A/N: As promised, the second chapter. Hope you enjoy reading, feedbacks will be warmly welcomed!

Skye wakes up with a jolt. She is breathing heavily and instead of feeling well rested, she feels tired despite the fact that she had just woken up from a 10-hour sleep. This is nothing new to her though. She knows that taking sleeping pills will not help her be well rested, but she needed it. The nightmares kept on coming and it is all because these nightmares are about a certain doctor. That is why she needed them to stop.

She started taking it 10 days after that night. If she won't, she knows she'll go insane. She can't sleep properly anymore. If it happens that she fell asleep, it will be filled with nightmares about Jemma being sucked by the monolith. Bobbi introduced the pills to her because the tall blonde knows that lack of sleep is not good for her health, physically and mentally.

Skye sighs. Every time she wakes up, she wishes that everything were just an elaborate nightmare. But no, it is very real.

It has been a month since the incident.

A month since she last saw Jemma.

A month since she last felt happy.

A month since she last felt alive.

So she sits up and changes into yoga pants, sports bra and a thin shirt. She will just exhaust herself in the gym again.


Bobbi is always there for her. She takes care of her so she doesn't hurt herself more that she already did. The tall blonde is the one who suggested to her to go out of her room and do other things. Coulson decided that Skye needs a break from everything that happened, for her to mourn and to break, and to pick and put herself back up again whenever she's ready.

So she decided to tire herself out in the gym. She practically lived there. After two weeks of moping in her room, Bobbi finally convinced her to do anything aside from curling up in a ball in her bed. Nowadays, she wears herself out from physical activities until she can't move anymore. Food has been brought down to her by one of her friends and sometimes even Coulson.

Until they find Jemma, she will stay this way.


"It has been a month sir, with all due respect, we need to get Skye out of here. Give her a mission away from here. Introduce her to a new environment. This is not healthy for her" Bobbi argued as she talks to Coulson in his office.

They've been informed about reports of Inhumans doing not so good things to a certain place in somewhere in Australia. Bobbi thinks that she can persuade Skye to go there with them. She thinks that it will be a good start for the girl to heal.

"Are you sure about this Bobbi?" Coulson asked while still thinking about the blonde haired agents' suggestion. "She is definitely fit physically, but mentally, I don't know. How can you be sure that she does not compromise this mission?"

"I'll take responsibility sir" the blonde answered with unwavering resolve. "This will help her, I know that this is hard for her, it is hard for us, but we need to move on. Our people are doing the best they can to study the Monolith. Let's help Skye by doing this, trust me Phil, if not as an agent but as a friend. Please" Bobbi pleaded.

Phil ponders about this argument, but what the hell, they need Skye and Jemma to come back. So he agrees.


After Skye decided to live everyday by wearing herself out, she stopped talking to anyone, even Bobbi. It is a good day when Skye answers them with a sentence. After all that happened, she can't blame the girl. She is mourning for her loss, and so are they.

Bobbi doesn't know how to persuade Skye, so imagine her reaction when Skye answered her and agreed to the mission.


Skye together with Bobbi and Hunter had a silent ride in one of Coulson's jets until they reached their destination. A forest filled place in the wilderness of Australia where few tribes are living in. Their informant once he arrived told them that he crossed paths with these tribes some time ago and said that it is lead with a person with two guards, all having super human abilities. The leader is said to have descended once from the sky and the tribesmen started worshipping them because of the supernatural occurrence. Telekinesis.

"I will give you this key to the cabin near the forest close to the nearest town and also close to the tribe without them noticing. So you can observe and devise a plan" their informant, Sacho, said to them after telling his knowledge about the mission.

"Thank you Sacho, take care" Hunter said.

With that, Sacho left and they used camouflage mode for their jet to be hidden and went to the said cabin. They will stay there for a few weeks to observe and devise a plan for the Inhuman tyrant.

Their trip was short until they saw a clearing that showed a cabin big enough to accommodate them three. Bobbi tries to engage Skye in a conversation and she is delighted to have a few responses back.

"Skye, there are two rooms, feel free to choose the room facing the forest, it can be calming" Hunter suggested and he is rewarded with a nod.

Bobbi smiled at Skye's response. This is a good sign.


Jemma.

She was sucked inside the monolith where she ended up slowly deteriorating in a dark sandy place. Her skin looks like it is being burned slowly, her burn scars increases in size until it swallowed her whole body. She screams. A scream of pain and agony. A scream of helplessness.

"Jemma!" Skye screams as she was woken up from her nightmare.

The noise probably woke up the other two people in the cabin and seconds later, they came bursting in Skye's room, guns at the ready. It should be a pretty hilarious sight at the moment considering Hunter is in a shooting stance wearing boxer shorts and a gray shirt and Bobbi is in the same alert stance while wearing pink pajama bottoms and a black tank top. She could have laughed at this, but she can't. Her nightmare, her worry still flashed in her mind. Jemma dying. Jemma screaming. Jemma being helpless.

"Are you alright Skye?" Bobbi asked, lowering her gun after she made sure that there is no threat. She sat beside the raven-haired girl as she patted her shoulder in a comforting manner.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm okay. It's just a nightmare, sorry if I woke you up both" Skye said still looking disheveled.

"Hey, it's okay Skye" Bobbi said "We're going to save Jemma"

After all those nights being with Skye, Bobbi already knows what lurks in Skye's nightmares.

"Yeah, of course, I'm sorry. I just forgot my pills" Skye said closing her eyes again.

"We're here for you Skye, we are worried too, but all we can do is hope and pray that Jemma is okay. SHIELD is working on the monolith" Bobbi said as hunter left the room.

"Yeah, I know, but it's been a month Bob, and all those nightmares are not helping either" Skye said leaning into Bobbi's comforting touch.

Since Jemma's disappearance, Skye always dreams about different situations about what happens after Jemma was sucked by the monolith. And each situation is not pleasant at all.

"Be strong Skye" Bobbi said as she cradled the broken girl and felt her nod against her chest.

She knows that it is not easy. But they will help each other. And they will get Jemma back.

Be strong Skye. Be strong.


After a few days of staying in the cabin, Skye decided to explore the surrounding forest. Hunter and Bobbi assured her that it is okay for her to take this mission as a vacation because they are still planning. Hunter and Bobbi are still scouting the area and gathering information around the nearest town, so that they can devise a plan after knowing more about the Inhumans in there.

The two always go after they had breakfast and Skye was left to her own devices until they got back. Skye took this opportunity to go deeper into the wilderness where she luckily found a clearing with a small waterfall and a pond at its bottom. The pond is big enough to bathe in but small enough to consider it dangerous.

Every day, after Hunter and Bobbi left, she gathers enough bread and fruits for her to eat until sundown and she needed to go back to their cabin. All day, she just enjoys the silence that envelops the clearing and sometimes she watches some woodland creatures as they found their way into the pond. Sometime she naps and sometimes she meditates remembering the things Agent May taught her about meditation.

After a week of her daily leisure walks to her clearing, she noticed that her nightmares are slowly disappearing and dreamless sleeps replaced it. That is how she knew that Bobbi's idea is good for her. She will be strong for Jemma. She will keep on hoping that one day they will see her again.

A/N2: Thoughts?