Questioning
Bancroft sat with a frown. The room was small and bright. All he had to look at was his hands, cuffed to the table. Still locked with the power inhibitor on his wrist that he’d been surprised with back in Canada (how could he possibly have been prepared for a damn ghost?!). It was that, or the so-called mirror in front of him that the Hydra agent knew was one of SHIELD’s two way mirrors.
Ironically, it was on the other side of the glass that he had first encountered Ray Hartell for the first time. Bancroft had heard about the Comms agent who had undergone Terrigenesis and had quickly found himself helping SHIELD with interrogations. Bancroft, as the then Head of recruitment and training for that base, had asked to be allowed to attend and observe.
Eventually, a female agent entered. Despite the inhibitor cuff, Bancroft noted she openly wore a holster with an ICER in it attached to the belt on her pantsuit.
“Still working here, are you?” Bancroft asked snidely. “Thought they would have got rid of you after the first failed interview before I got away. What was your name again? Howdy? Hopeless?”
She was used to people trying to wind her up. They usually assumed that she would get too upset or scared and back off, or at least that she would forget she was waiting on an answer. She simply rolled her eyes.
“Agent Janine Hadley,” she replied calmly. “Still one of the top Legal Investigators here actually.”
And then there was the other, younger agent who entered the room.
“And a junior?” Bancroft laughed. “You really think a junior agent will help you get your answers?”
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