Own Nothing

Chapter Four

Darcy searched and she searched, she almost gave up on finding Skye's Song. She was either really well hidden or she didn't want to be found. Their mental link was weak and stretched thin at best and that worried her. "Skye, where are you?" Darcy asked herself as she laid in bed. Fitz had tucked himself into the corner of her bed over an hour ago to keep watch over her. He kept people from bothering them as well as update Coulson. He was reading one of Darcy's books from her shelf when he caught a glimpse of her whole body go rigid.

"Darcy?" He asked.

"I think…" She whispered. She was gone, physically vanished from her bed in a blink of an eye and Fitz's heart stopped as he stared at the empty bed.

He picked up his phone and called Coulson. "We might have a problem. I think Darcy might've found Skye, but now she's gone too."

Darcy stood in the middle of a sunny courtyard, her eyes blinking as she adjusted to the sun. She stood there in her purple flannel sleeping pants and t-shirt, people around her stared at her in shock but she ignored them as a familiar Song rang in her ears. "Skye." She whispered as she felt a quake shake the Earth. "Skye!" she shouted and ran towards the quaking, her bare feet slapping the concrete as she raced towards the shack that had the shouting and the most shaking.

"You need to calm down Skye!" A man's voice stated.

"Skye Sweetie." Darcy burst through the door.

"Who are you?" An older Asian woman asked as she glared at her.

"Skye." Darcy breathed as she stared at Skye. Skye stared over at her in shock.

"Darcy, how did you get here?" The shaking continued to worsen.

Darcy shook her head and stepped forward. "I need you to breathe for me sweetie. You're safe okay." Darcy opened the link in Skye's mind. "I'm here for you, always." She whispered to her mentally. She hugged gently as Skye embraced her and took a deep breath. "Your Song is still the same." Darcy stated out loud. "It's shaken, but it's still the same Song."

"A humming in the Earth." Skye whispered out loud. "A warrior's drumbeat in the morning sun."

"Yeah." Darcy smiled. "It's a good Song." The quaking stopped suddenly and Skye relaxed. She pulled away from her friend and smiled. "Are you okay? Are you safe?"

"Of course she's safe, we provide a safe haven for all Inhumans." The young man stated.

"Lincoln, I think she's just worried for her friend." The Asian woman stated. "What is your name?" Darcy stared at the woman with a frown. "It's very rude to breach someone else's mind without their permission."

Darcy arched an eyebrow. "So is kidnapping one of my own. I don't take kindly to that."

"Skye is one of us." The woman stated.

"I think I would like to go home now." Skye stated.

The woman frowned at Darcy before smiling lightly Skye. "Let me train you for a few days, see what it's like here then decide."

"It wouldn't hurt to try." Darcy stated with a head tilt to Skye. She intertwined their fingers. "I'll protect you if they try to hurt you."

The woman smiled at her. "You're not very trusting are you?"

"No." Darcy replied as she stared at the woman. "And if and when we decide to leave and you try to keep us here, understand this. However powerful you think you are, I'm more powerful. And if Skye doesn't want to be here, we won't stay."

"Where were you when S.H.I.E.L.D tried to hurt her?" The young man asked Darcy with some bite.

"Hey!" Skye shouted at him. "Lincoln that's enough."

"I was in a coma for four days because I was stopping an actual Kree from trying to kill Skye. They don't exactly like people like you." She looked up at Skye. "But she's one of mine, so I knocked him unconscious, made a deal with an Asgardian to keep her on Earth to protect her."

"Wait, wasn't Sif supposed to…" Skye started

"Doesn't matter." Darcy cut her off. "Show me your new digs." She pulled her out of the shack and back out into the sun. "I didn't come all this way for nothing."

"You came here for me!" Skye laughed. "Let's get you some clothes!"

"So scary Asian lady is your Mom?" Darcy asked in Skye's mind as they laid next to each other in bed. Afterlife tried to give Darcy her own room, but she refused to leave Skye's side, she just found her again and Skye constantly had their mental link open now that they were close again. "I can see the resemblance."

"She doesn't want to tell anyone because there are rules that she has to follow." Skye replied sadly.

"A place like this, I'm sure there are a shit ton of rules Skye." Darcy looked up at her. "But you have both of your parents back, even though one of them is a loon."

Skye snorted back a laugh and hugged Darcy and laid her head on her shoulder. "When you first came to the Playground, I didn't trust you." She whispered out loud. "You were friends with Ward, you knew all about him and you did nothing to stop it. But I see how much you help Fitz and how much you love him." Darcy inhaled deeply at the word. "You do, I think you trusted Ward to protect you, just like we did and you were betrayed. And I understand how scared you were not wanting to be Indexed. I was so scared that with the way Simmons was acting and Mack, that I would lose my friends and teammates. But you and Fitz. You didn't hesitate." Skye looked up at her, tilting her head. "You called us yours', your people. And I like that. Gordon told me that when he first went through the Mist the first reaction he received was a hug and a reassurance. He asked me if my team did the same." Skye wiped her eyes. "They didn't, but you did. And you always claimed to not be a part of the team."

"I'm the trunk card." Darcy whispered.

"You're my friend and you stayed with me and comforted me with movies and popcorn when you knew something was wrong. You came across the world when I was scared, because I called you."

"I told you that you can call me whenever Skye, and I will come." Darcy hugged her tighter.

"You said that you'd send a mental image, but you're physically here, you're getting stronger Darcy." Skye whispered in awe.

"Because of you and Fitz." Darcy reassured her. "You make me stronger."

"You have to know who you are." Skye replied. "I finally found out, it's your turn now."

"I know who I am. It's the what I'm worried about." Darcy sighed. "Come on, it's time for you get some sleep, it's been a big day." She took off her glasses and turned off the light and they went to bed.

Darcy waited until Skye was sound asleep before she slipped out of bed, she pulled on her glasses and her shoes and opened the door quietly. She slipped through the housing and outside she walked through the quiet courtyard, shrouded in shadows and chilled by darkness. She made her way through a trail that she saw earlier, not noticing that she was being watched this late at night as she made her trek. She walked up the trail to the gazebo that had panoramic views of all the mountains and took in a deep breath and rolled her shoulders back. She toed her shoes off and hissed at the chilled night air as she sat down the on the freezing concrete ground with and grimace. She relaxed her back as she took in deep breaths and let them out intervals. She closed her eyes and began to meditate.

She felt like weight was lifted off her shoulder as she floated around and got the lay of the land, she figured out where they were and how big 'Afterlife' was before she took off to explore other places. She checked up on Jane and Erik who was happy to see her. They had some new recruits that they were training and Clint had a new baby that she went to go see. He was annoyed to see her at first because it was early morning and the baby needing a diaper change and his wife was still asleep and the kids were at school. She laughed at him and gave him a playful kiss on the cheek before racing off to check on Fitz and the team. Fitz was in the garage and he looked up when he felt her presence. "I missed you." He whispered in her mind.

"I missed you too. Skye is fine, she's safe."

"When you are coming back?" He asked her as he bent back to continue to work.

"Hopefully soon, she's training with some people, I think that they took her to help." She leaned over to watch him.

"So they're like her?" He asked her. "S.H.I.E.L.D would want to index them."

She shook her head. "They don't want to be Indexed. They're like me in that respect." She frowned. "Have you talked to Mack and Bobbie again?"She glanced at the bigger man across the garage. "You should."

"He betrayed us." Fitz replied.

"For S.H.I.E.L.D Stupid is as Stupid does." She rolled her eyes. "Do you have a few minutes to spare? For a mental Health day?"

He nodded and set his tools down on his bench and set down. He took a few deep breaths and closed his eyes and soon they were in his Mother's home in Scotland. He inhaled his mother's cooking and turned to look at Darcy and smiled. "Thank you."

She smiled. "Sometimes, you have to remember who you are protecting. I don't have anyone outside of this." She looked sad. "Everyone I know is connected to S.H.I.E.L.D in some way or another. Aliens and Agents is my life now. But you have your mom Fitz you have to keep her safe. It's the little things to show her your love, even though you can't tell her in person."

"I love you." Fitz stated.

Darcy blinked and stared at him, she searched his eyes, search his Song and felt his fire inside burning brightly, no lies, no deception, only truth. "Fitz." Darcy whispered. "When we're together again, I'm going to need you to say that again because I'm going to kiss you."

He broke out into a grin and nodded. "I will."

"Until then." Darcy rolled her shoulders back and she was back in her body and Fitz in his, she blinked and winced at the rising morning sun. Her legs stiff for how long she had been sitting there. She looked down to see a sleeping Skye, her head resting on her knee. "Skye sweetie."

"That's impressive meditation." Jiaying stated from the steps.

"It clears my head. White noise has the same effect." Darcy replied as she ran her fingers through Skye's hair, careful not to wake the sleeping girl.

"You are protective over my daughter." She stated, it wasn't a question.

Darcy nodded. "I don't trust people. I could say that I trust a handful and those are a variation of the Avenger and Skye's team. But the two people that I trust my life not to hurt me are just that, two. One is Skye. I guess it's because we're the most similar, mirror opposites in some ways. She was taken away from her parents they fought to get her back." She looked up at Jiaying. "When my parents found out about my powers at an early age they tried to figure them out for themselves, they experimented on me. I was five when they couldn't control me and sold me to scientists where I stay as a lab rat until sixteen." She watched as Jiaying took a deep breath shocked. "I see your scars and I know your story, Skye told me it from when her father told it to her. We're both survivors, and we both cling to what we love." Darcy brushed Skye's hair from her face as Skye snuggled against her leg more. "Skye was hurt by a mutual friend, agent, which we knew that we trusted. So know this, if you or her Dad, try to hurt her. I will hurt you."

"Is that a threat?" Jiaying asked. "It wasn't very subtle."

"Call it foreshadowing." Darcy replied. She looked down at the sleeping girl and smiled. "Skye, sweetie. Jiaying is here, you need to get up. It's time to start your training."

Skye opened her eyes and blinked in the face of the morning sun. "I woke up and you weren't in bed, your Image said you went to see Jane and Fitz."

Darcy nodded. "You know scientist, they don't take care of themselves. Mental health day was needed."

Skye scooted until she sat up and smiled. "You take DC on those?"

"I did once, Great Britain in a memory from the past. I'll take you on one after your training. We'll go where ever you like." She smiled at her. "But train hard to make it worth it."

"Hmm Okay." Skye stood up and stretch and smiled at Jiaying. "Let me get dressed real quick and I'll be ready."

Jiaying nodded and turned to Darcy with an arched brow. "What will you be doing today?"

"Shower? Maybe walk around, read a book, stay out of your way." She shrugged. "I'm a guest in your house, but I'm not a prisoner in your court."

"Quite." Jiaying replied before she nodded and turned away to walk back to the temple.

"Wow, Skye's mom is scary."

Darcy hummed as she looked at the young man Lincoln who stared at her back. "Do I have something on my face?"

"What are you?" He asked her.

"Asgardians don't know, the Kree don't know." She shrugged. "So three out of the rest of the universe is pretty good."

"Three?"

"They're pretty sure I have other worldly blood in me, meaning I might not all be human or not human at all." She replied.

"What can you do?" He asked her.

She snorted. "The question is what can't I do?" She sighed and looked at the hem of her shirt. "You have your basic telepath stuff, reading minds, making people do things, hear things they didn't, I call it music, because that's how I interpret it. Each person has a mind, thoughts and a soul and I call it a Song. Each Song is different for the most part. Some are the same, those Song typically go together, and some complement each other they also go together. Then you get Song that are incomplete. Take mine for instance, its beats and chords, that's it. Nothing else there, maybe once there was or maybe I'm not complete because I need other to complete me." She looked at Lincoln who stared at her. "Does this make sense? Because when I try to explain it, it never does?"

"It does actually, so Skye is your Song?" He asked her.

She blushed. "She's one of them, yeah. She wasn't an instant connection, she didn't trust me, and because how can you trust someone who can make you believe anything you want them too?" She asked him. "Fitz, he was an instant connection. His Song is like fire and it burns from within and it keeps me alive. Make me want to never look back into the past and just keep moving forward, to keep looking to him." She smiled at the memory.

"What else can you do?" He asked her with a curious light in his eyes.

"I have these mental images of myself, when I have a mental link with someone, like Skye, or anyone else. I can leave a mental images of me anywhere and it's like a ghost version of me and only those who's had me in their heads long enough can feel me. I'm with Skye right now while you and I are talking here. I'm also in our room to make sure no one comes in it, I'm not very trusting."

"You're very open about your powers with me." Lincoln replied, eyes wide.

"You're a nice guy, I've already looked through your mind the moment I stepped into the shack with Skye in trouble." She replied steadily. "And besides my powers are growing all the time, most likely I'll gain a new power by tomorrow." She shrugged.

"That's scary."

"Why do you think I made the deal with S.H.I.E.L.D to keep me off the Index?" She asked. "I'm their secret weapon against HYDRA and anything else that comes at them. "And I remain free. And besides, I'm awesome at memory wipes." She winked at him.

"Would it make you feel better if I got Indexed too?" Darcy asked Lincoln as he laid in the hospital bed all bandaged up. "We can be agony buddies together?"

"Don't make me laugh." He groaned. "And no, you need to stay off it."

She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms as she stared down at him. "How about this, I put you on auto pilot and while Dr. Simmons is rocking her thing, you come on a Mental Health Day with me? Sound fun?"

He blinked and stared at her and licked his lips before speaking. "Why are you doing this?" He asked her.

"Because you're one of Skye's people and by default, you're one of my people." She winked at him. "And besides, I need more people to worship my awesomeness."

He smiled and nodded. "Yes, I can do that."

She laughed and looked up to see Simmons staring at her. Darcy nodded in Okay and Simmons made her way into the room. "Just take deep breaths and this will be over soon." She reached into his mind and he blinked as Dr. Simmons started talking to him and asking questions that he answered on auto pilot.

Darcy blinked and she and Lincoln were in a museum, a science museum that was obviously having a field trip day. "You science nerds are all the same." She whispered.

"Hey, this is my MHD." He replied with a grin.

"Well come on then." She grabbed her hand. "Let's go walk around and see the exhibits. Nerd." She laughed as he stepped ahead of her and pulled her along instead. They stayed in the museum for a few hours before going to another place Darcy thought would be comforting. They sat on top of the cliff as the desert warm air tingled her skin. "Jane and I used to work in a town three hours that way." She pointed south. "I had a foster home here once in this town and this is where the kids would come and hang out." She thought of the memory. "The Dad was abusive and I called the cops of his ass, and I made him sing like a canary." She looked at Lincoln who was staring at her. "I didn't always use my powers for good."

"That was good." He replied.

"I made him kill himself afterwards." She replied. "That wasn't good, I was in a dark place for years. I gave myself my first memory wipe after that night." She sighed and looked up at the sky. "It's hard being this way, knowing that you could've stopped things from happening if just read the right thoughts, or force them not to pull the trigger. But I wanted to live the most normal life possible, I wanted to go through and ignore all the thoughts and noises people made just be Darcy. But if I just warned someone about HYDRA, then Ward wouldn't have hurt Fitzsimmons, Skye wouldn't have been shot, Ward would've been taken care off." She looked down. "I'm not good."

Lincoln grabbed her hand and pulled her into a hug. "I don't know that many people who would give Mental health days to people they don't know, or offer to put themselves on the Index for someone else. Darcy you're good, you just have a lot on your shoulders. Maybe you should talk to someone."

Darcy took a deep breath and sighed. "Skye is at your bedside, and she's upset that we took off without her." Lincoln smiled down at her. "Come on, let's get back."

"So I'm one of yours by default?" He asked her.

"Don't make me regret saying it." She warned him.