Chapter 10
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Two days after Skye helped Bucky she is in the medical area of the tower while Bruce and Simmons run tests on her to see how she is feeling.
"I'm doing good, right?" Skye asks them.
"Extremely so, they wound is healing nicely and there is no sign of infection which is shocking but very good news." Bruce answers, "I think it's time for you to start some light physical activity as physical therapy." Bruce tells her.
"Tai-Chi, Archery, lessons with Mom and тетя Наташа?" Skye asks, surprising herself with how eager she is to get back to training considering how much she hated it when she started out.
"I don't think he means that much Baby Girl." Coulson tells his daughter, both he and Melinda are in the room listening to what Bruce says.
"Your Dad's right." Bruce tells her, "I think start with the Tai-Chi and then add Archery in a few days then we assess when you're ready for lessons with Natasha and your Mother." Bruce tells his niece, "And I will be sure to tell both Natasha and Clint that so that you don't tell them it is okay when it is not." He informs his niece.
"Yes Uncle Bruce." Skye answers, "Does Doctor Jem have anything to add?" Skye asks.
"Yes I do." Jemma says, "You need to start eating more." Jemma tells her sister, "You are a lot thinner than you were before you left and I don't think all of that is due to your injury." She says and Skye can't help but wish that she didn't ask.
"I was trying to stay hidden, I was kind of too worried to eat sometimes." Skye lies.
"You're home now, no need to worry." Coulson tells his daughter though both he and Melinda exchange a look, both of them feeling like there is more than just what Skye is saying.
"When you're finished in here meet us in the theatre, we're educating Steve and Bucky." Tony says sticking his head into the room.
"We've been educating Uncle Steve for two years, and Uncle Tony has for longer than that, what does he still have to be educate on?" Skye asks.
"Who knows?" Simmons responds though she looks interested.
"Are we done here?" Skye asks.
"Yeah, we'll see you out there." Bruce says and he and Simmons leave the room because it is clear that Coulson and Melinda want to talk to their daughter in private.
"How are you feeling, honestly?" Coulson asks his daughter.
"Honestly, I'm feeling good." Skye tells her parents, "I mean it." She says looking between them.
"Are you sure?" Melinda asks.
"Positive." Skye answers, "So Tai-Chi in the morning?" Skye asks.
"If you think you are up for it." Melinda says to her daughter.
"I am." Skye responds and she hops down from the table that she is sitting on and walks over and hugs her parents, "Can we go see what exactly educating Uncle Steve and James means now?" Skye ask.
"Yeah, let's go." Coulson responds and the three walk out of the room.
When Coulson, Skye and Melinda enter the cinema a few minutes after they left the medical area they find everyone except for Tony, Pepper, Natasha and Clint sitting down on the very large couch that all of them can fit very comfortably on with even more space free for more people.
"Good, you're here." Tony says.
"Clint you're sitting on the far left, Tony far right and Skye you're in the middle." Pepper explains.
"I don't get it, why is she separating them?" Bucky asks Steve confused.
"Because without a doubt within an hour of the first movie they will start a food fight. Pepper is trying to prevent it." Steve explains.
"Why don't you just stop them once they have started?" Bucky asks.
"Because, every one of us ends up joining in instead." Steve explains.
"Really?" Bucky asks surprised.
"Really." Steve answers.
"So what exactly are you putting on?" Skye asks.
"The movies we've always said we have to wait to a special occasion to show Steve" Tony explains.
"Nice, starting with The Godfather?" Skye asks.
"Of course." Tony responds and everyone who is still standing takes their seats. "Whoever has the remote press play." Tony requests and that's what Tripp does.
"Here's a tip you should eat the snacks you really want before they start being thrown." Steve tells his friend.
"I don't know what half of this stuff is." Bucky comments
"And you won't until you try." John who heard what he said says, "Just try everything." He suggests.
Bucky is hesitant but he slowly reaches out and grabs and hand full of sacks and eats them, finding it actually quite nice so he eats more.
Just as Steve warned Bucky thirty five minutes into the movie the first bit of popcorn is thrown by Tony at Clint, causing him to retaliate and Skye to retaliate in her Uncle's defence and within a few minutes an all-out food fight has broken out.
"Are you okay?" Tripp asks Bucky who has taken cover behind the couch and isn't taking part in the fight.
"I don't understand, how can you waste food like this?" Bucky asks.
"Um." Tripp responds not sure how to answer, "I guess because we've never had to worry about being hungry, not truly." Tripp answers, not realising how wrong he is, "For us, food is so easily obtained that we don't worry about it as much, and Tony answers buys extra because he knows we will get in a food fight." Tripp explains, "I'm sorry, I don't really have a explanation that makes sense." He admits.
"Right in the face, got to notice your surroundings Cap." John's voice full of pride and glee at being able to get Steve, says.
"So is this thing teams or everyone against everyone?" Bucky asks.
"A bit of both." Tripp answers.
"Give me something that will make a mess when it hits someone." Bucky requests and Tripp hands over a chocolate muffin that has chocolate source inside and Bucky sets his target on one person, John Garrett.
Due to the fact that John wasn't expecting it Bucky manages to hit John right in the face with the cupcake.
"You were saying?" Bucky asks and because everyone is amused by Bucky, Steve and John only Natasha notices Skye leaving the room so she follows.
During the food fight Skye's ability informed her of something that she needs to deal with straight away, due to the fact that she knows her family won't be keen on what she is doing because she is still healing Skye sneaks away in hopes of doing what she has to and getting back to the theatre before anyone realises that she left.
"What are you doing?" Natasha asks her niece as she starts to look through her room for something.
"My bow, where is it?" Skye asks.
"Why do you need it?" Natasha asks, "From what I understand you're not healed enough to use it yet." She says remembering what Bruce says.
"Technically I'm not." Skye admits as she knows that if she tries to make the shot that she needs to make she will pull several of her stitchers, "But I have to make one shot, and it can't wait until I'm healed." Skye tells her Aunt.
"Why? What's the shot?" Natasha asks.
"Ward has a guy in the building across form us taking pictures of me whenever he sees me. I need to put an arrow in his camera as a warning to stay away, which will work because Ward didn't pick this guy for his bravery so an arrow to his camera will scare him away." Skye explains.
"Does he know anything about Ward? About Hydra?" Natasha asks.
"He just knows a phone number, which I know now." Skye tells her, "I need to do this тетя Наташа." Skye tells her aunt.
"Tell me where he is and I'll do it." Natasha tells her niece, "I'll shot the camera."
"You're going to need a sniper rifle." Skye tells her Aunt.
"Well it's a good thing that we have an armoury here then." Natasha tells her niece.
"Yeah it is." Skye answers and the pair head there, "Where is my bow anyway? And my Quiver?" she asks as she started to get worried when she couldn't find them.
"Clint has them." Natasha answers and Skye realises that she should have known.
Several minutes later Skye and Natasha have visited the armoury and are just finishing locking it again.
"So where the best place to take the shot?" Natasha asks her niece.
"Kitchen window." Skye answers
"So is Ward stalking you now?" Natasha asks her niece worried.
"No, well kind of, I think he's starting to get obsessed." Skye answers and Natasha stops walking to look directly at her niece.
"That's worrying Skye." Natasha tells her niece.
"Not yet it's not." Skye answers, "It's not dangerous." Skye tells her.
"He is though." Natasha tells her niece, "And if he is obsessed with you then you are in even more danger from him and he's even more dangerous." She tells Skye.
"Not at the moment I'm not." Skye tells her aunt, "In his own messed up way he cares which means he won't do anything until I'm healed." Skye explains, "Can you not tell anyone, not now at least." Skye request.
"Skye your parents may actually kill me for keeping this from them." Natasha tells Skye.
"Please they would never actually kill you, and I'm not asking for you to keep this forever just a couple of days, they have enough to worry about as it is." Skye tells her aunt.
"I'm telling them when you get the all clear to do archery again, deal?" Natasha asks.
"Deal." Skye responds as they enter the kitchen and Skye watches as Natasha sets up the rifle.
"Got the guy, he looks terrified." Natasha comments as she looks through the scope and she sees a man who look terrified sitting near where a camera is set up on a tripod.
"Like I said Ward didn't pick this guy from his bravery." Skye tells her Aunt.
"This is going to terrify him." Natasha comments and she fires her shot which hits the camera, her target exactly, "Done." Natasha says.
"What's done?" Melinda's voice asks from the door.
"Do one of you want to explain what is going on?" Coulson asks. "That wasn't a request." Coulson says as Skye and Natasha exchange looks but neither of them say anything.
"Ward has someone staking out the tower looking for any sign of me." Skye explains, "тетя Наташа, just shot the camera to give him a warning. The guy who Ward has watching was only doing so because he was terrified of Ward so shooting the camera was enough to scare him off." Skye explains.
"Ward's a problem isn't he?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"Ward is basically second in command of what is left of Hydra, of course he's going to be a problem." Skye tells her parents as Natasha excuses herself.
"That's not what I meant." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Yeah, he is." Skye answers, "But I don't want to talk about it, not now." Skye says, "So can we not?" Skye asks and Coulson and Melinda exchange looks.
"When you are ready to talk about it, we're here." Melinda tells her daughter, "But we're going to have to do something."
"I know." Skye tells her mother and she hugs her and then she hugs her father, "I've got to go to the bathroom, I'm met you back down in the cinema." Skye tells her parents who both nod and they head back to the cinema and Skye heads to the bathroom.
Once Skye is in the bathroom she locks the door and she pulls out her phone that she brought in Europe a number that no one has the number to, dies and number and listens as it rings out. Once it rings out a non-personalised voicemail answers, "It's me." Skye says, "You've got to stop this, now. I don't want to be with you, and I don't want anything to do with you, not now. Stay away from and my family. If you want to change, if you want to leave Hydra and your sister then call me on this number and don't bother trying to lie because I will know if you are. If you want to be a good person you can be, but the choice is up to you, I will always leave the door open, but know that if I have to stop you I will. The choice is yours. Shooting your camera was a warning and you only get one of those. Goodbye Grant." Skye says and she hangs up the phone as she does she feels tears on her face which she wipes away as she opens the door where she find Clint on the other side who doesn't say anything, just gives her a hug.
After she left the kitchen Natasha heads back to the cinema where everyone is cleaning up.
"What's going on?" Maria asks.
"Ward has someone watching the tower for signs of Skye." Natasha explains.
"Ward? That name sounds familiar." Bucky comments.
"It would." Garrett says angrily, "Grant Ward was a Hydra mole in SHIELD he betrayed us all though no one more than Skye because they dated for a while." Garrett explains, "But the kicker is that he isn't just any agent he is the biological brother of…" Garrett begins to say but Bucky cuts him off.
"Alexander Peirce's adoptive daughter." Bucky finishes.
"Yeah." Steve says.
"Where's Skye?" Clint asks as Coulson and Melinda walk in
"Bathroom." Coulson answers.
"Excuse me." Clint says having a feeling that because she knows that Ward has someone following her then she is going to contact him and she's going to need support after that.
The following morning Skye gets up early for the first time in a while so that she can do Tai-Chi with her mother, something that she has been looking forward to as she wants to get back to her regular routine.
"You're going to take it easy today, slowly ease your way back in." Melinda tells her daughter.
"I know, I'll take it slow, it's just nice to get back to it." Skye tells her mother and the mother and daughter procedure to do Tai-Chi together in silence.
"So what are your plans for today?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"Jem and I are having a girl's day." Skye explains, "It was going to be us and Fitzy but we found out that Tripp had never seen doctor who or Lost so Fitzy is fixing that and Tripp kicked Jem and I out of the room while that is happening." Skye explains.
"Why?" Melinda asks curious.
"Apparently we talk too much, but Fitz who talks more than both Jem and I is okay." Skye explain with a roll of her eyes.
"Well have fun." Melinda tells her daughter.
"We will." Skye answers and she heads to the shower while Melinda starts to stretch as Natasha should be up any minute for their sparing session.
Natasha who woke earlier than normal is on her way downstairs when he passes the room on the main bedroom floor that was made for Bucky that he decided to sleep in when she hears moans of, "no, stop, I'm sorry, don't make me." When she hears that Natasha has to pause and fight back memories of her doing the exact same thing before she pushes open the door
"Will you be okay to help him?" Clint's voice says from the door way of their room when he is exiting on his way down to the gym to get a couple of hours of practice with his bow. While Clint doesn't doubt that Natasha will be able to help Bucky he doubts that she can do it without bringing up painful memories for her.
"I have to. It's like why you and Skye talk to each other. You're the only ones who can get what you've gone through. Well I'm the only one who can get what he has." Natasha tells her partner.
"Okay, I'll be out here if you need me." Clint tells her.
Natasha nods and enters the room.
When Natasha walks into the room she walks so that she is about a meter away from Bucky who is tossing, turning and moaning in bed. She knows better than to try and wake him by shaking him or something like that because it won't end well.
"Bucky." Natasha says loudly but it has no effect, "James." She tries but that also has no effect, "зима солдат, проснись." Natasha tries and in a second Bucky goes from tossing and turning in his bed to sitting up, his eyes open wide.
"What's going on?" Bucky asks confused.
"You were having a nightmare, I heard as I walked past." Natasha tells him.
"Natalia?" Bucky asks confused.
"I was wondering when you would remember." Natasha admits.
"I had from the beginning but you seemed like you didn't want to mention it." Bucky admits.
"I didn't because I wasn't sure that you remembered." Natasha tells him.
"Does anyone else know?" Bucky asks.
"It was in the file I gave Steve, that Melinda knew about and I would be more surprised if Skye didn't know though she doesn't like to use her abilities to find out personal information about us, and Clint knows most of it he just doesn't realise it's you, but I have to tell him." Natasha explains to Bucky.
"I'm glad for you, you know, that you found someone to let in, that you're happy." Bucky tells Natasha.
"Thank you." Natasha tells him, "How are you doing?" she asks.
"How do you do it?" Bucky asks Natasha, "How did you start over after everything you did? How do you keep going?" He asks.
"Because I have to." Natasha admits, walking over and sitting next to Bucky "I need to try and do whatever I can to make up for what I did, what I was." Natasha explains, "It's hard and for a long time you're going to wonder every day if it's worth it, actually that never really goes away completely, but you have something that will help you get through it." Natasha tells him.
"What?"
"Steve, Me and everyone here, we'll help you. It's going to be up to you keep going but we're going to be here to remind you of why you should." Natasha explains.
"Who did you have?" Bucky asks.
"Clint. And Melinda and Phil." Natasha explains and the pair drift into silence. "Phil will have breakfast ready in about an hour, you should have a shower and eat with everyone I guarantee that you haven't had a breakfast as good as this before." Natasha tells him.
"Thanks, I will." Bucky responds.
"I'll see you out there." Natasha says walking across the room.
"Natalia-Natasha, I'm sorry. For everything I made you do, for everything they made me make you do. I need you to know that." Bucky tells her.
"I do know that." Natasha tells him, "And I don't blame you because you were being just as controlled as I was." She tells him.
"Are we…. Friends?" Bucky asks hesitantly.
"Yeah, we are, and if you ever need to talk I'm here." Natasha tells him before leaving the room.
As Natasha talks to Bucky in his room Clint waits outside in case she needs him, even if she won't admit it.
"Are you alright?" Clint asks Natasha when she exits the room.
Natasha walks over to Clint kisses him and when they break apart she says words that she never thought she would say to a person, not after everything she's been through. "I love you." She tells him.
"Did you just?" Clint asks completely shocked and Natasha nods, "I thought Love was for Children." He asks knowing that that has been his partners' opinion for as long as he's known her.
"I thought it was, but in the last few days I've almost lost one of the people who matter the most to me in the world and I've seen for myself that the person who taught me a lot of what I know now was as manipulated as I was, and hates it just as much. I love you Clint, and I'm not afraid to admit that to myself anymore." Natasha tells her Partner.
"I love you too Nat." Clint responds and he and Natasha kiss again.
"Get a room you two." John tells them as he walks past. Once Natasha and Clint break apart again they smile and exchange a look and without saying a word they know what the other is thinking so they head back to their room.
After she left training with her Mother Skye made her way to Fitz and Simmons's room.
"I'M COMING IN. PLEASE BE DECENT." Skye says loudly before pushing the door open and entering.
"We're decent, don't worry." Simmons says.
"Good." Skye says walking over and climbing into the bed and crawling so that she is sitting between Fitz and Simmons.
"You comfortable?" Fitz asks his sister.
"Very." Skye responds, "Oh, I have an idea pass me your phone." Skye requests.
"I'm probably going to regret this, but here." Fitz says handing his over.
"Thank you." Skye tells him and she calls a number, "Tripp get your ass to Jem and Fitzy's room now." Skye requests before hanging up before anything can be said.
"What did you do that for?" Simmons asks confused.
"Because Tripp is one of us, one of us kids, he belongs in here sharing the bed with us instead of out their having breakfast with everyone else." Skye explains.
"Aw, thanks Skye." Tripp's voice says from the door.
"Get your ass over here now." Skye requests and Tripp walks over and manages to squeeze onto the bed.
"So what are we going to do now?" Jemma ask.
"Fitzy remote." Skye requests and he hands it to her. "Where did you get up to?" she asks not needing to say anymore because he knows what she means.
"Utopia." Fitz answers and Skye plays it from the drive that Tony has connected to all the TV's.
"See this is nice." Skye says as she moves the blanket so that it covers all four off them.
"I think I'm about to fall off." Fitz comments.
"Me to." Tripp says.
"We'll we move in then." Skye says and her and Jemma move in closer together so that Tripp and Fitz can have more room.
A few hours later Coulson is worried that he hasn't seen Skye yet so he goes in search of her.
"Have either of you seen Skye?" Coulson asks Sam and Maria who are going through documents that homeland security sent them.
"She called Tripp a few hours ago, told him to get to Fitz and Simmons's room, try there." Maria suggests.
"Thanks I will." Coulson responds and that's where he heads.
When he gets their he knocks and when he doesn't receive an answer Coulson gently pushes the door open and he finds, Skye, Tripp, Fitz and Simmons asleep together on the bed, all cuddled up together Tripp having a protective arm over the other three who are sand wedged closer together than Coulson thought was possible. Not being able to help it Coulson pulls out his phone and takes a picture before quietly closing the door and letting them sleep. Making a note to tell the others not to disturbed them.
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