#agentnevermore

17. our characters sharing a lucid dream

     ”I have to ask, why a café in Monaco?”

     ”I like coffee, and the weather here is nice,” Agent Blake replied defensively, nursing the warm liquid as the sun shone on their small little patio seating arrangement, overlooking the sea.

     ”Fair enough,” Brian replied, overlooking the view for a moment before he asked, “Is this what it really looks like? I mean, for real? I’ve never been to Monaco.”

     ”More or less, usually rained, though, when I was here,” the agent admitted with a small shrug, and as if on queue, the sky darkened, and most of the people around them seemed to vanish into houses as the rain started to fall.

     ”Still beautiful, even if it’s gloomy,” Brian replied before he picked up his coffee and patted the other SHIELD man on the shoulder, gesturing back to the café. “We should head inside.”

     ”Why? It’s only a dream.”

     ”Because you’re starting to smell like wet dog in this dream. C’mon. You’ll get dream rain in your dream coffee, and nobody likes that.”

Mun: You are the sweetest thing since frosted cinnamon rolls. You seem like the coolest of cucumbers, and I enjoy your writing immensely. You're pretty fabu, honey.

Muse: He's cute. I think it's good how he keeps his past to himself, though how he doesn't talk about it at all can be a bit of a conversation stall-er. If he really doesn't like talking about himself at all, that's completely awesome because that's just part of his character, but I've found that what a character is willing to talk about (or easily tell a story and lie about) is just as interesting (and perhaps more character building-esque) as having them stonewall another person (which is still 100% cool btw, and adorable to the mun in Leonard's case).

She moved through the lobby of the office building that hid SHIELD's underground HQ in New York easily, and decided to take the stairs after all.

Avery had apprenticed other agents before, but they had mostly been interns, trainees, or those quite new to SHIELD. He had not expected to gain a shadow in New York, for he was not used to the city, nor did he know the agents to terribly well as of yet. The arrangement was explained to him as a sort of partnership rather than an apprentice relationship. Avery would be mentoring this other agent in Espionage and Counter Terrorism, while the other agent showed him around the city, got him familiar and comfortable with his surroundings, and hopefully provide an ally Avery could trust.

"Agent Blake is there something I can do for you that isn't paperwork related or have you become a god and brought me some coffee?"

"Hey, could you hand me a pack of papers from the cabinet? I'm gonna be here a while and I have a feeling I'm going to run out of paper in tray 3."