Everything is changing…

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Warning Spoilers for Episode 1:13

"The secret is out…"

-Skye, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Thoughts and Echoes

The Bus

(Ward POV)

We were all around the hyperbaric container. Skye was laying there. Simmons fixed one last setting and announced, "Until then I'll do everything I can to keep her alive. Excuse me." Then she left the lab.

I was so furious. I told him before that Skye wasn't ready for something like this.

Fitz had explained how she directed this little side op. First to track the package on their own. Then when they got there and spotted Quinn, she even told Fitz that Coulson wouldn't want her and Fitz to let Quinn go. How could that happen?

Coulson had done something to her. Made her so driven. I could see it when she went to the Wall. She changed then. The first time she was just in awe and deep appreciation. She even made little of herself, saying she only hacked her way into S.H.I.E.L.D. The second time Coulson told me to take her. She went to the Wall in silence, not the chatty Skye from before. She seemed to be searching and then found it. I couldn't see what she found, but she touched the Wall and came away with a focus.

How could this happen? She's just a kid.

(May POV)

It was hard to believe. Coulson was so shaken and Ward seemed to vibrate with anger. Simmons had left the lab and Fitz had followed. Simmons put up a good front but I heard her crying in the next room. This was terrible.

Skye proved herself. She did not need to go in there on her own. She had already stepped up for us in a big way. Was she trying to prove herself to Agent Avery?

And this has devastated Coulson. He is worse now than when we went to Mexico. She fixed a piece of him and now it maybe gone. How could this happen? He needed her. We all need her.

A/N Wondered what everyone thought as they stood there. Another two chapters coming. Fitz and Simmons and then Coulson. Hope you enjoy. Reviews on this one gratefully accepted.