"Where the hell am I?" SG groaned as she woke up on a really comfortable couch, covered in a rather large and cozy blue blanket, but that was the least of her worries, her skull was throbbing, and she felt like she had been hit by a truck, and worst of all, she didn't realize where she was, it looked like a rather spacious living room, hence why she was laying on the couch.
"She awakes," she heard a familiar voice call out to her, but she couldn't remember who it belonged to, but that question was answered as a familiar face walked into the room, and handed her a tall glass of water.
"Nate?" she asked the man as she recognized the waiter from Moon Mountain.
"Yea," he said with a soft smile as he took a seat in a chair next to her, "it's me, what are you surprised?" he asked with that same soft smile.
"Yea, I'm a little surprised, not to be rude, but why and or how did a waiter save me?" she asked the young man, which made him laugh.
"Being a waiter is just my day job-." he began before she cut him off.
"Day job, what are you, a vigilante or something?" she asked in a very curious tone.
"Nah, not me, I'm no vigilante, but I do work for some people you know." he said with a smile, and that made her ponder all possibilities.
"You work for Jim?" she asked.
"Close, I do work for law enforcement, but think bigger." he said as he took a sip from a bottle of water he was carrying in his pocket.
Suddenly SG had a thought, "Are you working for S.H.I.E.L.D.?" she asked Nate, and that made him smile.
"Winner, winner," he said as he stood up and pulled a S.H.I.E.L.D. Identification badge out of his pocket and showed it to her, "You know my name is Nate, but I've been working for S.H.I.E.L.D. for four years since I turned 18." he informed her as he pocketed his badge.
"I thought that you where just a waiter," she said with a dumb expression on her face as she realized how silly that sounded, "but I guess looks can be deceiving." she said quickly, and that made Nate laugh.
"I guess you can say that, I mean no offense, but who would think Doreen Allene Green would be the cities most popular and beloved heroine?" he asked her in a sarcastic question, and that made her grin, be it very painfully due to her throbbing skull..
"Good point," SG said, "I guess nobody would think a waiter would be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent." she joked, and that made Nate laugh slightly.
"I have a question though, Nate," she began, and Nate made a hand gesture telling her to go on, "are you hear watching my back?" she asked him.
"Yes," he answered, and that surprised her, "after your graduation, Director Fury assigned a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent to keep an eye on all the Academy students after they returned home, or wherever they decided to take up base and start fighting crime, and I was selected to keep an eye on you." Nate informed her, and that raised several more questions from the injured heroine.
"I graduated from the Academy, why would Fury assign someone to keep an eye on me?" she asked him.
"Trust me, a job can be very difficult on it's own, and hero and heroine work is the most difficult job of them all, , and after tonight it's a good thing I was keeping an eye on you, or else you would have been thrown into the river and most likely drowned," Nate informed her, as SG rubbed the bump on the back of her sore head., "I most likely saved your life tonight, it's the least I could do after all the good you've done for this city," Nate said with a smile as he walked into the kitchen out of view for a second, and returned with a small bottle of pills, "Take two of these, they'll make you drowsy, but they'll ease the pain." he said as he took two pills out of the bottle and placed them in her open right hand, which she instantly took with a sip of water.
"Thanks," she said as she felt her healing factor and the medicine combining and starting to slowly ease her pain, "I swear I'm going to get The Shape, or Shifter, or whatever the hell I decide to call his ass." Doreen said in an angry tone as she thought about her shape shifting adversary.
"You'll get him, but not tonight, you need to heal, that crowbar did some damage to your skull, while your healing factor will path it up, I doubt the pain will go away for awhile." Nate said in a concerned tone.
"Thanks for the concern, but I really need to go, this city needs it's heroine, after what happened to that poor news anchor." SG said as she tried to stand up, only to get instantly dizzy and fall back to the couch.
"Take it easy, you have a minor concussion, don't try and rush things, take it from me, I played football in high school, I tried to rush back from an injury, and that made things worse, your healing factor might be good for repairing damage, but it's not like Wolverine's healing factor." Nate lectured her, and that made her sigh.
"Your right, a healed Squirrel Girl, means a better protected city," she said as she laid back down, and put her head on a nice comfy pillow, "Nate, I've been wondering, why hasn't S.H.I.E.L.D. gotten involved during my battles with The Shape?" she asked the young agent.
"Hoenstly a lot is going on since you've graudated, and S.H.I.E.L.D. has multiple global operations, so I'm really all the backup you got, but S.H.I.E.L.D. trusts you, you are a S.H.I.E.L.D. sanctioned heroine now, they can count on you to solve your only problems, I'm only supposed to get involved in case of an emergency, which I did tonight, 'cause your life was in mortal danger, after tonight I'm not sure how I can help you, but that's all for now, get some rest, I'll protect you tonight." Nate said as he turned off the light and left the room to let her get some rest, leaving her to ponder tonight events before drifting off to sleep.
