A/n: New story. Let me know what do you guys think.
I hope you like it. Any feedback is appreciated and if anyone as any ideas on how I can make this story better plot wise and in my way of writing I would love to know.
I know the fight scenes are very good and detailed, I'm sorry I just really don't know how to write them.
Thanks to Gleek-Whovianfangirl for beta reading this.
Disclaimer: I don't own Marvel's Agents of Shield.
Skye was sitting on the lounge room in the playground, trying to focus on the mission report she had to do but failing miserably due to the man on the other side of the room currently pretty much jumping in his seat over a game of battleship. She had to admit, it was hard to keep her distance like she was trying to, when he was being all nerdy and adorable.
Ward had been released form Vault D after two short months of imprisonment. While there, he had been reluctant to give any information to anyone but Skye even under May's 'interrogation technics' (which Skye hadn't known about until it was already too late to do anything to stop it), but after realizing the only way to start gaining everyone's forgiveness was to tell them everything he knew to whoever was willing to listen and the information started to come. Eventually Skye started to go down there as well, when Coulson made up some lame excuse as to why he couldn't do it himself, but Skye knew he was trying to give Ward some kind of reward for good behaviour. She limited to the questions about the mission, brushing off his worries about her with sharp words and hard looks. She made it clear that it wouldn't be as easy with her as it was with Coulson (who, with time started to go soft towards the former agent even as far as going after the truth about his past himself.)
This went on until one day Coulson announced he decided to release Grant from Vault D explaining that he was of more use to them in the field than locked up in a cell. Of course everybody thought he was losing it but since he was the director everybody sucked it up and learn to deal with Ward's presence. With time he did prove to be of more use out in the field. He proved that he was willing to die to protect everybody on the team, even the new guys that he didn't know that well.
With every mission he was in and every time he sacrificed himself, everybody started to trust him again and forgive him giving him another chance. Everybody but Skye. She thought that he had gotten off easy and she didn't want to trust him again. If necessary, she would do missions with him and be polite but she never let herself get close again with the fear that he might hurt her again like he did before.
But that started to get hard to do. Every time he risked his life for a member of the team. Every time he sacrificed himself for the mission, proving that he was willing to do anything to earn forgiveness, to earn back their trust.
Realizing that she couldn't spend the rest of her life holding a grudge and hating him, she decided to patch things up with him like everyone had already done. So they talked and decided to leave the past behind them and start over. After that they felt into an easy routine. They sparred, watched movies together, played battleship and soon enough Skye realized that this new Ward -the real Ward- is nothing like the stoic undercover persona he had pretended to be. This change didn't go unnoticed by Coulson who saw the potential in the pair and started to pair them up in the field.
For a while everything went well without a problem. But this is them they're talking about, so things had to eventually go wrong like it always did.
It happened when Skye's father came along, talking about evolution and destiny, and everything changed again. He kidnapped Skye and took her to some Hydra base and that's when everything really went wrong. In a turn of events Skye ended up in the tunnel under the base, some secret city and she went after after Raina to try to stop her and make things right but eneded up in the middle of an earthquake that almost ended her life. But still the same, there's no change, or evolution like her father had said would be.
Only when they are back at the base does she realize the change. How the ground shakes when she gets nervous or mad.
At first she keeps it to herself, afraid of what might happen if she reveals her new found abilities to the team, but Ward was quick to catch up with it and confront her about it. Surprisingly to Skye, he wasn't afraid, he's understanding and empathetic with her and promises not to tell anyone when she asks him not to.
After that she starts to push him away with fear that she might hurt him and despite the distance that she keeps between them, he keeps true to his words. But nobody in the team is dumb so they obviously put the pieces together and conclude that Skye was related to the earthquakes, that she's the one causing them.
Skye expects them to lock her away, to be scared of her, but they don't. Instead they try to help her figure out what triggered the earthquakes so that she can find a way to control them. FitzSimmons found out that her powers are strongly connected to her emotions.
With time she manages to get a hold of her powers and even managed to use them on some missions. But there were some things that could still set her off. That's why since then she decided to keep her distance from Ward.
Her feelings for him had been slowly intensifying since they had talked things through and she was afraid that if anything happened between her and Ward she would lose the little control she had over her powers.
But despite keeping her distance from him her feelings never changed, that's why Skye was finding it hard to focus on her work. Because every time she looked over at him she just wanted to cross the distance between them and kiss him senseless. But she knew she couldn't risk losing control and hurting people so she looked back at her computer and tried to focus on her work.
However she was once again stopped from doing so by Coulson walking into the room.
"Mission briefing in ten." He said before walking out of the room in a hurry.
Skye putted her laptop aside accepting that she wouldn't be able to get any work done that for the rest of the day and got up walking out of the lounge and into the conference room where almost everybody already was gathered. They waited until everybody was there and then Coulson started briefing.
"An agent was kidnapped from her safe house a week ago. We went there to see if we could recruit her back but she wasn't there. There were signs of what appears to be a fight. We know she was loyal to Shield and she would never willingly work for Hydra. But they have other ways of getting people to work for them."
"You mean brainwashing?" Ward asked.
Coulson nodded at that "We don't know if they were successful or not in brainwashing her though."
"So we don't know what we're walking into." May finished.
Coulson nodded once again.
"But if Whitehall is dead then the brainwashing is ineffective, right?" Simmons asked.
"We don't know." Coulson answered. "All we know is that someone took over and Hydra is still running. We managed to get the location of where they kept our agent but we don't have much more than that."
"So we're going in blind." Bobbi said.
"It wouldn't hurt to try and find out a little more about it." He said looking pointedly at Bobbi.
"I'll see what I can do." She answered, understanding what he was referring to, before walking out the door going to Vault D where Bakshi was imprisoned.
The rest of the team stayed in the conference room waiting to hear the rest of Coulson's orders
"We're going to break into the compound so we'll need the entire team on this mission. Skye and Ward will be in charge of getting to the agent and assess the situation… It's important that we get her out of there alive. Not only does she have intel on Hydra, but it's also our job to help a fellow agent out."
Skye and Ward nodded at that and Coulson took that as his cue to continue.
"May and I will try to get to whoever is in charge and take them down and Bobbi, Mack, Trip and Hunter are in charge of clearing the place up, FitzSimmons will stay on the van running comms."
They all just nodded in understanding and then cleared out of the room, going they separate ways to prepare for the mission.
Skye was in the armory gearing up when Ward walked in and starting to gear up himself.
"Do you think we'll get to her in time?" Skye asked after a few minutes breaking the silence between them.
"I don't know." He answered truthfully "But even if we don't, we'll do all that we can to help her."
"I can't imagine what that must be like. Forgetting everything about yourself. Following someone blindly without even knowing why you're doing, just that you have to."
"I know." He said "Don't worry, we'll get to her and then we'll help her."
"Let's hope so."
"Hey." He said putting a hand on her arm in a comforting manner. "You don't have to worry about anything going wrong, I've got your back, OK?"
Skye softened a little at that and nodded saying "And I've got yours." Before walking out of the room leaving Ward to finish gearing up by himself.
Breaking into the compound wasn't hard to do and soon Skye and Ward where navigating through the halls taking out any agents that came in their way until they came across the agent in question.
"Agents 33, we're here to help you." Ward said, pointing his ICER at her in case he needed to take her out.
"I don't need your help." She said before lunging at them.
Ward and Skye simply tried to block her mover knowing they couldn't take her out. After a while Ward managed to knock her out but before they could get out of the building with the agent, more Hydra agents got in their way making it impossible for them to get out of there.
"I got this. Just get her out of here." Skye said moving to face the agents.
"Skye..." Ward started to protest but she stopped him from doing so.
"Ward, I got this! Just go!"
Ward reluctantly got out of the building with the unconscious agent in his arms and, thankfully didn't find any more agents, and moved to the van where Fitz, Simmons and Mack were.
""Is she..." Jemma started when he laid the agent down.
"She's unconscious." He finished for her understanding her question. "Hydra managed to brainwash her so I had no knock her out. Now I need to go help Skye." He said and he was once again out of the van moving inside the building only to see Coulson, May, Bobbi, Hunter and Trip running out of it.
"What's going on?" Ward asked alarmed, stopping in front of them.
"It was a trap. The building is set to blow up, we need to get out of here. Did you and Skye get agent 33?" Coulson asked.
"What!? Skye is still in the building, we need to get her." Ward said running to get back inside.
But before he could get there the compound blew up making the ground beneath them shake.
"Skye!" Ward screamed trying to run to the building once again but he was stopped from doing so by Coulson grabbing his arm.
"Ward, you can't go in there." Coulson told him calmly.
"What!? Are you insane!? Skye is in there. We need to get her. We need to help her." Ward said looking in at Coulson like he had gone insane.
"Ward, the building is being consumed by the flames. There's no way she..."
"No!" he interrupted him, tears starting to wheel up in his eyes "It can't be..."
"I know." Coulson said also on the verge of tears while Ward looked helplessly at the building.
"We have to go." May spoke up in a sad tone.
Coulson nodded and they all reluctantly moved back to the van still not believing Skye was gone.
"We heard an explosion, what happened?" Simmons asked when they were all inside the van only then realizing that Skye wasn't with them and asked "Where is Skye?"
Coulson looked at her sadly and explained "It was a trap. The compound was set up to blow up, Skye was still in there when it happened. I'm sorry Simmons."
"What!? No, it can't be, that can't be true." Simmons said and she started crying.
"I'm so sorry Simmons." Coulson said again, embracing the younger agent and letting his own tears fall for the girl he had always viewed as a daughter.
Skye had finally managed to knock the last agent down and was finally moving out of the compound to meet with Ward and FitzSimmons in the van when she was stopped by more agents on her way.
"Damn it!" She cursed before lunging into action, fighting the Hydra agents with everything that she got to take them down.
She had managed to take two of them down but when she was about to go for the third guy she felt something hit her on the back of the head making her go down and lose consciousness.
The last thing she was aware of was someone lifting her up and carrying her, she supposed, out of the building and then she fell under.