Roxie couldn't help but smile, despite her pain. She liked this one. She had energy. And spunk.

She didn't seem like your typical SHIELD agent. Which was refreshing because Roxie wasn't exactly all that trusting of SHIELD. They'd tried a lot of stunts in their day.

And probably today, too.

"Not exactly," Roxie said. "There are others." Nicky was a bigger bad-ass than she was. So was Jay. Bruce. Joe.

Joe.

Roxie shook her head. She could think about her boyfriend later.

"Natasha and my mom weren't quite friends," Roxie confided. "She was always too cold. They were teammates, though. That was enough." Carol's closet friend had been Jessica Drew.

Jessica who, incidentally, had been a SHIELD agent. While Roxie hadn't seen Jessica in awhile, she was in touch with her son, Jesse.

He'd turned to her back when he'd first thought about becoming Spider-Man, and Roxie had encouraged that.

"No. Maybe it's not you...yet. But that doesn't mean it won't be, someday."