Wasted

Helicarrier

Crickets pov:

Why am I here? Why did I agree to this? No. Shut up. You owe it to Nat.

"Cricket!" I hear a familiar voice call out. "I haven't seen you in a while, what brings you here?"

"Phill?" I ask once I get a good look at the man in front of me. "The one and only" he replies before giving me a hug.

"How have you been?" I ask retracting from the hug.

"Good. Good." He says "how about you guys?" " yeah we're doing good" I answer before leaning in and whispering in his ear " waste can be a bit shy"

He lets out a light chuckle. Just then Natasha comes in with two men following behind. I decide to introduce my self, make a good impression, you know.

I make my way over to a brunette man who is about two inches taller than me. "Hi, I'm Cricket" I introduce making the man flinch a little bit.

"Uh, I'm Bruce Banner" he says, I can tell that he is pretty anxious about the amount of people in the room. Do I decide to give him some space.

I make my way over to the other man in the room. Blonde hair blue eyes. Definitely Captain America. God he must be at least 100 years old by now.

"Hello there," I start gaining his attention. "Steve Rogers" he says extending his hand "Romanoff told me not to call you ma'am. So what should I call you?" I let out a little chuckle. Natalia has always been protective like that, she would kill someone if they purposely misgendered me.

"Cricket is fine" I reply taking his hand and shaking it.

"Cricket, huh. That's a pretty eccentric name" Steve says a little bit confused.

"Well I'm a pretty eccentric person, Rogers" I joke. "I can see that" he says with a chuckle.

Just then I feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn around to see Natalia standing there with a blank face.

"Excuse me for a moment" I say to Steve. Once we say our goodbyes, I follow Nat.

"What are you doing, Cricket?"

"What? I'm just being friendly"

"Just...try acting professional for once"

"Since when do I act unprofessional?"

"Since always Cricket!" Natalia snaps

"Wow! Calm down, kitten" I coo "don't get too jealous"

"I'm not jealous" Nat says abruptly "and don't call me that"

"What?" I question teasingly "kitten? You know you love it"

"Right now. Your being unprofessional" Natalia scolds.

Then she turns to open a door that leads to a reasonably sized lab. Finally I'm home. Nat leaves me to get set up.

About ten minutes later she returns with Bruce. "You got room for one more?" She questions jokingly. I pretend not to hear her. I can blame it on my head phones. I look up to see Natalia gone and Bruce standing there awkwardly. "Well. Are you going to get to work or just stand there?" I say

"Oh, yeah" he says snapping out of his daze. "So doc, how are we going to do this?" I question

"Well, they have eyes pretty much everywhere, searching for Loki. But-"

"We can't be sure that Loki has the tesseract."

"Exactly. Every lab they know  has their spectrometers on their robes scanning for gamma rays. Now all we need to do is rough out a tracking algorithm. Basic cluster recognition."

"Great then at least we can rule out a few places. But even still, it could take days"

"Well, let's just hope it doesn't"

Meanwhile on the deck
3rd person pov:

    "We've got a hit!" Sitwell announces as the device behind him beeps. " 67% match. Wait, cross match. 79%."

"Location?" Coulson questions. "Stuttgart, Germany. 28 Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding" Sitwell answers.

"Captain," Fury says, gaining Steve's attention"your up". He nods and leaves to get suited up.

A/n :
      Hello! I'm not dead (yet). I took a small leap of absence from this story. I wasn't really sure where to take it. I understand that there are a few timeline inconsistencies but just try and go along with it. Anyways stay safe stay cool and most importantly stay sexy

Love y'all 💕