lia." She kissed her head, and ran off to the one place she knew Eddie would be. She still felt guilty that she told Zach to go to Milton Keynes to grab a special piece of tech from that area, when she really didn't need anything, she just needed an excuse to talk sense into Eddie.

Because in short, Ella Monroe was an undercover agent of S.H.I.E.L.D and so was Eddie.

During the time they were talking, Nick Fury had asked for them back at headquarters. But however, Ella really wanted to live her life with Zach, and she was of course madly in love with him. But again, they were given an order, and they could not disobey. Eddie was actually wanting to leave, but unfortunately, he found out Amelia had fallen pregnant with their child.

Catching back in time, Ella arrived at Westminster Station, where Eddie was waiting for a quinjet, ready to leave everything he did for four years forever. "You ignorant arsehole!" Ella yelled at the top of her lungs in the silent station. "I can't believe you, you'd abandon your pregnant girlfriend?!"

"Says the woman who just abandoned her boyfriend," Eddie sighed and stared at his younger sister, who now stared daggers into his eyes. "Did you put the chip in?" He asked her uncaringly, as Ella sourly handed him the chip. "Yeah, I did," She scoffed. "You know, I was going to have a life here. With an amazing guy who I love with all my heart, and everything. But I copied everything into a hard drive." She pulled out said hard drive from her backpack she had slung on. "Everything we ever did. Our dates, cute moments..."

Ella turned to look at her brother, pocketed the hard drive, and gave her brother the evil eye. "And I had to erase everything. Our apartment is bare now! I hope you're happy, arsehole." Just then, Ella's phone had gone off, as she dug into her coat and pulled it out, revealing the call to be from an unknown number. Eddie reached over to try and answer it, but Ella backed up and proceeded to flip him the grandest of birds, as she answered the call.

"Glad you picked up the phone, Agent Monroe."

"I'm not very happy about this. I'm losing everything I had here – I'm losing my entire life here, Hill!"

"I'm very sorry about that, Ella. But you know what you signed up for. Your loyalties are to S.H.I.E.L.D."

"I know the hell they are! Why couldn't this have waited–"

"The fact your father is now out, and you have been living with a potential Index candidate."

Ella shivered. The Monroe family had historical ties to H.Y.D.R.A, the opposite to S.H.I.E.L.D. and which had very much originated from the Nazis of World War II. However, she saw the evils Hydra committed, and broke free of the familial ties to HYDRA. Unfortunately, her father was very disappointed, and continued to work for them.

"We have to relocate you and Miss Hart."

"Well good fucking luck to you!" Ella sarcastically answered, something that had rubbed off on her from Zach. "Eddie just left her! We can go back and get her–"

"That won't be necessary; Level Three Agents have just secured her. However, she will be considered for the Index as well. She somehow burned through their suits."

Ella looked back at Eddie, who now seemed to regret leaving her there, as he now had to face his girlfriend, who could quite possibly burn him to death.

"Your Quinjet is here. Along with a certain someone who I'm absolutely sure will explain everything."

Just as Hill spoke that last sentence, the call ended and a whirring of engines were audible. A thud rumbled the ground as cloaking panels disengaged, revealing a back of a Quinjet. The backdoor latch opened down, as a short Asian woman in black pants, a white button-up, and her signature black leather jacket.

"You both are acting like children, you know that?" Agent Melinda May scolded them. "Two grown people, acting like children, so your mother had to be involved." Ella squinted at their adoptive mother as she walked down the ramp to the two and looked at them both. "Mum?" She asked. "What are you doing here, I thought you wanted to commit to the desk after–"

"Estella, you know I don't want to talk about that," May sighed and pulled them in. "And I am here because my children need to be safe, is that not what a mother does?" As they got into the Quinjet, Ella had taken a seat just as May talked to Eddie. "Your girlfriend's not too happy, Eddie," She spoke sternly. "She's pissed. Very pissed. I think you wanna rethink your life choices. Especially when she is going to have your kid."

Eddie nodded just as May went to Ella, who was now clutching her backpack, as it contained everything she had, including some mementos of hers and Zach's. But guilt and despair racked at her, because she found out about the secret she was never meant to find out about at the wrong time.

FLASHBACK – AN HOUR EARLIER.

After Zach had left, Ella's breathing got harder, as she was told to pack and leave everything behind, but she couldn't bring herself to do so. With a crowbar she had hidden, she pried into the false wood floor, ripping it off and pulling out a backpack with things SHIELD has issued to her, like a fake ID, passports, tech, etc.

She started to take all of her possessions, fighting the urge to break down in sobs, but stopped at a frame picture of her and Zach outside a theater, where they watched Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince a year ago. Her heart broke, knowing she'd had to leave him, and everything behind. She picked up the photo, showing them outside the theater, where she was kissing him right on the lips with a smile on her face. She lightly kissed the picture, and then put it in the bag, and went back to packing her things.

"S.H.I.E.L.D's going to have this place emptied out," She muttered to herself as she grabbed more things. "Great. Just perfect. Ed's leaving his pregnant girlfriend, I'm forced to live Zach, and – fuck!" She tripped over a chair, holding Zach's jacket. She fell to the ground, just as the jacket did, and out of the pocket, the ring box fell out. Ella got up again, and just as she did, she found the box, her heart beating faster as she eyed it.

She reached out for the box, thinking it was what she hoped it was, and as she took it in her hands, she opened it to reveal a beautiful, ornate, diamond ring, and just as if she was being proposed to, she broke down into sobs with the ring in hand. She would have said yes, if only it were days earlier, she wouldn't have had to leave him. 

She would have been able to take him with her. But then, she felt sick to her stomach, like any of the times Zach had taken care of her when she fell sick. She took the ring with her, made her way to the toilet and proceeded to vomit into the bowl, as if she came down with food poisoning.

Minutes later, she had cleaned up again, and looked back at the ring with her heart now broken, knowing that she would be breaking the love of her life's heart in the process. She removed the ring from the box, uncaringly leaving the box on the table, pulled out her necklace, and strung the ring through it. Zach deserved her love, but she didn't know if she would be able to wear her ring on her finger, as though looking at it visible would be more painful, than keeping it shielded from everything.

BACK TO PRESENT TIME

Ella was in her thoughts, overthinking to herself, "What if Zach got to the apartment?"

"He'll see it's empty."

"He'll see that the ring is gone."

"What's gonna happen?"

"He's going to be miserable! What will he be thinki-"

"Ella!" May called out to her, shaking her shoulder to get her out of her thoughts. Ella nearly jumped out of her seat at the sound of her mother's stern yet caring voice. "What's wrong?" The former agent asked her daughter. "I've never seen you this tense since your graduation from S.H.I.E.L.D Academy?" Ella brushed her hair aside and wiped off her tears. May was one of the best agents Shield had ever produced, but had retired from active service due to an incident, thus earning her name as "The Calvary". She would know when people are breaking under pressure.

"He was going to propose to me," Ella's voice broke as she pulled out her necklace, revealing the ring to her and Eddie. Eddie's eyes filled with regret and disgrace, he hated his life, but inversely, Ella loved hers, and due to him, he was breaking up her life. But a part of him was glad they were gone, as he couldn't handle anything Stark said. "And that's not all, Mum," Ella began again before whispering something into her ears, something that made her eyes widen, and look back at her with undeniable concern.

"How the hell am I going to explain this to Director Fury..."

ABANDONED APARTMENT

Zach had returned moments ago, to find everything in their apartment completely bare. In his hand, he was holding an eviction notice, notifying him that he had to leave as soon as possible, and gather the reminder of his things.

Everything of Ella's was gone. A floor board was pried open, the walls were naked, once holding frames of them together, and what was a heart-shattering discovery to him, was that the ring was missing. On his phone, there was no record of Ella in his contacts or photos. Not a single trace of Ella Monroe.

She was now merely a ghost of a life that passed by.

Zach had grabbed his things, depressed and saddened by this turn of events. What he hoped about being a celebration for them getting engaged, was just a pipe dream. He felt anger rising in him and out of sheer force, he blasted a hole in the wall. He didn't care at all, he was just angry that it led to this turn of events. Eventually, everything was set and packed, he booked a plane ticket to New York to get everything moved to California. He closed and locked the doors, with Goose in her carrier.

And he left London.

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Author's note:

The prologue is finally done! And yep, this is one doozy of a chapter. but next chapter we will be starting Iron Man, where everything goes down. i do hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and there will be more to come soon. and if anyone asks, yes, agents of shield is canon to the MCU, despite what has been going on

If [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] showed up recently, i'm sure as hell sure characters from the other shows will come back