Simmons was laying on the med bed, tubes running down her throat. Skye tried to reach her but a soldier blocked her. She screamed her friends name, but no sound came out. She struggled against the Soldier but he had her subdued. Skye watched in horror as General Barnes appeared out of the dark corner. His sadistic grin enveloping his features. He twirled a knife in his hand as he raised his eyebrow at Skye in the doorway. Just because she's alive now doesnt mean she will be when I'm done with her! Skye screamed as he approached Jemma laying still in the bed. He looked up once more and gave her a wink before plunging the knife down.

Skye woke up screaming. Coulson rushed into her room, exhaustion and concern painted all over his face, he relaxed when he saw sitting up in bed,

"Bad dream?" Skye nodded meekly. It had been a week since they had stormed the compound where they had been held. Hydra had already cleared out. They found no sign of Jemma or Ward. Skye had been left to run the back end of the mission and monitor comms. She held back a sob when Coulson reported the compound to be abandoned. Every room had been cleared and emptied. Even the med bay had been wiped down and useless. The team had taken it as a good sign that Jemma, rather her body, hadn't been left for them to discover. It meant there was a good possibility that she was still alive.

The older agent entered the bunk and gently sat on the bed. The younger agent adjusted herself so she was sitting next to him with their feet hanging over the bed. They sat for a moment in silence. Coulson reached for the younger agents trembling hand and gently began to rub circles into the back of her hand. Skye spoke first,

"We're going to find them? Right AC?" She turned to look at her leader's face. Her eyes full or worry and fear. Coulson squeezed her hand reassuringly,

"If we have to go to the ends of the earth." He flashed her a small, reassuring smile. Skye returned her gaze back to the floor and leaned her head on the man's shoulder.

"I keep waking up at the middle of the night, thinking that its all just a nightmare. I think its all back to normal. Then I see the lab, or her empty bunk, or I see the empty training room and it all comes crashing back." Tears threatened to escape her eyes, "It kills me to see Fitz without Jemma. He looks so lost and broken. He's not the same without her. None of us are." Skye sniffled as tears began to stream down her face, "I should've just done it. I should've just given them the hack. I thought I was being strong, I didn't want to betray you guys again. If I had just done what they asked, we'd all be safe. We'd all be happy. We...we..." Her voice broke as she sobbed into Coulson's shoulder. He adjusted himself and hugged the younger hacker. Her body shook as her tears soaked the man's pajama shirt. He held her close and whispered comforting things.

Before long the young agent's sobs slowed and her breathing slowed as she fell back asleep. Coulson gently lifted her and lay her back down on the bed. He pulled the sheets over and stepped towards the door. Giving one last glance at th hacker, he closed the door nd walked back into his room, hoping that she wouldn't be plagued with nightmares for much longer.

The next day started just as the rest. The team woke up slowly and quietly before they set to work. The night before, the techs had been able to obtain data from one of the wiped discs and Fitz and Skye were poring over it, searching for any clue as to where Simmons and Ward had went. They worked in silence, occasionally one of them would exclaim they had something, but further investigation would prove each lead to be a dead end. They had exhausted almost all their resources when Skye found something weird,

"Fitz come look at this," The engineer stepped to look over at Skye's screen, squinting as he tried to interpret the information,

"Stryker labs? Why does that sound familiar?"

"Um...i think it had something to do with super-human genetics. They've been on Shield's radar for a while. They had connections with the Stark and the super soldier serum from Captain America."Skye pulled up the Shield file on Stryker labs and scanned through the reports. "Yea, they had suspected Hydra ties way back when." Fitz returned to his own computer and started typing furiously, furrowing his brows,

"The most recent report was before the fall of the Triskelion. Apparently they had a modified version of the centipede serum. They had just moved on to human trials when the reports end." Fitz pulled a video up onto the big screen. A man in military gear walked toward a line of mannequins. With one quick motion he grabbed the first one and broke off the head, he turned and drop-kicked the second one and pulled the arms off he third. He went down the line, destroying the mannequins one by one until all that was left was mannequin appendages all over the floor. The most startling thing was the rage in the soldier's eyes. Someone off camera yelled a command and the soldier stiffened in salute. The video ended and Fitz and Skye looked over at eachother nervously.

"What was the connection with the Hydra data we found?" Fitz returned his attention back to the files, his eyes flitting back and forth as he read,

"'Delivery to Styker labs completed as ordered, next delivery of subjects to be delievered Friday...' Wait a minute!" Fitz looked up from the screen and checked his watch, "That was yesterday! Hydra made a delivery yesterday! Subjects... Do you think?" He looked up at Skye, the question lingering between them.

"It's worth a shot. Let's go tell Coulson!"

"Tell me what?" The young agents jumped as Couson walked in, Skye turned and began to explain.

"We got a lead off the Hydra data, we think they had a connection with Stryker labs. They had a delivery yesterday of subjects. We think that maybe-" Coulson raised his hand to cut off Skye,

"Stryker Labs? Are you sure it was Stryker labs?" Skye looked at him questioningly. Concern painted his face as he asked again, "Are you certain it was Stryker Labs?"

"Yes, sir we're positive."Fitz answered, "Sir, what's going on?" Coulson took a deep breath and looked squarely at the young agents before he spoke.

"As of 6 hours ago, Stryker Labs no longer exist."

"WHAT?" Coulson continued, his voice remaining even as he relayed the news,

"At 0600 this morning an explosion occurred at Stryker Labs. The entire building has been destroyed. Initial reports have just come back." He paused and looked at the agents stunned faces, "Initial reports confirm. No survivors."

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