AN: So, I'm writing again...

This is a kind of sequel to my other story Snippets, which is basically how I imagine Skye's back story. You don't have to read that one first, if you do, just exchange the "real name" I gave Skye with the canon "real name" Mary Sue Poots.


Skye really shouldn't have stayed in there alone, was Melinda May's first thought when she saw a flash of red light. She dropped the file she had been examining and ran back into the office she had seen the younger woman in last.

It was a routine mission, breaking into the headquarter of a small company they suspected to work with Hydra and stealing valuable intel on Hydra's next move. The security was near non-existent, which was why Coulson had decided to send only May and Skye. It was not as if they had much more agents, Fitz was still in coma, Simmons was no use in the field and while Trip could have come with them, May felt better knowing he was back at the base, if only to make sure Simmons left Fitz room every now and then. Apart from Skye the other specialist seemed to be the only one to really get through to their biochemist.

All those things didn't matter though when May raced to look what had happened with Skye. She couldn't quite shake the pictures her mind showed her, pictures of what had happened the last time Skye had been alone on hostile territory... at least there hadn't been any shots fired. That she would have heard.

Finally she reached the room. Skye had stayed because this was where the computer with the biggest encryption was. On the first look through the room May noticed that the computer had been decrypted and the files were being copied on a hard drive, that there was no sign of a struggle or forced entry anywhere... and that there was a child on the floor. Why was there a child on the floor?

The child was dressed in Skye's jeans, Skye's blue shirt and the black leather jacket Skye had picked up when she had been banned from the bus by Victoria Hand, all of which was much to large for the little girl wearing them now. May estimated her age to be around four. Carefully she bend down, pushed away the long dark hair of the girl and searched for a pulse. The pulse was strong, so obviously the girl was only sleeping. Good.

Standing up again, May searched for anything that would tell a different story than the one her mind had already created, but the only thing out of ordinary was a thing about the size of a paperback that seemed to be made out of metal. It had been lying on the desk when they had first found this room, May remembered. Now it had fallen to the floor, lying next to the child. Now that she looked at it more closely, it kind of resembled an 084 she had picked up for SHIELD sometime early in her career. Great.

Suddenly the girl opened her eyes. "Mommy?", she asked quietly. May froze. "I'm tired", the girl said and May won back her calm enough to answer "Go back to sleep then, honey.".


"The DNA test is very clear. This is Skye." Simmons said tiredly. It was five in the morning and nobody but the little girl now confirmed as Skye had had any sleep since May had come back to the base at 11 pm.

"I don't know what happened, but Skye seems to be physically four, and my guess is that she will have mentally that age as well. She probably touched the 084, what explains the flash of light you've seen, Agent May, and was somehow transformed to this state by it. I do not know how to reverse it, but right now I'm way to tired to archive anything. I will continue my research in the morning." Simmons finished her report.

There was a heavy silence in the room. What were they supposed to do with a four year old Skye? Where was she supposed to sleep? What would she want to eat? How long would it take to reverse the process?

Finally, Phil spoke up. "I can take her for tonight. She should not be alone when she wakes up." While he was saying that, May was already shaking her head. "I don't think that's a good idea. She will not know where she is, and you are a stranger to her. She has seen me at least once, and generally a woman is seen as less of a threat than a man. I'll take her." She said.

Nobody argued, as all were happy to be able to go to bed. Before May fell asleep, she looked at the young, innocent face next to her. How were they supposed to deal with a child?


So, that's the prologue. Does anybody want to read more? Review please!