Chapter 4
About three hours later, the engines rumble came to a hault.
"What's happening? I thought we were going to America and that normally takes about 11 hours" Maddison asks Simmons.
"We've landed"
"Where?"
"The Playground" Simmons says getting up "come on." Maddison gets up and follows Simmons out of the room and down the metal stairs into the cargo bay, where they see the rest of the team, execpt for May, they're standing waiting for it to open up.
Once open Maddison saw a huge under ground base, with many different people walking all over the place. Straight ahead of her about 10 feet away was a heavy duty door with gards either side. Coulson walked up to the gards the team following behind, they let them through. When Maddison tried to get through, last trailing behind the others, the gards stopped her. Coulson hadn't noticed so she was left standing there trying to reason with the gards whom weren't budging.
"I told you Coulson came and got me, come on let me through" Maddison said starting to get desperate at the thought of being left out here all night. Maybe that's what they did to new people to see if they would last the night Maddison thought.
"It's alright she's with me" A voice said behind her, she turned round to discover it was May. At this the gards let them through.
"Of course Depty Director May, go through" one of them said slightly embarassed. Maddison followed May into the base, down a long dullely lit corridor. To her right there was a wall of glass revilling some sort of scientific lab, she spotted Simmons inside speaking to someone else, a young male of a similar age.
A few moments laters May and Maddison were standing outside a room which May knocked on the door of. The door opens to revel Coulson sitting behind a desk, flicking through a few pieces of paper.
"Ah yes right I was wondering where you'd got to" Coulson began, Maddison was going to say something but May beat her to it.
"You left her outside, good job I hadn't gone in with the rest of you" May said slightly annoyed at Coulson. Maddison felt a bit out of place between the two older agents disapproving looks at the other.
"So... what can I do now?" Maddison asked trying to change the subject.
"Well you walked past the lab right?" Coulson asked, Maddison nodded "Simmions should be in there go and ask her to show you the ropes of the place."
Leaving the office she heard May shift closer towards Coulson but couldn't see as the door had been shut behind her. She trundled down along the corridor retracing her steps until she found the lab again. Sure enough Simmons was in there working away, occasionally looking up and walking across the room to pick upp a piece of paper and walking back again. This continued until Simmons happened to glance towards the window and saw Maddison stadning there watching herself and others at work. Simmons walked over to the door and greeted Maddison with her usual overly friendly smile.
"Coulson sent you?" Simmons asked but didn't really need a reply, "Right then lets show you through the ropes of the place" Simmons cheered.
A few hours later Maddison had been left going through some pieces of paperwork about a new biochemical formula Simmons was working on. Her job was to work out what Simmons was trying to do and spot any mistakes. The young male from earlier walked in and headed over towards Maddison.
"What are doing?" He asked as if I shouldn't be here.
"I'm organising the files and comparing results from varius tests, Simmons asked me to" Maddison replied.
"O.k but who ... are you?" the man asked stumbling on his words a little.
"I'm Maddison, I'm new here, a bit of a taster really. May and Coulson got me this morning from my school in England" Maddison explained.
"I thought you sounded ... um ... British. I'm Fitz, physisist" Fitz said stutering more and more on his words but Maddison didn't flinch or try to say the word for him, she just waited patiently for him to find the words.
"Aren't you going to say something about ...um ... my ...er ... stutering?" Fitz questioned Maddison as if she was suppost to.
"Was I meant to?" She asked.
"No, actually I'm quite glad that ... um ... you didn't ... Maddison" Fitz.
"It's o.k I've seen people with much worst conitions than that, brain derived of oxygen?" Maddison enquired.
"Yes, but how ... did you ..um ... know?" Fitz asked clearly struggling a lot more.
"I do a lot of research in my spare time science fascinates me in all aspects" Maddison stated with such pride that her smile could of been seen from Mars.
"Right, o.k then" Fitz said not really knowing what else he could say, thankfully for him Simmons saved him as she walked in with Coulson.
"Ah, I see you've met Fitz"Coulson says, "well I've just come to colect you to introduce you properly to the rest of the team" and with that Coulson walks back out of the room holding the door open for Maddison to follow.
