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Maria POV

"Good Morning Maria." I heard from behind me. I was baking blueberry muffins. They were mine and Rosie's favorite, and it was tradition. If we were at Rosie's base, she had to make us blueberry pancakes, but if we were at my apartment, I had to make us blueberry muffins. It was nice, having something straight and thought out in this crazy world of ours.

"Morning Rosie. How are you?"

"Good, you?"

"Tired, but I'll manage." I always did. Rosie came behind me and gave me a kiss on the cheek as I pulled out the muffins. God, she was such a sweetheart.

"As always. " We sat down, each with a muffin in hand.

"Is everything set for today?"

"Ready to go."

"Okay. The others said they're arriving later today, and then all of us, including Grant can break the news to the Coulson's team."

"Aunt Bobbi's gonna freak out when she finds out we're dating."

"Well, I am 12 years older than you. I'd be surprised if she didn't. At least Morse is still older than me. It would be awkward if I was older."

"You're younger by 2 years. I'm fairly certain it will still be awkward."

"Shut up and eat your muffin, beautiful."

"Did you just insult me and compliment me in the same sentence?"

"Yes I did."

"Well, your definitley my brothers best friend."

Rosie POV

"Yeah, and your definitley my best friends little sister." She walked around to throw away her wrapper and I threw my head back to look at her.

"Eh, you love me anyways." She pecked me on lips and said,

"Always, beautiful." She opened her mouth to say something else, but her pager started ringing. I rolled my eyes at her. Maria must have been the only person in the world to still carry a pager.

"That's Stark. Listen, I got to go. I'll be back in a few hours. Call that cousin of yours and tell her and your siblings to get their asses here as quick as possible."

"You got it." I said as she grabbed her coat and keys. "Love you."

"Love you too." She walked out of the apartment, but then ducked back in saying, "And don't you dare let you know who in here."

"You mean Voldemort."

"Shut it."

Belle POV

"Okay, people." I said after Raina had gone to pack her stuff. "Listen up. She's here under no ones control, and she's free to go do whatever the hell it is she wants to do."

"She's a criminal." rebutted the English girl - Jemma, I think?

"Yes, and so I am. And technically, so are all of you. So butt off. If she wants to go to Afterlife, that's her choice. She's what, 27, she can do what she wants without your permission."

And you know what, that was the end of it. Mostly, cause I don't think SHIELD agents liked getting disciplined by a 15 year old girl.

Later that day, I got the call from Rosie.

"Hey, everythings set for today. We've just got to set everything up? How's everything going there?"

"It's good. We've just finished up some of the stuff. How do you think my mom's going to react?"

"To Maria being my girlfriend, or to you being one of the heads of Code Name Veqlargh?"
"The second one, and I thought we'd decided on Code Name Palpatine. No one but you and Grant like Star Trek. Maria would agree with me."

"Yeah, well Maria put me in charge of codes, and I say it's Code Name Veqlargh, so ha, ha."

"I swear you act like a two year sometimes."

"Well, if I act like a two year old, well so do you. I'm older anyways." God, Rosie was frustrating.

"Shut it. Did you call the others?"

"Well, of course. They're on the way. This is going to be insane. Everyone's gonna freak out. "

"You've got that right. Oh, someone's coming, I gtg."

"See yah later, girl"

"Bye Belle."

Lance POV

"Hey Bobbi, what's up?"

"Nothing. I'm just looking over these charts. There's something wrong with them."

"Well, what's wrong with them? And, what are they exactly?" I swore you could see the eact moment Bobbi wanted to punch me.

"These are the numbers of Hydra/Cybertec bases found around the world. Problem is, these charts show the number has been decreasing by three times what we are doing. I'm just so confused. This isn't at all accurate."

"But those are the numbers SHIELD found, right?"

"No, these are the official Government records. I would believe they were falsified if it wasn't for one thing." Bobbi looked at me like I was supposed to know what she was talking about, but I just shrugged. She sighed and rolled her eyes at me.

"These are put together by Talbot, who has direct contact with us. He knows our numbers, so why are these so off."

"I'm sure it's just an honest mistake. We'll figure it out." Bobbi gave me a small smile, and then went back to her papers.

"In other news, I heard you don't have anything to do for a few days."

"No, I don't. Why do you ask?"

"Well, I was thinking, maybe we could do something together. Me, you and Belle. Like, a dinner or something."

"You know what? That actually sounds wonderful."

Of course, in this life, nothing goes at all according to plan.