Hey!
It's poker night tonight. We have it all planned. The interns won't know what's hit them. Amber has been boasting about being Phys Acc's champion. She clearly hasn't met May's icy stare yet.
Thanks for the shirt. I found it – it was under the bed. Still not sleeping too good though. I miss you every day.
Keep your nose clean.
I love you.
Skye xx
"Everybody know the signs and tells"
"Sure."
"Skye. You ready?"
"I'm ready. Are these things on?" She asked, turning to Fitz.
"Hang on." Fitz flipped a switch "They are now"
"Let's do this!"
The four of them entered the lounge with the mat, chips and cards. Skye was also carrying her laptop.
"It's poker night. You guys want in?" Simmons asked Amber and Kain.
"Sounds good" Amber replied, knowing that she had nothing to fear. She was Phys Acc's poker champion.
"I'm in." Kain agreed.
"I have some work to do" Skye announced headed to her bunk.
"She is a little wierd" Amber mentioned. "Never wants to socialise, always at her computer. What's up with that?"
"She's still adjusting. We picked her up a little while ago. Caught her hacking into our computers". May informed them, which was true. She just left off the part about becoming a S.H.I.E.L.D agent.
"And you trust her?"
"Let's play" Fitz said from the table him and Simmons had been setting up. They had chosen seats that would allow Skye to view the AIT's cards in full without being able to see everybody's everything.
"She has a high straight, he has a full house" Skye told them.
"Fold"
"Fold"
"Raise you ten"
They had been playing for an hour and a half. May was currently winning and Amber couldn't stand it. Kain was just about holding his own.
Amber grinned devilishly. "I'll see your ten and raise you 50!"
"Call" Kain said
May flashed her cards to Skye. Straight flush.
"Kitten, I think it's time to kill the birds"
"All in" May said pushing all of her chips into the middle of the table, forcing Amber and Kain to do the same if they wanted to stay in.
"Call"
"Call"
"Show 'em" May said.
Amber turned her cards over, smiling in a very satisfied manner; high straight. Kain did the same. Ambers smile faltered when she had realised that Kain had beaten her.
"At least I lost to him and not any of these idiots" she thought.
Then May flipped her cards. It took both Amber and Kain a moment to realise they had lost. May scooped up all of the chips and started stacking them.
"I'm going to call it a night." Simmons said standing up to leave.
"I need to check something in the Lab" Fitz informed them, following suit.
Realising the codes they had chosen which signified the end of the game, May scooped up the winnings and left the table after Fitz-Simmons. Skye pulled up an old rising tide communication on her laptop and altered the date and time to that precise moment. Leaving it up she encrypted the rest of her computer and carried it back out into the lounge.
"Game over?" She asked the two AIT's, who were still sat at the table, stunned to have lost in the manner they did.
"We lost" Amber croaked, disbelievingly.
"You haven't played with Ward yet. He can get you naked faster playing poker than taking you to bed." She told them for good measure. Leaving her laptop on the bar she went down the stairs to the Lab where the others were waiting. May was splitting the winnings four ways. They decided when they came up with this plan that it would be the best way to do it as it was a team effort.
Amber stared after Skye, determined that if she ever came across Grant Ward that she would have to play strip poker with him. She was pretty enough to distract men after all. She would just have to seduce him. It was definitely a difficult life! She suddenly noticed Skye's laptop. It had a new mail indicator flashing on the desktop. Hitting Kain she nodded in the direction of the bar. Keeping an eye out for Skye's return they read the email. It said this:
Congratulations,
You have infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Now gain their trust.
Rising Tide-member 00293
"She's rising tide?" Amber asked, shocked.
"No way. Coulson would never let her have half of the access she has if she was."
"Then what's this email about?"
"I don't know. But don't you think it's a little suspicious that she has a personal computer and is 'working' away while we're all having down time?"
"A little. Maybe she just likes her job."
"I caught her working on the computer the other night. When she saw me she closed it and pretended to go to bed."
"I'll get close to her to find out"
Coulson was watching this with mild interest. His agents deserved a little fun and the AIT's were clearly not as bright as their results indicated!
Coulson pressed the buzzer of the 'bus' intercom.
"Bed time."
He usually didn't tell them when to go to bed. After all they were all adults, but tomorrow was a big day.