Chapter 29

Skye and Andrew watched carefully as the senator known as Christian Ward made his speech about S.H.I.E.L.D. How they were the enemy that needed to be stopped once and for all. The couple had made it back from their small vacation to find that the U.N. was attacked and everyone scrambling to take care of it. Andrew had only figured they had been back on base for not even a half hour.

"Mr. Beckers, if you want to welcome S.H.I.E.L.D. at your borders with open arms, be my guest, but this infestation needs to be exterminated."

"Guess being a douche bag runs in the family, I'm taking it?" Andrew comments.

"Are you surprised, agent Parker?" Coulson responds.

"Not really."

Andrew looks over at his wife who is still watching carefully. He can sense that she is trying to take in as much information as she can.

"Senator Ward has never expressed his opinion with S.H.I.E.L.D. before. Why now?" Andrew questions Coulson once more.

But instead of the director answering, it's the agent's wife that speaks instead.

"Maybe it's because we have something that the senator cares about."

"You mean Ward? I've heard stories about Senator Ward, what makes you think he wants him?"

"Grant Ward is a known lying piece of crap. You can't believe everything, agent Parker." Coulson says.

Andrew shakes his head. "I've heard different stories, Director. Not that garbage about him throwing Ward's youngest brother in a well. None of that nonsense."

Skye turns and places a hand on Andrew's arm and then looks to Coulson.

"Hunter said that Talbot was working with a senator that had deep pockets."

"You think it's him?"

"Who else could it be?"

"If Ward's proposal goes through, there could be a witch hunt. We can't let that happen." Coulson says as he steps behind his desk looking through some kind of paperwork.

"Well we can't have that happen." Andrew tells him.

"I can talk to Ward and see what information he has on his brother." Skye offers only to see her husband wince in the process.

"That's not a good idea, Skye." He tells her.

The hacker looks up at her husband confused. "Why not, Drew? I've been doing it since we've been on base."

"Coulson tell her it's a bad idea." Andrew pleads to the director.

"I'm sorry, Andrew. I'm going to have to go with Skye on this. We need all the information we can get on this subject." Coulson tells him.

"Fine, if anything goes wrong, I'm coming down there."

"I can agree with that too." Coulson tells them. "And Skye keep this about his family. Not yours."

Skye only nods before the couple dismisses themselves from the office after a tablet begins to beep. There's no need for them to be there when the director has important business to attend.

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Andrew lets his wife go ahead of him after they bicker down the stairs about how seeing Ward was a bad idea. They weren't ones to normally fight much but the agent only wondered if they were turning into Bobbi and Hunter. Andrew only shuttered at the thought. He didn't want to end up like them, divorced and arguing all the time when they saw each other. That wasn't going to happen. Andrew Parker wanted to keep his marriage intact. He needed Skye.

All his thoughts were immediately pushed out of his head when he heard his name said faintly from someone.

"Andrew."

Standing in front of him was one of his best friend, Jemma Simmons. She stood outside the lab door unsure if she should go in.

"What's the matter?" He asked as soon as he approached her.

"I'm not sure. We were doing fine before you and Skye left but now I think we've gone backwards."

"It's just going to take time, Jem."

Simmons only nodded and looked at Parker with a faint smile.

"How was your trip? I never got a chance to ask."

Andrew lets out a small laugh. "Actually no one's asked. But it was fine. I got to talk to my mom for a bit while we were in California and Skye got to see Miles."

"How was that? Does your mom know about your dad being with Hydra?"

"Oh yeah. That was unexpected. She knew the whole time."

"What?" Simmons says surprised.

"She was a part of Hydra at one point. Secretary Pierce got her into it."

"Unbelievable."

"And guess what, it looks like I'll be celebrating my twenty-sixth birthday all over again in the next July."

"Well it will be your first birthday we all get to celebrate together since the academy." Jemma started to say. "Wait what?"

"My mom told me I was actually twenty-five. I guess you can plan for a twenty-sixth next year." Andrew tells her.

"I thought you were older then Fitz and I."

"Yeah that was a lie I guess."

Simmons groaned and then stepped away from Andrew for a few seconds pacing in the hallway.

"That means you weren't even eighteen when we started dating at the academy. I'm such a bad influence." She panics.

When she stops pacing, Andrew gets a hold of her shoulders and calms her down.

"It's all right. You didn't do anything wrong. Blame my parents."

"Yes I am totally going to blame them. That's terrible parenting."

Andrew smirks at the comment before seeing Skye come down the hallway with the tablet in her hand that she finally managed to get from Koenig.

"Please don't tell Skye. I haven't discussed it with her yet." He tells the scientist.

Before Jemma could answer, Skye appears next to them.

"What about me?" she questions.

Andrew looks at Skye then to Simmons and back to Skye again. The biochemist just excuses herself to the lab with a small wave.

"Drew?"

"It's nothing really." He says as he just gets a skeptical look from his wife.

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Skye takes one look at her husband in the hallway before going down the vault where Ward is being held at. It's dark but as soon as she starts walking down the stairs the lights begin to shine. Ward doesn't notice her at first until she stops and he turns around.

"We need to talk about your brother."

"Which one?"

"The senator. Your older one."

"Christian?" Ward asks surprised. "Why what happened?

"I just need basic information. Like where he has been, stuff like that."

"You need to stay away from him. He's not what he seems. Always has an angle to get to me."

"This isn't about you." Skye tells him.

"Are you sure? That's why you're down here, am I correct?" Ward responds. "Don't you remember what happened at the well? What he made me do?"

Skye doesn't answer that question.

"Does he know I'm here?"

"You don't get to ask the questions here, Ward. You answer mine."

"I always do. I tell you nothing but the truth, Skye."

"Do you now?"

"Yes, Skye. I promised I wouldn't lie to you and I haven't."

"Then I need information about your brother."

"Is this about your father? Because I wasn't lying about him either."

"He's a monster!" Skye yells.

Before another word could get in, the screen went opaque and neither Skye nor Ward could see each other.

Thinking it was Coulson, Skye turns around and yells only to find Drew on the staircase.

"We didn't get the information on his brother."

"Trust me that was more than enough information. We can't have you slipping off track too, Skye."

"I almost had him, Drew." She tells him as she approached the staircase.

"I know. But first we need to stay on mission. We can't have both our heads somewhere else."

Skye was unsure what her husband met but she knew something hadn't been right since they came back to the base.

Hello everyone, sorry for the late update. I had decided to take a break from writing this one so I could get rid of my writers block for it. But now I think I have a good idea where I'm heading with this one.

Also please review and let me know what you think. I'm also thinking of doing a few one shots instead of a prequel that I'll be doing missing scenes. So let me know which ones you'd like to see.

Finally, I did start a new story called The Hydra Files. I hope to have that updated again soon after the final part of this chapter so please check that out.