A/N: He guys! I know it's been a while since I've updated but here is an extra long chapter for you guys! All the comments/feedback I've been getting recently is great! Makes me feel like an accomplished writer (read as validated) which is every writers dream, thanks guys!
February 6th 2004
Maria
Maria wasn't off to a good week, first the anthrax attack, which turned out to be a hoax and wasted all of their time, honestly, how did they get such bad intel? The failed mission meant it went into a pile where intel was the source of the failure, and once that pile has hit a certain number within one month, an investigation had to be launch to ensure that the bad intel was intentional. Which, of course, meant that Maria was the one to launch an investigation into all failed missions in the past month due to bad intel and source the problem.
That meant long hours in her office or dealing with blubbering agents and a shit ton of coffee. She was not going to lie, she was pretty grumpy looking through all this intel, it was coming from all different agents of different levels, specialities and background. There seemed to be no connection between any of them. However, she was only two days into her investigation and Fury had given her two weeks to find a connection or they would pass it off as a coincidence. It most likely was a coincidence but Fury liked to be thorough and make sure there was no leaks within S.H.I.E.L.D.
Maria sighed as she put the last of the files for tonight in her secure draw and gaze in annoyance at the large pile that would be waiting for her tomorrow. She wished that she could bring other agents in on this case, but to make sure there was no tampering, only Maria was allowed to do it.
Maria stretched and decided to make her way down the others, tonight they would finally be shifting for the first time. She was looking forward to it, although she (and the other betas) had to work on their modesty. Their clothes tended to rip into shreds whenever they shifted so they either had to go through a ton of clothes or they get used to being naked around each other.
The door to the elevator slide open as she stepped inside, firing off a quick text to Natasha saying that she was on her way down. Maria watched through the glass elevator as it moved, staring at each each floor with developing projects. Fury was currently expanding an area to accommodate a large fleet of Helicarries, their newly developed airships which have replaced their mobile command centres. Whilst they were luxuries, they could only accommodate a handful of agents and was a nightmare when they had a large scale operation. It involved a lot of planes landing on top of planes, something made Maria very nervous when she was heading her own mobile command. Plus the Helicarries could stay in the air for weeks compared to the Boeing – c17, even when modified, the longest it lasted in the air was 3 and a half days before it needed refuelling.
Fury has big plans for the Helicarries, first stage of testing is seeing how effective they are for both time and money, the next stage would be to mass produce them and then if they continued to be beneficial to S.H.I.E.L.D they were going to super size them. Fury was in the talks of getting her her own Helicarrier, she would be in charge of everything and would not need to consult Fury on much (he was apparently going to give her very set guidelines on when to consult him). It would be bliss, the only problem is how would it effect the pack dynamics? With one member gone, could they all still function as usual? It was definitely something that they would have to test at some point.
"Stuck in a daydream, Maria?" Natasha teased, bringing Maria back to the present.
"Thinking about the day I get my own Helicarrier and leave you in the dust." She joked, sliding her arm through Natasha's as she led them to the others, "by the way, have you met Melinda May yet?"
"No, not yet, Peggy doesn't want us meeting them until we are ready to turn them." Natasha explained, slowly walking, savouring her small talks with Maria.
"Really? Is she still trying to push back their turn date? I don't know, I feel like we should give them more time to adjust to the change that they will be going through." Maria questioned, turning her head to look at Natasha.
"Or, the reason Peggy makes us wait is because after the change with little notice they are going to be confused, scared and or insecure, meaning that they will be relying on me or you." Natasha answered.
"Ah, a bit manipulative, I try not to manipulate my agents. I do think it would not be the best to manipulate May, she could probably sense that from ten miles away." Maria said
"You've got some worshipping going on, why does May mean so much to you?" Natasha asked, not really knowing much about Maria's past, the two of them enjoyed their easy go relationship that they had, of course Maria knew nearly everything about Natasha's, probably a bit more than her, due to the file she had to make so that S.H.I.E.L.D could bring her in. Natasha needed to get more knowledge on Maria, she couldn't let the women have that leverage over her.
"May helped bring me into SHIELD. After the army basically fired my ass for kissing a girl on a drunken night out, I feel into a depression, you could say. Spent a lot of my time drinking, cliché I know but it really seemed like it helped, at first it made me elated, then it felt like I couldn't function without it. One night I got into a fight in typical drunk Maria style, unfortunately for me, it was where a bunch of S.H.I.E.L.D agents were having a night out.
Their attitudes pissed me and some of them were bothering women who told them to leave them alone several times but didn't, so of course I stood in a tried to beat the crap out of them, did pretty well knocked four out of six of them to their arses then I got a glass bottle to my head. It was pretty foggy after that but I do know that May stepped in, beat the last two to a pulp and took me home.
I woke up the next morning and she was sitting there like she owned the place, gave me a long and just flung my files down on the table and a SHIELD contract, said the only way I was going to get a job was to clean up my act. Stop the drinking, the vigilantly bar fights and get healthy. It was a bitch to do, took me a couple months, got set back a few times, but May was there for the entire time, and eventually Coulson was as well. They trained me as best as they could." Maria told Natasha nonchalantly, as if telling a funny joke they heard in the passing.
Natasha paused and stared at Maria for moment. She always imagined the women to have good life, good home life despite her mother dying in child birth, grew up in a big house, went to some great private schools and got into SHIELD by impressing superiors at the annual undercover stake out in the army to look for potential recruits.
"You know Natasha, if you wanted to know more about my life, all you have to do is ask." Maria said, walking backwards and winked at her as she opened the door to the others.
"Or I could just command you." Natasha grumbled, annoyed that Maria caught on to what she was wanting.
"But where's the fun in that?" Maria said, laughing as she flopped onto the couch.
"You're so graceful." Natasha snarked, not really bother to come up with a comeback and shoved Maria's legs off of the couch to make room for herself.
Maria rolled her eyes at Natasha, simply tilting her head backwards, "so are we doing this or what?"
"Well it would be a waste of our time and money if we weren't" William said, lounging as well on another couch. The betas were trying to seem calm and collected, but the jiggling legs and fidgeting to fingers gave away their nerves.
"Well maybe you should get up and stretch, get ready for the shift, we go at your pace." Toby said, looking around at them, clearly bored and wanted to get this over with already.
"Get naked as well, unless you want to rip your clothes." Victoria added with a smirk.
"I'll rip my clothes, thanks." The betas deadpanned together, casting each other a weird look at their synced talking.
"You'll have to get used to being naked eventually, it's not like we have the ability to shift our clothes as well." Peggy said with a roll of her eyes, the alphas and herself had gotten used to nudity a long time ago. She would have thought Maria would be used to it by now by the sheer fact she was constantly watching over them when they first changed.
"Eventually." Maria agreed.
"But not today." Kara finished.
Natasha snorted, but didn't comment, instead she stood up and pulled Maria with her, "c'mon, lets get this over with you wimp."
"I'm not a wimp." Maria snapped automatically, scowling at the alpha.
"Really? If you weren't a wimp, you'd have shifted long before we had to schedule a night. It's kind of pathetic really, that the deputy director has to wait for someone lower in the ranks to make up a schedule for her and hold her hand through this." Natasha sneered, pushing Maria to shift. They were trialling different ways for the first transformation, seeing which one would be the most effective and quick way for the first transformation. Poor Maria got saddled with shifting through anger. Kara got loving cuddles from Victoria. William was getting positive support from Toby and James and Jayden were doing a talk through of the shifting, to visualise the wolf. It would be interesting to see which one shifted the easiest.
The others were starting to do their own thing to encourage the beta's to shift whilst Peggy was keeping a watchful eye on the situation.
"I know what you're trying to do, and it's not going to work." Maria said threateningly, her eyes ablaze.
Natasha scoffed, "you know what I'm doing yet you're letting it get to you, despite what you said, you know you're letting yourself get angry. Like I said, pathetic. What's worse? Not being able to go through a transformation without help or not being able to defend people because you were drunk off your ass cause you got fired? Huh, which is it Maria?" Natasha snapped, shoving the shaking Maria.
It seemed to do the trick as Maria burst forward in a fit of anger, leaping as her body seemed to combust, clothes shredding everywhere. Natasha took a step backwards, letting her body hit the floor as the wolf hit her. She let Maria pin her for a second before quickly flipping them and shoved Maria against the floor, grabbing her by the scruff of her neck. It was easy due to the fact that she was only the size of a German Shepard, if she had done this when fully grown, it might have been a bit of a challenge.
She stared down at the wolf struggling beneath her as she straddled Maria's back, using only enough weight to keep her pinned. She ran her eye slowly over the others, they had already shifted and were watching them were curiosity.
"So." Natasha started "Anger seems to be the worst way to shift?"
"Agreed. James shifted the fastest and seemingly painlessly." Peggy said, eyes flickering to James with pride, and everyone watched as his tail picked up speed as the off-handed praise. "Next would be Kara, then Will and last Maria. Who's still fighting you, Natasha." Peggy finished.
"So she is." Natasha replied casually, applied more pressure to the grip she had on Maria's neck and shoved her further down. "Down girl, down." Natasha laughed, taking a little bit too much amusement out of it, unfortunately it seemed to make Maria a lot more angrier. "So dramatic." she mumbled.
Natasha gently let go of Maria's neck, but kept her thighs firmly against Maria's side and slowly ran her fingers through the fur, soothing the anger out of the wolf, gently rubbing over the shoulder blades. The tension and anger seemingly left her body and she lay compliantly against the ground, her tail slowly moving from side to side, her ears flat against her head. A small whine escaped Maria.
Natasha slowly got off the women, sitting by her side, still stroking her fur. Maria turned her body, sprawling on her side. Her nose sniffing at her fingers, and nipped at them lightly, whining lightly. A small apology. Natasha smiled at that, it was good to know that Maria would submit easily. It would make both their lives easier.
She looked at Maria and all of her identifiable marks, she was mainly a black wolf, except her paws, it looked like she had white socks on, she also had a brown patch on her ribs, right where her soul mark would be. Maria had bright yellow eyes, something that gave away the fact she was not simply a large dog.
"Well that went well." Natasha commented cheerfully, grinning up at Peggy who rolled her eyes in response but sprung from her chair, shedding her clothes and shifted easily. She began walking amongst the beta's, sniffing at them, gaining their scents and in general seemed to be playing with them as they got used to this form. Maria had left her side as soon as Peggy moved, moving straight to the women, her tail wagging a mile a minute as she tried to get the other wolf's attention. It was cute.
Natasha didn't dwell on it much longer as she rolled her shoulders and stripped herself of her own clothes and shifted, walking over to Maria and bumped against her lightly, mindful of her own size. She only stayed with Maria for a few minutes before she settled down with the other alphas, her own copper coloured fur standing out against the others. They lay there, contently lying on each other as the watched the beta's figure out their new forms.
Eventually the new wolves tired themselves out and were pushing and pulling Peggy with their teeth and nose, guiding her to where the other alpha's lay, and all of them easily flopped down, panting. Maria wiggled her way up to Natasha, snuffling her way under Natasha's arms, legs? Paws? Whatever, all Maria knew was that she was very comfortable and exhausted. The shift had been painful, but had ignored it at the time due to her anger.
Maria sighed and nuzzled deeper, enjoying the feeling of being surround by soft fur and warmth. It reminded her of the best parts of her childhood, but she wasn't going to follow that train thought, mainly because Natasha was in her head. If Natasha wanted to know more about her past, she had to ask. It was a great thing to annoyed her with.
'You are, by far, the cruelest person I have ever met.' Natasha whined at her, her paw landing heavily on Maria.
'No, you are.' Maria countered
'You are.'
'No, you are.'
'Oh shut up.' Peggy groaned, lifting her head to look at the two (they tried to look at her as innocently as possible) 'You're both worse than Sharon and Tony when they start arguing.'
'Sharon?' Maria asked, tilting her head. Everyone knew that Peggy had a hand in Tony Stark's upbringing and that there were other children that Peggy helped raised but they had never heard much about them. Peggy liked to keep her family anonymous, apparently.
'My niece. She's like my daughter really, her parent's weren't that supportive of the profession she wanted to go in and tried everything they could to discourage her. I still can't believe that my own brother would treat his daughter like that.' Peggy thought to them.
'Let me guess, she wanted to go into the same profession as her amazing aunt?' Natasha teased.
'Yes, and she got into my profession as well, same organisation.' Peggy said, leaving it simply at that, knowing Maria would figure it out in a second.
'Sharon...' Maria mused, running every known SHIELD agent with that name through her head, working out variables and slowly crossing them out. Carter, surprisingly enough, was started to be a common name in SHIELD and there were at least three Sharon Carter's, but that's even if the women used her aunt's last name. It took her a few minutes, but she was positive she has the right agent. 'Agent 13?' she questioned.
Peggy smiled, well, figuratively, it was hard to smile in the wolf form. 'Correct. She has an amusing soul mark, something about butter.'
'Huh, so does mine, guess that's something we can bond over if Fury decides to have her join this operation.' Maria thought, yawing, finally letting the exhaustion take over. The thoughts of her and Sharon Carter having similar soul marks totally went over her head.
'Is anyone going to point out the obvious?' Jayden questioned.
'Let them figure it out themselves.' Peggy said.
'What's the bet Maria wont notice till mini Carter joins us.' Toby laughed.
'Who says she'll be joining us?' Victoria questioned.
'Oh please, like Fury wouldn't have mini Carter join.' Natasha snorted.
Peggy groaned at them, she wasn't opposed to Sharon joining them, in fact, she wished Fury would tell her know, that way she didn't have to lie to her. She wouldn't have to keep up the pretence that she was rotting away in a care home with early stage dementia. She wished there was a way to tell Tony as well, but Fury seems against the idea, she's still arguing with him about that, Tony needed guidence in his life, especially when it came to his company. She had been seeing recently all the things he had been getting up to and could tell it wouldn't be long till he hit a wall.
Fury promised her that they were keeping a close eye on Tony, but something told Peggy it wasn't for the reason she thought, so she made him promise that he would do his best to keep Tony out of trouble. He said he would try. It did not fill her with much confidence, but these were thoughts for another day, guilt for another day as she focused on those around her, watching he silently, offering support. Peggy huffed at them and bumped her head against the closest alpha, James, and lay back down, forcing them to follow her. Couldn't they tell that it was clearly nap time?
Natasha chuckled in their ears as she joined them in a nap. What a great time to be a wolf.
September 31st 2014 12:05pm
Skye
Skye woke up in a comfortable state, pressing back into another person. Her first instinct was that it was Natasha that was sleeping beside her, a normal occurrence for the past two weeks. She automatically pushed back into the body with a soft groan, not wanting to wake up. It wasn't until the body behind her spoke, that she realised that it was not Natasha;
"If you keep doing that, I'm going to rip your clothes off of you and have my filthy, filthy way with you."
Skye froze.
Bobbi. Flirting. Bed. Sharing? What?
Oh.
How could Skye forget she met her soulmate, although if she were honest with herself, she doesn't remember much past being...being shot. 'Clearly, my memory is not what is used to be,' Skye thought sarcastically to herself.
"Morning you two, about time you both woke up." Natasha said, gathering the attention of the two women lying on the bed. Skye pushed herself up, to only hiss in pain.
Bobbi quickly got her arm around Skye and gently moved her into an upright position, her eyes watching carefully watching for any signs of pain. "Are you okay?" She murmured, slowly letting her fingers drift over Skye's arm.
Skye smiled in response "Yeah, I'm good, I just forgot I got shot that's all. I thought we had super fast healing? Why is this still here?" she questioned, looking between the two women.
"Easily enough explained, it's something that we always forget to tell you." Natasha said, looking sheepish.
"We? I think you mean you, Natasha." A posh sounding British voice said from the doorway. "That's twice now you've forgotten to mention that. I think we need to have a discussion."
Natasha groaned quietly from where she sat, a small pout but otherwise seemed accept the slight reprimand without much hassle. "Skye, meet Peggy, head alpha. Peggy meet Skye, our cutest addition."
"You're gushing again, Natasha." Peggy said with a fond roll of her eyes as she stepped further into the room, focusing on Skye.
"It's nice to finally meet you Skye, it's not often I'm out on missions that last more than two days. Normally I would meet you on your first day, I'm terribly sorry." Peggy said, sitting down on the edge of the bed, "Although, I do hear congratulations are in order, you said our lovely Bobbi's words."
Skye blushed, looking down, smiling light when she felt Bobbi's hand squeeze her's tightly. "Thank you." Skye replied, unsure of how to go with Peggy.
Peggy seemed to literally hold this air of royalty, from the accent, to the way she spoke to the way she held herself. Skye know, that Peggy was simply a product from her era that stood out in today's society, making her seem like high class. More so in front of Skye, who only a few weeks ago was living in a van. Skye had met women like Peggy before. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but it wasn't exactly the worst that she had experienced. Most women like Peggy who took in foster children always went for the skinniest, straggliest looking kids, but, at least they always went for the older children. For the harder cases. It made them look good amongst their high society, taking in this poor children and loving them like their own, showering them in love , affection and materials.
Except it was just materials, but like she said, it wasn't the worst but not the best. Skye got three square meals a day plus snacks. She got a whole new wardrobe, new shoes and most importantly to a 15 year old, a new smart phone.
She lost most of it when she was put back in the orphanage, but she kept the phone close to her and as a vindictive move, swiped all the lose cash that she could have, promising to herself to put it towards her 'Operation: Get the Fuck out of Here' fund. Turned out it was more than enough cash to buy her a her van and some essentials for living on the road.
"Skye?" Peggy asked softly, looking at her with some concern.
"Hm? Oh, sorry, just...you know, you get shot, you get lost in your head," Skye said, forcing a fake laugh. She really didn't want to divulge into her past, sometimes the memories just take her by surprise and she gets lost in them.
Peggy simply place her hand on her shoulder with a supportive squeeze, thanks to the bond, she could understand that Skye was not wanting to talk about it and decided not to push it. It would be something they could discuss at a later date.
"Of course dear, well, let's explain why you are not healing. It's quite simple, and slightly hilarious. The one part of werewolf folk lore that we somehow managed to keep is that silver can have a deadly effect on us. Imagine it as an allergy to sliver that you've spontaneous developed. Once it's out of your system, you can heal, but sometimes there might be some damage left behind. Thankfully it appears that you wont have any lasting damage but it might take a few days for your wound to heal up, and that just boils down to the bullet that was used. Does all that make sense for you?" Peggy explained clearly.
"Yeah, easy enough, stay the fuck away from silver." Skye replied cheekily.
Peggy smiled easily at her, it was easy to see how everyone got so easily attached to the girl. She would make an excellent addition to her pack , "Exactly. Natasha, we are having a meeting tonight at 4:30pm, then we are going to sit down and have a nice pack dinner. So don't stir any shit, do you understand?" Peggy prompted.
Natasha mocked saluted Peggy with a grin, "ma'am yes, ma'am!" and promptly received a smack across the head from Peggy.
"Smart ass. I expect everyone to be there, Natalia." Peggy said as she left the room, only pausing to face Skye, "and I was lovely to finally meet you Skye, I'll see you later, darling." and with that she left, presumably to go inform everyone else about the meeting.
"Well that was fun, I got a smack across the head and Skye get's called darling. I see how it is, apparently you are the new favourite." Natasha jokingly huffed "So Bobbi, are you reporting your mission in this meeting as well? From what I saw it seemed to tie in slightly with what is going on." She questioned.
Bobbi sat up straighter with a sigh "yeah, my mission was a success...well, in the eyes of Fury. He doesn't care about the number of acceptable causalities. It's not something I'm looking forward to doing again, but from what I could tell, it was seemingly a meeting between representatives to pass on some important information. I think it was coming from Quinn Inc. I couldn't make out what was going on, there was far too much noise there, almost like it was on purpose. Plus the guards were aware of us as wolves and were using silver bullets." Bobbi finished with a frown, her arms unconsciously tightening around Skye's.
Natasha mimicked the frown "seems like Quinn is becoming a problem. First he shoots Skye with the weird gun and now he apparently knows about us and is spreading the information?"
"Well, you guys never managed to find the leak from when Maria was attacked and then you had a problem with all those murders. Plus the silver bullets slowly making a comeback. Quinn has a lot of sway but he's only obtained that in the last few years...it could all be tied in together." Bobbi theorised, both women looked concerned as they contemplated the situation.
"Wait, Maria was attacked? When? What leak?" Skye questioned
"It's a story for another time, Skye." Natasha dismissed. "I need to talk to Melinda. Bobbi, Jemma says to start getting Skye up and moving, that the healing should be at the level of where a normal person would start physically therapy. Take her to Sharon's room." Natasha easily commanded as she left the room, clearly distracted.
"I've never seen Natasha like that before." Skye said quietly, moving to get herself out the bed. She hated being confined to hospital beds.
"It's a difficult topic for her, it's a difficult topic for the alpha's and beta's. What happened effected them the most, especially Maria and Natasha. Now come on, lets take this slow and steady. This is the best part of recovery. You're hands are going to be all over me." Bobbi teased as she moved to Skye's side and helped her out the bed.
The two of them continued their slow journey to Sharon's and Maria's room, talking about random stuff before Bobbi decided to fill Skye in more about the pack and their habits.
"So, Maria and Sharon actually only ever use their room for two things when they are here; one, playing videos games since they've just hoarded them over the years and two, having sex in when they are too many people in 'Tasha's and Mel's room." Bobbi explained cheerfully.
Skye laughed loudly "that's hilarious! Why do they prefer May's and Natasha's room so much? Like I get the whole fact that it seems so comforting and the bed is huge, but, their room is just as awesome? Like I would have to shared custody of their rooms."
"We could make your room as cool as theirs. Get the nice long bed and video games in, if you want?" Bobbi said, swinging their arms lightly.
"Wait, my room?" Skye asked, confused.
"Yep. Everyone gets their own room unless they chose to share a room with their mate. Everyone has to have their own space." Bobbi answered, pulling them into Sharon's room, smiling when she realised the women was inside. "We can talk about that later, I think one of your three mother-hens are inside."
"I'll have you know, I only have two mother-hens and one awesome older, wiser pack mate." Skye replied jokingly.
Bobbi rolled her eyes and opened the door "only two mother-hens she says." she muttered to herself "has no clue how many shovel talks I'm going to get because you are so darn cute."
"You guys could knock you know!" Maria called, sitting up from where she lay on the bed, pulling her clothes back on.
"Since when did you care about nudity, Maria? Even when we shared our dorms, you would just strut about naked." Bobbi laughed, making her way over to the bed and hugged Maria and Sharon. "It's good to see both of you in the same room, it's been like five months, has it not?"
"Well, we were together for two days about a week and a half ago, but yes previously it had been five months since we last saw each other." Sharon said and wrapped herself around Maria and patted the space next to her. "So, you are kinda interrupting our alone time, but anything for our little pup who was shot. Anything." Sharon finished in a suggestive tone, wiggling her eyebrows at Skye.
Skye grinned at her friend, possibly one of her more favourite members of the pack, but she was not about to admit that anytime soon (mainly because she hasn't met everyone in the pack and gotten to know them like she is doing with Sharon and Maria)
"I'm sure I'll take you up on the offer when I'm not longer being stabbed by the lingering pain of silver." Skye teased
"God you're dramatic. I get why Natasha loves you now." Bobbi said, rolling her eyes.
"See! Even Bobbi thinks Natasha is dramatic, and Skye! It's like two peas in a pod with them." Maria exclaimed, turning her head to face Sharon, a smile on her face.
Sharon scoffed "Maria, babe, my soul, the soul to my mate... no one is dramatic as you." and she kissed the top of Maria's head, causing her to pout.
"I'm not dramatic" she muttered to herself, huffing every so softly. Sharon laughed and tightened her grip on Maria, sliding her hands under her top.
"You are, but it's cute." Sharon teased.
"So how come Skye got the invitation to fuck, but I didn't? Just cause she got shot and is incapable of sex, doesn't mean I'm not! I haven't had sex in like, a month. A whole month!" Bobbi whined jokingly, Bobbi never really had sex with Maria or Sharon, she preferred Clint, or Natasha. Everyone preferred Natasha.
Skye was glad the others had told her that the pack are very open with each other and sexually open to one another, otherwise Skye might have reacted badly to hearing that her soulmate wanted to fuck someone else. Now that she was prepared for it, the idea of Bobbi and Sharon having sex was rather hot and it was going to take more than a cold shower to get it out of her head.
Damn it.
Maria laughed "Skye you're airing your thoughts loudly. Though, to be fair, the first time I discovered the two of them had been having sex, it took three weeks of solid cold showers before I decided that I wanted to join in. So I'll save you the cold showers, just join us. It's great fun."
Skye just grinned in response "sounds like it will be a fun day for all of us when that day happens."
Bobbi hummed in agreement and pulled Skye gently to lie down between her and Sharon and nestle against her back. Skye pushed back against the women and pulled Bobbi's arm over her waist and sighed happily. This was good, this was nice. She just met Bobbi, but it was the same instantaneous bond that she had with Maria and Sharon, except it seemed to be intensified by a million. It was like as soon as she said Bobbi's words, the two of them merged into one, their minds and emotions were just orbiting around each other, constantly aware of what the other was doing. Skye was pretty sure that Bobbi was toning the bond down, the other women had more experience with bonds and the ability to lower their intensity and she was grateful. It would be hard to deal with both the bonds from the pack and Bobbi. It would get confusing but this was she was able to easily differentiate between the two.
Skye closed her eyes, decided she was going to take a nap before the meeting later on today. She felt safe and content lying with three of her favourite people, all of them pressed tightly together.
Bobbi smoothed out her hair and kissed the side of her temple "I'll wake you up in time for the meeting, sweetheart."
September 31st 2014 4:30pm
Skye
Skye woke up to the sound of something crashing. She shot up in her bed and stared at the scene in front of her, it looked like something out of a comedy show.
"Uhhh... What...happened?" Skye quizzed, looking confused.
In front of Skye held, what she assumed, the entire pack. Natasha was on the back of some guy holding a bow, (she was just going to guess that was Clint) who had it notched at the glass collection (Sharon enjoyed marbled glass, it was really pretty to look at.) in Sharon and Maria's room. Sharon was on the floor, staring at a shattered glass marble, looking very upset and Maria was crouched beside her with a sympathetic hand on Sharon's shoulder whilst glaring at Clint, or was she glaring at Natasha? Probably Clint.
Melinda, Fitz and Izzy (the last member of the pack that she hasn't met yet) were standing to the side. May was looking on with annoyance at both Clint and Natasha whilst Fitz and Izzy seemed to be trying to hide their laughter by leaning into each other.
Of course Bobbi was still curled around her and rolled her eyes when Skye looked at her.
"Clint and Natasha were being idiots." Bobbi clarified, well not really, it still left Skye really confused.
"It's surprisingly a long story but in short, Clint said that he wanted to show off his new bow, but it didn't go well, and well, he smashed Sharon's favourite glass marble." she explained.
"Still doesn't explain why 'Tasha is on his back." Skye pointed out, looking back at Natasha, who was climbing off his back.
"Nat likes to distract Clint when he's taking his shots to throw him off balance." Bobbi replied with a shrug, as if this was the most natural thing in the world.
"Oh." Skye responded, keeping her opinion of that Natasha might have caused Sharon's favourite glass marble smashed.
Natasha hopped off of Clint's back and stood tall, addressing them as a whole "We've have a meeting in about 10 minutes that we should really head off to now, although Peggy did give us some leeway and said to wait until Skye was awake, which she now is and it was right on time for the meeting. Basic rules to go over, since last time a lot of you forgot, Maria, and the meeting ended in a disaster. We want this to go nice and calm, mainly because it's Skye's first meeting and we want to set a good example for our young. A run down of the rules; phone must always be on the table, minimal taunting, we are technically one giant pack so stop trying to get into fights, Sharon. Do not fling projectiles into people's hair and wait for them to notice, Clint, and obey me and above all, we are the best." Natasha finished, rather dramatically in Skye's opinion.
Sounded like the pack got into a lot of trouble at these meetings. That means it wont be boring, well, she hoped it wouldn't be boring. Meetings were not really her thing. Meetings for Skye meant sitting around as someone talked down you about something they knew nothing about. Hopefully these ones will be better than that.
"Yeah, question, everything about that is pretty self explanatory and sounds hilarious and I can not wait to go this meeting ,but what do you mean by we are the best?" Skye asked
"Simple, if we believe that we are the best, we come off as strong and united. It makes us less vulnerable to attacks from the other pack. We're always fighting for Peggy's favourite, it is a joke to us most of the time, but sometimes it get serious, like in meetings. In meetings Peggy has all of us, can compare us to each other in the same space." Natasha explained for her.
"Well that sounds fun." Skye said sarcastically and turned to face Bobbi again. Skye wasn't quite sure why she was looking to Bobbi for reassurance, maybe it was the fact that she had been sitting behind her, legs pressed lightly against her back and hand resting on her hips, a steady and strong presence throughout the explanation.
Bobbi shrugged again, a stupid smirk graced her face as she leaned down and place a soft kiss to her cheek and teasingly moved her lips to Skye's ears, making Skye shiver.
"It really can be, everyone get soooo possessive of what is theirs... people can't just seem to keep their hands to their selves... you might have to watch out..." Bobbi whispered teasingly and nipped Skye's ear lightly.
"Bobbi." Natasha snapped sharply "No time for half assed foreplay, we have a meeting to get to."
Bobbi rolled her eyes but obediently moved away from Skye to standing, "yeah, yeah, ruin my fun Nat. Let's go play happy families."
"We are a happy family." Maria reminded Bobbi with an eye roll as she and Sharon left the glass marbles to stand with the others.
"I meant with the other packs, because that would be so much fun." Bobbi commented sarcastically
Skye stood up from the bed, looking down at her clothes with a shrug; slightly wrinkled but they will do.
"Geeze, what crawled up your ass and died, Bobbi-boo?" Clint asked, mirth in his eyes as he knew exactly what was up.
Bobbi glared at him, a short and simple way to shut Clint up.
"Bobbi-boo? That's brilliant." Skye said, grinning at her soulmate.
"Look what you've done Clint, you've corrupted her and you've not even said anything to her." Bobbi groaned.
"Let's deal with relationship problems later, the meeting, let's go." Natasha said, hurrying them out the room.
Together as a pack, they walked through the winding maze towards the meeting room. Skye had given up hope at remembering the route after three left turns that Skye swears led them to the same corridor over and over. Now she was just listening to the light chatter the pack made.
Natasha and Maria seemed to be discussing the upcoming meeting and concerns that they were having within the pack and May was walking silently besides them, occasionally offering her own two cents. Fitz, Bobbi and Clint were talking about weapons and potential upgrades that Fitz could do for them before the conversation quickly steered to Fitz and Simmons' Night Night Gun and the potential to incorporate it in other weapons; such as Clint's arrows or his bow and Bobbi's batons. It was definitely an interesting conversation that Skye wanted to follow up with Fitz at a later date and the two of them (most likely three as Jemma would join) could bounce idea's off of each other. Lastly, Sharon and Izzy were talking quietly about an upcoming mission in regards to the Iliad that Izzy was about to go on. Skye wasn't sure what the Iliad was, but she assumed that if she needed to know, Sharon would let her know. Sharon always filled Skye in with the gossip.
It wasn't long till the conversation lulled to a stop as Natasha pushed open the door to the meeting room. It was giant room with dark metallic walls which were lined with white boards and sheets of paper. One wall seemed to hold a list of the pack members and another held multiple screens, which Skye assumed would be used to keep an eye on any mission they went on, or rather, this would be their mission control. She wondered who would stay behind and run the missions.
The pack seemed to sit down in designated seats, leaving Skye wondering where the hell she would sit as she stared awkwardly at the table that was already filled with people from the other packs.
"C'mon Skye, we've got the perfect seat for you, between me and Sharon." Bobbi muttered, gently taking a hold of her arm and guided her to the seat next to Sharon. Skye just nodded her compliance, her eyes darting to the others in the room again, not quiet sure of them. It felt like they were judging her.
Probably were.
She couldn't let that get to her as she tried to keep her head held high and meet the eyes of the others in the room cooly. She took her seat and placed her phone on the table with the others, just in front of them and in eye sight of everyone and waited patiently on what to do next.
'You're doing great so far Skye, all you really need to do in this meeting is sit there and look pretty. So don't worry about anything, okay?' Natasha thought to her from where she sat three seats up, sitting rather regally.
'Sit here and look pretty is my middle name, 'Tasha.' Skye joked, turning to grin at her alpha.
Natasha just rolled her eyes fondly at her.
The door opened again, only to reveal Peggy Carter. She walked in with all the usual grace that you would expect from someone living in 40's. Skye stomach had dropped when she walked into the room, her heart seemed to speed up in fear and every instinct in her body told her to bow at this women's feet. To submit to her. It was strange feeling to have, when earlier on Peggy evoked no such feeling from Skye or anyone else in the room. Peggy had felt warm and nurturing earlier, now she felt powerful and dominant, well it was a given since Peggy was the head alpha, but still, this was something Skye had never experience before.
Skye slowly slid down in her chair as Peggy walked calmly to her designated chair at the "head" of the circle table, situated right in front of the screens. Peggy smiled at all of them, though it did little to ease the feeling within Skye, she then felt a hand of reassurance on her thigh and she turned to look at Sharon, she was smiling softly at her and squeezed her thigh in reassurance.
'It's okay, it's totally normal to feel that way. Aunt Peggy does that to remind everyone in this room who exactly is in charge, but it's just Aunt Peggy. She's harmless.' Sharon soothed silently.
'Most of the time.' Maria added on, mischief flooding through the pack bond, 'She wasn't too kind when she found out we all banged her niece.'
'Maria!' Sharon scowled, but it was too late, the whole pack was snickering internally, only allowing a smile to grace their faces. It did, however, make Skye feel better about the whole 'I want to lie at your feet a submit myself to you' thing she had going on.
"Is there something funny?" Peggy asked, leaning forward slightly and giving them the raise eyebrow that made Skye thing that Peggy knew exactly what was going on.
"Just Maria and Sharon having a little loves spat." Natasha replied with a grin, causing Maria and Sharon to send her dirty looks.
"You're a filthy liar Natasha Romanov," was all Peggy had to say on the situation before she moved right on to start the meeting. "Welcome everyone and thank you for all coming in on such short notice, we have several important things to discuss today. Everyone will have to start taking more precaution on their missions, the rise of silver weapons, especially bullets are making a comeback in the market, according to our statics and the fact that one of our own was shot by a billionaire, who claimed to have made the weapon himself; Ian Quinn."
Everyone in the room started muttering to themselves, most of them knew Ian Quinn, mainly from Tv appearances, his philanthropy and the occasional advancement in technologies. It begged the question as to why he started using silver bullets and why he was creating them.
"The bullet itself is seemingly normal, but once impacted in the skin, it will burst into pieces that seemed to be catapulted from the bullet and further into the body. The bullet is somehow anti-magnetic, which prevented an easy recovery. So each piece has to be manually removed, every tiny little bit, which is not easy when there is blood everywhere. It just makes it all that more painful and longer to recover from, although still shorted than the normal recovery speed of a normal human." Peggy explained carefully. "We have to prepare ourselves in case this bullet goes onto the market and becomes available to everyone, it will be a pain in our arses."
"It makes you curious though, why would Quinn make silver bullets or have any need for them? Do you think he somehow knows that there are enhanced S.H.I.E.L.D agents?" Victoria questioned, looking perplexed at the issue at hand.
Peggy and Maria shared a look, puzzling the rest. The two of them seemed to be stressed out by this idea but also as though they were aware of this situation long before it was brought to the packs attention.
"That would bring us the next point of the meeting. Someone does know we exist and it spreading it out amongst the criminal community." Maria replied heavily, sounding like she had been thinking this over in her head for a long time and was constantly coming up with no answer.
"What makes you think that?" Tobias enquired, looking between Maria and Peggy.
"Over the past few years there has been a surge in attempts to recreate the super soldier serum as well as an in crease in the use of silver weapons, being created and sold. All of this slowly started after we started going out on missions. Fury's debating about whether or not we should be leaving witnesses with the way things are going, because if we keep going like this we might cause more damage to be done to the regular agents."Maria answered.
"So what, we just kill any civilian that happened to be unfortunate enough to witness our missions? That's bullshit, Maria and you know it." Jayden snapped
Maria glowered at him, "you don't think I know that? Do you seriously think I just go along with whatever Fury thinks we should go with? We're hashing out ideas right now because we have no clue about what's going on and we're are going to do what is best by S.H.I.E.L.D and it's agents and the civilians. If it gets out that there are enhanced agents only affected by silver, they are going to create deadlier weapons just to hurt and kills us and it's going to affect the weapons that are readily available. It will cause more damage in the long term."
"How do we know people actually know, other than the increase in the super serum drug or the silver bullets? This could all just be a response to the increased presence of Iron Man and good old Captain America. Not to mention the ghost." Tobias countered.
"Careful how you speak of Cap, Toby, Peggy might just gut you if you insult him." Natasha teased, hoping to ease some of the tension that was building in the room. She was hoping for a pleasant meeting for Skye's first meeting but it seems that a fight is imminent.
Toby rolled his eyes. "I'm not an idiot, Natasha. I wouldn't insult the good ol' Cap in front of Pegs even if you paid me a million bucks. I'm just saying, where is the proof?"
"We have proof. I have proof." Bobbi injected, sitting up straighter as everyone looked at Bobbi. Bobbi glanced at Peggy, gaining her permission to share the story and with a short nod, she launched into it;
Bobbi sighed as she set the sniper down slowly her eyes glowed lightly in the dark as she observed the chaotic scene below her. She set the distraction as the mission planned and once their target fled the building, she'd shoot him. Plain and simply. Supposedly. She was only half heartedly listening to her coms, absently scratching at her arm, simply waiting for the key words to be said, her concentration for the mission constantly wavered. Bobbi understood that she was technically the only wolf available for this mission but on the other hand, Bobbi was pissed.
The pack had a new wolf and Bobbi had a strong connection to her, without even meeting her. She knew what it implied but she wanted so desperately to hear those words and not just keep assuming that the two of them were soulmates based on the connection they had, because Sharon and Maria were quickly bonding with the girl, becoming close.
It was bad already, Bobbi knew that both Maria and Natasha had already had sex with Skye and it left a foul taste in her mouth, one that she had to get rid of because there was no need for jealously when she hadn't even met Skye, unless you count dream communication, then they had briefly met.
Briefly. Not even to allow her to leave this mission and go see her. So she had to reluctantly focus on the mission. It was a two week long intel gathering mission that soon turned into a month of recon and undercover work which led to this gala of sorts. It was like a initiation ceremony for a ring of paedophiles and human trafficking. It supposedly held some girls in the gala but they weren't too sure. It was disgusting either way and even worse, it was disguised under an auctioning event which meant civilians, which made the mission ten times more complicated. As well as ten times more annoying.
Bobbi pulled the sniper back up and levelled it at the entrance of the building. She watched as the people below slowly turned to violence as a solution for the fear and terror they felt. Honestly, all she did was shoot two bullets through the building, she didn't even hit anything, and yet these pompous bastards were already pulling out guns and grabbing their body guards to fight their fights for them. It was pathetic.
Plus it probably didn't help that the scum of the Earth were clearly frightened that someone had caught onto them. Not that they would know that, not yet anyways. Bobbi wanted to look at them in the eyes as they realised that they had been caught and that Bobbi was going to kill them.
Bobbi scowled at them as she set her line of sight up on her target; it was the head of the human trafficking operation, based on the intel he was trying to climb his way up in the world and wanted more power and was attempting to wiggle his way into world security. Infuriatingly enough, he made it pretty far up, that's why S.H.I.E.L.D decided to kill him off. Apparently it was agreed between the three agencies of America that it would be best for everyone involved if this man was to be outright killed and apparently Bobbi was the best one for the job. That was a massive lie in itself, she knew at least four people who would be better assassins than herself.
She sighed softly as she watched the people run around, scared out their minds with no clue what to do. Bobbi kept a careful eye on her target and lined him up, this would probably be the easiest assassination that she has ever done and would bring her confirmed kills up to ten, her unconfirmed kills were too high for her to bother keeping track of. Bobbi followed her target and pulled the trigger and watched as the bullet sailed through the air and right through the man's skull and caused him to drop like a sack of flour.
Easy stuff.
Annoyingly easy stuff.
"There. Done. Can I go now Hand?" she grumbled into her coms, she knew she shouldn't be grumpy but she couldn't help it
"Wow, what crawled up your ass, Morse?" Victoria asked.
Bobbi just snarled lightly, "you know fine well what's wrong with me."
"Play nice Morse, you're almost done. Just make sure those girls get out once the police arrive on scene, alright? I don't want them killed" Hand instructed.
Bobbi muttered a small 'affirmative' and used the new technology, micro bots or something, Bobbi wasn't really paying attention, to disintegrate the gun. It was a new way to make sure that kills could not be linked back to them, whilst the agencies agreed to kill their target it was best to leave no trace. Bobbi rolled her shoulders, causing them to let out an irritated crack. Bobbi grumbled some more as she stretched out, it had been ages since she last shifted, keeping a tight lid on it during this recon mission, she wondered if Hand would allow her to shift.
"So, Hand, you ever read Twilight?" Bobbi asked, it was a code for them, ask the person who was handling the mission (generally another wolf) if they had read a story with a wolf in it.
Hand snorted down the coms, deciding that since Bobbi already has most of the mission done, she could shift "Yes I have Agent Morse. It was terrible, but it was the craze" she replied, rolling her eyes and silencing the coms as she heard the familiar cracks of the bones shifting.
Bobbi groaned with delight as she shifted in her wolf form, the feeling of unrest slowly left her body as she shifted into a more familiar form, it brought comfort to her as she heard the distant voices of her pack, some of them appear to have shift. Probably Maria and Sharon, the two of them enjoyed being more in their wolf forms than their actual human skin.
'Shouldn't you be focusing on your mission Bobbi' Sharon enquired. Bobbi could easily imagine the women lounging lazily on a chair, more cat than wolf as she watched Maria pace around a room.
'I am focusing. I've done the main part, I'm just watching to make sure everything works itself out in regards to the victims' Bobbi mumbled back, her eyes still focused on the scene below.
'So what the hell is up with you Bobbi? You're usually all goofy and carefree and star wars this, star wards that, unless it concerns Hunter of course.' came Maria's thoughts.
Bobbi snarled aloud ' Don't talk about that asshole. I'm fine, just anxious to get home to meet Skye. I can feel the connection and I just want to make sure that it is real, and not in my head.' She replied
'BOBBI! Focus, someone is coming up behind you. You need to forget about Skye for a moment, just until you are safe.' Natasha snapped lightly, tapping into Bobbi's sense, something she didn't like to do often but she had to make sure that Bobbi wasn't going to get herself killed on a mission because of the mental link.
It was frustrating for all of them when it first happened and they all had to learn to get over with help from everyone else in the pack. God knows that when she first had her link, Maria had been constantly in her head during mission to make sure she didn't kill herself.
Bobbi lazily lifted her head as she pulled herself back to the present, forcing the voices of her pack to the back of her head as she watch two men creep up towards her, aiming their guns shakily at her.
"That is the one the General said to look out for! The human wolf!" The man yelled out, hitting his partner with his hand in disbelief, the two of them sharing scared looks.
General? That was not good, it seemed that this operation was much larger than they originally thought and how the hell did they know about the wolf programme? Everyone had been sworn to secrecy about the programme unless they had permission from Fury or Carter, which means there is a leak somewhere again or it was the original leak. This had to be reported right away.
'Natasha, did you get that?' Bobbi thought, allowing the link to be more open as she stood up and growled at the two men approaching her.
'Got it, got Sharon reporting to Fury.' Natasha replied back, an edge of irritation to her it was the original leak again, it meant that not all of the previous volunteers were dead and that would cause a problem for them.
Bobbi snarled as the two guards pulled the triggers to their guns, the bullets lodging themselves in her body but Bobbi easily shook it off and began a menacing prowl forward, her lips pulled back showing her her massive teeth, which were nice and sharp and very white, Bobbi took great pride in having good teeth.
'Yeah it would be a shame if you got those nice white teeth stained red' Maria snarked.
Bobbi rolled her eyes as the three of them began to circle each other 'I will stain them if need be.'
'Do it.' Came the command of Peggy Carter, 'The less people who know about the wolf programme the better Bobbi. Even if it means we have to start killing them off one by one like this. I want this leak kept to a minimum. Kill everyone there.'
'Including the civilians?'Bobbi enquired as she lunged towards the men, wrapping her mouth around the first mans neck and roughly shaking her jaw, hearing the satisfying snap of his neck and tore her mouth away, making sure to take a chunk out of the guys neck just to safe. She turned round to the other guy, making sure to look as feral as possible with the blood dripping from her snarling mouth.
"Silver bullets! Where are the silver bullets?" The man screamed to himself as he shot blindly towards Bobbi. She quickly dodged the bullets, rolling in her massive form with snarls. She really did not appreciate being shot at.
'Leave the civilians for now, we've taken over the camera's in that area so we can identify them and follow them to make sure that they don't leave her with the knowledge of humans that can turn into wolves. If this got out...well, it would certainly be something.' Peggy sounded,her thoughts heavy with the burden of a potential break out of information 'The information that this project has gotten out is dire. We will be having a meeting with everyone to discuss this once you come back Bobbi. Get back safe.'she finished.
'Yes ma'am' Bobbi replied as she sprung on the other man, killing him effectively. Bobbi shook out her fur, hoping she didn't get any blood on it or else she was making Natasha give her a bath, and she was not going to make it easy for her. Bobbi looked out over the forrest where she lay hidden as she identified all her targets and then lunged into actions.
Taking a life was never easy, even if the people deserved it. Sure there was a sense that you were giving justice to the victims but the knowledge that you were taking someone's life, something that had been ingrained since birth that was absolutely wrong, felt weird to do. Bobbi had long gotten over the feeling of guilt from killing people. All of these people deserved a fate worse than what she was giving them.
Eventually the criminals were dead, the civilians had scattered with terrifying screams as soon as Bobbi made her first kill. Probably just thought it was a wolf gone crazy. Hopefully thats what they will continue to think for the rest of their lives, if they found out that it was a human in a wolf form basically going on a killing spree...well, it could be very damaging to them and the secret organisations, if it got out that it was them creating these beasts.
"Morse. Extraction in twenty minutes at rendezvous alpha." came Hand's voice over the coms. Bobbi just gruffed back an affirmative and ran towards the point in her wolf form, hoping that none of this would be on official record of the mission.
Bobbi quickly shifted back into her human form once she was 5 minutes out from her extraction point and jogged the rest of the way, quickly cleaning her face and making sure she looked like she didn't just kill a bunch of people.
She walked onto the quinjet that had been provided for her pick up and chucked her bag onto one of the many seats. She walked lazily over the co-pilot's chair and dropped down and shot a grin at her friend Kara, another wolf.
"How's it going Bobbi?" Kara asked as she started up the plane, flicking many of the switches.
Bobbi just heaved as sigh and followed Kara's lead and helped to set up the plane for flight, it took less than two minutes for them to do "Did you not think to do this before?" Bobbi teased lightly, placing her hands on the steering and glanced at Kara, who rolled her eyes.
"Nah, thought it would be a good bonding experience Morse" she shot back, grinning as they took off.
"We'll get to have our annual bonding time at this meeting" Bobbi mumbled, watching the clouds fly by.
"I heard" Kara replied, cringing a little " I don't understand how the project got out. Fury and Carter must be shitting themselves. Plus, getting all the pack together? Remember what happened last time? The beta's tore into each other, that is something I do not wish to repeat, Maria packs a punch" she finished, a grimace on her face as she remember the fight that broke out and finish with Maria on top, smirking at them all.
"In your defence, the alpha's were encouraging it. Although it was fun to see Hill kick your ass. You managed to take a few down yourself but yeah Hill just beats everyone" Bobbi said, snickering.
"Sounds like you've got a crush there Morse, doesn't Maria already have a mate? Besides, aren't you all hooked up on the new girl, Skye?" Kara teased.
Bobbi rolled her eyes "Yeah Maria does, but doesn't stop her from fucking everyone in the pack!" Bobbi laughed, it was well known in the pack that sex was one of Maria's favourite way to relieve the stress of work. "Besides, I haven't actually met Skye yet, but I can't wait to meet her. There is just this connection between us, you know? I just can't wait to go meet her and just confirm what I've been hoping."
"Bobbi... you're like a lovesick puppy!" Kara laughed, it was unusual for her friend to gush over someone like this and it was adorable to watch as her eyes unfocused as she talked about Skye and the connection they have.
Bobbi did her best to not blush, but it was difficult to do so when she had Kara teasing her in person and Maria and Natasha teasing her in her head. "Shut up, Kara!" She tried her best to just laugh it off.
The rest of the flight passed in small talk and junk food. They told each other stories of stupidity from their on pack, and weird things that their alpha's have made them do or what weird things they done themselves. It was relaxing and Bobbi missed the simpler times when the wolf programme was just getting started and the two packs were constantly around each other, almost acting as one pack. Until either one of the beta's or alphas fucked up the peace. It was still nice though. There wasn't much time for pack bonding recently due to the increase in missions that required their skill set.
Ever since the alien attack on New York, it seemed like all the organisations, good or bad, were attempting to up their game in regards to technology. So SHIELD either had to regulate these organisations, or destroy the new technology and steal the plans. It wasn't something that was easily done by a group of spies, which is why it was much easier to send an enhanced wolf, a good getaway disguise, with inhuman abilities than to send a team.
It didn't mean that any of the wolves like it, but it had to get done. Bobbi grumbled softly in her seat, causing Kara to look back over at her.
"How long was this mission? Like a month? When was the last time you got a proper sleep?" Kara asked, concerned for her wellbeing.
"Eh... Probably just before the mission." Bobbi replied
"Go to sleep Bobbi, you must be knackered. Get some rest for the meeting because for one, you'll be leading it and giving information and two, you'll need your strength for meeting Skye for the first time." She said teasingly "I've got the plane"
Bobbi nodded to Kara and just curled up in the co-pilot chair, reclining it back so that it was half way down and much more comfortable to sleep in. Kara stared at her fondly as she looked at her closest friend out with her pack.
Bobbi finished her description of her mission and the pack was silent. It was a lot to take in, how would someone know about the wolves enough to spot them, although they were the size of horses so they were easy to spot, but also know to use silver bullets.
"Well, I guess that does prove it. Someone out there knows about us and how to hurt us." Jayden concluded, resigning to the fact that Peggy was right about the situation.
"Yes, it means we need to be more careful on our missions, gather as much intel as you can, focus on the silver weapons. We need to figure out how this all started, I'll see if Fury will let me assign some of you to hunting the leak down as a mission. Other than that, everyone go on their missions as normal. Melinda, keep an eye out for anything suspicious, your team has a lot more freedom to do what they want than everyone here until we can get this task force up and running." Peggy instructed. "Anything else we need to discuss? No Natasha, we do not need to discuss how cute your new pack member is." Peggy said, cutting off Natasha before she even started.
"I think it's something to discuss. I'm insanely cute." Skye grumbled jokingly, looking at Natasha with a grin on her face.
"So do I, but apparently the only cute one here to Peggy is her niece." Natasha joked back.
"Maria, darling, I'm sorry you were right, they are as bad as each other." Peggy apologised to Maria.
"Told you! Also, Sharon, that's another vote in my favour." Maria said, grinning. Sharon rolled her eyes at her soulmate.
"Well, if there is nothing else, you are all free to go." Peggy said, standing up, everyone automatically standing up after her.
"Natasha, wait." Peggy called "Bring your hoard as well."
"Pack, Peggy, my pack, I know sometimes they act like zombies when they binge watch a tv series on netflix but they are still wolves." Natasha joked, causing Peggy to roll her eyes again. "So what's up?"
Peggy held up a camera with a smirk, "Line up, it's photo time!"
There was a few groans, but everyone obeyed. They looked like a mish mash of people, all photoshopped together, but that didn't seem to matter to Peggy. Peggy counted them down and at the last second, Skye got a text which caused her to pull out her phone and grinned at it. Someone uploaded a new cat video, ha.
"Skye was looking at her phone! You need to take another one." Clint complained.
"No, no, it turned out perfectly. It shows her personality. I love it. I'll give you copies later." Peggy said, she turned the camera around so that they could all see what the photo looked like, and Skye was right, they did look like they had all been photoshopped together. They all looked distracted, but it seemed to go alright.
"Alright, I'll see you all later." Peggy said, leaving them to make their way back to the main rooms.
"I've got to say, that meeting went well, no one hit each other, no one argued." Natasha said cheerfully, "Now, I know we are all splitting up tomorrow, so do we stay here or show Skye the pack house?"
"Pack house? How can you guys afford all this stuff?" Skye questioned, they all had a lot of things and their own rooms, surely it had to be expensive and would SHIELD even pay for it?
"Howard Stark. He knew about the project when Peggy was patient zero, and knew about the plans to expand the project. He said that as long as Peggy is in charge of us, the wolves that is, then he would provide the money and accommodation we needed to get the project up and running. Which is why we have one giant ass mansion that can house all of us with rooms to spare." Maria explained.
"Huh, Howard must have really liked Peggy. Were they like secret soulmates or something?" Skye asked.
"Nah, Howard just appreciated everything Peggy had done for him over the years as well as they way she helped raise Tony. Probably a bit of guilt too." Natasha answered.
"Oh." Skye mumbled, falling into a silence as the pack talked amongst themselves. They decided that they would just stay here as everyone had to leave by tomorrow night at the earliest, so there was no point leaving here. Bobbi walked along side her for a few moments before slipping her arm around Skye's waist with a smug smirk.
That was another thing Skye had to think on. A part of her felt like she and Bobbi just dove straight into a relationship without discussing anything, but to be fair, Skye didn't care, they were soulmates. They can learn about each other whilst still enjoying the physical and mental aspects that come with being with your soulmate. Skye just had to think of a great way to get to know Bobbi without it seeming like an interrogation. Also the childhood that Skye had, it wasn't exactly something Skye was willing to talk about, soulmate or not , she tended to keep that to herself.
"Well, we could be play 'Never Have I Ever'" Bobbi whispered in her ear, causing a shudder to run through her body.
"Sounds like a great idea." Skye whispered back, unsure why they were whispering as all the pack could hear them with their enhanced hearing.
"It does sound like a great idea. It means Skye can get to know all of us in a fun way, and get wasted at the same time, who doesn't love that." Natasha said, grinning as she led the pack automatically into her room. She went to a cupboard and opened it to reveal a ton of alcohol. It held a mixture of vodka, gin, whisky, wine, beer, even cider. "This ought to get us drunk enough to reveal our deepest, darkest secrets." She teased.
"Do you really think that is wise when half of us have missions tomorrow." May asked seriously, she was standing against the counter, staring at Natasha with a raised eyebrow.
"Shouldn't you still be riding the high of a new pack member?" Natasha questioned her mate, walking over to her and slid her arms around her waist. "C'mon it will be fun, we have great metabolisms, we will all be sober as a nun by tomorrow afternoon." she tempted her mate.
Melinda rolled her eyes but seemed to accept it, grabbing some of the whisky and slid gracefully onto the floor, "well?" she questioned them.
Everyone scurried to the alcohol cupboard and grabbed something they liked, Skye went straight for the vodka, because why not? It's been a while since she's drank, and the first time she's drank legally, she thought with a snicker.
Of course Skye forget about the whole pack can read your mind thing as someone spat out their drink in shock.
"Wait, how old are you Skye?" Clint asked, eyeing her up.
"Twenty-one" She answered truthfully with a shrug.
"You know Clint, if you remembered our conversations, you would have remembered that I told you that my soulmate was twenty-one this year." Bobbi said in exasperation.
"She's legal and that's all we care about, besides if she was in Scotland, she woulda been legal three years ago." Fitz said, shrugging as he poured himself some whisky into a glass. Simmons slid down beside him with a smile, squeezing his shoulder as she peered at his glass in curiosity. He lifted it to her mouth as she tried some, and immediately grimace. Fitz laughed at her reaction and placed a kiss on the side of her cheek as the two of them settled in to play the game.
Skye smiled at her friends interaction, the two of them were so cute. She looked over at Bobbi, and grin as the women had some massive Star Wars glasses ready for them. What a nerd. She loved it. Bobbi grinned at Skye and wiggled her eyebrows. Skye laughed and joined her soulmate on the ground, leaning against her as they all slowly made a circle, filled with random glasses and a mixture of alcohol.
Once they were all settled, Natasha placed a pint sized glass in the middle and looked at them all, "Let's make it interesting. If you have done it, drink, if you haven't pour it in the glass in the middle, and if you can't come up with a question in thirty seconds or less, you have to down whatever is in the glass."
They all automatically cheered at the idea.
"Let's do this!" Izzy yelled, for too hyped already for the game.
Natasha gave them once last intense look with that stupid grin of hers, "do you wanna play a game?"