Chapter 8
Simmons wanted to scream once she exited the hotel room that she was in with Parker. She knew though that wouldn't be a logical thing to do since they were at a hotel. There was no need to attract others to them. The first thing Simmons did was rush over to the room that Fitz was staying in while she and Parker talked and fixed his shoulder.
The door to Fitz's room was still open, as he liked to keep fresh air coming in. Simmons just barged in the room not to bother seeing what the engineer was doing. Although he wasn't doing much as he was just watching the news on the television placed in the room.
"Why didn't you tell me Parker was married!?" Simmons asked furiously.
Fitz looked up from the TV and opened his mouth but nothing came out of it so he closed it again. He of course knew for months that Parker was married but he was never told who it was. He wasn't even invited to the wedding when it happened.
"Well?" Simmons questioned again.
Fitz got up off the bed, straightening his tie in the process. To him, this wasn't what he expected to come after Parker woke up.
"He told me shortly after you and I left for Agent Coulson's team. It was that day I talked to him on the phone."
"And you didn't think to tell me!?" Simmons was angry at the whole situation.
"Andrew told me not to tell you. He realized it was going to be hard considering you're his ex-girlfriend and everything that went on before you two broke up."
More tears were falling down Jemma's face then when she walked out of Parker's hotel room. Both her best friends lied to her. Fitz lied to her about what Andrew had been up to this whole time. And Andrew kept his marriage a secret but kissed her when they were still at Providence. The biochemist felt so conflicted about everything.
"Do you have any idea on who he is married to, Fitz?" Simmons finally asked.
Fitz shook his head no. Andrew never told him exactly who it was. Just that they had met through family. Also that they decided to get married after being together for a few years. Parker said he finally felt complete again after Simmons.
"He never told me. Just that they married in secret because you know how S.H.I.E.L.D is with that kind of stuff."
"Well its Skye. He showed me his wedding ring after I found it in between his father's dog tags."
Fitz looked at Simmons speechless. Parker kept his wedding ring with Daniel's dog tags. It only made him wonder how Skye kept their marriage a secret and where she was keeping her wedding ring at. The hacker kept a lot more secrets to herself that were lead on.
"Skye? Our hacker and former consultant? The one that was with the Rising Tide, Skye?"
Simmons only nodded. They were both lied to by Skye even more then what was known. Had she knew who FitzSimmons was before she even got on the bus? Did she know about Jemma and Andrew's past together? Everything that they came across with Skye was rushing back to Fitz's head. The engineer couldn't believe it.
"Skye has a lot of explaining to do." Fitz finally says.
"They both do, Fitz. I thought Andrew was still going to be the one."
Fitz reached over to hug Simmons holding onto her tight. They could see outside the window that Parker and Skye were having their reunion between each other by the pool where Fitz saw Parker go to shortly after Simmons came in his room. Andrew still was his friend, his brother in some ways. They would all have to figure it out.
"I thought so too, Jems." Fitz whispered quietly. "I thought so too."
8AOS8
Skye and Andrew's reunion was cut short when they heard Coulson yelling for them to see him and May in the third hotel room the team got. Skye immediately latched onto Andrew's hand, holding it until they entered the room. Andrew missed the warmth of his wife's hand when she let go. It was the first time they saw each other in months. May motioned for both of them to sit on the bed while Coulson paced back and forth with his arms crossed next to his chest.
"So you two want to explain?" Coulson finally said loudly.
Andrew and Skye both looked at each other first and then back at Coulson and May. Skye wanted to say something but wasn't sure where to start but Andrew beat her to it.
"What are we explaining, sir?" Andrew asked.
Coulson threw up his arms. "How about explaining that Maria Hill is your aunt?"
"She's my mom's half-sister. My grandfather remarried and they had her a few years before I was born. Sir, how else do you think it happened?" Andrew explained carefully.
May looked over at Coulson with her usual expression. Though she was surprised Parker went down that route explaining it. Coulson wiped his eyes and then looked at Skye.
"I thought we told you no more lies. Why didn't you tell us about this?"
"It never came up? I'm sorry A.C." Skye answered.
Coulson was getting mad. Everything that they went with Skye in the first place was basically beginning to downfall. How was the secret of Skye and Andrew's marriage kept a secret from him? He was level 8 for crying out loud. Coulson should have known this.
"Maria had anything related to Skye and I together kept it a secret. If anything got out that an S.H.I.E.L.D agent and a Rising Tide member got married then it probably would have been chaos." Andrew explained. "So Skye wiped the history."
Coulson shook his head. "Everything makes sense, I guess. I'll keep Parker on the team since we are down agents and need as many as we can get."
"Phil, are you sure you want to do that?" May asks breaking her silence.
"I have to, Mel. Ward and Garrett are out there and we need help."
After hearing that Coulson would keep Parker with the team, Skye slid her hand back into Andrew's. The agent felt the warmth of his wife's hand again and smiled at her. He missed this all.
"Sir, I promise I won't cause any harm to the team. I will be professional about this." Parker told Coulson.
"I understand that part. I just have one question." The lead agent asks. "Are you connected to anyone else on this team?"
Andrew looks again at Skye as she already knows what he is going to say and then back at Coulson.
"Yes sir. Of course you know I already know FitzSimmons." Parker pauses. "Jemma and I dated when we were at the academy. We were almost engaged at one point."
Coulson doesn't say anything to them but dismisses both leaving him with May for a bit. The agent take it all in his head. Hill said there were reasons why she sent him to Coulson's team for backup. It just happened Parker was married to one and an ex to another.
"Well that was unexpected." May tells him.
8AOS8
The next morning, Coulson puts the four young agents all in the same room and tells them not to leave. Of course the agent knew there probably will be tension but he and May are outside the room discussing ideas with Trip. The grandson of a former Howling Commando wanted to stop by his parents and pick up a few gadgets they could use for the mission.
Currently Parker and Skye were on one bed with Fitz and Simmons on the other watching TV. News about Mike Peterson and Hydra had seemed to be the topic today. Skye of course being on her laptop was trying to figure out ways to stop them.
Next to her was Parker, he had fallen asleep after being waken up early by Coulson telling him and the other agents to come up with a plan. But he knew that probably wouldn't happen because of the fight from last night. Parker fell asleep after he laid next to Skye using her shoulder as a pillow. She had begun playing with his hair running her hand through it. Her husband needed a haircut. She liked when his hair was short.
Fitz was at the end of the bed he was sitting on with Simmons. He was watching the news carefully trying to figure out a plan himself. He just wasn't sure where to start exactly. Simmons was sitting against the headboard. Sometimes she would find her looking over at the married couple on the other bed watching them. Andrew was completely different with Skye then when he was with her. The biochemist looked back at the papers she had from the mission. She was determined to find something.
It wasn't long before Coulson and May came back into the room with Trip who was bringing in a stand with a poster board on it. He set it in the middle of the room right in front of the beds. Coulson flipped it around so he could write on it before he showed the rest of the team.
"Drew." Skye whispered trying to wake up her husband. She nudged him a bit on the side that wasn't injured until he open his eyes.
The agent looked over at her and smiled before giving a kiss on her cheek. Parker was really happy to wake seeing that his wife was still there with him.
Simmons on the other hand was still staring until Fitz told her to knock it off when he noticed. Jemma gave him a look and he gave one back until they both stopped completely.
Coulson turned the board back around so they could see what he wrote up. It looked to be a chart that could have been drawn a little bit better then what was seen.
"This connects everything we have come across together. The Centipede Project is connected to Garrett which is connected to Cybertek." Coulson explained drawing lines all over the chart.
"So what does this mean?" Skye asks.
"It means that we will have to take a visit to Cybertek."
They all nod and Trip is dismissed to go find the gadgets he had from his grandfather left at his parents. Coulson tells them to finish up a plan and that they would leave shortly after Trip came back.
8AOS8
Once Coulson and May left the room, Skye closed up her laptop and looked over towards Fitz. He was gathering up his backpack, placing all his gadgets in the correct spots.
"Fitz, could come help me with a few things?" Skye asks pointing to her laptop then discreetly at Andrew when scientist looks up.
The engineer gets the idea and nods his head.
Skye picks up her laptop and walks over to a stretching Parker. She kisses him real quick and then reaches up on her toes to whisper in his ear.
"Talk to Simmons. She deserves a more explanation." She tells him going off of what he told her last night before bed.
They discussed everything that happened between them. What Andrew could tell his wife of course since she was still level 1. The couple also discussed what happened while Skye was on the plane with Ward and what happened before she escaped. The hacker was originally scared to tell her husband that she kissed Ward but when he responded that he kissed Simmons, they knew they could get past it all.
The agent only nodded. It really wasn't how he expected his day to go.
The hacker and engineer quickly left the room and all was left was Parker and Simmons to eventually talk it all out.
They let a few minutes pass before Parker felt discomfort in his shoulder again and felt like he needed to sit down again. Simmons stayed on the bed still leaned up against the pillows on wall. Finally Parker broke his silence.
"I wanted to tell you, I really did. I just didn't know how to tell you. Our whole marriage was kept a secret after I told Fitz."
"It was a marvelous secret, Parker. I'll give you credit."
Parker shook his head. "I'm sorry, I really am."
Simmons got up and paced the room. It seemed to be a habit now that Parker was back. She hadn't done it since they were dating and he was doing his field training.
"What I don't get is, where were you when everything was happening to Skye?"
"What do you mean, Jemma?"
"Did you know Skye was with S.H.I.E.L.D?"
"Yes. I just didn't know what team she was with."
Simmons rubs the bridge of her nose trying to think of another question.
"What about the incident with Miles. Did you know about that?"
"Jem, you realize I already know about that. I was there."
Simmons stops pacing back and forth and looks over at Parker. He was there?
"What?"
"I was there. Do you really think my wife would hook up with my step-brother?"
Simmons looks at him again baffled. How did she miss that when they came across Miles the first time? The funny thing was she was there when Andrew's mother remarried. The biochemist was his date.
"Skye and I both asked Miles to cover for us just in case the team came looking for her." Parker explains. "And yes Miles giving money to Raina was real. I wasn't too happy with that."
"How did I miss that? You were gone before Fitz and I got there."
"Well some parts were covered up and I left before the team got there completely. But I would have expected you to remember him from the wedding." Parker said.
Parker's mother got remarried in the summer of 2010. Sara had met Miles' father, James again when he came back to visit Washington D.C. a few years before that. Both of them had went to high school together. Sara just happened to be in town meeting with Andrew and Maria. Later on, he proposed and they got married. Andrew was dating Jemma at the time and took her as his date. He was going to bring along Fitz too but he had other things planned. That night was when they decided to have a baby only to lose it four months later.
"A lot of things happened at that wedding." Jemma tells him.
"That is true. But like I said I've kept a close eye on Skye even when I was gone on missions."
"What about when Quinn shot her and left her to die in the wine cellar?"
Parker put his head in his hands. That was one memory he could remember being told and not being able to do something because he was on a mission in Europe. He remembered getting a call from Maria when it happened. Andrew had just turned in for the night, he wasn't an alias once he reached the comfort of his own hotel room. Somehow she figured out how to call him and tell him what happened. His wife had been shot and wasn't projected to make it out alive.
The agent had ended up tearing his room apart angry that he couldn't do anything to help. It was like the moment he found out that his dad wasn't coming home from the war. Andrew felt helpless and scared. He broke down crying by the end of it all.
"I was devastated. Maria told me Skye might not live. I was captured the next day, breaking out a week later to find out that my wife was okay after I got sent back to the hub." Parker shook his head. "I was scared for her just like I was scared for you after you lost the baby."
Simmons walked over to Parker, taking a seat next to him and for the first time since finding out he was married, she gave him a hug.
"Andrew, I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have argued with you about this." Jemma paused. "We both knew we would eventually move on."
Parker only nodded. He wasn't sure what to say next. The agent was just happy that the biochemist finally understood.
"Could we try to be just friends again?"
"I think that's possible, Jem."
8AOS8
Leo Fitz followed Skye out towards a section by the pool. He was really curious to find out how the hacker kept her marriage a secret the whole time she was with the team. The engineer thought that all her secrets were basically in the open.
They both took a seat in the lounge chairs and began to work on figuring out a plan. It wasn't long before Fitz began to hit Skye with his important questions.
"Why didn't you tell us you were married to Andrew?" he asked.
Skye looked over at the engineer and closed her laptop. She knew she wouldn't get much done now that Fitz started with the questions.
"I was told by agent Hill not to mention my marriage to anyone. Drew and I decided to keep it a secret since I was still part of the Rising Tide at the time."
"Is Skye your real name?" Fitz asked seriously. He thought if she was keeping her marriage a secret then there had to be more she wasn't told him.
Skye laughed a bit. She thought that he was taking this a little bit better then what Andrew had described to her last night about Simmons.
"Well it's actually Skye Parker but my given name at St. Agnes was Mary Sue Poots." She told him seriously.
The engineer looked at her with his eyes open widely and then started laughing. He didn't expect that one.
"You're joking."
"Nope. That's why I changed it. When I first told Drew, he said the same thing but told me he liked Skye better."
Fitz got himself thinking about another question. He wasn't as mad now as he was earlier that Skye and Andrew didn't tell him that they were married. The engineer was happy for his best friend and brother. Andrew finally found someone that made him happy after his past with Jemma.
"Was your marriage the only thing you were keeping secret after we found you with Miles?"
Skye shook her head yes. Finding her parents was real. She really needed to find out what happened to them and doing it on her own only did so much. Also Andrew only could do so much with S.H.I.E.L.D. before he left for his mission in Europe.
"Really though, I wasn't expecting May and A.C. to find me with my brother-in-law that day. Thank goodness he agreed to be the cover up."
"Brother-in-law? Miles is related to you?"
"That's actually how Drew and I met." Skye answered. "It was through Miles. He's Drew's step-brother."
2011
"See this was a good idea!" Miles yelled over the roar of the music in the club.
They were currently out in a club after they went to an afternoon San Diego Padres game. It had been a few months since Andrew came back to California. His mom and step-dad had gone home after the game leaving him and Miles to do what they wanted that night.
"Are you sure your friend is going to be here!?" Andrew asked back.
"Yeah, I saw her van out here."
They walked around the club a bit more stopping every so often because it was so crowded. They both got a beer and finally found where Miles' friend was at.
She was sitting in the corner with her laptop sitting on the table to keep her company. The girl noticed Miles and waved for both of them to come over.
"Hey Miles." She said closing her laptop. "Who's your friend with you?"
"Hey Skye, this is my brother Drew, I was telling you about the other day."
Andrew gave her a quick wave. Skye motioned for them to sit down. Miles took a seat on one side of her and Andrew took the other side since there wasn't any room next to Miles.
Eventually Miles left the table to get more drinks and left Andrew at the table alone with Skye. He was a bit shy but by the end of it, the agent was pretty comfortable with the hacker.
"You met Andrew at a club? I never would have guessed." Fitz said surprised.
Skye laughed a bit. "I didn't go home with him that night if you're wondering."
"You didn't?"
"I met up with Drew a week later. And then about two months later I found out he was S.H.I.E.L.D. after I hacked them the first time. A visit from Maria prompted him to tell me."
Fitz shook his head. He knew when he met the hacker it wasn't her first time that she hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mainframe. She had did it a few times before, it just took that long for Coulson to find her.
"We got married in 2013 shortly before Drew was told he was leaving for six months. And I keep my ring on my finger most days. I just don't have a giant fancy diamond on it." Skye told the engineer flashing him her ring knowing his next question.
Before Fitz could respond he saw agent Coulson walking up towards them. He was followed by Trip who had a large suitcase which the engineer assumed those were the gadgets he went to get.
"Meeting in the room and then we will go from there!" Coulson yelled over to them.
They grabbed their stuff and walked back towards the room. It was nice not having other people to bother them at the hotel. Most of the time the hotel just had a few occupants every so often staying there.
When Skye got back to the room, she found her husband standing in the doorway waiting for her.
"How did it go?" she asked after giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"It went surprisingly well. A little bit of arguing here and there but I think we are good to go now." He told her.
"Good. Fitz was okay with everything I told him too. Was a bit surprised Miles was actually my brother-in-law."
Andrew chuckled a bit. Some days he was really thankful to have Miles in his life and some days it was just blah. But he was happy that his step-brother introduced him to Skye, his now wife.
"You know, I really do love you."
"I love you too, Drew." Skye said this time kissing on the lips.
Before they could do anything else, Trip came and pulled both of them in the room by their shirts.
"Okay lovebirds. Let's get this set before so we can go."
The couple laughed and took a seat next to Simmons who was watching Fitz play with a cigarette laser. The fun only lasted till he accidently burnt a hole through the curtain and Simmons had to take it away.
Here is chapter 8. Not much of the action but there is more background information about Parker's family and how he and Skye met. We also see a FitzSimmons scene and Parker and Simmons are trying to be friends again. Next chapter will be the start of the Cybertek scenes. Finally who do you see as Andrew Parker? Let me know in the reviews and you can follow me on Tumblr at kwright18 where you can ask me questions there.