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[indent][indent][right][i]sometime earlier…[/i][/right]

[color=black]“You can’t be serious, can you? You’re going to take his name?”[/color]

In response to the question, Sadie nodded her head. Was it really as big a deal as the Agent was making it out to be? She already had her Dad’s shield… it was only natural she take the name as well. Personally, she didn’t think it was a big deal; the mantle would have to live on. She wasn’t even the first person to do so, and she was [i]certainly[/i] the first person to do with Captain Rogers’s blessing. [color=black]“Taking the shield and the mantle… that’s brave, especially for someone who doesn’t even have their license yet. You know it’s not official? Some might even call it disrespectful.”[/color]

This guy was judging her [i]hard[/i]. He was supposed to just be giving her a ride to Mobius… Maybe it was a bigger deal than she thought, but her father would have had more to say if that were true… She wished she could have asked him — it was hard to [i]not[/i] depend on her father when he was who he was. The perfect man, according to a lot of people on the planet. [color=#15a6ef]“I’ve been working my whole life for this. I think I’ll earn it.” [/color]Sadie replied with a smile.

There was one thing her father had always told her. Stand your ground, and words can’t hurt you — they’re just words… unless they’re the truth. And the things the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent was saying? Sadie would make sure that they weren’t the truth.

[color=black]“Well, here’s to you kid. I hope you pull it off.”[/color]

[color=#15a6ef]“Thank you. I’ll do my best, I promise.”[/color]
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[right][i]the present…[/i][/right]

Sadie was listening intently to everything the Principal was saying. She knew what to expect already, but in case any curve balls were thrown her way… she wanted to be focused. After all, she was trying to step into big shoes. Sadie was excited to learn. When he rattled off the teachers, she was excited to hear all four of the names. There was something all of them could teach, and even if she wasn’t in their class, she could still pull them aside to soak up knowledge from them…

Like a sponge, of sorts. A very strong, very fast sponge.

Sadie had spent a lot of time working for this. She’d worked with her father to train her hand to hand combat, as well as how to operate the shield (there had been a lot of ‘you have to look beyond what you want to hit’ in that part of her training), but she didn’t have any [i]real[/i] combat experience, so she was happy to be taught by someone who’d had plenty of it.

Once they were dismissed, she reached underneath the chair to retrieve her keycard, and she was on her way. On the way out, she noticed there was someone struggling to get their card, and she was compelled to help, but when she saw that someone else had already stepped up to the plate, Sadie smiled and kept on. She needed to unpack anyway…[/indent][/indent]