Left alone with her thoughts, Lila turned her attention to the folder. A sorrowful smile spread across her lips, as tears became to well up in her eyes. Thoughts of days gone by that she had long since buried resurfaced once more.
"Why did you make me promise Elise" She mumbled, as she pulled the manila folder closer. The familiar face of her long since deceased friend gleefully smiling up at her broke the dam as the tears came flooding down her cheeks like a river. The time for grief was overdue, it had always been put on hold one too many times. Lila needed to finally be able to give into her grief.
Tear droplets splashed upon the photo "When is the right time to reveal the truth?" She questioned to the empty room, her voice getting louder with each word spoken. "How am I meant to know!" Lila screamed at the top of her lungs, the words bounced off the walls and rebruated back at her. The high emotion, the grief, frustration that she carried all these years fired back at her.
As Lila gave into her grief in the little box of a room
Agent Cade took this moment, knowing that his superior was tied up with an important phone call, that had been arranged to give him this opportunity to strike. He quickly pushed open the door to the interrogation room, to be greet with a sight that was far from what he had expected to see. Lila Wright, broken with tears freely cascading down like a river that had broken its banks.
He stood stunned for a mere second, taking in the scene before him. Watching her very heart shatter into a million pieces. This was something that he had never seen from her before in the time that he had come to know Lila. He had never seen her shred a tear and cry. Her mask had fallen from her face, revealing woman underneath it all, who could barely hold herself together. He could almost see the threads in between the pieces of her very being. This was her soul laid bare.
He made a choice, to make his presence known. In her anguished state of mind, Lila had not noticed his entrance into the room. He made his way across the room until he was standing right behind her before gently placing a hand upon her clothed shoulder. He knew better than most. Lila Wright did not like to be touched. She shied away from any form of skin on skin contact. Something that she had never fully explain, he had never felt the need to push her to open up about it. He respected her privacy, let the matter lay a closely guarded secret.
"Lila, come with me" He keep it straight to the point, trying to catch her attention. Her head shot round, the path of sorrow had run red raw. She did not speak, did not answer just keeping staring. "Lila come with me. There isn't time to explain" He repeated his initial wording, all whilst making it clear that this window of time was running out.
Lila nodded, Simon sighed glad of this before stepping back over to the doorway, giving her space to move. She swiftly pushed back the chair, before getting up from her seat at the desk. She opened her mouth to speak, to question but Simon beat to punch. "There is no time for questions. We need to move now" His words cut her down, emphasising on the importance and constraint of time once more before stepping through the open doorway. Lila took the hint, this was the moment when she fly once more. She didn't hesitate, rushing out of the door after Simon Cade.
Maybe he wasn't so bad after all
Lila sighed, resigned to the fact that once again she was being watched. At least this time around, she was aware of this fact. This time around was different but yet she was starting over again in a different state and in a new city.
In a way, it was almost as though someone had simply pushed pause on her life then restarted it once she had been placed here, in this new apartment. This new place to call home, which had been purposely laid out to resemble her last place. Only someone with inside knowledge of her former home would have known, then the penny dropped.
Lila knew how had done this, who had sorted all this out for her. She know understood what he meant. This was the physical manifestation of an apology, of his sorry. He was human underneath the spy. He had actually cared for her. He had been her friend and this was his way of showing her that.
She thought back, remembering the deathly silence between the pair of them as Agent Simon Cade led her up and out of the facility. His pace quickening but still he remained vigilant. His silence spoke to her, reminding of her of days gone by. Days that she had yet to speak of to another. They had twisted through too many corridors to count, travelled up various flights of stairs until they had reach a set of doors. He had pushed them open to reveal a car waiting in the stillness of night.
"I don't understand Cl...Cade" She said, having to correct herself mid sentence, now that knew his true name, his new identity."Why are you doing this?" She questioned, wanting to know the motive behind this escapade.
Cade turned on his heel to face her, his face gave away nothing. It was void of emotion, just like before "Orders from above Miss Wright, Everything is in place to ensure your safety in the days to come" His wording was vague, giving no clue to what lay ahead for her. Just that she would be safe. Lila knew that could mean anything.
"Do you mean I'll be under lock and key again, moved around like cattle!" She needed to know as she raised her questioning his statement.
"No Miss Wright, you'll be able to come and go as you please, just that you'll have a handler assigned to you. They will introduce themselves after you settle in. Now please get in the car" As the last word fell from his lips, he nodded before moving past her and back into the facility. Closing the doors and leaving her with very few options. She took a deep breath and gather her thoughts together, before deciding to get into the car. Wherever it took her couldn't be any worse than her current situation.
She shook her, humming happily to herself, Lila stepped further into the living room. Her eyes danced about the place, from wall to wall until they stopped on the table. Her eyes wider in shock, in disbelief at the sight of the brown papered package that she had half opened. They had not kept it but she was more than certain they would. Since it seemed that this S.H.I.E.L.D believed that she held the answers to the many cryptic clues that Elise left behind for the world to try and interpret.
It had been the right choice to make, regardless of the minor annoyance of having to deal with a handler but she would cross that bridge when she came to it. For now she could breath and get used to her new surroundings.
