Guardian Angel
Chapter one
Skye awoke only to see Trip crumble; the earth rumbling, she looks at what was once Trip- her friend. In a state of shock, a low groan makes her turn to see an unrecognisable Raina. The girl in the flower dress had morphed into monster with spikes sticking out of her skin and cat like glowing eyes, running away to disappear through the now open door ways. "Skye!" The familiar voice broke through the numbness and shock.
Skye turns to face him eyes streaked with tears, "He's dead… I couldn't do anything to save him… he…"
"We need to get out of here this place is going to collapse," Mack shouts over the rumbling. Skye make her way towards them then stops, "No we can't leave him!" She cries, bending over what remained of Trip.
"We must go," Coulson says pulling Skye towards the exit followed by Mack
Once on the Bus, the debriefing started. Everyone wanted to know what happened in the chamber. How the events had unfolded.
"It's my fault he's dead. He destroyed the obelisk trying to protect me; he destroyed it and was struck by a shard. It turned him to stone… he shouldn't have been there…godwhy- didhehavetofollowme…" Skye cried out the last part in desperation. Then got up and ran to her bunk. Everyone remained silent. May had watched Coulson taking care of Skye during debrief. She could tell he was contemplating on following her; May was doing the same thing. It was obvious to her that Skye was keeping something hidden but didn't want to pry so got up and made her way to the cockpit.
A few minutes later the door opened and Coulson came in and sat in the co-pilot seat.
"She's keeping something from me and I don't want to push her too hard. They deserve a time to grieve and I intend on giving it to them when we return to the Playground, but I need her to know she can trust me. Maybe I should go talk to her… No your right give her space and she'll come when she's ready… You know you are a really good listener." Coulson said looking at May- who was conveniently watching the horizon.
Simmons was checking over Mack in the make shift hospital while Fitz cleaned some of the equipment that was waiting to be done. Bobbie and Hunter were there in attendance for Simmons' verdict and as they stood next to each other they exchanged nudges for comfort. "I don't care you're not leaving here until we reach the playground. You've been possessed by some form of alien technology, fallen a good 50 feet and got bashed around by agents. You are staying in here for observation." Simmons voice rang out through the cargo hold. "He sounds good to me," Hunter smirked in a light mood earning himself an elbow to the gut by Bobbie.
2 and ½ hours later they arrived back at the Playground where they are welcomed by Agent Konieg who immediately picked up the tension and attributed it to a lack of personal. As they split off to do their own thing, May saw Skye slinking off to her room and put a hand out to stop her. "Skye, you know this is not your fault,"
"But it is, I'm the reason he's dead." She whispered before running off, clearly upset. That was when a loud rumble was heard and the ground started to shack. "Earthquake!" Simmons yelled over the deafening roll. "Bloody hell," Fitz shouted just as the base alarm started up. "That came out of nowhere," May commented and like that the earthquake ended. Coulson's voice came over the speaker requesting everyone to the designated zone until checks had been made of the facility. It wasn't until they were at the zone that Simmons noticed Skye was missing. She immediately went over to tell May, whose face a blank canvas to get a team together to go and search the bunk sections. Half an hour later the buildings had been cleared and there was no sign of Skye.
Bobbie re-joined them after reviewing the security tapes, "She`s gone, as soon as the alarm went off all doors opened due to earthquake protocol there is footage of Skye running out of the building and sir… once she was gone the earthquake stopped I know this sounds crazy but we don`t know how she was affected by the obelisk…"
"May prep the Quinn jet, take Bobbie with you and find her. Bring her back, Bobbie's right we don`t know if she was affected by the obelisk… if she was I'd rather have her here." Coulson couldn't bring himself to expand on it but May got the jist. She and Bobbie left before Coulson could organize the removal of debris so he himself could go to his office and pick up the stuff that had fallen during the quake.