Changes Chapter 7

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Author's note

On the advice of my new co-writersEmilyMaeWysoand AinsleyWright, I have decided on a plot that combines both options. I hope that you will enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it

I will be on hiatus for the next two weeks and will only post when I have time, so please bear with me , so a long chapter from me as an apology, 1000 words

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Brown eyes stared at the stone ceiling , at nothing in particular. After her time on the metal table, the two in white ,'The Twins' she called them, had finally gotten bored of her and her screams once the gas wore off, and had her thrown back into her cell. Quite literally.

Her throat was already hoarse from screaming and her mind blank from pain.

A few hours passed like this, with Skye in her coma-like state in the darkness of the cell and the silence was broken by the loud slam of the door.

A black figure moved into the small room and kneeled by her side. The figure cradled her gently, resting her head on his knee.

Skye had weakly stuttered out 'Who... you?'.

'Don't you remember me anymore, Skye?' This voice, it was so familiar. So familiar.

Her voice cracked as she spoke ,'Ward?'

She held back a whimper of pain as her head slammed against the stone wall harshly and the figure chuckled.

'Poor little Skye, you still think he's coming?' The voice that Skye had been dreaming of morphed into the low and laughing tone of Ray, and she bit her lip to prevent the tears from spilling over.

Here she was, so happy that Ward had finally arrived to save her and it all turns out to be a trick. She felt like a fool.

'Poor Skye, Are you going to run crying to your mommy now? Oh wait, She's dead.' Ray's mocking tone reverberated in the room and Skye was mentally cursing him.

A sharp kick sent Skye to the other side of the room and out of her mental chant of Ray's death.

'I've wasted enough time, now onto business.'Ray chuckled, squatting beside Skye's pained form,'We need access to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database Skye, and we want you to do it, big honor , eh?'

Mustering inner courage, Skye shook her head vigorously earning her a smirk from Ray. 'Marvelous. I was hoping for you to say that. Now I can try out my new equipment' Ray snaps his fingers and the metal door opens to reveal large muscular men moving all sorts of machinery and devices into the room.

Her eyes widens in fear when she realizes their purpose in the room and her breath catches in her throat.

'Well, Shall we get started?'

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'MEETING IN FIVE' May's voice boomed over the hidden speakers all over the BUS, and Ward gave a long sigh and puts down his book before heading to his small wardrobe to put on a shirt.

As much as he would love to deny, his mind was pre-occupied with Skye's going. There was something off about her leaving but he had no clues. Nothing.

Ward was the last to arrive, and after he joined the small circle around the screen, Fitz tapped on the screen and his last few hours of work became open to everyone.

'From the data collected in the flash drive, I managed to find the reason behind why the room was empty, it was because there was a transmitter in the room, probably something really small, that was emitting the same signal as Skye's bracelet, or Skye has managed to take the thing off.'

'So are we back at Square One now?' Coulson's voice broke the silence that followed Fitz revelation.

'Not quite sir, there's traces in the flash drive about a location and I'm currently trying to hack into the mainframe of the location, so I can get actual coordinates.' Fitz speaks, bordering exclamation, all the while smiling like a child during Christmas.

'Good. Keep up the tracking. May, for now find us a place to land. Ward, prepare for infiltration after Fitz confirms the coordinates. Dismissed.' Coulson's decisive tone sending everybody scurrying off.

Ward soon finds himself in the small kitchen of the BUS with Simmons, the young scientist obviously brooding over her turning-cold cup of tea. Making himself a coffee, he sits beside her, sipping occasionally at his coffee.

Silence reigns over the two until Simmons finally speaks up, 'Why were you so cold towards her?'

Her question catches Ward off guard and he sputters in his coffee. 'What?!'

The biologist turns around with tear-filled eyes to look at him, before repeating her question in a much louder tone 'I said, why were you so cold to Skye before she left? All of us were talking to her normally but it was only you who always ignored her. Why? If you had been nicer, she might not have left. Why, Ward? Why were you so cold to poor Skye?'

Slightly taken aback by the outburst, Ward takes a deep breath before replying, steeling his voice.

'Because she betrayed the entire team, Simmons. I can't simply overlook that.'

'But she made an effort to change, and you never gave her a chance to.'

'I didn't know that it would to this, if I had known-'

'Would it have made a difference if you knew it would result in her leaving?' Simmons's question had left Ward stumped. His answer died in his throat as he begun seriously thinking about it.

'I guess not.' He answered quietly as he stared at his coffee.

'I thought so.' With a loud clang, Simmons deposited her cold cup of tea in the sink and left Ward alone in the kitchen to reflect.

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The cold large metal cuffs were fastened over her shivering arms as Ray left the room, chuckling to himself about 'A day well spent'.

The metal door slammed shut, leaving the brunette alone, and the tears begun to spill. Her voice was raspy as she took breaths and her tired mind began to run through the injuries list.

'Man it keeps getting longer doesn't it?' Her quiet whisper amplifies in the small cell as she curls up into a ball in the corner of the room.

As her mind gladly falls under the sweet beckoning black waters, the sentence Ray repeated over and over again replays in her head.

They aren't coming to save you, Skye.

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Thank You for reading! The next chapter will only be up about two weeks later as I have last two papers to go before I can bid my exams goodbye for the holidays. I can promise the plot is going to be amazing, I can't wait to write the ending already but, one chapter at a time. Please review and I'm also letting the 150th, the 175th reviewer request a story or a chapter from me, and its at 144 now, so do review and once again thank you for reviewing.

P.S. The outburst from Simmons is going out to Rumbelleforever64, who gave me that suggestion since Chapter 1 so that's going out to you, Holly.