Chapter 16

Leo was okay, the only guy he thought of as a brother was okay. Jemma was okay too. Andrew had been told she pulled Leo with her to the top of the water before Nick Fury pulled them to safety. An exact story of what he saw when Ward tried to kill him.

Currently Andrew was sitting up against the wall waiting for his turn to take the test Billy was giving them so they could be official S.H.I.E.L.D team members. He felt like there was nothing to worry about as he was as loyal to them as Coulson was.

His wife Skye, had left him for a bit to go talk to Jemma about getting something made so he could figure out why he was seeing things. He could tell Skye thought it could just be a side effect from holding the staff. That maybe nothing was wrong with him entirely.

Andrew waited for a little bit longer for Trip to be done. Skye still hadn't came back yet. He wasn't concerned as the agent probably thought she got caught up with talking to the biochemist.

Trip eventually came out holding a badge smiling giving Andrew a high five as he stood up waiting for Billy to tell him it was time to begin the test. Once Trip left the hallway, he saw Skye quickly walking up to him attaching herself for a hug. She whispered good luck, I love you before letting go so he could follow Billy into the room.

The agent all of a sudden became nervous as he entered the dimmed room. He thought for sure he wouldn't have anything to worry about but over thinking got to him.

"If you could just take a seat in that chair for me, agent Parker." Billy told him before starting the system within the table he was using.

Andrew did what he was told and waited for the questions to start rolling in. He had a nervous habit of taping his fingers against the arm of the chair but once Billy asked the first question, it stopped.

"State your full name."

"Andrew Daniel Parker."

"Your family?"

"My wife, Skye Parker. My mom, Sara and my step-father, James Lydon. My dad died in the war shortly before I left for the academy in 2004. Then there's my step-brother, Miles. My aunt is commander Maria Hill. And finally, I also consider Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons as family."

"Why do you consider agent Fitz and agent Simmons family?"

"Leo is like a brother to me. We've always called each other that after we met each other at the academy. Jemma will always be family even though we've since broke up."

"What do you know about project insight?"

"I saw it happen on TV. It was pretty scary to watch with my mom, both of us knowing that Maria was down there trying to help stop it."

"Have you had any contact with Alexander Pierce?"

"I've only met him once. I had been visiting Maria and he stopped to talk to her. It was a year or so after I started at the academy,"

"If you were stuck on an island and you spot a box, what is in the box?"

"Skye. I hate that I was gone from her for awhile but if I was trapped I would spend every moment with her."

His mind was racing after he said her name. It started to fill with other options he could take.

"You sound like there's something else."

"If this this was a magical box, I would hope it would bring me back my dad actually." Andrew paused. "I would love to be able to tell him about what has happened in my life. About Skye and FitzSimmons."

"That would be some magical box. I'd probably ask for Eric also."

Billy continued with a few more questions before determining that Andrew was fit for S.H.I.E.L.D. He was given a badge with a lanyard attached.

The agent walked out of the room before being attacked once more by his wife after showing her his badge. They shared a kiss and eventually he heard Skye telling him to go back to their room and get a shower. She then followed it up with telling him they would spend more time together.

Their attachment to each other earned a cough from Billy and soon Andrew was telling Skye that he loved her.

Before Andrew got to their room, he went past the lab finding Jemma working along side Trip but they didn't seem to notice he was watching. The agent tried to push everything away that was going on in his head. He needed to focus on Skye not think about his ex.

When he returned to the room, he immediately went to the bathroom with his bag that was once on the bed. Drew had known that Skye didn't like his hair so long. He had a few hairs that would stick up or begin to curl at the end. The agent decided he would cut it before he got in the shower.

Once he got in the shower, Andrew ran his hair through his short nearly faded style military haircut. It reminded of when his father would come home from basic training with a haircut like that when he was a young boy. It only took a few minutes to wash up before he got out. The agent took a towel drying himself, putting on the boxers and shorts he grabbed only to realize he forgot a shirt.

Walking out of the room, he found his wife sitting on the bed. He was still trying to dry his head since he felt like water was still dripping. When he removed the towel, Skye saw what he had done and walked up to him, placing one arm on his shoulder before running her other hand through the hair he had left. She smiled and then placed her arm around his neck with the other one.

Skye smiling towards him had Andrew being sent a shocked type feeling that sent him over the edge. He immediately kissed her and waited for her to kiss him back before pushing his wife towards the bed. Once they both landed safely, he began to remove her plaid button down so he could have better access.

Andrew wakes up early in the morning. He sees Skye laying there leaned up against him never wanting to let go. He missed this, all of it. It had been awhile since he and Skye did anything since the night they got married. Eventually he got up, leaving his wife to sleep while he got dressed. The agent would leave a note for her before he trekked off to visit Fitz in his recovery room.

Andrew was technically the only child in his family. Even though his mother got remarried to James, him and Miles never really got around to feel like they had a brotherly connection. Sure Miles would help him out sometimes but their relationship wasn't like how brothers should be. Drew had more of a sibling connection with Leo more then anyone he knew.

Leo was only a few months younger then Andrew and sometimes it showed especially when they were at the academy. He always tried to use it to his advantage, that was how he met Jemma. Andrew somehow couldn't say no when Leo began his rants.

They first started referring each other as brothers after their first year of the academy ended. They had spent part of the summer in England with Jemma when they got yelled at by her mother for trying to blow things up in the backyard. Mrs. Simmons had said they acted like they knew each other for a long time and like each other's brother neither one of them had. Since then they told each other everything. Well almost everything.

Andrew was sitting in the chair next to Leo's bed watching as the engineer couldn't do anything. He thought his brother looked so helpless. Currently Andrew was in the middle of telling him another story about him and Skye.

"You know one day, I'm going renew my vows with Skye. I don't know what day but when I do, Leo, I want you to be there. I don't want it to be like before, it doesn't need to be a secret wedding." Andrew paused watching as Fitz breathed up and down slowly. "I need you you to be my best man, Leo. I won't take no for an answer."

The agent just sat there. He didn't realize that Skye had been outside in the hallway watching. She had found his note and walked down there after she got dressed. It took awhile but when she came in, the hacker placed a hand on his shoulder. Looking up, Drew smiled and reached for it.

"How much did you hear?"

"Just the last part. I think Fitz would love that idea."

A few days later, Andrew woke up sore from his sparring match with Skye. He didn't realize it had happen until he got up quickly out of bed with his phone alerting him that Fitz woke up finally from the accident a few hours before. Skye had laughed at him saying it was karma for trying to fake his shoulder injury with her. She eventually helped him get stretched out before running to Leo's room to see him.

Jemma was already there coming out of the recovery room. There were a few tears in her eyes and Andrew worried something was wrong with Fitz. When he tried to come near her, she shook him off, telling him she didn't want to be bothered and then ran off.

Drew stood in the hallway for a few seconds before going in, actually seeing that Leo was okay. He was just laying there trying to figure out what was wrong with him. When Fitz notices Andrew, he gets a look on his face. It's probably just the haircut, he thinks. He knows it's been awhile since Leo saw him with short hair.

The first words out of Leo's mouth surprise him.

"I think. I think I might like that."

"Like what?"

"To be your, um what is it?" Fitz pauses. "Your best man."

That puts a smile on Andrew's face. He had actually heard him.

Coulson calls him in his office towards the end of the month. Something about he wants him to go undercover for Hydra. After the newest director explains what is going on, all he could think of was leaving Skye once again, pretending to be in a relationship with Jemma. Married to be exact.

Andrew by the end, is furious. He's not entirely sure why he is. Maybe it's because he's leaving Skye again and his feelings for Jemma that still go around in his head sometimes.

"What am I going to tell Skye? You know I'll be leaving her again." He asks.

"You tell her, you're just recruiting new agents. Skye doesn't need to know what this mission actually is."

"You've obviously never been married before, Coulson. This is idiotic!"

They continue to argue with each other until Andrew eventually agrees to go. Coulson tells him their applications have already been sent in and have been approved. There was going to be no way out anyway, Andrew would have to go.

That night, Andrew is called back into Coulson's office to only find out he will be leaving sooner then what they said. He must first escort Jemma back to London first for a short absence before they leave for Hydra. Coulson says this works because Andrew can then meet with Lance Hunter, who he's tracked there.

Leo healed much faster then they expected. He has started to walk again but his speech is still taking awhile for him to comprehend. Andrew tries to keep himself distracted from how to explain to Skye that he's leaving by helping Fitz.

Leo is in the middle of trying to explain to Andrew what he took apart in the lab. It was just something simple but a few times he got stuck so Andrew had to supply the word. Eventually it got to where he was talking about Jemma after they saw her walking by. That's when he heard Fitz mumble something he didn't expect.

He eventually caved in and told Skye what was going on minus the Hydra part. She didn't need to know that part as she probably wouldn't let him go. The agent already knew once he said was leaving that Skye didn't want him to go. They would cling onto each other until he left staying in their room, watching old movies that Andrew used to watch with his father that Skye missed out on. Or taking break from that to have sex with each other.

The morning of, Skye helped Andrew pack the last of his bags before finding themselves by the door. Leo had saw and met them over there. He was told by May that both Parker and Simmons were leaving and that Andrew would be back as soon as he was done recruiting. Drew knew May wasn't told their real mission.

Skye told him good bye giving him a hug and a kiss. Andrew got a hug from Fitz and soon after he found himself in the car with Jemma driving to be airport. That ride was was quiet for awhile until they got into the airport parking lot an hour later.

The agent was surprised that the biochemist let him pick the spot to sit before they took off for London. He had ended up by the window watching the planes go by. At one point when he looked next to where he was standing, Drew thought he saw his dad standing next to him with a younger self sitting on his shoulders. The agent wanted it so badly to be real as he tried to reach out and touch them.

Eventually he took a seat right in front of the window. Andrew would sometimes look back at Jemma to make sure she was alright. The biochemist would smile and sometimes wave back. About twenty minutes before they could board, Andrew was joined by a little boy, whose mom was sitting next to Jemma striking up a conversation.

The little boy introduced himself as Jonathan after his mom said it was okay. The agent then introduced himself also telling Jonathan, his name was Drew. They began talking about the different planes coming in and out of the airport and Andrew recognized the excitement that Jonathan had was similar to what he had when Daniel would talk to him about planes.

The flight was then announced for Andrew and Jemma. They wished the mother and her son a good flight before heading towards the line to board. When they got on the plane, Andrew took the window seat like he normally would and buckled in. He thinks it surprises Jemma a bit when the agent reaches for her hand to hold as they begin to take off. Drew wasn't with Skye, he didn't have her to distract him however she does it.

He ends up waking up after they land, Jemma is trying to get him up. Once they are off the flight, the biochemist is pulling him through the airport with a smile. He knows she missed being home. Andrew hadn't been to London since that one time during the summer back in their academy days.

Mr. and Mrs. Simmons are waiting for them by the luggage conveyer. They of course hug their daughter first before addressing him. Mr. Simmons gives him a hand shake and Mrs. Simmons just sets her hand on his shoulder telling him, they are happy to see him. But he knows that's not the case. They already know about the break up a few years ago, the loss of their first grand child.

By the end of the first week, Andrew fixes almost everything Jemma's parents give him. They know he's a scientist and that he should be able to fix them, which he ends up finishing all of them. His last thing was fixing up the fence that Mr. Simmons couldn't do since it involved repairing the metal wire.

"Was this Jemma's idea to come home or yours. Did you get her to go home?" Jemma's father asked coming out with a glass of water for Andrew.

"It was hers. I'm just the escort."

Mr. Simmons doesn't push anymore questions out after he leaves the water. He just turns and goes back into the house.

There's a night where Jemma finds him siting on the roof near her bedroom window. She joins him, seeing that he's nursing a beer as he looks up at the stars. They don't say much but when she tells him sorry about dragging him away from Skye, he says it's fine.

Andrew tells her that he misses Skye and he's surprised when he hears that Jemma misses Fitz after he's crawling back through her window before heading to the guest room he's staying in.

Drew gets a call from Coulson one morning a few days before they are to leave. He tells the agent that he needs to talk to Lance Hunter in London. So Andrew leaves Jemma with her parents and takes a cab up there.

He finds Hunter in a bar with a beer in hand cheering on the latest soccer match or what Hunter called football. Andrew is lucky that Hunter is only on his first beer when he walks up to him, showing his older badge that Coulson gave back to him for this.

"So your from S.H.I.E.L.D. eh. Thought that went down in D.C?" Hunter questions.

"Here and there. Director Coulson asked me to tell you he requests your presence." He tells the mercenary.

"Very well."

Andrew tells Hunter when and before he leaves, the mercenary gets him to stay to watch the game until the half. When the agent finally leaves, he's walking down the street trying to get cab before he runs into agent Robert Gonzales and agent Bobbi Morse.

"Bobbi?" He questions.

"Parker, what are you doing here?" She says surprised when she realizes it's him.

"Official business. I'm actually heading back to Jemma's house."

Andrew had met Bobbi and Gonzales on one of his shorter missions before he and Jemma had broken up. They had been great help to the young agent at the time. Gonzales was leading the team while Bobbi helped him with some of the gadgets.

They talk for a bit. Most of the conversation was catching up with each other.

"If you ever need a team to join, please let us know." Gonzales tells him. "I know Hydra's recent appearance has done nothing good."

Andrew thanks him but declines for now. He was content with what he had right now. Coulson's team was where his wife was, there was no reason to leave.

The agent gets back to Jemma's parents' house just in time for dinner. The next day turned into Friday and as soon as it ended they would fly back to the U.S. arriving in Delaware. By Sunday they were arriving at their new apartment the two would be living at.

A small one bedroom apartment with a decent size kitchen and living room. They only had one bathroom and that was attached to the bedroom. Obviously Coulson wasn't thinking when he got this set up.

"You can take the bed tonight." Andrew tells Jemma after they both take a look at the bedroom. "I'll take the couch."

Before he can let Jemma reason with him, he's already setting his bag by the couch before stepping out on the balcony and closing the door behind him. He checks his bracelet that was monitoring his heart and brain waves. The agent missed his wife and pulled out his phone to find the screen saver on his background. Sure he had to play the part of Jemma's husband during work but here he was going to have to find an escape route somehow. Andrew had to keep telling himself Skye was the only one now. Feelings for Jemma coming back were not going to be an option. He had to push her towards Leo, he was in love with her.

And that's the chapter. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. Season two scenes will begin in the next chapter. I'm very excited to use some of the ideas I have for it.