"Thank you for agreeing to this meeting," Eva gushed, as she sat down opposite the administrator at her desk. "I know you're a very busy woman."
She laughed. "Consider it a favour. Now, you wanted to talk about-"
"The copse surrounding this place," Eva finished for her, sticking one hand into her trouser pocket and unlocking her phone. "It looks like you've got a pretty serious case of ash dieback."
"I see," said the administrator, tapping away at her computer. "And you-" Eva heard a quiet beep emanate from the woman's earpiece, about half a second after she had pressed a button on the app Alvie had installed on her phone. "I'm sorry, Miss Kresk, would you excuse me for a moment? I'm needed at the front gate."
"Of course," smiled Eva, and as soon as the door closed behind the woman she jumped out of her seat and vaulted over the desk to her computer screen. She tapped the buttons Alvie had told her to, only taking a couple of goes to get it right, and the internet history that the woman had tried to hide opened up on the screen. "Aha!"
It took her ages to wade through it and actually figure out what everything said, but eventually- and after many false starts and a near-complete system failure- she found something suspicious. She clicked on it, stuck a USB in that ran a password-guessing software, and opened the documents. It was all very top-secret looking Avengers stuff, things an office administrator most definitely shouldn't be looking at, and then she noticed something else. Communications from someone external to the company.
HYDRA.
Fingers shaking, she downloaded the evidence onto the USB, pulled it out and closed everything just as the administrator walked back in.
"What are you doing?" she demanded, cool business façade slipping for a moment.
"Oh," she said, tucking the USB back into her pocket, "I just wanted to check the time, and my phone battery's dead. I've-" she slammed her palm into her forehead- "I'm an idiot, I arranged this meeting and completely forgot I had work, like, ten minutes ago. I'm so sorry, we'll have to do this another time."
"I-"
"It was lovely seeing you though!" Eva yelled as she ran back down the corridor, heart thumping madly in her chest.
HYDRA. HYDRA in the Avengers, and she, the god damn gardener, was the only one who knew. And where the hell were the Avengers? Freakin' Africa, with no way for her to contact them and an important enough mission to keep them there a while. And Maria Hill scared her, and probably wouldn't believed her anyway... but HYDRA!
"HYDRA!" Eva yelled at Rachel Carson, later that day. "What am I gonna do?"
"Mew."
She looked at herself in the mirror, green eyes meeting green and her hair, freshly dyed black, all messed up due to the fact she had pulled it out of her ponytail in stress. It was a kid's face, really, a kid who shouldn't be involved in this... so at least the administrator wouldn't suspect her.
"It's no good, Rachel Carson," she sighed, "I'm gonna have to save the day. God damn it."
A/N short chapter because SUSPENSE and I couldn't think of anything else to write. But if you're wanting more and don't want to wait until next week, there's a new oneshot in The Civilian Files that has Tony Stark in it, not to mention Nick Fury drinking a Starbucks, because reasons. And as much foreshadowing as I could get away with by guessing what's going to happen in these films, so we'll see how well that turns out once the Infinity Wars start.