Trying
Darcy experienced some weird stuff in her lifetime. Gods; *psht* please. Aliens; so what? A ex-boyfriend lifted a car over his head; what is it? Tuesday? That time she walked in on her parents and "Uncle" Jim.... (Ok that one required a little therapy.) But having a drink with superheroes.... hands down takes the cake.
Currently she was trying to out drink, a God, an Alcoholic, and a Russian. "Yeah, Stark. I really think--" she was slurring after shot number three. Suddenly she got really pale and fell to the ground.
Next thing she knew Nat and Maria were standing over her. "Where does it hurt?" Maria asked. "Where was the burning?"
"Neck. Stomach." Darcy groaned. She saw the two of them look at each other and mouth the word "Two?"
"What the hell is going on?" Tony said coming up to them. Oh wait... He'd been there the entire time. What the hell was going on.
"She just got a soulmark." Someone- who Darcy thought was Natasha.
"And you'd know this hoooooo... Oh." Tony said realizing.
"I knew it!" Darcy said sitting up. "Well, I didn't know soulmates but I definitely knew something was between you two..." She trailed off when the two gave her a dirty look.
Then she had confirmation. She could feel a pull between the two.
Darcy had a lot of experience with soulmates. Her mother and father had been together for 3 years and she had been 18 months old when her mother's best friend from high school came to visit. He had joined the Navy and circumstances just kept them apart. That's when uncle Jim met dad; by speaking his mark. (Her mother took it surprisingly well. Hence her walking in on the three of them.)
But now she had not one, but two soulmates. Her mother was going to go through the roof.
From the look of it both her mates were male. Masculine hand writing for both.
"Please! Stay away! I'll hurt you! I'm a monster."
"This is for someone much more important than you or I. So I don't care what you say I'm working on this until it's done."
Tony whistled, "That seems like a lot of work. And trust me as someone who has had their share of threesomes. The odd gender out gets tired real quick.
Everyone looked at Stark as if he started spouting out Chinese. Except Steve who looks horrified.
"What?"
"This one looks like they're writing drunk or something." Steve's new friend Sam said pointing to the on her stomach.
"Or they're a child." Natasha added as she exchanged a look with Maria.
"Either way you have about two decades." Maria added
"I mean what are the odds of both her marks being born at the same exact time?" Tony said.
"They probably weren't" Maria explained. "Most times with Triads two together don't mesh. But with the third they do. So you don't get the mark until the third is born. So you most likely are going to have to wait 18 years. At least."
Well her mom didn't go through the roof when she told her about two soulmates. She had a heart attack. Literally. Although it was a minor one. But it was also the reason why Darcy and Jane were back on their way to New Mexico in the middle of the night.
"Hey, Darce?" Jane said, looking at Darcy.
She rolled her eyes. "What Jane?"
"Do you mind if we run past Puente Antiguo? It's only thirty five minutes out of the way!"
"My mother had a heart attack!"
"Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.
And this went on for another 15 minutes. Fif. Teen. Minutes.
"Come on! We're five minutes out!"
"Fine" Darcy sighed. "JANE LOOK AT THE ROAD!"
A figure had stepped in front of the van. Jane slammed on the brakes causing a loud squeal of the tire. But no avail. The figure turned around just in time to roll up her hood. The car stopped completely and she was flung off landing in a heap.
She was vaguely aware of Jane freaking out. This wasn't the first time she had hit someone with the van; but Thor was just clipped. This was a full blown hit.
"I'm taking away driving privileges from you!" Darcy screamed. "If they live!"
Darcy got out as Jane stood there shell shocked. She started running up to the heap of the person. As she ran up to them they started waving her off.
"---ay! I'll hurt you!" She heard her shout causing Darcy to hesitate just a little. Once she got close she heard the girl whisper "I'm a monster."
But in all honesty, what is once supposed to say to that? "I sincerely doubt that." She said in the most calming tone.
As soon as she spoke those words it was like an electric shock when through her. She started to try to crawl away but her arm was limp. Darcy once fell out of a tree as a kid so she knew what a dislocated shoulder was like.
She grabbed the girl by her armpits and held her back to Darcy's chest so she couldn't get away. "Jane! Get your ass out here!"
Jane sprinted over to the car as the girl kept murmuring the words "please... hurt you..."
"Is she OK?"
"Dislocated shoul--"
As she was saying this she realized the girl was unconscious. She slumped against Darcy and something fell out of her pocket.
Jane picked it up, "Dammit, Darce. She was a SHIELD agent."
"What? No way." She said as Jane showed her the ID of one "Agent Skye".
"This has to be fake. There's no last name!"
"Either way lets get her to the hospital. I'm calling Thor just in case."
Darcy jumped in the back; dragging the girls heels in the dirt as she did. Jane jumped in the drivers seat and she sped off.
Darcy had Jane blast the AC. The girl was so hot. (Not like that. Well yes like that. She was actually very atractive. What she's trying to say is Skye had a fever.)
"Jane."
"Yes"
"She's the mark on my stomach." There was a silence. "Jane."
"That's great Darcy." Jane said unbelievably.
Once they got there they put her arms over their shoulders. They went up to the front desk. Where Marsha was at the desk.
"Hello, Doctor Foster. Hit another person with your car."
There was a moment of silence and then Jane said "yes."
Marsha sighed and started getting paper work. "Did she happen to give you a name this time?"
"Skye" Darcy said and as Marsha glared, "Hey! If you got hit by a car you'd be less forthcoming as well."
Two hours later the doctor came out. "She's fine for now. But we're keeping her on 48 hour observation."
"Why?"
"I'm sorry. Only family members are aloud to--"
Then a man in a wheelchair rolled up to them. "I've got it, Dave. Hello Jane. Darcy.
"Hello Donald. What are you doing here?" Jane said not bothering to hide her annoyance.
"Just because we aren't engaged anymore doesn't mean i've stopped caring. What better way to keep an eye out for you then to move here. And before you say something offensive," he said as Jane opened her mouth. "I'm seeing someone and I'm happy for you."
"Thanks." Jane said as they felt the familiar presence of Thor come up behind them. "But this girl. It's Darcy's soulmate."
"I wasn't aware Darcy had a soulmate."
"Recent development."
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"She was a SHIELD agent. She was a little more than unconscious when we found her so she might not have recognized us. But we definitely don't want HYDRA to be to have access to it."
Donald looked around twice and then said, "It 48 hour watch because she tried to slit her wrist a few days ago. And we think her getting hit with your car wasn't an accident."
"You hit another with your vehicle?" Thor said, incredulously. This started their bickering match.
But Darcy didn't hear either of them. Her SOULMATE tried killing herself. She almost lost her before she found her.
"Do you want to see her?" Donald asked.
"Is that even a question?"
As they were walking to the room Donald started talking. "We don't know what happened exactly but there was some half-assed attempt to stop the bleeding. It eventually worked but you know. Couldn't have been more than five days ago. She's lucky you brought her here. She had an infection and a fever. Other than that she's fine. Well she had a dislocation shoulder. Like I said considering that it was Jane driving she's lucky.
And here we are."
Darcy walked up the girl who had her eyes closed and was controlling her breathing. She heard Darcy despite how quite she was being.
"Look. This wasn't a suicide attempt. It was an accident and I don't have insurance. So can I just get out of these? Can you even keep me hear against my will?" She said, looking at Darcy.
"I thought spies were supposed to be really good at lying." Darcy said and her face paled. Whether if Darcy knew she was SHIELD or recognized her voice was a toss up.
"I was a SHIELD agent for all of a day and I worked computers."
"I hope so. Because we have two super spies coming to verify that."
"Maria Hill? I've met Maria Hill. She'll vouch for me. I'm not HYDRA. I promise. They're actually at fault for this." She said raising her forearm. "So help a soulmate out?"
Although she knew they were soulmates Darcy's heart stopped for a moment. "Most spies I know are good at lying?" It was a statement, but the way she said it made it a question.
"You're Darcy Lewis right? My phone is over there. The code is 9-2-4-2-0-1-3." She said.
Her identity wasn't exactly secret but the fact she knew it was off putting. She grabbed the phone and typed in the code. On it was a picture of nine people. In the center was one Phillip J. Coulson. On the T.V. in the background was a picture aof a T.V. broadcast talkng about the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. so it had to of been recent.
"Ok. But how do I know to trust you on the suicide attempt."
"Ummm... Because it wasn't?" She said. But right before she said it she looked shocked. Even if she wasn't Darcy's soulmate she'd have known she was lying.
"Sorry I don't believe you."
"Fair enough. We just met."
There was ridiculous awkward silence, "So are you ok with having a female soulmate?"
"The way I grew up you found love where you could, when you could."
"The way you grew up?"
"Foster care. Plus my s-- My two bestfriends, they're both women and they're soulmates. I mean who hasn't had they're own lesbian experance in college?"
"You went to college? Where at?" Darcy said, her eyebrows shooting up.
Skye smiled ruefully, "No, I was making a bad joke. I didn't even finish high school."
Darcy smiled at the prospect of getting to know her shiny new soulmate. Well she didn't look shiny, mostly because she didn't look like she had been taking care of her self. Darcy would make sure that changed. She's take care of herself... Or maybe Darcy could play nurse? The thought of that made her clench in some uncomfortable places. She'd been ging through a major dryspell since Ian had turned out as a Hydra sleeper to get close to her and Jane.
Then, immpulsive as ever, Darcy asked, "Have you met our third?"
"A woman claiming to be your mother is here." Donald said, sticking his head in. Interputing them before Skye could answer.
She turned back to Skye who looked scared. But she was good at covering it. Before Jane could stop her Darcy walked over to a middle aged Asian woman, and a blonde woman who was about Jane's age who were at the front desk. "You're Skye's mother? Whoa."
Both women had bonds, neither of which were close. "Yeah." The blonde said. "We've been looking for her for about three weeks."
"Really because...." She took out the badge and held it by her thigh. Her leg and the front counter both blocking it from sight.
Before anyone could do anything some nurse ran out of Skye's room, "She's gone!"