Chapter 21

Parkerstood against the wall of the room he and Bakshi were in. Currently he watched as Bakshi took a seat in the other corner. He pulled out his phone and began spinning it around in his hands watching the agent stand in place.

Andrew was dressed in all black, his bullet proof vest was strapped on tight. He had a mask that covered his mouth similar to what he saw from the winter soldier on tv a few months before. His clear glasses protected his crisp blue eyes that filled with worry. The agent still had thoughts of the earlier conversation with Simmons on the balcony of the apartment. He didn't feel right in the head.

Sometimes if the agent moved the slightest, the gun strapped on to his side would jab him a bit. The large gun he was assigned when he started the job was held in his hand. How easy would it be to take out Whitehall's right hand man right now. He knew he couldn't though. Both he and Simmons needed him alive until Coulson gave them the go.

"Good evening, Mr. Creel." Andrew heard Bakshi say into the phone.

The mumbles over the phone were too hard to be heard as he was unsure what was being said on the other side. Andrew would have to follow Bakshi's orders to figure out the rest.

"We're well aware of your condition. But believe me when I say that Mr. Whitehall wouldn't have selected you for this job if you weren't capable of completing it."

Bakshi kept listening on the phone, nodding ever so often.

"Once we have the Obelisk, you will be taken care of the way Hydra has always taken care of you. Please proceed to the secondary drop site, and I shall meet you at the appropriate time. Good night."

Bakshi ended the phone call and stood up from the chair. He looked over at Andrew and then began to walk towards the door. The agent immediately followed him.

"Looks like we have more unfinished business to take care, Mr. Parker." Bakshi tells him before leaving the room.

Andrew gave him a nod and followed him out. How easy was it just to kill Bakshi now?

21AOS21

Fitz couldn't believe that someone had just left the paperwork laying around in the printer. Both Simmons and Parker told him to go for it earlier. To try and figure out a way by himself. It wasn't until Mack found him and how they ended up here working in the lab with the other scientists.

Everyone else was working upstairs in Coulson's office so Fitz decided to stay down in the lab. Mack had somehow agreed to help him. Everything was going fine until Fitz was struggling to explain what was going on.

"You're fine, turbo. Just take your time." Mack tells him.

That's until Fitz pushes everything off the table in anger. Mack is taken aback and immediately yells at the other scientists to back off and leave. They leave and Fitz is finally calmed back down a bit.

"I didn't solve this today." Fitz explains.

Mack looks at him a little bit confused.

"You already have said that. What are you trying to say?"

"I didn't solve it today!" Fitz says excited.

"Wait, are you saying you've done this before?"

"Yes."

Fitz begins to look through papers that he ended up pushing off the table. He's only through a few of them when Mack kneels down next to him.

"So we are looking for an old design?" Mack asks.

"Yes, yes!" Fitz then yells picking up what he needs.

Mack immediately smiles as he picks himself up followed by helping Fitz up. The design is sat on the table, both agents studying it before getting to work.

"I'm with you on this, turbo, alright."

Fitz only nods as they begin to find what they need to get started on the design.

21AOS21

Skye sits in the van with Hunter and May until they are told its go time by Coulson or if they see a chance to go after Carl Creel. She's currently monitoring the computer looking for an opportunity for them to go.

It isn't till she looks up to see Hunter shooting May with an ICER, she realizes she's next. The hacker quickly pushes the door open next to her just as Hunter shoots and falls to the ground realizing that he has shot her in the foot.

Skye sees Hunter get out of the van from the other side but he never goes to check on her. His feet taking him running towards wherever Creel was at. The hacker realizes she's loosing feeling in her body when she sees another pair of feet running towards her a few minutes later.

"Skye." The person says.

The man in black is completely unrecognizable but once she sees those crisp blue eyes look up at her, the hacker puts it together.

"Drew." She whispers trying to run her hand across his face as he pulls his mask off.

Skye notices that her husband hasn't shaved in what it looks to be a day or so as he just has a little stubble. He has a little cut just below is eye that is just about healed that's now a faint line.

"Everything is going to be alright, Skye." He tells her.

"Are you coming home now?"

"Soon Skye, soon." Drew answers. "I love you Skye."

It's the last words she hears from him before losing the ability to keep her eyes open from the shot of the ICER.

When Skye wakes up again, she finds herself in the van next to an angry agent May. The door that she fell out of before Hunter shot her is now shut like it was never opened.

She begins to wonder if she ever fell out of the van earlier and seeing her husband was just a dream. It isn't till Skye moves around when she feels something heavier around her neck then just the necklace that her husband gave her before he left.

Around her neck was Drew's father's dog tags. Something he rarely took off except maybe to shower. She wondered what was happening to him exactly to leave them with her.

21AOS21

When Andrew arrived back to the apartment that he shared with Jemma, he found her siting on the couch. She was being comforted by one of the pillows that were his he had left there a day before. He took off his boots and walked towards the living room removing the rest of the armor he was wearing.

The agent took comfort in his ex, laying his head on her shoulder, watching whatever show was playing on the tv.

"I'm sorry, Andrew." The biochemist whispers.

"Why are you sorry?" He asks quietly.

"We keep getting into these arguments ever since you came back."

"I should be the one that's sorry. I've screwed up a lot lately."

"Andrew."

"I should have never lied to you or Leo. Skye and I shouldn't of kept our marriage from any of you. I've done nothing but mess up since I left Skye for that mission."

"You've done nothing wrong."

Andrew gets up from the couch and starts pacing in front of the tv. He's waving his hands muttering and Jemma is having trouble following for a bit.

"Skye wasn't supposed to go get herself captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. at all. She was supposed to stay hidden from them. That was part of the deal with Maria. Them and the Rising Tide weren't going to find out. After that mission, I was supposed to walk away. I was done."

"Andrew you can't mean that."

"I wanted a new life. I wanted to start over with Skye."

The agent stops pacing just as Jemma gets up off the couch.

"What happened out there?" She asks placing a hand on his shoulder.

Andrew looks up at the biochemist.

"I saw Skye. I was watching the van. Lance had just shot her with an ICER before I got to her. I almost risked our cover. Ours and Bakshi's."

"That doesn't sound right. He shot another agent?"

Both of them stand there for a bit. Eventually the agent is leaning into the biochemist for a hug and they then stay in that position for a few moments.

"I'm going to kill him." Andrew tells her. "If Lance Hunter does something like that again."

21AOS21

When Skye got back on base, she began to isolate herself from the rest of the team. The hacker had saw her husband and she determined to find out where he was supposed to be at exactly. The last she had heard from him was when Coulson came back from London a week or so ago. Andrew was trying his best to stay hidden and recruit agents at the same time. If he had made his way back to America, why hadn't he contacted her or the team? The last time she had real contact with him was shortly after he and Simmons landed to take the biochemist home.

Skye pulled the dog tags out from under her shirt and began to run her fingers across Daniel's name listed. She sat them down on the keyboard of her laptop and began typing away. Wherever he was, she was going to find him.

"Okay babe, you're smart. You left these for a reason." Skye talks to herself. "Where are you, Drew?"

Any guesses to why Andrew left the dog tags with Skye? Leave a review and let me know what you think. I was watching National Treasure the other day and I think I've came to the conclusion that Riley who is played by Justin Bartha would be a good Andrew Parker. I know in real life he's a little bit older then everyone but I can see him being friends with FitzSimmons and Skye connecting with him. Let me know what you think on that or if you see someone else as Andrew.