The Eye of the Storm

I Want Both

"You had to watch me die once," said Coulson. "I never want you to have to again."

"Neither do I, so you better stay alive and call me if you need help."

Coulson suddenly became very quiet.

"Look," I tried again. "How about if anything happens on the weekends or breaks, you call me, because I know some of that stuff happened this summer and I could have totally helped if you had called me."

"Okay," said Coulson. "But you might be busy with Avengers stuff."

"Not officially," I said with a wink.

"If that's all we needed to take about privately, we should probably get back to your friends."

"Oh God, they're probably nervous wrecks right now."

When we got back into the room, Harry was sitting by himself quietly while everyone else talked and laughed a little too loudly.

"Where are Ron and Hermione?" I asked quietly as I sat down next to Harry.

"They are fighting in the other room," said Harry.

"How?"

"Well, Ron mentioned something about Ginny being a flirt. Hermione defended her. Then Ron called Hermione a hypocrite because she snogged Krum, and then Hermione pulled him into another room."

I jumped up and ran into the other room. They were both screaming at each other incomprehensibly when I barged into the room.

"Shut up! Both of you!" I snapped. "I didn't bring you here to air your dirty laundry."

They quieted, embarrassed.

"Now you are both going to go out there, sit down quietly and be the most pleasant teenagers in existence until we leave."

"Fine," grumbled Ron.

"Sorry," said Hermione.

We went back into the lounge.

"Sorry about that," said Hermione sweetly.

"Yeah," said Ron. They both sat down.

"I really hate to get going so soon after the wedding," I said. "But we need to get heading back before anyone notices we are gone."

"You snuck out of school to get here?" said YoYo.

"It's not as hard as you would think," I said.

"Not for a SHIELD agent," teased Daisy.

"Well, we all want to encourage education," said Jemma. I got up and gave her a hug, then turned to Fitz and gave him one too, even if it didn't feel the same.

"Before we go—" I stopped—"Which one of you proposed first?"

"Well—"
"Actually—"

"They are both convinced that they were the one to propose first," said Mack.

"Well, I'm happy for you guys." I walked over to the doorway where Ron, Harry and Hermione were now waiting. "See ya later."

"I'll walk you out," said Coulson.

We walked through the halls in silence, until we were at the exit.

"I assume I do not need to tell you three that the location of this base is secret," said Coulson.

They nodded.

"And I assume you don't need me to drive you back to the clearing you landed in."

We nodded. We all stood awkwardly for a moment, until Hermione spoke up.

"Harry, Ron, lets go get the brooms from the car."

They left and I turned to Coulson. "I'll see you soon?"

Coulson gave me an affectionate smile. "Yeah."

I gave him a tight hug, burying my face in his shoulder. He patted my shoulder and I pulled away.

"Goodbye, Kendra."

"Bye, Coulson."

I went to the car and grabbed my broom from Harry. We mounted our brooms and took off. As we flew away, I turned and saw Coulson looking at me with astonished pride.

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Hey Everyone, this chapter was so much easier to write than the last one.

Forever and Always,
Me.