Out Of Time

eighty-eight

Y/N stayed at Avengers Tower, under the watchful eye of Tony, until she was completely healed. After that, Maria Hill and her started coordinated with Coulson on trying to find Loki's scepter. Y/N was honest with Tony about what she was doing, though insisted he stayed out of it due to needing to keep Coulson a secret. Tony was understanding about it all.

Y/N made frequent trips to the new hidden SHIELD base, trying to get the new SHIELD up and running. Under the direction of Director Coulson, Y/N was made his right hand. Which made people a little mad. Coulson was changing, becoming more secretive. He was hardly ever at the new base anymore. The original team members didn't like that. But Y/N new it was for good reason. Coulson was trying to find Loki's scepter and he had found a helicarrier and was trying to get it repaired. They were also keeping a secret about Simmons. Currently, she was undercover at HYDRA, only Coulson and Y/N knowing. They had made it seem like she left SHIELD. This took a tool on the team members, especially Fitz.

Y/N drove into the hanger ready to start another week at SHIELD. It had been a few months since the fall of SHIELD, and Y/N made sure to balance it and her relationship. She parked, grabbing her duffle in the passenger seat before stepping out.

"Look who decided to come back," Mack teased, walking down the ramp of the Bus. Mack had been a SHIELD agent then was recruited to help them rebuild. "Sure missed you around here."

"Missed you too, Mack," Y/N smiled. "Things fall apart while I was gone?"

"No more than usual."

"Great, well I have a meeting with the Director that I'm already late for. So we'll talk later."

"Good luck," Mack wished as Y/N entered the base.

As she walked down the hallway, Skye came walking the other way.

"Y/N!" Skye smiled, coming up to hug her friend.

"Hey, Skye," Y/N hugged back. "I've only been away for a couple of weeks. You missed me that much?"

Skye laughed as she pulled away. "Of course. You're the only one around here that actually tells us what's going on."

"Yeah... Coulson in his office?"

"Where else would he be? He's currently got May up there for debriefing."

"Awesome."

"Tell him that I want to talk."

"Of course."

Y/N made her way up to Coulson's office, where May and him were already talking.

"Talbot's saying he's beaten both sides," Coulson was saying as Y/N entered. "But we're just hiding underground. If HYDRA gets their hands on this, they may not have to."

"What are we worried about now?" Y/N came further into the room.

"Agent Rogers, thank you for coming so quickly."

"You called, I answered, Tony wasn't very happy."

"You handcuff him to a bed frame again?" May asked.

"No. Just left while he was sleeping. It's not that he doesn't know what I'm doing here, he's just been clinging since the accident. Which is understandable. But, what do we got here?" Y/N picked up the old SSR file that laid on Coulson's desk. "An 0-8-4?"

"The first," Coulson replied. "And we need to find it before HYDRA does."

"Awesome." Y/N nodded.

"I want Hartley and her crew up here for debrief. May, you check on the lab, see where they're at with the metal you found."

"How is he? Fitz?"