Chapter 4
Skye spends the next few weeks no knowing whether it's night or day. She's stripped and brought to medical room after medical room, where she is pointed at with needles— either taking blood or injecting stuff into her. She's examined from head to toe, and Skye is losing her patience with everything going on. The Bobbi Morse girl interviews Skye from time to time, but they go nowhere and most of the time it's just Skye sitting there while Bobbi talks. Surprisingly, Bobbi hadn't resigned to torture yet, but by the little information Skye was giving up, she wouldn't be surprised if Bobbi chased that route soon.
Raina kept telling her how many days she had left to decide if she wanted help. And the 30 days she started with, were slowly drifting down.
Now she had four days left.
Skye didn't know what would happen once Whitehall showed up, but she knew that if it were anything like what he did to her mother, if wouldn't be pretty.
She'd spend hours alone in her cell calling Gordon's name, so he could tether to her and teleport her out. But he never came, even though Skye was certain by now that they would have found her. She knew the resources the inhumans possessed; she knew what they had and who they had with them. They easily would have found her by now, and tried to save her. But they hadn't come, and Skye didn't know what was worse, if they hadn't found her yet and had just given up, or the idea that they had found her but no one was willing to save her. Her mother had always put the people over Skye, maybe she was choosing them this time instead of her as well.
Skye holds her knees close to her chest; she needed to use her power. She knew keeping it inside herself this long was just going to be disastrous, and her bones were beginning to pay the price. She could feel the fractures, and knew that if she didn't have an outburst soon, she might break the bones in her arm completely.
Sometimes the Ward guy comes around, and just stares at Skye through the window for more than ten minutes, or he just comes to sit in the room and looks at Skye, with this gaze she's unfamiliar with. Skye finds it a bit creepy, but she doesn't say anything. She couldn't afford to, and she didn't know what to say. She was their prisoner, and she was lucky really the only form of abuse she had were the experiments, which most of the time she was knocked out for.
Slowly the days pass and before Skye knows it Raina has come by her cell. "You have one more day." Raina says by the door. "If someone was going to save you, they would have done it by now."
Skye takes a long breath, feeling the ribs on her stomach from the lack of nutrition she'd been getting. "I can still break you out of here, all you have to do is agree to take me to where your people are, or even just steal a crystal for me."
Skye stares at the concrete wall she was all too tired of. Raina sighs. "Oh fine, I guess there's no point trying to convince you anymore. It was nice knowing you kid, but by tomorrow afternoon they'll be little of you left." Skye gulps realizing the intensity of all this, and that she was probably going to die tomorrow and her mother was just going to let her.
She was going to die, and no one was coming to save her.
Skye spends her final night crying her eyes out, praying that someone will come for her. Lincoln, her father, her mother Jiaying—one of them had to come. Skye believed in her, they'd be able to save her at the last minute, they'd have to.
But the next morning comes, (or Skye thinks it is) and Bobbi's escorting her out of the room again. Skye preferred Bobbi to Raina or Ward though, surprisingly Bobbi was decent with her. Whenever Raina came she knew she was going to have to do tests, and Ward… Ward usually escorted her and the way he touched and looked at her made her uncomfortable.
But Bobbi just dragged her by the shoulder to the normal interrogation room. She was almost lax with her now, not bothering to give her the drugs, and not even tying her up once they got into the room. Though Skye could win against Bobbi in a fight with her powers, she wouldn't be able to hand-to-hand. Skye could see the strength in Bobbi even from a distance.
"You haven't try to escape." Bobbi starts with today. "Even though Raina's made you offers."
Skye raises an eyebrow, surprised that Bobbi knows. "I know mostly everything that goes on around here Skye, and her visiting your cell just to talk is not like Raina, I know she wants something from you. And if you gave it to her, she'd most likely be willing to help you escape, the question is why, even after you've been here for practically a month you haven't given in."
Skye stays silent. "What is Raina asking for that would hurt you, and let you escape? I mean isn't freedom better than being a lab experiment."
Bobbi was right, why hadn't she given up herself to Raina? She could have easily just said she'd get Raina the crystals and not have given them to her and just escaped. Yet she hadn't even done that. Skye could have easily used her power to escape when one of the guards was escorting her. They often didn't drug her now, because they didn't know her capability. So why hadn't she? Why was she waiting to die?
Was it because she still had hoped her family would save her? Or maybe there was something more to it?
Bobbi looks at Skye's arm, being the only person to really even notice her bruising. The doctors noticed during x-rays but there thought process went to curiosity, Bobbi's went to concern.
"Your pretty silent Skye, does anything make your heart want to speak."
Skye doesn't say anything starring at the top of the table.
"Look... hey look at me!" Bobbi calls, grabbing Skye's chin. It wasn't in a hurtful way; it was in a sort of soothing way. "Do you know what's happening tomorrow? Someone's coming who is going to cut you open and kill you."
Skye tries to stay strong, her face scrunched and her teeth grinded. "Have you just accepted the fact you're going to die?" A single tear slips from Skye's eye; she wasn't going to give in. Not now, because deep down she knew why she hadn't tried to escape yet.
Bobbi let's go of Skye's chin and leaves the room, asking the guards to escort her back to her cell, but Skye grinds her nails into her hand. Suddenly it became clear.
She knew what she had to do, she knew the reason she'd stayed so long.
When he arrived tomorrow, when he meets with her for the first time, she was going to kill him.
She was going to kill Daniel Whitehall.
Skye has resolve now, let's hope she's able to get her way. You think it was smart of Skye not to take Raina's deal?
Next chapter should be up later next week, I'm away for the weekend, so be patient for the next chapter :D
