Boredom struck Clarisse like lightning, and she of all people know what that feels like. She was informed by a nurse-agent-person to stay in bed and get rest, but after resting for days, she's tired of being tired. No one has visited her since Alice talked to her about her 'condition'. Leo hasn't made any contact with her since he told her his dad was Thor. I must have reacted wrong, Clarisse thought wishing he'd a least send her a text.
She discovered all of her clothes and her school bag were placed neatly in the corner of the room. With a little struggling, Clarisse managed to smuggle her phone into her bed. She was entertained for a while… until it died. Then her severe boredom returned.
Everyone told her it had been about a week since the lightning incident. Apparently she'd been in the hospital for two days and then she was unconscious in the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility for two days as well. Then, she was bedridden for the past three days. She became insanely bored the second day she was trapped in the little room.
The room itself was boring. All that was in it was her bed, which was in the center of the room with the headboard resting against the wall, a table beside her bed, a lonely-looking chair in the corner and the pile of her stuff in the other corner. How was she supposed to entertain herself?
Right when she was about to give up and sleep, the door burst open, grabbing her attention. Nurse-agents always took their merry time to slip through a crack in the door banging their way around with a food tray, even though the reason they slip through the door was to not wake her up. When she glanced up at the door, she saw an agent she'd never met before. She was average height, with layered brown hair and glasses perched on her face. Unlike the other agents, she was wearing a lab coat over a blue tee shirt and jeans.
"Uh, Clarisse, is it?" She asked slightly entering the room.
Clarisse nodded.
"A few of us are meeting in the conference room to discuss what happened over the last few days, we were hoping you'd join us," She spoke cautiously and looked at Clarisse like she was trying to decode her.
"Okay," Clarisse agreed. "Can I change first?"
The woman nodded. Before she left she said, "The conference room is on the fourth floor. If you take the elevator, turn left and the conference room will be straight down the hall, last door on your right."
Clarisse barely noticed she was wearing a hospital gown. She must've looked like a mess. She was thankful for her clothes she wore to school… last time she went to school. It occurred to her, there must be a reason her parents haven't called and she hadn't gone to school. S.H.I.E.L.D. must have made something up or informed her parents or something. Although she was wearing skinny jeans and high-heel boots, it was more comfortable than walking around in a hospital gown.
Following the woman's instructions, she found her way to the conference room. Inside, there was a long table with at least twelve chairs surrounding it. On one side of the room there were windows that covered almost the entire wall. Sitting at the long table, were Alice and the woman she just saw. They seemed to be in deep conversation, so Clarisse was left standing awkwardly by the door. It was long though, Alice noticed her out of the corner of her eye and spoke up.
"Clarisse," She said, standing from her seat. "Why don't you come and join us?"
"Uh," Clarisse said shyly. "Okay?"
She took the seat beside Alice and tried not to draw much attention to herself. Even though she hadn't heard much of what they were talking about, she was sure this meeting would be a lot about her. Alice noticed how uncomfortable she looked and gave her a knowingly look.
"Clarisse, this is my co-agent, and good friend, Gwyneth Fitz," She said describing the women in the lab coat.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Gwen said shaking her hand.
Alice then took a glance at her watch, "Two-ten," she said. "They all should be here any minute.
Clarisse was confused, but as she said that the door opened and another person entered the conference room. It was a boy who looked about her age, maybe a year or so older. His hair was messy, but he was wearing a blazer and a loose tie.
"Am I early?" He joked asking Alice.
"Ha, ha, very funny Stark," she said sarcastically. "The others should be right behind you.
"Wow, I'm impressed Aaron. You clean up well," Gwen said leaning back in her chair.
"Well, I do what I can," Aaron said shrugging.
As he took a seat around the table, the door opened again and revealed two more people. They were two girls, who were laughing and seemed to be catching up with each other.
"Aebela?" Clarisse asked in disbelief.
"Hi!" The brunette said excitedly rushing over to Clarisse, she engulfed her with a hug, crushing her in her seat.
When she let go Aebela said, "Thank goodness you're alright. I heard all about the accident and I was so worried."
"Yeah, I'm fine. But, what are you doing here?" Clarisse asked still a little confused.
"Didn't Leo tell you?"
"You mean the whole Thor thing?" Clarisse raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, well, I usually don't like working with S.H.I.E.L.D. but Leo convinced me to just this once," Aebela explained taking a seat beside her brother's best friend.
As they talked on, Alice welcomed Georgia, who entered with Aebela. The two met a year or two ago, the last time Leo asked Aebela to help with S.H.I.E.L.D. The two were friends, but they hadn't seen each other much since then. Georgia sat beside Aebela and introduced herself to Clarisse.
"So, is Leo behind you guys?" Clarisse asked curiously hoping she could finally see him again.
"Well, he was. I don't know where he went. We ran into Georgia on the way here, and I thought he was right behind us, I don't know where he went," Aebela said frowning.
As they were talking, there was a loud noise from the hallway. The door burst open and a girl with a really big smile ran into the room. She had sandy blonde hair that was in a complicated-looking braid, and she wore ripped jeans with a faded tee shirt and unzipped hoodie. The girl was pretty, that's for sure. She seemed like one of those girls who looked good in anything, even gross old sweatshirts. She seemed really excited and was holding a tray in her hands.
"I brought cookies!" she said with a huge grin. Placing them on the table, she went on the opposite side of Clarisse, Aebela, and Georgia to sit by Aaron.
"Yes!" Aaron exclaimed.
He got a few confused looks.
"What?" Aaron asked innocently. "Louise's cookies are the best!" he said taking a few from the tray on the table.
Gwen laughed and said, "Louise! I didn't know you were coming."
"Neither did I, until my little brother tried to sneak out of the house without me," Louise said plopping down beside Aaron and the tray of cookies.
"To be fair, I was trying to sneak past dad, not you," said a boy, that looked similar to Louise, walking through the door.
"Well, I still pried the truth from you. Once I found out he was part of a S.H.I.E.L.D. case, I had to come to see what it was all about. Although, it was kinda hard to get by dad. He is all about truth and honesty, pfft, in my opinion he needs to loosen up. That man is like a lie detector, and if it weren't for my quick thinking, Deric would still be at home trying to explain this whole thing to dad," Louise said crossing her arms and smirking.
Clarisse noticed Alice avoiding eye contact with Deric, it confused her, but she decided it probably wasn't anything she should be bringing up.
Alice leaned over to Gwen and whispered something to her that no one else could hear. "Where is Erica?"
"I thought you were bringing her here," Gwen said becoming worried.
"No," Alice said slowly. "Wait, if you don't have her, and I don't have her then who does?"
There was a soft knock at the door that caught everyone's attention.
The girl with jet black hair and a long blue flowing Asgardian dress slowly opened the door.
"The fire boy informed me this was where the girl called Alice wanted me to be," the girl said formally.
She entered the room without even glancing at anyone else. Her perfect posture seemed to inform people that she was the real deal. This was most definitely the daughter of Loki everyone read about.
However, Clarisse had no idea who this girl was and why she looked as she did. Sighing, Clarisse leaned back in her seat and looked down at the table. To be honest, she didn't want to be anywhere near here with any of these strange people. The door creaked open again and she glanced up.
Poking his head through the door, was none other than Leo Foster- or, Thorson it was now? Clarisse didn't even know, she was just happy to see him. She was hoping he'd rush into the room and apologize to her and tell her how he missed her and how he was sorry for avoiding her.
He did the farthest thing from that. Leo quietly walked into the room, giving Clarisse nothing more than a glance. He sat on the opposite side of the table, as far from her as possible. This confused Clarisse, why was he still not talking to her? None of it made sense.
Hey, surprise! AN is down here for once! Anyway, this chapter is a little shorter than my last few and it might've been a little vague, but whatever. To clear anything up, Louise is Deric's older sister and can anyone guess who their dad is? Next chapter will have a little insight on what Maylum is up to and the rest of the team meeting. By the way, can anyone guess who 'the fire boy' Erica mentioned is? Probably those who looked at the character profiles from my last story know. Also, I should update in the next few days, if I get a few more reviews. I'm thinking chapter 12 or so will have Ruby and Eliza again. Also, has anyone noticed the lack of Hawkeye and Black Widow characters? Yeah, I know. But, I'll get to them, I promise. I don't know exactly what chapter but, they'll come in soon. And don't even get me started about the Hulk, I'm still trying to decide if the character in my mind should be part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. crew or Ruby and Eliza's new group. You guys can tell me, I guess, in a review. I'll be back soon, I hope you liked chapter 10!