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CHAPTER EIGHT -----▹ 

Kate felt her heart drop at the sight of the butterscotch, she held eye contact with Jack for what felt like forever but was only a few seconds before rushing past him to grab her coat, "Kate. What's wrong?" her mother asked, "Nothing. No, I'm fine." Kate stuttered out, pulling on her coat, and Iskra took that chance to enter the room grabbing her own coat, "Almost left without this." Iskra shrugged, "Oh, Kate are you leaving now, I can give you a ride? I thought you were meeting me there." she asked faking surprise. "I...I uh just remembered...saw the time. It's a thing for Iskra...for her job." Kate stuttered out, "Kate what is going on?" Kate shook her head at her mother, "Nothing...Everything is," she took a breath, "Everything is fine. I will call you later." she reassured, and she rushed past Iskra, who followed quickly behind her.

Once they got onto the sidewalk out of the building Iskra stopped Kate, "Iskra, jackhadthearmandthethirdbutterscotchandisawitwheniwentintohishouseandandand." Kate rushed out talking too quickly for Iskra to understand her,  "Hey, Kate, Kate, Pretty eyes, look at me," Iskra said tilting Kate's head towards her, "You've got to breathe."  Iskra directed the brunette's breathing until she had calmed a bit. "So, when I found Armand's body, there was this bowl of butterscotches labeled Armand III, and Jack offered me a butterscotch..." Iskra's eyes widened, "Armand III?" Kate nodded, "I think he knows. That I was the one in that suit..." Kate said, "Hey, look at me." Kate lifted her eyes to look into Iskra's, "We are going to figure this out, ok?" Kate nodded.

Iskra still had her hand gently resting on Kate's arm as she dialed Clint's number, first, it was sent to voicemail right away, which Iskra found strange, but before dialing again she paused, "Your mom owns that security company right?" Iskra asked, "Uh, yeah?" Kate replied, "Can you get his location?" Iskra asked, "Oh. Yeah, I can get it." Kate responded catching on. 

"Good. pull it up."  Iskra stated as she began to dial Clint's number again, "I'm sorry, Clint Barton can't take your call right now." the voice over the phone spoke, Iskra paused before quickly hanging up. "Ready for your first stakeout mission?" Iskra asked the brunette, "uh...Hell Yeah!"

A while later Kate and Iskra were eating some pizza in Iskra's car, which she did have to note, had at least one parking ticket from this trip. "This is much more boring than I anticipated." Kate said before taking another bite of her pizza, "Yeah, well super-secret undercover spy work isn't always the most entertaining thing ever." Iskra said tearing a piece of the crust off her slice, Kate looked at her like she was crazy, "Who eats pizza like that? The crust is supposed to be last." Iskra laughed a little, "I guess it's something I picked up from my mom, she always ate the pizza crust first."

"I'm sorry by the way, I heard about what  happened." Kate said softly, "Yeah." Iskra shrugged blinking back tears, "You know... shit happens, you just learn to deal with it." Kate just kind of nodded, they both jumped at the sound of American Pie ringing through the car, "Oh, I have to take this." Iskra said to Kate before answering the phone, "Hey, Iz." Maria's voice came through the phone, "Hi," Iskra spoke into the phone, "Are you alright? You sound...off?" Maria asked, "Yeah...Yeah, I'm ok." Iskra paused, seeing something she hadn't noticed before, "I'm gonna have to call you back, love you bye." she hung up the phone before Maria had the chance to answer.

"Well pretty eyes, this mission is about to get a whole lot more interesting," Iskra mumbled, checking to make sure her gun was loaded, and checking her other concealed weapons, Kate's eyes widened, "Did you see something?" Kate asked, "Yep, now hurry up." Iskra said shoving the quiver full of arrows towards Kate.

The slushy sidewalk smushed under their feet, "Follow my lead," Iskra said as she began to climb the rusty ladder on the side of the building, "Yep, alright, climbing up the rusty ladder, this is a wonderful idea."  Kate mumbled to herself climbing behind the blonde, "Are you sure this thing is gonna hold us?" Iskra shrugged, "Not really, no." Kate gave her a look, "Relax. Everything is going to be fine." just then ironically enough one of the steps on the ladder gave away, Kate gasped, "That was a close one."

They made it to the top of the building, and Kate let out a sigh of relief, "You good?" Iskra asked, "Just peachy." Kate replied dryly, Iskra rolled her eyes, peaking through the frosted glass of the skylight, Iskra felt a shift in the air, "Watch out!" Iskra exclaimed sending a spark of purples energy at a member of the tracksuit mafia who must've been on the lookout, the energy sent him toppling over, they continued to fight with the few other members, that was when the glass fell out from underneath Kate.

"Where is Kate Bishop?" One of them shouted, and there she came crashing through the skylight, "Kate!" Iskra called out, Knocking out another guy who fell through the other side of the skylight. "Bro, I found her." Kate sat up slowly, and Clint's head fell in disappointment, "Oh my God." Kate mumbled, "Oh wow, didn't uh...realize we were supposed to bring guns."Kate chuckled nervously, "Oww." she muttered, Iskra landed in the pose, as she jumped down through the frame of the broken skylight, "How'd you do that?" Kate whisper yelled, "A lot of practice." Iskra replied dryly, Clint groaned in annoyance, his plan was now ruined.

The next thing they knew they were being tied up on old rides that you would find in the mall for toddlers, "Ah, yep thank you." Clint said sarcastically, "Look what you did." He stated looking at Kate, and Iskra with his eyes narrowed. "We...were just trying to help." Kate said, "Yes, mhm. What about you Iz? Did you have a plan?" Iskra shrugged, "ehh I did until Kate fell through the skylight." Clint shook his head, "Don't talk. Either of you." he stated. "Uh-oh. You're in trouble now, bro." Thomas noted looking between the two of them.