Chapter 17
Andrew Parker looked out into distance. His newest mission wouldn't let him be able to go home. Well not any time soon at least. The agent's current home was a small apartment that had one bedroom but a decent size living room and kitchen. All he could say about it, was that he was glad it had a balcony. Somewhere for him to go out to after a hard day work to go out and think.
"Andrew, dinner time." He heard Jemma say pushing the door open to the balcony.
Parker turned around carefully to see one of his best friends behind him. To him, it was the only good thing about newest mission. He wasn't alone to carry it on.
"Be there in a second." The agent told the biochemist with a small smile.
Jemma only nodded and closed the door to walk back to the kitchen. Andrew revealed what he held in his hand, something that Jemma didn't know about. He squished the cigarette in the coffee can and then placed it in a small compartment he found in the wall. It was a nasty and bad habit he picked up with Miles after he and Jemma broke up. He stopped once he met Skye but it always seemed to pick it up when he was on missions for a long period.
The thought of his wife only made him wonder what she was up to right now.
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As Skye repelled down rope Trip sent down for her, the hacker had two things on her mind. The mission and what she wanted to write down for Drew. Currently she had a growing list of what she wanted to tell him when he got back to her.
When she finally got her feet planted, Skye made sure tuck the locket Drew got her as a surprise a few weeks before he knew was leaving. The hacker hadn't taken it off since she got it, except to shower.
"If you ever start to miss me, just remember I'll always be with you." He had told her after she first got it.
Drew had stuck one of their wedding photos inside to where she was on one side and he was on the other. When you opened it, the photo was complete.
Skye found herself opening it a lot. She missed her husband that much.
When May jumped in next to her, the hacker got a little spooked. She was distracted only a little but should of knew May was coming in after her.
"You should be careful, Skye. You don't need to be distracted." May told her.
"I know, it won't happen again." She tells her before pulling out a small notebook.
Skye was going to write down something for Drew but was quickly stopped when both her May saw a man swoop in as their doing their watch.
Lance Hunter is the first one to pull out a gun and shoot but misses as Isabelle Hartley throws her knife getting the man just a little bit. That's when Skye, May and Trip come in. Both her and Trip have guns drawn ready to help but they lose the man before they get to them.
"What the bloody hell was that!?" Hunter screeches at them.
"A third party, it looks like." May comments.
Skye looks over to where Trip ran over to. He was trying to follow the man but the specialist looked to unsuccessful.
"Twenty-five foot drop! Looks like we've lost him." Trip yells.
"I thought this was supposed to be our mission? Why are you here?" Hartley asks.
"We're your backup. Which it looks like you needed." Skye explains.
"So did he."
The hacker can tell that Hartley is mad once she calls into the base. Skye pulls a fragment off the floor of the warehouse placing it in a small container and sticking it back in her pocket of her tactical suit. She then pulls out her notebook watching as Hunter begins to complain to May about what has happened.
Tip: Don't get Isabelle Hartley mad when you come back.
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The ride back, Skye hates. The new mercenaries keep arguing with each other and with May about the mission. All Skye wants to do is just curl in a ball hoping that Drew could hold on to her. Of course that wouldn't be the case since he was still gone.
When they get back onto base, Billy Koenig is waiting for them. He addresses May and the mercenaries first before approaching Skye. He tells the others that Coulson would like to see them and that he's in his office.
When Billy walks up to her, she puts on a smile. She hopes he has heard from her husband.
"Any word today?"
"Just the simple message that he loves you. Was a very short transmission today."
"Thanks, Billy. I really needed to hear that."
It puts Skye in a better mood before walking into the den with the others. She sees that May is already half way up the stairs when the hacker reaches her backpack. She wants to get the fragment checked by Fitz before she does anything else.
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Jemma and Andrew decided to explore the town after dinner. They had already been there a month yet they only knew where work and the gym, Andrew was going to was. Plus they had needed to find a pay phone so they could talk to Coulson.
"Only use a dead drop for now on. There's not enough pay phones around." They both heard Coulson tell them before hanging up.
Andrew had been leaning close to Jemma while she held the phone. The biochemist put the phone back on the hanger and then glared at the agent.
"Can't you learn to shave? You kept on scratching me with your bloody facial hair." She complained.
For the mission into Hydra, both of them changed their appearance just a little bit. Jemma had gotten a hair cut while Andrew wouldn't shave for a few days and started wearing glasses.
"Its not that bad. I'll shave it tonight before bed." He told her.
"You better. It's terrible."
They continued walking for a bit until they came across an ice cream shop. Both scientists had only ate a few hours before but a small dessert was nice to have on a cool day.
Jemma had decided to get them a cup of ice cream to share while Andrew looked for a seat. When he finally got one, he pulled his father's dog tags out from his shirt that also held his wedding ring to Skye. It had been hard for him to put it back with the dog tags. Coulson had given him a new wedding ring that would go along with the one that Jemma wore. When he saw the biochemist come out of the building, he put them back, fixing his shirt also.
"Here you are, sweetie." Jemma says giving him a kiss on the cheek as she hands him a spoon.
He looks at her with a raised eyebrow for only a second until putting on a smile when she sits down. Andrew had realized what was going on. A few of the Hydra agents they worked with were out and about. There was one that was watching them.
"Thanks, babe." He answers.
Andrew sticks the spoon in the cup and begins to scoop out a bit to eat. He really began to hate this mission.
Sure he was acting as a guard whose wife was a scientist but having other Hydra agents sometimes watch them while they were out was one of the reasons why they sometimes stayed in the apartment.
"This job sucks." He says with a smile only to get Jemma laughing to distract their watchers.
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After Skye took the sample to the lab, she watched Fitz from the window. She watched his movements for a bit to see how he was doing. The hacker had promised her husband that she would watch over the engineer but she feared he was moving backwards.
Skye hadn't really thought into it much for a few days until she heard Drew's name come out of his mouth. Then she heard Jemma's name come out and that's when she realized it. Fitz had started talking to them in his head.
"What's the word? Andrew?" Fitz paused. "Fluctuating, oh yes."
"Please don't touch anything." The engineer said again.
Skye ran her fingers through her hair. She wasn't sure how to approach Fitz exactly. It wasn't May walked up to her and stood by her.
"How is Fitz doing with the metal you found?"
"I'm not sure. I keep hearing Simmons and Drew's name like he's talking to them."
"It's like he's gone backwards since they both left."
"I know. He's not the only one missing Drew."
"He'll be back before you know it." May tells her. "I'm going to go talk to Fitz.
Skye watched as her S.O went into the lab. She watched for little bit longer until she left to go back to her room.
When the hacker got into her room, she immediately went to the closet where Drew kept his clothes. She grabbed out an old Jake Peavy Padres shirt and changed into it. Skye liked that it still smelled like her husband. She would then leave to go lay on the holo table and try to figure out what Coulson was writing. But first she pulled out her notebook.
I love that most of your shirts still smell like you. Especially the Padres one.
There's part one of shadows. A little bit harder to write and to add in Parker and Simmons I hope it's a unique add in. Please let me know what you think by leaving a review. If you have ideas also please let me know. I do have a few exciting ideas that will be eventually added in but I would love to see what have.