Some Things Never Sleep

Chapter Fifty One

Author's Note: Here's another chapter. It's another chapter about Emma's parents but I'll try to update a chapter with Emma and Peter again tonight. I also want to express how relieved I am. Wattpad was having a lot of problems the other day and deleted this story for the day. The site was also completely in Russian but everything's better now. There's no more Russian and the story's back up. Thank God.

Also I should probably you about this chapter for drug references and sexual situations. There's not a sex scene in this chapter or anything but it's just mentioned.

I also just want to say that I don't own any of the lyrics to the song 'Today'. 'Today' belongs entirely to Jefferson Airplane. You should definitely give the song a listen. It's incredibly beautiful. Probably one of the best love songs of all time. It kind of has to be, I guess, since it came out during the summer of love.

Juarez, Mexico

1998

Mexico was incredibly hot which was something that Margot always knew but never really considered until she arrived there. It's not like Margot was unused to the heat after attending college in Florida but it had been a while. The redheaded Shield agent and her new partner had been living in Juarez for the past two weeks as the all American couple Ethan and Julia Leigh. 

Spending time with such a notorious drug dealer like Salazar was enough to make Margot's skin crawl but she knew she'd do it if it meant finding out where Salazar was getting those weapons. Although no one said it would ever be easy. Salazar wasn't someone who trusted easily so she had a strong feeling that it would be a while before he divulged any information to Steven.

Margot was slowly making progress with Salazar's wife Rosa but she found that she didn't like the Latina very much. Rosa Salazar was a former beauty queen and the very girl Margot had both envied and hated in high school. The only plus side in spending time with the former beauty queen was that it was very easy to manipulate information about Santiago out of her. 

However, most days Margot just stayed at the house they were renting while Steven did business with Salazar. In some ways it was almost like the two were actually married. Margot would tend to trophy wife duties while Steven would go to work. Undercover work was always a long and sometimes an uneventful process...especially if you were a woman.

Margot wasn't entirely sure how to feel about her newly assigned partner. Most of the time she really missed the playful banter between her and Clint. Clint was just an easy person to talk to but she could tell Steven was a little more guarded. There was also the fact that she didn't really know how to talk to Steven. Sometimes she would catch him looking at her and Margot would flush red which was pretty embarrassing for a woman her age. It wasn't like she was in high school anymore but sometimes she just couldn't help it. 

For someone almost two decades older than her, Steven was definitely a sight to look at. Why did Fury have to pair her up with someone that annoyingly distracted her from her work? It didn't help that she was almost positive that Steven found her annoying either. Well, he wouldn't be the first one to find her annoying. Pretty much every agent found her to be fairly ditzy and talkative. The only one that didn't was probably Clint. Even Phil had remarked about how annoying he thought she was.

"Lucy, I'm home!" Margot suddenly called out as she stepped through the front door of the house. She had just returned from a long day of shopping with Rosa and she was feeling cheerful from some of the intel she had received from the airheaded Latina. Steven Rogers raised an eyebrow as he eyed the peculiar red head as she entered the living room with the most cheerful smile on her face. The smile faded from Margot's face and she suddenly felt stupid as she normally did whenever she was around Steven Rogers.