Chapter Two (Questions)
Skye rushed through the woods away from the Bus. She only had a small backpack with her that only held a few little things that she was able to grab before leaving the team. But it was the bare essentials.
The message she had received had frightened her greatly. Somebody was hunting her down, and she had no clue who it could be. The one thing that bothered her was why. Why did this person, or whoever, want her? Was she really that important?
She had left the Bus to protect her teammates. If there really were armed men after her, she didn't want the team getting caught in the crossfire. She didn't need that at all.
But how would she hide? Whoever this person was could apparently she her wherever she could go. There was nowhere she could hide, she just had to keep on running and never stop.
"Any luck?" Coulson asked frantically, looking at Fitz who was typing away furiously on a computer. "Have you found anything at all?"
"No." Fitz replied. "The backtrace cannot be completed. The message comes from an extremely encrypted origin point that's hard to pinpoint." he explained. "Skye probably could do this, but I'm not the hacker type. I'm an engineer."
Coulson sighed, "Just keep trying, Leo." Hopefully there is something that we can find." Coulson walked away from the engineer and noticed that Ward was standing in the corner of the Holocom room, watching everything.
"Grant, are you ok?" Coulson asked, looking at the lone agent.
"Yeah, I'm ok." Ward replied kind of numbly. "It's just that I would never imagine that someone would want to capture Skye."
"Me too." Coulson responded. "I just want to know who this person is and why they want her." All of it doesn't go together, something's missing."
Ward gulped, "But who could it be?" he asked. "Who could possibly want her? What has she done?"
"Nothing." Coulson stated. "But hopefully whoever this person is we can deal with easily. Somebody that we can easily capture." he continued. "But I don't know who we are dealing with here, so we have to be extremely cautious in searching for Skye."
"But why would somebody want Skye?" Ward asked. "What do they want from her?" Ward asked.
Coulson shook his head, "I don't know."
May came into Coulson's office as soon as he had sat down. He looked up, "Melinda, what's the matter?" he asked.
"Phil, I've been thinking." May said, standing in front of Coulson's desk.
Coulson leaned forward in his seat, "About what? What is it?" he asked.
"About why she was messaged, why she is being hunted down." May replied.
"Hmmm?"
"Remember what that agent said about Skye back in Mexico?" she asked. "That she was being pursued as a small child?"
"Yes," Coulson replied. "And that a whole Chinese village and a SHIELD team was massacred protecting her. Then SHIELD placed her in the modified foster system and kept her moving to keep her away from the pursuers." he answered. "What about it?"
May sighed, "What if the pursuers have come back and she is being hunted down by them again because of who she is?"
Coulson leaned forward even more, "And you're saying that Skye was taken because of her 084 status?"
"Yes I am."
"And that she was messaged by those same pursuers from when she was little?"
"Yes."
"Damn. We don't even know who those people were." Coulson sighed. "At least now we probably have a motive. But how do we tell Fitzsimmons and Ward all of this?" he asked.
May turned towards the door, "That's something that you have to figure out yourself, Phil."
Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. The team continues to search for a reason why Skye was messaged. May thinks of a reason why, Skye's 084 status. Is this it? Can they find Skye in time? Marvel's Agents of SHIELD will return in a chapter. Keep reading and please review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.
