Chapter 9

Outside the Cybertek building

Parker felt cramped inside the truck Coulson somehow managed to get for them. Until Simmons cleared his shoulder he wouldn't be able to get much action in. So for now he had to sit this one out even though this was one of his specialties. He was a scientist as much as he was a field agent. Parker did go to Sci-tech with FitzSimmons.

Skye was worried about her husband. The hacker had just got him back and she didn't want the people inside to ask questions about his shoulder or if he got caught how was Parker going to fight his way out of it? Instead she liked the idea of Coulson and May going into Cybertek instead.

"Score one for the Howling Commandos." Skye said as she began her search for the mainframe on her computer.

"I didn't know they had Wi-Fi back then?" Trip answered questionably.

"They didn't." Parker tells him from the back sitting by a small sliding window.

Skye turned around and smiled to her husband. She could see FitzSimmons talking into the walkie talkie telling Coulson and May what to say in the presentation.

"That's correct hon, but I'm bouncing off of UHF, which they used that to search for data."

Parker raised his hands a little bit in defeat as his wife tried to prove him wrong with technology. Of course the couple was smart in each of their own ways. Andrew was smart in science and history, having a PHD in one of those categories before he entered the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy that seemed to be no more currently. And Skye knew a lot about computers and hacks.

"Okay that's weird, I can't seem to find anything." Skye told them pressing a few keys.

"Maybe it's protected by something?" Trip asked.

"My wife would have been able to get around that either way." Parker shook his head. "Right Skye?"

Skye immediately got on the walkie talkie after she shook her head yes. There had to be reason why she couldn't find any data.

"Keep them stalled for a little bit longer."

As Skye kept searching, Parker watched his two best friends in action. He was amazed with as much information and talking fast like FitzSimmons would that Coulson and May could keep up. But from what he saw from the camera on Coulson's glasses the two scientists for Cybertek were not that impressed.

The agent rolled his eyes when the scientist sitting across from May said they had already seen something like the ICER bullet. He slapped his hand to his forehead when he heard the other scientist call it a sleepy sleepy gun. That sounded worse than the night night name Fitz used.

Parker looked over at Fitz who was upset by that comment and made Coulson repeat what he said.

"But this is an ICER. Triple the stopping power!" Fitz yelled. "And a much cooler name."

Parker shook his head and caught the look Simmons was giving him shrugging her shoulders in the process. All the agents were determined to help Coulson and May find the mainframe.

"Looks like we might have found a spot." Skye says before pausing making the model of the building spear better on the laptop. "The fourth floor seems to be it. The mainframe might be there."

They waited a bit and by the time the two agents were escorted to the elevator, Parker and FitzSimmons found themselves watching May and Coulson take out the guard.

"Well that was amazing." Simmons all of a sudden said.

The three watched as they got out of the elevator making their way to where Skye told them to go. Another guy came running towards the red phone on the wall but that was quickly stopped. May had did a few kick flips and took out the guy placing the phone back on the wall.

"That was cool too." Parker found himself saying.

Skye rolled her eyes as she peeked over for a second to see what was on the screen. She gave her husband a quick thump on the head and then turned back around.

"Ow." Andrew said rubbing the spot.

"Stop drooling over agent May." She riled him.

"I wasn't. She's not even my type."

Fitz and Simmons both started laughing and then started talking to the point neither Skye nor Parker could understand. Even Trip was confused in the first few seconds.

"Skye, we figured out why we couldn't find the mainframe." They all hear Coulson say.

"And whys that?"

"It's all hard copy."

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They all wait a few minutes on the older agents as they are looking through trying to find what they need. Eventually the three former sci-tech academy students see that Coulson stops something called Project Deathlok after May calls him over to it.

Pages are being flipped through until they see one from 1990. It has listed that John Garrett was the first. That was quickly shut and before anything else they hear Coulson's voice again.

"Guys, get ready for a large file transfer."

"How large?" Skye answers.

Before an answer is said, the team hears a loud crash at the window. Parker should have expected it when he saw Coulson and May pushing the file cabinet but he was surprised that they would push it out.

Everyone jumps to their feet and prepares to help the agents. Fitz quickly got the back door open and runs to help and Trip who was also out of the truck getting them out of the window. They lift it to where Simmons could help get it pushed into the back carefully. Parker helps too as best he can and quickly they get the job done.

Thanks to Skye throwing most of the Cybertek employees off, the team was able to escape the premises and head back to the hotel.

9AOS9

When they all got back to the hotel, almost everyone went to a table by the pool so they could look over the files. Parker and Simmons were the only ones that didn't help immediately as they went to retrieve Jemma's bag.

"The pain has gone away mostly." Parker told her as he sat on the bed.

"Well I would say that is good. You've always seemed to be a fast healer." She replies.

Parker shakes his head and pulls off his shirt so Simmons could get a better look at his shoulder. The biochemist had to take off the wrapping to make the assessment. Jemma realized she wasn't paying as much as attention as she was the other day. Parker had a few small tattoos on his side and chest that some couldn't be made out entirely. One obviously being a small S.H.I.E.L.D. logo that wasn't entirely complete since only half of it was mixed with a military logo. Another one on the side that looked to be the date that he and Skye were married.

Simmons carefully pealed the tape off Parker's side and removed the bandage that was covering. It looked that his shoulder was placed back in the socket correctly.

"Looks to be all good." Simmons tells him. "You'll tell me if you feel any discomfort."

"Yeah of course."

Parker gets off the bed and pulls his shirt back on. He stretches a bit to make sure his shoulder is still okay and doesn't find any discomfort at the moment. The agent is about to tell the biochemist something but he is cut off by yelling from outside the room.

They both walk out to find Skye and Fitz arguing with each other with Coulson and May just watching.

"You want a fact, Fitz? Ward murdered people." Skye argues.

They try to fight each other but the biochemist and scientist/specialist knew that wasn't going to end well. Each one grabs an agent pulling them off each other. Parker gets ahold of Skye and holds her against his chest to stop her. Simmons keeps a strong hold of Fitz watching as Parker holds onto his wife. They luckily got it stopped before a pizza guy comes into the pool area.

"I have a pizza for Pablo Jiménez." He says.

They all stop to stare at him wondering who decided to order a pizza. It wasn't until Coulson gets up that they figure that it was the lead agent's doing.

"That's me." Coulson says finally paying and taking the pizza from the man.

Skye rolls her eyes and retreats to her and Parker's hotel room. May watches for a bit and gets up only to be stopped by Parker himself.

"I'll take care of it, agent May." He tells her and then walks off towards the room.

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"Skye, open the door!" Parker yells banging on it a bit.

The agent didn't have the room key on him since Skye took the only one they had and he didn't want to go back to ask Coulson for the other one he had.

It only takes a few seconds for the door to be opened and he is being pulled in by his wife. The former scientist can see tears running down her face. He immediately pulls her in for a hug and brings her towards the bed so they can lay on it.

"Why did he have to betray us, Drew? I thought he was a friend." Skye asks her husband although he probably wouldn't know the answer exactly.

"I don't know. Whatever Garrett promised him must have been a heck of an offer." He tells her.

"It doesn't make any sense. I can't believe I kissed him."

Parker already knew this information from earlier when they told each other what had happen to each other. He was never a big fan of Ward anyway.

"Does he know?" Andrew paused. "About us?"

Skye looked up from his chest, tears had already dried on her face.

"While on the bus, no. But now he knows. Ward doesn't know who but he knows I'm married now."

"That must have been a shock."

"To Mike too. He was on the plane also when Coulson rescued me."

"The guy that you told me about back when we met up at Miles' place."

Skye nodded her head. She began to run her hand on his chest towards the dog tags that were kept on under her husband's shirt. After they got together, Skye would sometimes look at them and read what they said. She learned all about his father from the stories Parker's mother would tell her when was curiously looking at photos one day while Andrew and Miles were out getting stuff for dinner one day.

She thought that Andrew looked a lot like Daniel, almost having identical smiles. The hacker learned that Daniel was the one that taught her husband many different things early on in his life, a reason why Andrew was so smart and graduated college at 16. She wished that she could meet the man that made her husband into the guy he was now, but she couldn't. All she had was the stories she was told, the dog tags around Andrew's neck that also told a story, and her husband of course.

Skye pulled the tags from out under Andrew's shirt and studied them for a bit. Parker never seemed to mind when his wife would do that. He knew that Skye liked to look at them when he was sleeping too. The agent had watched quietly one day when they were both on the couch laying down. He let her think that he was sleeping at the time. The hacker ran her fingers across the risen words on the metal while reading the writing. She only wondered if Andrew would have followed in his steps if he didn't go to the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy when he did.

In the middle of the tags, there was Parker's wedding ring. The one that Skye picked out for him a few weeks before their wedding. Sara, Andrew's mom had gone with her to pick it out while Miles took Parker to get Skye's. The hacker liked the idea of having each other's name and date of the wedding engraved inside. His said Skye while hers had Andrew written inside.

"Do you think I could put this back on your hand?" Skye asks referring to Andrew's wedding ring.

He looks down at her and sits up with her still against his chest. The agent takes her hand to look at hers which was on the opposite hand that it was supposed to be on.

"Only if I can move yours to the other hand." Andrew tells her.

Skye smiles as she removes her ring. Parker reaches to take off his necklace with the dog tags on it so he can get his wedding ring off of it. The agent takes off one tag and then removes the ring and then places it in Skye's hand with hers. He then threads the tag back onto the necklace, placing it back over his head when he's done.

"Do you want to go first or should I?" Parker asks his wife.

"I will." Skye replies giggling a bit.

The hacker takes Andrew's hand and slides his ring onto his finger when they did so on their wedding day. Memories flashed in her mind when she did. Skye could remember the small wedding they had. Not too many people were there due to them trying to keep it a secret. She remembered Miles walking her down the aisle since she had no clue who her real family was. She didn't mind though, Skye was just happy to be marrying Andrew.

After Skye finishes sliding his wedding ring on, Andrew slides the small diamond ring onto his wife's finger. He was happy again after everything that happened to him during his academy days. The scientist/specialist had thought he found the girl he would be married to for the rest of his life.

"I like this a lot better." Andrew tells her lifting up his hand and then reaching over to kiss her on the lips.

"I love you, Drew." Skye says after against his.

"I love you too, Skye."

Before they could do anything else, they were stopped by a knock on the door. The couple both groaned as Skye got off the bed to see who it was. She found agent May behind it holding a few drinks.

"I brought you two some drinks since you guys never came out to eat." She tells them.

Parker puts his head in his hand rubbing the bridge of his nose and started laughing. Skye took one look at him and gave him her signature look.

"Is something funny, agent Parker?" May asks.

"No ma'am. Nothing at all."

May came into the room and sat the drinks down pulling up a chair towards the bed. Skye closes the door and sits back down next to her husband pulling his good arm over her shoulder.

"I know Fitz can't process the truth, not yet at least." May tells them. "What he said, is what he needs to believe."

Parker nodded his head and kissed Skye's head. He knew that Fitz had his own opinion in things and always tried to see the best in people.

"Do you think Ward is being controlled?" Skye asks the older agent.

"No."

"We don't think so either."

Skye motioned towards herself and Andrew. They had talked about it when Coulson came back with Skye after their talk with May and him about their relationship. They both talked about the possibilities of why Ward would betray the team. The couple went off of all their experiences they had with the now revealed Hydra agent. How he was on the bus and how he was back then at the academy when Parker was there.

May nodded her head. She was about to speak when Coulson came barging into the room.

"Now it's a party." Parker whispered jokingly against his wife's ear only to have her slap him.

"Trip tracked the shipment and found where it's going. Havana." Coulson starts saying.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. had a base there right? I think I remember reading something about it when I used to spend to time at the academy's library." Parker replied.

"Nerd." "That's correct, agent Parker." Both Skye and May answered.

"Well we are going to Cuba." Coulson tells them excitedly before exiting the room.

There's chapter 9. Sorry about the wait, busy week at work. Anyway please leave a review and tell me what you think. I actually had to go back and rewatch this episode so I could have ideas. Let me know what actor you see playing Agent Andrew Parker and also let me know how I should continue after season one's episode. I actually saw that Netflix is putting season 2 on June 11th so can't wait for that.