Chapter 27
Fitz watched as the team rushed around the bus, some of them moving items in the process. Hunter seemed to the one that moved the majority though. Mack on the other hand was working on one of the SUVs.
"Mack has impressive physique don't you think?" Simmons told him.
Fitz looked over to the side of him to see Simmons and Parker standing next to him.
"What?" Fitz asked.
"Don't you think so?"
"Bug off."
Parker laughs at his comment.
"I think it's kind of true. I mean look at him, that's a lot of man." Parker tells them.
Fitz just stares back at his friends.
"Well I guess, since you both are part of my subconscious and everything."
"That's true, Leo." Parker answers. "We aren't real."
Fitz groans.
"Fitz, you have real friends. You don't need us." Simmons says.
"But I miss both of you. I mean them."
When Fitz finishes talking, he notices both his friends have disappeared. The engineer realizes he is alone but not until Skye and Hunter are calling for him to come upstairs to the pods. His conscious was correct, Leo Fitz did have other friends.
27AOS27
After the meeting with Whitehall, Jemma leaves the Hydra building for her lunch break. She is by herself but she had to privately contact Coulson somehow. Seeing that Andrew never appeared at the meeting nor was with Bakshi, the biochemist knew there had to be something wrong. They both needed help.
When she got near the ice cream parlor that she and Andrew went when they first arrived on for the mission, the biochemist took a seat near the building. Jemma looked around the area and when she found herself alone, she took out a flex screen. Jemma needed back up to come.
SEND HELP. WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
After she sent out the short message, Jemma turned it into a wrapper that looked like it was from the taco place next door to the ice cream parlor. The biochemist gets up from the spot she was sitting in and goes over to throw it away in the trash can. There can't be evidence that she contacted the team in anyway right now.
27AOS27
When Skye comes back from her talk with Ward, she immediately goes to Coulson's office instead of going back to talk to Fitz and Hunter. The stories she was told by the former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent has her questioning almost everything she knows. Ward had told her that he knew her father and that he could take her to him. How he knew that for so long kind of baffled her. Skye had been searching for so long. Being told that Andrew's father was alive made her not believe anything he was saying today true.
Both Drew and his mother had told her that Daniel was dead. But when Ward said that Drew had Hydra ties, that's when she shut everything down. The hacker left the basement and went back upstairs so she could see Coulson. She didn't need Ward to confirm what she and Coulson had already found out.
When Skye walks into the director's office, she finds him sitting at the desk holding a paperclip in his hand sketching something on it. When she gets closer to him, he slides a folder over it so she can't see it.
"Are you okay?" the hacker questions.
Coulson looks up at her. "I'm fine. Never better."
Skye takes another step towards the desk and removes his hand that sat on top of the folder. She then moves the moves the folder only to see that Coulson has been drawing the same design that she has been studying.
"You know Garrett was drawing this too and he kind of went nuts."
"I see you've been talking to Ward again." Coulson answers. "Believe me, I'm fine. May has been keeping a close eye on me."
"When did it start happening?" Skye asks.
"That first time I saw Garrett doing it."
"You both were injected with the same GH-325." Skye pauses. "And so was I, but I'm not drawing that anywhere."
Coulson only nods. He gets up from his desk and walks over to where she is standing.
"We had to monitor you to make sure you weren't." he says.
"What do you mean monitor?"
Skye takes a step back from Coulson and places her hand on her face running it across it.
"Each agent here has been watching you. Andrew kept a close eye on you before he left. Trip right now is in charge of making sure nothing like that happens."
"So what does that mean?"
Coulson takes a deep breath. "Maybe that means you have a different reaction. I believe Garrett and I had a negative reaction to the alien DNA in our system."
Skye looks at the director skeptically. "What are you trying to say then, A.C?"
"That possibly you're already alien."
Skye starts laughing. "You're joking."
"It's a theory."
Skye shakes her head. "Epic fail, director."
Before Coulson can respond to what Skye had just told him, May comes through the door without knocking.
"Phil, there's someone on the phone for you."
Coulson grimaces. "Now isn't a good time, May."
"Believe me, you'll want to take this."
Coulson walks back over to his desk and picks up his phone.
"Hello." He says after placing it on speaker.
"Agent Coulson, I do hope I'm not interrupting."
When Skye hears the girl on the other end of the phone, she immediately knows who it is. Raina. And all she can suspect is trouble that will follow in this phone call.
"I have information on two of your agents. I believe they are Agent Simmons and Agent Parker. I suggest we meet, if you don't want anything to happen to them."
The hacker gasps after she hears her husband's name roll off the sound of Raina's voice. This wasn't going to be good.
27AOS27
Andrew was gasping for air when he finally came to, waking up in the middle of the office he was in. Beside him was a woman in a red coat, helping him up so he could breathe better. When he looked up at her, he instantly knew who it was. The dark hair wasn't going to fool him this time.
"Bobbi." He said groggily.
"Hey there champ." She says. "How are you feeling?"
"Like how after I found out my wife was dead. But I didn't drink anything." Andrew groaned.
Bobbi was there when it happened. She just happened in a room across the hallway when she got a visit from Maria Hill at the hotel. Bobbi hadn't even known Andrew was drinking until about the second night when she got word from Gonzales. She had gone to check up on him but got told to leave him alone. A call to Maria changed that all when both her and Andrew found out that Skye had actually made it.
"Have you at least stayed away from beer since then?" the agent asked before pulling him up to his feet."
"Let's just say I've only learned half my lesson." He tells her.
Bobbi looks at him skeptically.
"How did you find me though?" Andrew asks before she can give him a lesson.
"Tracker on your gear. I have one on both you and the other scientist."
"Jemma." He tells her. "Who sent you?"
"That would be Director Coulson. He sent me a few days ago."
Andrew stretches and tries to fix his gear.
"Thank god. We kind of have a problem."
Bobbi gives Andrew an unsure look.
"What kind of problem exactly?"
Andrew picks the frame up off the ground that is near their feet. He flips it over and looks at the cracked glass.
"My dad is here."
"I thought your dad was dead?"
"I guess not. He's the leader of Hydra." Andrew tells the other agent. "My dad is Daniel Whitehall."
Bobbi takes a step back from the sci-specialist and gasps.
"That sounds like a huge problem." She tells him.
But before Andrew can say anything else, the pager on Bobbi's belt goes off signaling that there is a problem.
"I have to help Bakshi with this security issue. Can you make it out?"
Once Andrew nods, both of them are going their separate ways. But this time Andrew had to sneak around to get out of the mess they were in.
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A loud push through the doors to the lab makes Jemma perk up from the specimen that she is working on. When she looks behind her, there is a woman wearing a red coat and her hair is dark brown almost light at the end of it all.
It isn't until the woman announces that they have a traitor within the ranks of Hydra who has been sending messages to S.H.I.E.L.D. that Jemma begins to get scared. When the woman walks towards her, the biochemist feels sweat rushing down her face.
She's beginning to think this about Andrew not showing up and seeing Daniel Whitehall at that meeting.
"Hydra does not tolerate traitors." Bakshi says when he appears behind the woman. "Anyone caught in possession of contraband will be punished accordingly."
Jemma runs her hand through her hair and hopes that they don't find anything near her work space.
"Dr. Jemma Parker, it's nice to meet you." The woman says. "I'm guessing you're one of the guard's wife."
Jemma takes a deep breath before answering.
"I go by Dr. Simmons actually when I'm making scientific enquiries, ma'am." She tells the woman in red.
"Very well. This is quite an impressive résumé ... S.H.I.E.L.D. academy, top of your class, two PHDs in very advanced fields. It even says here you spent time in the field as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Is that correct?
"Yes, for a short time." Jemma gulps. "Both my husband and I have."
"You've been in Hydra for a short time though." The woman tells her. "But you've been connected to S.H.I.E.L.D. in more ways than others."
"But to be honest aren't most Hydra agents now ex-S.H.I.E.L.D operatives?"
"Who were working for Hydra long before S.H.I.E.L.D. had ever fallen."
Jemma can't comment on that fast enough because when she gets ready to the woman in red is being called over to one of the work spaces near hers.
She begins to worry that she's in trouble until they begin questioning her partner Kenneth.
"That's not mine." He begins to say. "I've never seen that in my life. I'm loyal to Hydra."
It doesn't look pleasant as Kenneth is being taken out of the lab. Jemma only sighs in relief that it isn't her in that position. It only means she can stay a little bit longer.
27AOS27
Shortly after the whole scene in the lab occurred, Jemma made her way to the bathroom. She needed to relax and try to calm herself down. The biochemist needed to find Andrew too, she just wasn't sure how she going to.
The biochemist wondered also if Andrew had actually known that his father was here. Did Coulson know the situation before he sent them there? She wondered all of this while sitting in a bathroom stall.
Before exiting the stall, Jemma made a fist and a hit the wall beside her. Not at full force though, she wasn't stupid enough to do that. The biochemist didn't need an injury.
When she finally opened the door, Jemma caught a glimpse of red standing right next to her stall and jumped.
"Don't you seem nervous." The woman in red said.
"Maybe it has to do with you standing right outside my stall. Isn't that kind of creepy and stalkerish?"
"Not really." She answers. "Bakshi informed me that you and Kenneth were lab partners."
"On a few assignments maybe. That's about it."
"Did you or your husband plant those flex screens in Kenneth's desk?"
Jemma looked appalled.
"No, I haven't seen my husband since the other night. I never saw him before I left for today."
"So agent Parker could have done it. We never did find anything with his locker."
"Did you even see him today?" Jemma questioned.
"That's classified. Just remember that Hydra is everywhere."
With that the woman in red turned around and left the bathroom leaving Jemma alone once again. She began to wonder what the woman in red had known herself.
27AOS27
"Give Skye what she wants or agent Parker and agent Simmons dies." Skye heard through the com piece she had in her ear.
Both her and May were in another area of the restaurant listening in on what Raina and Coulson were talking about.
The hacker is about to leave the room when May stops her from attempting.
"Stand down, Skye."
"If I do that, Simmons or Drew might get killed. I don't think I could ever live with that." She tells her supervising officer. "I can't go through what Drew did when he thought I was dead."
"We're not going to let that happen, Skye. We will get them out alive."
"I have to."
"Are you not listening? Coulson has a plan."
Skye tries to break out of May's grip but it's too strong.
"He also carves alien markings on his desk so maybe his judgement isn't as it used to be."
May gives the hacker a disapproving look before they both realize it's all too late. The timer had ran down to its final seconds.
"No. Oh my god." Skye says. "Drew."
When May leaves her side to talk to Coulson, that's when she makes her move. Skye runs towards the building that Raina had claimed that her father was staying in.
When she gets there, the area is dark so she pulls out her gun and attaches the flashlight to the top of it. The hacker kicks through one door and finds herself in a lab. It's pretty much empty except for a few items but she can tell that it was recently used.
Walking around the room surveying it to make sure she was the only one there, Skye finds a frame lying down on the ground. A man that she assumed was her father was holding a small baby. Skye placed her hand on the glass and sighed. She did have a family.
After staring at the frame for a few minutes, she feels a hand on her shoulder and immediately jumps only to find that Coulson is right behind her.
He takes her in his arms for a hugs and from what she can tell by his whispering, everything is going to be all right, that she has a family with S.H.I.E.L.D, and that she has Andrew.
When May and Hunter come in the room to say they've found two dead bodies, Skye determines that her father is monster just like her husband's father is.
27AOS27
After the bathroom stop, Jemma makes it back to the lab. All she can hear is beeping and everyone is currently staring at her. On one of the monitor screens is a picture of her sending a message to S.H.I.E.L.D.
A sudden push of the doors reveals Bakshi coming towards her. She should have realized this would happen after earlier when they found the flex screens.
Jemma knocks over the chairs and whatever she can find to stop them from trying to capture her. Somehow she manages to make out of the lab and down the hallway.
The hallway is way too long in her opinion and when she turns the corner, the biochemist is rushing to stop so she doesn't run into the woman in red with the guards next to her.
That all changes though when the woman in red takes out her battle staves to take out the two men next to her.
"Not that I'm happy and grateful that you've saved me but who are you?" Jemma asks when the woman is finished.
"Bobbi Morse. I'm a friend of Andrew's. Coulson sent me in to help."
"Well you did a spot on job." Jemma answers.
"We need to get out of here and find Andrew." Bobbi says.
This brings panic in the biochemist.
"Where is he?"
"He's around here somewhere."
They both continue down the hallway until they find an exit they could take.
"Wait here." Bobbi tells her.
She does what she is told while listening for Bobbi to eventually give her the signal. That changes though when she sees Andrew flying through the corner towards her.
"Jemma, we have to get out of here!" He yells. The agent has a few scratches on his face and some on his arms.
"Andrew." She says back.
When Andrew gets towards her, they both hear the guard that Bobbi was talking to come towards them only to be knocked out from behind.
"Agent Morse, thank you." Jemma says.
The agent nods.
"Please call me Bobbi." She says before looking at Andrew. "Hey there champ."
"Hey Bob, can you get us out of here." Andrew says pushing the two ladies towards the exit. "Bakshi was right on my tail."
"Yeah, of course."
The three agents run up towards the fire escape that lead up to the roof. Within minutes they are getting shot at by other Hydra agents.
"Southwest corner! Southwest corner!" Bobbi yells once they get up to the roof. "Andrew, do you have any weapons on you?"
"I managed to take a gun. That's about it." Andrew responds.
He pulls it out of the side of his tactical gear and takes the safety off of it.
"Jem, get behind me." He says.
The biochemist takes cover behind one of the chimneys that are located on the roof. The gun fire goes on for a few minutes until Andrew ends up close to running out of bullets.
"Andrew, we need to jump!" Bobbi yells.
The agent fires one of his last rounds before seeing that Bobbi and Jemma had already jumped. He gets his run going and when he jumps, Andrew is surprised by what he landed on. A ship to be exact.
The agent is quickly pulled in by Bobbi who is smiling at him.
"I got worried you weren't going to make it." She says.
"Me too." He answers.
When they are done exchanging words they are met by a confused Jemma Simmons.
"Oh, Bob this is Jemma. She was my pretend wife for the mission." Andrew explains.
Bobbi just laughs at the comment. "We've met. I have to say you sure know how to pick them."
Andrew groans. "Ignore her. She's just trying to play big sister right now."
"So you've met before?" Jemma asks.
"Unfortunately." Andrew laughs at his comment. "We were on a mission together when Skye got shot."
Jemma only nods watching as both her ex-boyfriend and new co-agent walked towards Trip who was piloting the plane. Andrew had other friends besides her and Fitz.
27AOS27
There isn't much of a welcome party when they arrive back on base. Both Coulson and May are there to greet them. Andrew is kind of surprised that Skye and Fitz are not there also.
"Agent Parker, Simmons we are happy to have you back on base." Coulson says when he greets them.
"It's good to be back director." Andrew tells him.
"Happy to be alive." Jemma smiles.
All of the agents walk farther down the hallway and eventually stop by the lab.
"If it hadn't been for agent Morse, I don't think Andrew and I would have made it out." Jemma tells Coulson and May.
"Bobbi is pretty amazing." Andrew says.
Coulson just chuckles at that.
"That's why May and I asked her to join the team. She is a great asset to the team."
Andrew looked around the base before settling on seeing Fitz in the lab. He had noticed Jemma looking over towards him.
"You should go talk to him." The agent nudged the biochemist.
"Are you sure I should?" the biochemist asked back.
Andrew only nodded telling her it was okay. When Jemma walked towards the door, she looked back at her ex-boyfriend and whispered thank you. He knew it was for keeping her safe and pushing her towards Fitz when she needed it.
When Jemma entered the lab, she found Fitz just standing there staring back at her.
"Hi Fitz."
A few seconds passed.
"Simmons, is that you?" the engineer asked.
"Of course. Who else would it be?"
"I can't believe your back. Is Andrew back too?"
Jemma nodded her head. "Yes, Fitz. We plan to stay awhile."
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Andrew stayed walking with the rest of the team for a little bit longer hoping to see if Skye was possibly in the rec room. Unfortunately she wasn't with them. He stood on the staircase for a little bit while Mack greeted Bobbi with a hug. He too was greeted with handshake from Mack also.
"She's in my office, if you're wondering." Coulson says coming up next to him. "I was trying to wait to tell you alone, but Skye had a rough day."
"So are you telling me to be prepared?"
"Kind of. It seems that you are not the only one with an evil father."
Andrew chuckles. It seems that he and his wife have more in common now.
"Okay, I'll go up there then and see her." he tells the director.
"You're a good guy, Drew. I'm sorry that you two have to go through this."
"We'll make it by."
"I was thinking, maybe you two could take a vacation. Possibly go home to San Diego or go see the World Series since your favorite player is in it." Coulson told him, eventually producing a couple of tickets from his suit's jacket.
Andrew smiled once he saw them. He would be able to see Jake Peavy play in the World Series since he missed the last one.
"Thanks Phil. I really appreciate it. Skye will too."
"Speaking of Skye, why don't you go up there and see her now." The director tells him.
Andrew smiles and nods, eventually running towards the director's office located on the upper level of the base.
When he gets there, the agent carefully opens the door. Andrew sees his wife looking outside from the window. He's almost made it towards her silently until he hits a creek on one of the old floor boards.
"I'm still not really in the talking mood, A.C." he hears his wife say.
"Even if it's me instead?" Andrew asks.
It takes only seconds for Skye to turn around and latch on to him for a kiss.
"You're back." She says after pulling away.
"Yeah, I'm back. I don't plan on leaving unless it's with you."
"Good." Skye says with a smile. "Come see this view."
The hacker pulls her husband towards the window and wraps him around herself. This all they both needed right now. With all the problems that were going on between them, they needed a break.
"Will you take a vacation with me?" Andrew asked.
"Anywhere with you right now, yes." Skye answers.
"Even to the World Series?"
The hacker turns around in her husband arms and starts laughing.
"I think we can manage that one." She says with a smirk.
"Good, because Phil already got the tickets. We head out in the morning."
"Fantastic."
They both stood there for a while watching the rest of the team hang out down in the rec room. It was no wonder that Coulson knew everything that was going on before he ever came down to talk. Both agents were happy again just to be together again.
Hey everyone, here is a new chapter. I kind of got a little carried away with this chapter so it's a two part chapter. Let me know what you think with a review. Also if you have any ideas for the vacation chapter, leave a suggestion for that too.