Hey I'm back with another chapter and I hope that you all like it, I added in some extra Skyeward fluff just in time for Valentine's Day because there is no way that I am posting by them. Usual stuff don't own AOS and all mistakes made are mine so without further ado enjoy the chapter.
Skye was sitting on her bed letting her legs stretched out and semi paying attention to the Harry Potter movie that was playing the background while she tossed a ball in the air with her powers letting it twirl around. She loved moments like these when she was all by herself and could just freely use her powers for whatever reason she wanted too, even if it was to toss a ball in the air, it just felt right and since she didn't have much free time anymore her having free time to use her powers was a gift.
The ball was in floating in midair when she felt her phone vibrate under her pillow, losing concentration the ball fell into her lap and she groaned quickly grabbing her phone answering it to see who made her lose her concentration.
"Hello?" She snapped.
"Woah sorry did I call at a bad time?" It was Tommy; of course it was Tommy who called her.
"No it's just that I barely have any free time in here and the San Andres Fault needs to move or else there is going to be another Chile incident." She was referring to the time when she had caused an 8.8 earthquake in Chile after she had come out of her brainwashing and she was very pissed to say the least. She felt bad afterwards; poor Chile didn't do anything to her that's just where Tommy had first taken her when she needed to release her powers.
"Really it's that bad?"
"No but it's just with all these people around I have to be extra careful you know how it is."
"Yeah I do, anyway you want me to meet you at your next stop and maybe we can do something to help you."
Skye sighed and criss crossed her legs, "Tommy I told you, you need to focus on finding Henley."
"Yeah but you also need me too Skye and I'm placing you second to my missing girlfriend who I'm guessing is not going anywhere any time soon. You need me and I promised you that I would be there if you ever needed me so I ask again do you want me to come over and help you?"
She let out a sigh, "You know I do but it's just too risky with everybody around and Coulson's already breathing down my neck."
"What about my brother?" His voice had changed a little and if she was there she bet she would feel the nervous vibrations coming off of him.
"He thinks somethings up with me but he wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't."
She heard him sigh over the phone, "Yeah that sounds like Grant."
They didn't say anything for a couple of seconds until she finally said something that was still taboo to him, "Tommy you said that your brother was arrested when he was fifteen two months shy of sixteen."
Then line was silent until she heard a slight intake of breath, "Yeah what about it?"
"Because I hacked into his file and he didn't join the academy until he was twenty-one so that's about five years unaccounted for."
She heard the crackling of the phone as if he was in an area with bad reception, "Skye I have to go I'm in an area with like one cell tower within a hundred mile radius and I'm about to kick some nasty people's ass."
"Yeah but—," she was about to say more about how he was deflecting and how he was the one that called her but he cut her off with the sound of gun fire.
"Look Skye I would love to talk but I really gotta go talk to you soon alright love you, bye." Then the call ended.
She took the phone down from her ear and looked at baffled, "Alright love you too you asshole." She said to the phone but mostly to herself. Seeing that there was no point in staying in her bunk she opened the door and made her way into the kitchenette area to grab a snack or maybe find Fitz so that she could talk to him. When she entered the kitchenette she was surprised though not to have found Fitz but it was Ward standing there making a sandwich but best of all his back was turned to her.
Skye made her way over to Ward as quiet as she could, which was very quiet, and she went to try and scare him or at least startle him a little bit. Making her way around the island she moved over to him more to the point where she was practically breathing down his neck, well if she could reach his neck he was tall after all, and she smirked she had him exactly where she wanted him.
"So, what are you cooking up there Rachel Ray?"
He didn't flinch but he did tense up for just a second before he relaxed his shoulders a little bit and made her smile knowing that she could startle him like that. He didn't turn around though he just continues standing there making whatever he was making, "So am I going to have to guess or are you going to tell me." She asked, and he still didn't say anything.
Skye made her way to his side and looked down at the counter to see what he was making, it was a sandwich, "If you're a specialist then how come you didn't hear me coming up behind you?" Now she had his attention and she allowed herself a little smirk of victory.
"Usually I don't have to keep my guard up in the place that I'm living." He said taking the sandwich and moving it over to the small table they had and sitting down in one of the chairs, she sat opposite of him. She put one elbow on the table and rested her chin on the palm of her hand looking at him curiously. She smiled as he started to eat his sandwich and before he took a bite he cricked his eyebrow looking at her, "Can I help you with something?"
She shrugged her shoulders, "Nope, I'm good."
He continued to eat his sandwich and she continued to stare at him she felt his vibrations and she could tell that he was growing uncomfortable so she thought that she would lighten the mood more, "Have you ever lived with anybody before because I'm getting the feeling that you never really have."
He stopped mid bite and put the sandwich back on the plate, "Why are you asking so many questions?"
"Well I find when you're working with a team, you kind of have to get to know the team that you are working with."
"Alright then what do you want to know then?"
"Well we can play a game," she suggested taking her elbows off the table and placing the across her chest, "You tell me two truths and one lie and I have to guess which one is which."
He seemed to think about it then smirked and leaned back in his chair, sandwich long forgotten, "Alright I accept this challenge."
She raised an eyebrow and bit the bottom of her lip trying to hide the smile that was fighting its way onto her face. Skye couldn't hide it though and it made its way onto her face along with the feeling of butterflies in her stomach, which she still didn't acknowledge, and she couldn't help but like the feeling of them just sitting there playing games like two normal people. Skye took a deep breath and focused all her energy on Ward's heartbeat so she could beat his ass in this game.
Ward reclined in his seat and crossed his arms over his chest, "Alright, here we go, I have three other siblings, two girls one boy, I lived in Boston, and I went to the academy at twenty-one."
She smirks and let out a slight huff, she didn't even need to use her powers she already knew the answer to all of them. Acting like she was deep in thought though Skye nodded her head back in forth trying to look like she was thinking about his answers.
Leaning forward on her elbows, "Okay, so you actually did live in Boston and from what I read in your file you did attend the academy at twenty-one, so you are lying about the siblings," he opened his mouth to say something, "Let me guess two brothers, one older and one younger, and a younger sister."
His eyes narrowed slightly at her and she could see that his jaw clenched and she knew that maybe it wasn't the best thing to say that about his family. She would risk it though come up with some half truth to tell him so he wouldn't find out the truth just yet.
"How did you know that?" He asked and his whiskey eyes staring straight threw her.
"I told you I read−" she started to stay but was cut off.
"Not that bullshit about reading my file because my family was never in my file."
She let out a loud sigh, "You just seem like a middle child to me you know, someone who helps everybody but is always trying to prove his worth to someone that is older than him."
"And you would know what that looks like?"
"Not exactly I mean I was the youngest."
Both closed their mouths and started looking at each other; Skye with panic in her eyes and Ward with confusion in his. She hadn't meant to reveal that to him but it just sorts of slipped out of her mouth before she could have caught it. Ward looked like he wanted to say something and he even opened his mouth but both were saved by Coulson who cleared his throat and they both snapped their heads over to his direction.
Coulson was standing there with his hands behind his back and a small smile on his face, "I'm calling a meeting in five." He left humming a little toon and Skye couldn't help but be a little wigged out but the whole interaction.
The again she didn't trust Phil Coulson that much since he came back from the dead, she couldn't tell what it was but something was just off about him, like something was missing inside of him. She wanted to try and believe that he was just trying to be good but then he would do something that was make her think that he wasn't all that there.
"Alright I guess we have a meeting to go too." She said getting out of the seat and Ward followed her.
"We are not done talking about this." He said as they walked over to the conference room.
Skye bumped him with her shoulder, "Why do I have the feeling that isn't going to be the last time that I hear that."
Ward gave her a side glance to her, "Because it's probably true."
Skye chuckled and that's when she heard a completely new noise causing her to look over and see Ward was chuckling with her. He didn't notice that she was staring at him but when she turned her head forward again she didn't try to stop the smile that made its way onto her face.
Walking into the Conference room a new vibration; instead of the calming vibrations that was around her and Ward a new vibration had come through, one of business and hurry. Coulson and May were on one side of the table while FitzSimmons and her and Ward where all on the other side.
"We," Coulson said while pulling up a picture, "have a new case."
The picture was one of a man's cut off hand with a handcuff on it and that of a briefcase that was supposed to on, what she guessed, the man's hand.
"The briefcase contained a lot of times and someone stole them," he said sliding more pictures across the screen, "here is the thing, the briefcases were randomly assigned and nobody saw anything."
Skye crossed her arms over her chest, "Maybe they had abilities." She said that with the upmost confidence. The way Coulson and May looked at her though made her feel like they couldn't even believe that she had said that.
"What," she said putting her hands up like she was surrendering, "Maybe they can see the future, wow, that would be so cool," the whole team gave her a look, "horrible but cool."
"There is no such thing as the ability to see the future." Coulson said.
Skye scrunched her face up and put one of her hands out gesturing wildly, "Are you kidding! A guy who literally turns into a green monster, two gods from outer space, and a whole battle that happened in New York with aliens but you guys can't believe that someone might be able to see the future." She shouted causing both to squirm, well, it was more of which Coulson than it was May.
"We're getting off track here." May comments and Skye wants to disagree with her but from the looks she was getting from everybody else she dropped the topic and let them move on.
"I want all of you guys to try and to find any other attacks that have been like this and see if we can find a pattern."
Skye was about to give some witty comment when her phone started ringing; it wasn't just a normal ringtone it was Taylor Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together that told her Tommy was calling. The ringtone made Skye cringe as the whole team was giving her odd looks except for Fitz who seemed to quite enjoy the song; she quickly pulled out her phone and quickly hit the deny button on her phone before the song could get any further.
She made a mental note to change the ringtone later or until Taylor drop a new album, for some reason Tommy had become obsessed with Taylor Swift music and even went as far as go to one of her concerts.
Skye opened her mouth to say something when her phone went off again and this time she groaned and angrily picked up the phone, "Can't talk now call me back later." She then hung up and put her phone on vibrate placing it on the table hoping that it would be the last time that he called her right now.
Course that the was her first mistake because when Tommy wanted to talk, he wanted to talk.
No more than twenty seconds after she had placed the phone down on the table it had started blowing up with text messages. It was beep after beep and alert after alert finally not being able to take it anymore she reached down to look at what he was texting her and she literally wanted to throw her phone when she saw that they were just black text messages. She gave a pleading look to the team and gave a silent question and by the look on Coulson's face she was guessing that he gave her permission to call Tommy back. She walked out of the room and down the stairs into the lab where she knew that she would at least have some privacy, and when she got there she called him back immediately.
He picked up after three rings, "Well it's about damn time." Was what she was greeted with.
Skye said with a little venom in her voice, "Alright you have my attention what is it that you want."
"You're mad at me, aren't you?" he asked, "try and use the word jackass if I'm right."
"Jackass." She replied not only as an answer to his question but also because he was acting like one.
"Wow you didn't even try on that one," He said softly then continued, "I have got some news for you; I went down to Mexico and met up with, and you'll never guess, but I'm going to tell you anyway…. Julian Cortez." He said loudly and bashfully like he had just won the biggest prize ever and Skye's eye widen at the statement.
"What?!" She exclaimed and quickly shut her mouth up again hoping that no one heard that.
"Yeah, so turns out he still hates me but is willing enough to help me find Henley and he gave me a lead."
"A lead," she exclaimed happily, "Tommy this is great we might actually not be going into this blind."
She heard him take a big sigh and she knew that she had said something that he didn't like, "Yeah that's great," his voice was devoid of all emotion, "How about you tell me what's going on right now in your situation and maybe I can help you out with something."
"Alright," she thought about what she was going to say, "Uhh… we have this case a pair of diamonds went missing and nobody knows how it happened." She went on to tell him all the details that she received about the case and she filled him in on his many, many questions that he had about the case.
In the end though he just let out his usual joke when he didn't have a clue about what was going on, "Hey maybe the guy just had x-ray vision you know, I mean after all the shit we've seen I wouldn't even be surprised at this point."
Skye knew that he meant it as a joke but it made her stand up straighter, something she did when she realized something, and she started thinking that Tommy wasn't that far off. She must have spaced out because she heard a whistling sound and she shook her head putting the phone back to her ear, "Tommy you're going to have to call me back."
"What but I just called you?!"
"Yeah, you did, but remember I'm living on a plane with a bunch of secret agents on of which is your brother."
"Well can't argue with that, alright I'll call you back later tonight or something like that, hey maybe we can even plan a night out."
She smiled at the thought of it, "That sounds wonderful."
"Alright love you, I'll make it happen just tell me when you have a day off and I'll shadow travel over to you."
Skye faced palmed, "We have got to find a better word for that because every time you say that I think of Percy Jackson."
He scoffed, "As you should!"
"Alright, alright if we keep this up we are never going to hang up so this is me saying goodbye."
"Well I already said my goodbye so, yeah, see you later."
She heard the other end of the line go dead and she took the phone away from her ear and looked at the call time and 15:47 flashed brightly across the screen making Skye's eyes widened and she quickly made her way upstairs back to the team so she could give them her−Tommy's idea.
She ran into the room, "It's x-ray vision." She stated and everybody stared at her.
"What?" Coulson asked confused by her sudden statement.
Skye walked into the room throwing her arms up, "The person whole stole the diamonds, they have x-ray vision."
They all looked doubtful at her and she brought up the photos from the scene looking through them trying to find a connection, "Think about it, this person could see in the dark through a briefcase guys this isn't far off." She scrolled through the photos again and she kept seeing the same woman in the background in all the photos.
"Hey Coulson," she caught his attention and blew up the clearest photo that she could of the woman, "Does she look familiar to you?"
His eyes go wide, "That's Akela Amadora."
She looked over to Ward for clarification on it and he looked her in the eyes then looked back over to Coulson, "Sir," he said, "She's supposed to be dead."
Skye looked back and forth between Coulson and Ward, "I'm confused who is this chick?"
Coulson looked pained, "She used to be my protégé."
Another bites the dust, she thought.
So how did you guys like it, please let me know all comments are appreciated, also just to let you guys know coming THE GIRL IN THE FLOWER DRESS a lot of things are going to go down differently and you might like it or you might not but I think you will defiantly remember it.