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Come as you are, as you were.

Apr 07, 2011 17:36

WHO: Ex-Directors Maria Hill and Nick Fury
WHAT: Another day, another covert meeting.
WHERE: Generic empty warehouse #27 that, in 616, would have been generic SHIELD safe house #27.
WHEN: 2am a few days after Maria’s intro post
WARNINGS: Look who is in this meeting. Seriously.
SUMMARY: Maria continues her quest to be the very best, like no one ( Read more... )

maria hill | ou, nick fury | ou

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oneeyedeagle April 9 2011, 20:04:14 UTC

If she still had any sense, and she would never have been in SHIELD if she didn't, he knew she'd be early. He'd considered getting there an hour ahead of the decided time, just for the look on her face, but she wasn't worth that sort of toying with. It made more sense to arrive precisely on time since she'd be kept waiting by default.

After the routine visual sweep to make sure there were no bugs and no one following, he slipped into the warehouse. He kept one hand on his gunbelt as he strode in - he still felt a bit naked having his Needler swiped and put in some storage box by the government shmucks around here, but it didn't take too long for him to get his mitts on a Colt .45 that would do the job.

In spite of the expectations on any SHIELD personnel, he was actually a little surprised to see that she had waited.

alwaysshielded April 9 2011, 21:46:41 UTC

"No overly dramatic opening comment? And here I thought that was part of your thing."

She staid where she was, standing by a wall of to the side as he entered. A small part of her was also wondering rather loudly why the hell she had waited. Desperate times and desperate measures be damned, she had a pretty good idea of how Fury worked. While those methods were undeniably effective, they tended to be puts towards achieving goals that stood in nearly direct opposition of Maria's own more often than not. She hadn't even needed her chat with the Widow to know what his thoughts on this SCYTHE organization would be, after all.

oneeyedeagle April 10 2011, 20:09:12 UTC

"Yeah, but with a setup like an empty warehouse in the middle of the night, I think any of my sentiments would be clichéd."

With that kind of deadpanning for her opening statements, Nick could at least take comfort in knowing that this was the real her. He planted himself a few feet away from her, quietly sizing her up. She looked...not bad. Slightly healthier than the last time he'd seen her, but if she was in line with how the rest of SHIELD felt, she would probably be weary already.

"Besides, I think with the way that people are being governed here, subtlety is our best bet." He chose his words deliberately, trying to avoid openings for her to snipe at. He'd rather things stay on topic as possible.

alwaysshielded April 10 2011, 20:15:49 UTC

"We wouldn't want to be minorly inconvenienced, after all. The horror of it all."

Which essentially summed up Maria's point of view regarding the level of vitriol the Capekillers were getting from the general population based on all the evidence she had seen so far. A few arrests and roughing up in response to breaking the law, then being release? SHIELD did worse to people it liked on a routine basis. And Nick Fury had played no small part in starting that fine tradition.

"I take it you've seen to your chip."

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