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Please feed my muse and send me positive vibes by reading and reviewing the story. It starts a few days after Shifters of Shield ended.

Shifters of Shield: Search for Answers Prologue

Now that Kori had been rescued and shifted back to human form, Jemma Simmons had been able to put more time in determining the little boy's father. Just looking at that little boy's face was enough for her to be here in the lab after dinner. The men were all at the dining room table off the galley playing poker. Melinda and Maria were bathing the babies together and preparing to settle them in for the night. It was a good time to work. Just at lunch time today, back here in Macau, Simmons had received an email from the other Shifter Shield Team in China. The messages content was they may have a break in determining possible candidates for Kori's father and they would try to email her in a few hours.

Jemma had gotten an email from Dr. Bobbie Morse right after dinner. Morse and Woo had hacked into a database with all of Hydra member's profiles including medical data. In it Dr. Morse had determined a match. The Mockingbird had immediately emailed the results and health information on the father. Unsatisfied to not retest the findings on anything she ever studied, she redid the test herself on Kori and the paternal subject. It came back a match.

Jemma Simmons flew out her lab results in hand and out the gang way. Orders were orders, she was to present her findings to Natasha Romanov first. Simmons glad it was not full dark because she did not have shifter eyes and could not maneuver as well in the dark as some on board the yacht.

Jemma knew Natasha was outside on the wing because it had become a habit of the redhead since Kori had come onboard and returned to his human form the last four days. Where-ever they were, in the evenings, she would crawl on the wing outside her family quarters window and sit till the sun went down. It was obvious to all of them that now Kori was back with them, Romanov had become withdrawn except when playing with the babies.

"Agent Romanov?" Jemma called to figure sitting on the plane's wing who had a sling on her left arm to limit her shoulder's movement.

"Agent Simmons," Natasha greeted back not angry at the invasion of her personal time when she saw the furrow in the young woman's forehead and how a piece of paper in the young scientist hands shook. "One moment Simmons, I will slide right down." Natasha Romanov did that literally and landed on her feet as any cat would.

"I have a match for Kori's father. He is a shifter but I only knew that because the Hydra database our people found was so specific and had a complete bloodwork profile. Anyone who did not know what to look for would not have known to look for the unique enzyme." Simmons explained as Romanov stood expressionless looking at the name on the paper.

"So this is based on information in a Hydra database and not on genetic material tested?" Widow asked Simmons probing carefully.

"That is correct ma'am and you know with this person is still alive we could possibly attain a sample," Jemma told Agent Romanov.

"But we can't exactly go up to him and demand a cheek swab or ask for a hair follicle. I get it." Black Widow told the young doctor. "Ask the senior agents to meet with you and I in the War Room after the babies are asleep. No discussion of this with anyone until we talk to Coulson, Hill and May." Natasha Romanov used her shifter abilities and leapt back on the wing. "I am going to go back in the apartment and dress in my uniform for this I guess."

Natasha ignored the sounds of the two mothers talking as they bathed their children and went in her room and carefully dressed. The women sounded so happy and relaxed bonding as only women with young children can. Agent Natasha Romanov hated she was about to end their care-free evening.