When Clint and Skye finally stopped running, Clint started to think out a plan. Skye had tried to explain everything while they were making their escape, but Clint's mind was too focused on where they should go and how fast they should pace themselves to be able to hear her. They were quite a bit down town now but they were going to have to circle back soon so Clint could get his truck. It was a lot easier to get away from someone if you were driving, and besides, he couldn't just leave his truck there all day.

Clint glanced toward Skye, "Sorry, could you say all that again? I couldn't really hear you."

She sighed, "Well, that guy, John Garret, the one who said he wanted to blow up the Russian base, he came up to me in the hallway as school was ending and said, 'so, you're good at hacking things. I'll give you a job, I'll pay you twelve thousand dollars to hack the passcode to get into the Russian base.' I almost took it too, I mean that's a lot of money. But I didn't cause, obviously I'm not going to help someone blow other people up, even if they are Russian and trying to destroy America."

"Well, good thing you didn't take it."

"Yeah. I said 'No I won't' and he got really mad, except he didn't seem all that mad if you get what I'm trying to say. His face just got still for a second and he tilted his head slightly sideways and started smiling kind of, but in his eyes you could see pure evil."

"That's harsh. But unfortunately he does do that sometimes doesn't he, I can totally see the expression of his you're describing, please continue."

"And he said, 'Well now, I think you'll do it for us anyway.' And this other guy walked up, he was our age about, and Garret says, 'Take this young lady out to the truck, we've got a Russian base to visit.' So whoever this new guy is, he grabs me by the arm, not very hard at all, and starts walking me toward the door. So I told him to let go of me, he didn't even say anything! So I started twisting away and he tightened his grip.

"I got really mad then. No one was going to force me to do anything, so I slapped him across the face, he looked kind of shocked but his grip didn't loosen at all. So the I kicked him in the knee cap as hard as I could, and I'm wearing heels and the stick of my heel hit his knee as hard as I could kick. His leg buckled and he let go for just a second.

"Then I jerked free and I ran outside. While I was running I got on my phone and hacked into your phone to see where your phone was cause I figured you'd have it. So I found where you were. Unfortunately you were on the other side of the town, in an alley or something. It took me forever to get there cause I was also trying to lose the guy who was chasing me.

"Oh my gosh he could run fast. If I hadn't run out in front of traffic a few times he totally would have caught up to me. I also…um…no, never mind."

"You also what?" Clint asked raising an eyebrow.

"I…ugh. I hacked into a traffic light and made all the lights green…and I kind of cause a really big wreck, but it delayed that guy, cause he was still on the other side of the inter section."

"You did what? People could have been killed Skye, what were you thinking?"

"Of…escaping? Sorry! I don't think anyone was injured too badly—"

"OK, just forget it. I'll make sure SHIELD takes care of it. After all, it was sort of John Garrets fault."

"He's probably kind of close behind us. Shouldn't we be running?" Skye asked nervously.

"I told Steve to stall him, he probably thought of something clever. Besides, Katrina was back there too, I'm sure she could distract any guy if she really wanted too."

Skye glanced at him grinning.

"What?"

"Nice password, by the way."

Clint could feel his face getting red, "How did you figure it out?"

Skye shrugged, "I'm good at that kind of stuff."

They had almost finished circling the block and Clint jumped at the opportunity to change the subject, "So if you hadn't realized, we're kind of walking in a circle so that we can get to my truck. You stay here, I'll go get my truck and then I'll come pick you up. Whoever the guy is who was following you won't know I'm helping you, so it's perfect."

Clint left Skye standing there and walked around the corner of the side walk. As he approached the building he didn't see anyone suspicious or anyone familiar. He pulled his keys out of his back pocket and unlocked the car. He glanced around quickly still seeing no one he got in.

He glanced in the rearview mirror and then down at the radio. After he started the car he turned the radio onto a country station. He'd just put the car into reverse and was about to start backing up when he heard a light thud and the truck seemed to bounce a little. He looked up at the rearview mirror again but he still didn't see anything so he started to back out of the parking lot. When he got to the place he'd left Skye he pulled to a stop and rolled his window down.

"Hey," He said jokingly, "What to hitch a ride with me?"

"Sure," Skye said grinning, "Why not, random stranger?"

An old couple who were standing on the sidewalk talking turned to look in shock at Skye as she got into the passenger's side of Clint's truck.

The old lady marched up to the car and said, "Young lady, do you know this man?"

Out of the side mirror on Clint's side he saw a truck driving toward the ice cream place, it said SHIELD on the side, and looked a lot like John Garrets truck.

"I do now!" Skye said.

Clint pressed down on the gas and lifted a hand to the old couple as they shot by.

"You're speeding," Skye noted.

"Yeah, I think that was John Garrets truck, I figured we'd better scram."

"Where are you going to go?"

"My house, Garret won't think to look there, besides, it'll be dinner time soon and my mom's really good at cooking."

"Your mom?"

"Yeah," Clint glanced at her, "What, you didn't think I had a mom?"

"I don't know, somehow it just seemed hard to imagine."

When Clint pulled up in front of his house, he shut the car off and they both got out. He grabbed his bow and arrows out of the back seat and they walked up the steps to his house, "Both my parents work so they probably won't be home," Clint said as he unlocked the front door.

"Well, at least you have parents," Skye said sighing, "I've been searching for mine my whole life, I'm nowhere near finding out who they are though."

"Oh? We might be able to look through some SHIELD files, SHIELD knows pretty much everything."

He shut the front door and dropped his backpack and bow in the hallway.

"Yeah, I've hacked into SHIELD before and read stuff, I can't find anything."

"How many times have you hacked into SHIELD? Isn't this the second time you admitted to hacking into it?"

Skye shrugged, "I've hacked into it a bunch of times."

Clint walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge, "Want something to eat? Or drink? We have orange juice, milk…and water obviously…I could make lemonade if you wanted—"

"Clint…? Didn't we shut the door?"

Clint looked over his shoulder and saw that the front door was wide open. He walked into the hallway and looked out but there didn't seem to be anyone around anywhere, there weren't any suspicious cars parked on the street anywhere.

"That's weird; I guess maybe the wind blew it open? It does that sometimes."

Skye gave a startled gasp.

Clint turned quickly around. He stepped to the right and picked up his bow and an arrow, it only took a second. Grant Ward was standing behind Skye, gripping her by her left arm and holding a gun to the right side of her head.

"What are you doing?" Clint asked, irritated, "I almost shot you."

"I'm taking her into custody, she's wanted for questioning. SHIELD's orders."

"Oh? You must be the guy Garret sent after her, well Ward, Garret doesn't actually have permission to order that. You see, he's disobeying Fury's orders"

"I'm loyal to Garret, not Fury."

"What? Does that even make sense?"

"Oh my gosh, just let go of me dude. You do realize that Garret is trying to blow a bunch of people up right?"

"His reasons for wanting you aren't my concern. I'm just supposed to bring you to him." Grant said calmly.

"You're an idiot," Skye said rolling her eyes.

"I am not!"

"Don't you have a mind of your own?"

Just then the phone started ringing, none of them moved.

"I guess you'd better pick up the phone Clint, since this is your house, and I'll just leave."

"Hah, how are you going to leave Grant?" Clint asked, "You going to walk Skye down the sidewalk pointing a gun at her head the whole time? Really?"

"Call from Tony Stark," the electronic voice on the phone said.

"OK you people," Skye said, "This is ridiculous." She then jerked away from Grant, "There's no way you're going to shoot me so just put your gun up and join the good guys."

"I am one of the 'good guys'"

"Sure you are."

Clint grabbed the phone, "Hello?"

"Houston, we have a problem," Tony's voice said.

"What?"

"Sorry, I just always wanted to say that when there was an actual problem."

"What's the problem?"

"I hacked into a top secret SHIELD data base because I was bored and there were weird codes hidden in some weird message thing that someone had tried to delete off the program and they even put locks on it and stuff first and it was insanely hard. Anyway the point is that apparently someone who was calling themselves JG is making some sort of a deal with the Russians from that base we hacked into about taking over the world…."

"What?!"

"Yeah, it said something like, "We'll back you, Hydra's pretty much ready."

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