Bobbi woke up in her small flat in Vaitape, Bora Bora to the sun flooding through her window. Vaitape was a beautiful town. She loved it. Getting out of bed, she walked to the window smelling the swee, salty air mixed with the pollen of the large fruit tree outside the window. She felt two warm hands slip there way around her bare waist and a moist kiss being planted on the back of her neck.
"Shall we go into town today?" Hunter said in a barely recognisable American accent. "You've lived with me for two years and worked with me years before that and you still can't get it right." She said mockingly in a good English accent. "Yes, but first you need to get some clothes on."
"What do I need clothes for when I could lie in bed with you." An hour, two cups of coffee and several sarcastic exchanges later, Bobbi and Hunter walked out of the flat, down the stairs and wandered down to the main street. Bob looked around feeling the sun's warmth on her skin, embracing the heat. She felt Hunter's hand slip from hers onto her lower back and him pulling her close. "Where do you want to go today, snorkelling or maybe walk up Anau. Maybe sneek into the woods on the way and..." Bobbi interrupted him with a hard punch in the side. "Ow! Bloody hell, what was that for?" Bringing him in for a hug, she turned him in the direction of the market stalls across the street. Her skills in spotting tails had always been one of her best talents when they were still a part of S.H.I.E.L.D and Hunter was thankful that she was still great at it. Trying not to draw attention to themselves they walked up a back alley behind some of the smaller houses.
"How many could you count?" Hunter asked trying to hide the concern on his face. "Four. Two men slightly less well built then Mack by the beach. One man in a blue pin striped suit and black hair, and a girl mid-30's at the fruit stall." "How'd you make out that last one?" "She'd been staring at two grapefruits for five minutes. Does it take that long to choose!" She said sarcastically adding on "Well you might." Giving him a cheeky smile she said "You know what we have to do." "Ohh! And I was just starting to like it here." He said mockingly. "Go on. Get out of here." Bobbi said jokingly.
After Lance headed out of the alley, Bobbi waited ten minutes before she left and walked in the opposite direction heading for Maya's place. That's when she saw the gun in the suit top of the dark haired man. This was serious. She picked up the pace and took a sharp left down another alleyway and saw one of the larger men crossing the main street heading straight towards her. She started to run now crashing through the doors and hiking up the five flights of stairs to Maya's. Ex-CIA Agent Maya Aria Rahman had known Bobbi before the fall of S.H.E.I.L.D and was delighted to have bumped into Bobbi a year before now and since became a trustworthy friend. She hammered on the door of the flat not wanting to waste anytime.
"For god sakes Vinesh, you know Mila's sleeping!" Came the angry voice of Maya. She swung the door open violently to find an abnormally anxious Bobbi Morse. "Oh! It's you Bobbi what a nice surprise." Scanning Bobbi's face she realised that not all was well. "I've been compromised. I need to leave now with Lance, now!" Maya's facial expression turned from annoyance to surprise to worry in less than a minute.
"How many are there?" Maya asked, shutting the door behind her and locking it. "Four. With real guns not icers." Maya took great care in checking if anyone was outside the door using the peep-hole. "Do you have anything that I can take with me?" "Better than that! Top left corner ceiling tile of the bathroom." Bobbi gave Maya a confused look before heading down the dark, narrow corridor to the bathroom. She climbed on the side of the bath and pushed the tile up into the roof. She put her arm into the gap. Feeling around in the dark space, she came across a fabric bag. She pulled it out and dropped it on the floor, replacing the tile and then sat on the edge of the bath. Bobbi went through the rucksack and found the standard hand gun, three passports with different aliases, one pack of US dollars, small first aid kit and then she saw something metal catch the sun. It was her batons. She pulled them out them out feeling the cold metal against the palms of her hands. It had been a long time since she had seen those, Hunter must have given them to Maya to look after. She twirled them in her hands before placing them in the bottom of the bag with the gun two of the passports, first aid kit and the money underneath her catsuit and some other spare clothes. The fabric of the bag had a clever concealer to hide the gun and batons from the X-ray machines at airports. Bobbi left the bathroom with the rucksack. "Thanks Maya. Where'd you find my batons?" "Hunter."
There was a hard knock at the door. It was Hunter. Practically falling through the door as it was opened he grabbed Bobbi and started dragging her out of the room. "We have to go now! Bye Maya." Lance sounded panicky and no wonder the sound of loud footsteps coming up the stairs from floors below was getting closer and louder. The gunshots rang out as the first attacker turned the corner. Maya had shut the door so she wouldn't be suspected, which was a weight off of Bobbi's mind as she and Hunter sprinted to the roof and started running along it with their attackers in close pursuit. Then the final gunshot rang out and Bobbi fell. She had been shot. Hunter stopped dead, catching her before she hit the roof and rolled off. Holding her in his arms he whispered "Bobbi. Bob look at me." Watching the blood pouring from her shoulder, he didn't see the man standing behind him with a metal bar. The man hit him in the back of the head grabbing both him and Bobbi stopping them from falling off the roof. Hunter saw the other two put a black bag over Bobbi's limp head and carried her wilted body away from him. Then everything went black.
