Darcy POV
I stood behind Jane as we watched all of her work be driven away to some crash sight that everyone thinks is a satellite. We stood there for what felt like hours until we decided to sit up of the roof, dangling our feet off the edge. Just staring down the road in town that leads you to nowhere but desert, thinking about what just happened.
"Years of research, gone" Jane said to no one after a while.
"They even took my iPod" I commented, just to keep up my role, I don't really care about it all that much, I mean all my stuff and everything I need is on my secret phone or any other secret technology I seem to have.
"What about the back ups?" Eric asked to Jane after a few minutes of silence.
"They took our back ups. They took the back ups of our back ups, they were very thorough." Jane responded rather annoyed.
"Just downloaded like, 30 new songs onto there." I continued.
"Could you please stop, with the iPod." Jane snapped at me. "Who are these people?"
"I knew this scientist, a pioneer in gamma radiation. SHIELD showed up and, um, haven't heard from her again." Eric said after a few seconds.
"They are not going to do that to us. I'm going to get everything back." Jane said with a hint of determination. Only a hint though, because she is still pissed off.
"Um, please, let me contact one of my colleagues, he's had some dealings with these people before. I'll email him and maybe he can help." Eric tried reasoning.
I looked over towards him, "They took your laptop too." And I could just hear Jane saying something along the lines of, 'of course they did' in her head.
We sat up on the roof for a little while longer when Eric decided that he would go to the library and send the email from there. Jane drove Eric to the library then I think she was just going to drive around and vent about how SHIELD was totally being an asshole for stealing all of her work.
I just stayed back at the station playing with phone, playing weird games that I haven't touched in ages, like solitaire and mind sweepers.
As the day grew darker and the night started to creep in, I noticed that Jane and Eric weren't back yet. Well, I take that back, Eric is now officially home, by walking. Now I am concerned.
"Eric, where's Jane, I thought that she was driving you?" I asked.
"She's with Thor." He responded as he took out his phone and played the message Jane left him a few minutes ago.
'Hi Eric, it's me don't worry I'm fine but, um, just in case you don't hear from me in the next hour, just, come by the crater sight and try and find me. Okay, I did exactly what you told me not to, I'm sorry, so sorry, bye.'
"Jesus Jane, I thought she wouldn't do that after all the stuff that happened." I said to myself as I walked away to my room where I grabbed my tech phone – which is just a phone made by me; it's completely and utterly awesome. It looks like a normal flip phone but by no means actually flips up. It actually just projects the system up into the space in front of it, the screen when up is about 8x10". It also has the AI that's in the rest of my gadgets, I named her Louise, because that's my real middle name, and I like it. And the best part about it is that it floats. Yep, I have made a phone that floats and follows you were ever you want, meaning it kind of doubles as a floating iPad or tablet, except better.
Anyway, as I grabbed the phone I walked back out and up the stairs that lead to the roof, where I climb up on the lights that spelt 'SMITH' from top to bottom. I climbed up the letters until I got to the top where I had built myself a small chair that folds out facing the desert. Nobody but me knows about it, that's why I like it so much. As I sat down, I looked out into the dark desert, where you couldn't see anything for miles. I got out my tech phone and turned it on, the main thing I love about this little thing is the fact that I don't have to charge it, it doesn't ever run out of power but that may also be from the magic.
"Good evening princess, what is it that I can do for you?" Louise said, shaking me out of my inner thoughts.
"Ah, good evening Louise, can you please open up the security feed from the crash sight that SHIELD has set up, I believe that our dumb brother has gone to retrieve something of his, I would like to see how it goes" I responded, once again looking out into the distance. After a few seconds, Louise responded,
"Excuse me Princess, but they appear to have a secure lock on their systems."
"Use my password to get through anything in the way, I need those feeds now please."
"Yes Princess, here they are, it appears that our brother Thor is still trying to fight through the agents, Princess"
"Thank you, Louise, you may rest now, I will handle the rest from here." I said as I watched him take down man after man, ripping through the walls they put up. I noticed in the corner of one of the higher-level cameras a figure in a crane lifter pointing what I think is an arrow at him. Focusing one of the cameras that I know no one will be looking at, I point it at the one person who I know can shoot with a bow and arrow.
Clint Barton – or sometimes known as 'The Hawk' or 'Hawkeye'. He also happens to be the only person in the universe – and trust me I know – that has caught my interest. And no, not the, you have an interesting history or what you do for a living is interesting, but as in, your really hot and really nice and really cool and would you go out with me, kind of interesting.
I kept the camera facing Barton, while I continued to watch Thor roll around in the mud, fighting one of the larger Agents. As Thor continued rolling around I saw Barton talking and knew that he was probably getting very annoyed at having to wait for so long. Thor had finally knocked the Agent unconscious and was making his way to the hammer, most likely thinking that he could finally be back to normal if he could just lift the damn thing but I knew that won't work. I didn't have to even be there to know that father had probably made so that 'he who be worthy should possess the power of Thor'. And Thor at the moment just isn't ready for it yet.
I could see Barton talking again, probably telling Uncle Phil that it was now the last call. Seeing Clint in the pouring rain, with a bow, pointing an arrow at a god, I can't help but swoon a little at the sight. So what if I have a small crush, okay, large crush on the Agent. It's not like I would ever get to meet him anyway.
Stopping my mental swooning, I looked back over to the screens to see Thor screaming at the sky, so thoroughly confused about how he can't lift it. Watching other agents in black walk carefully over and handcuff him, I returned all the cameras back to their original spot, and turned off the phone.
Walking back down the stairs, I stopped to make sure that Eric wouldn't be able to see the phone; I walked out to find Eric getting ready to go pick up Jane.
After we had Jane back and wrapped up in a warm blanket, I sat at the table looking through the children's book Eric brought back from the library, reading some of the stories about all of my family. Surprisingly, the authors are not that far off. In something's, like Sif's hair being blonde until Loki cut it and turned it black.
Looking up for a second, I saw Eric and Jane arguing about Thor.
"He committed a crime, he's in jail." Eric explained.
"I can't just leave him there" Jane responded.
"Why?"
"You didn't see what I saw"
I decided to try and break it up and gasped "Look, it's mew mew"
"Where did you find this?" Jane asked as she flipped through some of the pages.
"The children's section. I-I just wanted to show you how silly a story it was." Eric explained, and I could just feel the argument coming back up again so I took off my glasses and set them aside for a little while, they were starting to make just behind my ears hurt. I looked over to the far wall and just thought about what I was going to do tonight. I am defiantly going to see Uncle Phil. Oh; maybe I can finally take my new bike out for a drive again.
As I came back into the conversation, I heard Jane saying ' then there's something on the other side, and advanced beings could have crossed it.'
Eric just said "Oh Jane" before I cut in and said,
"A primitive culture like the Vikings might have worshiped them as deities"
"Yes, yes exactly. Thank you." Jane said over to me, which I just responded with a nod and 'mhhm'.
When Eric got back with Thor, Thor put him in bed because he was smashed, and Jane and Thor went up to the roof where she usually goes to think or get away from me. As soon as I knew that it was all clear, I raced out of the station, sticking to all the shadows like I was taught so many times, and raced towards a shed that I bought and modified when I came and started working with Jane.
As I reached the door, I typed in a pin code and waited for the fingerprint and eye identification scans to open out from the wall. And as promised, they did just that. After the whole scanning process was over, the door opened and I walked in down the dark corridor, the lights would light up just a step in front of my next.
"Greetings Princess, I did not know that you would be coming at such a late time frame milady, otherwise everything would have been up and running." Louise greeted me.
"It's fine Louise, and I couldn't have woken you up just to get something ready at this time, it would have been unfair. Now, onto a different subject. I need to use my bike . . . . . . and could you get out my black skin tight suit, I might need that tonight." I responded as I continued walking down the extremely long corridor.
"Yes Princess, right away."
As I continued walking, I started to drift off in my thoughts to Clint Barton. How on earth can someone like him be so collected and yet still get me to like him, I mean, sure when he hangs around with Natasha, and yes I do mean the 'Natasha Romanov', code name 'The Black Widow', anyway, when he talks to her he lets loose and just relaxes, unless of course he's training with her, in which, he should never relax, but hey. And even when he talks with Uncle Phil, he's more care free, I actually really like both sides, but I can tell when he switches from Clint Barton to Hawkeye. He closes off and starts to do the whole; I have a mission, and won't stop until it's done. And no, I'm not a stalker, it's just that when you both work for and/or with the same organization, you're bound to run into each other. Okay, so yeah sometimes I follow him but I just want to see him relax a little, and most the time he is just in the same place as me, not that he ever notices that.
Apparently I was so far stuck in my head that I didn't see the wall that I had just walked into.
"Ow, that really hurt. Oh, would you look at that I'm already here, hey, Louise, is the suit ready for me?" I asked as I stood up again, slowly waiting for the world to stop spinning.
"Yes Princess, everything is ready for you to go."
"Cool, I will be gone for at least an hour, so don't expect me back anytime soon okay, but I will definitely be back before sun rise." I explained as I was putting on my very own very black and very leather skin tight suit, strapping on all the gun holsters, the 2 thigh holsters, the 2 that sit on my belt at my hips, a dagger on the belt at the back and a dagger in the slots along the outside of my calf in my boots. Tying my hair back, I put some extra magazines in some other holsters and walked over to my bike. I love my bike, it was a black Kawasaki-ZX6R with a couple of adjustments here and there, it has become the best motorcycle I could ever have.
As I jumped on, I put on my headset that I talk to Louise through when I ride, and start up my baby.
"Okay Louise, time to take a brake, I'm going to take Leah out for a little, don't let any strangers in and be good. Goodnight Louise." I said covering the mic. Leah is my other AI, and is really only on the bike, because she's knew to this whole talking to people thing.
"Yes Princess, please be careful with Leah, she has been quite excited about going out for a ride so she may be a little bit jumpy."
"Noted, well, we're off. See you in a few hours Louise. Leah lets roll out." I commanded.
One of the best things about my bike is the fact that after I touched it up, it's silent when I want it to be. So sneaking out into the desert while Jane and Thor are still on the roof, no problem. And the fact that it can now reach the speeds of about 350 miles per hour. So heading 50 miles west will only take me about 10 minutes.
"Hey, Leah"
"Yes Princess?"
"Can you call up Uncle Phil for me please, I think he would probably like a warning before I just show up."
"Yes Princess, it is calling right now, I shall leave you to your privacy for a few minutes."
"Thank you Leah" I said just as Uncle Phil answered the call.
"Hello?" he asked into the speaker.
"Hey Uncle, it's your favorite adopted niece coming in to say hi. Is it okay if I sneak in onto the base for a friendly chat, I wanted to talk to you considering I haven't done that in a while."
"Darcy, why are you calling now, it's like 11 o'clock. Shouldn't you be in bed by now?"
"Hey, I'm only up because I wanted to see my favorite uncle in the whole wide world."
"Darcy, I think I'm your only uncle in the whole wide world."
"So, plus, you can't say no. I'm about 30 seconds away. And don't worry about me getting caught, I won't. I have all my stuff, suited up and all. I'm good to go." I said as I pulled up a little bit down the hill on the other side of the crater.
"Okay, just make sure no one sees you, I don't want you in any awkward situations."
"Yes sir." I said doing a mini salute in the general direction of his office.
"Did you really just salute me from a distance?" he asked with a small chuckle.
"Yep" I replied, popping the 'p'. "I'll be there in a minute, just got to get through your security. Oh, and by the way, there is a 10 second gap between when one agent leaves to when the next comes, just saying, I could have walked that."
"Are you really trying to get here as quickly and Silently as possible or are you just making fun of my agents?"
"Um, maybe both" I say as I hang up and drop down out of his air vents and into the seat in front of his desk.
"So, what did you want to talk about?" Straight down to business as usual.
"Nothing much, but did you really have to take all of her stuff. Couldn't you have just taken like the back ups of everything and leave her be to finish, I mean it's not like you have anybody who's really going to believe any of this." I said to him.
"I presume you are talking about Miss Foster?"
"Yes, I am talking about Jane, I mean how many other people do I know that you have stolen their stuff from?"
"None, and we had to take everything, we could not leave a single piece of what could be evidence behind."
"Okay fine, new question. Why on earth is Agent Barton here?"
"How did you know Barton was here?"
"Don't answer my question with a question. And I only found out tonight, watching Thor tear through your security. Hey, don't give me that look; I had to see what he was going to do. Anyway, I hacked, or well, got Louise to hack into your security cameras and play around with them. Though I'm pretty sure I saw Barton looking at the one I had pointed at him."
"Why did you have a camera pointed at him, I thought you were watching the fights?"
"Ah, no reason, anyway, I asked you a question, what is he doing here. I thought he would have other missions to be doing."
"This is like his time off. Well he was on time off but he got called in for this."
"Really, you needed to call in Barton on his time off for hammer."
"Yes, we always have at least – "
"One great Agent on scene at all times." I continued for him.
"Are you just here to annoy me or was there some other reason?"
"No, just to annoy you, and say hi. Hey, what do you think Papa Nick is doing now?" I asked as I jumped up onto his desk and sat there cross-legged.
"I don't know, maybe sleeping, he is a human you know."
"You really think your funny don't you? The one person who anyone else on earth could swear doesn't smile, is trying to make jokes. Really, are you really that bored? Is your life that terrible?"
"Darcy, go home, you need sleep, and stop stalking Barton. I know you like him but don't creep him out."
"Okay, okay. I'll stop fan-girling over him. Tata Uncle, I might see you tomorrow night too." I said as I started climbing up through the air vents once again.
"Good night sweetie, sweet dreams."
"Night Uncle. See you tomorrow."