Prompt 21 – Who Are You?
It was a very old building. Daisy and Melinda had it staked out waiting for a few Watchdogs to show up. They were hiding in a small closet waiting for the undercover deal to go down so they could bust the Watchdogs after they handed over the intel and items to Bobbi who was posing as a rich Hollywood type who collected weird and alien items. Supposedly the item was one that Vanchat had gotten for hydra that the somehow the Watchdogs had gotten hold of. They thought Bobbi would be giving them half a million dollars to help fund their anti-inhuman agenda.
The items were supposed to be two 084's missing from the Shield facilities. The intel was supposed to be where they could find a few more of the missing 084's. Bobbi's cover had been set up by Daisy who had splashed her picture all over the web at glam events and Hollywood parties. Her questionable morals and lose ideas of the law were made very clear. The Watchdogs bought it completely.
Mack and Hunter were outside hiding and would block off the exits with a Shield team. Coulson and Fitz were running the op from a truck set up a quarter mile away. Daisy and Melinda were the two who would take down the enemy along with Bobbi. She was supposed to feed them weapons intel and numbers as they waited for the signal from her that the trade had been made. They would then surprise the Watchdogs, Daisy first taking down as many as she could with Melinda and Bobbi on the mop up crew.
It was a simple but effective plan. That is until Melinda saw the spider. To be fair it was a rather large spider. And ugly.
Daisy had noticed Melinda pressing into her, until finally she had to plant herself to keep for falling out the door. She turned to the older woman and gave her a questioning look.
Melinda's eyes were on something else entirely and Daisy traced her line of vision to a shelf just beyond Melinda that had a... - wait was that a spider? Daisy looked over Melinda's shoulder stretching more. Oh yeah it was a spider. A big spider. And hairy. Daisy surmised it was almost two inches with its legs. Which were also hairy. Melinda moved even closer to Daisy which actually pushed Daisy into the door, making a very light bang.
Melinda quickly glanced at Daisy who gave her a dirty look and clearly mouthed the words, 'what the hell?' to her. Melinda only shook her head and pushed into Daisy's side even more.
Daisy noted the panic expression and the unusual body language coming from her mentor. Was that fear? Daisy's realization that Melinda was scared of the spider, and Bobbi's voice talking to her contact, happened at the same time. A grin formed on Daisy's face as she watched Melinda carefully keeping her eye on the spider that was less than a foot away from her. She tried to focus on the conversation Bobbi was having but found it far more entertaining watching Melinda freaking out without trying to make any noise.
Soon two more voices joined Bobbi and her contact and Bobbi talked in casual conversation giving away how many watchdogs were there and where they were. She was getting to the exchange of money and the items, when Melinda all of sudden jumped away and started brushing her uniform, making a bit too much noise. Daisy heard the men freaking out and Bobbi decided they had whatever they were getting cause she spoke the cover word to end the op. Daisy opened the door and took out two of the watchdogs as she ran, then used her hand to hand skills to take out another one. Bobbi took down the contact and one of his freinds, and Daisy heard Mack say they got the three that tried to escape. Daisy turned around to look for Melinda, who was no where to be found. She retraced her steps back to the small closet where Melinda was standing in front of the open door.
"Geez Melinda I thought you were behind me. Thanks for the backup," she said sarcastically.
"You did fine. There were only eight, all cowards really. I knew you'd be fine."
"What the hell happened. You broke protocol."
"Damn spider jumped on me."
Daisy looked at her. "Say what?"
"Stupid damn big hairy spider jumped on me. Not that one I was watching. It was another one. This one was even bigger."
"Are you serious? A spider jumped on you? You're a trained specialist. You don't jump and make noise when a little bitty spider jumps on you."
"There was nothing little or bitty about that fucker."
Daisy stared incredulously at her S.O. "Who are you?" She took a couple steps toward her and continued speaking. "And what have you done with Melinda May?"
"What? It was a big hairy spider. It jumped on me."
"Oh my god. I don't even recognize you Melinda. It's just a spider. You can't be that afraid of spiders. You're not afraid of anything. It can't be."
"It was a very big spider. And it jumped on me."
Daisy started laughing boisterously.
Melinda gave her a dirty look. "Oh shut up Daisy."
That just made Daisy laugh harder. "Oh – oh my – the great Melinda May is not perfect after all. This is the greatest thing ever." She was enjoying this very much. Till she spotted a movement on Melinda's shoulder. She stopped laughing and just stared.
Melinda stared back at Daisy. "There's another one isn't there?"
Daisy just nodded and started grinning at the absolute horror that crossed over Melinda's face.