I apologize ffor taking so long but, I fell off a runway horse on monday and couldnt even try to start this chapter. then the family and I headed out to the lake and I had no internet access.
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Chap 8- Darkest hour
I moaned and sat up,"What happened?"
Sammy was sitting next to me,"Coulson knocked you out do you wouldn't be in distress. He... He didn't pull through."
I felt tears of rage prickle at my eyes,"Damn it," I stood up and walked over to the wall before I punched it,"DAMN IT," I screamed. The wall indented. I stormed out of the room.
Sammy followed me,"Wait! Nicole! You shouldn't be up! You have a minor case of frostbite and you just broke a rib and fractured your-"
She stopped when I spun around to face her,"Stop. Just stop. You know what. There are a ton of records on this ship. So I'll heal faster than most. Sköll and Hati were taken from me. I don't need this. I have to go okay. Just... Just keep on eye on Haley, Lana and of you know where Kat is-"
Haley walked up,"We can't find Kat. We think she fell out of the helicarrier with Banner."
I momentarily lost the strengh in my legs and Haley jumped to catch me,"I hate this," Lana, Tasha, and Diana joined us. All of us were here but Kat.
Diana smiled sadly,"Nicole. They need you at the bridge."
Lana shook her head,"They need us ALL at the bridge. As a team."
Haley muttered under her breath,"Not ALL of us are here."
I felt like crying again,"Guys," they were looking to me for guidance. But I just couldn't... I shook my head trying to speak. I'm not a leader," I... I need time alone."
I turned and ran, I didn't care I just had to get out of there.
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Fury walked into the bridge,Tony and Sammy were standing and Steve and the other Guardians sat at the table, he tossed Coulson's cards onto the table,"These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. Guess he never did get you to sign them." the cards were stained with blood. Steve looked crushed, Tasha tried to comfort him by putting her hand on his.
Fury glanced around,"Where's Nicole and Kat?"
Sammy spoke first,"Kat's MIA... Nicole's gonna need some time-"
Fury growled,"She has no time to-"
Lana jumped to her leader's defense- shocking everyone, because Lana and Nicole weren't always on the best of terms. What? You think the guardians always got along? Ha! Don't make them laugh! Anyway, Lana pounded her fist onto the table,"Listen! I don't care if you ARE the director of SHIELD. But let me just say one thing to you. Nicole just practically watched Coulson die, Loki took Hati and Skoll away from her-probably for GOOD- and on top of that her twin sister is MIA most likely dead. So give the girl a break."
Fury just sighed and put his head in one of his hands,"Well, We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor and now Kat. I have nothing for you people. Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming," he paused and looked at Steve," Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was planning something riskier. There was an idea, Stark knows this, called The Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes."
Everyone jumped as Tony walked off. Fury looked down sadly,"Well, it's an old fashioned notion."
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I carefully walked into the detention room. I slowly made my way over to the spot. The one where Coulson had collapsed. I sat down crisscross applesauce, like kindergarten. I stared into one spot. Willing time to go back. Praying that it never happened, that Coulson hadn't have had made the call to knock me out so I wouldn't see... I put my head in my hands and just started to cry. This was the darkest hour in my history. And I had no family to help me through this.
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