Chapter 7

Coulson arrives at the scene with Fitz, Hunter and Mike. Coulson stares at the body. He frowns. Ian Quinn was dead. "How do we even know he was here, Coulson?" Hunter asks.

"He was here." Fitz knows, just by the way the body has been arranged. He knows because in his gut he remembers the way that Ward had dropped him in the ocean. How the circumstances had turned out.

"I've hooked up my feed to the security video, and while there wasn't one for inside. There was this." Mike shows the video to the three guys.

"It's the teleporter, and he brought Skye…" Deathlok fast-forwards showing a scene of Ward and Skye leaving together. Skye is keeping her distance.

"It's them."

"It's Skye." Coulson mumbles.

"Do we know where they went?" Hunter asks, before a crack is heard in the other room.

Mike pulls out his gun and shoots. In the corner, the team finds a cowering Bakshi. "Please don't hurt me." He begs. As Mike stands over him.

"Where did Ward go?"

"I don't know, I dropped Kara off at the airport and was supposed to come back… and…" Coulson could clearly tell Bakshi wasn't the same.

He points his gun at him. "Do you have a phone?" Coulson asks. Bakshi hands it over willingly.

Hunter watches him; he almost seemed as if he was happy to comply. Nothing like the time Bobbi interrogated him.

Coulson finds the most recent number called, and expects the answer. Someone picks up, but they don't speak first. "Hello Ward."

"Coulson." Ward breathes more heavy than a sigh. It was almost as if he was out of breath. "They took her."

"What are you talking about?"

"Shield took HER!" He screams. "You took Skye away, and I'm getting her back." Ward hangs up, and just than a quinjet crashes through the roof, with Bobbi and Mack at its core.

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"We've located Skye thanks to your phone call" Gonzales tells May.

May frowns. "One question." May arches an eyebrow. "What do you plan to do with Skye once you have her?"

"Study her, of course. She's unusual enough given her background as an 084, but with the GH-325 serum Coulson gave her and with whatever transformation she underwent that seems to have given her this…power, she needs to be carefully monitored and guarded so she doesn't hurt people. At least until we understand her."

May's gut clenches. She knew what that meant; locking the girl up and, if necessary, dissecting her.

Gonzales was notorious for stance on gifted. If Skye was caught by him things would be over.

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Skye sits across from Ward. She'd agreed to come, to let him give her a chance to explain. A waitress comes and gives Skye her coffee, she smiles almost jealous of Skye sitting with such an attractive man.

"I want to explain." Ward starts with. "I'm sorry, for what I did."

Skye wants to forgive him, but she knows all the horrible acts he's committed, what he did to FitzSimmons, what he did to her. "Because of you kidnapping me, my life has turned upside down, Ward."

Skye has to hold onto the coffee in order to hold it in, her anger, and her dismay. Ward sees her wrists, and Skye has to pull her sleeve down. "Those bruises, did Shield…."

"No Ward, this is your fault."

"My fault?"

Skye takes a breath. "You brought me to my father, and because of that I was forced…." Skye knows it's not really all Ward's fault. It was only partly his. After all, she'd chosen to follow Raina, she could have left… she should have. Maybe than she could be the one stopping Ward, coming after him. But instead she sat here, almost pitying him.

"Because of you kidnapping me, I got brought into a situation that changed me." Skye pulls back her sleeves, and shows the bruising. "This is a consequence of that change."

Ward frowns; he looks sympathetic, as he reaches out to feel the bruising. Skye wants to pull back, but she lets him touch it. Let's him see the consequence of what he did.

"I'm sorry."

He sounds real, he sounds sincere, and he's honest when he says it. He actually means it.

Skye bites her lip, she wishes she could hate him more than she did, but it was hard to ignore those old feelings.

"I just wanted to help you Skye, I thought maybe reuniting you with your father, and giving you the family you wanted would help you. My father and mother were terrible, but I thought maybe your family would be better. Maybe you have a chance, to be built up."

Skye clutches the cup. The warmth soaking into her hands. "Listen Ward… I" Skye sees a blonde figure step into the room. Skye stands up. "Lincoln." She mumbles. Ward turns around and sees the same figure. "Why are you here?"

"Jiaying was worried, she was worried about you Skye, I came to make sure you were okay." He glares at Ward. "This is the Ian Quinn guy?"

"The one who shot him." Ward explains. Skye bites the inside of her cheek.

Lincoln glares at Ward, coming up in front of Skye and taking a defensive positon. "So you killed someone."

"I've killed plenty." Ward answers. "So I'd leave if I were you."

"Stop." Skye says standing up almost knocking over the coffee. "Lincoln, Ward look I know you two probably have so many things far from common but—"

A heavy explosion happens and sprays glass through the window at them. Lincoln protects Skye as the two collapse on the ground. Ward grabs his gun ready for a fight. "Are you okay?" Lincoln asks Skye.

She nods, with a cut now on her cheek. Lincoln gets up, sparks flying between his two hands. Skye's ears begin to ring as she stands up behind them. Smoke covers the area, and in a few seconds she's lost both Lincoln and Ward. She gets ready to shout for both of them, but she feels the sound of ICER's being shot. She lifts up her hands to defend herself, but one hits her in the side, and she blacks out.

So hope this wasn't confusing. Got a bit of a Ward, Lincoln confrontation going on here, next chapter they work together a bit…try to anyway.

There are only going to be 3 chapters left. After the next (chapter 8) I'm going to split it into two alternative endings, one where Skye goes with Ward and another where she goes with Lincoln. I'm just feeling really uninspired, I had so many bigger plans for this story, but I can't bring myself to write for it. But I do have a great new Au idea, which I'm going to start after the finale (so scared)

So anyway that's why I'm ending it a bit early, but tell me if you only want one ending instead of two? Because if people want only one, I'm up for just doing one of the guys and not bothering with the other.

Thanks for reading, review please :D