Agent Carter AU – Under the Thames

Chapter 1

London in 1942 was full of glamour on one side and poverty on the other. Damaged neighborhoods people tried to built up after the Blitz that happened between 1940 and 1941.
The Thames River curled through the city like a snake with boats floating on it and people walking across bridges to go to the other side. It was a city with millions of inhabitants living in the city people loved to live in.

Peggy walked the streets, she lived in the neighborhood she did grow up in named Hamstead, just on the outside of London.

She walked the streets, some people were cleaning up the rubbish from broken down buildings since the Blitz and other small air raids that happened since the first Blitz.

Peggy was on her way to work. She worked for the SSR, Strategic Scientific Reserve as an agent. She was excellent at doing her job.

Peggy would make sure the war would be stopped at all cost. Even if she had to work in a male crowded environment, she knew what she wanted and she would fight for it. Fight for the freedom of innocent people.

Once she entered the secret headquarters of the SSR, that was positioned under the Thames River did she started her work.

Her boss Colonel Chester Phillips was speaking to his team about how to go to France to fight the Germans there to free the French and to discover HYDRA secret bases across Europe.

"Sir I must object on this matter." Phillips looked over at her, one eyebrow raised. "And what do you think is the best option Agent Carter?" Peggy walked over towards the board and wrote on it while speaking best strategy.

"I think the best option we have is to start our mission in Switzerland. From there we can plan our next move." Some of her co workers were impressed by her idea.

"I see that work." Agent Gilmartin said as she winked at her. Peggy rolled her eyes as she turned around towards her boss. She waited patiently for his response, his opinion. Her hands positioned on her hips.

Colonel Phillips wanted to response the moment the secretary came into view and came up to him.
"I'll be right back." And he walked off with the secretary and left his Agents behind.

"So Peggy, you want to drop our Agents in Switzerland and than what?" Agent Ramsey asked her

with a smirk present on her face that Peggy would gladly punch off his face.
"If we ask permission to enter the boarder of Switzerland. Than we can attack from different angles. We can surround the Germans while helping the French."

All the Agents looked at her, some shook their heads, others nodded. "I think that idea would work. I'll ask Switzerland for permission. If we get their permission to have our base at the border I want all the men to go to France of team A." Peggy looked at her boss with a surprised facial expression.

The Agents left the table and Peggy walked over towards her boss. "Why not me? This was my idea!" She was frustrated. "Because I need you here." Peggy was surprised. "What do you need me for?" she asked surprised, yet a bit annoyed.

"Americans. To keep an eye on them while I will be gone with the men." He took a sip from his now cold black coffee. Wonderful Peggy thought to herself. Another door shut in my face.

She looked over at the board with the plan she wrote down a few minutes earlier. "When do they arrive?" Agent Phillips answered her question. "In two days. Some have been wounded in battle, some have trauma's and others are dumb ones that can't shut up. One of them has lost his leg two months ago. He got permission to stay and to go to England and help the British out like the others. So us." Agent Phillips looked at her.

"Is what I have heard." "Good." She took his cup and would make her boss a new one.

Two days had passed and the SSR got permission to use the border of Switzerland as their secret base on one condition, no problems, they had to stay neutral no matter what would happen. The SSR and the Switzerland government accepted that deal.

Phillips would meet the Americans before he would leave for duty and leave Peggy second in command together the leader Dum Dum Dugan of The Howling Commandos. They have worked well together since the war started so this would work as long as the Colonel would be gone from headquarter.

"Hello American soldiers. We are proud to welcome you here in the Strategic Scientific Reserve. The ten of you will work together with the S.S.R." Colonel Phillips spoke loudly as the ten American soldiers listened without losing any interest. They had been trained well on American soil.

Peggy stood one foot behind the Colonel and not all soldiers appreciated her. But Peggy didn't give a shit about them. She had a job to do.

"Carter." Peggy took a step forward and took the lead. "I'm Agent Carter. You all will be trained to work in the S.S.R. We want full attention, full teamwork and full determination. Understood?" She walked before the soldiers. "Yes Ma'am!" They all said in union as Peggy walked back and fort before the group.

"The leader Dugan of the Howling Commandos and I will be in charge until our Colonel." Phillips and Peggy gave each other a look. "Will be back from the mission."

Her eyes locked with dark brown eyes that looked straight back at hers. She looked away and walked further to watch at all the others once more before taking place at the desk. "Five per desk." Said Lorraine as she took place on the desk next to were Peggy sat.

Peggy and Lorraine checked every men. They both did five of the ten Americans.

"Your passport please." Peggy said as she took over the passport from a blonde man. He had blue eyes and was tall. She looked at the passport. "Jack Thompson." Said the man. "I can read Agent Thompson." Was all she said as she got to the next person in the line. Two agents in the other line had to chuckle at that. Agent Thompson felt a bit embarrassed.

"Agent Krzeminski. Next." Peggy wrote Krzeminski's name down on the list next to his information. She saw a crutch in the corner of her eye and looked up to look up at the eyes she looked in minutes earlier.

"Ma'am." Was all he said. He gave Carter his passport and waited patiently. He was one of the few that did so. "Nice to meet you Agent Sousa. Take the left door and you will enter the male sleeping area." She gave back his passport and as he walked away he smiled.

It had been seven weeks since the American soldiers became Agents of the S.S.R. Some were not really polite to her while others had good manners. Daniel and Peggy had become good team players over those weeks and worked very well together.

Dum Dum Dugan and his team worked as a part of the S.S.R and tried to find the secret bases of HYDRA in Europe with the help of the newest Agents that had fought in Europe before they got there.

The S.S.R was under the Thames River, out of reach from the world above. It was the main secret headquarters of the S.S.R division.

Peggy stood before the big map of Europe as she putted tweezers on places of secret HYDRA bases that are somewhere in the area.

"I got entail on a base in Austria." Thompson spoke up as she had a pen in his hand, moving it between his fingers. "Call our allies." Was all Peggy said while making a report about the secret base they found somewhere in the northern region of Austria.

Thompson was working on some files together with Agent Keller and Agent Brandon. After she had put a stamp on the envelope did she brought it to Lorraine and walked to the science department of the underground headquarters. Daniel came with her. "Has Howard made any process?" He said while waiting of a response from the woman he had a crush on.

"I suppose not, but we shall see." and she opened the iron door and stepped inside, Daniel right behind her.

"Hello Peg." Howard said as they entered his work space. His blonde, blue eyed butler named Jarvis helped him with his new experiment. "Not done yet?" was all she said as Peggy followed Howard and Jarvis with her brown chocolate colored eyes.

"It takes more time than you think Peg. I have to generate this wire with this special button. If I do it wrong I make this whole place to explode. I also was very busy with some ladies, they help me think." Peggy rolled his eyes together with mister Jarvis and they looked at each other while they had the same exact thought in both their minds. A thought like He always has to be like this, does he?

"And when do you think it will be finished?" Daniel asked Howard. "Jarvis how long does it take to be ready?" "Around twenty-seven hours sir." And he gave his boss some vodka.

Peggy's eyebrows raised in suprise. "Really Howard?" "I need to keep hydrated." He said dead serious as he took a sip from his delicious cold drink.