( Maria shouldn't be surprised - she actually shouldn't. He's mentioned telepathy, and whether he'd read the information out of her head or not it was something that had been mentioned around the network. For spies they threw the name around a lot, but that would only be worrying if the word was as classified as some of what they did. Given that he's asking- she's guessing, hoping that he hadn't looked into her head for more. That would be dangerous )
It was. In basic terms anyway.
( Maria might have alluded to Fortescue before that they'd been in similar lines of work, and had shown herself capable to gunnery, but she'd never actually talked about SHIELD before. Not in detail - she was more like to bring up her marine training than anything of SHIELD )
SHIELD stands for the Strategic Homeland Intelligence and Enforcement Logistics Division. We looked after problems that other organisations weren't qualified to deal with.
( Powered individuals. Aliens. They weren't really qualified but they had better defenses, and they'd been working on it a lot longer than any other organisation had known about the issues. At least, that was what she was giving him in relevance to this conversation )
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It was. In basic terms anyway.
( Maria might have alluded to Fortescue before that they'd been in similar lines of work, and had shown herself capable to gunnery, but she'd never actually talked about SHIELD before. Not in detail - she was more like to bring up her marine training than anything of SHIELD )
SHIELD stands for the Strategic Homeland Intelligence and Enforcement Logistics Division. We looked after problems that other organisations weren't qualified to deal with.
( Powered individuals. Aliens. They weren't really qualified but they had better defenses, and they'd been working on it a lot longer than any other organisation had known about the issues. At least, that was what she was giving him in relevance to this conversation )