Respect | S. Rogers [1]

37 | LOST & FOUND

Or Back from the Dead

June 2011
SHIELD's Headquarters, New York

HOURS BEFORE PREVIOUS EVENTS

Agent Thompson lied unconscious on a hospital bed in a room being watched by two agents from a camera as a couple of others finished setting up the environment for her awakening.

"Who is she again?" one of them asked, the one next to him, Agent Robinson, scoffed.

"Dude, she's part of the reason you even have a job right now. Didn't you study SHIELD's history?"

"So, she's important?"

Agent Robinson rolled his eyes, he was about to add something when Director Fury came into the room, both of them straightening their postures.

"Everything set up?" he asked.

"Yes, sir. Doctors say she should be awake in a couple hours."

"Good. Any news on Stark?"

The agent next to Robinson sent him a hesitant look before glancing back at the director. "He hasn't picked up any of our calls after Agent Coulson got a hold of him yesterday. Director Fury... Do you really think he'll show up?" The agent had heard that the owner of Stark Industries knew the woman when he was a kid, he wasn't sure if he would show up after all this time, or if he even remembered.

The man with an eye looked at the sleeping form of Agent Thompson. "He'll show up."

August 1978
Hillsong Church, New Jersey

Three months after going missing in action, the families of Finnegan Turner and Rosemary Thompson painfully decided to hold a memorial once SHIELD declared them deceased, killed in action. Never had any of them lost contact with the base for more than three weeks and Agent Thompson always found a way of showing she was alive, this was just too rare.

SHIELD had lost two great agents, but the biggest toll was taken by their friends and family who sat on the seats at the church listening to the pastor speak.

One the right row sitting on the front was Daniel Turner, a man who had lost his brother and a woman who would always have a place in his heart. His wife was holding him, a gesture that had become even more frequent than before, her arms around him had been one of the few things keeping him together after he first got the notice of Finn being missing. He was trying to keep his emotions in check for the sake of his mom, who had a heart attack after hearing the news and still hadn't recovered neither physically nor emotionally, the past months had been hard.

The pain and loss just got worse with the feeling of guilt; even if it wasn't his fault, his little brother had always been his responsibility, he had been part of his upbringing, he helped raise him, and now he was gone, and he hadn't been by his side to help.