CHAPTER 1
The Playground
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Active
Time:
09:00
Skye was stuck, both physically and mentally.
When Ward had betrayed his team for HYDRA, Skye had collapsed in on herself. Even now, when he was locked in their basement, she didn't know what to do. That psychopath had hurt Skye's friends. Fitz had permanent brain damage because of him! It wasn't fair that he received all the luxuries that came with being alive. He deserved to be dead, or worse. And Skye felt she was privy to delivering the 'or worse.'
It was one day, after an hour of intense training with Melinda May, Skye openly fell apart.
May was pulling Skye up off the mat when the older agent had, once again, won the sparring match. Dodging the hand, Skye performed a neat little flip and got herself up off the ground. She then proceeded to a nearby bench.
May raised one eyebrow.
"You been working on your acrobatics and didn't tell me?" she asked as she followed Skye to the bench and picked up her own water bottle. She took a small swig before she noticed that Skye wasn't talking, and she wasn't drinking any water. "You should drink your water, stay hydrated."
Skye didn't reply as she stared at the wall directly behind May.
"Skye," May said. "Skye, drink your water."
Skye, still staring at the wall, absentmindedly picked up her water bottle and took the tiniest of sips before setting the plastic container back on the bench.
May put down her own water, seeing that something was seriously wrong with her agent.
"Skye. Skye, what's wrong?" she asked. Skye stared at the wall as silence passed. "Skye, look at me."
Skye started to walk past May as she attempted to get to the safety of her bunk.
May stopped her and put both hands on her shoulders. "Skye, look at me."
Skye tore herself away from her S.O. and ran to her bunk, leaving a bewildered May in her wake.
No one knew why, but after that day, Skye wouldn't speak to anybody. She only ate food when Director Coulson, Agent May, or Dr. Simmons would force it down her throat. She trained harder and harder, caring less about what injuries she sustained from it. At some point, Coulson had to physically move her to her bunk because she had been working at the punching bag for five hours straight. Sleep was not a word in her vocabulary, and, whenever she couldn't keep herself awake, she had horrible nightmares of killing her team or being tortured.
The worst thing that was happening to Skye, however, was none of these things. No, the worst thing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, was that she was losing her memory. It became harder to put names to faces and vice versa. Coulson, May, and Jemma spent every day with Skye, hoping that she would never forget who they were. They all suggested Skye go to therapy when it became too much to ask of her to remember who Fitz was. Skye denied that she even needed the help. She didn't want it, and the whole team knew.
Skye continued her training with May, and soon she as better than her S.O., though, she always held back some during sparring.
Skye learned to shoot a gun, and, for an extra challenge, she taught herself to shoot a bow and arrow as well. She was an expert at both. She worked on her acrobatics, agility, and stamina, and she had already mastered every flip and roll there was in the entire world before she realized that her stamina was higher than that of a supersoldier. She was strong enough to lift at least ten times the strongest SHIELD agent, and she always amazed herself at how strong she was.
Skye still went on missions, mainly espionage since she had become an exceptional spy. Her skills rivaled those of the great Black Widow. Coulson and May, of course, hated having her out in the field, especially since she would never answer her communicator, but they also both admitted that she was the best agent they had.
When Fitz came back, Skye knew he was someone that she should remember by the the looks on everyone's faces, but all she knew was that he and Jemma were called Fitzsimmons. Skye hated herself for forgetting someone she knew was supposed to be her friend, and she had deemed herself unworthy of being around Fitz because of her memory loss.
Thankfully, everything changed on one of Skye's missions with May.