Seduce him. That's all I'm going to say, as I crack up laughing again. Great episode last night!
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"Are they injured?" Simmons asked. "Is that why?"
Fury shook his head.
"But that can be-"
"Before you say anything, we are aware of the risks and so are the agents who were chosen and consented to this."
"Blood clots, impaired immune response, cardiac arrest. They know all of that?" Simmons asked incredulously.
"We've tried sleeping, simple sedation, but it's not have to be put deep enough under that they are not aware of their real body at all. None of them have yet been put under for a significant amount of time. Continuously, Agent Coulson has been using his the longest."
"That didn't really answer the question." Fitz said, after swallowing down a bite of the candy bar.
"Fitz!" Skye scolded, motioning to Coulson.
Fitz paused, looking down at the candy bar. "Oh, yes… uh," his hands fiddled with it, "I could tear off the area I bit?" he asked, apologetically. "Or," he continued at their looks, "I could go find another one for Coulson. Just give me a second." He quickly left.
Coulson spoke up. "So no one else received a trip to Tahiti?"
"No. Every one of them is aware of where their body really is.
"So I'm just special."
"Your circumstances are. As I said we didn't even know if the Link would function without your prior knowledge. It did, but enough time had passed that we needed to fill that space with something."
"Why fabricate a lie?" Ward asked, "You say you couldn't tell him the truth, why not just tell him he was in a coma?"
"Too much time had passed." Fury answered simply.
"Muscle atrophy." Simmons supplied.
Fury nodded. "No matter what, his body would have needed time to heal and build it's strength again. Time, the body he was in, didn't need."
The room fell silent as everyone mulled around all of the information, thinking about the different times each of them had noticed something small or simply odd about Coulson, that they hadn't paid attention to before.
Sky broke the silence. "So you literally took Coulson out of his coma, to send him on crazy missions SHIELD didn't know how to handle."
Fury opened his mouth but Skye continued. "And I totally get that. A.C.'s a badass."
Fury raised an eyebrow at Coulson, who was giving Skye a slightly fond expression.
"But what about all of them?" Skye asked, motioning to the people outside the room.
Fury shook his head. "And that is where the questions about the program are going to have to end. I don't think I have to tell you all the kind of advantages these LMDs can give SHIELD and I won't tell you because just you being in this building is putting them and their work in danger." He stared down Skye. "And if I hear about any of this making it's way to the Rising Tide, getting made into some crappy sci fi movie, or even featuring on some stay at home mom's blog about how much easier life would be with a LMD, I'll know who to talk to about it, won't I?"
Skye looked around. "Am I getting transferred to public relations?"
She didn't even realize Coulson had stood up, before he was calmly stepping between her and Fury. "I believe that would be me, sir. And I can assure you, anything we have learned here today will stay within my team. If anything is brought to light, it won't be from us."
Fury studied him for a few second before nodding, "Good to hear it."
"There are still a few things I need clarification on, sir, before we end this meeting."
Fury's expression turned wary, "And that would be?"
"I want to know the extent of my injuries."
"Ha! I found another one!" Fitz exclaimed, holding the candy bar out as he entered the room, but his smile vanished as he quickly took in the tension. "I've missed something, haven't I."
If it is unclear, I am trying to practice my cliffhangers.
