Such Great Heights - Chapter Six

'Such Great Heights'

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Author's Note:
This story takes place in a Marvel Movieverse and after the incident in Thor.

I am terribly sorry for taking such a long time! Believe me, I'm working on Chapter 8 right now and I'm kind of stuck. Also, it seems like I'm experiencing an artblockage. Which is pretty skdfjlskdjfsdkjfdfjk 'cos it'll take such a long time. I need motivation. Also, I've been busy RP-ing with friends. :/

Enjoy!

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- Chapter Six -

"An old man with one eye??" Darcy handed Buddy a cup of coffee and sat opposite of him. "So this dude is a Cyclops??"

"Sounds... terrifying!" Jane stood by, her arms crossed and a cup of tea in one of her hands. Her facial expression shows nothing but worry and confusion.

"Yes. And this one eyed man was screaming and yelling at me. I can't help but feeling... resentful." Buddy took a sip of coffee Darcy handed him.

"Maybe it's the mugger!" Darcy suggested and pulled out her smart phone. "I should update this on Facebook." she walked away while pressing some digital buttons.

"Could you draw him out?" Jane asked, and handed a pencil and paper to Buddy. Darcy was completely focused on her phone, tongue sticking out while she type.

Buddy took the paper and pencil and began sketching. "This man seems familiar to me." he looked at the paper, completely in focus. "It's as if I know him very well."

"Could it be that you are friends with this mugger?" Jane said and pulled her phone out after hearing a beep.

"No, it doesn't feel that way." Buddy kept on sketching, his head still looking down on the paper.

"'SOS. Please inform me if you have seen a one-eyed old man running around and mugging people.'?! Darcy! Is this what you're gonna ask everyone?!" Jane put her phone down after checking her Facebook.

Darcy put her phone down and look at Jane, "What?! At least I'm helping Buddy out!" she said, "Also, I update this on Twitter and Tumblr."

Jane could do nothing but scoff and walked to the kitchen. Somehow annoyed. "People will think you're nuts, Darcy!" she called out from the kitchen.

"That's the plan!" Darcy called out back, "Oh look, I got 5 likes on Facebook!" she giggled.

Jane returned from the kitchen with a fresh cup of tea in her hand. She walked past Buddy and stopped dead on her tracks. "Oh wow! Buddy!" she said with excitement. "I didn't know you could draw!"

"What?!" Darcy heard this and immediately ran to Jane to take a look at the sketch. "Whoa!" Darcy stood there behind Buddy and he turned to look at her. "You're an English artist!"

"Am I really?" he turned to look back at his sketch.

"Totally!" Darcy took the sketch from Buddy. "I am definitely gonna frame this!" she smiled, still looking at the sketch. "Who wouldn't want a one eyed angry old man on the wall!?"

"Uh... Darce?" Jane began, "We need to see the drawing first? You know, to help Buddy?"
Darcy stood on her track and look at both Jane and Buddy. "Oh yeah, yeah." She handed the paper back to Buddy, "We should do that first." realizing her excitement over Buddy's talents carried her away.

The trio, looked at the sketch. Looking at Buddy's drawing, they saw an old man with an eye patch on. Seemed fairly healthy, and had a hairy face. "Is he a pirate?" Darcy asked.

"Pirate?" Buddy asked.

"He's probably an angry sailor man." Darcy shrugged, ignoring Buddy's question.

"Seems like it." Jane nodded.

Buddy placed the paper back onto the table and looked at the ladies. "So... I'm an English artist who befriended with an angry pirate??"

Darcy nodded, agreeing to what Buddy had said, "And mugged you." she added. "Some friend you have there!"

"I suppose." Buddy put his hands on his face, rubbing with exhaustion. "I have this gutful feeling that he knows me extremely well. And I can't help but knowing a lot about him as well." he said, now cupping his hands together and looked as if he's thinking really hard. "Why do I resent him so much?"

"Because he mugged you." Darcy responded instantly.

"Darcy! Give him a break!" Jane scolded her.

Darcy just chuckled and rubbing his back. "I was only kidding." she smiled. "Don't think so much. You just had a rough day."

Buddy leaned back onto his chair, "You're right. I shouldn't think about it." he sighed, "Hopefully it all comes together."

"Absolutely!" Darcy smiled, and then there were silence. Jane was walking around, Darcy was still fascinating over Buddy's work, and Buddy sitting down thinking even though he wasn't supposed to.

"Well." Jane began, breaking the silence. "We got a lot to catch on."

"On what?" Buddy glanced at Jane.

"The research." Jane placed the folders across the table and started putting out photos, graphs, and documents onto the table.

"Yeah, our machines spiked up a few days ago. We're trying to figure out if something landed close to the town." Darcy explained.

"Do you know its location?" Buddy asked.

"That's the problem." Jane walked over to the other side of the table and getting more folders close to Buddy and Darcy. "We're stuck on that part. We know there's an activity going on here but we can't pin down its location for further investigation."

"Usually we predict the activity before finding where it's suppose to happen but this time it just happened so sudden that we can't figure out where it landed." Darcy explained as well, cleaning up unnecessary items off the table where Jane is working on.

"Why do you need to know about this activity?" Buddy asked and the girls looked at each other.

"W-well..." Darcy began, unable to explain to him about what happened a few weeks ago.

Jane placed the papers softly on the table and glanced at Buddy, "A few weeks ago, there's a astro storm occur close to the town." She walked in front of Buddy and leaned against the table, "The storm was so huge that made us discover the existence of the Eisen-Rosen Bridge. A few days later, it disappeared." she explained. "Somehow, it seem to happen again but this time something fell and we need to see what it is and informed SHIELD."

Buddy looked at Jane, "And SHIELD, that place we went to earlier, is...?"

"It's kind of a secret agency thing." Darcy said, "like, you know, 'Men in Black'?" Buddy now looking at her, confused as usual. "Seriously!? You don't know the 'Men in Black'!?"
Buddy could only shake his head. Darcy immediately gave a sympathetic gesture and pat his shoulder. "Oh, you poor thing."

Jane only gave a small giggle and handed a folder to Darcy, "Anyways, SHIELD captured a bit of the activity that night via satellite."

Darcy opened the folder to see the pictures. "Alright, this is gonna take all night."

"Mind if I take a look?" Buddy asked and Darcy handed him the folder without thinking. Buddy scanned the pictures and flipping some pages. He exhaled and turned to look at the girls then smirked. "This will take a while."


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Darcy heard a buzzing sound in her ear and got up by the noise. She lift up her head and realized she was covered by a blanket. She had fallen asleep while she was working. She turned around and saw Jane sleeping on the couch and found Buddy standing by the boards. Staring and analyzing them, his arms crossed and one of his hand touching his chin.
"Buddy? You're not asleep yet?"

Buddy immediately turned around by Darcy's voice. His concentration broke from the board. "Oh! No, not yet I suppose." he put his raven hair back and returned to the same position earlier.

Darcy took out her phone to see the time and was shocked knowing it's 4AM. "How long have you been standing there??" Darcy got up, carrying the blanket around her still.

His hand on his chin, he mumbled "since you fell asleep." and Darcy could not believe what she had heard.

"That was almost 5 hours ago!!" she raised her voice but quiet down since Jane was sleeping on one of the couches.

Buddy looked at her and then back at the board again. "I couldn't rest." he said, "I feel a certain connection to these images."

Darcy sighed loudly. "You know you won't be able to solve this if you lack rest??" Darcy grabbed his arm and pull him with her.

"D-Darcy! What are you doing?!" Buddy cried out but making sure he's not loud enough to wake Jane.

"Getting you into bed." she replied, and now they are walking on to the stairs.

"B-But--"

"No buts! Bed now!"

"Could I stay up a bit longe-"

"Nope! Into the bed you go~" They've already reached the guest room where Buddy sleeps then she pushed him down onto the bed.

"You know this isn't lady-like?" he stammered, bouncing on to the bed after Darcy pushing him down and pulling his shoes off.

"You know it's stupid to have lack of sleep and work all night? Do you think that'll help you out with your memory??"

"W-well.." he began and Darcy already lift up his legs into the covers. "No." he replied.

Darcy lift up the covers and covering Buddy to his chest. "Now, go to sleep. We have a long day ahead of us." she walked out the door and switching off the light.

"Darcy?" Buddy called to her, right before she shut his door and Darcy was already halfway out.

"Yep?"

"I never really got the time to say this..." his voice sounded lower than usual, Darcy looked at him and saw he was playing with his blanket with his fingers. He lift up his head to look at Darcy. His green eyes almost glowing. "But thank you."

Darcy could only flash a small smile and said, "just go to bed and rest up, ok?" then she shut the door. And she couldn't stop smiling.