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"No cameras. None." Skye twitched her shoulders, still typing away, "Ok, there are some. But nothing on the second floor. What kind of government building doesn't have cameras everywhere?"
"The kind that actually has secrets." Ward offered.
"So in this case, 'eyes only' actually means eyes only. What do you know."
Fitz frowned. "Are we sure this isn't just some storage facility? I mean, the first and third floors look that way. What if the second floor just isn't important enough for cameras?"
Skye shook her head, "Even if it is, whatever they have needs to be plugged in. Look at the power going to that floor."
Coulson sighed, looking over everything Skye had pulled up. "Can you get us access?"
"Now that I'm hooked up to the building yeah, I'll put access we need in. But if I wasn't physically connected to the building, I wouldn't be able to do this. Meaning, for someone to get access, everyone involved would need to go there to set it up. Meaning..."
"The guards might be suspicious since we've never been allowed in before." Ward said unhappily.
"We'll just need to make sure they're not the same ones as last time." May prompted. "It's the security on the second floor we should be worried about. We've got no eyes. There's no way to prepare for it."
"I'll come up with something." Coulson said, walking away from the group, over to his bags
"You'll come up with something?" Ward asked, following him, the other close behind. "What about us?"
"This is as far as you go." Coulson said, switching out his side arms for similar looking tranque guns.
Sky scoffed, "Like hell it is."
Ward pressed, "Sir, if you think I'm going to let you go in there alone-"
Coulson's face was impassive. "You're not letting me do anything if I order you to stand down."
"Coulson-" May started.
"I know what you said May. And while I appreciate it, I'm about to go above my clearance level and break into a SHIELD facility, where I may have to subdue friendlies that will see me as a hostile, and will treat me as such. So, while I will only be firing tranquilizers, they'll have live rounds."
Ward moved around Coulson, cutting off his exit. "With all due respect, Sir, we were basically ordered not to come back to this place. And yet here we all are, willing to go against that. So you can order me to stay, but I'm just as willing to disregard that as well."
"Plus, isn't this how you got into this mess in the first place?" Skye accused. "Going off by yourself and getting stabbed?"
The room went silent. Coulson actually looked surprised.
Skye swallowed. "I just… would rather something like that not happen again… if Ward can help it."
Ward raised his eyebrows, "Me?"
"Like you'd give me a gun. I'm a terrible shot." She looked back to Coulson. "But I am more than willing to have a distraction ready if it's needed."
"Ooo, we should get Doc and Sleepy ready for another go!" Simmons exclaimed. "It would look very official if you were bringing in something. And then when you get into the second floor you can let them out and we can help!"
"Not Sleepy; Grumpy would be better right now." Fitz said, following her.
Coulson opened his mouth to say something, but, unable to think of anything, closed it and looked to May.
"You chose this team." May reminded, moving to the door and leaning against it. A casual reminder that he wasn't going anywhere. "Did you really think that was going to work?"
Short chapter, I know. But there will be reveals in all the chapters after this one.
