Chapter Twenty-Nine (All You Remember)
Skye's face fell and she turned to face Jiayang, "Mother?" she asked. "This… This doesn't make any sense."
Jiayang sighed, shooting a scathing glare at Cal, "I meant to tell you, when the time was right though. I just wanted to make sure that I, and your father, were correct. I've been so busy with you two and the other newly-changed that I haven't been able to tell you." she explained. "It's been a busy, few days. I'm sorry, Skye."
Cal frowned, "Her name is Daisy." he stated.
"Yes, I know that. But it seems that she prefers Skye right now." Jiayang responded. "I'll call her what she wishes."
Skye still couldn't believe it, "But, I thought that you were dead. I thought that Hydra killed you." she said. "That's what Cal told me. What the hell is going on exactly?"
"Hydra almost killed me, but your father… He found me and stitched me back together per se. He went off on his own trying to find you and I came back here to Afterlife. I swore that you were dead."
Ward backed up slightly, deciding that this wasn't his conversation to be in at the moment.
Skye shook her head, "No. I was in and out of an orphanage for a majority of my childhood. No one wanted me. I eventually ran away and lived in a van for a few years." She looked over to Ward, "Until he and Coulson picked me out of it."
"You were hacking into SHIELD anyways." Ward said, speaking up. "I was just doing my job."
Skye shrugged and looked back to her mother, "I've been with SHIELD for the past few months. I stayed so I could find you and Cal. Well, Hydra led us to him. He had Hydra kidnap me, they just ended up taking Grant."
Jiayang frowned and looked over to Cal, "Why did you do that?" she asked. "If you were trying to gain the trust of our daughter, that was far from the right thing to do."
Cal shrugged and didn't respond.
"And that's when the whole Inhuman thing started, right?" Jiayang asked, returning her attention to Skye.
Skye nodded, "Whitehall got me to touch the Diviner. For some reason I was driven to run into the temple. Grant followed to try and stop me from doing so. All that got us was some weird powers." she explained.
Jiayang nodded slightly, "I wish I could've known." she responded. "I would've made it go smoother. Here, we help Inhumans go through the process smoothly so what happened to you two won't happen to them. Lincoln is one of those that help with so."
"I guess we turned out okay." Skye stated. "More or less. I don't know about the walking match over there."
Ward frowned, "Would you stop calling me that?" he asked. "It was funny at first, but not now."
"Whatever."
"Skye, it's just that," Jiayang began, but shouting from somewhere deeper into the village stopped her. She took a sharp breath, "Sounds like someone is fighting again. I'm sorry, Skye, but we'll have to talk more later. There's someone waiting back near your room that will help you out some." She looked over to Cal, "If you're going to be here, at least do something. Help me out with this."
She started to run off towards the source of the yelling, and Cal followed.
Ward came up and stood by Skye, taking her hand, "Well, that was a nice family reunion." he commented. "We better stay here so we don't get involved."
Skye sighed and looked down, "Just when I was starting to ask questions, something had to happen." she muttered. "It always goes that way."
Ward squeezed her hand, "Don't be that way, Skye." he began. "You'll get to talk to her later. We probably need to go see who this person is that's waiting for us. It better not be one of those that looks like a shark or something. We got it easy compared with others."
(A Little Later)
Skye and Ward stood outside of the building that they were staying in, waiting around for the person that Jiayang said would meet them. Ward danced on the balls of his feet in impatience.
"Where the hell is this person?" he asked. "We don't even know what they looked like. Hell, they could be invisible for all we know."
"I assure you that I'm not invisible. I'm sure that you can see me, even though it isn't the best sight. But I'm surprised though, that both of you survived."
Ward frowned, hearing a familiar voice. But he turned to see something almost unrecognizable coming towards them. It was a woman, he assumed, with huge, yellow eyes, and a head full of what seemed to be quills. He almost didn't know who it was, but something in the woman's face was too familiar.
"Raina?" he asked, eyes wide.
"Go ahead and stare, but I not the weirdest-looking here." she replied.
"What the hell is this?" Skye questioned. "Why the hell are you here too?"
Raina frowned, "Didn't Jiayang tell you that someone was meeting you?" she asked. "That's me."
"And doesn't she know that we really don't like each other?" Skye narrowed her eyes and looked Raina over, "You're right, Grant, we did get it easy."
Ward scratched at his stubble, deciding not to say anything.
Raina looked down for a moment before looking back at Skye, "Anyways, I didn't think that you both would survive the process." She looked at Ward, "I had my suspicions about him, it seems that I was right. And to think that you two are deeply in love."
Ward narrowed his eyes, "Hell, we should be after everything that we've been though. Why did Jiayang send you anyways?" he asked. "Why do we need to meet you?"
Shrugging, Raina sighed, "I'm not really sure." she replied. "Something about showing you two around a little more. "Jiayang's helped me a lot in the past couple of weeks, so I told her that I would help her in return."
Ward shrugged, "Whatever. I'm hoping that we can get out of here as soon as we can. Skye's really wanting to go back to the team. Jiayang said something about that we would be able to go back soon."
"She wants you to wait a few days. Make sure that the both of you are okay. It also depends on what drove you both here." Raina continued. "I came here because Gordon brought me here when I needed help."
"Pretty much the same with us. There's another force inside of SHIELD that wants us dead. We were at a safehouse when they attacked. Shot Grant. We had just recently met Gordon. I called out to him and he brought us here." Skye explained.
"If that's the case, then it may not be good for you to return until Coulson can deal with the threat." Raina responded.
"We can deal."
Raina shrugged, "Whatever you say, Skye. But trust me, it's a hell of a lot better here than going back to SHIELD in some kind of civil firestorm. There's no one after you here."
"Again, we can deal."
Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. So Jiayang explains things and Skye and Ward reunite with Raina. Sorry if I'm getting sloppy with this fic. I'm starting to get really tired of writing it since it's been going on for so long. I'm running out of steam with it. I'll try to finish it up as best I can. Keep reading and PLEASE favorite, follow, and/or review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.
