Chapter 12

The three agents waited for the command to overtake the Cybertek headquarters. Coulson and Trip still had to figure out a way to get them in which probably meant blowing a hole in the wall.

May watched the married couple with her prepare for what was next. She saw a different side of Skye when she was with Andrew that almost reminded the senior agent of her own marriage in the past.

"Are you sure you're capable of doing this?" Skye asked her husband referring to setting up a few things on the computer.

"Skye, you're the one that taught me a few months into dating each other." Parker told her. "So of course, I'm capable. I'm scientist too, I normally pick up things quick."

"Okay. I have Ace's action figures too so hopefully everything will be alright when we find him."

"You know it will."

Skye gave her husband a long hug that ended in Andrew having to hold onto her to get the hacker out of the way. Coulson had fired a missile before giving them warning.

"Let's go." May told them and then left to search the area.

Parker pulls out his gun begins to watch as the scene begins to unfold.

"This is a bomb!" Skye yells as they both walk towards the front desk holding the backpack filled with Ace's action figures.

Everyone begins to scurry around, running towards the nearest exit hearing that the backpack is a bomb. Not everyone could get out though as Skye had caught the handler for Deathlok by the wrist.

"You're not going anywhere." Parker says grabbing the duck tape from his bag.

Skye wraps the tape and the bag around the handler and tells him not to move while showing him the switch. She gives him an oh well look and then looks over at Parker.

"Drew, are you set?"

"Yeah, all good to go. Just a few minor tweaks."

"Cool, I'm going to make a phone call then."

Parker gives his wife a thumbs up and gets to work on the computer. He looks up to see the handler frightened and afraid. The scientist wants to laugh because he knows the backpack isn't a bomb but he knows that's not possible. This is a mission.

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"It's fitting we're down here together, Fitz." Simmons tells her best friend.

She begins to think of her entire life and how it got to this point. She thought of all the times that her, Fitz and Andrew all hung out. The biochemist couldn't live without either of them but knowing she was with one of them made her fell a little better about the situation they were in.

"This is where all life began on our planet, anyway. Just outside that glass."

Fitz looked up at his best friend as soon as he got an idea. He just had to make sure that it would work.

"Jemma." The engineer says.

"What?"

"The glass."

Simmons thinks about what Fitz just said and immediately an idea comes to mind.

"Fitz, the glass!"

"Yeah."

"It's bulletproof, pressure-resistant." Simmons says excitedly. "But the seal is 4 hydroxy-"

"Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but the flash point is too high for it to burn." Fitz tells her thinking the idea may not work.

"But medical ethanol has a low flash point, burns hotter."

"If we could use the defibrillator." "As an ignition source-"

"And build a compressed explosive to ignite the seal, the outside pressure will-"

"Blow the window in!"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Fitz yells jumping up and down with Simmons after they both figured out the plan. "This really hurts my arm."

The biochemist starts laughing a bit but takes the engineer's good arm to sit him down on the floor of the pod.

"Let's get to work."

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Parker looked up to see his wife pacing while on the phone. Skye was still waiting for an answer on the other end after dialing the number.

"Yeah?" The phone said after it goes through.

"Hi, John." Skye says in a happy tone.

Parker just rolled his eyes and punched in the last few keys he needed. His wife seemed to good at anything.

"Just calling to catch up." She tells the phone.

"Skye?"

"I'm curious to know why I'm calling from your soldier command center."

Parker shook his head after the handler looked over at him. He raised his hands in the air and whispered with a smile on his face.

"I have no clue."

"You see, if anyone but the assigned handler gives a directive to one of my men, well, kaboom." Skye heard Garrett say on the other line.

"Oh darn. Coulson didn't think of that. I think you might of outsmarted us." The hacker snapped her fingers and spun around to face Parker.

"So Phil is around?"

"We actually have a lot to discuss."

Skye heard a mhmm noise from Garrett and waited for his answer.

"Oh, I wanted you to know your scientist friends they were brave until their last breath."

Skye looked at Parker wide eye and then turned around taking the phone off of her ear. She quickly snapped it and threw it on the ground hoping Andrew didn't see her do it even though he gone under the desk to fix a wire as she turned around before.

When she looked up, Skye saw the traitor of the team. Grant Ward was walking towards her with his gun drawn.

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Simmons watched as Fitz prepared the ventilator for them to use but was confused why only one was made so far.

"Now, when I press that power button The window will blow in, and water will rush inwards." Fitz tells her as he looks up at her.

"Yeah, which is gonna be like The wind's gonna be knocked right out of us." Simmons tells him cautiously.

Fitz took a deep breath and began to wonder if this was the right choice. He knew he had to protect Simmons and even if he didn't survive it, she would still have Andrew. He began to wonder too what Andrew might of done but that probably would have end different then what he was thinking.

"Now, this is near empty, but I've rigged it to let out a burst of very high pressure, should force a breath into your lungs, but you have to hold on to it, okay? Hold on tight." The engineer tells the biochemist. "Should be enough to get you up the 90 feet or so."

"One breath? But there's two of us." Simmons looks at him worriedly.

"Yeah, I've done the math. That's why you're taking it." He tells her. "You're a better swimmer, anyway."

"No!"

There's tears coming down both of their faces. Fitz knew this was probably his last chance to tell the biochemist how he felt about her exactly.

"We're not discussing it, Jemma."

"Why? You're my best friend. Your Andrew's too."

"Jem, you're much more then that to me."

"What?"

"You've been the one since we first met. The day I saw you in class, way before you and Andrew got together." He tells her. "I even fell more for you after Andrew left. I was there at your worst."

"Fitz."

"I just never could tell you. I knew how much you loved Andrew."

Simmons quickly kissed around Fitz's head and looked straight into his eyes.

"You don't have to do this."

"I have to. It's the only way."

Before Simmons could respond, she was given the ventilator and Fitz was pressing the button to let the window blow out. By the end of it all she was gasping for air yelling for help. The biochemist thought she was dreaming when she saw a man that looked closely resembled to the one and only Nick Fury.

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Skye watched as Ward kept inching forward toward her. His gun was drawn but she knew he probably wouldn't shoot her.

"You won't shoot me." She said bluntly.

"I probably won't if you decide to join me and Hydra." Ward tells her.

Skye just laughed. Why would she do that? She was happy with S.H.I.E.L.D. and her husband was apart of it too. She had no reason to leave.

"I feel sorry for you betraying the only people who gave you a chance at being a decent human being. Fitz was a hero because he still wanted to give you that chance after everything."

"People change."

Parker grabbed his gun when he heard Ward start talking. He pulled him self up from the desk and began slowly walking towards them.

"Sure they do." He says. "Back away from my wife, traitor."

"Your wife?" Ward questions with a smirk. "This is the nerd you're married to, Skye?"

"If heard all about your recent moves, Ward."

"You look like you've built up some muscle, Parker. You don't look like that scrawny boy anymore when I kicked your butt back then."

"Still snarky as ever."

"I'm not afraid of you, Ward." Skye says. "I can defend myself since is your just weak."

"Skye, be careful." Parker tells her.

"You should listen to your husband, Skye." Ward says laughing. "Let me just do this to see you defend yourself."

He takes one hand off his gun and before Parker knows it he's falling to the ground with a loud thump. Skye looks over at Andrew and then back at Ward before running towards her husband.

"Andrew!" She screams rushing to his side hoping its not too late.

And there you have it. Chapter 12 is now up with a cliffhanger. There will be one more part to Beginning of the End before the start of second season parts start. Some of the FitzSimmons scenes, are actual wording since they talk some science and I just want to say I don't own that part. Let me know what you think, give ideas by leaving a review. I am always looking for input. I'll hopefully have the next chapter up sometime with Thursday or Friday.