Daydream Believer | Part One
Pairing: Daniel Sousa x Agent!Reader
Summary: Having been an agent for a while, reader is thrown completely out of her comfort zone when she meets Daniel Sousa - meeting someone from the past is never something she thought she would have the chance to do, but developing feelings for them? Maybe this would be harder than she thought.
Notes: This is a bit shorter than the rest of the parts of this series is going to be, it’s basically just an introduction. But I really hope you all like it!
Word Count: 1.5k
There were a lot of places that you could have seen yourself in when you had become a SHIELD Agent. There were outlandish ideas that you would dream about. Things like fighting an alien army, undercover missions against evil Nazis, there were lots of ideas that ran through your mind upon finishing your training with SHIELD.
For the first few years your dreams never truly changed, you were mainly running paperwork and communicating with field agents to help with their work for the first few years - but then you were approached and interrogated, that’s when you were brought onto the bus for the first time, and where you soon after met your closest friend; Daisy Johnson.
When you first started running real missions with the rest of the team, your dreams started to shift. You were seeing things that you weren’t sure that you would ever have the opportunity. Things that, to the best of your knowledge, had been reserved for members of the Avengers - but you were facing them head on. So, your dreams started to become more and more outlandish. But, despite everything that you had seen, you never could have predicted or even dreamed of winding up in the past. But that was exactly where the team wound up.
There was an adjustment period, one that you had made an off-handed comment about being “like travelling from New York to California but not the same thing at all.” But you weren’t particularly unhappy with where you were, you knew it was just something that you had to do for the job.
Unlike the rest of the team, you hadn’t been on the ground in the 1950’s, rather you were helping alert the team through coms. It was one of your specialties, the certified president of the ‘watching the team’s ass’ committee. Granted, it was harder for you to do this with the time period, you weren’t really able to see much. You’d offered to help on the ground, but Daisy reaffirmed that nobody felt one hundred percent safe down there without you making sure they were okay.
It was enough to make you feel okay with staying on the Zephyr and doing your best from there - because you knew it was normal that everyone might feel a bit apprehensive in completely unknown territory. But, you were grateful that it gave you enough time to make yourself look presentable for the first time since you arrived in the past. Not to say that you looked awful, but it had been a while before you had thrown on clothes that you were actually comfortable in didn’t have your face slathered in makeup from a different century.
As you heard footsteps and voices heading inside you switched the com-system off, sliding it back into the carrying case that you had brought it in and walking out from where you were to be greeted by an unfamiliar face.
You furrowed your eyebrows, glancing to the rest of the team for guidance before Phil took it upon himself to clarify. “This is Daniel Sousa,” He said, which didn’t help you at all, but you figured that he was going to explain who he was later - or… hopefully someone would explain who he was later.
Regardless, you held your hand out, letting the man shake it in a proper greeting. “Y/N Y/L/N, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” You said with a large smile.
Daniel seemed a bit aloof about it all, clearing his throat for a moment before responding with a simple, “Likewise.” He could tell you were confused, you figured, since he clarified who he was. “I’m an SSR agent.” He responded quickly, your face softening a bit at the realization that you most likely had no reason to be afraid of him.
You let your hand fall, finally, the smile remaining on your face. “So do you prefer Agent Sousa or Daniel?” You questioned, an almost playful tone to your voice as you slowly got comfortable with the man in front of you. Of course, you worked in a dangerous field, it would take more for you to fully be comfortable with him since you had no idea why he was with the rest of your teammates - but, you figured there was no harm in being kind.
“Daniel is fine, if you will.” He said, a small smile on his face before Daisy cleared her throat, drawing your attention to remember that the rest of the team was present during your little meet and greet.
“Sorry… proceed.” You responded, turning on your heels to follow in the footsteps of Phil as he began to walk toward something else. Truthfully, you tuned out most of the conversation as your mind was rather occupied. Seemingly, your mind had been occupied from the moment that you had arrived in the past. At some point, you figured, it would be a problem that everything made you nervous.
But meeting someone from the past certainly made you nervous. However, through what Phil was saying it seemed that Daniel wasn’t a threat - you figured that he must have been the man that Phil had told you not to mind earlier in the day, but you hadn’t been able to physically see anything - so you couldn’t be positive.
When everything was said and done you found yourself walking away, hoping to get some sleep for the night since you hadn’t been doing that much since you arrived.
As you sat down for a moment, you heard someone enter through the door behind you - your eyes moving over to meet those of Daisy.
“Hey,” You said, turning to face her as you finally slid your boots off for a moment. “Just thought I might try to take a nap, I haven’t really… slept much lately.” You commented, rubbing the back of your neck in what could almost be described as embarrassment, though you were sure that you shouldn’t have been embarrassed.
“I get that, you know if you ever need to talk I’m here.” She said, sitting down on the floor in front of you, a content sigh emerging from her mouth at the feeling of sitting down.
“I know, I just feel so… I’ve been trained to be an agent, this sort of thing shouldn’t be affecting me.” you said, somewhat dejectedly.
Daisy quirked up an eyebrow, “I didn’t know the SHIELD academy prepped you for time travel.” She teased in response, laughing lightly at the playfully annoyed glare that you sent her way. “I get what you mean, though. But it’s okay to feel weird about this whole thing.” She finally said.
You nodded at her words, letting out an exasperated groan. “Can I at least be in the field next time? I felt so useless… alone with my thoughts. You know how I feel about being alone with my thoughts.” You said, pointing a finger toward her.
“I’m sure I can convince them to partner us up.” She said with a grin, which grew wider since you smiled in response. “You can smile! I didn’t know you could do that anymore.” She said teasingly, laughing at the way you glanced at a pillow like you were considering throwing it. “But you did seem to be smiling a lot at Agent Sousa…” She trailed off, dodging when you actually threw the pillow her way.
“What’s that supposed to mean? I was greeting him!” You replied, considering grabbing one of the shirts you had scattered on the floor to throw next.
Daisy wiggled her eyebrows, clearly amused by your reaction. “You know what I mean, I thought you forgot the rest of us were in the room.” She teased back, standing up and moving to lean against the wall, making sure that nobody else was listening to your conversation.
“I was just being nice-”
“So tell me you don’t find him physically attractive because I’ve seen you just being nice, that wasn’t it.” Daisy interjected as she turned back to look you in the eyes.
“Well- So? Lots of people are physically attractive- Beyonce is physically attractive that doesn’t mean we’re in a relationship.” You defended.
“Now- I never brought up any relationship.” She teased back, laughing again at the way you were glaring at her. “Whatever you say though… get your rest.”
You sighed and stood up to pick up your pillow and lay it back down, laying down afterward. “Yeah, yeah. Whatever.” you said, the playfulness clearly laced within your voice.
As Daisy was about to exit she turned back around, “You know I was just teasing, right?” She questioned, seemingly satisfied by your nod as she walked away. For the first time in a while you had fallen asleep pretty quickly, though the sleep wouldn’t last very long before you were woken up again since you were still meant to be working.
But it was some sort of food for thought to you, the man who you had just met seemed like a kind man - and he was pretty easy on the eyes.