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“You want me to what?” Daisy asked incredulously, making Lincoln wince as her voice rose. He glanced at Director Coulson who, to his credit, looked slightly
apologetic as he fiddled with his prosthetic.
“I want you to team up with an old friend of mine to go after a Hydra base in Minnesota. He lives pretty close to there so it won’t be much of a problem.” Coulson said to a near livid Daisy.
“Why can’t I just take my team?” She didn’t know who this ‘old friend’ was of Coulson’s, but she and her team had fought and scraped to get cleared for active duty and she couldn’t even take them with her on this mission.
Coulson sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, glancing at Lincoln for help, but Lincoln shrugged his shoulders at the older man. “I told you Sk-Daisy. We need
Joey and Lincoln going after the other Inhumans. I need Mack here, and if I sent Hunter or Bobbi with this person… well it just wouldn’t turn out well for anyone.”
Lincoln had about a hundred questions after that, and with a glance at Daisy, could tell that she would have many too. After she calmed down from being taken away from her team.
“This is ridiculous Coulson.” Daisy said, crossing her arms. Lincoln had been around Daisy long enough to know that this was her way of saying: ‘Alright, but I don’t like this.’
This didn’t affect Coulson in the slightest way. He smiled in a small victory over his agent and continued on with the information on the different ops.
“Lincoln and Joey, you guys will be headed to Paris. We have reports of an Inhuman there who fancies himself a vigilante. We need to bring him in and give him some direction. I don’t like the idea of an outstanding player who isn’t with us or with the Avengers.”
Lincoln nodded at Joey and rolled his shoulders in preparation. He mulled over the information in his head as Coulson droned on about different missions. He would need to be careful. People usually freaked out about their new abilities once becoming Inhuman, but if this new guy was embracing it enough to become a vigilante, that could be a problem.
As Coulson finished up, many of the agents left. When Lincoln finally came out of his thoughts he noticed only Coulson, Daisy, Hunter, and Bobbi left in the room. Daisy had stormed up to Coulson and was talking to him, well, more like at him. Hunter and Bobbi were looking at Coulson suspiciously as Daisy chattered on. It didn’t take long before Coulson stopped Daisy with a couple of words. Lincoln was too far away to hear them, but he saw Daisy straighten up immediately. Bobbi’s face had gone white, and Hunter had gained a murderous look in his eye.
Lincoln should have probably walked away, but damn him he was curious. He walked up and cleared his throat. “Uh, guys? What’s going on?”
Coulson smiled at him, that weird dad-type smile he had. “Oh, nothing. Just told Daisy who her partner will be.”
Lincoln furrowed his brow and turned his eyes to Daisy who looked a pale as a sheet. The look in her eyes was excited, yet terrified at the same time. He had no idea who had the capability to get that reaction out of Daisy, let alone the ones he was getting out of Bobbi and Hunter. He looked back up at Coulson for clarification.
“Daisy has the distinct honor of working with a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent turned Avenger, Clint Barton. But you know him as Hawkeye.”
The room was stunned to silence for a moment, a moment which Coulson used to excuse himself and start back to his office. He did not cover a soft laugh that seemed to snap Daisy out of her stupor and she stormed after him.
Lincoln looked to Bobbi and Hunter who looked livid, and Hunter was cursing quietly to her about the Hawkeye guy. Lincoln didn’t know what the big deal was; they weren’t working with him. He shrugged; it was none of his business anyway. He needed to go find Joey so that they can prepare for their own mission. He did hope Daisy would be okay on a mission with this Hawkeye dude, the Warriors still needed their fearless leader to come back alive.