Chapter 14
Skye headed to her Psychology class with Professor Sitwell, upon entering the class she took a seat at the back. Skye opens her textbook and starts doodling with a pencil in her notebook while Professor Sitwell drones on something. A guy enters the classroom late and slips into the seat next to Skye. Skye doesn't pay attention but the boy taps her on the shoulder. "Hey, you have an extra pencil?" He asks. Skye looks up see in a blonde hair boy with star gazing grey eyes.
"Sure." Skye says reaching into her backpack to grab a pencil. Coulson had stacked Skye with all the necessary school supplies she needed, so she was not short on pencils. Skye hands the utensil back to this boy. "Thanks" He says with a smile. "I don't remember seeing you around before?" he comments.
"I'm new, last week Monday was my first day."
"Oh that's why I don't remember you. I was away all last week." He puts the pencil on his desk and brings out his hand. "I'm Roy, Roy Quinn."
"Skye." Skye greets, the last name sounding kind of familiar to her. "I didn't know Shield let people go on holiday for a week." Roy smiles.
"Well I kind of needed a week off, my grandmother was in the hospital, and just recently passed away."
Skye frowns. "Oh I'm so sorry."
Roy shook his head. "No don't be, we weren't that close anyway." Roy looks at the ground, and Skye gets the feeling he was lying.
"Well it's very nice to meet you Roy." Skye says.
Skye hears a 'umph' from the Professor. "Skye if I may, but interrupting class is not tolerated here."
"Sorry Sir." Skye mutters, Skye watches as Roy next to her rolls his eyes, Skye has to suppress a laugh.
After class Skye learns that Roy has Variety Sciences with her, and that'll she'll see him again after Shield coding. Skye walks towards Shield History and Coding, and finds Simmons already waiting by the door. "Hey again." Skye says. Simmons frowns. "You okay?"
"Fine." She sighs.
Skye wonders if Simmons is mad from her ditching them earlier this morning at breakfast. The two girls take a seat near the front, where Skye just knows she'll be a target for Professor Hand's lashes. Luckily today was a study block, spent on studying 50 pages out of the text book on shield codes. How could Skye possibly remember one of these for tomorrow, better yet 3?
When the bell rings Skye has about two memorized, and she was already forgetting the two. Skye sighs walking out of class with Simmons and heading to Professor Raina's class.
Arriving at the door, Skye spots Mack sitting at a lab table already. Skye was about to go sit next to him, but she looks at Simmons who doesn't have Fitz here today. Skye sighs knowing the right thing to do. She steps back, and Simmons moves forward and takes a seat next to Mack. Skye goes and sits to the table adjacent to theirs. "Well look who wasn't lying." Skye hears Roy say from behind here. "Mind if we sit together and two classes?" He asks.
"Free country." Skye addresses.
"Not with Shield running it." Roy jokes, but Skye isn't sure that other students would appreciate the joke.
The bell rings and Raina walks into the room, four people in lab coats following her. Skye's stomach does a flip, why did doctors always have to wear lab coats? And why did they always have to be that white colour?
"Hello class, today we're not going to be doing a normal lab." Raina's heels click as she moves closer to the front. "Today I have 4 students who are training to be Shield Medical students, at one of our universities. They happily volunteered to take your blood for today's lab." Skye's eyes go wide, and her skin turns a nice pale colour.
The door from the back opens louder than Ward would have liked. Skye turns and see him take a seat by himself at the back. "You're late again Ward."
"Sorry." He says.
Skye can't help but feel he wasn't sorry.
Skye looks to the front, where the four students in lab coats look like evil scientist ready to poke and prod at her. Skye takes deep breaths, trying to calm herself down. Maybe if she said she was feeling sick she could leave. "Don't tell me you're afraid of a little needle?" Roy beside her says as a joke, but Skye could hear malice behind his words.
Ward looks towards Skye after hearing Roy Quinn's comment. He frowns.
"Alright class, one at a time you'll get one of these medical students to take a sample of your blood and you'll be able to study it to determine your blood type." Skye takes deep breaths trying not to hyperventilate.
Raina looks at Skye. Was this a test? To make sure she wasn't having panic attacks? Was this really what Raina was trying to prove? Because Skye wouldn't be able to pass this test. Looking at her scars was one thing, she had to do that every day.
Needles, that fine pin that braced her body far too often as a child. That was not something she could allow.
Skye watches as the doctors in training prepare their stations. People get out of their seats ready to line up. Roy pokes Skye in the back. "It's just a poke of a needle; it's not like their taking your heart out. Come on, get up."
Skye's heart thumps loudly, fear very much evident in her eyes. But Roy was blind to this, as he gets up and takes Skye's hand to bring her in the line. He pulls Skye out of her chair only to be interrupted by Ward pushing him back.
"Hey!" He screeches. "What's your problem?"
Ward takes Skye's hand and hides her behind his back. "She doesn't want to do it." He tells Roy.
"So, it's part of an assignment. Is she really going to ditch an assignment because of some small fear?" Now hidden safely behind Ward's back, Skye felt herself needing to cling to someone. She looks at the front and spots the incision being made in a student's arm. Skye grabs Ward's coat, her body shaking.
Ward feels here fear, and scared small body shake. Ward doesn't bother saying another word to this guy. He turns around so Skye is now clinging to his chest. "Come on Skye." Ward says in a soft tone. "Let's go."
Skye whimpers but nods, as Ward leads her out into the hall. "You can't just ditch class." Roy shouts from inside, but Ward ignores him and closes the door.
As soon as the door has been shut behind her, Skye drops to her knees. Her handshakes as some awful memories come back. "No" Skye mumbles.
"Come on Mary it won't hurt, you can have the lollipop so numb the pain."
Skye's hands shook. She crosses them and squeezes her shoulders, her nails digging in past her shirt.
"Come on Mary dear, stop struggling."
"I don't want to see the visions again; I don't want to see them." Skye mumbles.
Ward goes down on one knee, seeing Skye tremble and nails dig into her skin. "Skye, hey it's okay." He tells her. But Skye couldn't hear Ward's voice.
"The monsters, they'll attack me. Please don't do it." Skye mumbles, now crying from the realization of things.
Ward frowns, realizing that Skye isn't listening to him. He holds her shoulders till she's got her eyes focused on him. Skye's nails have slid down her arms, and are now leaving trails of scratches. Ward grabs her hands so Skye can't harm herself.
"Skye listen no one is going to harm you, no one is here." Skye for the first time realizes that Ward is there.
"Ward you have to help me, don't let them do it Ward!" Skye shouts, her arms trying to break free from Ward's grip. "They'll make me do it again, they'll make me do it again." Skye cries. "Please don't." Skye pleads. It broke Ward's heart seeing Skye like this.
Ward lets go of Skye's hand and grabs her back and brings her to his chest. "I'm here for you Skye, I'll protect you." Skye still trembling, finally realizes that she's not at the facility anymore.
"Ward…." Her voice is hollow and Ward is unsure if Skye really is back. "I'm sorry." She cries softly, Ward feeling his shoulder get wet. "I'm sorry."
So a little SkyeWard moment there, you'll get some back story from Skye in the next chapter as well. Hope you guys like this chapter, got theories on who Roy is? XD (not that it's already obvious or anything)