Chapter 25
Skye watched Hunter from a distance as he took a girl out towards the beach. She sat on her motorcycle waiting for her que to zoom towards the both of them. It didn't take long until Hunter motioned for her to come and take whatever information he had in his hand.
Once she drives past the both of them, the hacker heads towards back to the base. Coulson and May had already left for the benefit dinner that was for the church with a painting they needed. Supposedly the painting had the same marks on it as what Coulson showed to Skye.
When Skye gets on the base, Trip is there waiting for her on the bus's cargo ramp.
"I see that everything went well." Trip says as he walks towards her.
Once Skye pulls the helmet off and shakes her hair a bit to fix it. She pulls off her wedding ring from her neck and places it back on her ring finger. The hacker had taken it off and put it around her neck just in case she had ran into trouble while they were out. She didn't want to accidently bend or break it in some way.
"Hunter did fine, I guess. He distracted Gabriel Soto's assistant." Skye answered.
"I bet he did." Trip said laughing a bit.
The two agents walked out of the plane's cargo hold and towards the bus's briefing area. There they were going to keep track of Coulson and May.
"Have you heard anything from your husband yet?"
"He's fine."
"That's all? Normally you tell me a lot more then he's fine."
"Just drop it, Trip. I don't want to talk about it right now." Skye says trying to keep calm.
Trip just keeps quiet and nods to her when the hacker looks up at him.
"Drew is just trying to keep me safe. So is Coulson. I'll learn eventually why he was sent."
Trip doesn't get to answer this time. He's kind of confused on what the hacker was referring to exactly. The specialist had just known of Parker recruiting agents for S.H.I.E.L.D. and that's how they got Hunter. A beep from Coulson and May prevents him from saying anything further.
The two agents listen as both senior agents make their way towards the entrance of the party so they can show their IDs.
"Soto has the painting located in a storage room near the basement. It's supposed to come out later tonight for guests to see." Skye tells them.
"How is the security?" May asks.
"Still checking on that. Let's go with a lot for now. Just remember there's a lot of state officials here. Most are not friends of us."
"Bridget said the painting was going out for verification in the morning." Hunter said as both he and Mack walked into the bus. "She whispered in my ear if you know what I mean."
Everybody groaned immediately once they heard what came out of the mercenary's mouth.
"Everyone knows what you mean, Hunter." Coulson comments.
A little bit of time passes until Skye finally speaks up.
"Sir, are you sure you don't want me out there? I can help."
The hacker can hear the director take a deep breath.
"Skye, go to your own com real quick so I can personally talk to you."
Before she flips on her own com set, the hacker can hear the others commenting. Skye hears a comment from Hunter about her being in trouble or something like that. All she knows is he's acting like a child.
"Yes, sir." She says carefully after placing it in her ear.
It only takes a few seconds until she finally hears Coulson's voice again.
"Skye, I know you want to be out here but we can't risk it."
"I can help though. Find the painting and stuff."
Coulson takes a deep breath.
"Skye we can't risk it with Hydra possibly being here. Especially now that you know Andrew is out there with them."
"But… I really need to see him."
"I know, Skye. We'll get him home soon. Until then you need to help the rest of the team."
Before the hacker knew it, Coulson switched off and silence began.
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Skye eventually leaves the briefing room and finds herself in her pod. The bed is still made how it was when she and Drew were hiding out on the bus one day before he left. There was still a sweatshirt lying on the bed too, Drew's to be exact. A throwback San Diego Chargers powder blue with the logo on the chest.
Skye sat down on the bed and picked up the sweatshirt next to her. The hacker pulled it up to her nose and took in the scent of her husband. She really just wanted him to come home and the chances of him of being sent on the same mission as Coulson and May might have been slim but she really wanted to find out how slim it was exactly.
Skye laid down on the bed using the sweatshirt as a blanket. She only had her eyes closed for a few seconds until there was a knock on the door of her pod. There was Trip standing in the doorway leaned up against it.
"You're really worried about Parker aren't you? I heard a little bit." Trip tells her. "He must be racking up a lot of frequent flyer miles."
Skye sits back up and looks at the specialist.
"He isn't. Drew has been close by and I can't even know exact location."
Trip takes a seat next to her and doesn't say anything.
"A.C. sent him on a mission. He's been undercover for Hydra."
Trip takes a deep breath before answering.
"The director told us Simmons was his Hydra contact. She had another agent with her this whole time?"
"It was Drew. He was almost unrecognizable in all his gear on him the first time I saw him."
When Skye finishes talking, they both hear Mack yelling for them to come back. Something about Hunter getting on his nerves once again, but what else is new.
Trip gets up first and then pulls Skye up behind him.
"Well we better get back and focus on the mission." Trip tells her.
The hacker just nods and follows the specialist back to the briefing area. They walk in only to hear Hunter telling a story about his ex-wife.
"She resembled a goddess." Hunter explained only to eventually get Coulson back on the com.
"Guys."
"I see you two are back online." Skye answers.
"Only because Talbot is here."
The hacker bits her lip trying to think of plan.
"Figure out how to get to the painting."
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Leo Fitz peeked around the corner of the wall. He stayed close to his old pod questioning his ability to possibly help the rest of the team with the mission. Fitz looked back at his pod where his two friends were sitting. Both Simmons and Parker smiled back at him. The engineer shook his head. When he looked back at them they were gone.
Thinking about clearing his head, Fitz heads towards the garage that used to be the lab on the bus. When he walks in there, he runs his hands across the boxes placed in there. The engineer eventually looks up to see Simmons sitting on the counter space with Parker standing next to her.
"You should help them, Leo." Parker tells him.
Fitz groans. "And do what exactly?"
"Try to bond with them." Simmons answers.
Before Fitz gets to respond he sees Agent May walk through the garage. She is still dressed in her dress from earlier, the shiny silver flashing off some of the metal in the bus.
"Where's Coulson?" she asks.
"Upstairs I believe."
Once the senior agent goes through, Fitz looks over at his two friends. Both have a confused look when all of them start to hear beeping.
"Leo, you need to help." Parker tells him once Fitz begins to walk towards the rest of the team.
When Fitz gets back into the briefing room, he hears Hunter yelling at the others.
"We're in trouble aren't we?" Hunter questions.
"The bus is shutting down." Skye answers. "It thinks we made a water crash."
Fitz takes a look around the area they are in. It is a few seconds later when he finds what has possibly damaged the plane.
"I think I've found it." He says. "Someone… we've been… sabotaged."
Skye runs up next to him and takes a look for herself.
"What does that mean for the plane?" she says pointing.
"Well, it might…" The plane makes an electricity cracking noise. "Explode."
Skye places her hands on top of head and paces around the area for a few seconds. She takes a deep breath before responding to Fitz.
"Can you fix it?"
"I'm not sure. This is more of Andrew's specialty then mine."
"Fitz!"
The engineer raises his hands. "I can try but I'll need Hunter's help."
Hunter looks up when he hears his name. The mercenary stood over by Mack not sure what to do.
"Why me?"
"Don't question it, Hunter. Just help." Skye says before running to help Trip.
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When Andrew gets the call about Bakshi, its semi late in the day. He and the team find the hotel room he was located in, trashed. Agent 33 is on the ground knocked out, her face still smoking a bit from the burn she must have just got. Bakshi is walking back in from the patio holding part of his chest on the side and a phone in another.
"Mr. Parker, it's nice to finally see you." He says.
Andrew just nods before asking how he is doing which Bakshi just responds with some British term he doesn't exactly understand.
He then asks about Agent 33 before she is picked up by other Hydra agents, so they can get out of there.
"It seems she was on the losing end, Mr. Parker." Bakshi answers.
Andrew doesn't press anything further. The agent instructs the others to get them out of there carefully. He knows about Coulson and May being there in the hotel. He was nearby watching as they entered. Bakshi had told them to stay outside of the hotel, that he could handle everything. It didn't seem to be the case.
The agent's biggest hope was to see Skye at the party but that didn't seem to happen. The only agents there that he saw were Coulson and May. He had gotten tailored for a penguin suit for nothing. His chance to stay in the shadows and hopefully go off grid to find his wife at the party was a bust.
It takes ten minutes to get Bakshi out of the hotel and down to the SUV located down in the parking lot. When they get in the backseat, his boss makes a call to Whitehall. The only response he hears on the other line is,
"Excellent."
Andrew can't tell if Whitehall is being serious or not.
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Skye is back in her and Drew's room after they get the bus fix and everything is all well. She is still searching on her computer about his father. The dog tags still sit on the bedside table wrapped over the picture frame of them together after one of their vacations shortly after they began dating.
The hacker has been running finger prints since a few days after she received them. She can't tell if she is even getting anywhere with them. Skye has done several scans so far. It amazes her how many people have actually have had some form of print on either one of them.
Herself
Drew
Jemma
Fitz
Drew's mom
Maria Hill
It's not something that really gets technically washed either. Drew has always kept it underneath his shirt so getting it wet isn't something that normally happens. He even took it off when he showered. So why wasn't she getting Daniel's name to appear already in the S.H.I.E.L.D. data base?
Skye eventually places her laptop to the side and hops off the bed so she can change into something more comfortable. She finds herself back in one of Drew's t-shirts before crawling under the covers on his side of the bed.
The hacker continues to watch as pictures of random people flash by quickly and before she knows it, Skye has fallen asleep.
Sometime in the middle of the night, there's a beep that doesn't seem to wake her. When Skye wakes in the morning, she finds herself staring at the screen for ten minutes before eventually getting up and running to Coulson's office.
The only thing on her mind is that her husband may be in trouble and some possible danger.
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It's already early in the morning. Like way too early to be at work this oddly hour but Andrew finds himself there at almost five sneaking into Whitehall's office. He's had his own suspicions for a while now but he wanted to be sure. From what he got him from his own search, he couldn't believe it.
So his crazy smart brain led him to try and get into the office. He wasn't sure what he was going to find but he hoped to find something. Or something that told him it wasn't true.
When he gets in, Andrew shuts the first set of doors quietly. The lights are of course off so he turns on a flash light. The area he is in looks like a break room almost but with a receptionist's desk in the corner.
The agent walks towards the next set of doors and with his free hand, he jiggles the handle only to find it still unlocked which he finds quite strange. The lights are still off in the office part once he walks in. Andrew shines the flashlight towards the wall to his right looking at the cabinets and then towards the desk.
Once he begins to walk towards the desk, the lights are flipped on. Andrew stands there stuck almost like a statue once he sees the chair spin from looking out the window to now looking at him.
"Wow. They weren't kidding around. " The man says clasping his hands together. "You look just like your mother."
Andrew stood there with his mouth partly opened, gasping at the sight.
"I've missed you, son."
And there you have it. Sorry for the wait guys. Been pretty busy lately with work and have been super tired. Had this weekend off so I worked on this so I hope you all like it. Please leave a review and let me know what you think.