Routine

Fandom: Marvel, Captain America.
Pairing: Jack Rollins X Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.!Reader.
Rating: Teen.
Word count: 475 words.
Warnings: Mummies, spells, boring.
Summary: You started to think your life was boring, until the last mission.
A/N: This is my entry to Multifandom Flash Bingo Cards Halloween, Annie-5017 & square 3:

"Mummy."

A new day, a new mission, although in a way it had become routine, you didn't feel the excitement of before when going on missions; rather, you felt that you had fallen into an infinite loop of an endless routine.

Jack came into your office to inform you that they would have a new mission. You sighed again, following the same routine every day. Maybe next month you would ask for a change or resign, but you still had not decided. You grabbed your things.

Together, you and Jack entered the temple, even though he scoffed that you were carrying some old maps. As you moved deeper into the darkness, you began to hear strange noises and whispers coming from the shadows. Soon, they realized they were not alone.

The mummies, awakened from their eternal sleep when you entered the ancient temple, slowly emerged from their sarcophagi. They had probably triggered some trap or curse.

Jack and you looked at each other, not sure what you should do. Waking them was not part of the plan; you simply had to go for one of the clues you were told was there, although you were given no further details of the mission.

Their eyes glowed in the darkness as they approached Jack and you. It was a terrifying sight, although you could not deny that it was finally something different, and you felt excited. You felt again that beautiful sensation that had not been present for months, which is why you had fallen in love with your work.

"I'm starting to think it's a trap," Jack commented as he threw one of the mummies.

"Do you think so? Or maybe we activated a curse," you answered.

"Whatever. "

The mummies began to surround them, moving with eerie slowness.

With every step they took, the mummies got closer and closer. You weren't even sure they were finishing them off; on the contrary, you noticed more and more of them. They seemed to be about to attack because of the proximity, but just at that moment, you remembered something you had read in one of your grandmother's old books. You remembered a spell, although you didn't have the slightest idea what it would do.

Quickly, you began to recite the spell aloud. As the words echoed through the air, the mummies began to recede and finally fade into the darkness.

"Maybe they were hallucinations or something," you said after they disappeared.

"Whatever," Jack said again, picking up the small box that had been pointed out to them as having the clue they needed.

On the way back, you couldn't stop smiling; now you could remember the reasons why you loved your job.

"I think I won't quit in the end," you muttered.

"What? " Jack asked, confused; you had never mentioned anything about it to him before.

"Nothing."