Connections 9

( A month later)

Skye walks through the office cubicles in the Triskillion " Good Morning Agent Walker." says Agent Marcus sitting at his desk, "Morning Agent Marcus... How's the newborn baby?" she replies stopping a few feet from his desk "Doing great she is the cutest thing I have ever seen.. Thanks for asking." he replied with a smile.

Skye gives him a curt nod before being able to go a few desks down before being stopped again "Agent Skye how are you this morning?" asks Agent Antoine Triplett walking up to her with his usual dashing smile "I am great so far, How are you Agent Triplett?" Says Skye with pursed lips trying to keep her expressions neutral "I am stupendous, and I told you to call me Trip" He replies with a scolding look that made Skye lightly chuckle before replying "Well Trip I have to get to the Directors office before he is mad that I am late... See you later." she gives him a quick wave before trying to rush past more people. After thirty more 'hellos' , 'Good Morning's' and 'How are you?' Skye finally got to the Directors office with a breath of relief.

Skye knocked on her S.O's office door waiting for him to respond, seconds later there was a beep and the doors unlocked, she opened the door and let it close behind her as she entered with a impassive demeanor. "Nice of you to join us Skye." says a clearly disappointed Director Fury. Skye saw Maria Hill in the room as well and chose her words carefully "I am sorry Sir... I kept getting stopped on the way here. It won't happen again." she replied and Maria Hill smirked, " Have a seat" she said gesturing for Skye to take the seat across from her.

"Well as you are well aware that within the month you will officially be sworn in as a agent of SHIELD once you do your automatically assigned a partner for a year." says Director Fury leaning back in his comfortable computer chair. Skye furrowed her eyebrows in frustration because she didn't like the idea of a partner. " Yes sir I am well aware of the protocols, but I don't think a partner could survive my personality." she says impassively and Fury smirks "I am inclined to disagree but I am giving you a choice to choose a partner from these stack of files by the end of next week." He says passing her about a dozen files of fully capable agents for her partner.

Skye looked at the pile of files and spoke "Sir are you sure it's a good idea for me to have a partner? My last few missions I have been more of a lone specialist with back up standing by, I am a lot like my brother we don't get along with people easily." Director Fury stood up from his desk and spoke "Which is why every day till the end of next week you will be training with each person for one day, at the end of the day you will rate them on a scale of one to five and give us the reasons why. Skye I am giving you the ability to choose your partner which very few have ever been offered. Take the chance ." Skye tensed but replied "Very well Sir, I assume I start today with the training?" and a brief nod from her S.O confirmed that the next week and a half was going to be very tiring.

The first agent was a specialist thirty fives years old brown hair and a gruesome scar across his lower cheek was a level seven by the name of Agent Alex White. He was great in the sense that he was experienced in every form of weaponry and combat. Problem was that he acted like she was a fragile doll and that made her more determined to put him in his place getting a rating of Three in approval. The next day was a female agent of forty two years old, blonde hair and blue eyes making her look more like a super model than a agent. Her specialty was search and rescue missions but Skye didn't like that she was too prissy and she got rated two on her scale.

The third choice was a blonde haired green eyed twenty seven year old male named Agent Jason Michaels level seven tech specialist with two years field experience. Her problem with him was that he acted like a know it all and it got him a ranking of two on the scale of one to five. The forth choice was Agent Samantha Avery and she was ranked three because of her strict to the letter orders. Agent Lance Lawson, Agent Makayla Walt, and Agent Steven Queen all got eliminated for their attitudes and for them constantly putting her down because she was the Directors rookie and therefore got special privileges which was partly true but uncalled for.

Choices eight through ten were imfatic 'Not happening' with Agent Walter Jennings and Agent James Wilkins getting scores of one point five for their cockiness. Skye was surprised to see Agent Grant Ward on the list for possible partner and evaluated him carefully, in the end she gave him a four and the only reason she didn't give him a five was the fact that he could be a distraction thanks to his looks. Her last candidate was in fact Steve Rogers and her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets to the pleasant surprise. She rated Steve at four because the only draw back is that he is a Avenger and can't always be there to back her up.

Skye turned in her reports to Director Fury before leaving the room and him smirking as he looked at the ratings and excuses for them "Well she is certainly original in how she states things... Nearly three fourths of the candidates didn't go above two and the only ones that did are Agent Samantha Avery, Agent Grant Ward and Captain Steve Rogers. It's amusing how the only excuse she could find against Ward was that she could get distracted by his good looks. Her excuse for Rogers was that he's a Avenger." says Fury with rarely seen smirk on his face, Maria Hill pursed her lips before asking "Who are you going to choose?"

-Authors Note- Who do think will be Skye's partner? I hope you liked the chapter and forgive me if I had any grammar or writing mistakes. Please review as encouraging reviews help me write chapters faster. Thanks for reading -PiratePrincess16-