Second Romanoff (An Aos story)

Laws of Nature

~Winter's pov~

"New readings on the monolith?" Coulson asked.

"Nope, that was Daisy firing a warning shot" I replied "No new readings, no new anything on the monolith in months. Fitz even stopped sending automated probes into that room, no one's stepped foot in there since...Simmons was swallowed up by it"

"This was fish oil again?"

"What can I say? We pulled the product off shelves, but we can't track down every bottle sold. The good news, if you want to call it that, the deadly metallic elements sank to the bottom, so the chemical contamination in the sea life isn't deadly to humans, just game-changing for Inhumans, the bad news..." I started.

"It's not just in the fish oil, where else could it have spread?" Coulson asked.

"Other sea life, with ocean currents, it's dispersed into the ecosystem" I told him.

"I need to know how wide a range we're talking"

"Fitz and I have the team working on a computer simulation. you're leaving me stuck staring at screens in here for all eternity"

"I get it. Rehab's a bitch, at least you're not hoping your lung will grow back"

"Sorry. I'm just frustrated, the simulation's taking a while" I replied.

"Have Fitz look into this, too. If we can figure out where it came from"

"We could narrow the search on the mystery girl"

"I'm sure she'd prefer mystery woman. Oh, and by the way, where is he?" Coulson asked.

"Fitz?"

"He requested yesterday to do some research at S.H.I.E.L.D. archives, but I haven't seen him all day"

"I'll call him in" I answered "He's chasing down one last lead on the monolith"

"He's had a lot of last leads"

"I know. With him, I...I just try to..."

"We all do, but I'd rather have him with his head in the game than banging it against a wall"

"I'll call him in"

"Thank you" and he walked away, I sighed and pulled my phone out and called Fitz.

"Go for Fitz"

"You need to come in" I told him "Coulson has some weaponry he wants you to examine. It's pressing"

"Bobbi can handle that, though, yeah?" Fitz asked "For a biologist, she's pretty good with forensics"

"Fitz, we can't cover for you anymore. She'll get started but you need to get in here, we need you here"

"Yeah, I'll head back there in a minute. I just need to check out one last thing"

"Soon, all right?"

"Yeah, copy that. Call me if you hit a snag"

~Time Skip~

"Hey" I said to Hunter as he walked into the locker room "Are you gonna keep ignoring me?" He sighed.

"Coulson's given me the green light, I'm gonna after him, Winter. I've chased down all the Hydra intel I can from on high, if my hunch is right, I need to get to ground" He told me, sitting next to me.

"We agreed that you'd wait till I was 100%" I answered "And every day, I'm pushing myself, getting better, stronger, a few more weeks-"

"I'll be better without you, on my own turf, calling in favors, whatever it takes, I'm gonna hunt that son of a bitch down" as he grabbed my hand.

"It's on" Mack said walking into the room.

"Good evening i'm here tonight to address growing concerns among our citizens of the threats we face that are not of this world i don't need to remind people of the catastrophes in New York, London and most recently Sokovia, tragedies that seem to be growing in number and scale and the organization we had in place to protect us, S.H.I.E.L.D. brought airships raining down in our nation's capital. Every day, new dangers present themselves filling our peaceful streets with chaos. By executive order, I have created a special task force to neutralize these alien threats on our soil. The advanced threat containment unit, or ATCU, will be given full license to act with whatever authority is necessary. The laws of nature have changed and until the laws of man change to reflect that, we must do what we feel is right" The President said making his speech, I rolled my eyes.

(A/n

Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes, Hope you enjoyed it!)

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