Phase II || Agent Brompton - OW, Hati...
Hazel: ::sitting in a triage room, arguing with the medic, the knife still in her shoulder::
Maria Hill: ::still seeing equations, but the boiling rage, worry, and guilt are enough to counter it. strides through the commotion, silencing people with a Look::
Hazel: I'm telling you, just Get It Out of me and I'll be *fine.*
Maria Hill: ::stops outside, turns to the suddenly quiet organization of agents trying to piece together what had happened.:: I want him found, and I want him found /now/. Do not approach, armed and dangerous. Find him, tail him. Do NOT be seen, do not move in less than pairs. I will fire anyone who disobeys my order, and believe me that will be the merciful option. Move. ::turns to enter the room::
Hazel: ::aaand it just gets better. She’s sitting on an exam table, her arm immobilised in a sling with a throwing knife sticking out of the top of her arm where the shoulder starts, looking rather pissed already due to the pain: Hallo, Maria.
Maria Hill: Hazel. ::ouch. Been there, done that, so feel your pain:: Any permanent damage?
Hazel: There won't be. Once they take the feckin' thing *out.* ::she reaches into her shirt and pulls out the runed talisman:: It won't leave any damage but I can't get it out myself. I think it's in the joint or the bone.
Maria Hill: ::looked around, the doctors studying the Xrays, and made a decision. She nodded once, stepped up quickly by her friend, and braceing one hand against the rest of her shoulder, hauled the knife out sharply. The doctors panicked::
Hazel: ::yelled and grabbed the site with her hand, wincing and going pale for a moment::
Maria Hill: ::Sets the knife on a tray, noting the lack of blood:: Better now?
Hazel: <m> Will be. ;;takes a breath:: Thank you. ::lets the docs come over and check it all out...not a scratch:: <m> Told you so. ::looks to Maria again:: *Thank* you.
Maria Hill: ::nods:: you're welcome. remind me to thank Loki, as well. Now, what the hell happened?
Hazel: I had errands to run after I left you. I took some sweets to Stark Tower and had tea with Kim and Pepper. And the accounting department here had requested cupcakes for a birthday or something, so I took a car, drove to Stark, then drove here and was walking in the lot with the boxes and someone called out to me. It was Hati. I stayed away from him. He was offering to help me with the boxes. When I declined, he started acting strange. Said "don't let it in" and "I'm not me" He wasn't coming closer so I turned to get to the checkpoint and he yelled and next thing I know there's a feckin' knife in my arm and I'm running. ::sighs:: I don't know where he went. I'm sorry.
Maria Hill: No, no that's fine. You did the right thing in running How did you know it was Hati?
Hazel: He introduced himself.
Maria Hill: ::nods, taking notes::
Hazel: He called me by name. I know the first time we texted he teased about needing more pics of me. ::rolls her eyes:: I just...I was just going to drop these off and then come straight back home. I didn't expect him to be here. They all got ruined anyway. ::scowls::
Maria Hill: You're alive, that's more important that some cupcakes. ::or it is to me:: You didn't actually send him pictures of you?
Hazel: NO.
Maria Hill: ::relieved::
Hazel: He had one the first time we talked. Must have been in whatever he got my number from?
Maria Hill: ::nods:: Possible, unfortunately.
Hazel: I was also sort of known in London in the foodie circles. Had my pic taken with Gordo a few times for the rags. :;shrugs:: Not like I'm exactly under an alias here. :;tests her shoulder and winces again, blanching::
Maria Hill: Very few are. So you said he didn't seem like himself? ::grabs some ibuprofen from a bottle on the counter and hands it over with a glass of water since the doctors all melted away::
Hazel: ::pops the pills first and then takes the glass, drinking deeply:: Thank you. No, he didn't. I know I don't know him well at all and hadn't seen him, hadn't heard him before. But even so, he wasn't acting like the cocksure jackass that he should have been.
Maria Hill: How was he?
Hazel: Hesitant? He didn't seem to want to come close. The Hati I've been talking to...I have no doubt that he doesn't worry about personal space.
Maria Hill: ::maybe it was the salt?::
Hazel: He....he was trying to warn me. ::frowns suddenly and looks towards the door:: I turned to walk, I heard him say something..just a word...and then he said "no.".... And then he called out my name like he wanted to tell me something urgent. Or...like he was warning me.
Maria Hill: ::nods again:: Did he mention an... Oizys? ::consulting notes from earlier::
Hazel: The....oh, gods, where did I hear that today? ::casts her mind back:: Hati told me to ask you about "the park...the thing" And then he told me "don't let it in. I'm not me"
Maria Hill: :pales:: Damn it. Have you told Loki you were in contact with Hati? ::because I certaintly didn't…but then,I was under orders::
Hazel: I asked him when I first was contacted. He told me he wasn't sure of the truth of who it really was but to stay away from him. And....it was Hermes who said something about an Oizys. Said that Hati was trying to crack in using evil magic? I was going to ask you about it but..we got a bit distracted when I saw you. ::sighs:: I'm sorry.
Maria Hill: HERMES said that, huh? I know ARGUS filed a report that included the term. I didn’t realize they agreed
Hazel: I was checking my email. It said that he had claimed that an "Oizys" was in charge now? And you ordered salting and all sorts of things. Maria, I thought Hati was *dead*
Maria Hill: ::confused:: why would you think that?
Hazel: ::deep sigh:: The last time we "talked." He asked me to do him a favour. He said....he had something to do, more important than harassing SHIELD resources. He said that if I hadn't heard from him by midday or so on Sunday, to go to his place and retrieve a box. Said I'd know what to do with what was inside. I didn't hear from him.
Maria Hill: ::brows furrow:: You didn;t forward that chat to me. ::neither did HERMES, and we WILL be having a chat about that::
Hazel: It was a personal request from family. And I didn't expect that he wouldn't come back. Maria, I mourned him. ::sighs:: The letter he left me broke my heart. I was starting to get to him.
Maria Hill: If we can get him back, that might save him. But... ::sighs:: It was family. I don't understand it, and I never will, really. He's dangerous without her in charge. But with her?
Hazel: Who is "her?”
Maria Hill: Oizys. I guess that's her name. I saw her...
Hazel: :blinks::
Maria Hill: ::hasn't mentioned the park, and never told HAzel she was in the medical ward... oops::
Hazel: :;uh huh, you wanna get into that? We can get into that, muahaha::
Maria Hill: Dammit, I haven't had time for all of this. It's all be happening too quickly
Hazel: Everything does. ::sighs and rubs her cheek::
Maria Hill: Met Hati last week, by the way.
Hazel: ::eyes her::
Maria Hill: Well, week before, actually. Before Alastor's birthday. ::good thing no one's in here:: Remember how I was gone for a week before?
Hazel: Aye.
Maria Hill: YEah, I was groundside, tracking down some security leaks, mostly to do with Hati. Got me a meet with one of our agents who was suspected of passing him information
Hazel: Oh. Was this before or after he was ranting about being kidnapped?
Maria Hill: ::eyebrow:: Right before, and he wasn’t kidnapped, he was arrested. So I met with the agent, but something was in the shadows. She has young kids, I sent her home, made sure she got out of the way. And up strolls Hati.
Hazel: ::shrugs and ...damnit, don't move the shoulder...:: Sounds like him. And the Hati I met today, wasn't at all like that.
Maria Hill: ::nods:: Anyway, we were talking. I do believe he meant to kill me before he saw who I was. But we talked about some things, classified and under investigatiopn things and then... the world changed
Hazel: ::frowns::
Maria Hill: It was night, but it got darker, the texture of the air became more oily... HAti tried to get me to run, but I couldn't, there were... zombies or something, I'm uncertain what they were, all around us. My men, my snipers, hadn;t seen them come up. Hati was terrified. The this... woman walked up, small, skinny, dark hair. And she spoke, and it broke him. She could have killed both of us right then, I know it, but she just destroyed him and laughed, and then vanished
Hazel: Destroyed him?
Maria Hill: Broke him down, he was all but weeping in a ball at my feet
Hazel: :slowly pales again, not from pain:: Dear gods. And..so...what is she? Do we know?
Maria Hill: No idea. I can;t find anything on her
Hazel: ::shakes her head slightly:: He ...I swear he didn't want to hurt me today. I don't think it was *him* that threw that knife.
Maria Hill: I believe you. But he's dangerous. HE kills people for the fun of it, Hazel. I wasn’t gone for a week because I had things to do, I was gone for a week because they wouldn’t let me out of the medical ward here in New York HQ. After the... thing left, he was just like he was when he first came out of the shadows before he recognized me.
Hazel: ::frowns and eyes her:: Maria...
Maria Hill: he was on the hunt
Hazel: ::sighs:: He's a creature, not a human. ::carefully digs a folded piece of paper out of her pocket:: This might make sense to you, now.
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Maria Hill: he did give me the option to leave, mind you, but he'd have gone off and killed someone else. I couldn;t let him. So I offered to stay and try and talk with him.. stupid, maybe :nods after reading:: He leave anything for me in there?
Hazel: No. There were some things I wasn't sure what to do with, you're welcome to look. The other letters are delivered, and the scotch was marked for me. ::sighs:: One of the letters...couldn't find the person it was for.
Maria Hill: What was the name on it?
Hazel: Uhm. Skoll.
Maria Hill: Skoll? That would be his brother according to myth
Hazel: Brother? Well...we couldn't find him.
Maria Hill: I'll look. what else was in there?
Hazel: Letters, bottle, and a couple of scraps of paper. I'll let you look at them. He'd marked the box with protection runes. He warned me to not touch anything else in the apartment, so I didn't.
Maria Hill: Loki will need to go through it, I think. I doubt if she's letting him go back now
Hazel: Well, I hadn't even had a chance to tell Loki about any of this. Not that he'd care. He didn't seem to be interested when I asked the first time.
Maria Hill: Family isn't his strong suit
Hazel: No. I can tell you I didn't see anything special there.
Maria Hill: I will see if Dr. Strange can take a look
Hazel: It was rather a nasty apartment on the cheapest end of town.
Maria Hill: We'll quarantine it
Hazel: ::sighs:: I know he's a psychotic feckhead. But I'm worried for him.
Maria Hill: yeah ::is too, but that's her job, Family is different::
Hazel: How are you feeling? I didn't expect to see you out of your rooms today.
Maria Hill: I feel... angry. IT helps, actually. Apparently Alastor can concentrate on important things, I just have to be feeling an excess of any emotion. it's a different approach
Hazel: Did you have a chance to talk to him? ::glancing around, still deserted::
Maria Hill: Yes
Hazel: Good. Maria. I'm sorry you came down here for this. I'll be fine. it'll just hurt like hell for a while, I wager.
Maria Hill: You do things for you family. Someone once taught me that
Hazel: ::smiles a little:: I appreciate it, Maria.
Maria Hill: ::nods, and awkwardly pats her hand:: I am going to go harass people now, while you make good your escape. There's a Quinjet up top for you, Storm piloting.
Hazel: Good. I trust him. :;sighs:: Listen. When you get back up, come find me?
Maria Hill: I will. I want to se that box
Hazel: ::nods:: I want that knife please?
Maria Hill: ::looks at it…picks it up and hands it over hilt first:: To the victor go the spoils
Hazel: That which does not kill me....pisses me off.
Maria Hill: ::grins::
Hazel: ::eases down off the gurney and carefully shrugs the coat around her again…the knife gets settled securely into her purse, and she smiles thinly to Maria.
Maria Hill: ::nods and goes out to distract people::
Hazel: ::carefully makes her way out and up to the awaiting QuinJet and Storm...::
Maria Hill: ::DISTRACTS::
Hazel: ::is tired and dammit this is going to be sore for weeks
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