Leala watched as the morning sun rose above the blue horizon. A cool breeze caused her soft brown hair to move in front of her face. She loved watching the sunrise, especially being out on the sea it looked twice as beautiful. Closing her eyes she prayed for her sister's safe return.
"Leala!" Fury called. "Where are you, we need you inside!"
"I'm right here!" She said turning around to see him rush up to her. "Why am I needed on deck, sir? Did you find Adira's location?" She asked hopefully a smile smile curved upon her lips.
"No, we're expecting Dr. Banner and Rogers to land within the next two hours." Fury said looking down upon her with sorrow.
"Right, I'll be inside in a minute." She sighed turning back to the rising Sun. Fury walked next to her, placing his hands on the railings, not taking his eyes of the horizon either.
"As I recall Adira would try to spend all night looking up at the stars." Fury said gaining a slight smile from Leala.
"She always was a night owl."
"And you were always a morning bird." Fury said.
"We always were different." Leala sighed.
"We can't all be the same. Although you both had your disagreements on things, there's something you two will never stop sharing." Leala turned her head looking at Fury's profile, puzzled.
"And what is that?"
"Your passion for the greater good and your loyalty to those who matter." He said, turning to her. "Never have I witnessed either of you give up." He said in his motivational voice. "I'll be in the Communications Room." Fury said before walking off.
Leala took one more look at sunrise before leaving.
*TWO HOURS LATER*
Dr. Banner's jet had safely landed on the runway screeching to a halt, followed by Steve's aircraft. Leala walked over to Dr. Banner to greet him as Agent Romanoff greets Steve.
It wasn't long until Leala noticed something with him, he never kept eyes contact longer than a minute and he constantly fiddled with his hands. It must be difficult for him to be around so many people who know exactly who he is and what he's capable of after pretending to be an average doctor in a small town.
Steve and Bruce shake hands, exchanging a few words before Agent Romanoff asks them to step inside because of the lack of oxygen they'll be experiencing.
The Helicarrier then prepared itself to take off. The blades began to spin creating large whirlpools in the water, The deck begins to shake slightly as the Helicarrier gained air. Leala felt amused watching Steve's priceless expression.
Afterwards they walked to the main Helicarrier room (which is called 'The Bridge') to be formally met by Director Fury.
"Gentlemen." Fury says calmly as he walks in.
Steve's priceless expression was back as he surveyed the room, taking out his wallet and handing the Director ten dollars.
Fury then offers to shake hands with Dr. Banner, Leala noticed his reluctance. "Doctor, thank you for coming."
"Thanks for asking nicely." Dr. Banner said with a slight hint of sarcasm. "So, uh," he cleared his throat, "How long am I staying?"
"Once the Tesseract is located, you can leave." Leala said a bit more harshly than she attended.
"And where exactly are you with that?" He asked, returning the her sass. She didn't know precisely where they were.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." Agent Coulson said.
"That's still not going to find him in time." Agent Romanoff said a bit disappointed glancing at the computer.
"You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" D
"How many are there?"
"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays." He said, taking off his old tan coat and folding it into a ball. "I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work."
"Agent Romanoff, would you show to his laboratory, please."
"Agent Fury." Leala turned to the Director. "would you show Steve to his room, please." It wasn't a question, it was a command. She nodded her head and started to walk towards Steve's arranged room with him trailing behind her.
"Agent Fury?" He said. "Like Director Fury?"
"Yes." She said plainly.
"I didn't know he had kids." He said a little confused.
"I was four when they found me and took me in."
"Who's they?"
"My sister, Adira, and Fury. She's also adopted."
"Oh." He said quietly. "Is she also an agent?"
"Yes, but she's, she's not here." Leala said a little disheartened.
"Where is she then?"
Steve almost bumped into Leala when she completely stopped. Her chest began to tighten and a lumped formed in her throat. She remembered seeing her sister's body lay broken on the cold concrete floor the agony on her sister's face and how Adira told her to go. She fought back the tears and faced him. "She was… captured by Loki." She said taking in a deep breath.
"I know what's like." Steve said "But you have to keep going, fight the war for them, make sure they don't die in vain. Lucky for you she's not dead , there's still hope." He said giving her a smile.
She nodded her head, the rest of the walk was in silence. All that kept going through her mind was there still was hope, and her sister's a trooper she can make it through anything.
((I hope you guys like it :) this took a lot longer than it should have and I'm REALLY sorry about that. I've had a ton of school work and family matters to attend to but, I'm getting all of that under control so I can have more time to write.))