Gifted by Peter David

Author:Peter David [David, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Marvel
Published: 2012-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

FURY remained where he was until the Blackbird was long gone.

He didn’t have to turn around to know that someone was standing behind him. Fury was always hyperaware of his surroundings, including this woman who seemed to prefer shadows to light.

“You can come out. He’s gone now,” Fury said.

She did as he instructed. Light glinted off her black sunglasses, and her long green hair was tied back into a ponytail. The sharp red of her lipstick stood out starkly against the faint pallor of her skin.

“What do you think he knows?” she said.

“He told us himself. Right now he doesn’t know much. He’s got guesses, suspicions. That’s about it.”

“I suppose it doesn’t matter. Even if he knew everything…who would he get to listen? Where would he go for help? If it came down to his word against ours, who would believe him?”

“You’re underestimating him, Brand. If ‘it’ came down to anything, he wouldn’t be looking anywhere for help other than to his teammates. Make no mistake, we can take them if we have to. But it ain’t gonna be fun, and it’s gonna end bloody. And that’s to no one’s advantage, including ours.”

“How would taking the X-Men out of the picture not be to our advantage?”

“Because,” said Fury, “some day, we might find ourselves in crap up to our eyes and sayin’ to ourselves, ‘Gee…might be nice to have a guy with force-beam eyeballs or a lunatic with claws in his hands helping us out. Oh, right…they ain’t available because we had to take ’em out.’”

He turned to face her. It was an unusual staredown, two people with only one visible eye between them. “And if this situation you dumped in our laps causes that to happen, well…I ain’t gonna be pleased. We on the same page, Brand?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Good. Don’t forget it.”

“No chance of that, sir.”

Her voice was flat, inflectionless, like a machine’s. No. Not a machine’s, thought Fury. I’ve known machines that have way more compassion than Abigail Brand.

Brand said nothing as Fury walked away. Her thoughts were her own. They always were.

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