It’s probably only shocking that it took this long.
SHIELD goes down. HYDRA comes back. The Winter Soldier is Bucky Barnes. Phil and his team nearly die at the HUB.
It’s a fucking disaster and Phil... Well.
Nick Fury has the sheer, unmitigated gall to tell Phil that he’s now the Director of SHIELD. Yeah, director of the remnants of an organization everyone else wants dead and gone.
Phil stood there for a second, looking at him, and said the three words that made the most sense.
Fury had laughed, then had stopped laughing when Phil’s facade cracked and there was nothing but a man in the midst of breakdown, his brain a fever scream of pain. Phil’s psych is actively on fire, his body isn’t working right, alien blood is running rampant through him.
Fury had spoke calmly and Phil had pretended to listen, and in the middle of the night Phil had knocked on Skye’s door. When she answered he only had one question.
I am leaving. For good. Are you coming with me?
Where are we going, she’d asked. Does it matter, he’d wanted to know.
Bringing them in tourist clothing to Wakanda. Skye had been nothing but questions, and had picked up tourism guides along the way, and Phil is very amused that she is going full tilt tourist, showing him in guides on a new civilian phone where the best food is and what they should definitely pick up. At least she has the excuse of being multiracial. Phil is so fucking white he’s a beacon as they come off the airplane.
He’d also put the tickets under his real name, and under an alias for Skye. He is not shocked when what looks suspiciously like a royal guard is waiting for him.
Just what he’d wanted. No, really. Just what he’d wanted.
“So, were you sent by the king or by Captain America?” He asked, looking around at them. “I do hope you’re not going to kick me out of the country because I’m here to beg asylum.”