When Skye woke she was a little baffled that she let herself fall asleep, after she had said to Ward that she wasn't going to get any. Everyone around her was getting ready and packing up to leave. "Morning Skye." Hunter told her as soon as he saw that she was awake. "Did we make too much noise?" He asked as she pushed her way into a sitting position still half way under the covers.

"Why didn't any of you wake me up? I could have helped pack." Skye was confused on why they were giving her special treatment. It's not like this is the girl scouts, this was S.H.I.E.L.D., a place where everyone did their part.

Bobbi had rolled her sleeping bag already and was starting to put it in her backpack. Then she turned around to face Skye and shrugged. "We thought it was best that you get some sleep since you haven't slept well in a while."

Ward was trying to put his stuff away as well then took a drink out of his water bottle. He was listening to everything that they were saying and didn't like it. Ward tried so hard to keep his eyes focused all on the floor but from time to time they bounced to where Skye was at. It hurt his heart so much that she wasn't get much sleep. If only he could chase the nightmares away.

It was just like the time before the S.H.I.E.L.D. team hated him, when the Chitauri helmet infected Jemma and it was just Skye and him alone together watching her when she was working on a cure. Ward told her that he hated being not able to protect them all from stuff he couldn't even see. That he would rather it be a person, someone he could hurt or punish.

Right now though Ward felt the same as he did back then. Helpless. Helpless that no matter how much he wanted to protect Skye from any harm that was thrown at her. Even if it was a simple as a nightmare. One that he had created most likely. Still though Ward had to give it to her that she was the strongest person he ever knew. So Ward knew that she would be able to get through this without his help like he gave last time it happened.

"I'm fine I know what's best for me." Skye reassured them. Everyone knew better though to believe her on that. "Well then let me just put my stuff away and we can get going." Bobbi nodded and the other two just kept working.

Not even maybe 5 minutes later Skye was done and had her stuff ready to go. Hunter let out a grown. What was wrong with him, Skye thought, I thought he was excited about this weather. "What was that about, you were the one who was excited about all of this."

Hunter swung his head towards her and was sad about the cold now. "Moments pass."

Ward decided to take the lead, next Hunter, then Bobbi, leaving Skye to the back. Again. Following in a single file that was just as boring to Skye was just as boring as when she did it when she was little. To pass the next half an hour at most, Skye went over tactics for the mission in her mind.

Skye was kicked out of her concentration though when she actually kicked something herself. Looking down it just looked like snow or something but when she leaned down to inspect it she saw the color that was not ivory but not pure white either. Leaning closer to get a better look it came to her. Before she could stop it her hand flew to cover her mouth and Skye sucked her air in.

There it was, the skeleton of a human body. A chill went down her spin and Skye closed her eyes to push it all out of her mind. When her eyes opened she stood alone and the others must not have noticed that Skye had stopped walking.

A couple minutes later Bobbi noticed that nobody was walking behind her. "Hey we need to turn back for a second." Neither Ward nor Hunter heard Bobbi when she said this. Sighing with impatience she decided to shove them to get their attention.

They knocked into each other and Hunter turned around to give Bobbi a piece of his mind. Making a jerking motion behind her with her head. A bit of her blonde hair fell in her face when she did this so Bobbi pushed it back behind her ear to keep it out of the way. "Let's start going back for Skye."

"Skye will catch up soon enough." Hunter told her and Bobbi narrowed her eyes with anger at him.

"Fine, but don't expect me to wait for you if you fall behind." Bobbi crossed her arms while breathing deeply through her nose. Faintly she heard Hunter muttered something that sounded like as if you were going to before but she didn't comment back on it.

Thankfully in a minute or so later Skye caught up with everyone and they were curious to know where she had been. "I kind of got stuck on a something in the snow." Was all she said for a while but Bobbi wanted to know what it was exactly. "It looked like a human skeleton." The team looked down for a moment at the ground because this news was so unnerving.

Hunter spoke first to break the silence. "I guess it's nice to know where our bodies will be put if we die."

Ward though was confident in his response. "We won't die, not today anyways." Then he turned around and moved towards the Hydra hideout.

After 10 minutes they gathered stood in a line facing the entrance they would go through. A few guards were posted outside but no doubt there would be more in there. Skye looked and studies the challenge that she was about to face and told herself the 6 words that oddly enough brought her comfort.

"We won't die, not today anyways."


Sorry about such a long wait but I'm going to try and do my best to write more. Thanks for reading my story and thanks to all of you have told me that you like it.