Relationships...
After a long forty-five minutes of talking to Director Fury, Scott and Daisy were led down to a lab where their local counterparts were waiting.
“Dr. Streiten is doing a quick paternity test.” Coulson told them.
“Well…” Dr. Streiten said “I have the results… Daisy if you’d come with me for a moment.”
The local Daisy went inside and the two spoke for a minute or two before they came back out.
“So, Doc” Lincoln said with smug look on his face “What are the results of the test.”
Streiten looked at the two men
“Well, I can say without a doubt” he said, before he turned to the local Scott “Congratulations once again Agent Riley, it’s a girl.”
The local Scott breathed a deep sigh of relief.
“Scott… I…” Daisy said.
“I don’t want to hear it right now.” He said.
She walked slowly out of the room.
“I owe you one” The local Scott told himself “I would have never found out if it wasn’t for you.”
“Hey… Don’t sweat it.”
“Um…” Local Scott said to the pair “would she mind running ahead. No offense, but…”
“No problem.” Daisy said. “I’ll head downstairs, find us a cab or something…”
“So, what are you gonna do now?” Scott asked his counterpart.
“I don’t know….” The other said, still crushed by his wife's betrayal “What would you do?”
“Beat Lincoln to within an inch of his life.”
“What about Daisy… thankfully Ally is mine, but…”
“Hey, don’t bet yourself up about this. I had to watch her faun over him for over a year and then when he died…”
‘He died?”
“Long story." Scott told him "Quinjet, bomb, really bad guy. She was about to do the deed herself, but he stopped her.”
The two headed back to the main room.
“I’ve never used my powers in public." the other Scott said "I’ve always been scared they’d round me up for having an unexplained gift.”
“What’s unexplained about it? We’re Inhuman.”
“You’ve undergone terrigenesis?”
“No.”
“So then how are we inhuman?”
“It runs in both sides of the family and, well, then there’s what happened to cousin Barty…”
Scott gave his other self a brief rundown of his adventure a few months prior.
“So you only started to go out with Daisy then?”
“No… It’s a bit more complicated than that.”
“You didn’t get to talk to her at the Hub?”
“No, Agent Rangle had a teleconference with Robin Sparkles and her computer had crashed and she couldn’t get at the files. I was steps away from Daisy when they called me upstairs to fix it”
“Robin what?”
“It was the Hub tech department’s nickname for Deputy Director Hill.”
“Who?”
“Maria Hill? Kinda looks like the actress on “How I Met Your Mother?”
“Name doesn’t ring a bell, and I never watched that show.”
“I never really watched it ether, but Deflaco’s always had a weird sense of humor.”
“Yeah, that does sound like something he would have done…”
The two entered the main command room and walked over to Coulson.
“You okay, agent Riley?”
“Daisy and I will be having a long talk once we send these folks on their way.”
“Only once I get done with her.” Coulson said “I can assure you Dr. Campbell with be dealt with as well.”
Coulson handed Scott a slip of paper.
“Last known coordinates of Bobbi Morse’s operations. Tell her we said hello.”
“Will do.” Scott said, shaking his hand.
“We good?” Daisy asked her Scott as he stepped outside
“Yeah, got a location they think Morse might be hiding.”
“Good.” She said.
“About what happened back there…” She said
“Nothing to talk about. You’re not her. And the Lincoln on our crew is nowhere near as much an asshole as that guy was.”
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Lincoln walked up to Dr. Streiten as he was getting ready to leave,
“I guess telling him that Alisha is his was the best for the situation, but she is mine, right?”
“I’m sorry, Lincoln, but Scott is Alisha’s father.” Streiten said “The DNA doesn’t lie.”
“How… That’s not possible.”
“There is a… let’s call it interesting section of genetic code in both Scott and Alisha’s DNA that’s not present in yours or Daisy’s. It could have only come from Scott. I’m sorry, but you are not her father. Now, if you excuse me, I’m late for a meeting.”
Lincoln grabbed the other man’s arm.
“You don’t understand… She HAS to be mine. She needs to be mine…”