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Touching base, among other things.
Date of Scene: 01 April 2022
Location: Skye's Brownstone, Greenwich Village
Synopsis: The SHIELD agents share details about secrets. The rest is classified information.
Cast of Characters: Hawkeye (Barton), Quake




Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
After grocery shopping, and welcoming Cap for a last minute meeting at his place, Clint left his apartment to return to Skye's. Although he had a key to her apartment, the door was left unlocked - its usual state. After all, the female SHIELD agent was well capable of handling any unwelcomed visitor by herself.

She probably heard him come in, as he drops two large paper bags full of groceries by the door. The state of her food supply, he guessed, might not be much better than his own. But /he/ had been away for six months, while she hasn't.

"Hey, Keyboard," he calls out, "I bring gifts!" Which probably includes chocolate, the man's best friend when comes the times to be forgiven.

The archer looks around, with a sudden worried look on his face. Something is wrong. Where are the danged cats, Grant and Ward?

Quake has posed:
Skye had just gotten out of the shower, and was towel drying her hair.

"One more minute!" She had learned to treat everything as background noise to keep her sanity, turning her hearing when she needed it. Therefore she hadn't heard the two bags of groceries.. yet. But by the time she came down noticed them.

"Let me guess, groceries?" She narrows her eyes down with a teasing sort of joke. "Vegetables?" Because both of them knew she hated vegetables. "You didn't have to. Honestly! I just ran out of a few things. Nothing important."

A few things? Skye was using instant coffee, it was that bad.

And where were the cats? Normally, they would have been around the grocery giver looking for some treats. Groceries = treats! And they hadn't some in a time.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
For a moment, he stays there, staring at her. Isn't she wonderful? Shaking his head out of where this thought was leading him to, Clint closes the door, grabs the bags and heads for the kitchen.

"I'm sure you have all the veggies you need," he says, as he places the bags on the countertop, unpacking. "Well, all those that can be found in Mr. Noodles," he adds under his breath.

As if to confirm his suspicion, the archer opens the pantry and discovers a full array of Mr. Noodles. "Yes, you do. Mushrooms, chicken, oh, here the so-called vegetable flavor."

Once he placed his own groceries in the pantry, he turns to the fridge. "Well now, the step into the unknown, or rather, the invisible."

The door of the fridge is opened to reveal - nothing. Figures. "Did you have a set date to end your hunger-strike?" he asks Skye, grinning. "Cuz you'll have to change it." That said, staple food items are placed in the fridge, such as milk, eggs, yogurt and bread. The freezer, as empty, is rewarded with a large pail of ice cream.

Remaining on the countertop is a single candy bar. The peace offering.

Quake has posed:
"Vegetable flavour? Huh? Who threw that in?" Skye snatched the offending package and threw it out. "There."

Skye was caught out in a lie.

"Don't look in.. th.. god dammit." He looked in the fridge. "There was nobody to cook for."

With. What she meant was with. "It was simpler to eat something easy." What she meant was all the time she shared the biggest part was in the kitchen, joking. With Clint gone it didn't seem important, and furthermore she missed him.

She stood by the doorway watching him put the groceries away - just like old time. "I ate a couple of meals at the caf? Does that count.. ooo! A candy bar! It's like the cats, only me." She had to laugh at that.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
"And it's easier to die of hunger, I'm sure," Clint replies, glancing at her standing by the doorway. "Come on, sit down, I'll fix you something, while you fill me in on something."

Not waiting to see if she will do so, as he's quite certain she will, the archer turns around, and is satisfied to find a pan by the stove. Eggs, milk are retrieved, along with all it takes to fix a quick omelette, including a dash of Tabasco sauce. There will be no extra veggies added this time - only this time.

While he's busy fixing the bachelor-style omelette, he glances over his shoulder. "You know, this Nick Drago guy? I've met him before, but I didn't understand much of his gig. It's weird, but I guess weird is something SHIELD likes. How did he end up with SHIELD?" he asks, unsure of the backstory to it.

Quake has posed:
"Meanie! I wasn't starving." Yet.

Of course Skye rips the candy bar and hoists herself up onto the island to watch.

"Nick? He's under our protection." Bucky. Skye. And now Nick were all being picked on by Hydra. "And you know about WAND don't you?"

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
"Under our protection?" Clint replies, "That'd explain why Winty wants him to learn to use a gun." As he speaks, the omelette is doing fine, and bread is placed in the toaster. Next, coffee. With a sigh, the archer notices the pot of instant coffee. They could as well put a skull sign on this shyte. Reaching into the pantry, Clint retrieves /real/ coffee and starts fixing it.

Once that is on the way, Clint turns around, arms crossed over his chest, "Can you elaborate, why he's under our protection? Does it have anything to do with Winty's plans to, hrm, take action against a very secure location?" Although Skye's apartment is well secure, for some reason, the archer hesitates in mentioning the Department of Homeland Security. Surely, if Skye knows about the operation, she'll get what he means.

Raising an eyebrow, Clint thinks for a moment, "WAND, yeah, I've seen an office with that sign. Does it have anything to do with Nick?"

Quake has posed:
"Hmmm. If I tell you it doesn't leave this room until you are brought in on it. Deal?"

Skye was grateful for the actual coffee as opposed to instant. "Shall I?" Leaving half her candy bar on the island, she jumps herself down, and fills up the carafe with water. "If Nick were going to come and work for us, he'd probably be in WAND. I really don't know what he does, but neither do most people know what I can do. So there is that. He says it's magic to a degree."

After the carafe is dumped in the back of the coffee machine she pours out the exact number of spoonfuls to fill it up.

"Winter has heard through the grapevine.." And through more nefarious means .. *coughSkyecough* "..that the government agencies other than SHIELD.." So the FBI and the CIA for example. "..have been compromised."

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Clint gladly lets Skye fix the coffee, secretly hoping she didn't forget how to! Though he's smart enough not to comment on it. Instead, the archer grabs the plates, and fills them with the omelette and the toasts that are ready. Plates are then placed on the island, then he grabs the forks and sits down, waiting for Skye to join.

"Well, I can tell you some of what he does," Clint says, tacitly acknowledging that this conversation will remain between them. "It's kind of weird, it has to do with dreams and using them. Well, as far as I get it. You know, magic and me, pfft."

He grins at the mention of the grapevine. They always have interesting tidbits to share. "This matches the few he told me, about his next move. So these are the ones we're supposed to protect Nick from? Like, they kind of know what he can do, and want him for themselves?"

Quake has posed:
"The ultimate enemy is HYDRA." Big surprise there.. NOT! "But, yeah."

After the coffee was on, Skye joined him at the table. "The trouble is, well, two-fold. We don't know who is compromised so we have to treat them all as though they are. And probably more of a problem, we need to keep this quiet to keep the public out of the loop. Can you imagine the panic that would go through the public if they couldn't trust the government? Well, trust the government less."

She laughed.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Clint joins in the laughter, "Yeah, imagine!" On that, he starts eating while it's still hot. "Agreed, I'll keep it hush."

Which reminds him of his morning meeting with the Legend.

His own meal is gone in a minute, and while Skye eats, he shares with her the details - well, as much as he can - about this new gig.

"I kind of got sucked in another project," he starts, trusting that she will understand that he's not able to provide much details. How to put it?

"Well, to get to the point. Secret mission, secret organization - but legit - secret agenda and secret destination. I'll go for the first trip, and see how it goes. I didn't commit for more at this point."

And then the coffee is ready, so Clint stands and takes care of the cups, bringing the welcome hot brew to the island. "There."

Quake has posed:
Secret.

After Skye's Red Tide mission they had agreed if they had to be on a mission that was secret they just say that, and the other will trust the partner to do the job right to come home to their partner at the end.

"Okay." Skye didn't like it, but she trusted Clint. "Do I get an approximate time you're going off?" Rather than one day he wasn't here.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
He drinks some of the fresh coffee, pushing the cream over the countertop toward Skye. Right, he must admit, his vanishing act would better fit the carny than a stable relationship.

"I'll let you know, one way or another. If you get a message saying I'm off to get a pizza, then you'll know. I was told that these /trips/ would not take more than a day or so." Which, to be true, he's still doubting.

And then, he reaches for his side pocket, retrieving a small trinket that looks like a key holder. "Oh and here," he says, pushing the black object over the countertop, "GPS. In case I get /lost/ again, you can locate me. It has a 1000 miles radius. You're the only one with one of these." He grins at that, "But hey, don't go and register me at the Human Society!"

Quake has posed:
Skye clenches her teeth. Still..

"If you weren't with me you still would be going on this mission. All that has changed is you have a damn good reason to stay alive. Nothing changes except that." Maybe he (or she!) would be careful when they needed to - too careful.

She put out her hand with a querying gaze, until he explained. Then she smiled crookedly. "You're kidding? A real GPS attuned to you. You know you don't have to?" Even so, she wrapped her hand around it. Fat chance he was getting it back! "We have a weird life. Normal people don't need 'I'm going out for pizza'."

"But I wouldn't want it any other way. You do know that, don't you?"

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Hawkeye laughs at that, good heartily. "Oh, yeah, I know it, Keyboard. My main mission is to stay alive, nothing else."

On that, he stands, and pulls his t-shirt above his chest, pointing at a small cut under his heart. "See? This chip is not going anywhere without me," he says. "Once the cut is healed, only you will know about it."

He then moves behind Skye, placing a warm kiss along her neck, teasing. "Once you're done eating, why don't you join me in the shower?" With such an invitation, it remains to be seen who's going to reach the bathroom first.