Understanding Me

Agent Ward

It was 8:45pm and I was starving! I decided to head down to the cafeteria to grab some food for myself. As I was walking closer canteen my stomach began to rumble even more, I looked at all the delicious food and grabbed one of each. I walked over to an empty table and began to eat. The longer I sat there the more I began to notice that there weren't many people in the cafeteria except the odd agent who would get a meal and go. I looked over to the furthest table and saw someone sitting at it. Weirdly, it happened to be the guy from the hallway. Why was he sat by himself? I thought I should go up and talk to him, after debating with myself for a couple of minutes, I got out of my chair and walked to wards him. As I approached the table I began to regret my decision and back away but unfortunately, he had already heard me. He turned around and looked at me before saying my name.

"Maddy?" He said, I was guessing he caught my name from before in the hallway but still, I'm glad he remembered. I just turned around and looked at him in the eye. He saw what I was trying to do and gestured me to sit down. I walked back to the table and sat down a meter away from him. I then looked down at my food and instantly felt embarrassed, this is quite a lot of food for someone my size. I heard him laugh slightly and looked straight up to meet his gaze, only to find him staring at his own plate. I looked down to his food and saw that it was identical to my own plate, we had got the same thing. That doesn't make it as bad. I looked back down and thought for a moment, earlier in the hallway he seemed to be quite rude, almost stuck up, why was he acting so nice now?

"So, you're an agent?" I asked even though I knew the answer.

"Yeah, Agent Ward. You have powers, so I guess you are part of the Avengers team." He is more observant than I originally thought. All the time his name kept running through my head, agent Ward.

"Yeah, you could say that. So what kind of stuff do you do?" I asked, wanting to know what the life of an agent was like, even though I will be living it myself.

"I work with a special S.H.I.E.L.D team on an aircraft long with Coulson, although right now we don't have any work so we are taking a break. I mainly train to hand to hand combat and all the physical stuff while other people I work with specialise in science and computer hacking. Have you had anytime with the Avengers yet?" He asked with his drink in his hands. So, he was different to the rest of the agents in a way.

"A brief meeting, and it could have one better." I chuckled, looking up to him, he smiled slightly. "Anyway, do you reckon I could meet your team sometime, I think it would be good for me to see how this whole agent thing works?" He smiled again and nodded. He seemed nice and genuine.

"Yeah sure, I'll be at your room for 9:00 in the morning, but for now you and I need to get some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow Maddy." With that he walked out. I was left by myself in the cafeteria along with my thoughts. I was already nervous for tomorrow even though all we are doing is talking to the people he works with. I'm just happy that I get to see Ward again, I'm just not sure why.