Chapter 8: The Escalator Incident
The drive is proving harder than I thought, "Someone really doesn't want this drive opened, it's programmed with some sort of AI software. It keeps rewriting itself and countering my commands" I say to both Steve and Natasha. Steve surveys the room, keeping an eye out, he looks good in glasses. "Can you override it?" he asks concerned and pushes his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose, "One word, Harvard, four eyes" I respond which makes him chuckle. "Natasha any SHIELD hacking advice for Dal?" Steve says, leaning over to my ear which makes me shiver. "Yup Goldie, if you can't read the file, we can find out where it came from" good thinking, why didn't I think of that?
"Well Steve, you're not gonna want to hear this but this is the malware I used to track you, since it was successful I'm using it to track the origin of the information" I say as I start writing the algorithm with lightening fast fingers. I'm nearly done when I hear an unfamiliar voice next to me and Natasha whisper in my ear, "Please say you can do an American accent."
I tense up when I turn towards the man with long hair and a beard, American, you can do that. "Oh no, my fiancé was jus helping me with some honeymoon destinations" I say with my best American accent possible and its pretty convincing. I also grab Steve's shoulders to add the effect that we're in love.
Steve seems a little unsettled by my change in accents, but he recovers and awkwardly responds, "Right we're getting married."
"Congratulations, where are you thinking about going?" the long maned employee asks as he peers over Steve's shoulder.
"New Jersey" Steve shudders as he answers. He is horrible at improv, I'm glad he never became an actor.
Then I quickly finish up as the employee stares oddly at Steve's face, great I smell a bromance. But no he just had the same glasses. "Oh wow, how cool" I say cheerily as I finish typing in the algorithm.
The man walks away and Steve comes right next to me, "You said nine minutes" he whispers harshly. "Um no, Natasha said nine minutes and I'm done" I say as a red dot appears on the screen with the word Wheaton, NJ. Steve stares at it intensely and I notice, "You know it?" I question, he just nods, "I used to, let's go" and grabs the drive and my arm.
We quickly walk out of the store and I turn to Steve as he looks around, he sees SHIELD Agents, I just know it. "Standard tact team, two behind, two across, two coming straight at us. If they make us I engage, you hit the South escalator of the Metro" I nod but I hear Nat in my ear, "Get him to put his arm around you and laugh" she shouts quickly. I repeat the command and he does it, the two coming at us totally miss us! Wow Natasha knows what she's doing. Steve grabs my arm and pulls me towards the escalator so we can get to the lower level but I spot one of the men that was in the elevator with us back at SHEILD. "Um Steve, the one coming at us" I say and move my head in his direction, "Shoot, Rumlow" he says as he leans towards my ear to tell Natasha.
He stays by my ear as Natasha responds, "Kiss her! Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable!" she shouts, making me wince and Steve to go red in the face. "Yes they do" I whisper to Natasha, but I turn around and purse my lips. He leans in quickly and our lips touch, for quite a long time. His face is warm and as I get close I feel his heart racing, he's nervous about kissing me, but not about being fugitives!
As we break apart I can see that Rumlow is far behind us. We then break from the line of people in the escalator and start walking down. "This never happened" I say as I grab his wrist and glare at him. He nods and smiles awkwardly, "Whatever you say Goldie" I really hate that nickname. Once we pass the few remaining SHIELD agents, we pick up the pace and begin walking out of the mall. I take the com out of my ear and shove it back in my pocket, no need to have Natasha in my ear any longer.
Once we get out of the mall we head straight back to the car where Natasha is waiting, smiling from ear to ear. "I'm not saying anything other than we need a new car, we can't drive to New Jersey without a radio" she said with a smirk. Great I'm going to be stuck in a car with the guy I was stalking and then kissed and a red haired assassin who calls me Goldie, like a gold fish! Goldie is something you name a fish!
Bless my soul during this car ride.
Things are getting steamy now!!Nickname good? Bad? How are you guys enjoying the story?
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