#firstxthirteen

This is it.  

Those three words Percy had said to herself before, but now, she felt like maybe - just maybe - she actually meant them.

This is the last job I'm taking before littlest princess is born.  

Because while normally the tiny lady enjoyed the chance to challenge herself and crawl through all kinds of impossible spaces to impossible places (a task she had never quite had the strength to do... before) doing so while in the second trimester of pregnancy really was getting old.  

"Alright, Cato, I'm in the north-east line and about to - " she groaned as she twisted herself around to grip the maintenance ladder and haul herself up " - head up to the source of the break.  ETA four minutes."

"Roger that.  Tracking is live and systems are on standby."

"Make sure they stay that way, alright?  I really would rather avoid poaching like a breakfast egg if it's all the same to you."  Her voice was clipped with the effort of climbing one-handed while she checked the device in her hand every few seconds, but there was something light to the dry 'BBC' tone that made this morning's handler laugh into the line.

"I'll do my best, boss-lady.  Cato out."

Percy snorted and shook her head, but managed to climb through and clear another two levels before she had anything to report.  "Thompson calling Central."  Silence.  "Cato - stop flirting and answer your damn comm."  She waited in silence for approximately another six seconds before a sheepish voice clicked back online.  "I'm on Level Delta and the signal is returning quick enough that I think our break is on this level, I - "

She cut herself off mid-sentence as an alert flashed green and amber across the device in her hand.  "Cato, we received client confirmation that all personnel had been cleared from this area, correct?"

"Affirmative, ma'am.  All areas clear as of 0500."

Three hours ago.  

"Understood, Cato.  I believe we've found our rat."

Holstering her device, Percy reached a little further back and pulled a heavy black pistol out to her side.  The safety was flicked off and she stepped off the ladder at the Delta landing, back pressed against the wall next to the door.

"Going silent.  If you do not hear my stand-down code within thirty seconds after the cessation of any weapons' discharges, you will activate the Rampant protocol and secure exits until reinforcements relieve you of command."

"But - "

"That was an order, Cato.  Thompson out."

A single press of her thumb against the small relay unit on her box cut her feed but not her GPS tracker.  For all intents and purposes, she was on her own.  Perhaps the smart thing to do would be to call in backup on her own and wait until they had neutralized the threat...

Percy opened the door and stepped into the empty hallway instead.

//i say just list them all under like a readmore and if people want it they’ll come to you and if not then ohwell. nothing ventured nothing gained

//how dare

❤ - My dream career/job?

Ok so actually I sort of already have my dream job??? at 26 i know what the hell. I’m an administrative assistant for a financial advisor, in a company that’s just about to go into its growth phase, and i am super excited to be part of it. my bosses are amazing and have made noise already about helping me advance in this field because i have a knack for it and about long-term growth plans for the company (with me in it) and you can’t beat a 9-5 mon-fri becaue that also gives me time for my other dream job, which is writing.

//people also mistake recklessness and dorkishness for idiocy. carol danvers has the same problem despite having a degree, likely in something that could get her into being an astronaut and despite having out-physics’d peter parker

BILLY MADISON, GO SEE!

BILLY MADISON, POPCORN!

That is all I know about that topic, but thankyou so much for giving me the chance to shout that on the internet, lovely Peggy-mun.

//-whispers about how with carol’s kree dna she’ll probably live a similarly long life (might have done the math and considered if her kids had kids w/ unaltered humans and how she’d outlive her great-great grandchildren)-

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