Chapter 12
"I wasn't able to locate anything from the bill, besides the fact it was manufactured in Texas." Simmons tells Coulson. Coulson bites his lip.
"Keep looking." Coulson orders Simmons. "We need to find Skye" Coulson leaves the room, he hadn't had a moments rest since the moment he'd realized Skye had been taken. The rest of the team hadn't had much rest either, well besides Fitz who could barely remember Skye. He was actually getting great sleeps, and having his memory coming back in portions.
Fitz walks in the room. "Hey Jemma," he says in his British accent.
"Fitz, you're up." Simmons smiles. "You remember anything else?"
"Actually yeah, I remember more about the Skye girl. She betrayed us." Fitz tells Jemma. "I mean we'd been through so much." Jemma smiles remembering the time Skye had helped her boyfriend Miles, and somewhat betrayed Shield. Though she earned her place again after saving Coulson and then she got shot, and almost died. "So are you still researching the Gh-325?"
"Fitz, were not researching the Gh-325 right now, were looking for Skye. And don't call it that, remember the code word." Fitz goes a bit pale.
"Oh right, sorry. I just can't keep track of what's a memory and what's real." Simmons frowns. "Oh Jemma don't give me that face." Simmons shakes her head back and forth.
"It's just, I can't help but hate the fact that your memories are all like this. I mean if I had let you take the breath." Simmons holds her hand over her mouth to keep from trying.
"Jemma, it's okay. My memories are coming back, I'm remembering." Fitz smiles. "Be happy, things are going to be normal again." Fitz takes a hold of Jemma and wraps her in a hug. "I don't remember what happened, or how I ended up this way. But I'm alive because of you." Simmons tries to say no, but from the embrace Fitz just holds Simmons tighter.
"Fitz I didn't do anything."
"You kept living on, and believed in me. Simmons I remember everything from the academy, all our adventures together. All I'm missing is just a few months, and even those are coming back." Fitz lets Simmons go and looks her in the eye. "I'm fine." Simmons nods, and embraces Fitz again. Simmons didn't want to let Fitz go, her feelings just felt as if they couldn't be contained anymore.
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Skye feels incredibly weak when she opens her eyes. Her body felt so tired, that she wasn't even sure if she'd slept for as long as she thought. Skye blinks her eyes a couple of times, trying to sit up but the energy was difficult to find. Holding her head to keep herself steady, she looks around at her surroundings. For some reason she wasn't in the same room as she had woken up in yesterday. This one was smaller, and had an actual window. Skye move her legs from out of the covers. She was in a smaller less convertible bed now, one with rock hard pillows and a weird smelling quilt. Skye blinks a few times unsure of what happened.
"You're awake?" Skye turns; Grant Ward is sitting on a chair across from her bed. Skye slides back in fear; the fast movement causes her more dizziness.
"Ward." Skye delivers with hate. Ward doesn't seem surprised by her actions.
"You don't have to be afraid Skye. I took you away." Skye raises an eyebrow.
"You took me away?" Skye clears up. "Weren't you the one to kidnap me?"
"Look I'm sorry about that Skye, I really am. I'm sorry about everything, I had all this hate inside of me, but whenever I'm with you, and you're really here in front of me I feel something. I feel like I need to care, not just follow orders like a lap dog."
"You broke out of prison."
"Raina broke me out, and I just followed. The only thing I wanted Skye was to see you again." Skye bites her lip, sliding further back on the bed, farthest she can be from Ward.
"Where is she, after what happened yesterday—"
"She's dead Skye." Skye tilts her head, not sure if she heard Ward right.
"What?"
"Yesterday a man killed her, or I'm not even sure if he was a man." Ward shakes his head at the memory of his voice. "He was going to use you Skye, use you like a puppet. I couldn't let him do that, at first I thought his intentions were true…." Ward remembers thinking that this man really just wanted Skye because she was his daughter. "I was wrong."
Skye doesn't respond, she sits and looks at Ward as if he's crazy. "Why does he want me? And how can I even trust you?" Ward bits his tongue, unsure he knows the answer to both the questions.
"I don't know why he wants you Skye, but his intentions are not in your interest." Ward twiddles his thumbs in the chair he was sitting. "I didn't want to let him take you; I wanted you all to myself." Skye feels a bit petrified where this was going. Ward was stronger than her, if he wanted to hurt her he could. Skye didn't want to be in that situation. "Skye please just let the two of us be together, I want you to be safe and I don't think the team can protect you on their own. With me, we could have a semi normal life."
"Normal life?" Skye repeats, to make sure she heard him right.
"Yes, I have safe houses all around the world, and storage units with fake identities, contacts and cash. We could easily hide from everyone we ever knew." Skye notices the lamp on the table behind Ward, coming up with a plan in her head. "We could start over, both of us Skye. This man who wants you couldn't find you; the team wouldn't have to find you. That way you wouldn't have to have them finding out your secret."
"My secret." Skye mumbles. "And what's that."
"That you're a 0-8-4, and probably not even human. But that's okay, I don't care that you're not human. Skye for these past few months I haven't cared what happens to me. I just want to be with you." Skye pushes off the bed, putting her bare feet on the carpet, facing away from Ward. She had to keep a straight face. She had to get out of this before Ward did something he might …. or might not regret.
"Why me?" Skye asks to buy time, turning around to face him and standing up.
"I don't know Skye, I ask myself that every day. But it has to be you." Skye takes a few more steps forward, refusing to be afraid of Ward.
"But if I ran away with you, what would the team think." Skye takes a few more steps forward, now only about two feet away from Ward.
"When they find out your parents are the monsters that destroyed the village, it won't matter." This shocks Skye, and she can't take another step forward. Her parents were the monsters that attacked the Chinese village? Skye takes a deep breath, she couldn't lose focus.
"Are you saying the team will hate me after they find out I'm a 0-8-4" Skye now stands only a foot in front of Ward.
"They will, they'll be scared of you. But I would never be scared of you Skye." Skye bends over, bringing her lips close to Ward.
"But… I still don't know if I can trust you." Skye leans in her lips inches away from Ward. Closing her eyes she bends further and kisses Ward, who lets his hands immediately go to the back of her head. Skye puts one hand behind the back of Ward's head before grabbing the lamp stationed behind Ward. She hits him on the back of his head. Ward drops, but by the loud 'ow' he screamed Skye guessed she hadn't hit him hard enough. Skye doesn't have time to think about that now. She runs for the door, undoing the locks done up on it. Ward was beginning to get up behind her, Skye could tell, but she had to run.
Getting the door unlocked Skye begins her escape attempt down the hall, taking corner after corner to make sure she isn't noticed. Running outside, she has no idea where she's been taken but can tell that it's somewhere in China by all the writing, maybe some motel. Skye see's Ward behind her. "Skye!" He yells, bringing back the deja-vu from that time she escaped him in Los Angeles.
Skye keeps running, straight down the street and as far away as she can go. Skye was dizzy but she couldn't let herself be caught by Ward. Skye runs down an alley, already out of breath and barely able to tell which way was up. The blood Raina had taken wasn't giving Skye an energy boost. It was making her the easiest target to catch in the world. Coming to a dead end in the alley, Skye fears that Ward knows which way she turned.
"Psst, over here." A young girl says from a door near Skye. Not having many options, Skye goes to where the voice is and heads inside the door where the girl was calling. Skye hoped that this fate was better than being in Ward's hands.
Woah, I finished another chapter in one day! Anyway I'm sorry for people that want Ward's redemption, but I think it will take a bit longer for him to be redeemed. I'm not sure where it's going to go, but I have ideas. If you want to think of Ward being evil (well you know still not in the right place) or nice here; it's up to you. Anyway the next chapters a mystery, so enjoy this one! REVIEW
