Kaitlyn wakes up with a gasp, she slowly sits up from where she's lying down to see that she's in an honey comb type room with black tiles. She winces at the harsh light, her head pounding.
"Oh God." Kaitlynn moans as the memories come back to her, everything she did to the innocent people, to May…to Coulson "Oh god Coulson." She says as she rubs her hands over her face remembering how she helped torture him. Taking a deep breath, calming her nerves like May taught her all those years ago, she asses her situation.
She knows that she's not with them, since she has her memories and there's also the fact that she has a semi-comfortable bed rather then the hard stiff ones they give her. Kaitlynn stands up straight when she hears the door click, preparing for anything, the door opens to reveal Coulson standing there.
"Coulson." Kaitlynn sighs in relief as she relaxes her stance.
"You remember." Coulson says staring at her, Kaitlynn nods
"I'm sorry…" she says her voice breaking "I'm so so sorry…" she cries, Coulson quickly walks over to her and raps her into a hug. Kaitlynn raps her arms around him as she cries into his shoulder "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Its my fault…I'm so sorry" she cries
"Shhhh…Its okay. Your safe." Coulson whispers as her smoothes out the blonde's hair trying to calm her down.
After a few minutes Kaitlynn calms down enough for them to talk
"What happened?" Coulson asks, Kaitlynn shrugs as she wipes her tears away
"I don't know…one moment I was fighting along side May when I fell out a window and then…" she trails off as she remembers her last night of freedom before they captured her, tortured her, experimented on her before turning her into a killing machine
"Then what?" Coulson asks pulling her out of her memories
"Then nothing." She lies not wanting to talk about what they did to her "I woke up here." Coulson stares at her for a moment before nodding his head.
"Okay…" he says "I want you to get checked out by medical. Make sure your okay." Kaitlynn nods as she stands up to follow Coulson out.
"Coulson…" Kaitlynn asks "Is May…?" she says but stops afraid that her S.O. is dead.
"May's fine." Coulson says with a small smile "She'll meet us later." Kaitlynn smiles before following Coulson out.
"How long have I been out for?" The blonde asks as she follows the man she looked up to as a father down a series of turns
"About a day." Coulson says as they come to a stop in front of the lab "Kaitlynn this is Simmons and Fitz." he says when they enter the lab pointing to each scientist.
"Hey" Kaitlynn says with a small smile with an awkward wave
"Hi." Fitz says as he gives her a small wave back
"Well hello there." Simmons says as she walks up to the blonde to shake her hand "My names Simmons…but he already said that." She says, Kaitlynn smiles at the girl's nervousness as she shakes her hand.
"Kaitlynn Robinson." Kaitlynn says as they release hands, she clears her throat awkwardly when she sees everyones eyes on her "So um…Coulson said you guys needed to run some tests?"
"Oh yes…" Simmons said as she walks away rambling about science, Kaitlyn smirks as she turns to look at Coulson whose smiles at the sight of his team and the young woman he sees as a daughter.
"I'll leave you to it. Call me if you have any problems." He says "Kaitlynn come find me when your done." he says before leaving
"Okay…" Kate says as she looks around the lab "Where do you want me?"
"The table should suffice." Jemma says not looking up from where she's gathering the materials she'll need. Kaitlynn nods as she walks over to the table and sits on top of it.
"Fitz right?" Kate says looking at the guy whose tinkering with something on another table.
"Yeah. Yeah that me." He says nervously
"So what do you do here Fitz?"
"I'm a-a engineer…Its really just tinkering really" He says as he hold up something he's working on, Kaitlynn nods.
"Okay…first I'll just take some blood samples before we move onto to x-rays and such." Simmons says as she comes back over
"Whatever you say doc" Kaitlynn says as she holds out her arm, Jemma gives her a small smile before she draws two vials of blood. They spend the next hour doing tests, before they finally finish.
"Okay I think that's everything." Jemma says, Kaitlynn nods as she jumps off the table "Do you need me to call Coulson? Or I can-"
"Jemma…I'm sure Ill be fine." Kaitlynn interrupts her babbling "I'm sure I can find my way around." She says with a small smile before walking out of medical looking for either Coulson or her S.O.
Kaitlynn sighs as she walks around the plane, thinking back to everything Hydra made her do. She's pulled out of her thoughts when she bumps into something or rather someone.
"Oh sorry." A voice says, Kaitlynn looks down to see a pair of brown eyes looking at her
"No…its my fault. My head was somewhere else." Kaitlynn says, the two girls stare at each other for a moment. "I'm Kaitlynn."
"Skye." The brunette says shaking the blonde's hand, Kaitlynn raises an eyebrow at the unusual name "I didn't like my name. So I changed it." She explains, the blonde nods in understanding.
"So you're the famous Kaitlynn Robinson?" Skye says with a smirk, Kaitlynn arches an eyebrow matching the smirk.
"Famous huh?" Skye nods
"A little birdy told me that you used to be a pretty big deal back in the day." Skye says making Kaitlynn chuckle.
"Well don't believe everything you hear." The blonde says making Skye's smirk grow into a smile and Kaitlynn decided that she like seeing Skye smile. Skye opens her mouth to say something but is cut off by another voice.
"Kaitlynn." Both girls turn around to see May standing there, her eyes glued on her trainee. Kaitlynn clears her throat as she walks over to her S.O.
"May I-" she starts but is cut off by a slap to the back of the head
"Don't you ever do something that stupid again." May warns, Kaitlynn goes to say something but is again cut off when May pulls her into a hug "I'm glad your alive." She whispers, Kaitlyn smiles slightly as she hugs the older agent back.
"Yeah me too." Kaitlynn says with a small laugh as they pull apart "So how's Andy?"
"Gone." May says, seeing Kaitlyn's confused look she nods behind her where Skye is now joined by a man close to their age and Simmons and Fitz "I'll tell you later." She says, Kaitlynn nods her head in understanding "For now though…this is the team. You've already met Skye, this is Fitz- Simmons and Agent Ward."
"Its amazing to be working with you 'Angel'" Ward says using the nickname they gave her at the academy, Kaitlynn's face hardens
"Don't ever call me that." She says, making the team look at her in shock at the sudden shift in personality.
"How about we all just relax…" Skye says trying to get rid of the awkwardness "Maybe get to know each other a little?" Kaitlynn nods
"Sure." Kaitlynn says as she follows the rest of the team to a couched area "So what do you guys do?"
"I'm a hacktivist" Skye says
"How in the hell did Coulson come by you?" Kaitlynn asks
"I may of tried to hack into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s classified files and released them to the public." She says making Kaitlynn chuckle.
"And Coulson recruited you?" Skye nods "That's just like him." The blonde says with a shake of her head "What about you Mr. dark and broody?" she asks Ward making the team snicker.
"I'm a specialist." Ward says, Kaitlynn nods before turning to May. May raises an eyebrow at her
"Are you going to share Agent May?" Kaitlynn asks with an innocent smile, May rolls her eyes
"I pilot the bus." She says, Kaitlynn's eyes widen
"Wait. Seriously?" she asks shocked, May nods "Coulson must be crazy if he's not putting you into the field."
"I chose not to be in the field." May says, Kaitlynn opens her mouth to say something but is stopped when May shoots her a look. The two agents stare at each other, silently having a conversation before nodding her head.
"Okay then." She says before turning back to the team whose staring at them confused "Well I'm Kaitlynn. You can call me Kate for short. And I'm an agent." She says "So any questions?"
"Your hand." Jemma says "Its amazing…I have never seen anything like it. Where did you acquire it?" Kaitlynn looks down at her right hand, slowly rubbing her left over it before speaking
"Raina gave it to me." She says "Said it was a gift. I'm sorry but I have no idea where she got it." The blonde says
"Can you feel with it?" Skye asks, Kaitlynn nods
"Its strange…Its just a prosthetic yet it works and feels like a real hand" she says as she flexes it "Its just like Raina said…the only thing that's different is the bone…it's adamantium." she says as she looks back down at her hand, thinking back to how she lost it.
"I think that's enough bonding." May says before standing up "Come on Kaitlynn…I'll take you back to your room." Kaitlynn nods as she stands up from the couch.
"It was nice meeting all of you." She says before following May, leaving the rest of the team to think about their new team member.
_TIME SKIP_
A few hours later, Coulson comes into the lab where Jemma and Fitz are looking over Kaitlynn's results.
"What have you got?" he asks
"Kaitlynn has many fractures all over her body, that have been healed over time." Jemma says as she pulls up the x-rays to show how many broken bones she's had over the years "She also has multiple scars on her body, most of them on her back." She says softly "Most of them have already been recorded into her file previous to her 'death' but there are a lot that are new."
"Anything else?" Coulson says angry at what these people did.
"No." Jemma says "Other than her prosthetic. She is perfectly healthy."
"Any news about the device May found on her head?"
"As far as we can tell its some type of container" Fitz says as he pulls up the schematics for the device "Every time she tried to remember something it would release a serum directly into her cerebrum."
"Do we know what she was injected with?"
"As far as we can tell it's a number of different chemicals mixed together." Jemma says
"It was designed to suppress any memories she had" Fitz adds
"Why suppress though?" Coulson asks thinking out loud "Why not erase the mind completely?"
"Maybe they thought they could use what she knows about S.H.I.E.L.D. later on." Simmons says
"Maybe." Coulson says as he looks at the x-rays, after a few minutes he sighs "Let me know If you find anything new."
"Yes sir." Jemma and Fitz says as they watch their boss leave.
"Poor Kaitlynn." Jemma says as she looks up at the screen "I can't even begin to imagine what she's been through."
"Well at least she's out of that place and with us." Fitz says trying to cheer his friend up
"Yes…she's back where she belongs." Jemma says
-Meanwhile:-
May stares down at the tablet watching at Kaitlynn shifts and turns in her sleep from a nightmare. Sighing she turns the tablet off feeling like she's invading the girl's privacy, May thinks back to how Kaitlynn acted today. Knowing she's not the same girl she was before, but then again neither is May. She only hopes that Kaitlynn has changed enough to know that she and Coulson are there for her if she ever needs to talk, so she doesn't have to keep bottling everything up. Like she always did.
