Their little star

Maria

"HILL!"

She jumps in her chair, she was not ready to have one Clint Barton storming into her office, slamming one hand on her desk and yell her last name.

"Holly smokes! Clint!"

With one hand over her heart, she turns to look at the blond archer with narrowed eyes. The fair and worry in his eyes made her worry and she's standing up within seconds, ready to rush down the hallway if needed. Something in his eyes told her that her life was about to take a twist turn.

"What happened?"

"I need you to come up with a good reason as to why neither I nor Natasha can go on the mission we think Fury is about to send us on together with Mel and Phil."

Now she's getting a bad feeling about all of this.

"Why?"

"On our way to the meeting room, Tasha received a phone call from Mary. From the sound of the call, it didn't sound good. She has already headed out to look into it but..."

"But she wants to meet us at the safehouse as fast as possible in case something really bad have gone down."

Maria finish for him, making Clint nod his head. Grabbing hold of her jacket and throwing a few things into her bag, with a look at Clint, he opens the door behind him. Throwing the bag over her shoulder, she heads down the hallway.

"So, what do we know so far?"

"About Mary or the case?"

"The case, since she called Natasha, we both know we know zero from what that call is about until we meet with her in person, and at the safe place no less."

"Well, Fury is as secretly as Natasha and we both know that too. So, I know very little about the mission, all we could get out about it is that he has called in both me, Natasha, Mel and Phil. And this group of four agent's isn't one that he likes to use if it's not really bad."

Maria takes a deep breath; he had a point at this, and it would take something good to take both Clint and Natasha away from something like this. At least Natasha have already escaped from the building, that made things a bit easier.

"When did Fury call for this meeting and who did he contact?"

"The other day and me since Tasha refused to answer her phone."

"This we could use, follow my lead."

Maria tells him and Clint nods his head. Maria got a bad feeling about how quickly he had agreed to that, hopping he did this because Natasha told him to. Otherwise, she would be worried about the pranks that would be waiting for her later. She had been spending to much time with the archer lately to know the signs by now.

Reaching the meeting room, Maria's eyes lands on Melinda and Phil standing talking to one another. Something in her wants to tell them that something has happened to the young girl they both had grown to see as a daughter. But they had no idea that the other one had been taking care of the young girl, Fury had made sure that it had been kept a secret. And they had made sure no one knew about the fact that she, Clint and Natasha had grown into becoming the young girls' older siblings.

"Maria?"

Phil was the first one to see them walking down the corridor and she quickly put her serious mask on. She could feel how Clint slows down behind, an action she would just love to smile about but she's not able to. Seeing how Melinda looks over at them too, she comes to stop in front of them.

"What are you doing here?"

"Looking for Fury, have you seen him?"

Seeing how Melinda and Phil looks at one another, Maria let's out a heavy sigh and shakes her head. Of course, the director would be showing up to his own meeting late. For once, she wishes he could just keep to the time he has said, if he had been here right now, she would already be hallway through her explanation as to why she needs to take Clint with her. Now they are just wasting time, time that could be used for more important things.