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Eleven - ►Mistakes We've Made◄ 1/2

[civilagent]

There had been rumors circulating the wires about a underground facility in the Catskills. No one really knew what the place was being used for but they all knew it was there and told tales of imagined horrors that befell unlucky urchins grabbed off the streets, from back alleys, and hikers plucked straight from the trails if they ventured too close. It was all very modern day urban legend...except that it was real

[civilagent]

"I could give you a very pat explanation of how we found the facility and that I was just doing my job, but I won't because that might make you inclined to feel grateful." The shrug is little more than a minute twitch. SHIELD was a lot of things and opportunistic was one of them. It wasn't their best quality but it was useful. Phil didn't particularly care to be opportunistic at the moment. "If your name hadn't of tripped an alert we might not have even paid attention."

"I'm very glad it did, though, because those....people," He spat the word, a harsh sound that would have echoed in the overcrowded room if it had been any less so. "Those people needed to be stopped. Their experiments were horrific, cruel, something that I didn't want to believe happened out of H. G. Wells novels, and I'm damn glad that we followed those loose ended leads straight to it - you." Phil shifted in his chair, hands folding in his lap. "I'm sorry we didn't get there sooner."

[stillnotlegolas]

"Wouldn't have made much of a difference, honestly," He says with a sigh and a shrug, one of the wings shifting against his back. "They were mostly gone by the time you got there." The rest of them. The only one that might have been saved was Adrian--so, there's that, but he can't even hold it against the man because they had come and they'd gotten the rest of them out before they'd joined the ranks of their fallen friends.

"You, ah, are dealing with this better than the rest of them," he means the medical staff, the other agents. The rest of them aren't sure how to handle these human hybrids, how to deal with any of them.

"The--mutation thing"

[civilagent]

There's a note of weary resignation in Barton's voice, one that Phil doesn't think is natural. Phil knows all about Barney and a long fall from a tight rope so it's not foreign just distant. It sets his teeth on edge. He makes a mental note to have words with the agents and medical staff when he leaves here, too.

"You're honestly not the oddest thing I've encountered," He tells him and it's not even close to a lie. Phil hasn't personally met Bruce Banner but he's witnessed the destruction his green counterpart has left in his wake and there's at least half a dozen of Xavier's group that he's met that make the genetic alternations seem pretty normal. "You're just as human coming out as you went in."

[stillnotlegolas]

Don't take it out on the medical staff too hard, Coulson. They might work for your sneaky government organization, but Clint is willing to bet that they're not used to people with angel-sized wings being under their care. That'd throw anyone, really

[civilagent]

The room is probably one of the largest in Medical but Phil has to admit that Dr. Redfield wasn't just making noise to be obstinate; the beds were angled toward one another in a halo pattern, headboards closer together while the rest of the beds were spread out to allow space for walking. Barton's bed, however, was pushed back a few inches, closer to the back of the room, to give him plenty of room for those wings to spread out. Phil thinks that was deliberate, to give those wings just enough room and freedom to spread wide and arch over the other two beds