Post by Snowglobe18 on Apr 14, 2021 16:24:27 GMT -7
If there's one moment that emily wished she hadn't said anything then it would be in this moment right here. The meeting room of their private plane had errupted with words and now everyone was talking over each other and it was starting to give her a headache.
"Hey guys..." she tried but they were still talking over one another, all of them worried about what her announcement could mean.
"HEY!" she shouted and then looked around the team that was now quiet and looking at her with wide eyes "Enough.. no one is going back to their jobs. You're not going back to the labs" she pointed to Fitzsimmons "you're not going back to being another agent in the field" she said to Alex and then looked at both Caesar and Poe "And you're not going back to.. whatever it was you were doing before this" she caught Caesar's eye for a moment and then chewed on her lip. Emily sighed "All it is is a change of leadership for a little bit, Coulson wants to take on a team of his own and seeing as we're the only functioning team that seems to work well together then he will be taking over this one just for a bit"
"And what about you, where will you be in all of this?" Alex asked and put her hands into the front pockets of her jeans.
"I'm going to be at The Hub; Victoria Hand has asked for me personally" Emily looked down at the touch screen computer top and closed her eyes tightly.
"And when does this all start?" Jemma asked quietly, trying to take it all in especially when they worked well as a team because they all knew each other, sure they've come across Coulson before but he didn't know how this team worked and Emily did.
Emily brought her eyes up and looked around the team and she just about caught Caesar's eyes before she sighed again. "With immediate effect" she admitted and hated keeping the truth from them all but it was something that she had to do. Something that she had been told to do.
"Are you in trouble?" Alex asked and watched her with her brown eyes of hers that was always seeing things differently to the rest of the team.
Emily pushed her eyebrows together at that because why would Alex think that at all? But she guessed it was worth asking because the amount of shit that came their way and sometimes Emily didn't always agree with it and would often ignore what she had been told because it just wasn't right. It was bound to hit her in the ass at some point but no that wasn't what this was all about. "Nope not in trouble just doing what the Director wants on this one"
She avoided looking at Caesar again because she felt like he knew she was lying and maybe he did but she wasn't in trouble, just doing something. "Now get out of here so I can do my job" she smiled and then moved away from the touch screen computer and the meeting room to go up to her office that was at the top of the plane. Her heart beating hard every step that she took away from her team.
Emily ran up the stairs and then got to her office and grabbed the duffle bag from underneath her bed and put it on top of the covers and just about to put the rest of her stuff in to it when she heard the door shut and looked up to see Caesar.
"Are you in trouble? Are we in trouble?" he asked and put his hands on to his hips and watched her.
"I told you, and everyone down there the truth, I'm not in trouble" Emily sat on the edge of her desk.
"And I know when you're lying" his brown eyes continued to watch her.
Emily brought one hand up and rubbed at her forehead; closing her eyes for a moment. She honestly wished that all of this was simple but right now none of it was, nothing was simple and she wished that they believed her for a moment but at the same time she knew that Caesar would want to know the truth of the situation. "I will tell you everything at home but not here, I promise" or at least tell him as much as she could tell him.
Caesar nodded once "Alright"
"Now get the hell out of my office because you're giving me a worse headache than those downstairs" she nudged a hand towards the closed door for him to go back out of it. Emily pushed her eyebrows together again when he reached out and slid his hand in to hers and give it a squeeze. She held on to him for a moment and squeezed back, a smile pulling at her lips, before she then let go and watched him open the door and walking out before shutting the door behind him.
The two of them have been through so much and she's not sure what he will say about this when he gets home but Fury needed someone else out there, and it had been her name that had drawn the short straw.
Emily packed up her office and put everything in her over night bag, the one thing she uses when they are on long distance missions or back to back ones. She picks up one of the picture frames that sit on her desk and in it is a picture of her and Charlotte; she puts that in to the bag and in the second is a picture of her and the team. Drunk off their asses at a birthday party that had been thrown for Emily. She to put that in the bag before she made sure she had everything then zipped it up.
She didn't have a lot of stuff in this office, didn't fill it with crap but the stuff that she would only need and with that she put the strap of her go bag on her shoulder and she looked around the office once more before she walked out, shutting the door behind her.
Emily walked down the spiral staircase and then when she came to the bottom and stepped out in to the living quarters her eyes fell on her team that was in the meeting room, they were all looking in her direction. For the first time she didn't want them looking at her she wanted to leave the plane without them thinking that she was in trouble because she wasn't.
Her eyes caught on Caesar most of all and she bit on her lip gently and then moved her brown eyes to look at the rest and she gave them a flat smile before turning around and then walking through the door that separated the living quarters with the other part of the plane.
"Why does it feel like she's taken one for the team?" Jemma asked but kept her eyes on the sliding door that had shut behind Emily.
"Because I think she has" Alex muttered and looked over at Jemma with her own flat smile.
Emily walked down the other spiral staircase and on to the loading ramp and as she was walking down she came across Agent Coulson "Look after them, and make sure that each one of them come back from missions without a scratch"
"Do they know?" he asked.
Emily shook her head "They think that you want to run your own team and that I've been sent to The Hub, that's all they need to know right now" she then looked up towards the lab where Fitzsimmons would work.
"I'll take good care of them, Agent Clarke, good luck" he held out his hand and then smiled when she shook his hand.
"You too, you're going to need it" Emily smiled this time with a normal smile and with that she dropped her hand from his and walked down the rest of the loading bay and across the tarmac of the hangar.
Emily didn't know that Caesar had been watching the cargo bay camera and had seen the exchange between her and Coulson.
Emily looked down at her passport and bit down on her lip, she had got her new identity today which was really quick especially for SHIELD but even so she felt like they were rushing her because they wanted to get this contain.
The passport was sitting on the coffee table and the dogs were around her. She had been home a while and she looked up when the door opened and in walked Caesar. Emily knew he would see the suitcase sitting by the door along with her to go bag that she had brought with her from the plane.
"Moving out?" he asked as he walked over to where she was. His voice a little tight.
"No" Emily finally said after a moment and then looked up at him as he walked along the back of the couch and then around to sit on the coffee table in front of her.
"What's going on, Em?"
"I'm going undercover" she finally admitted. Emily knew that she shouldn't say anything to anyone but there was no way that she was going to have him sitting here thinking that she had left him, thinking that she had finally walked out on their relationship when she hadn't.
"How long for?"
"I don't know" she looked down at her hands "It could be weeks or it could be months, even you know there is no timeline on this"
He sighed and then ran his hands over his face and up in to his dark hair. The only time Caesar had ever really gone undercover was with Leia and those on the base but he had Emily there with him in the end but she's going to be gone for weeks maybe months and he's not going to be able to know if she's okay or if anything happens to her. He hates that. "When do you leave"
"It's meant to be straight away but I can put it off til tomorrow"
"You have to promise me that you will be safe" he put his hands out towards her and then watched as she put her hands in to his. "You need to be careful because you won't have any back up out there" Caesar knew that she was capable of taking care of herself, he believed that she would be able to get herself out of a situation should one arise but he needs her to come back safely.
Emily held on to his hands and let her brown eyes look over his face. She moved forward in her seat and said softly to him. "I'm coming back safely just don't get in to trouble while I'm gone" she teased at him.
"Me? Trouble? I wouldn't think of it"
Emily grinned and looked down at the space between them and she didn't want to bring this up but she wanted him to know just in case. "If anything happens to me-"
"Em.."
"No you have to hear this, if anything happens to me" she looked up at him once more "I told Fury to tell you first because of telling the team but it's because I don't want my boyfriend to find out from the team"
Caesar moved his hands from hers and then moved even more closer before he put his hands on her cheeks and then leaned his forehead against hers and slid his hands to the back of her head and let his fingers sink into her blonde hair. Emily put her hands on his sides before closing her eyes up and just staying in the moment. "You make sure you come back"
"I will" she said in a whisper. She had been undercover before but for some reason this time felt so much different, it could be due to the fact she was going out of country and like Caesar said she wouldn't have the back up she would need if anything went wrong.
"I love you" Emily wished to him and got the same back before she opened her eyes back up and moved away. Even though she said that she could leave in the morning it was better to do it now as she wouldn't want to go in the first place. She gave him one final kiss and stood up walking over to where her bags were. She gave another look at the passport that she had in her hand. Sharon Carter was her new undercover name. No relation, thankfully, to Peggy Carter.
Emily scratched the dogs behind their ears and gave their foreheads a kiss before picking up her stuff and walking out the door. If she had looked back at Caesar then she knew she would stay and not want to go but once that door was shut and she was walking down the steps away from his apartment she felt a little better. Her team would be okay regardless of whether or not she made it back.
But she was going to try her hardest especially when there was someone that she had to look for.
"Hey guys..." she tried but they were still talking over one another, all of them worried about what her announcement could mean.
"HEY!" she shouted and then looked around the team that was now quiet and looking at her with wide eyes "Enough.. no one is going back to their jobs. You're not going back to the labs" she pointed to Fitzsimmons "you're not going back to being another agent in the field" she said to Alex and then looked at both Caesar and Poe "And you're not going back to.. whatever it was you were doing before this" she caught Caesar's eye for a moment and then chewed on her lip. Emily sighed "All it is is a change of leadership for a little bit, Coulson wants to take on a team of his own and seeing as we're the only functioning team that seems to work well together then he will be taking over this one just for a bit"
"And what about you, where will you be in all of this?" Alex asked and put her hands into the front pockets of her jeans.
"I'm going to be at The Hub; Victoria Hand has asked for me personally" Emily looked down at the touch screen computer top and closed her eyes tightly.
"And when does this all start?" Jemma asked quietly, trying to take it all in especially when they worked well as a team because they all knew each other, sure they've come across Coulson before but he didn't know how this team worked and Emily did.
Emily brought her eyes up and looked around the team and she just about caught Caesar's eyes before she sighed again. "With immediate effect" she admitted and hated keeping the truth from them all but it was something that she had to do. Something that she had been told to do.
"Are you in trouble?" Alex asked and watched her with her brown eyes of hers that was always seeing things differently to the rest of the team.
Emily pushed her eyebrows together at that because why would Alex think that at all? But she guessed it was worth asking because the amount of shit that came their way and sometimes Emily didn't always agree with it and would often ignore what she had been told because it just wasn't right. It was bound to hit her in the ass at some point but no that wasn't what this was all about. "Nope not in trouble just doing what the Director wants on this one"
She avoided looking at Caesar again because she felt like he knew she was lying and maybe he did but she wasn't in trouble, just doing something. "Now get out of here so I can do my job" she smiled and then moved away from the touch screen computer and the meeting room to go up to her office that was at the top of the plane. Her heart beating hard every step that she took away from her team.
Emily ran up the stairs and then got to her office and grabbed the duffle bag from underneath her bed and put it on top of the covers and just about to put the rest of her stuff in to it when she heard the door shut and looked up to see Caesar.
"Are you in trouble? Are we in trouble?" he asked and put his hands on to his hips and watched her.
"I told you, and everyone down there the truth, I'm not in trouble" Emily sat on the edge of her desk.
"And I know when you're lying" his brown eyes continued to watch her.
Emily brought one hand up and rubbed at her forehead; closing her eyes for a moment. She honestly wished that all of this was simple but right now none of it was, nothing was simple and she wished that they believed her for a moment but at the same time she knew that Caesar would want to know the truth of the situation. "I will tell you everything at home but not here, I promise" or at least tell him as much as she could tell him.
Caesar nodded once "Alright"
"Now get the hell out of my office because you're giving me a worse headache than those downstairs" she nudged a hand towards the closed door for him to go back out of it. Emily pushed her eyebrows together again when he reached out and slid his hand in to hers and give it a squeeze. She held on to him for a moment and squeezed back, a smile pulling at her lips, before she then let go and watched him open the door and walking out before shutting the door behind him.
The two of them have been through so much and she's not sure what he will say about this when he gets home but Fury needed someone else out there, and it had been her name that had drawn the short straw.
Emily packed up her office and put everything in her over night bag, the one thing she uses when they are on long distance missions or back to back ones. She picks up one of the picture frames that sit on her desk and in it is a picture of her and Charlotte; she puts that in to the bag and in the second is a picture of her and the team. Drunk off their asses at a birthday party that had been thrown for Emily. She to put that in the bag before she made sure she had everything then zipped it up.
She didn't have a lot of stuff in this office, didn't fill it with crap but the stuff that she would only need and with that she put the strap of her go bag on her shoulder and she looked around the office once more before she walked out, shutting the door behind her.
Emily walked down the spiral staircase and then when she came to the bottom and stepped out in to the living quarters her eyes fell on her team that was in the meeting room, they were all looking in her direction. For the first time she didn't want them looking at her she wanted to leave the plane without them thinking that she was in trouble because she wasn't.
Her eyes caught on Caesar most of all and she bit on her lip gently and then moved her brown eyes to look at the rest and she gave them a flat smile before turning around and then walking through the door that separated the living quarters with the other part of the plane.
"Why does it feel like she's taken one for the team?" Jemma asked but kept her eyes on the sliding door that had shut behind Emily.
"Because I think she has" Alex muttered and looked over at Jemma with her own flat smile.
Emily walked down the other spiral staircase and on to the loading ramp and as she was walking down she came across Agent Coulson "Look after them, and make sure that each one of them come back from missions without a scratch"
"Do they know?" he asked.
Emily shook her head "They think that you want to run your own team and that I've been sent to The Hub, that's all they need to know right now" she then looked up towards the lab where Fitzsimmons would work.
"I'll take good care of them, Agent Clarke, good luck" he held out his hand and then smiled when she shook his hand.
"You too, you're going to need it" Emily smiled this time with a normal smile and with that she dropped her hand from his and walked down the rest of the loading bay and across the tarmac of the hangar.
Emily didn't know that Caesar had been watching the cargo bay camera and had seen the exchange between her and Coulson.
-.-
Emily looked down at her passport and bit down on her lip, she had got her new identity today which was really quick especially for SHIELD but even so she felt like they were rushing her because they wanted to get this contain.
The passport was sitting on the coffee table and the dogs were around her. She had been home a while and she looked up when the door opened and in walked Caesar. Emily knew he would see the suitcase sitting by the door along with her to go bag that she had brought with her from the plane.
"Moving out?" he asked as he walked over to where she was. His voice a little tight.
"No" Emily finally said after a moment and then looked up at him as he walked along the back of the couch and then around to sit on the coffee table in front of her.
"What's going on, Em?"
"I'm going undercover" she finally admitted. Emily knew that she shouldn't say anything to anyone but there was no way that she was going to have him sitting here thinking that she had left him, thinking that she had finally walked out on their relationship when she hadn't.
"How long for?"
"I don't know" she looked down at her hands "It could be weeks or it could be months, even you know there is no timeline on this"
He sighed and then ran his hands over his face and up in to his dark hair. The only time Caesar had ever really gone undercover was with Leia and those on the base but he had Emily there with him in the end but she's going to be gone for weeks maybe months and he's not going to be able to know if she's okay or if anything happens to her. He hates that. "When do you leave"
"It's meant to be straight away but I can put it off til tomorrow"
"You have to promise me that you will be safe" he put his hands out towards her and then watched as she put her hands in to his. "You need to be careful because you won't have any back up out there" Caesar knew that she was capable of taking care of herself, he believed that she would be able to get herself out of a situation should one arise but he needs her to come back safely.
Emily held on to his hands and let her brown eyes look over his face. She moved forward in her seat and said softly to him. "I'm coming back safely just don't get in to trouble while I'm gone" she teased at him.
"Me? Trouble? I wouldn't think of it"
Emily grinned and looked down at the space between them and she didn't want to bring this up but she wanted him to know just in case. "If anything happens to me-"
"Em.."
"No you have to hear this, if anything happens to me" she looked up at him once more "I told Fury to tell you first because of telling the team but it's because I don't want my boyfriend to find out from the team"
Caesar moved his hands from hers and then moved even more closer before he put his hands on her cheeks and then leaned his forehead against hers and slid his hands to the back of her head and let his fingers sink into her blonde hair. Emily put her hands on his sides before closing her eyes up and just staying in the moment. "You make sure you come back"
"I will" she said in a whisper. She had been undercover before but for some reason this time felt so much different, it could be due to the fact she was going out of country and like Caesar said she wouldn't have the back up she would need if anything went wrong.
"I love you" Emily wished to him and got the same back before she opened her eyes back up and moved away. Even though she said that she could leave in the morning it was better to do it now as she wouldn't want to go in the first place. She gave him one final kiss and stood up walking over to where her bags were. She gave another look at the passport that she had in her hand. Sharon Carter was her new undercover name. No relation, thankfully, to Peggy Carter.
Emily scratched the dogs behind their ears and gave their foreheads a kiss before picking up her stuff and walking out the door. If she had looked back at Caesar then she knew she would stay and not want to go but once that door was shut and she was walking down the steps away from his apartment she felt a little better. Her team would be okay regardless of whether or not she made it back.
But she was going to try her hardest especially when there was someone that she had to look for.