Okay, I know there are a lot of people that are out there and think that Coulson and Skye are a thing, not going to be that kind of story. I really don't like the whole Skye/ Daisy thing, I thought that she had to be connected to Coulson, in some way. Then I saw a few interviews with the cast, and it hit me, Coulson treated her like she was his kid or some thing, the fear you see when she's hurt or in danger. So I decided that if our dear Wheadons refused to fix this, then it was up to us fans. Yes I know that you have to figure out a way for it to all fit in with the MCU, but there are a few ways around that, and I don't have an older brother to kibitz.
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Coulson said that he would help her, he told her that he would do what ever he could to help her find her parents. She knew he was holding something back, but was it something that had to do with him or May, or both. Skye was scared, she was scared that it would turn out that her family, the biological one, were people that were bad, people that hurt people.
"We have to say some thing, look at her, she's lost, she has no idea where she comes from, she needs us."
"We can not be that for her, we are her supervisors, no matter what, we have to keep her safe, that is our only job right now."
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As soon as he saw her, his heart had skipped a beat, he knew that he was looking at some one that was going to have a hugh impact on his life. Here was this young woman that blew him away with what she could do as a hacker, and she had a way about her that was familiar to him, but in a way that he couldn't put his finger on. When he found out that she was looking for her family, he felt for her, wanted to help her as much as he could, so that she could have her questions answered.
As he dug deeper into the information that she had, he started to discover that there was way more then even she knew, more then even he would find.
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Skye had been gone for six months, and it was killing Coulson. They could all see it, the members of his immediate team, they knew the signs. Coulson was hardly sleeping, getting him to eat was like pulling the tooth of the Hulk, and the longer she was gone the worse he was getting.
"May, this has to stop, he is going to get himself killed or worse," Mac told May after the latest incident, "It was worse this time, he caught a glimps of her, do you have any idea what that did for him?"
"I know, he was devastated," May replied, "he feels like with everything that happened to her was his fault, that he failed her."
"That's what I mean, he is going to get himself killed trying to prove to Daisy that he's still there for her," Mack said.
"Mack, I get it, you were her partner, but you have to understand, to Coulson, letting her down, letting her put herself in danger, to him that was like putting his own child in the line of fire," May said, "When we found her, it was like a piece of him that died in the battle of New York came back to him, for those of us that knew him before the incident, he came back a different man. When he connected with Skye, it was like the man he was before. You know statistically, kids that grow up like Skye have attachment issues, some just can't get attached, then there are others that attach too easily. With Skye she just sort of clicked with Coulson, it took a little time with the rest of us, with him it was right off the bat. When Cal nearly beat him to death, it wasn't because he was in his way, it was because he was jealous, jealous of the relationship that Coulson had with Skye, he saw Coulson as a threat to his own relationship to her, and he was right to see that threat."
"That's why he has to be pulled off this, he's going to get himself or someone else killed," said Mack.
"That's why I can't, Mack any other agent wouldn't care that she is actually helping people, any other agent would just see her as a threat to be taken out, not the asset that she is, the person that she is," May explained, "That girl means the world to him, she is the one person that he keeps fighting for, we take him off this and it will kill him."
"Okay, I get it, Daisy's family, and I will back him all the way, but we have to get some help, these guys were working with aren't up to the task, we need Hunter and Bobbie back."
"I've been working on that, I have an asset that is making contact with them as we speak," May said.
"Agent May, please report to medical," Simmons' voice came over the intercom.
"Simmons, what's going on?" May asked over her comms.
"It's agent Coulson, it's his heart,"
"Jemma, what's going on?" Mack asked.
"He's been under too much stress, the lack of sleep combined with malnutrition, I know he hasn't been eating," Jemma started, "his heart was already damaged, the Cree blood in his system healed him for a time, but now.. he's put himself through too much, Agent Coulson is dieing, and unless we find a doner, or a replacement, he will be dead in a matter of days."
"Hunter, she needs to know this, use that guilt to bring her home."
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"This is going to work," Hunter said, as he hung onto cliff, 500 feet in the air.
"You do realize that all we are trying to do is get her attention, not get our selves killed," Bobbi replied over the comms that they were using.
"It's going to work, she was last seen less then five miles away, we are being picked up by every closed circuit camara in the area, she will show up."
"You better hope she does, because I hate planing funerals," Bobbi said, "Heads up, there is someone headed our way, look like it could be our girl."
"What cha doing Hunter?" Daisy asked.
"Oh, Hi Daisy, nothing really, just hanging around." Hunter replied.
"Shield didn't send you?" Daisy asked.
"Does it look like they sent me, I was doing a base jump, the wind caught my parachute and I ended up here," Hunter explained, hoping that the cover would hold.
"Where's Bobbi, she waiting for you some place?"
"Yeah, at home, where you should be Daisy, he's dieing," Hunter said, as he pulled on the rope that was holding him to the cliff face, "Coulson only has a couple of days, I know you think that you'll hurt him, but I also know that you couldn't live with your self if you didn't have these last few days with him."
"I thought you said that S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't send you, why should I trust you Hunter, you could be pulling me in just so you can lock me up," Daisy said, as she pulled back, almost out of reach of Hunter.
"Take my comm, your patched in to Simmons, if you won't believe me, maybe you'll believe her," Hunter said, taking his ear piece out.
"Daisy, you have to come back, he's dieing, he keeps asking for you, he just wants to see you again, that's all we're trying to do," Simmons said.
Daisy could hear Coulson begging for her in the back ground, he sounded weak, and it scarred her to death.
"I'm coming in, but I have some rules, I want to see him, but you are going to have to put him in a pod, the last thing I want to do is hurt him or anyone else, second I want you to look into anything and everything that can save his life short of what was done for him after New York, he's been through enough, if it comes down to it, you will use my blood to help," Daisy said, " and one more thing, call me Skye, he never did like Daisy."
"We already have him in a pod, it's the best way to moniter his condition, we are doing everything we can to save his life, he did ask that we not use your blood, not because he doesn't think it won't work, but because if it doesn't work, he doesn't want you to blame yourself," May said over the comm.
"Um, I really think we should be having this conversation on the ground don't you?" said Hunter asked.
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As soon as Hunter, Bobbi, and Skye arrived at headquarters, Skye headed straight to the pod where Jemma ws monitoring Coulson. She found May sitting with him talking quietly.
"Skye's here Phil, we got her here," May said softly, when she realized they were being watched.
"If I had known that all it took was to end up on my death bed to get you back here, I would have done it a long time ago, Angel Eyes," Coulson said, giving Skye a start, a flash of a nightmare she had had years before.
"You've never called me that before, Angel Eye's that's a new one," Skye said, as she squeezed his hand.
"Just seemed to fit, Skye I'm sorry, for everything you have had to go thru, with your parents, with Grant, with Lincoln, I am so sorry Skye for everything," Coulson said.
"It wasn't your fault AC, none of it was your fault," Skye said, as tears welled up in her eyes and began to fall.
"It is my fault, if I had not brought you in, if I had not made you an agent, you would have been safe, you wouldn't have been shot, you wouldn't have met Grant, and maybe Lincoln would still be alive," he explained.
"If you hadn't bought me in, I wouldn't have a family, people that I care about, I wouldn't have you, and I don't regret that for a minute, AC you may not be my Dad biologically, but in every other way you have stepped in and taken that roll, and it's the best thing that ever happened in my life," Skye said, "You have done more for me then anyone, you helped me find myself, you have been there for me thru all of it, you tried to protect me from the ugly side of this life, yes you failed in that, but you were with me thru all of it, and I can never repay you for that."
"Oh, I have missed these talks," Coulson said tiredly.
"I should go, you need your rest," Skye said, as she started to get up.
"Please don't let me wake-up and find out that this is a dream," Coulson said, as he gripped her hand.
"I'm not going any where, I'll still be here when you wake-up," Skye said, as she squeezed his hand.
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Over the next few hours, Skye stayed with Coulson, they talked when he would wake, and she would pace when he slept, trying to keep from loosing it at the thought of loosing him. Finally after nearly 12 hours, it was too much, Skye had been turning her powers inward so she wouldn't hurt any of the people that she cared about, at that same time, Coulson flat lined. It wasn't until they were moving Coulson to put him on the bypass machine, that Jemma and the others found Skye passed out on the floor. Skye had been holding things in so much that she had blood leaking from her heart into the sack of tissue that surrounds it.
"They are both critical, we have to drain the blood that is in the pericardium on Skye, and we have to get Agent Coulson onto the by-pass machine, and I can't do both, and I have to or they are going to die," Simmons said, as she started to panic.
"Take a breath, get Coulson on the by-pass, while your doing that you can walk me thru draining Skye's pericardium , we can do this," May said calmly.
"That's the problem, I can't walk you thru it," Simmons said.
"Fine, then we get another doctor in here," May said, as the medical units doors opened.
"Ask and yea shall received, well not me but the big guy is on his way, I am here to get Agent's biostats so that I can modify an arc reactor for him, then the big guy and I have a bone to pick with him and Fury, but that can wait until we save his life," said Tony Stark, as he came into the med unit.
"Stark, you aren't suppose to know that he's alive, hell when he wakes-up and finds out what you did for him, he will launch a search for who called you and told you," said May, as she helped transfer Skye from a gurney.
"I'd like to see him try, she might not like it much," Tony said, as he walked over to Fitz where he was downloading the information that Stark needed.
"What do you need me to do?" Bruce Banner asked, as he and Maria Hill walked in.
"She has fluid in her pericardium , we need to drain it and find out where it's coming from, but once it's drained and she's stabilized, you have to move her into one of our pods," Simmons started explaining, as she prepared to start the surgery on Coulson.
"Why?" Banner asked, curious as to why this apparently healthy young woman, would A be leaking blood into her pericardium , and B would need to be in one of the pods he himself had designed for mutant containment.
"She's the mutant known as Quake, and she is basically Coulson's daughter, if he wakes-up and finds out she died, he will rip the arc reactor that Mr. Stark is working so hard on, out of his chest," May said, "When her emotions get the better of her, she causes earthquakes, we have been looking for her for over six months now, when Phil collapsed, we had a team that was able to get word to her, so she came home."
"Melinda, it's okay, we understand, and I'm sorry but this was the only way to help him, because of the Kree blood in his system, we have no idea what it would do with a transplant, this is the only way to save him," Maria said.
"Okay people, lets move, you said that she turns her powers on herself when she's trying to not hurt somebody else, how has it manifested in the past, I need access to her Biostats now," Bruce said, as he and a couple of the techs moved Skye, followed by Fitz.
"She vibrates, in the past she has caused bruising, and broken bones, under normal circumstances she can control it, but right now she's so worried about hurting someone else she's holding her powers in, and since she is more powerful now, the damage could be much worse," Fitz explained, as he pulled up Skye's information on the wall of the pod.
"Can you get me x-rays and any current scans of her, lets see what kind of damage she's done to herself," Bruce said.
"These are current, we have scanners and x-rays built in, your pod design works great for us, we use them so that when we find new mutants, people that are new to their powers, so that they can learn to either control their powers, or if we have to isolate them for their own safety or ours."
"These aren't hers, these are a mans, you sure you got the correct information transfered?"
"Of course I did, one moment, sorry it's a glitch, when we've had to use this program on one of our agents in the past we always seem to get Skye's stats mixed in, here she is, that must have been Agent Coulson's, that's strange..., Agent May, Agent May you need to get in here!"
"What is it Fitz?"asked May as she came in followed by Agent Hill.
"Unless you have a PHD or some related degree, could you please step out and give us some room to work."
"Of course Doctor Banner our apologies," Agent Hill said.
"Agent May, how sure are we that Cal Johnson and Jaiying are Skye's parents?" Fitz asked.
"As sure as we could be, I'm not sure Jemma did any DNA testing, I doubt there was time, we just assumed they were, why?"
"Because she seems to have set-up a program that connects her information to other agents, it looks like she was looking for a genetic match, she set it up to pull her information when ever her match was pulled, she has a paternal match in the system, her father is an agent," Fitz said.
"What, who?" Agent May asked.
"It looks like Agent Coulson," Fitz said, as he pulled up the stats and DNA on his tablet to show the senior agents.
"I thought that was one of the first things he would have done when he brought her in, had her DNA run," Hill said.
"There was near really the time, and by the time there was, we just all assumed that the she was Daisy Johnson," May said.
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"Jarvis, pull up the stats on the thumb drive please, and where is Vision, I may need his help on this," Tony said, as he walked into his lab in Stark Tower.
"Sir there are two sets of Biostats on the thumb drive in question, an adult male approximately 45, and an adult female approximately 23, they are father and daughter, however there are some anomalies in the data," Jarvis said.
"The adult male please," Tony replied, "We'll check into the other later, first we have modify an arc reactor for Phil."
"Agent Phillip Coulson, reported dead after the Battle of New York, reinstated to duty with S.H.I.E.L.D. approximately 3 months later, he has Kree DNA markers in his blood, and according to this information, his heart is failing, the standard ARC will not be compatible."
"I know, that's why we are going to modify one, where as mine supplements my damaged heart, his will take on all of his coronary functions," Tony said, as Vision came into the lab.
"You asked to see me?"
"Yeah, I need you to go over so data, there are two DNA strands that have a paternal match, but Jarvis says that there is something strange about the child's DNA, do you think you could figure out why while I work on building a new heart for an old friend?" Tony asked.
"Of course Mr. Stark, from what I can see there is a definitive match, however the child is not of this earth."
"So you mean she's an alien, like Asguardian or some thing?"
"You misunderstand, she is from Earth, just no this one."
"You talking alternative universe type thing?"
"Yes, it would appear that the child is your friend's daughter, but she was brought here from another Earth, she has Kree DNA in her genetics as well, on the maternal side," Vision explained.
"Interesting , hay give me a hand with this, if I can get this right, he may never know that he has a daughter, from here or any other Earth."
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Between Tony, Vision, and Jarvis they were able to create an ARC that was able to replace Coulson's heart, and Vison assured Tony that the ARC would, barring injury or damage to the unit, give Coulson a long healthy life.
The Vision took a closer look at Skye's biological data and was able to advise Doctor Banner and Jemma in her care as well.
"She's responding well to the treatment, it should help her control her powers better, and prevent her from hurting herself," Jemma told May and Coulson, "It's going to take her some time to recover this time, she did quite a bit of damage to her bones, she has fractures in most of them, thought thankfully none of them were in her skull."
"What else were we able to find out about her real background," May asked, as she and Coulson sat waiting for the young woman to wake-up.
"Fitz, Hunter, and Mack were able to find the file on the protocal that was set-up to protect her, it was never made digital, and it took a bit of looking, but they were able to find the hard copy files in the basement here, they are bringing the boxes up now," Jemma explained.
"Have them bring it here, and have Sam and Billy bring us a couple of tables," Coulson said.
"Of course, Sir," Jemma said, as she left to make the arrangements.
"What are we going to tell her, she will be so confused and I wouldn't be surprised that she gets angry," May said.
"She might surprise you, she has such a capacity for forgiveness, it amazes me," Coulson said, from where he sat holding Skye's hand.
"She is well know for doing that," May said, smiling as she checked the I.V. settings.
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All Skye could feel at first was pain, it felt like it permeated her entire being, then she felt the warmth of the pain killer hit her system, giving her a sense of relief. As she slowly swam back to the world of the living, she could hear voices. She knew these voices, they made her feel safe, cared for and loved, but there was more to it, but she was unable to think beyond the moment.
"It's okay Skye, come back to us," Coulson said, noting that she was waking-up.
"Tian, you are safe and loved, please come back to us," May whispered in Skye's ear.
Skye let out a soft moan, letting them know that she could hear them.
"It's okay Skye, try not to move too much, you have fractures in most of your bones, while I greatly appreciate that you didn't bring the building down on us, you have done some major damage to your self."
"I thought I was the one trying to die here, not you," Coulson said, smiling at Skye as she opened her eyes.
"Did I hurt anybody?" Skye asked.
"Just yourself, do not scare me like that," Coulson said, as he leaned forward and kissed her forehead.
"Your okay, I was so worried, the last thing I remember, you were having problems breathing, I was going to go look for Simmons," Skye said.
"She foundyou collapsed on the floor when my heart stopped," Coulson said.
"How long?"
"That was almost a week ago, don't worry I'm good as new, better even to hear Stark talk," Coulson said,as he opened his shirt to show her the ARC that had replaced his heart.
"Bet he wasn't happy to know you weren't really dead," Skye said.
"That, my dear, is an understatement, and Fury is going to get an earfull from me and the others," Stark said as he walked in followed by Banner.
"How is the patiant doing?" Banner asked.
"Fine," Skye replied, as Coulson and May gave eachother knowing looks.
"When Skye says fine, she means that she is hurting but it's bearible," May explained.
"That's to be expected, you young lady are very lucky, we were able to find a treatment that should make it easier for you to control your powers, it's a derivitive of one that I have been working on for myself, and your friend Doctor Simmons says that it shows promise for some of the worse cases that your team have come across, people that have powers that hurt them and others but that they have no control over," Banner explained.
"What kind of control?" Skye asked.
"You've been keeping your powers under control by staying calm, if you get upset or angry they manifest, this treatment will let you feel, but also allow you to relax afterwords with out causing tremmers, it will help you disipate the power with out hurting your self or those around you."
"Why won't it work for you?"
"The other guy has been around for too long, besides I have fewer control issues, now that I have a constructive outlet for him," Banner explained.
"More like destructive, you do realize he pounded Loki into the floor of my home right?" Tony asked.
"I take it this was after I died, I think I would remember something like that," Coulson said.
"That was kind of why he did it, hell Coulson ever the big guy likes you," Natasha said, as she and Clint came in.
"Guess you two are pretty mad about all this too, what can I say, I should have told you as soon as I could, but by then you were all working so well together."
"Yeah well, you know she has to register now, the Sacovia accord is in effect for all of you," Tony said.
"See, and that is why I sided with Steve, I don't have to register because non-mutants can train to be as good as me, but because what she can do, which I think is way better, no one else can you think that she has to be controled," Clint said.
"I have to register too, and so does Coulson, it's becasue of the ARC's they are considered experimental," said Tony.
"Yeah, but you get taken off that list when the tech goes to the masses, the rest of us are on that list for life, and others can use that list to find mutants and experimenton them," said Bruce.
"Can you please take this argument somewhere else, we have a vew things to discus, and Skye doesn't need the stress right now," Coulson said.
"Hope you feel better soon kid, we can sure use you out there," Natasha said, as she guided the arguing men out.
"Is it really that bad, I heard that Steve Rogers and a few of the others didn't want to register, they got locked up," Skye said.
"They were, Fury got them out and they're based out of Wakanda now, their King refused to sign the accord," May explained.
"Skye, there is no easy way to say what I have to say to you right now, but I am going to try," Coulson started.
"I'll leave you two alone," May said, smiling as she left closing the door behind her.
"What is is AC, you aren't dieing anymore."
"No, but there something that we found out while you were sleeping," He satred, " Do you remember when I told you about where and how you were found?"
"Yeah, we're you able to find out who the agent was that died saving me from Cal?"
"Yes, yes we did, now before I say anything I have a question, how sure are you that Cal and Jaiying are your parents?"
"I'd say pretty sure, why?"
"Because when Banner was going over your information, he had to check your DNA, and when Stark was modifying my ARC he was going over mine with the help of the Vision. What they found just didn't make sence, there was some thing off about your DNA, not just the Kree part of it, but there was a phase veriance, one that only the Vision understood, Skye you aren't from this earth."
"What, what am I some sort of alien?" Skye asked, starting to think that Coulson was trying to pull her leg.
"No, you are from Earth, just not this one, you are from an alternit universe, one where the Sacovia accordwas signed in the 1960's, one where your real parents had to hide you, and they did, with the help of some friends. Things were fine for a few months, but then they had to get you out of there, so they came here."
"And ended up in that village where I was found in China, on the night Cal was on his rampage."
"Yes, as far as we can tell he killed his own daughter not recognizing her, there were three others with your father, your mother, and two other S.H.I.E.L.D agents, the body that the team found you with was your father."
"Okay, well who was he, does he have a double here?"
"Yes, yes he does, Skye you have to understand the body they found you with was almost unrecognizible, all they found was an agent's badge and figured that when they found the other bodies that a team had gone missing, back then there was no way to ID the mess that Cal left."
"What are you gettingat AC?"
"The body was mine, the me from your world."
"What?!"
"For all intent and purposes I am your father Skye."
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I realize leaving this hanging may upset some, but I plan on adding all the information about what happened during the week while Skye was recovering in another story. Hope you like this, and please review. I know there are grammer issues, and I think possibly some spelling ones as well, and I may re edit it later, but for now what do you think?