Kate/Yelena Bodyguard AU - Sneak Peak
Title: Target: Bishop Securities - Entry Member: Kate Bishop
Plot: Yelena is placed, while still under mind control, as a spy within Bishop Securities. While there Yelena is placed as Kate Bishop’s personal bodyguard when the family begins receiving threats. Is it possible to fall in love when under mind control? Is it possible not to fall in love with your bodyguard whose constantly saving and changing your life?
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The question to hire a bodyguard from in or out of the company came up eventually.
“In.” Derek immediately answered while Eleanor disagreed. Which meant they each needed to try and prove their points.
The two stood in front of a dry erase board that had several names of female agents that worked for Bishop Securities or were known to one or both of the Bishop’s.
“Monica Rambeau, won’t work. She’s the chief investigator for this case.” Eleanor frowned as she crossed out one of her top choices.
They crossed off Misty Knight, Coleen Wing, while Felicity Hardy had a question mark next to her name. Then there were others that were still on the board but had no indicators at all like Jean Grey, Kitty Pride, and Scarlet Witch.
Derek smiled as he looked up from his tablet, “Jessica Jones is open for hire.”
“No.” Eleanor stated immediately.
“But…” Derek stopped when Eleanor glared at him.
When Derek crossed off Jessica Jones’ name Eleanor went back to her list, “That leaves Sharon Carter, Jessica Drew, Yelena Belova, and Laura Kinney.”
Derek looked at the names and circled the two that were employees he recognized. “Yelena and Sharon are the only ones left from within the company.”
“Sharon huh?” Eleanor knew Sharon. With that in mind Eleanor glanced at the profile for Yelena Belova quickly, after seeing the picture at the top. It showed a young blonde woman with deep brown eyes, a chiseled face and hard stare. “Yelena is the member from Marcus’ team?”
Derek hummed affirmatively, Eleanor’s eyes widened as she looked at the young operatives file. “She saved three operatives on her last mission.”
Derek shook his head in the negative and quickly explained, “Five actually, two died from complications later. But she pulled all five from the rubble. She even did field triage.” Derek recounted, “Marcus and I were discussing promoting her, again.”
“Again?” Eleanor might have been a bit impressed and trying to hide it as she looked down at the tablet in her hands instead.
Derek drank a sip from his tumblr, this time it was filled with water. “Mmm…she’s already been promoted three times.”
“But…she’s only worked for us for…” Eleanor looked at the file, “Just shy of three years.”
Derek shrugged, “She’s good. Speaks five languages fluently, half dozen more well, mastery in multiple weapons, permits and licenses are on the higher end, top of her class in everything.”
Eleanor looked at her husband, “What’s the catch?” knowing Yelena couldn’t be perfect, even if on paper it looked like she was.
Derek shrugged, not sure if her faults were all that imperative. “She has a bit of an attitude and distrust problem. Standoff-ish, but for her current missions that’s been somewhat of a benefit.”
Eleanor was surprised that the woman had been hired let alone promoted three times if she had an attitude problem. Usually that was code for ‘doesn’t follow orders’ or is ‘hot headed’. “She follows orders?”
“The right orders. Promotions came after she didn’t follow the wrong ones.” Derek grinned when he watched Eleanor accept that answer. “She’s a good operative. She’d have been on the fast track in the public sector, no matter which track she took. Army, Navy, Coast Guard, FBI, CIA…”
“Then why did she come to work for us?”
“She was born in Russia, came to the US on exchange during high school, went to college here, and applied for a work visa, and citizenship. You know with that new unspoken axiom, no matter how hard she worked in the public sector, unless she had a connection she wouldn’t get as high as she could with us.” The unspoken concern being that she was a spy.
“Or make as much.” Eleanor noted the woman’s salary with a grin, swiping through the accommodations in the file and each successive monetary increase.
“Or that.” Derek watched as Eleanor went up to the dry erase board and started to erase the names and notes they’d taken and replaced all the other options with one: YELENA BELOVA.
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I am hard at work writing this fic, trying to get the first chapter finished after writing the last chapter first. >.< Can’t control the writing process, but in the interim I thought I’d share a sneak peak of Eleanor and Derek discussing their decision to hire Yelena for the job.