AN: Hi guys! I would like to thank you, you're awesome! I didn't expect that much of followers or favorites and even reviews to this one (not really well written) short prologue.
And also I'm sorry for the wait, but on the bright side AoS is coming back in a couple days yay!
I can only hope that you'll like this chapter as much as I liked writing it :]
Oh! And flashbacks will be in italics.
Disclaimer: I still don't own any of Marvel's characters, I'd love to, but sadly I'm not…
Chapter 1 – She wanted to leave us
Skye was now in S.H.I.E.L.D's medical facility, somewhere in Switzerland and probably the best doctors were fighting for her life.
Jemma couldn't bare this heavy silence that filled waiting room any longer. She had to get out of there. Her hands were still covered in Skye's blood. It made her remember girl's pale, lifeless face. For the first time in her life Jemma Simmons felt useless, hopeless and helpless, and it made her angry and sad at the same time. She had to get out of this room, this place just for a moment. Get out and be alone…
'Sir?' she broke silence. 'Can I please excuse myself and go back to Bus? Just for some short period. I need to change clothes as I still have Skye's…' Jemma couldn't finish that sentence. She just started sobbing and was quickly pulled in a hug by Fitz.
'Fitz go with her' Coulson ordered. 'Get back here when you're both ready.'
'Yes Sir' young Scot answered and led Simmons out.
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'Poor girl' Coulson sighed when Fitz-Simmons left waiting room.
There were still three of them. Agent May looking calm and collected as always, standing near window. Agent Ward nervously pacing around. Coulson himself was standing in the far corner; he again took his phone out of his pocket and dialed number.
'Hello? Yes, it's agent Philip Coulson. I'd like to speak with Director Fury immediately.'
"Director Fury is not available right now. Would you like to leave him a message, sir?"
'What do you mean he's not available? My agent got shot on a mission and right now she's fighting for her life! Where is he?' Coulson was getting irritated.
"I'm sorry sir, but that's classified information."
'Oh its okay, I'm sure I have clearance, I'm Level 8 Agent.'
"I'm sorry Agent Coulson, but you have to be at least Level 10 to know this information."
Coulson hung up confused, Level 10? He knew only two agents with that level clearance – Maria Hill and Natasha Romanoff. What another secret Fury was keeping from him? One thing was clear – he couldn't expect any help from him right now.
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When Fitz-Simmons got back to Bus Jemma immediately ran to bathroom. She locked herself there, stepped into shower and while water was running, she cried her heart out.
Leo of course heard her and as much as he wanted to get in there and comfort her, he hasn't done it. Fitz knew that that was what his friend needed at that moment. So he just sat on the couch because all he could do was wait.
After 20 long minutes filled with pain and sadness Jemma was finally ready to step out of the shower, change and get back to medical facility.
On her way out of her bunk she noticed something odd about Skye's bunk.
'Fitz!' she called. 'Come here, to Skye's bunk. Something's wrong about it.'
Leo came rushing to Skye's bunk. What he saw was indeed weird. Her bunk seemed…empty?
Then he spotted Jemma sitting on Skye's bed, shock registered on her face. Girl was grasping some pieces of paper in her hands.
'Skye…' she whispered quietly. 'She wanted to leave us.'
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'What's taking them so long?' Ward asked impatiently, still pacing nervously around the room.
'Ward calm down. They're doing what they can do to save Skye's life' May stated, calm and collected as always.
'What are you talking about? How can I be calm?' frustration heard in his voice. 'My trainee was shot! Twice! She's now fighting for her life and you're telling me to calm down?!' Grant knew that he didn't want to yell at May. It was happening all over again – rage form Berserker's Stuff building in him and speaking for him, but he just couldn't help it. And what was truly making him angry was a sense of helplessness. Grant again felt like his teenage self, when he couldn't protect his little brother from their elder brother. He failed to protect his little brother then and now he failed to protect his Rookie, his Skye.
'Agent Ward' Coulson got to him and put his hand on his shoulder. 'I know it's hard for you. Trust me when I say it's hard for all of us but if you can't deal with your emotions and stop yelling I will ask you to leave this room and get back when you will calm down.'
'I'm sorry Sir' he then looked at May. 'I'm sorry Agent May, it won't happen again.'
Ward plopped on a couch, exhausted both physically and emotionally. He just kept wondering when doctors will come to them and tell them how Skye is doing.
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'What?!' Fitz exclaimed wide-eyed. 'No…it can't be.'
'Yes Leo' Jemma was now sobbing. 'Her bunk is empty, only things left are those envelopes with our names written on them. What does it look like to you?'
'But…how…why?' Fitz was dumbfounded.
'I'm asking myself same question. Why would she want to leave us?' Jemma – the scientist was back. Right now she had a puzzle to solve and that's on what she concentrated, it was better to think about it than blame herself again. 'I mean something must have happened at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy…or maybe she was afraid of something…'
'Or maybe she just wanted to leave us…' Leo suggested. 'You know she was technically forced to join our team…'
'But I…I thought Skye and I were friends…' Jemma was again quieter. 'Why she hadn't told me anything…she didn't look like she was going to leave us…'
And then it hit Fitz. He remembered his conversation with Skye before she went into that building where Quinn was.
Skye and Fitz were first one to get to this big house where Cybertek delivered package for Quinn's people. When they were hiding, they spotted another car and Skye was almost 100 percent sure that she knew to whom that car belonged.
'Fitz we gotta do something! I'm betting my laptop that this car belongs to Quinn! And this means he's inside.'
'Yeah, he might be' Leo then quickly retrieved his tablet and checked car's license plates. 'Yupp, it's registered on him.'
'I have to get in there and stop him before he'll run away again. You'll stay here and wait for Coulson and the others' Skye said and then added with playful smile. 'Do some techy-science thing with cars so they won't be able to leave this place.'
Skye got up from her place and Leo not long after her. He put his hand on her shoulder and stopped her.
'No Skye! You can't go in there alone' he reasoned. 'We have to wait for Coulson and May and-'
Skye's expression turned serious 'Fitz I have to stop him! It's now or never' and with those words she ran and sneaked quickly into house while Leo sighed with surrender and started doing his "magic" on cars.
'It's now or never' her words rang in his head again.
'So that's what she meant…' he muttered quietly to himself.
He then got up, took Jemma's hand in his and pulled her from Skye's bed. 'Come on, we have to go. Maybe they know something new about Skye.'
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'She shouldn't be going in there alone' Ward again started to feel angry, he wanted to punch something.
'We know that Ward. But it was her own decision-' May started.
'No, it wasn't' suddenly Coulson interrupted angrily. 'It was stupid and reckless. She should've waited for backup.'
'I just don't get it' Ward spoke again. 'I mean, if we didn't take Quinn down this time…well sure it would be failure but we could catch him another time. Skye would track him again…'
'I don't think so Agent Ward' said Fitz now standing in the doorway with Simmons behind him.
'Skye wanted to leave us' said Simmons quietly.
'What?!' three senior agents asked at the same time.
'She wanted to leave us' Simmons repeated louder.
'Well it's just our assumption based on…' Leo started explaining.
'Fitz you know what we saw!' In Jemma's eyes again appeared tears, threatening to fall.
'What was it?' Coulson was concerned.
'Her bunk, Sir' Jemma started. 'It was empty, no clothes, no books, and no hula girl doll near her window. No nothing.'
Just when Jemma wanted to say another thing doctor appeared in the doorway.
Each member of the team quickly surrounded doctor.
'How is she?' asked Coulson.
'Well we stopped internal bleeding. Tried to repair all damage that was caused by bullets, but right now she's still in critical condition.'
'Which means?' May asked.
'It means that next 48 hours will be crucial for her life' doctor said. 'Now I'm sorry but I have a lot of things to do.'
'Of course, thank you' Coulson said, still slightly shocked by earlier Fitz-Simmons revelations.
'Umm Sir?' Simmons turned back to Coulson. 'There's something more…'
'What is it?' he asked exhausted by all events of that day.
Young bio-chem. retrieved something from her pocket 'Skye…I think she left us goodbye letters.' Then she handed all of them to Coulson.
He looked at five white envelopes now in his hand and then passed down to each one of them letter that was addressed to them.
Then everyone parted and went different ways to read what they got – letter from Skye.
AN: I hope you liked it ;]
If you want to share some of your thoughts with me, I'd love to hear from you!
Ohh and I can also recommend you to watch new 'Captain America'
In my country movie premiered March 26th
And all I can say it was awesome!
I won't spoil anything to you but just when movie ended my jaw was on the floor…I was like 'whaaat?' but in a positive way ;]
Ohh and stay in the cinema to the very end, because this time they got us not one but TWO of the hidden clips :D
That's all from me, till next time ;]
Cherry
