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The phone slipped from Cecy's grasp and was caught by Coulson's waiting hand. Cecy's hand shook as she reached out to take it back and put the phone next to her ear. Coulson put his hand on her back and lead her quickly outside the room. She slid down the wall and clutched the phone desperately. There was a buzzing in her ears and she shook her head to try to clear it, so that she could hear her sister's voice again and make sure it wasn't a dream.

"Cecy? Are you still there?"

"Y-yeah," Cecy answered hoarsely and cleared her throat. "Where are you Mandy? How did you get this number?"

"Trust me, you wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Try me, Amanda." An unexplainable rage built up in Cecy's chest. "Please, enlighten me on where you've been for the last FIVE YEARS!"

"I know, and I'm sorry, I'll explain everything soon but I need you to help me."

"Why? What's happened?"

"Are you alone?"

Cecy glanced up at the Director, who was standing across from her, leaning against the wall. He caught her eye and gave a quick nod.

"Yeah, why?"

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

"Cecy!"

"I'm in Manhattan, happy?"

"So am I. SHIELD is tracking me, and I need your help to get away."

"Come off it Mandy!"

"I'm serious! I don't know what they want, and I need you to help me, please! You're still working with SHIELD?"

"Yeah."

"Well, find out who these guys are, they've been on my tail for a few days, then meet me in Central Park in an hour and a half, at the fountain."

"Mandy, what are you trying to hide? Seriously, you've only been in witness protection, they can't arrest you for that!"

Mandy sighed. "Some things are a bit more complicated than that, Cecy. I'll see you later." There was a click and she was gone.

"Mandy?" Cecy called down the phone. "Mandy!"

She threw the phone down and put her head in her hands. Coulson knelt down next to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"You heard all that, sir?"

Coulson sighed heavily. "I did, Cecelia."

"What the hell is she talking about?" Cecy looked up at the Director. "No one at SHIELD knew she was alive, did they?"

Coulson didn't answer and fixed his gaze on the floor.

"Who's following her, sir?"

"Bobbi and Skye."

"Why?"

"We think," Coulson said slowly, "that she might be working for HYDRA."

She had to take a second to process what Coulson had just said. "No." She shook her head violently. "That's not possible."

Coulson slipped three photographs out of his inside pocket and handed them to her. "The last one was taken a week ago."

The first picture showed Mandy in a sleeveless HYDRA uniform, with a tattoo of the HYDRA skull branded onto her left arm. "She could have been undercover," Cecy persisted. "I know Mandy, she hates tattoos."

Coulson said nothing, so Cecy went to the second picture, which showed her and Grant Ward sitting at a table in a coffee shop, Ward talking and Amanda looking over her shoulder covertly. "That could have been taken when they were going out," Cecy said desperately. Coulson was purposely not looking at her now.

She got to the third picture and gagged, staring at it in horror. It should a man's dead body, with the words "Cut off one head, two more shall take its place," carved into the stomach. At the bottom of the picture, it read in small print "Positive ID-Amanda Lewis."

"That man was a former HYDRA member turned informant for SHIELD, he was in witness protection. Bobbi and Skye went to check it out last week, and the fingerprints found on the body match the ones we have in the system of Amanda," Coulson explained. "I am so, so sorry, Cecelia."

Fitz opened the door behind them, beaming from ear to ear, but it slowly vanished as he looked at Coulson and Cecy. "What's happened?"

Coulson looked down at Cecy, his hand still on her shoulder. She was staring straight ahead with her mouth half open, her gaze out of focus. "She just received a call from her sister. She knows everything now."

Fitz went white and in a second he was on his knees in front of Cecy. "Hey," he said, "Talk to me." He tapped her knee when she was unresponsive. "Cess, you need to breathe."

"You know, I thought she was dead for a long time," Cecy whispered, looking up at Fitz. "I had accepted it. But now-" Her eyes welled up suddenly, "she's a traitor Fitz, what am I going to do?"

She burst into tears and Fitz pulled her into him, rubbing her back gently. "It's alright, hush now," he murmured softly. Over her shoulder, he looked up at Coulson. "You're needed in there, sir, I've got this."

"Her sister wants them to meet, with all the information we have on Bobbi and Skye," Coulson said, "We need to work out what to do before I talk to the Avengers. If HYDRA's starting to build itself back up again, we'll need to know the full scale."

"The full scale of what?" Bucky asked as he came to the door. "Cecy?" He was on his knees faster than Fitz had been. "What happened?"

She buried her face in Fitz's shoulder but she had stopped crying and was taking deep calming breaths. She turned away from Bucky and wiped her eyes with her the back of her hand. Bucky automatically pulled his handkerchief out of his suit pocket and handed it to her. She took another deep breath and faced him. "Mandy just called me," she said, her voice cracking halfway, "and Coulson says she's with HYDRA. I'm so sorry, Bucky, but I thought they were gone, we all did, but-"

"Hey, hey, there's no need to apologise to me," he interjected quickly, though he had involuntarily flinched as she said HYDRA. "It's not your fault. Besides," he said brightly, "if they hadn't messed me up, I wouldn't have met you, would I?"

She shook her head slowly, keeping her eyes trained on the ground. "Cecy," he said gently, as if reading her mind, "this isn't your fault, alright? There's nothing you could have done. Your sister made her own choices."

She nodded again at the ground, then looked up at Coulson with determination etched in her face. "We'll need to tell the Avengers everything," she said, standing up slowly and wiping her face with Bucky's handkerchief to remove the last tear tracks on her face. "We don't have much time, if I'm to meet her soon."

"Are you sure, Cecelia?"Coulson said seriously.

She nodded. "Positive."

They followed Coulson into the room. Bucky and Fitz shared a worried look as Cecy entered ahead of them.

"Okay everyone," Coulson called out and the chatter stopped immediately. "We have a situation."

"What type of situation?" Clint asked. "Like, a life or death situation, an world ending situation, maybe a-"

Natasha reached over and smacked Clint on the head to shut him up.

"Life or death, possibly," Coulson answered gravely, and the room was silent. Cecy bowed her head and stared at the ground. Bucky subtly reached over and slipped his hand into hers. No one but Fitz and Steve noticed this interaction. "So firstly, do you accept our offer, to be SHIELD's allies once more?"

"Depends on if you've told us the whole truth about HYDRA, Director Coulson," Steve asked conversationally.

"Well, that is the situation, I'm afraid. One of our agents just received a call from-"

Cecy cleared her throat and Coulson looked back at her in surprise. "My sister, Amanda Lewis. She wanted to know everything about two agents that have been tracking her for the past few days, and she wants me to meet her in less than an hour and a half in Central Park to help her escape."

"Amanda Lewis?" Natasha said in surprise, as she looked at Clint, then Coulson. "You think she's with HYDRA?"

"We know she's with HYDRA," Cecy interjected.

"She's not working alone either," May spoke up. "We think she's working with Grant Ward, who was one of our best agents, also HYDRA. We thought he had been killed sometime before HYDRA's defeat, but we've seen CCTV of them together in various areas around the world in the past two weeks."

"Well, we've learned that SHIELD is absolutely shocking at keeping people dead today," Tony quipped sarcastically, clapping his hands together. He counted aloud with his fingers. "That's at least three resurrections today alone!"

Rhodes gave him an exasperated look and shook his head. "Time and a place, Tony."

Coulson glanced sideways at Cecelia for confirmation as he took the pictures out from his suit pocket, and Cecy nodded and looked at the ground. Coulson passed the pictures around to the Avengers and watched the varying levels of shock on their faces. Wanda had gone white and only looked at the last picture for half a second before turning away.

"So this is a sister of one of your agents that's still in SHIELD, correct?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, me," Cecy spoke up, "and Amanda was recruited a few years before me."

"I know this woman," Steve said, "She's the person they sent in when I came out of the ice."

Sam was still eyeing Cecy mistrustfully.

"Are you sure HYDRA has been completely wiped out of SHIELD, Director Coulson?" Rhodes asked, "Sometimes these things can run in the family." He was looking at Cecy now too.

"I can personally vouch for Cecilia when I say she is definitely one of us," Coulson said firmly, "So you can all stop worrying about that."

Cecy cast Coulson a grateful look and Bucky squeezed her hand in comfort.

"The information of the last picture of the corpse came through to us on the same day I sent out the drones to look for Sergeant Barnes," Coulson said.

"So you think this has something to do with me?" Bucky asked in surprise.

"Either that or it's a very odd coincidence," Coulson answered. "Maybe they know you were experimented on by HYDRA."

Bucky flinched involuntarily again but Coulson had turned away. Cecy squeezed his hand.

"So," Coulson addressed the Avengers, "will you help us?"

Steve eyed Bucky, who still held Cecelia's hand, and sighed. "Yes Director," he agreed, "We weren't really busy today anyway."

"Is that sass I detect, Captain?" Tony put a hand to his chest and gasped.

Steve gave him one glare and he shut up immediately. "Let's get started."

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