a/n: I apologise for the delay in this. I've been super struggling with muse and due to some drama I ended up deleting my roleplay account of Skye and now I really want her back. But for now, I'll continue here.

Any errors are my own: un-beta-ed, except for myself.

Word count: 748.

O/S: Part 1: Normality.

Normal.

A word that doesn't technically define a person (not that she was of human biology any longer - inhuman was the term) and yet in her current predicament, Skye or rather Daisy couldn't help but wish to be, normal that is. Her life has changed rapidly since the moment she tried to stop Raina and instead, it caused her to become something she never wanted to become. She can recall a time when the other girls in the orphanage used to whisper about her, the girl who wasn't wanted because of the way she dressed or her fascination with computers. "You're unique, unlike them those girls are just normal. No one wants normal girls." A boy said to her one time and it was a phase she stood up against, why should she be 'normal' act like a 'normal, average' girl should? When the brunette logged onto a computer she enjoyed her time on there and couldn't wait to get back on, why would she remove something from her life that made her happy? Yet in the current moment, she needed help and the only help she was going to get was to let the man who she considered to be her father figure wanted her to be monitored, to be watched like a HYDRA infiltrated spy. It hurt, emotionally and physically - that it felt like he didn't trust her anymore. A trust that had been there since day one, since the moment she joined the Agency as a consultant; since Coulson showed her the truth about Lola - that she wasn't just a car, she was everything but that.

When the blonde figure emerged from the darkness, Daisy couldn't help but feel like the walls were closing in on her - that the ground was about to swallow her whole. There was only a single day she had regretted since joining S.H.I.E.L.D and that was when she betrayed them for one of her own and how wrong had the brunette been? Especially when the one she trusted and cared for had lied to her, had betrayed her just like she had to her own saviour. The only problem was, Miles had saved her - gave her a place to stay and fed her when she left the sanitary of the Orphanage when she turned the legal age; it was he who had been like a brother to her - one she always wanted yet never had. The stone harsh gaze from the blonde agent made Daisy's blood run cold - why had Coulson brought in an agent she'd never met, was it for lack of personal and emotional attachment that the rest of the team had; first it was Melinda's ex-husband, now another. How many more? How many more were going to watch her fade into the background? To become a target? To be exactly what SHIELD wanted her to become - a threat to humanity?

A humourless chuckle escaped the former S.H.I.E.L.D Agents lips; Coulson had left her with her. He trusted someone who he brought in but not the girl who had become a daughter like figure in the past year of working together. It was the family she never had, but always wanted. "Agent thirteen? That's your name? Not like, Skye or Phil or anything just thirteen." A sarcastic tone rolled of her lips and she did the same with her ochre eyes, rolling them as she all but avoided the opposing Agent's. It was when she heard the last bit of Agent thirteen's comment that Skye's voice became erratic and she all but removed herself from the sitting position she had been accustomed to. "I'm a threat? Me of all people? I never wanted this, I don't want this. It was me who shot myself with an I.C.E.R - to stop me from hurting my friends, the people who I consider family. I've been added to the list I never asked to be a part of; I just want to be normal. Anything but this." By now, tears had escaped and were cascading down the ex-hacker's tanned cheeks but the room didn't shake or quake beneath her crumbled exterior. She was holding it in, something Simmons' had been told her to avoid and yet it was true, all the words that escaped her mouth.

Skye wanted to be normal. She didn't want to be Daisy. She wanted to Skye, Agent Skye as a matter of fact.

Not who she had become.