A/N: My first Skye centric fic, with a little Fitz and Simmons in it 'cause I love them.
Spoilers: For episode 2x14 Love in the Time of Hydra.
Disclaimer: I know who I am at my core, and I also know that I don't own the rights to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
When she'd first met them they were hard to tell apart, you couldn't see where one started and the other ended. Now they couldn't be more different. They were constantly fighting over everything, that was when they weren't busy avoiding each other like the plague.
Right at this moment they were arguing about her. And it made her tremble, literally, or she made everything else tremble - that was probably a more apt description.
She might not be the reason Fitz and Simmons where this way with each other now, she didn't blame Shield or Hydra or even her father (that much), she blamed herself, for wanting answers to questions that she hadn't been ready for. She'd been so naïve thinking superpowers were cool, they weren't, they were a burden, one that she didn't particularly want to be hauling around.
They had all changed, she more radical than the others. But it made her sad and angry that she was a contributing factor in Fitz and Simmons ongoing spat. And that's what made her quake. Her emotions were running haywire, even when she thought she was controlling them, she wasn't. She was repressing, pushing the problem away and in effect making it a much bigger issue. She no longer knew herself. Knew what she was capable of. Was Coulson right? Was she really the same person at the core even though she was different now? Enhanced.
She felt like herself… mostly. It was only when she lost control that she felt different – afraid, for herself and everyone around her. But she couldn't bottle it all up forever that would have catastrophic consequences. She needed to relearn all the basics, who she was now, starting all the way from the bottom and working her way up to the top. She knew that though they weren't always on the same page she had the support of her friends. And with their help she would find a way, she would beat this thing. She just hoped that with time they too would find a way to look past their differences and once again appreciate who they were at their respective cores.
A/N: Jumping around in time a bit, I know the Coulson core talk was after the FitzSimmons argument, regardless, I hope it still makes sense.
Not sure if I'm able to write Skye properly. I'm better at FitzSimmons. But this piece just wanted to be written.