Chapter 40 - M.D.B 40: Coulson’s Politeness (2/2)
Saint's comment obviously made things worse! As he heard his boss say that about Coulson, he looked at him in awe and then said excitedly: ”Agent Coulson, then you must know of the rumor about Hell's Kitchen's Daredevil, and you know that he has no super power! I'm right, right? I've made a ten dollar bet with a friend on this! Well, can you give me a hint? Blink once for yes and twice for no! Eh? What are you doing turning your head away? I can't see if your blinking…”
”…”
Coulson could no longer understand anything peter was saying, he looked at Saint's wicked smirk with anger, and suddenly understood why Melinda May seemed to hate him so much….
”You're being so noisy!” Just then, Lorna turned around and gave Peter a fierce look saying: ”Peter, be quiet, will ya? Don't disturb people's lunch!”
Peter was so scared; he bowed down saying ”Oh…” quickly, and then returning to eat frantically.
Perhaps he was a bit rough, but one thing was for sure; for a boss, Saint wasn't that ”bossy” around his employees.
Coulson breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded to Lorna, smiling gratefully. If it wasn't a little too inappropriate, he would thank her directly.
Without Peter's noise, people finished eating quickly, and only the sound of silverware on porcelain could be heard. As the ”jingling” stopped, only the chopstick users, Colleen and Saint, remained on the table, struggling to finish their food.
Saint ate a lot! That was already clear to Lorna and Peter. However, they were now also surprised that the small girl, Colleen, could east so much! They were so surprised, they kept staring at her with their jaws dropped, bringing Coulson's attention to the matter…
After the meal, Lorna and Peter began to clean up the table as usual, while Saint stood up pointing to another table near the door saying: ”Agent Coulson, let's go there.”
Coulson stood up as well, pointing at Colleen who was on Saint's side: ”In fact, what brings me here today involves Miss Colleen.”
Saint was not surprised, and he grinned saying: ”Wow, your agents are really hard working, staying up so late yesterday….”
”Cough!” Coulson pointed to Peter and Lorna who had their ears almost raised: ”Mr. Lee, I think you'd prefer to keep your employees uninvolved. Am I wrong?”
”Indeed, Colleen, let's go with him to another table and let the two clean up in here. You go take a seat and I'll come.”
Saint went putting on the closed sign on the door, brought the already boiling tea pot along with the three tea cups, and place them on the new table.
He then took a seat on Colleen's side and said to Coulson: ”So Agent Coulson, what does SHIELD want from me today?”
Coulson was surprised and looked at Saint with great suspicion saying: ”Mr. Lee, SHIELD is a term that is so far exclusive to our own personnel, used only occasionally. This abbreviation was never made official, so how do you know it?”
Not being flustered by his mistake, Saint shrugged saying: ”Please… it's not rocket science! All agency's have acronyms; taking the first letter of each of the words in your agency's full name you get shield, or should I read it letter by letter?”