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084.1 Video

Who: Lance Hunter and yourself, should you choose to engage!
Broadcast: yes
Action: Marsiva
When: no time like the present!

[ the comm seems to be haphazardly leaning against something, and the image you get is crooked. a sleeping man, who almost instantly awakes with a start. no scream, mercifully, he's quite over screamer videos, and besides, it wouldn't really be that surprising under the circumstances, now, would it? his eyes dart around the room, his feet flying off the cot and touching the ground. the moment he speaks, his accent undeniably and unapologetically identifies him as an englishman. ]

Not again - [ he groans, looking around him. the first time he was knocked out and kidnapped happened because he was foolish, he trusted a friend when clearly he had overestimated the bond, bloody spies, he's had his fill of bloody spies. but this time - he has no idea what happened. one minute, he's in a pod, sailing to freedom and the next - he's in this bed. he must not have deactivated something. do they have a blasted tracker beam on these things? so paranoid! ] Oi, @therealshield, you forgot to paint your eagle - I'm gonna have to deduct your merits - [ no answer. the room really doesn't seem like anywhere his previous captors kept him in, and that's rarely a coincidence. he gets up, and the comm seems to slip off whatever it was leaning against and end up in a new position, one that shows the back of the man, as he walks towards a window. ] ...you have got to be joking.

[ and a moment later ] Bloody aliens!

[ the man comes in and out of the frame, as he's clearly examining his surroundings, before he heads back to check on what he's got by his cot, and notices the comm. picking it up, you now get a close up of his face - ] Little red light - you're either going to explode or - [ that sure looks like a camera, doesn't it? he holds it directly in front of his face. ]

Take me to your leader.

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Cheers - point me in their direction?

[ because most people he's spoken to so far seem disturbingly zen about this whole ordeal. also, sorry fitz, but premeditation is not hunter's strong suit. you'll learn!

he likes your optimism, fitz.

oh dear, well, that's another elephant, now, isn't it? ]

She was on assignment. I believe your reasoning went about - everyone else knew what they were doing so were otherwise occupied, and you needed a pair of steady idle hands.

Once I or anyone else manages to figure out what direction that's in.

[ for fitz, personally, he's in this sort of weird in-between state (though he is forever in the mindset of this isn't right i need to go home). there's no hydra threat here so far. he got to meet peggy carter (simmons will never forgive him for meeting peggy without her). but he was taken against his will. taken against his will from a team who needs him (they all need each other. they each fill a specific role on the team) with no way to get back unless his captors allow it. he should be able to figure some of this out, anything, and yet. it's what he does. he's not particularly strong, or good in any real way at fighting. his brain is what he brings to the table, and they tampered with it.

optimism. that's usually more simmons' sort of thing. but he has to be optimistic about this himself. the alternative is terrifying ]

On assignment? [ by herself or was she with someone? what was the assignment? ] Sounds like you and I made a decent team in her absence, I guess.

[ he frowns for a moment, before realizing fitz has leaped ahead of their conversation. that's alright, he'd much rather be pointed in the direction of the people in charge of this - or the folks at home. ]

I'm gonna hold you to that.

[ it may help and it may just be added pressure, but hunter's pretty sure if anyone can figure this out - it's fitz. especially pre-brain damage fitz. he heard tales of what that guy could do, they were epic. ]

Thanks for the vote of confidence - [ you guess? they saved the bus, what more do you want! there's just no pleasing you, is there? ] I'd say we make a pretty good team even when she's around. Mind you, less on the science and more on the complimentary skill-sets, but some would say that's preferable. [ fitz definitely seemed to prefer it while he was busy avoiding simmons at all cost. sure they didn't really work together as much - but downtime is just as important and telling! even more so, at times. ]

[ pressure. at least at home there's no implant to contend with, and he has simmons to bounce ideas off of. sure, there are plenty of people here who he could accomplish the same things with, but he and simmons just work so well together ]

Uh yeah, sorry. Remember, I don't actually know you and wasn't there to experience it myself. It's hard to judge given the lack of experience. [ sorry hunter! he's not trying to sound like a jerk okay ]

Less on the science... So what do you bring to the team, then? [ wait. that doesn't sound right ] I mean what do you do. What's your particular skill set?

[ not so much simmons as mack, and recently, well, that's proved itself a bad idea. who knows where you're really better off at, buddy. ]

Right, that's going to be not fun.

[ this is all too confusing for him. he's a simple guy - fitz is someone he knows, why can't he also just know him? ]

I'm a multi-talented addition. But I believe the main appeal for the director is my ability to execute bad ideas brilliantly.

[ he's your non-traitor ward replacement. ]

[ so basically, there are several layers of Not Great that fitz doesn't even know about yet. lovely. he's so looking forward to hearing all about the bad! ]

It's not exactly a picnic for me, either. Having someone who knows me, who says I've done things I haven't actually done yet. It's... exactly what I did to Agent Carter and probably how awkward it felt.

[ oops.

look, hunter, he'll get to know you here. and here, you'll get to know a fitz who hasn't been too dumped on my life yet ]

Who was appointed as Director?

[ don't shoot the messenger, you'll hurt yourself. ]

No, sorry, buddy, my loyalties to S.H.I.E.L.D. may be new and questionable, particularly now that there are two of the bloody thing, but I draw the line at blurting the director's secrets on live television. He's a good man.

[ with a meaningful look - understand him, fitz.

that's just going to make dumping his future on him even more depressing. ]

Speaking of Agent Carter - [ he imagines fitz knows his shield history. ] is she legitimate? [ because he realized she pulled the easiest interrogation trick on him - would never have worked if he weren't so bloody angry. she let him decide who she was, never actually did give him her name, or give him much of anything. ] How much do you know about her? Not in the history books - here, now?

[ that's right. hunter never did explain about the real shield. but fitz nods, at least partly sure he understands what it is that hunter is trying to say. he'll never know for certain until there hopefully comes a time when he can confirm it but for now, he has a theory based on how hunter presented his inability to give up the secrets of a good man ]

Agent Carter is legitimate. I've spoken with her a few times, met with her. The things we talked about, the things she told me- She's legitimate. [ even though much of what she told him was simply told to her by other people... ]

[ he's not sure how much he can believe fitz' judgment - his good nature does make him an ideal mark for deception, but it at least seems that if she's faking a persona, she's consistent about it. he nods. ]

How long have you been here, Fitz? How come you didn't report this? [ or is it just another secret kept by the good man he fought the woman he loves and one of his closest friends for? because he may have to retract his comment if it is. ]

[ that's the issue though, isn't it? fitz trusts people rather easily. a little too easily. he assumes because she looks like the woman he's spent a long time reading about, and answers to the name, that she is who she says she is. given his line of work, as well as the fact that there was an actual shapeshifter aboard the bishop for a while, one would think he'd be a little more skeptical.

and yet here we are ]

I've been here about three and a half months, almost four, I believe. How come I didn't report this? [ who would he be able to report it to? ]

[ he will just have to keep his eye on him, isn't he. no harm will be allowed to come to fitz, not on his watch. ]

When you came back - come back - I know you do, I've met you - [ why, to coulson, of course! ]

[ two people he doesn't even know keeping an eye out for him! agent carter and now hunter. he doesn't need anyone to look out for him though. he's a perfectly capable shield agent! ]

I'm actually under the impression that we probably won't remember this whenever we're sent back. It's an uncomfortable thought, actually. Though I suppose it isn't like they haven't already tampered with our brains. [ and for the first time during this conversation, fitz sounds angry ]

[ he's incapable of healthy suspicion, so his partner is gonna have his back, how's that? hunter is more than happy for fitz to watch out for him as well, as capable as he is, he still doesn't have eyes in the back of his head.

good. get angry, fitz. ]

Sent back? So they just - let us go - when - what, we become too dull to watch? I'll be stuck here forever - [ he's far too interesting, fitz, help! ]

[ that sounds more acceptable. fitz may not be as physically capable as other people, but he does have his own talents! he'd like to get better at properly defending himself too (partly so it can then extend to helping others).

oh don't worry. he's angry ]

I don't know why people get sent back. A few people from my ship have disappeared since I've gotten here. I wouldn't exactly have called them dull but they're gone anyway.

[ hunter would be delighted to help him in this endeavor. ]

That big brain of yours doesn't have a theory? Time lapsed, trouble caused, nothing?

[ please do, hunter. he would like to be able to properly protect himself and not have to rely on people being around all the time ]

Nothing. There doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern. No rhyme or reason to why some people are still here and others are sent back. If it's up to whoever is watching whether we stay or leave, they could be deciding based on anything. Maybe they didn't like how someone looked and decided they didn't want to see them anymore. Maybe someone did something in private that whoever is watching didn't like. Maybe the viewers were offended by someone. Easy enough to do when you don't know who's watching. Or maybe it is time lapsed, or trouble caused.

[ too many maybes. he doesn't even bother hiding the fact that it bothers him. it's not worth hiding it ]

[ he'll be your SO. without..being a proper O. ]

So what you're saying is - cover all your bases. Offend everyone.

[ it's not like anything is exactly official here so hey, fitz'll take it! ]

Wait, what? No. No that's not what I'm saying at all!

[ excellent, he always thought what shield was missing is a bit of flexibility! ]

Sounded like it to me, mate. Maybe it's your subconscious - showing you the way.

[ well considering they are the only shield agents here, they can afford to be a little more flexible ]

No that's you reading too much into what I was saying. Besides, not knowing who's watching, we wouldn't know what might offend them anyway.

[ more like they can't afford not to be. ]

That's why we throw everything against the wall and see what sticks, or - what gets us thrown out. Just follow my lead, Fitz, I'm an expert.

[ he can get himself thrown out of anywhere. ]

[ yeah. yeah this is true ]

You really think you can manage to get yourself sent home? You're not worried that you might make yourself more appealing and secure a years long stay here, like some people have experienced?

[ he doesn't want to throw anything. he's not very athletic, hunter! tho hey, if his method ends up working... ]

One thing I know about people - you can do a million things right every day of your life, but all it takes is one wrong to turn them against you.

[ he's had so many happy times with bobbi and mack. none of them mattered when he discovered their secret though, did they. nor did they matter to him, when he sensed something was being kept from him. and those are people he loves, not strangers on a television set. people turn against those exceedingly easily, all it takes is one wrong word caught on camera. and he knows a lot of wrong words. ]

I'm not sure you're really giving people enough credit. Not everyone is going to turn on you just like that.

[ maybe it's the fact that fitz is more trusting a person than he should be, but he simply doesn't believe that it's so easy to make someone turn on someone else. especially if there's a sense of trust there, friendship, something. and while there isn't any between them and the audience, something about the way hunter said it makes fitz think that maybe that's not what he's talking about anymore. he may not be as socially adept as simmons has always seemed to be to him, but he can pick up on things ]

[ will he still believe that, when he tells him the truth of ward? would he even believe hunter? he isn't sure how to handle this fitz, it took a long time for their bond to build the first time around, but that was due to injury. here, fitz is as healthy as anyone which should make things easier - but in honesty it just makes things more difficult because hunter doesn't really know him this way, either. there's no one here to vouch for him. what cause does fitz have to believe him over ward? ]

No, not everyone. But enough people would, if you ignore the signs.

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