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{{Log Header
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|Date of Scene=2021/11/22
|Date of Scene=2021/11/21
|Location=Ready Room, The Triskelion
|Location=Ready Room, The Triskelion
|Synopsis=While waiting for Bucky to finish with his side discussions, Nick and Skye have one of their own
|Synopsis=While waiting for Bucky to finish with his side discussions, Nick and Skye have one of their own

Latest revision as of 18:25, 26 November 2021

It Aint Me It Aint Me
Date of Scene: 21 November 2021
Location: Ready Room, The Triskelion
Synopsis: While waiting for Bucky to finish with his side discussions, Nick and Skye have one of their own
Cast of Characters: Phantasm (Drago), Quake
Tinyplot: Fortunate Son


Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
It's not long after Bucky dismissed the meeting that announced a new operation. Most have already left and those that remain are either in the process of doing the same, or getting some additional discussion from Bucky.

Nick, being a guest and wearing the red marked badge indicating visitor status remains in the room as well. Not really part of the current conversation going on to the other side of the room, but with no actual authority to be wandering about the building either. So, he just lingers near where he had been seated. His posture shifted more to a standing one though.

Nick, while not on the short side, is not as tall as the friend who escorted him here. Bucky's definitely got a few inches on him but the distance between the two right now prevents someone from directly observing at the moment. A hand slips into his pocket, idly fiddling with the knitcap tucked in there as he just glimpses at nothing in particular. Or at least nothing visible to any outside observer. Who knows how that man's mind works anyways.

Quake has posed:
While most people were leaving, Skye was still at her seat by the far end of the room. After all, to do what she needs to do doesn't need any real unusual equipment. Just a laptop, and some quiet.

Normally she hung out in the breakroom. In fact the were agents who didn't know her position, and just thought she was an IT person kicking around.

Well, some did. The rest had known her part in the Red Tide Scandal. Some thought she still was guilty.

Without looking up from her laptop. "He's busy. You may as well sit for a time. Welcome to SHIELD."

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
Hearing a voice directed his way, Nick turns his head to look over to Skye again. His glance shifts over to Bucky for a moment, giving a slight nod. "Sometimes you just need to stand for the sake of standing." He comments. Although he's not sitting down, he does look over to the woman at her laptop. "...Thanks." He responds, belatedly to the greeting.

Quake has posed:
She smiles lopsidedly. "With this project, Bucky will be in demand. If not for the agents under him, but all around. There is a reason I try to blend in when I work." Though these days it is harder seeing as she is part of the teams that take out the enemies, instead of being the data retrieval like she used to.

Skye looks over from her laptop. "You're not really comfortable here, are you?" With Bucky as his only friend in SHIELD.

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
"Yeah, kind of figured that." Nick admits, giving a nod, the other hand slipping into his pocket as well. It lingers for a moment before it leaves the pocket again to perform the immediately imprortant task of scratching an itch above the eyebrow.

He gives a small smile to Skye, "No, not really. What gave me away?"

Quake has posed:
"Trust me, the first half or so year I spent here I figured a billion ways to escape. I know the look."

As her laptop was working, she let it go, and put her attention on Nick.

"My friends know this about me. I was given the choice to join SHIELD, or rot in a jail cell, a federal jail cell." Skye nodded. "I don't know what changed. One day I'm up on the roof, pretty much crying with desperation, and May caught me. She offered to let me go. No holds barred. She would make it alright with Fury, and.." She shook her head. "And I couldn't do it. So, yes, I know the look.

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
As Skye mentions trying to escape from SHIELD, Nick's brows raise. Wait. What? "I-" The musician pauses, blinking as he considers what Skye just shared with him. "Uh- Wow." He manages. "No, I wasn't presented that type of ultimatum, Uh." He pauses, "I uh, just had to go through a long Q&A session earlier and fill out some stuff. But, nothing like that."

The smile dies away as he considers matters. "But...I get the frustration. I don't like being cornered either."

Quake has posed:
Skye shrugs. "I've gotten over it. But back then? And that was before I was powered. It couldn't have been nice for you." A chin nod towards Bucky. "You must trust him to put it all on the line. I mean your powers, and the whole mess with Hydra."

"You know, he hasn't always been trusted here either. But this I can say, when he accepts you, god help those people who would cross you. He's a good man." She may have a titch of the same personality. Bucky is a *good* friend.

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
Nick blinks up as Skye mentions the powers. "Oh. News travels fast here." He comments. The session where he registered himself was not that long ago. He gives a sigh, giving a slight nod. "Yeah. I do trust him. He's a good friend. And well." He pauses, "If coming forward's the difference between dealing with the other projects he found about and not..." He gives a shrug, "Well, it's going to be figured out eventually anyways if I survive to be fifty and still look like this. I didn't exactly have a low profile before it happened."

He looks to Skye curiously. "So you were here, before getting powers?"

Quake has posed:
"I cheated." Skye points to her laptop. "I looked you up. Most people don't know the level of clearance I have." She says it like her clearance level is much higher than her agent level. But she never confirms it.

She grins.

"Yeah. Shield dragged me in here on a battery of charges to do with my hacking. Thus the federal charges. I really am that good."

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
Following Skye's gesture, Nick looks to the laptop. "Oh." He gives a nod, "Ah okay. Well at least the secret organization doesn't tweet out new arrivals on a regular basis. That's a bit more reassuring." He gives a bit of a smirk, "But if my wikipedia page is already updated with news of the powers I'm going to have to take back that reassuring comment I just made."

"So, your reason for coming here was more of a work release type of thing?"

Quake has posed:
"Sorta. Only, Fury skipped the whole arrest process." Then Skye explains. "As it was, Fury had been looking for me for a few years. He was lucky he found me. Remember the whole file on me? I wasn't joking. An 084 is something that can't be explained, and I was the only human at that time that had the designation. Except I wasn't in any position to listen to him yet."

"Because he had something on me he managed to get me off of the street before Hydra found me first." And they still got to her eventually.

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
"So more a means to an end..." Nick surmises. He grows quiet for a moment. "So, HYDRA was after you specifically? For the hacking?"

Quake has posed:
Skye shakes her head.

"Nope. Think. Why would Fury have a super secret file on me since almost my birth? Something that only Fury was allowed to see." Something that secret was very unusual. "No. That was pure luck for Fury. They kept me, once they had found me, in SHIELD. No. Hydra wanted me for my genetic code. My mother was unusual." And how! "She was what they call an Inhuman. Hydra wanted me to experiment on."

She frowned. "They caught me in the end. I was kidnapped to an underwater laboratory and.. well, it wasn't pretty. They turned me into what I am today. What they really wanted was to see if their formula worked so that they could release it all over the world."

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
Nick, not being in SHIELD gives Skye a look. "...Is Fury like a high level guy here?"

Found the civilian!

"Well, The power thing for me isn't genetic. Still human, just..." He pauses, trying to think of a properly descriptive term for what he is now. "-different."

They can't all be gems.

He pauses, "How'd you get out of the lab?"

Quake has posed:
"Fury?" Skye laughs. "The head honcho. Yes, he's important around here." It's because of Fury that Skye was not on a regular team in SHIELD. And over the course of being here, she found herself getting closer to him. He was, essentially her father figure, just as May was a mother figure.

"The first time I almost escaped I got through about 11 floors to reach the top. I even blew up the window near the surface of the water. Big mistake. When I next awake I was tied down to my bed, and drugged to the gills. The second time, my friends had found me, but it was too late."

"Hydra didn't know their scientist was, essentially, a computer program.. and he was nuts. He threw me into his experiment even as my friendss were fighting to try to bring me home. His experiment worked, and in the process, I blasted through the entire underwater lab, and passed out."

"Somewhere out there he's still living. He's really just 0's and 1's now. And it's a miracle I didn't kill everyone, Hydra or SHIELD. They escaped with me, just barely, before everything that I didn't get to first, blew up."

"It's been a long rough road learning my powers." He might have seen around each forearm she wears a bracer.

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
Getting confirmation to his general guess to this Fury's importance. Nick nods, listening to Skye's account for trying to escape. Although it turned out the rescue was late for her there was another thing to take away from it. Late or not, someone did come for her. Several someones in fact. He couldn't count the number of times he wished for just one. But he does know how good it felt when it actually did happen. Nick steals a glance towards Bucky.

"Hmm." Nick looks back to Skye, "How long have you had the powers?"

Quake has posed:
Skye doesn't miss the furtive glance for Bucky by Nick.

"Almost two years, but I've been catching up on my skills and such. I had a whole lifetime of things that weren't working anymore. I've been back with Shield for about one year now."

"Hey?" She nods with her chin, again. "If Bucky has given you his word, trust me, short of death, he'll give you his all." A pause. "And I would like to give you mine as well."

Phantasm (Drago) has posed:
"I sure as hell hope he wouldn't do the death thing." Nick responds matter of factly. Friends dying on you sucks. He could defintely do without having that feeling again anytime soon.

The offer given by the hacker is not ignored. He returns Skye's gesture, by nodding to her. "And Thank you."