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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
-Robert Quillen
"Well, you're the one who got us here, we were kind of expecting you to know how!" Fitz yelled. The others were sat around the edges, looking miserable. They were running out of food. One bright spark had brought with them most of the food that was on sale, and with the packed lunches that a lot of people had brought, they had been doing ok. But now everyone was hungry, and it was making Fitz angry.
"Yes!" Simmons agreed. "Seeing as you were the inventor of this technology, one would assume that you would know how to get us back! The lives of all these people rest in your hands. Do you not want to go home?"
Mancini stood up and backhanded her, hard, on the cheek. She gasped and stumbled back, tripping over her own feet and landing on her back.
"Jemma!" Fitz cried, kneeling down beside her.
"I'm fine," she said quickly, picking herself up and gently touching her cheekbone where a bruise was beginning to form.
"Don't hit women," Skye said angrily as she took a look. It was beginning to swell. Mancini looked sheepish. He did not regret his actions, but he wanted to get out of here and those two were his best chance of doing that. And they weren't getting along.
"Skye?" The six year old, Laura, had attached herself firmly to Skye's side and looked up to her as some sort of mother. She didn't speak English, but she had learned her name fairly quickly.
"Shh," Skye comforted her, gathering her in her arms and hugging her close. "It's alright."
Laura didn't understand, but the words were soothing, so she hugged this nice woman back. "Ho fame," she mumbled, rubbing her stomach to show what she meant.
"Me too, sweetie, me too."
Skye rubbed her back reassuringly and sat her down next to a kindly-looking gentleman and his wife. She told them to look after her and though they only vaguely understood her words, the message was clear. They nodded.
Then she walked over to Mancini. "You harm anyone in here, ever again, and I swear that I will kill you as soon as we make it out of this."
He nodded, scowling.
"Great. Emergency meeting."
Jane Foster stared at him.
"Agent Coulson was killed before New York," she said finally. "And I'm not a man. Why would I be a man?"
Darcy laughed. "He totally thought you were going to be a man!"
"Yes, thank you, I think we gathered that," she snapped.
"Ward? What's wron- Dr. Foster?"
"Oh, my God!" Jane said.
Darcy swore, the whistled. "Small world, huh? You a secret twin or something?"
"No. I'm Phil Coulson."
"He has a first name?" Darcy whispered to the man who Ward later discovered to be named Ian. "Whoa."
"If you'll follow me," Coulson said, leading them into the lab.
"Can I ask-"
"No," May said harshly. "We need to find our team."
Jane seemed to accept this and put down her notebook on one of the surfaces. Coulson showed her the grenade that had been used to open the wormhole and the holotable.
Upon seeing this, she shook her head. "I'm not sure I even want to know how to use that."
Coulson shrugged. "Do you think you can help them?"
"Well, from what I've heard, two pretty good scientists are up there, so I'm willing to bet that they're searching too. But..." she trailed off.
"What?"
"I've been to Asgard. There was the...what was it? Bifrost. This dude sent us there and back really quickly. So, we have three main options. One: the Bifrost is broken, or closed, or whatever; two: they're imprisoned; three..."
She didn't finish, but Ward knew what she meant.
That they could be dead.
"Ok," Fitz said. "Our problems."
"We're trapped in a different world, in a prison, with no scientific resources, no friends, and no knowledge of how to get home?" Skye suggested unhelpfully.
"Uh, ok...any solutions to that one?"
"Well, we have each other, so we have friends. We know that they aren't completely ignoring us, because they talked to Skye," Simmons said optimistically, and they all groaned.
"Right. Next problem."
"People. They're beginning to doubt us and you can see that they're all losing hope. We need them to stay strong. How?"
"Solution?" Skye asked hopefully.
There was silence.
"Ok. Next?"
"Odin and Thor aren't here, and they were our only hope of forming an alliance. We don't know where they are, and Loki knows we're allied with them."
"We'll come back to that one," Fitz said hastily. "But right now, most importantly, is-"
"No food or water," Mancini finished for him, in thickly accented English though, in his defence, his Italian accent was beginning to fade.
"We need to ask them for some," Simmons said finally, looking miserable.
Their gazes shifted to Skye. "I can't," she saaid flatly. "I don't think he likes me very much."
"But he knows who you are. Just...be nice. Talk him into it. You're quite good at talking, Skye."
"I'm not-" she said, but then her stomach growled loudly, and she looked at the tired, pale faces around her and she realised that, like it or not, the decision was already made.
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