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"𝒪𝒽, 𝐼'𝓂 𝓃𝑜𝓉, 𝒶𝓂 𝐼?"

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ᴘʀᴇᴠɪᴏᴜsʟʏ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀᴠɪᴛʏs ᴏғ ᴀɢᴇɴᴛ 𝟷𝟺:

𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴...

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"Before we get started—" Steve's voice rings in the air as Juniper catches a flash of silver in her peripheral vision. "Does anyone want to get out?" Steve asks calmy and his eyes focus on the man that just entered the elevator.

Brock moves to jam a needle in Juniper's side, wanting to sedate her for what was about to take place, but she strikes first. She grabs his hand, bending it backwards as the needle falls to the ground and Brock winces in the same moment the man in front of Steve whips out his electric baton.

"I'm trying to protect you, Juniper." Brock looks up at her as she bends his arm further causing him to wither in pain. She looks at him in disbelief— They're all on here to ambush Steve.

"I don't need protecting." She seethes as the finally man rips around to shock Steve.

Brock quickly pushes him and Juniper up against the glass, his hand still in her grip, as the rest of the men all grab Steve.

"What the hell are you doing?!" She shouts at her husband as several men take the handles off their brief cases and lock them around Steve's wrist.

"You shouldn't have gotten on here." Brock tells her, his face dripping with seriousness, and dread.

'S.H.I.E.L.D.'s been compromised.'

"Why?" She let's out a laugh. "So my father could send me home while you take out America's favorite solider?" She spits out venomously, her eyes napping up to see Steve fight back.

He pulls his arm down and kicks one of the men's legs.

"Don't—" Brock looks at her, warning her. "You're not involved in this." His grip tightens as he pushes her harder against the glass.

She laughs even harder. "Oh, I'm not, am I?"

Brock grows angrier. "Nick should've never got you involved in this, Juniper! You're not out on the field anymore, ok? You don't know what you're getting yourself involved in." Juniper narrows her eyes at her husband, who was more of a stranger now.

The man who she's shared many laughs, drinks, kisses, long nights entangled in one another... yet she barely recognizes him.

Steve starts kicking away the men surrounding him.

"Just stay here." Brock orders clamping a metal bar around her wrist and attaching it to the metal bar in front of the glass. He spins around, kicking Steve's arm and the metal band around his wrist locks with the metal.

Brock takes his electric baton and dives for Steve, who dodges.

Like hell I will, Juniper determines. She reaches down to her belt with her free hand and carefully removes a tiny chip from her belt buckle. She squeezes in between her finger tips before biting into it to activate it and shoves it into the band around her wrist, sending an electric shock through the metal and it releases, falling to the ground.

A Brock takes a hard hit into Steve's side, electrocuting him with his baton, Juniper kicks him in the bend of his legs, sending him to the ground.

Brock looks up in shock. "Ju—" He starts.

"Save it." She snaps at him.

One of S.T.R.I.K.E. charges at Steve, who shoves him off, knocking him into the camera and breaks it.

One of the men grabs Juniper's arm but she quickly spins around, elbows him in the ribs, grabs him by the neck, and smashes his face into the doors.

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"Mobilize S.T.R.I.K.E. units, 25th floor." Sitwell orders as the camera breaks, watching everything take place in the elevator. "Get Mr. Fox on the phone, now." He hollers over his shoulder to no one in particular.

Agent Fox was not suppose to be on the elevator... Brock was supposed to divert her home after her meeting with Pierce.

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Two more men aim to shock Steve but he pushes them into each other then jumps up and kicks both their faces.

Juniper blows a stand of hair out of her face as the last man to enter the elevator looks at her.

"I'm not afraid to hit a woman." He grins sadistically. She's seen him around S.H..I.E.L.D. and working for Brock, not impressed.

Juniper shrugs. "Great." She smirks excitedly. "Neither am I."

He scoffs before charging at her. She swiftly kicks her leg in between his legs, stops her heel on his foot, and when he falls to the ground she roundhouse kicks him right in the temple.

Steve watches her in awe before another one comes barreling towards him. He grabs the man's arm, bends it backwards, and punches him— sending him flying into the glass, causing it to slightly crack on impact. He finally pulls himself free from the wrist-restraints, pushing off into a backflip as he does, landing on his feet.

Juniper pulls the top of her lipstick off with her teeth, revealing a small knife inside. She sweeps down to the ground to avoid the fists flying her way and slashes the men's legs as she does while Steve avoids punches coming at him left and right, even sending one of the men flying across elevator into the wall.

Once all S.T.R. I. K. E. is down Steve holds his hand out for Juniper to help her up, which she accepts, surprising him a bit.

Brock makes it back to his feet. "Woah, big guy." He holds his hands out, with his weapons in each. "Juniper, baby, come here." He looks at her in fear, eyes begging her to come to his side. "Please, baby. You weren't supposed to be caught in the middle of this." She looks at him ridiculously, wondering where he got his audacity from.

Steve breathes heavily as he stares at Brock angrily while Juniper eyes him in shock, she can't recall seeing him this mad though it's not like this is a regular occurrence, but over the past couple days he's been calm as can be.

An ambush can do that to a guy.

"I just want you to know, Cap—" Brock shifts focus to him. "This isn't personal!" Brock shouts as he dives for Steve, who quickly pushes Juniper to the side.

She stumbles over as he grabs one of Brock's arms, but Brock shocks him in the stomach with the other.

"Brock, that's enough, okay? He hasn't done anything!" She yells, defending the man who she can't seem to escape.

"Shut the hell up!" Brock screams back as Steve knocks his arm down before Brock yanks it right back up and shocks him again. Juniper goes to push him off but he looks at her. "Stay the hell back, Juniper!" Brock warns her. "I mean it."

Steve uses the distraction and punches Brock in the face. Brock folds over in pain and Steve picks him up and throws his body up to the ceiling causing him to smash into the lights and fall heavily to the ground.

Steve pauses, breathing heavily. "It kinda feels personal." He spits out before looking up at June, pausing before saying, "Sorry... about your husband."

She looks down at Brock's body, feeling overwhelmed with all sorts of questions and emotions. Then her gaze shifts to the ring on her finger.

"Yeah." She whispers, her voice barely audible. "Me too."

Steve steps on his shield, flipping it up into his hand and knocks the metal band off his other hand before pressing the button causing Juniper to quickly snap back to the situation.

"What're you doing?" She asks, quickly looking up and shaking her head. As if there won't be a million more men waiting for him— them on the other side?

She takes a step back, realizing what she had just done... She's gone rogue. She fought S.T.R.I.K.E., hell, she fought her husband.

Oh my god.

What did I just do? Every fiber of her being begins to scream.

The right thing, a voice in the back of her head answers.

Nick's gone, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s compromised, what's really keeping her here?

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𝟶ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀʙɪsᴄᴜɪᴛ𝟽 sᴘᴇᴀᴋs!

Hello lovelies!! Sorry it's been a minute... I had to get through my last bit of college, aka the month of April for my very last semester lol, April was PACKED! But we backkkk <3

Also, okay wow, I never expected this chapter to be this long lmao. This is now the second part of the elevator scene I have broken up, and I decided to split it up once again... so another cliff hanger *insert evil writer's laugh here*.

How do we feel about Juniper finally say f*ck her husband and defending Steve?? Hehe, I love it!

Hope y'all enjoyed, see you in the next chapter where Juniper & Steve break awayyyy!! Ahh, I just love this elevator scene so much & was so excited to write some Juniper kicking a** action yessss!!

Anyways, see you next week for Juniper/Agent 14 Day!! Mwah!!