AOS SOULMATES Shorts
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and in a world where the first words your soulmate says to you are written on your skin somewhere there are some strange couples and even stranger meetings. These are the ones I think of. AU OOC Femslash and Slash)
"Time. Can you override this?" Skye asked completely done with the woman that had just opened the door to her bunk. Not that most of her team could blame her, Hand did send two of their members on a suicide mission after all.
"What do you think you're doing?" Victoria Hand demanded eyes narrowed at the hacker and not registering what the girl had said although May had by the ways her eyes widened slightly.
"Trying to find Coulson. Vanchat's our best bet and if I can trace his financials I can follow the money trail and hack into them." Skye said not looking phased in the slightest by the womans words.
"I didn't take you for a sadist and masochist Victoria." May said about an hour after they had gotten Skye off of the plane and May had gotten the senior agent alone.
"What do you mean?" Victoria asked startled as she looked at the smaller woman who had once been her S.O. In a flash May had grabbed Victoria's arm and pushed down her jacket sleeve to expose the words on her arm, standing out against her slightly tanned but still pale skin.
"Did you even hear what Skye said to you when you opened the door?" May asked as Victoria jerked backwards on reflex at the sudden action and grab.
"What does that have to do…no…no way." Victoria's eyes widened as she caught onto what May was implying, May just went over to the computer in the room and brought up the video footage from Skye's bunk.
"Time. Can you over ride this?" Victoria was completely frozen, staring wide eyed at the screen with her left hand gripping her right arm where her words were hidden.
"She's…it's her. I…I've been waiting twenty five years for her and…I didn't even notice." Victoria backed into the wall behind her, slipping down it as she stared at the onscreen image of the hacker that had unknowingly spoken her words.
"She didn't either by the looks of it. Wait twenty Five?" May asked turning to Victoria sharply after she registered what number the woman had said.
"Yes. I got my mark on July 2nd 1988. Why?" Victoria asked blinking at May who gave a small smile at that.
"Skye will be happy to hear that. She never knew when she was born." May said making Victoria look shocked.
"She's a former foster kid Tori, like Clint, only she lived in a van instead of joining a circus." May explained gently making Victoria wince. She had heard from Clint about how bad some foster homes could be.
"I…I want to talk to her. I need to talk to her May." Victoria said looking up at May almost pleadingly from behind her rimmed glasses. She had been waiting twenty five years to meet the person who would utter her words and now when she had she kicked the girl off of the BUS, which was probably the closest thing she has to a home.
"Then when she calls to tell us she found Coulson go with us." May said simply making Victoria blink for a second.
"You played me…and yet I can't find it in me to be upset." Victoria said standing and composing herself as she stared at the image of her other half. She was going to see her soon and then…then she'd learn how things would go between them.
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"I thought all the protocol crap mattered to you?" Skye asked staring at Victoria after Coulson removed her bracelet but the older woman was still on the BUS. Skye only vaguely saw May ushering everyone out of the room with glares and pointed looks.
"Not as much as you do." Victoria said softly, sitting on the couch and motioning for Skye to sit as well. Skye stubbornly remained standing.
"Do you remember what you said to me when I opened the door to your bunk earlier before you were kicked off the plane?" Victoria asked making Skye blink for a minute as she thought about it.
"I asked you to override the anti-tech bracelet." Skye said slowly and making Victoria smile slightly.
"Right and I asked you what you thought you were doing." Victoria said watching the girl closely for any sign of recognition, frowning slightly when the girl gave none.
"Okay and?" Skye asked confused.
"Skye…what do you know about soul-marks?" Victoria asked gently making the girl blink for a moment.
"Only that it's some words written on a persons skin. I grew up in the foster system around nuns and they never taught us about them. They never told me what mine were and I couldn't read my words even if I could see them. Why?" Skye asked shrugging slightly while Victoria rolled up her jacket sleeve and showed the girl her arm.
"Can you override this? I…those are my words to you?" Skye asked reading the words printed in messy scribbles on the skin and looking up at Victoria wide eyed.
"Yeah. They appeared on the 2nd of July, year 1988. I've been waiting to meet you for twenty five years. May…May I see my words to you?" Victoria asked glancing away almost shyly, this was way out of her depth after all, and making Skye frown but nod.
"I…I suppose it's only fair but I doubt they're readable." Skye said standing and removing her shirt so that she bared her back to Victoria. Victoria felt an icy hot rage fill her veins at the sight of the scars littering Skye's back, especially over her words which as she said were barely readable.
"I can only read the word doing but that is my handwriting. I'll kill whoever did this to you." Victoria said gently tracing the one words that was actually readable through the scars and making Skye shudder slightly. Skye glanced at the woman who was standing behind her over her shoulders worriedly, wondering if the woman wanted her truly or thought they were merely stuck together. Skye's thoughts froze when she met the gentle and warm gaze behind those dark rimmed glasses. Victoria looked nothing like she had at the HUB or even earlier on the BUS when they were rescuing Coulson. She looked warm, soft…she looked happy to see Skye. It was…nice. Strange…but nice.
"Even with your scars, you're still the most beautiful woman I've ever met. The only way you'll be rid of me is if I die or you don't want me anymore. I swear." Victoria said smiling softly down at Skye who looked shocked and a bit touched at her promise.
"I…I'm not good with emotions other than bad ones so…I don't know what I'm doing. If…If you don't mind being patient or teaching me…then I don't mind seeing where this will go." Skye said glancing at the floor before looking up at Victoria unsurely.
"Oh my Petit ciel. I'll be here every step of the way. Help you with anything you need. I promise." Victoria said kissing the top of Skye's head before there was a crash by the stairs. Skye slipped her shirt back on quickly and had a gun in her hands that she lifted off of Victoria in an instant, turned so that her back was pressed to Victoria's side and her gun was aimed at the disturbance.
Victoria for her part had tensed and wrapped one arm around Skye protectively as she drew a second gun she had hidden on her person and had it aimed at the center of the disturbance as fast as Skye had.
"Soulmates? You're soulmates?" Ward demanded wide eyed from where he was at the bottom of the stairs, having fallen in his shock apparently. Skye sighed and glared at the specialist, clicking the safety of her pilfered gun on.
"Damnitt Robot. Way to ruin the mood."