Chapter 3

Three days. Skye had been stuck in a room for three days. She refused to move, she refused to do anything. All she did was sit there cross-legged. She didn't use her power, she saw the concrete surrounding her, and knew that even if she did, she wouldn't be able to break the door. She couldn't reveal who she was; she couldn't reveal what she was.

Her mother hadn't ever talked to her about getting captured; she'd heard her discuss it to other people. Her mother just would never allow her to get captured again. She'd already lost two years of her life, her mother wouldn't her lose anymore.

Her parents wouldn't let her stay here forever. But Skye's fear was that her father had been captured to.

The door to the cell opens, the door opening wide like a safe, and she was the trophy inside. "Get up." The man says in a rude manor. He was tall, with dark hair and a scuffled beard. He'd been the one to grab her last night.

Skye doesn't get up, so the man has to roughly grab her by the shoulder and force her up. Skye stays silent, refusing to give anything away. Another guard comes into the room, with a needle in his hand. "I upped the dosage like you said." The guard explains. "But I don't think the girl needs it Sir, I mean with her body weight…." He trails off. The man holding onto Skye grabs the vile anyway, and injects it in the girl's neck.

"Better safe than sorry."

Skye feels dizzy the minute after he injects her, but she tries not to lose her focus as he drags her into another room down the hall. She's tied to a chair—not that it mattered, since she was losing feeling in her body, but none the less she was stuck.

The man who had tied her up stood by the door, as he lets a woman in a flower dress come in the room. "Ward" She says with menace.

"Raina." He replies, with a smirk on his face, but glare in his eyes. "The girls over there."

The girl walks in her heels over to Skye; she puts a hand on her cheek. "Whitehall will be impressed with you, when he returns." She examines Skye's face as if she were some peculiar creature.

Skye goes extremely pale; she'd heard the name Whitehall before. Her stomach drops and she feels the earth underneath her for a second shake. She has to control it though, she can't give it away. She holds it in, the feelings of her bones cracking under her skin, evident and painful.

Raina doesn't notice the ground shake; the guy Ward in the background is raising an eyebrow, and probably thinking something is off. He doesn't say anything from what he sees though.

Skye wants to throw up; right now she could escape, if she used her power right than she could. But the world was blurry thanks to the drugs, and she wasn't able to tell up from down. Escaping was not the best option to try right now. She'd have to be patient and wait for her mother. Her mother would save her again, she'd done it last time, she could do it again.

"Leave us Ward; I want to start my interrogation."

"I thought we were going to leave that to Morse?" Ward questions.

"Just give me a few moments with her Ward, I'll call if things get violent" Ward looks reluctant to agree to Raina's conditions, but he sighs and leaves the room.

Skye sits in silence, refusing to say anything of importance. "You're inhuman aren't you?" The woman starts with casually. "A descendant of the Kree." Skye is shocked by her knowledge, did the Whitehall guy know this to. "I see your shock, but don't worry; the others don't know what you are."

"Who…." Skye doesn't continue. She can't give in, this could be a trick, and she couldn't give into it.

"My grandmother was one of you, she said I had a gift to inherit. I want you to take me through the mist."

Skye bites her lip.

"Look there is no point denying it; I've studied your blood work. Your extra micro-molecules show me you've gone through the mist; you know where the crystals are. So simply get me some crystals and I'll let you escape."

"It doesn't work that way." Skye explains to her. "Your past the age limit people usually transition, and not just anyone is allowed through the mist." Skye wants to hit herself for giving so much away, but the drugs make compliance to the question a little simpler than she once thought.

The Raina girl looks a little disappointed by Skye's answer, but she doesn't seem to take it as a way to give up. "Whitehall is a very dangerous man. He has a divner with him, and he'll make you touch it." Raina brings a hand over Skye's face. "And once he realizes what you are, they'll be nothing of you left."

Skye knows Raina isn't joking; the scars on her mother remind her every day. Except Skye didn't have her mother's healing ability, so she wouldn't come back from that. "The mist isn't what you want." Skye explains. "Every gift comes with a curse, and no matter what you become you'll most likely regret it later."

Raina scowls. "Well you have four weeks to decide if you want to help me. Whitehall is currently with a man in Sokovia, but when he gets back he'll be more than excited to work on you." Raina pushes some hair out of Skye's face. "Until then, I'll be learning what I can about you in many exciting ways…. Of course if you change your mind, I can help you escape, in the returned favor you help me." Raina starts walking out of the room.

"Wait…is my father…is he here." Skye asks as a last minute thought. "When you took me…" Skye can't finish.

"Lucky or unlucky for you, your our only prisoner at the moment." Raina opens the door ready to leave before the guy Ward and a woman with long blonde hair charge in the room.

"Raina we have a matter you need to deal with." The woman says. She was carrying a clip board in hand, and kept giving brief glances over at Skye.

"I'll deal with it, come with me Ward. Bobbi, the girls all yours." Raina directs at the scruffy beard guy. He follows after, leaving Skye alone in the room with the blonde girl.

Skye's head dangles, it was hurting like crazy from whatever they'd injected her with. "So you're the girl we found in the woods." Skye doesn't answer. The blonde kicks her leg. "Hey I'm talking to you." Skye looks up, even though it takes a lot of strength to do so. "Do you have a name?" The woman asks casually starting out nice. "Look it's nothing important, but we need something to put on our files, unless you want to be called subject-B the rest of your duration here."

Skye didn't want to say anything, but the idea of just being called a subject or experiment kind of irritated her. It might be better if they called her by something familiar. She couldn't give her real name, but something familiar. "Skye." She mumbles, barely audible. But the woman Bobbi smiles.

"Well you're willing to speak." Skye bites her lip, realizing that the name question was probably just a test. And she'd been stupid enough to fall for it.

"So Skye….you have some very curious looking blood. Not to mention a very interesting teleporting friend." Skye's heart leaps, as she pulls against the rope holding her back. Did they have Gordon? "No don't worry he's not here but he did lead us to you." Skye's face must have given away her concern. "See he's easier to track than you might think. Quantum entanglement is some pretty cool stuff."

The woman stares at her clip board writing a few things down. "So tell me Skye, can you teleport to." Skye doesn't answer, and only glares at the blurry blonde figure. "How about you tell me a little about yourself, you have a family, a boyfriend? Somebody whose searching for you right now?" Skye bites her tongue. She refused to give anything up that would put her family at risk or anyone in Afterlife for that matter. "Fine, continue playing the silence gang."

Bobbi spots the bruises on the girls arm. They were from earlier when Skye had to hold in her powers. "Woah are those from Ward?" Bobbi steps up to examine them, and Skye tries to pull back, but that's kind of hard to do when you're tied to a chair. "Oh my gosh" Skye knows the women's concern is only a temporary and fake thing to gain Skye's trust. Bobbi presses into one of them and Skye winces, making the girl pull back.

"Who did this to you?" Skye doesn't answer. "If it wasn't Ward it was someone else. Before you came here?" Skye continues to stare at her legs, kind of feeling out of it. If she wanted maybe she could succumb to the darkness and just pass out, just drift up, up and away.

So Bobbi, Ward and Raina have been introduced. Looks like Skye is in a tough spot. Reviews are appreciated, and thanks to the readers who are continuing to read this story. Next chapter should be up in a couple of days.