Chapter 26

Skye ran straight for Coulson's office once she found out what was on her computer screen. A solid match connected right to her husband. And all this time she thought it wasn't possible.

"That doesn't sound right, Skye." Coulson answers looking up from the paperwork.

"That's what I thought so too." Skye tells him. "But I had to advance search the data."

Coulson rubbed his hand across his forehead. He immediately shook his head once he looked back up at the hacker.

"If this true, I sent them both into a trap."

"You had no idea?"

Coulson stood up and walked towards the window. He stood with his hands behind his back and took a loud sigh.

"I was told by Maria that his father was dead. That her sister was the only one left Andrew had."

Skye continued to bite on her fingernail as she watched Coulson.

"Drew told me he died in the war shortly before he left for the academy."

"That's what I've seen in his file." Coulson answers back. "Do you think he knows?"

Skye shakes her head no. She remembered what her husband had told her back when they started dating. Andrew said he was mad almost all the time after it happened. He would isolate himself from others, wouldn't tell his mom what was wrong with him. Fitz later told her it took a month within the academy to finally to get him to open up. He and Fitz became best friends until they both met Simmons. Fitz even had told Skye that Jemma knew a lot about his past too, sometimes helping him get over it when Andrew fell backwards.

"I don't think so." Skye finally says. "What about Sara? Do you think she ever knew?"

"Let's try to leave her out of it until we know more."

Skye nods and looks at the papers again. She couldn't believe the resemblance between her husband and his father.

She couldn't believe Andrew's father could be the leader of Hydra, Daniel Whitehall

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Andrew stood in the middle of the office with his flashlight still on. The light casting a shadow on the man in front of him. The agent carefully watched as everything seemed to stop. The man with his greyish short hair and round glasses looked at him with a similar smile that Andrew had himself. He couldn't believe it.

"Dad?" Andrew found himself questioning.

Daniel waved back at him from the desk. "Yes, Drew."

Andrew dropped the flashlight on the ground and found tears running down his face. The agent couldn't believe it. His dad was sitting right in front of him. His father was alive.

"I thought you were dead." He whispers.

"I am truly sorry about the pain I caused you and your mother."

Daniel stands up from his desk and walks over to where Andrew is standing at. He places a hand on his check and smiles at him.

"You look so much like your mother." Daniel tells him again. "Drew, I should have never left you."

Andrew takes a deep breath.

"Why did you then? I needed you."

Daniel takes a step back from his son. "I know. But I needed to, it was meant to happen."

Andrew is angry now. How was that possible? That his father had to leave him and never be seen again until now.

"What do you mean it was meant to happen!?"

"I needed you to take this path. I needed you to join your aunt at S.H.I.E.L.D."

"You lead Hydra though."

"Yes, Drew. I lead Hydra. Eventually I wanted you to join me, I just didn't realize it was going to take this long to get you back."

"I will never join Hydra!" Andrew yells pointing at Daniel. "My loyalties have always been with S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Even now that you know that your own father is leader?"

"I won't leave my friends behind, my family."

Daniel walks back behind his desk and takes a seat. He clasps his hands together and takes a breath.

"So who is my new daughter-in-law? Is it that girl you've been sent with?" He questions.

"How do you know I'm married?" Andrew questions walking towards the desk.

"Sit please, Andrew."

Andrew somehow does what he is told and sits in one of the chairs across from the desk. He's curious now on what his father knows exactly.

Daniel just laughs a little bit before answering.

"Believe me, when I left you, I always kept an eye on you."

"Then you should know, dad."

Andrew's father smiles at him.

"You married a hacker. The biochemist you were sent with is your ex-girlfriend."

The agent shakes his head. He's discussing his marriage with his father who hasn't seen in over ten years. The dad he thought was dead. The person he wished sent him off before he got married.

"I wish you were there, dad. You should have been there." Andrew says. "For everything."

"Leaving you Drew, has been my biggest regret. I know I shouldn't have done it but it needed to happen."

"To get me on the path of Hydra? No."

Andrew leans forward towards the frames on Daniel's desk. He reaches for one and is surprised that his father doesn't do anything to prevent him from touching it. When he flips it around, the agent finds himself staring at a photo of a younger him with his mom and dad.

"You were about five when we took that photo." Daniel explained. "It's the only one I keep on my desk of my former life."

"This was from our trip from Disney." Andrew answers. "I thought we went when I was seven?"

"That's another story for another day, Drew."

"Does mom know you're alive?"

Daniel looks down at the ground before answering.

"I can't tell you."

"Why can't you, dad?"

Before Daniel can answer, there's a call from Bakshi coming through on the phone. The early meeting is ready for him. Daniel just responds that he'll be there soon.

"Dad?" Andrew questions.

The agent is completely ignored by his father as he fixes his suit. The Hydra leader walks towards the door and looks back at his son who is now standing in the middle of the office unsure what to do.

"I'm sorry son that I have to do this." Daniel tells him before walking out of the office shutting the door behind him.

Once the door is shut all the way, that's when Andrew notices the gas coming through the vents of the office.

"No. Dad!" Andrew yells before it's too late.

The agent is knocked unconscious on the ground dropping the frame in the process.

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Jemma Simmons looks into the microscope cautiously. Kenneth, her lab partner and supervisor stands next to her recording some of the information she has found and making small talk with her.

"Has he done this before?" Ken asks referring to Andrew.

"Left before I got up, yes. But he normally leaves a note or tells me the night before." Jemma answers. "It's so unlike him."

Ken writes down a few more notes on his notepad watching the specimen move around the Petri dish.

"Well he is a guard. They do get called out at random times."

Jemma just smiles and nods hoping that is the case. But when she hears Bakshi near them, she immediately looks to see if Andrew was with him. Unfortunately that wasn't the case.

"You two, with me now." Bakshi tells them.

They both leave their experiment where it is and follow Bakshi to a conference room down the hallway a ways down from the lab.

Bakshi just points at two seats and both take them with no questions asked. They are handed paperwork and Jemma looks through it.

She's on about the third page skimming it when Kenneth taps her on the arm. She gives him a stern look before he says anything.

"Oh my god." He says.

"What?"

Ken tilts his head towards the door where a man is talking to a women out in the hallway.

"That's Daniel Whitehall."

Jemma looks out the door and takes a look at who her lab partner is referring to. She can only see the side of his face until he decides to come inside the conference room. She thinks he looks familiar but she can't seem to remember where she saw him exactly.

The biochemist looks down at the paperwork she was given and listened to what Daniel Whitehall was saying.

"Doctor Simmons, is it?" Whitehall asks her.

Jemma looks up at the Hydra leader.

"Yes, sir."

"One of the guards told me told me you have a passion for these things. Where do you think the other doctor went wrong?"

"I don't think she did exactly."

"Please, clarify Doctor Simmons."

"Well it looks like we are dealing with alien technology." Jemma starts to explain.

When she finishes with her statement, the biochemist looks up to see Whitehall smiling back at her.

"Excellent. I see why Agent Parker likes you so much."

That's when it hits her. She remembers where she saw Whitehall from. The smile is a dead giveaway. It's similar to Andrew in a way. The biochemist has seen him in a few photo albums that Sara had shown her back when she was actually dating Andrew.

"Oh my god." She says.

She hears Ken sigh beside her. "He knows your name. Aren't you lucky?"

How was that possible? He's dead.

Andrew's father is Daniel Whitehall? No that can't be right.

All she knew was that she had to contact Coulson.

Here is chapter 26 for everyone. Let me know what you think. I have an exciting twist coming up.