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Act II: Chapter 6: Fugitive

June 7 2014

It was the morning as Anne was seen wearing her suit as She was making her way to Alexander Pierce's office for questioning after Fury's death. Anne was walking towards the office as She was thinking about everything that has happened last night.

She continued walking until Anne saw Pierce standing outside his office as Anne was looking at him.

Pierce: Ah, Captain Winters. My name is Alexander Pierce.

Anne: Sir, it's an honor.

Both of them shakes hands as Pierce walked inside his office and Anne followed him inside as He was talking to her.

Pierce: The honor is mine, Captain. My father served in the 101st.

Anne noticed a picture of both Pierce and Fury together as Alexander said something.

Pierce: Well this photo was taken five years after Nick and I met. When I was at State Department in Bogota. ELN rebels took the embassy, and security got me out, but the rebels took hostages. Nick was deputy chief for the SHIELD station there. And he comes to me with a plan.

He wants to storm the building through the sewers. I said, "No, we'll negotiate." Turned out the ELN didn't negotiate, so they put out a kill order. They stormed the basement, and what did they find? They find it empty.

Nick had ignored my direct order and carried out an unauthorized military operation on foreign soil. He saved the lives of a dozen political officers, including my daughter.

Anne: You and Fury seem to be really good friends.

Pierce: Indeed we were. But Captain, why was Nick in your apartment last night?

Anne: I don't know.

Pierce: You know it was bugged?

Anne: I did, because Nick told me.

Pierce: Did he tell you he was the one who bugged it?

Anne was silent and didn't know what he was talking about as Pierce showed a footage to Anne which showed Batroc being interrogated

Anne: Is that live?

Pierce: Yeah, they picked him up last night in a not-so-safe house in Algiers.

Anne: Are you saying he's a suspect? Assassination isn't Batroc's line

Pierce: No, it's more complicated than that. Batroc was hired anonymously to attack the Lemurian Star and he was contacted by e-mail and paid by wire transfer. And then the money was run through seventeen fictitious accounts, the last one going to a holding company that was registered to a Jacob Veech.

Anne: Am I supposed to know who that is?

Pierce: *Gives Anne a file as She looks at it* Not likely. Veech died six years ago. His last address was 14-35 Elmhurst Drive. When I first met Nick his mother lived at 14-37.

Anne: Are you saying Fury hired the pirates? Why?

Pierce: The prevailing theory was that the hijacking was a cover for the acquisition and sale of classified intelligence. The sale went sour and that led to Nick's death.

Anne: If you really knew Nick Fury you'd know that's not true.

Pierce: Why do you think we're talking? See, I took a seat on the Council not because I wanted to but because Nick asked me to, because we were both realists. We knew that despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, that to build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down and that makes enemies.