Chapter 13

Andrew Parker felt like he couldn't breathe. He felt like water was in lungs even though he was floating above it. He could see nothing for miles except two objects bobbing in and out of the water. The agent wondered what it was so he started swimming towards it. When he got closer, Andrew realized it wasn't objects but people.

"Jemma!"

Andrew looked at who she was holding. Fitz. He had his eyes closed.

"Leo!"

The agent kept yelling but couldn't get a response. Before long he heard helicopter noises and saw Nick Fury pull his two best friends out of the water. They were safe. They had to be.

Skye ran over to her husband as soon as she saw May swoop in and start a fight with Ward. The hacker slid over on the floor right next to Andrew.

"Drew!"

Skye began to unzip his jacket prepared to cover the hole the bullet may of caused.

"Andrew, please." Skye felt tears rushing down her face.

She was immediately relived when she saw the bullet proof vest was on under his plaid shirt. The hacker moved over to Parker's face and began to hit his face lightly.

"Drew, wake up."

After a few more seconds, Skye could see that Andrew was finally beginning to wake. He opened his eyes, and blinked a bit. Then he looked over at his wife.

"Hey Skye." Parker whispered.

"That's all you have to say? Drew, you scared me to death." Skye told him.

"I'm sorry."

"I didn't think you put on a vest. I thought you ignored my comment."

Andrew chuckled a bit and tried to pick himself up. When he finally got up to his feet, the agent held on to his wife for support so he could gain his balance.

"Of course not, I heard you. I know the risks."

Skye held onto him for a bit and then let go. The hacker was happy that her husband was okay. Parker's mind on the other hand was soaring. He couldn't exactly figure why or how he saw FitzSimmons in the water. The agent decided he would tell Skye later. First they had to complete the mission.

Parker looked over at the handler. It was time to find Ace but they needed Deathlok's handler since he still had the backpack.

"Hey let's go." He said grabbing his arm so the handler could lead them.

"What do you want with me?"

"We need you to lead us to something." Skye explained looking at her phone.

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When Simmons woke in a chamber, she felt that they were captured and seeing Nick Fury was all a dream. She began to move around as she wanted to get out but she couldn't.

"You're in decompression on a jet back to the mainland."

Standing next to her was the one and only Nick Fury. The biochemist couldn't believe her eyes. They were all told that the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was dead.

"You're supposed to be dead." She told him.

"Good." Fury laughed.

Simmons began to wonder about Fitz and where he was at. She hoped that he was okay somewhere alive. The biochemist was unsure what she would do with out him.

"Fitz? Where is he?"

"The engineer? I have a med team in with him right now since his heart is just barely beating." Fury told her placing a hand on the glass. "Looks like you saved him."

Jemma wanted to cry and run to Fitz so she could tell him she made it out. That they both did and that she was never going to leave his side. She tried getting up but Fury put a stop to that before she could do anything else.

"But you have to remain in this chamber, okay? His brain was without oxygen for a long time, but you saved him."

Simmons shook her head. "No, it was the other way around. He saved me."

"Either way, we were looking. That makeshift beacon of yours good thinking. Led us right to you."

Simmons looked at the director surprised. Fitz had told her, he didn't think anyone was going to find them but gave the transmitter a try anyway.

"You were looking?"

"For my man, Coulson. I understand you're involved in a dispute I might want to weigh in on. But first I'm going to get you to safety at one of my bases."

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As both agents walked down the hallway with the handler in close eye, Parker began to wonder if they were going the right way. He kept watching the handler who was unsure what to do with the backpack taped to him.

"Skye, are you sure we are going the correct way?" The sci-specialist questioned his wife.

The hacker turned around looked at her husband with her head tilted just a bit. She then shook her head.

"I don't know, you tell me. You're the one who set it up." Skye replied chuckling before starting to open doors.

The first one she opened revealed a woman who immediately saw the handler and went to him for a hug. Parker watched as they embraced and then went to go follow his wife.

Skye opened one more door to find a little boy waiting on a small bed.

"What are you looking for?" Parker heard the handler who he heard was named Kyle.

Before he could, Skye answered for him. "Our Ace in the hole."

The hacker walked into the room and kneeled in front of him.

"Hey Ace, it's going to be alright. I brought someone for you to meet."

Skye looked up at Parker who also kneeled down in front of the little boy. The hacker got up and walked out of the room to retrieve the bag that Kyle was still holding.

"Hello Ace. I'm Andrew but you can just call me Drew." Parker said trying to make sure he was all right. "Skye told me you love superheroes."

The agent saw Ace nod his head and smile. That made Andrew smile too as he felt like the little boy was going to be alright.

"I don't know about your favorite, but mine is Spider-Man."

"I like the Hulk." Ace tells him quietly.

"Well in that case, we have something for you."

Skye is standing by the door with an action figure in her hand and a relieved Kyle knowing that the backpack is not a bomb anymore. She walks towards them and kneels down next Parker place a hand on his thigh.

"Okay, Ace, I need you to give me a message, okay? Something your father would know could only come from you." The hacker says once Ace is handed the toy. "Just need to prove we have you now."

"It doesn't matter. I've already told you there's no way to communicate with Deathlok from in here." Kyle says from the doorway.

"She doesn't need to." Parker tells him.

"I've been communicating with him the whole time." Skye smirks.

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Skye and Deathlok stood upon one of the hills watching as Parker escorted Ace to his aunt down below. It put a smile on the hacker's face knowing that her husband was good with kids and that he would eventually be a great father. She could already see it when he hugged Ace good bye before he went to his aunt.

"Why don't you go to him?" Skye asked still watching Andrew.

"I don't want him to see what I've become." Mike replied.

"He won't care about your burns."

"It's not that."

"Coulson said to bring you in." Parker says coming up the hill.

Skye held out his hand for Andrew to take as he stood next to her. This was the first time he was meeting Deathlok but from what his wife told him, this was Mike.

"Agent Parker, you can access my hardware and watch my every move. Go ahead." Mike tells him. "I'll only be making amends for my actions."

"I get that you did this for Ace. He's a very special boy." Parker explained.

"Then you must understand why I won't go to him now."

Parker nodded his head. Ace was without a father just like he was shortly before he left for the academy. The agent understood what was happening. Both had protected something they loved. It was just for Ace his father was still around, hopefully eventually going to come back to him.

As Mike turned to leave the hill, Skye leaned into Andrew a bit. She knew his opinion as it was just about the same as hers but sometimes it can't end with a happy ending. Another boy loses his father and that was how it had to be for now.

"Why don't we go, Drew. Before A.C. decides to leave without us."

Parker tilted his head to kiss her temple. He knew they had to go, but wherever they were going, Andrew was glad he was with his wife.

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Skye led her husband through the bus once they boarded it. She could see that he was already fascinated with Lola after it got placed back on the ramp after being hid at the hotel.

"Don't touch Lola." She said coming back to get him before going up the stairs.

Parker started laughing. He didn't expect to hear that come out of her mouth.

"Don't worry, my uncle used to tell me the same thing about his car when I was little. But I can't remember the name of his."

"Your uncle?"

"Well my dad's best friend. Heard he died a few years ago."

"Oh, do you want to see the rest of the bus?"

Parker looked up at her since finishing admiring Lola and nodded his head.

"Lead the way."

The agent followed his wife up the stairs and she led him to bunk that he knew was hers. The distinctive hula girl that he got her shortly after they started dating as a joke sat on the ledge of the window. Her box of stuff was still sitting on the floor waiting to be put somewhere.

They both sat on the bed with Skye laying next to Andrew with her head on his shoulder as they sat in silence for a bit watching the clouds in the darkness from the window. This was the one time they both felt safe at the same time. Being with each other in each other's arms felt right.

After awhile Parker finally took in a deep breath that Skye felt as she looked up at him. He needed to tell her what he saw from after being shot by Ward and explain the Berserker staff to her more.

"Conor Daniel Leopold Parker." He finally said. "When I mentioned the staff when we got back to the jump jet, he was who I saw."

"Who is he?" Skye asked.

"My son maybe? A much older version of him? I'm not entirely sure."

Skye got up off his chest and sat cross legged on the bed in front of him. She started thinking what Andrew told her. They both knew each other's stories fairly well.

"Jemma was pregnant at one point, right?"

"Yeah before she lost it." Andrew said taking her hand. "I really didn't think of it much as anything after when May took the staff. I remember it changing to when I thought I lost you."

"It probably isn't much of anything."

"That's what I thought but after Ward shot me-" Parker saw Skye wince. "I'm sorry."

"I just don't want to vision that again." She told him.

"I know. But I'm alright, I wore the vest like you told me to."

Skye nodded. She was grateful that he ended up putting that on. The hacker didn't need with a bullet hole in his chest like she had but in her stomach.

"I saw Jemma and Leo in the ocean. They had been rescued by Fury."

They knew that Fury was on the plane to talk to Coulson. Neither one of them had made contact with them before taking off. They hadn't even got information about FitzSimmons. If they were alive, they weren't sure.

"Well that sounds like something." Skye says.

"I know. I think I might want to get a few tests done. Either that or something."

"Okay, we'll do that. I'm sure all of us will have to once we land where ever Coulson and Fury are taking us."

Parker was about to say something else but changed his mind when he saw Trip approaching them.

"Hey, I was wondering if you two were down for a movie? May told me it was going to be awhile."

Parker got up and reached out his hand to Skye so she could stand next to him.

"Sure. We'll be there in a second." Parker told the specialist.

"Alright, I'll get one set up."

Both Skye and Andrew stood there for a moment looking at each other before the hacker kissed her husband on the lips.

"It will be alright. We'll figure it out together." She told him.

"I had a feeling you might say that." Parker says with a smile.

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All five agents stood in the cargo hold waiting for the ramp to be brought down. They weren't sure where they landed but Coulson told them that he found the coordinates in the tool box he was given.

When the ramp was lowered, the found Jemma Simmons waiting for them. Both Andrew and Skye went over to her, both giving her a hug.

"Is Leo okay?" Parker asked his ex-girlfriend.

"He's alive." The biochemist responded.

"What is this place?" Coulson asked. "Another secret base?"

All of a sudden a man that looks just like Koenig appeared. Parker was confused as he thought he and Trip had carried him out of the rafters at Providence.

"I call it the Playground, although, technically, it doesn't have a name because, technically, it doesn't exist, it being a secret base and all."

"Eric?" Skye asked.

"Billy Koenig, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. although I totally understand the confusion. Eric passed away, sadly, but it's great to have company, finally, and I did not mind minding this place."

Parker saw Coulson hold out his hand for Billy to take who was super excited to meet him. He started taking a little too fast to understand but eventually slowed down.

"And it is an honor to meet you, sir! I'll get your lanyard shortly. For the rest of you, lanyards will be handed out on a case-by-case basis. Can't be too careful with all those Hydra threats still out there, causing trouble."

Parker knew there wasn't too many agents left because of Hydra. He had witnessed what happened in D.C on the tv when he was visiting his mother. This was probably the last of of them all.

"That's why we're here, get you up and running and back fighting the good fight, which is gonna be cool. I know we don't have much, but what we have is yours, sir."

He knew that since Coulson was now director, it was going to be time for S.H.I.E.L.D. to take a different approach to it all.

And that's chapter 13 which ends season one. Before I start working on season two ideas, I'm going to have either three or four chapters that are in Andrew, Skye, and Jemma's point of view as a connecting point to season two so we can see what happened for all of them before that all started. So if you want to see anything in those chapters, let me know. Give me ideas for them. Anyway, please leave a review and let me know what you think. I would love to see your input.