Connections 26
(A day later at two in the morning)
Skye struggles beneath her sheets as her head snaps back and forth with her body covered in sweat. Her eyes are squeezed shut in agony, she starts mumbling "No... Stop!... Run Clint!... Stay Away!...NOOO! ... POWERS TURN OFF! " she starts scraping and thrashing in her bed.
(In the night mare)
Skye was in the center of all those she considered friends and family, she could see her hands raising on their own accord as they grabbed her brothers throat and squeezed. She watched as all the Avengers leapt into action, Thor throwing his hammer, Steve running at her, Natasha flanking her as Tony flew around the room trying to take her out with his bullets similar to that of icer rounds. Skye tried to curl within herself but her body was not under her minds control since red ray beams shoot out at everyone she looks at. She screams at herself "No! Stop! Guys run! Run Clint! No Bruce stay away!" suddenly Clint collapses from getting hit by her ray beams.
She turned her eyes and saw destruction all around her, Steve was ducking and dodging her blows she heard a yell from above and Iron Man was suddenly shot out of the sky and she froze before she screamed "NOOO! POWERS TURN OFF!" Her heart rate increased and suddenly she bolted into a sitting position with a scream, she gasped for breath and she heard her heart beat ... Thump...thump...thump. Suddenly there is a knock at her door and a screens appears in front of her by Jarvis and she sees Clint and Steve at her door. Her breathing was heavy as she gasped out "Jarvis... Let them in." she brought her knees up into her chest and curled within herself as the screams echoed in her mind.
Clint and Steve zoomed into the room panicked " Skye!?" exclaimed Steve seeing her curled in a ball, Clint rushed to her side and put a hand on her shoulder making her jump away from him in fear. Skye has tears in her eyes as images of what she did to Clint and Steve the day she was made Red death, the screams of her brother, her friends pleads. "Doe? Doe can you hear me? Are you okay?" asks Clint moving to her side ignoring that she keeps putting distance between them. "No..." she croaks out and both Steve and Clint frown knowing she is crying. "Doe... tell me what's wrong. Please." he whispers so only she can hear his pleading and she takes a shaky breath before looking up at him.
"It was just a nightmare... I am fine you guys can go." she says firmly though he voice shakes more than she wishes it would. Steve raises an eyebrow and looks to Clint, the two wordlessly have a conversation before Steve nods in understanding and walks out the door. Clint sat down at the edge of Skye's bed and waited for her to talk to him. After about fifteen minutes of silence Skye quietly moved to lean against her brother, he wrapped his arms around her to comfort her. She sighed in content before deciding to tell her brother her nightmare, " I killed you all." she says her voice surprisingly impassive for the revelation.
Clint looked down at his sister not surprised to see her masking her emotion like a true SHIELD agent does especially one of her caliber. "What do you mean you killed us all? You would never hurt us Skye." Skye rocked herself as she replied " I would never hurt you but red death wouldn't hesitate to slit your throat or beat the life out of you... I don't want to live with the ability that could hurt you... Your ribs are still bruised I can see you wince every time you pull the bones and I can see your body aching. I did that to you... With my own to hands I nearly killed the only family I have in this world." she lets her voice squeak as tears begin to escape.
Clint frowned rubbing her back in comforting circles before he sternly replied "The hands that beat me may have been yours but it was Red Deaths mind that controlled them. Remember the saying it's not the guns fault but the person who shoots the gun fault. Skye you can't blame your self for what happened to Steve and I we certainly don't... Why don't you talk to Bruce? He knows what you feel like he has been through the same thing. He turns into a big green ugly raging monster while at least you don't turn into anything." Skye looks up at him her lip trembling as she says "Blue... I don't want these powers they are changing me and I don't know what to do... I was trained to adapt to get every mission done but this... This is like nothing I have ever experienced before. It's terrifying I have no control over my own body and I am a specialist do you have any idea how terrifying it is to know that there is a murderer within me using me to kill."
Clint could tell that her training is the only thing keeping her from fully breaking down and at the moment he was actually thankful that Director Fury made her a agent because at the moment he feels tore in two since he is unable to take away the pain from his little sister. He sighs before replying "Skye I can't promise you that you will never hurt us but I can promise you that your friends and family will never curse or forsake you. I will never stop protecting you and I will be here every step of the way, whatever you decide to do. Please get some sleep I will stay here." Skye looked ready to argue but seemed to talk herself out of it and pulled from her brothers embrace to shimmy herself underneath her sheets.
They stayed in silence her uneven breathing indicating that she was very much awake, after about twenty minutes Skye threw her blankets off of her startling Clint. She grabbed her tennis shoes before going into the adjoining bathroom to change, a few minutes later she emerged in tennis shoes, workout pants and a blue jacket over her sports bra and tank top. Skye looked to her brother impassively before she walked out the door, her destination unknown to anyone but her.
-Authors Note - I am terribly sorry that I have made you all wait for this chapter but I hope you all liked it! Please let me know if there is anything you hope to read in the next chapter and I will see if it will go. Thanks for reading -PiratePrincess16-