Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance, Family, Humor
Rating: M for violence, language and sexual situations
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters featured on the show Castle, they belong to the creator of the show, ABC, and the others who do own them.
A/N #1: Wasn't expecting to get reviews before I posted this so to see I did get some was pretty awesome and I will get to my thank yous for them right away! vetgirlmx (Not surprised to see that you weren't expecting a smooth ride, lol, since that does happen. Also not surprised at you mentioning them separating Castle and Beckett, but you're right, not a good thing of course. And glad I could surprise you with the fact that Beckett got free so soon, lol, wanted something a bit different this time around. But not too surprised you're concerned for Skye now, you'll have to see how things go for her of course. Well since it was her friend I figure that people who knew her would know she would investigate, so that's why there's the lack of surprise. And since there's the book that Castle and Beckett wrote with that character based on Skye, had the being the reason people weren't surprised they were there to help her too. Makes sense what you said about someone protecting Skye but that'll happen; where someone should be protected but the police don't always do that. And you'll see what'll happen concerning the accomplice too. So happy to see you want to read the chapter so much, now you can do so!), 32 (I wasn't surprised to see you were worried about Skye and are wondering what's going on. I also wasn't surprised that you were glad Beckett was okay or that you need everyone else to be too, which of course makes sense. Very happy to read that you thought it was a great chapter the last one! It was also nice to see you noticed that with the interactions with the twins that the families are similar, just started writing that without realizing until after the fact, lol. So pleased to read that you can't wait for the next one and now you don't have to do so anymore!) and Beckett-Castle4ever (Great that I could surprise you with what happened in the last chapter, had been hoping I could do that! I'm happy to see you thought the last chapter was a great one and of course that you can't wait to read more! I wasn't surprised to see you were glad that Beckett got out of the van, so Castle doesn't have to worry about her as you said and so she can help to find Skye). Thanks so much for the reviews, loved reading them and means a lot to me you took the time to write them and send them my way!
A/N #2: The title of this chapter is a lyric from the song Fire and Rain by James Taylor, from his album Sweet Baby James.
Let Me Know You Were Gone
Looking down at the last button of her blouse as she pushed it through the slit, Beckett looked over at her husband who was sitting on the window seat. "So… are you ready?" she asked him as she saw he'd turned towards the window and was looking outside.
Glancing at her Castle stood up and then walked over to his wife and was about to say something when he instead wrapped his arms around her.
"She got me out," Beckett said, as she knew he was thinking of when Dunn had kidnapped her. She was hugging him back though and pressed her cheek to his saying, "I tried to stop her, when I realized what she was about to do."
"I'm glad you couldn't," Castle said. "But why would she not try to get out herself?"
"We'd better go," Beckett replied. "I need to tell Mary what happened in more detail."
"Do you think you should?" Castle asked, not letting her go.
"She'd want to know," Beckett replied simply. When he still didn't let her step away she leaned up into him and kissed him gently. She was relieved when he followed her lead in that and then finally felt his arms separate on her back. She walked with him out of the guest house and up to the main one before they went into the office where FBI agents were finishing setting up equipment on the phones in the room.
Mary nodded to an FBI agent that was talking to her before she turned and saw Castle and Beckett coming inside. She spoke to the man in front of her and then went to them, leading them into the living room across from the office. "They seem to think we'll hear much of anything from Fuller and Roldan," she said bitterly. "But they let me know what happened to you two in better detail."
"They did?" Beckett asked in surprise.
Nodding Mary said, "When you were run off the road you had a clear street, it turns out the van caused an accident at the point where Sepulveda and Lincoln part from each other."
"But the other side was empty too," Beckett said.
"It was just luck that it was," Mary replied. "And they found the car that hit you about two miles away."
"They found the thieves?" Castle asked, since the car that had run Skye and Beckett off the road had been stolen.
"It's the FBI's opinion they wanted that to happen," Mary replied.
"To slow them down," Beckett finished. "No sign of the van?"
"I was just being told when you two walked in that they found it deserted at a marina parking lot not too far from the high school," Mary said. "They're searching the boats in the area right now."
"They think the two are going with Skye in one," Castle said.
"I think that's a prevailing idea," Mary replied.
"It's too easy," Beckett said quickly. "If they already tried to slow us down before…"
"They'd do it again, I told the agent in charge that and he brushed it off," Mary said. "Well, not brushed it off he will keep that in mind the boat idea is just…"
"A priority," Beckett finished for her. When the woman nodded and then sat down on the piano bench she moved to sit next to her and placed her hand carefully on her shoulder, not sure if she'd want any kind of comfort at that moment.
"She made sure you made it back," Mary said, looking at her.
"I think she saw it as a chance for us to find her," Beckett replied. "I didn't have a chance to tell you yet but before she pushed me out she asked me to tell you she loves you." She looked up at Castle as Mary suddenly turned away from them and said, "Did they tell you anything else?"
"That they'd be taking over the investigation," the woman said, sounding as if she was controlling her voice.
"So we're not allowed to help anymore," Castle said.
"Basically," Mary replied. "Corey told me he and Racine are lucky they had their sergeant's permission to have you two and Skye involved."
"They knew about the letter already didn't they?" Beckett asked.
"They did, did she tell you before you went?" Mary asked her.
"She told Doug to call them before we left," Beckett explained.
"She meant the FBI," Burke said, nodding slightly to the others as they turned to him at the entrance of the room. "Agent Weir in there was assigned to look into the letters, Skye's a federal employee."
"Did they look at it for evidence yet?" Beckett asked, wondering why the woman hadn't mentioned that.
"They did but there was nothing," Burke replied. "And since we know now who the killers are…"
"There's not much need to trace them," Mary replied. She watched as Burke was called to then from the office and before he could leave was quick to ask him, "Can you tell us when something comes up?"
"Of course," the detective replied seriously before he left them.
"What did the letter say?" Mary immediately said to Beckett, turning to her.
Taking her phone; which had been returned to her; Beckett opened the picture of the letter she'd thought to take at NTSB West and handed it to the woman. "Skye wasn't sure what this really meant, since that could be anywhere," she said as Mary was reading.
"I have no idea what that means either, how are we supposed to know where to go?" the woman said, handing back the phone. She thought for a moment and then said, "Unless it was just because we were expecting a letter."
"It's a warning," Castle and Beckett said at the same time then.
"About them taking her?" Mary asked, look at them in confusion.
"It's… subtle," Castle said. "But it's a warning that they're taking her somewhere."
"But where is that place going to be?" Mary asked, sounding frustrated.
"We don't know," Beckett said, standing up as the woman did so. "But I think we're both in agreement that they're likely going to take her somewhere and have her choose."
"Between them and me," Mary replied after thinking about that for a moment. At their nods she then said, "And that's why they warn her that she knows what they can do. They can kill who she loves."
"Excuse me for a second," Castle then told the two women before he went to the office.
"I don't need protection," Mary said to Beckett. "I just want my wife back."
"She would want you to have that protection," she replied simply. She wasn't too surprised when Mary whirled away from her and went to the nearest window, looking out. She glanced at Castle who came back to them and then said, "There's one way we could find her."
Turning to them, Mary asked, "What do you have in mind?"
"There's something that all three of these women have in common," Castle replied. "Skye, Fuller and Roldan."
"Are you sure Roldan has anything to do with this besides maybe Fuller meeting her at my office?" Mary said, sounding skeptical.
"You think it's just Fuller," Castle stated. He looked at his wife then and noticed that she seemed a little unsure. "Beckett?" he asked.
"No, I would have agreed with you Mary," she said, shaking her head. "But it did seem like Roldan wanted Skye was well. The way she looked at her was… desirous."
Breathing out heavily, Mary said, "Then they're going to rape my wife."
"I don't think so," Beckett was quick to tell her. "I think what they're going to do is make her choose."
"But Fuller wants to be in control," Mary reminded her. "If Skye refuses them, what then?" When Beckett looked away she sighed and said, "We don't have that much time."
"They might take their time to convince her," Castle said as they all fell silent after that. When the woman looked at him he told them easily, "Fuller wants control but I think unless she's pushed to it…"
"She's going to make Skye want her," Beckett finished. At his nod she wasn't surprised to see that Mary looked like she was in agreement with that as well and she then continued saying, "Great but how do we go about looking for a place the three of them would have some connection to?"
"Luckily we can start with here in LA," Castle replied simply. "And it'll of course have to do with flying."
"Of course," Mary said. "We need to continue this in the office," she then said. She got a determined look on her face at that moment and then strode over to the room saying, "I'll call if I get a phone call," in a stern tone. "But for the time being I'd like to have some privacy."
Watching in surprise as the agents and detectives left, Castle and Beckett shared a look before they hurried into the room, the former grabbing Burke's arm as they passed him to bring him after them into the room.
"Sorry but I thought you could help us with this," Castle apologized to the detective who was looking at him in slight anger.
"And I want you here helping Corey," Mary told the man. "Thank you for grabbing him," she told Castle.
"Help you with what though?" Burke asked, looking confused then.
Quickly explaining their theory to the man, Beckett wasn't too surprised to see he looked skeptical. "You saw the note right?" she asked him.
"I did," Burke replied in a slow tone of voice. "But really, you think they'd put that into the note."
"You saw how they did word it," Castle said. "It was a threat; she would know where they were taking her. There's something in this place, something that Fuller and Roldan… or just Fuller, thinks would endear them or her to Skye."
Looking doubtful still, Burke finally said, "Okay, the Feds are looking into the boat and everything else; they wouldn't consider this; not without evidence. What do you need to look at first?"
"We need information about Fuller and Roldan," Beckett said, looking at Mary.
"More detailed information," the woman said, turning to Burke.
"I can do that for you," the detective replied with a slight nod.
"Okay first let's look at Skye," Beckett said, turning around the murder board and writing her name on the left side, drawing a line underneath it. "We know she's worked at NTSB West since it first opened."
"Did Fuller or Roldan have anything to do with the NTSB? Were they involved in accidents?" Castle asked.
Nodding as she could see then how they planned to look through things between her wife and the two women, Mary followed Burke to her desk where she watched him open an LAPD site to search for information on people. "Good thing you can get this here," she told him.
"I know," Burke said shortly. He then moved aside when Mary waved him away and watched as she opened the desk drawer.
"Don't tell anyone I have this," the woman said to the three as she took out a file. "This should be enough to give us some information we need."
Sliding his chair back, Burke was looking on the computer while Mary was looking at Fuller's information and Castle and Beckett were reading Roldan's. "I have nothing," he finally said. "They were involved in incidents which are a connection to the NTSB; the only one I can find with them. But Skye never looked into them."
"Nothing here," Beckett said. "Same with Roldan."
"He's right, Fuller's clear there," Mary finally said. "What about schools? Skye went to St. Alban's, which is preschool up to twelfth grade. Then UCLA and Oxford."
"Oxford is out," Castle said. "I can't see them taking her to England."
"It's unlikely, since Beckett was able to come back and let us know what happened," Burke replied to that. "What about St. Alban's, is that still around?"
"I think so," Mary said. "It's in Pacific Palisades, to the north of us."
The room was quiet as they all looked at the information they had to try and check on that but as before they all came up empty handed.
"Roldan went to school in Irvine; it's where she grew up," Beckett said first.
"And Fuller went to school in Hollywood," Burke replied.
"That's the same information that I have," Mary said with a sigh. "And Fuller went to college at USC."
"The rivalry?" Castle suddenly said. When the others looked at him he said, "Okay, maybe not but Roldan's college doesn't work either, she went to UC Irvine."
"Early career doesn't work in Skye's case," Mary said quickly. "Since she trained in DC."
"Then we need to look at things time-wise," Beckett said.
"Okay, so Skye came back here in about 2000," Mary said. "Can you find a timeline on Roldan too?"
"You don't have it on your papers?" Burke asked in surprise.
"To make sure," Beckett answered for her as she had an idea of what the woman was talking about.
"Yeah I can, what do you have for Roldan around that time," Burke said.
"She was here in the area and training to become a pilot," Beckett said. "At the…"
"What?" Mary and Burke ended up saying at the same time as Castle and Beckett looked at each other.
"It's a possibility," Castle replied, nodding his head slightly to her. He then looked at the other two and said, "Santa Monica Airport."
"That simple?" Mary asked hesitantly, looking hopeful still.
"It might be," Beckett said. She and Castle looked down at their papers while Mary went to hers and Burke looked back at the computer.
"Nothing here about her having a plane or anything to do with the airport," Castle said.
"Nothing here either," Mary said a few seconds later.
"I might have something," Burke then said. When the other three had come to stand behind him he pointed to the screen and said, "This is Roldan's plane at the airport and according to what I could find, Fuller learned to fly when she was ten there."
"That's it," Mary said. "We need to go, but the FBI…"
"They have to be informed," Burke said as he stood.
"Informed about what?" Agent Weir asked as he appeared in the doorway.
"This isn't good," Mary said almost fretfully as she watched the agents and detectives going to the hangars to check each one. "They might have seen us coming."
"They have the perimeter secured," Beckett told her as she was standing next to her.
"Mary! Mary what the bloody hell is going on!" a voice called behind them.
"Oh no, Liam please," the woman said, turning and seeing that her father in law had arrived.
Watching as Skye's wife went to Hayden and was obviously trying to calm him, Castle said, "I wonder who told him?"
"I think she texted him," Beckett replied. "Not the best way to tell him his daughter's been kidnapped."
"I don't think they're finding anything," Castle said as he could see that the authorities were starting to slowly make their way back to them.
"Damn it," Beckett said with a sigh. "We-"
"I've got a phone call!" Mary called in a yell suddenly.
Agent Weir and Detective Burke ran over to her then, the former making a call on his own cell phone.
When the agent instructed her to answer Mary did so, putting the phone on speaker. "Hello?' she asked as Castle, Beckett, the agent and detective gathered around her.
"Hello Dr. McDouglas," a voice said on the other end.
"Beckie? Beckie please, I need you to-" Mary started to say.
"You don't need anything from us," the woman on the other end interrupted her with. "What we need is something from you."
"Anything, just let me know what my wife-" Mary began.
"It's Skye," Roldan interrupted sharply. "Call her by her name."
"Just let me know that Skye is okay," Mary said, looking at Agent Weir.
"She's just fine, we're reminiscing about you you know," Fuller suddenly said on the other end. "How we all sat in the same place… studied by you, we were all the same."
"No, you were all different, you were my patients at one time," Mary said, her glance going then to Castle and Beckett who both nodded to her. "Hello?" she then asked as she heard silence on the other end.
"We're you able to trace that?" Beckett asked.
"Hold on," Weir replied. He listened to the other end of his phone for a moment and then nodded, "Got a lock on it and it was in West Hollywood."
"That's where your office is," Castle said, looking to Mary.
"That was the connection," the woman breathed as Beckett led her towards the car they'd followed the authorities in.
Castle drove them after the line of cars and said, "I wonder-"
"We'll find out," Beckett said quickly, sitting in the back with Mary; Hayden in the passenger seat with them.
"That's true," Castle replied as he glanced at Skye's wife in the rearview mirror.
"The building has a basement… or on the roof," Mary replied. "But this isn't where I saw her at."
"What about Roldan and Fuller?" Beckett said, looking to her husband in surprise at that news.
"No, I saw them in Westchester…" Mary whispered. "What if they're already-"
"We'll find them," Beckett was quick to interrupt her. "And Skye will be back in time to go with you to pick up your girls."
"Kate-" Castle started to say.
"We're here," Beckett interrupted him then.
Seeing that she was right, Castle parked next to Burke's patrol car and as soon as they were both out he called across the roof what Mary had told them.
"What?" Burke asked in shock. He then took off running, calling for Agent Weir as an officer made Castle, Beckett, Hayden and Mary stop at the sidewalk in front of the building.
Putting her hand on Mary's shoulder, Beckett watched as the agents and detectives headed inside of the building; except for Weir and Burke. "You have another lead?" she asked.
"Where was your original office?" Weir asked Mary.
"It was in Westchester but it's a clinic now," the woman replied hurriedly. "They'd have a hard time getting inside."
"Alright," Weir replied. "Come on Burke," he said to the detective. Before they left the group there he told an officer, "Call if she gets another phone call from the killers."
"It's going to take time," Mary said, her teeth grit together as she looked up and down the building.
"They're taunting you," Castle and Beckett said together.
"I got that," Mary snapped at them both.
"Easy," Hayden said quickly, wrapping his arm around her shoulders. "What were you telling me before? Something with Skye and these two women?"
"We've been trying to figure that out but there's not much that we can find that points to what they have in common except for flying," Mary replied.
"And you," Castle reminded her.
"And me," Mary agreed.
"Maybe if you try and look at their flying…?" Hayden said.
'That's why we were at the airport," Beckett explained.
Hayden grunted slightly before he started to pace after letting go of his daughter in law. "Do you know," he began suddenly. "When she started seeing you she would talk about the others waiting for their appointments?"
"Did she ever mention anyone that worried her?" Beckett asked, feeling a little guilty about butting into the conversation but she knew it had to be asked.
"Not really, she kept to herself during that time," Hayden replied. "And then once she got to know you better she found herself thinking more about you."
"I know she loves me," Mary said, smiling weakly at him. "I always know."
Castle frowned at that and looked at Beckett as she walked over to him while Skye's wife covered her face with her hands. He was about to speak when he saw from the corner of his eye that some of the authorities were coming out. "Did you find anything?" he called over to them. "Yeah, thanks for letting us know," he muttered when they just walked back to their cars.
"What if they don't call," Mary whispered then, wiping at her cheeks frantically. "Where do we go from here?"
"There has to be something else," Beckett said, touched by the woman's stress as she could easily sympathize with what she was going through. "Skye never investigated an accident that they were in." She then suddenly froze and looked at her husband before they said together, "LAX."
Looking over at them, Mary said, "They were both pilots for different airlines."
"Were the hangars always the same?" Castle asked Hayden then. "For every airline?"
"It wouldn't matter, Skye wouldn't be going to the hangars if there wasn't an accident or incident," the man replied easily. He frowned and then told them, "There was nowhere else the three would have gone?"
Mary closed her eyes tightly and then shook her head saying, "I don't know, Skye's been all over the airport but how would we find out where they've been?"
"What if we looked at a map?" Castle asked.
"Is there one you have that will say what's in the hangars?" Beckett said as she realized that might help them out.
"Skye has one, at home," Mary said. She turned to the building and then back to Castle, holding out her hand. "The keys," she told him sternly.
Looking over at his wife for a moment, Castle saw her slight nod and handed them over before they walked after Mary. At the same time he was watching behind them in case Weir came out and thinking that he asked, "You don't think you should wait for Burke at least?"
"She's got that covered," Beckett replied, walking next to the woman and seeing she was texting the officer. "What if he tells Weir?" she pointed out to him. "Or will we be gone by then?"
"We'll be gone," Mary said simply. Reaching the car she barely waited for the others to close the doors before she was taking off and heading for home. The drive was familiar, she did it every day that she had to work, so she had them soon back at the house. She would have run to the office but before she could take off, she felt someone grabbing her arm and looked over to see that it was Beckett.
"Why did she have this map?" she asked Skye's wife as she led her across the yard.
"She just has it," Mary replied. "She has a number of maps from LAX."
They'd entered the house by then and once they had Beckett let go of her and followed her into the office. She watched with Castle and Hayden as the woman was rifling through a cabinet rapidly before pulling out a large paper along with a regular sized sheet. Peering down at it as Mary had laid it out on Skye's desk, she picked up the key that was on the piece of paper and said, "This is up to date?"
"It is," Mary said before she heard the dogs barking.
"How did he get in?" Castle asked as he knew that it was Burke.
"I left the gate open," Mary replied. She saw Beckett look up from the map and Castle glanced at her and said, "I'm not alone here."
"Ms. McDouglas," Agent Weir said then angrily as he came into the room with Burke behind him.
"You found nothing and we had no time to do so ourselves," Mary snapped immediately at the man. "There's somewhere at LAX that they've taken her to and we need to find it before they…"
"My agents, the LAPD-" Weir began.
"If you send them, that will force the killers to react," Beckett told him. "Possibly against Skye."
"We can-" Weir tried to speak again.
"No, there's no place to hide around these hangars," Mary said, pointing down to the map. "You will expose yourself and the others," she then said simply. "And you'll put my wife's life in danger. So no, we search this map until we find where they've taken her."
"What about the outlying ones?" Castle said as all of a sudden he, Beckett and Mary turned to each other without a word.
"That would make sense," Beckett then said. "How many are in use?"
"There are some old, 80s ones that are going to be torn down," Hayden said. "Well, supposed to be torn down they're taking their time doing that. I used to take Skye there as a child and she would play around the jets parked in there."
"They're still in use," Mary said at that point. "As storage for private jets, mostly Beechcrafts and Lears."
"Would they be there?" Castle asked.
"I don't know what connection Roldan and Fuller have to them," Mary replied, shaking her head. She jumped then when the phone on her desk rang and she looked at Weir who'd left them to their discussion. When he nodded she hurried with Castle and Beckett in her wake. Once Weir made a gesture with his finger for her to begin, she picked up the receiver and said, "Hello?" as she pushed the button to put it on speaker at the same time.
"So you thought we went there? That wasn't where we all met each other Dr. McDouglas," Fuller said on the other end. "You need to remember where it was the three of us met you exactly and we'll see you all there Mary, all your friends."
"They know we're tracking them," Castle said. He opened his mouth to say more but then shot an angry look at Weir who was looking at him incredulously and said, "They don't know we're recording though."
"What do you mean?" Beckett asked.
"Do you have equipment to filter out voices?" Castle directed to Weir.
Bringing over a laptop, the agent typed on the keyboard for a moment and then played the recording, looking at the others as the sound of a plane in the background was heard.
"Can you identify that," Burke asked Mary.
"No, but you can," the woman said, turning to her father in law.
"Aye, that I can, that's an A350, taking off…" Hayden said, closing his eyes as he trailed off. "Play that again but see if you can't remove the plane?"
After Weir had typed again, he played the recording and said, "Cars."
"It is," Hayden replied. "And I know where they may be." He led the way over to the map and put all five of his fingertips onto the map, on a cluster of outlying hangars that were at the ends of the northern two runways.
"There?" Weir asked.
"Don't," Mary said as the man was reaching for his phone.
"You honestly think-" the agent said angrily.
"There's two of them there," Mary began.
"If you go the other will be with Skye, they might kill her," Beckett said. She then looked to her husband as Weir started to argue against that and asked, "Castle?" when she saw he was fixed on the map.
"You said Beechcraft and Lear, would they have flown those?" he asked Mary.
"I…" the woman started to say before cutting herself off and rushing over to her desk and the computer. Luckily the site Burke had used was there and she nodded saying, "Yes, they both started out as pilots for private jets…" She searched on the internet and said, "Both companies had Lears."
"That's it," Burke said. "But how do we know which hangar?"
"We can't search," Beckett replied. "And tip our hand." She turned to Hayden and Mary and asked, "Connections?"
"I have one myself," Hayden replied. He took Mary's cell phone that she handed him and then started to dial.
"Skye flew a Lear first when she got her pilot's license, I don't know why I didn't remember that," Mary groaned. "Granted, it was only once so…"
"No wonder you forgot," Castle said reassuringly.
At that moment Hayden hung up and said, "There's two hangars and they're both holding Lears at the moment, DL and FL."
"I'm calling everyone to the airport," Weir told Mary sternly. "But just as a precaution I'm not going to have them flood the airfield or show themselves in any way. But I'm going with you to-"
"No," Mary replied in such a firm tone that the agent was startled into silence. "Ms. Beckett and Mr. Castle are going with me, my friends." She stared the man down until he finally turned to the couple and she watched him try to beg them not to agree to go with her.
"I'm afraid she's right," Beckett said. "But do you know anything about me?"
"I know about your being a deputy to the Hamptons PD, when armed," Weir replied. At the slight surprise on Beckett's face he said, "I looked into you to see why you were involved. I have a weapon in my car but only for the purpose of your protecting her."
At Beckett's nod, the group of them left, except for Hayden who was told to remain with the officers and agents that were coming back, to field any phone calls. They drove out to the airport, Mary leading the way that time as the authorities that followed them spread out on the street.
"Okay," Mary whispered as they neared the security gate. "Hey, I-"
"Yeah, I saw her, she told me to let you come in and come to see her," the man replied before the gate rolled open.
"They forced her into the passenger seat," Castle said.
"With a gun to her," Mary said tensely. She parked near the group of hangars and she then said, "It's FL."
"Wait, Mary!" Beckett said, still getting her seatbelt off as the woman took off out of the car. Before either she or Castle could catch up to her, she'd disappeared into the hangar through a door and she muttered a curse saying, "Weir's going to kill me," as they were running.
"Skye?" Castle said in shock as the sound of someone sliding in the dirt caught his attention at the side of the hangar and he skidded to a stop when he saw it was the woman they'd been looking for, Beckett stopping as well.
"Oh thank god, you found me," Skye replied as she ran over to them, seeming to be unaffected by the blood coming out of the corner of her mouth and the ripped shoulder of her blouse. She grabbed Beckett by the arms and then said, "Mary? She had to come with you they were going to take us both, they wanted us both. Where is she?"
"She-" Beckett began; about to start running for the building as her hand went to her gun.
Before she could finish the hangar behind Skye exploded, flames shooting out towards the three before they were knocked to the ground. The debris rained down and things seemed in complete chaos before abruptly everything stopped and silence descended around them.