Chapter 11

Ward touches the scar left by the bullet from the British guy had shot at him. "Careful, it's not fully healed yet." Kara tells Ward touching his shoulder blade.

"It's fine." Ward tells Kara pushing her off.

Kara seems rejected and pulls back the bandages she'd just removed and throws them in the trash. "Whitehall isn't mad you know, the girl escaping wasn't your fault."

Ward throws the sleeve to his shirt back on, buttoning it up. "It doesn't matter if it was my fault or not, I was put in charge of her." Ward pictures the girl Skye, the way she looked the way she smelt. He never felt so flustered and confused about a girl. He didn't even really know her, but he felt he had an instant connection.

But he did know her; Skye wasn't just a face he forgot. He'd barely met her, but he remembered that single instant they had crossed paths.

"Maybe I could help take your mind off the pain." Kara wraps her arms around Ward's chest. Ward pushes her off, and simply stands up off the bed.

"Shouldn't you be with Whitehall, you are practically his second in command."

Kara seems disappointed by Ward's rejection, but she pretends it doesn't bother her. "Please he loves Raina too much she's more trusted then me. Besides I'm just the girl with the changing face." Kara changes her face to resemble that of a model on a magazine near them. "But it does come in handy." She jokes.

Bakshi walks into the room without knocking. "Whitehall's calling for you Ward." He nonchalantly drops, leaving just as he came. Ward forgot Bakshi existed sometimes.

"Must have heard you were mission ready?" Kara guesses. Ward just leaves his room, not bothering to acknowledge Kara.

He walks down the hall to Whitehall's office, knocking on the door as he approaches. "Come in." Whitehall says from the other side. Ward opens the door and sees Raina and Whitehall looking over some files on his desk. "Ah Ward just the man I wanted to see. I'm glad you've recovered."

Ward resists the urge to roll his eyes at Whitehall's fake concern. "You need me?" Ward asks.

Whitehall grabs a document from Raina's hands. "That girl we had for a month, Skye is the name written on her file." Whitehall looks at the paper. "She is someone I'm in dire need of." Whitehall looks at his hands, wrinkles appearing. "I believe she holds the genetic code I'm looking for."

Ward stands there in silence waiting for Whitehall to assign the mission. "But you see she's not here is she." Whitehall drops in.

Ward glares for a second. "I'm sorry again Sir." He didn't mean a word of it.

Whitehall furrows his brow. "Well anyway we ran the girls blood through Shields files and found a match to a case from ten or so years ago on a document."

"Unfortunately most of it's redacted and there isn't another copy available that our hackers can find." Raina adds.

"You want me to retrieve this document?" Ward asks, presuming this is what Whitehall wants.

"I believe that Shield dug deeper in their experiments then we ever got to. I'm hoping the files will give insight onto some missing pieces of the puzzle I'm looking into." Whitehall expands on. "I'm hoping you're up for this."

"Of course sir." Ward answers. "I've never been more ready."

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"Hunter I'll need you." May walks past Bobbi and Hunter. "The hanger in five minutes, mission ready." May instructs.

Bobbi lifts an eyebrow. "Just Hunter and you, why so few people?" Bobbi asks.

"What you think we should bring Mack to." May almost jokes, but Bobbi knows she's half serious.

"No I think I should come." Bobbi adds in. "I'm a field agent."

"Who just got back from being undercover for a long period of time!" Hunter tells her seriously. "Shouldn't you be like relaxing?"

"Mission work is relaxing." Bobbi explains, cracking her knuckles.

May crosses her arms and leans back. "If you want in sure, we leave in five."

Bobbi smiles happy to be doing a mission with Hunter where she wasn't undercover, and could finally use come-backs to Hunter's not that funny jokes.

Bobbi changes and packs a few of her things, while getting her favorite guns, and waiting for Hunter by the Quinjet. "Thought girls were supposed to take the longest."

"Ha, ha." Hunter punches Bobbi lightly on the shoulder as they're walking past. "Not everyone can just wake up with perfect hair"

Bobbi smiles, and follows after Hunter into the jet, as May starts flying and debriefing on the mission.

"What so this is all for a file about an 0-8-4?" Hunter confirms after May is finished.

"Yep." May responds, while switching a button on the jet.

"But why do we need this now, an unredacted file, it just seems strange that were going to the trouble of going to the Triskelion just on the off chance this file is there." Hunter shrugs. "But if it's as important as the bossman says, than guess we got to go after it."

Bobbi sighs, knowing that without Hunter she'd really have no reason to smile at all.

The group arrives at the Triskellion, and make their way to the basement with ease surprisingly. They all enter a large filing room, from which they'd been told most of the files were held. "There has to be at least a thousand" Hunter complains. "Will never get through them all"

May takes out a flash light, to give them more lighting. "Just search for the 0-8-4 cases, they usually stand out."

A sound is heard outside, the three look towards the door. "I'll go check it out" Bobbi offers running before anyone could say no, May just continues to search the files.

Hunter searches for a few minutes as well, but he is distracted by the fact Bobbi hasn't come back yet. "Bob" he tries over the com. But he gets no signal from her. "I'm going to go look for her." He runs out of the room, and down in the direction he thinks Bobbi might have gone.

May doesn't even bat an eye, as she goes through the files.

Hunter turns a corner, his gun blazing and his head held high. "Bob? You with me?" He calls over the com. No answer. "Dam it." He yells out, treading the hallway carefully.

This stupid mission, he didn't even care about the enhanced girl Skye. They saved her from Hydra, why did they have to go on this stupid mission to get a file on her. Hunter kicks open the door. He flashes a flash light inside, seeing the file cabinets spread all over the place—the leftover from Hydra's take down.

"Hunter." May calls over the com.

"Oh thank goodness." Hunter calls back. "Is Bob with you, did she come back?" He asks carefully.

"I thought you would have found her?" May answers back.

Hunter bites his lip, looking at more rooms filled with empty files. He wanted to search, but he knew he needed to make sure Bobbi was safe first; he couldn't just go through them now.

"Looking for someone?" A familiar voice states. Hunter turns around and finds himself looking directly at Ward.

"Well I would have been perfectly fine never seeing your face again." Hunter comments as he grabs a file cabinet from the side of the hallway and throws it in Ward's direction before ducking for cover and using another door to escape the room.

Hunter feels the bullet squeeze past his side, and he barely dodges it as it grazes his crawls away quickly, running to escape. But he feels the bullet hit and pierce his back.

Hunter falls onto his knees, face first into the ground. Feeling the blood soak his shirt.

"Sorry mate." Ward imitates his accent, pointing a gun at Hunter's head. "But looks like it's time you got what was coming to you."

And Ward pulls back the trigger.

That was an evil place to leave it off at XD Reviews are greatly appreciated!