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"Director, please-"
"I know you want to be there with us to take down Hydra, but you've still got a concussion, I don't want to risk anything. You're too valuable to us," he said firmly. "I will let you go help Fitz-Simmons and Trip with the bombs though, okay? But no combat."
She sighed, "okay, fine. Thank you, Sir."
"Okay."
"And Skye-"
"Will be fine. We'll get her out of there, don't worry," Coulson nodded, before softening his voice, "it'll be okay, Agent Bouchard."
She just nodded, letting him walk past her.
She looked over at Fitz who was sorting through the hazmat suits. She let out a breath. She was really counting on kicking some Hydra ass...but without Mack, maybe it wouldn't be as fun anyway. And at least she'd still be with Fitz.
God, how did one Scottish scientist make her this soft? It was embarrassing.
"I'm coming with you guys, then," she said, coming up to him.
"Yeah, get to explode a huge, haunted temple, what could go wrong?"
She laughed slightly, "oui, it is a plan with no faults."
"Oh, none at all," he joked back, smiling at her.
She felt an arm wrap round her shoulders.
"Heard you're tagging along with us, Soph," Trip said, squeezing her.
She slapped his arm away, shooting him a playful look, "yes, I am. Better not blow me up."
"I'll try my hardest not to," he said, winking at her, making her laugh.
Fitz's face involuntarily hardened and he turned back to the hazmat suits.
"Remember that time in Peru?" Sophie asked Trip.
"Come on girl, we go to explode one thing and you bring that up?" He pushed her away lightly.
She laughed, "I have to, it was hilarious-"
"I nearly lost my job at SHIELD!"
"Exactly, hilarious."
"You know what's hilarious?" He asked.
"What?"
"The way you say hilarious with your accent - it's like it's not even a word-"
Her jaw dropped, "offensive."
"Observational," he prodded her shoulder.
She slapped his hand away, "just because you forgot that when you press a detonator something actually explodes-"
"It was one time!"
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Talent - Leo Fitz (AOS)
FanfictionWhen S.H.I.E.L.D. fell, Nick Fury died. Except he didn't, of course. It seemed he always knew this might happen one day, the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., the rise of Hydra. So naturally, he had an idea of what to do. Sophie Bouchard was part of that.