Carter awoke to the annoying beeping beside her head. Trying to hit the snooze button, she heard a loud bang against the floor. Groaning, she sat up as the beeping got continually louder. Seeing the alarm clock on the far side of the side table, she walked over to it and turned it off—no point in trying to go back to sleep now.
Thinking back to last night, Carter groans at the fact that she would have to go grocery shopping. At least it was a somewhat tolerable form of shopping. Walking over to the bathroom, Carter looking into the mirror, looking at the terribly dark bags underneath her eyes. She also noticed that her hair's brown wasn't very prominent, with blue starting to grow, though. Luckily no one saw yesterday, and thankfully, she had recently bought more brown hair dye the last time she was at the store.
Undressing, she sighed at the fact that her stomach was rumbling. Too bad, she had been too busy to get food. She shouldn't be living off of take-out. What would her father and mother say?
After her cold shower and reapplying her hair dye, Carter got dressed in a comfy pair of sweats and an oversized hood. Grabbing her bag that she left by the door the night before and the grocery list she wrote out, she grabbed her keys and walled and walked out of the door toward the elevator.
Once off, she saw that Mal was no longer at the desk. He usually was this early in the morning unless something urgent happened within the building. Shrugging it off, Carter exited the building and started walking to a small, nearby grocery store. It was usually quiet this early in the morning, just the way she liked it.
The cashier at the front tiredly smiled at Carter, recognizing her from the many times she shopped here. Grabbing a basket, she went about her business, ignoring the strange feeling in her stomach. It shouldn't have gotten to her, what Mal said, but it started to. It was no secret that SHEILD was pretty secretive in terms of government agencies. They would have done an extensive background check on her. Hopefully, there was nothing there they found untoward.
Walking back to the front of the store again, she quickly checked out, needing to get work done. Walking around with heavy bags and thinking heavily about her work (a client hired her to test out their new firewall), she didn't notice the person in front of her until she ultimately bumped into him or her. Because of her heavy bags, she could not balance herself, causing her to fall straight down onto her butt.
"Are you alright?" a masculine voice said from above her.
Looking up, she saw a very attractive dirty blond kneeling in front of her, eyes hidden behind dark aviators with a subtle smirk resting on his face.