AU where Skye finds her mother, and she's closer to her than she thinks.Set in S02E11 from then onwards it is AU. (Cal doesn't appear in the first half of the series)
Will she accept who she is?
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Previously: "Hang on."
"I need to tell Jemma, Fitz. Even if it means losing her. Her safety means more to me."
"Just hang on a second and listen. Wait until I've analysed-"
"I can't control it when I get upset or nervous!" Skye's voice slightly raised.
"I'm running that diagnostic on your blood samples right now. Hopefully when it's done, we'll have a solution, it's nothing to worry about."
Skye was about to intervene but Hunter joined the room and they stopped talking immediately.
"I'm go speak to Jemma and search the internet for key references."
Fitz gave her a look and she walked away. He had no idea if she was going to tell Jemma or not.
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The Strangest Show on Earth
Chapter 3
After finding Jemma and partially breaking down, Skye composed herself and walked back into the lounge to help the others with the keys search. If she wasn't the hacker, she'd probably be in her pod right now, breaking down over what's happening to her.
May looked up when she detected Skye's presence and then looked back down at her tablet in her hands. She couldn't act any differently towards Skye and she did the best she could to not talk to her too much or too little.
As Skye was walking into the lounge, Coulson was talking to Sif about how his research was going.
"I'm saying I can't find any particular keys that would be hugely important. Not literal keys, not metaphorical keys, not as in to the city. It doesn't mean-"
May stood up and interrupted Coulson. "Wait." She began to walk over. "Look at this." She handed Coulson the tablet.
"Chavas, a city known for its sedimentary basins. I don't?" Coulson was instantly clueless.
"Guess what Chavas means in English."
"Let me guess. Keys." Skye inputted.
"That's where the Kree was heading. That's where I was chasing him." Sif looked to Skye. "That was my mission."
"But Chavas, Portugal. We've seen that name before."
"It was in Whitehall's S.S.R. file." May said.
"Dates back to 1945, where he first found the Obelisk." Skye looked up and instantly began to panic. The Obelisk is what did this to me. Skye thought. She knew it was better for her to stay away before anything else could happen to her.
Coulson looked over to Skye. "That's where we have to go." Coulson stood up and began walking away with Sif and May before Skye interrupted.
"Director?" All three of them turned around to face her. "I'd like to sit this one out, please."
Coulson walked over to her. He knew what the reason was but he had to remain clueless along with May about why she wanted to sit the mission out.
"You alright?"
"Yeah." Skye changed her tone of voice to convince him more. "It's just that after my run in with blue man group, I still feel a little banged up and I'm just worried that I'm not going to be much help." Skye looked over to May who didn't seem to buy it.
"Okay. Whenever you're ready." Coulson didn't want to push her into telling them.
"Is it really about being hurt? Or is it about your nerves?" May did push her. She was trying to work out what caused Skye's powers without asking her directly. May and Coulson both knew that the shaking of the hospital was due to Skye but they hadn't said a word about it since Portugal.
"I promise, it's just about the guy making me see cartoon birdies around my head. That's it." May nodded and Skye looked over to Coulson.
Sif's eyes remained locked onto Skye. She wasn't convinced. Coulson turned to May as they began walking away. "Pull up the S.S.R. file. I want to pinpoint exactly where this Kree guy is going."
Skye noticed that Sif wasn't convinced about her excuse and she waited for all three of them to leave before she went into her pod.
Once the Kree was captured, everyone was back on the Bus and they were flying back to base.
Coulson and Sif had interrogated the Kree in the cage and he had proved to them that he was there for a good reason. He revealed that he name was Vin-Tak and he was going to earn their trust.
Once they returned to base, Coulson, Bobbi Mack and Skye were the last to leave the Bus.
"It's possible that only he can operate it. We've seen other alien materials react to biology or DNA." Bobbi said.
"Don't remind me." Mack chipped in from the back of the group.
"Or me." Skye said.
"We've all been there, done that." Coulson stopped and turned around to face them. "Fitz and Simmons will examine the case. If this guy's telling the truth, then we might finally get the answers we've been searching for." He looked at Skye whilst he was talking and then he turned around and carried on walking. Mack and Bobbi turned around whilst Skye followed him.
They went into the basement so they could finally talk about why the Kree was really here.
"Tell us about how the truncheon works, Kree." Sif spoke first.
"The Kree has a name." Vin-Tak said. He turned to face Coulson and nodded this head towards the truncheon in Coulson's hand. "And that only works when in my hand."
"That's convenient." May said. This gained a little smirk from Coulson.
Vin-Tak took a step closer to Coulson and pointed to the truncheon. "It has a dial on the bottom-" Whilst Coulson was still examining the truncheon, in one slick move the Kree kicked the truncheon out of Coulson's hands and caught it. He used it to restore Sif's memory.
Even though he had dropped the truncheon and raised his hands, Coulson, May and Skye had their guns aimed at him.
Sif got back up from leaning off of the table and looked back towards Vin-Tak and Coulson.
"Sorry the argument was going nowhere." Vin-Tak kept his hands above his head.
"You back with us?"
"Yes, my memories have returned. I am Lady Sif of Asgard. Friend with the S.H.I.E.L.D." Sif punched him in the face and with her strength – it must've hurt.
As Vin-Tak recomposed himself he was stood on the other side of the room and he still had all guns pointed on him, but this didn't concern him.
"Asgardian? Well, that explains a lot."
"It is true. We do not trust Kree. That is why I am here. When Heimdell saw that one landed on your planet, Odin charged me with retrieving him." Sif's voice was stern.
"So you came to pick a fight?"
"We know enough about Kree history to be concerned."
Vin-Tak tilted his head to the side. "Well then if you know Kree history then perhaps you've heard the tale of terrogenesis."
Skye looked from Vin-Tak to Sif. She was beginning to feel nervous.
"Of course. Ancient Kree descending on planets, altering the inhabitants to fight their war." As Sif spoke, Skye figured that people who could hold the Obelisk were the one of the altered inhabitents. She felt the vibrations build inside of her.
"And Earth was one of them."
"Blue angels that fell from the sky." Skye said this more to herself than to Vin-Tak and Sif.
Sif began to explain the war that Kree was once a part of a war where they required more soldiers and that they altered the inhabitants of other planets to create killers by modifying DNA. Sif and Vin-Tak were both explaining the story to Coulson, May and Skye. Skye began to panic on the inside more and more as she had just been told that she has been turned into a killer.
As Vin-Tak explained about the faction who was thwarted, May looked over to Skye who saw the panic form on her face.
"Why did you come here?" Skye said.
"These creatures are abominations." Skye's breathing began to change into shorter breaths. "I knew that I had to find the remainder of the diviners before another monstrosity occurs. And erase any knowledge of it." Coulson looked to the truncheon in his hand.
May began to speak. "How many diviners are supposed to be in that crate?"
"Enough to create an army." Coulson furrowed his brows.
As soon has Vin-Tak had finished speaking, Simmons spoke to Coulson over the comms.
"Sir, the crate is empty." Skye looked over to Coulson.
"My worst fear has come true." Vin-Tak said.
Meanwhile in the lab…
As soon as Jemma had spoken to Coulson over comms, she began stating possible theories for what happened to the diviners.
"We have to assume that they were all taken at the same time back in the 40s." Jemma looked up to Fitz. "Does that mean Hydra has them?"
The tablet beeped as soon as Fitz started speaking. "If Hydra doesn't who does?"
Jemma picked up the tablet to see what the notification was for.
"Fitz, what's this?"
Once Fitz realised that it was his diagnostic results for Skye's blood, instantly rushed over to her.
"Oh, er, it's….that's nothing." He couldn't tell her. It wasn't his place and he was concerned that Jemma would be furious with Skye.
"It's remarkable. Extra macromolecules just like in Raina's blood. But different ones." Jemma looked up to see Fitz was slowly walking towards her. "Who's DNA is this?"
"It's…a…simulation that I created, or a theory of er-"
"A simulation! Fitz! This is uncanny. The precision, the detail. It reads as real."
"Yeah but," Fitz snatched the tablet off of her. "it's just a simulation." Fitz turned around and placed the tablet on the side and returned back to his work on the crate.
Jemma suddenly realised that it wasn't a simulation. Skye.
"We must find the remaining diviners as well as anyone transformed."
"We drowned the temple where the diviners are activated, so that's a plus. And we do know the woman who was changed."
"So someone was transformed." Sif interrupted. "A Kree slave warrior created. Have you put it down?"
"No. She disappeared."
Skye felt the vibrations becoming even stronger inside of her. Kree and Sif will want her dead.
"What do you know of her?"
"We don't know much about Raina's transformation, no-one witnessed it we believe." Skye looked over to Coulson and he briefly shook his head at her but Sif noticed it.
Sif slowly walked towards her. "You were there. What did you see?"
"I-I didn't…" She stuttered. She couldn't lie now, they knew she had changed.
"The changes may not be on the surface but buried inside." Vin-Tak said.
The vibrations were overpowering and Skye noticed that a glass of water across the room began to tremble.
"You must understand that these creatures are weapons. Abominations. Even if they don't know it." Coulson stared at him and assumed that Vin-Tak had figured out what Skye was by the way she was acting. It was clear that she was losing control and she was beginning to panic.
The vibrations grew and the whole building began to shake. The utensils from the kitchen began to fall and smash onto the floor.
May looked over to Skye and noticed that Sif grabbed hold of her arm.
"Don't!" Skye broke free out of Sif's hold and she stumbled backwards and caused the glass window to smash behind her.
May stood right beside of Skye and Coulson was slightly in front, both of them with raised weapons.
"Hand her over. I will take her to Asgard. It will be safer for all of you." As Sif spoke, Fitz was behind them all who presumably had run over from the lab.
"We will do no such thing." Coulson replied.
"The weapon has been activated. It needs to be eliminated before it hurts someone." Vin-Tak's tone of voice became aggressive.
"Skye is not a weapon!" Coulson retaliated.
"Coulson, no-one is saying Skye chose this. But she is dangerous."
"I don't want to be this way." Skye intervened.
"Imagine what would happen if your powers grow, you could bring down buildings, tear continents apart."
"I can get a handle on it."
"That's not what you were designed for. You were designed to destroy, which is why you must be put down." Vin-Tak began to step closer to Skye.
"Yeah, that sounds a lot like killing to me." Fitz said.
Coulson looked over to May and she nodded, grabbing onto Skye's arm and leaving the room with her. They ran down to Vault D which meant she had to pass the lab and possibly run into Jemma.
As they turned a corner, the lab was now on their left and Jemma rushed out the door.
"What's going on?" Jemma asked.
"Jemma, I love you, I'm so sorry." Skye continued running with May to the end of the hallway and they entered the vault.
Skye and May went into the Vault and May raised the barrier.
"Hey, listen to me. Just me. We can do this. You can do this."
"I can't. I can't make it stop." Skye's voice was breathless.
"You will control your emotions, just like we practised." May slowly stepped back to give her space.
"I can't make it stop."
May was still trying to make her calm down but Sif soon intervened and destroyed the barrier with her sword. Skye removed the gun from May's leg and shot herself which instantly made Skye fall on the bed.
"Skye?" May's tone of voice changed.
Coulson was now in the room with his gun raised at Sif.
"She harmed herself." Sif was in shock.
"Even though it meant giving up her freedom. Don't you see? She wants to get better."
As Coulson was talking to Sif, May ran her fingers through her daughter's hair whilst she slept. She looked so peaceful.
Once Sif had returned to Asgard, Skye slept in the cage, skipped training and then went to May and Coulson in his office the next day. She hadn't spoken to Jemma once since running down the hallway.
"You knew?" Skye spoke first.
"Yeah, but we only intervened because you lost control." Coulson said.
"I'm guessing you've been monitoring me." Skye said, throughout this whole conversation her voice was low and quiet, and her head hung low.
"Yeah, but for now, until you can control these powers, you'll be sleeping in the cage." Coulson said.
"I figured." Skye said. "Hey, um, before I go pack my things, can I ask you both something?"
May and Coulson both nodded. "The other day, Jemma did some DNA tests for a possibility that either one of my parents were a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Do you know where that sheet went with the results? It wasn't in the printer when Jemma collected my fake blood results apparently."
May and Coulson both looked to each other and May nodded to Coulson who turned back to Skye and walked over to her. He put a hand on her shoulder and walked out his office.
"Are you going to tell me?" Skye was confused and a bit scared and worried the tremors were going to start. "May?" There was silence. May was just staring at the floor, figuring out what to say.
When Skye didn't get a response, she turned to leave the room and as soon as she put her hand on the handle, May finally spoke. "Wait."
Skye turned back around to face her.
"Can you please tell me what's going on?"
"We found your mother." May eventually said.
"She's a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent?"
May nodded.
"Who?"
"Me."
A/N: Thank you for reading, leave some prompts in the reviews/comments for future chapters as I already have the next few chapters planned
-Rach.