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pryde_and_grit) wrote2009-08-04 12:16 pm
pryde_and_grit) wrote2009-08-04 12:16 pm
Aftermaths
Half a day to hike to a truck stop and 'hitch' back into Chicago.
A day with Toad and family (she'd left Isobel there for safe keeping) breaking down and shaking in posts tress nerves. And exhaustion. Oh God the exhaustion.
A short jet trip back and she was back in the mansion before the kids came back from school that day. All told she'd been gone ten days. Casing the helicarrier, wandering in it, taking it down. Ten days to get Logan out.
She'd didn't know if she'd gotten him back. Time would tell on that front...
Ten days of her life well spent.
She settled Isobel in her crib, her naps tended to coincide with the team getting home, then Kurt ported into the room, tail swinging and twitching wildly outside his hologram as he grinned at her. "Katzchen! Allo! Did you hear? Did you see? It is all over the news!"
"Calm down blue, it's been a long ten days alright? Did I hear what? I just got home a little while ago. You guys didn't blow up the gym again did you?" she was playing it out because she knew the whole team had problems with secrets. And being a SHIELD enemy was a damn dangerous secret to have.
"There was no TV in the mountains? Terrorists attacked SHIELD!" he turned off the hologram entirely, then crawled down the wall to turn on the small set in the room. Sure enough, there was an emergency news report. The film was of the recovery team dragging bits and pieces of the fortress out of the lakes.
Some of the pieces were even still smoking and glowing. She really hoped an EPA official saw that. "No, a retreat is just that. You hide away from all the junk and try to relax a little. I walked in the woods a lot." she offered, eyes glued to the screens. There was a red ticker scrolling across the bottom, a list of factions that had stepped forward to claim responsibility. Everything from militant whack jobs in Nebraska, to religious orders outside the states...a lot of claimed responsibility and not a single culprit in the lot.
She liked that.
A lot.
Every moment they spent checking out the wackos, they weren't spending on finding Logan.
"They made us all vhatch in school Katzchen! An assembly, and prayers...but we didn't jump up an party ja?" he was looking to her for...approval. Approval of his restraint. The whole team's restraint...
"That's good. SHIELD will be looking for targets now. Lots of them, any of them that seem too happy. You can party here. Order pizza." she was still watching as the video showed them pulling a human shaped bundle from the wreckage '...and with tremendous loss of life...' the anchor was droning on. She'd have been more convinced of that if they'd shown destroyed escape shuttles instead of bundles that might have been bodies.
"Woo! Pizza!" Kurt bounded off to tell the rest and Kit? Kit tucked Isobel in and went down the hall to better watch the news.
A day with Toad and family (she'd left Isobel there for safe keeping) breaking down and shaking in posts tress nerves. And exhaustion. Oh God the exhaustion.
A short jet trip back and she was back in the mansion before the kids came back from school that day. All told she'd been gone ten days. Casing the helicarrier, wandering in it, taking it down. Ten days to get Logan out.
She'd didn't know if she'd gotten him back. Time would tell on that front...
Ten days of her life well spent.
She settled Isobel in her crib, her naps tended to coincide with the team getting home, then Kurt ported into the room, tail swinging and twitching wildly outside his hologram as he grinned at her. "Katzchen! Allo! Did you hear? Did you see? It is all over the news!"
"Calm down blue, it's been a long ten days alright? Did I hear what? I just got home a little while ago. You guys didn't blow up the gym again did you?" she was playing it out because she knew the whole team had problems with secrets. And being a SHIELD enemy was a damn dangerous secret to have.
"There was no TV in the mountains? Terrorists attacked SHIELD!" he turned off the hologram entirely, then crawled down the wall to turn on the small set in the room. Sure enough, there was an emergency news report. The film was of the recovery team dragging bits and pieces of the fortress out of the lakes.
Some of the pieces were even still smoking and glowing. She really hoped an EPA official saw that. "No, a retreat is just that. You hide away from all the junk and try to relax a little. I walked in the woods a lot." she offered, eyes glued to the screens. There was a red ticker scrolling across the bottom, a list of factions that had stepped forward to claim responsibility. Everything from militant whack jobs in Nebraska, to religious orders outside the states...a lot of claimed responsibility and not a single culprit in the lot.
She liked that.
A lot.
Every moment they spent checking out the wackos, they weren't spending on finding Logan.
"They made us all vhatch in school Katzchen! An assembly, and prayers...but we didn't jump up an party ja?" he was looking to her for...approval. Approval of his restraint. The whole team's restraint...
"That's good. SHIELD will be looking for targets now. Lots of them, any of them that seem too happy. You can party here. Order pizza." she was still watching as the video showed them pulling a human shaped bundle from the wreckage '...and with tremendous loss of life...' the anchor was droning on. She'd have been more convinced of that if they'd shown destroyed escape shuttles instead of bundles that might have been bodies.
"Woo! Pizza!" Kurt bounded off to tell the rest and Kit? Kit tucked Isobel in and went down the hall to better watch the news.