After they had been suspiciously M.I.A while Thor and Jane saved the universe with little help from Darcy and good old intern Ian, S.H.I.E.L.D. swooped in three days later. Cutting Dr. Fosters and the Thundergod's honeymoon, as well as Darcy's and Ian's awkward tries at turning near death horniness into a realtionshhip, short. This time they didn't only take equipment. They shipped everything and everyone back to America. Darcy knew that whom they really wanted was of course muscular and infinitely friendly space Dude Thor together with his genious science maiden Dr. Jane Foster. Soon after they got everyone settled into their impressive headquarters they even developed a little crush on Ian who'd turned out to actually be quit promising in the field of wacky gadgetry.
Everyone proved useful except Darcy, who had gotten her Bachelors in Poliscie since New Mexico, had kept working for Jane and had postponed getting a Masters and her very own career indefinitely. She was passed around for a few months, every new department chief, after looking at her file, gave her a few laborious tasks, didn't even try to integrate her into the actual work routine and gave up on her when her boredom turned into attitude.
They couldn't let her go though, allow her to fail on her own account, out in the real world.
They'd learned from what had happened to Eric after he was left alone after his run in with a malicious alien.
A bag of S.H.I.E.L.D.s newest pills didn't prevent his naked madman act at Stonehenge.
Afterwards a few people at the triskelion felt like they could have taken better care of a guy who played his own part in the saving of New York.
Now they felt, that Darcy needed to be taken care of, although everyone and their mother was at a total loss about what to do with her or about her.
At one point someone somehow got her into The Eisenhower School. Maybe it was supposed to be a joke at first. Darcy Lewis had close to no military training, aside from the short crash course S.H.I.E.L.D. gave to everyone they recruited on campus.
S.H.I.E.L.D. had a good enough reputation to get anyone into any uni and apparently they didn't care much about that reputation.
So Darcy went and Darcy made an effort to learn.
She reported back, to anyone who would listen. After a few months there were a few of them who would. Darcy had started to closely watch everyone around her and the observations she made spying on future government officials and intelligence leaders had much to offer to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Darcy Lewis had found a purpose.