CHAPTER TWO
Bobbi had been searching for her boyfriend for a day and a half when Fury walked in showing Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner the bridge.
"Morse," he addressed her and she came over to stand next to Maria, who gave her a dirty look, "status report."
"We haven't been able to find…"
"Bobbi?" Bruce asked her and she finally looked over to the man whose life she helped ruin, "Bruce, it's nice to see you again." Bobbi gave a sad smile.
"When did you start to work for S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"I've always worked for S.H.I.E.L.D., but I was giving some serious thought to quitting, until the accident," Bobbi looked down, ashamed.
"I don't blame you, Bobbi, it wasn't your fault, I told you to do it."
"I'm still sorry."
Everyone a besides the agents on the bridge looked confused at this long over due exchange, but Fury knew it wasn't the proper time for it, "You haven't been able to find?"
"We can't find the radiation, I was hoping once Bruce got here we could finally make real progress on the… Cube," Bobbi took a longer pause then she should have, she was sure Fury was going to yell at her, but when she met his eyes, he gave her a look of sympathy, which she hated, what did he know what she was going through?
"We got a match!" an agent yells from his position in the maze of computers.
"How much?" she asks, eagerly.
"79%," as they begin to walk over, "wait 89%"
"Let's go," Natasha tells Steve, "let the life nerd and Dr. Banner start their work."
As they walk out the door with a third member and pilot, Bobbi and Bruce head toward the lab.
"Why are you so invested in this? It doesn't seem like something much up your alley," Bruce told her once they were alone in the lab together.
"Normally helping with the search wouldn't be," Bobbi couldn't look up to meet Bruce's eyes, "but." Bobbi tried to continue, but her vision got blurry and her throat closed up.
"But…" Bruce tried to get it out of her, putting his hand on her shoulder.
"But Loki, the man behind all of this, put my boyfriend under a spell, now he's Loki's personal puppet, and I just…" she turned around to Bruce's open arms, and the first time since Clint went missing, Bobbi let it all out. Her body shock with sobs.
"Maybe I should look for the cube, when was the last time you slept?"
Once Bobbi got her sobs under control, she looked up at her friend, "I haven't slept since he went missing, which was two nights ago."
"Yeah, you go get some sleep, I'll wake you up when we get something."
"Are you sure?" Bobbi looked up for reassurance. "Positive," Bruce gave the most assuring smile anyone had given Bobbi since that night.
Bobbi climbed up into an alcove Clint had dug out if she ever needed it.
The last thing Bobbi remembered was Bruce watching Bruce start up the computer.