“I have a briefing with Mace but I’ll be free after to train, if you want,” Daisy tells Melinda, who nods and smiles at the girl- Daisy beams, surging forward to kiss her cheek quickly before she heads for Mace’s office. Melinda shakes her head fondly, closing the file in her hands and heading for the kitchen to make a cup of tea and start to write up her report for a recent mission.
She pauses in the doorway- Phil is by the coffee maker, clearly waiting for it to finish brewing, and chatting with a pretty blonde agent Melinda recognizes from a few briefings, Agent Ashley Andrews. She was cute, and half their age- a good agent, from what she can remember, on the fast track through SHIELD’s ranks, despite the change from levels to colors.
A loud laugh cuts through the room, and Melinda’s eyebrows knit together as she watches Ashley chatting away with Phil. He seemed to be listening intently as he pours coffee into the grumpy cat mug he’d apparently claimed for himself, and something in Melinda’s chest twists a tiny bit. He replies back, to quiet for her to hear, and she swallows.
She knew she didn’t talk. She preferred action to words, even if it had become easier to express her feelings over the recent weeks. Logically, she also knew the people who cared about her- the family that loved her- didn’t expect her to change who she was.
That didn’t mean she didn’t wonder what would change if she was the person she had been before Bahrain.
Shaking herself, she walks into the room- Phil looks up at the sound of her footsteps, face creasing into a genuine smile at the sight of her. The pit of her stomach warmed, and she touched his elbow gently as she went to turn the kettle on, heating water for her tea.
“I’ll leave you to it. Nice to see you, Agent May,” Agent Andrews said, smiling brightly at her before she headed off, leaving them alone. Phil’s hand slid to her lower back, kissing her neck lightly before moving away, adding more sugar to his coffee.
“Good day?” he asked, and Melinda nodded, leaning back against the counter.
“A couple of meetings, and a training session with some new recruits. Daisy wants to spar later,” she answers, pulling a purple mug from the cabinet. “You?”
“Piper kicked my ass on the mats earlier,” he tells her, and she snorts, smirking at him as he rolled his eyes. “Yeah, laugh it up. Old man needs to train some more.”
“I mean, we could always get the mats out. Relive the old days,” she teases, pouring hot water into her mug and adding a tea bag.
“There are easier ways to get me onto my back, you know,” he replies, voice low, and she rolls her eyes despite the heat that rises in her cheeks.
“Save that for home, Agent Coulson,” she replies lightly, touching his chest with a fingertip before she brushed past him to settle at the conference table, opening her file. Phil laughed, low and deep, and she pushed the thoughts from earlier away. It didn’t matter- not when Phil smiled at her like that, warm and bright and undoubtedly in love.
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