Months since she had told him Character: Colleen and Jasper Setting: Sphere - SHIELD Content: Stories about friendship, adventure, etc Summary: Jasper and Colleen have some catching up to do
"They're gifts," she argued, mildly distressed behind her cool facade as security rummaged through her bag. "Pleas be careful--can you just call him to the front and I can meet him outside?" Getting through SHIELD security was already difficult. Apparently getting through SHIELD with foreign items was impossible. Colleen stared between the two agents as they explained to her why they would have to confiscate some of it. There was no 'believe me' policy she could argue; it wasn't as if she had scientific proof to show that the alien goods she brought wasn't a risk to the human population, and bringing it for 'a friend' wasn't a valid enough reason. "Is Dr. Banner around, because he can vouch that--" But neither agents would budge. Which, Colleen respected, she just saw this differently. With a pout, Colleen quietly gave up the fruit container, but wait-- "Notes," she wryly smiled, as they held up a pocketbook. The guards let her keep it, returned her bag to her, and asked her to put her fingers on the scanner so they could verify who she was.
"I'm here to see Agent Jasper Sitwell," she repeated. "Friend of his." While they set her up with a visitor's pass, Colleen began to think it would have been easier to go to his place. But SHIELD seemed the mostly likely place to find him, and in the end, the only casualty was the fruit she'd given up for, she hoped, science. Pinning the temporary pass to her top, Colleen talked to the front desk person until she was instructed to wait in the visitor's lobby. She went in and paced around idly, reading through the handwritten passages of that small book. Somehow she'd hidden it well enough to have kept it out of the sight of those who'd stolen Tugboat. She still couldn't believe that was months ago. Months since she'd spoken to Jasper and told him that they would be home in no time at all. With a quiet sigh, Colleen paused to look out the tall glass window and watch agents come and go, waiting patiently.