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Chapter 29

"Stay where you are or I will shoot," May repeated, as she kept her eyes on the woman.

Veronica stood still for a moment, she stared at each of the three women. Her eyes lingering on Skye for the longest.

"Yes of course, agent,"

"Now slowly step away from him."

"Whatever you say." Veronica replied as she stepping away from Ryan.

May walked towards Veronica taking out handcuffs, readying to place them on Veronica wrist, she nodded towards Skye. Bobbi kept her icer trained on Veronica ready to fire if she tried anything. Skye approached Ryan who was still curled up in the corner shaking.

"Ryan, My name is Skye, me and my friends are with S.H.I.E.L.D. we can help you."

"I don't need your help, agent,"

"You don't need to be scared, Ryan, we'll get you somewhere safe."

"You misunderstand agent," Ryan's voice grew sinister his mouth curling into a smile "I really don't need your help, I never needed anyones help."

The words dawned on Skye too late. In the next moment Ryan raised his hand and a bubble formed around him pushing Skye back. Ryan stood up and raced towards May and Veronica the bubble still encircled him as he ran. Bobbi shot her icer, but the shots bounced off the bubble, on of them reverberated and hit May knocking her out cold. May fell to the floor and Veronica broke free of her grasp. Veronica and Ryan ran out the door.

"May!" Skye shouted as she ran over to her fallen comrade.

"I'll take care of May," Bobbi started as she looked at Skyei. "You go after those two before they escape."

Skye nodded, running out the door. Veronica and Ryan were a good ways ahead of he,r but if she was fast enough she could catch them. The streets of the village were narrow making it more likely she would be able to reach them. She raised her icer and aimed it on Veronica instead of Ryan who still had his force field around him. She noticed that ahead the narrow path opened into a wide meadow, she had to stop them before they reached it or they would get away. She wasn't close enough to shoot yet, she pushed herself faster, they were almost to the meadow. Skye realized that she wasn't going to reach them in time, they had gotten to much of a head start, they were going to get away, but she had to try her best, perhaps a lucky shot.

The two figures had just reached the edge of the meadow, and suddenly Veronica dropped down, Ryan didn't look back at his fallen comrade, but continued running, his forcefield still intact. Finally Skye reached the edge where Veronica was on the ground just in time to see the last traces of blue leave her face a clear indication she had been shot by an icer. Ward stepped out from around the corner his icer still raised, Skye let out a sigh of relief.

"Are you ok Skye?"

"Yeah I am, but Ryan got away."

"Don't worry about him, we can go after him later," Ward said as he walking over to her and placing his hands on her shoulders. "For now let's worry about getting her back to Coulson."

"Okay."

"Who the bloody hell is she?" Hunter's voice said, as he rounded the corner with Coulson in tow just as Ward lets his hands drop to his side again.

"She was going after Ryan," Skye explained.

"You think she could be the one going after people with powers, Coulson?"

"I'm not sure, when I went to help Ryan he turned on me , he used his force field to escape, with the distraction she was able to escape."

"You think they were working together?"

"It's hard to know at this point, but I think so, what I don't understand is why put on the show?"

"When she wakes up we can ask her," replied Coulson "just get her back to the bus, where are Agent May and Agent Morse?"

"Back at the last hut, Bobbi shot an icer that bounced off Ryan's force field and hit May."

"Hunter you go help them, we'll take care of her,"

"Right," said Hunter and headed towards the direction of Bobbi and May.

"Ward would you mind?" Coulson pointed towards the body.

Ward picked up the unconscious form of Veronica and the three started back towards the bus.

"Did you get any information out of her?" Coulson asked.

"Just her name she said it's Veronica Bishop."

"Hmmm doesn't ring any bells, but we'll have to wait and see."

"What are we gonna do with her?"

"We will lock her up for now, and then try and interrogate her when she wakes up see is she really is the one that has been going after powered people."

They finally reached the bus where they were greeted by Fitzsimmons and Mack.

"What happened and who is she?" Fitz asked

" Possibly who we are looking for possibly not."

"What does that mean"

"Though we can't be sure we believe she and Ryan may have been be working together. When Skye, May and Bobbi confronted them and tried to save Ryan he turned on them, the distraction was enough for them to slip away. Ryan escaped, but we were able to catch her."

"If they were working together why the chase scene?"

"That's what we are going to try and find out when he wakes up."

Hunter and Bobbi finally arrived carrying May between them, who had just barely woken up.

"Take agent May to her room so she can make a full recovery."

"Yes sir,"

"Ward take Veronica down to Vault D,"

Ward flinched ever so slightly and his voice wavered a tiny bit as he replied. "Y-yes Sir I'l-"

"Oh Me and Mack can do that, Right?" Fitz replied as he noticed his friends reaction.

"Yeah sure, I've got nothing better to do."

"Thank you," Ward said, as he handed Veronica over to Mack, who slung her over his shoulder like a bag of potatoes. He and Fitz left the room.

Coulson let out a sigh "I have to go do a report on this mission." he strolled off in the direction of his office.

Jemma looked around the room her eyes resting on Ward and Skye who stood next to one another.

"Right... Well...uh.. I should probably... Uh go check on May and make sure all her vitals are regular." and then she too was gone, leaving only Skye, Ward and the silence.

"Ward?" The silence was broken by Skye's soft voice as she looked at Ward in concern, who was looking at the ground.

"Are you okay Ward?"

."yes... no... it's just Vault D brings back to many memories, painful memories and I..."

"Hey, it's ok," Skye said as she wrapped her arms around his waist. "You don't have to go back there if you don't want to."

Ward pulled her closer wrapping his arms around her and pressing a kiss to her forehead. "Thank you."

They didn't know how long they stayed in that position, just wrapped in each other's embrace enjoying the warmth, and comfort they brought to one another, they just stayed as long as they felt necessary, not needing to speak to each other physically, but just sharing that special connection they seemed to have.

Ward was the first to pull away, "I love you, and I will see you tonight."

"Love you too, Robot."

They both went their separate ways, Skye leaving to help Coulson finish the report of the mission and Ward headed towards the gym to blow off some steam.

It was later in the afternoon when Ward went looking for Skye again he found her in her bunk on her laptop, muttering to herself. She didn't acknowledge his presence as he entered the room.

"Skye?" No response

"Sweetheart are you alright?"

She looked up "Sorry Ward, I'm fine it's just that, nevermind it's stupid…"

"No, Skye it's not stupid whatever it is, you can tell me."

"It's just today's mission seemed too easy, I mean if Veronica really is who we are looking for it shouldn't have been that easy to take her out, if our hunches are correct then she's the one who has been taking out people with powers, and then she is taken out by a couple of agents?, it doesn't make sense."

"Well I am pretty good at my job" Ward smirked.

"Show off." Skye said, as she rolled her eyes and gave him a playful punch in the arm. "I'm serious though, if she can kill people with powers , why not kill us, she had an opportunity, I'd expect someone like her to put up more of a fight."

"So you think she wanted to be captured?"

"I... Maybe?... I don't know,"

"Guess we will have to wait and see"

"If it was her plan to get captured, why?"

"Perhaps shield has something she wants?"

"Yeah , maybe..."

"Don't stress too much about it sweetheart, we'll find out soon enough." Ward said, as he kissed her temple.

"Right, of course , I'm probably getting worked up over nothing, thanks for talking to me it helped to ease my nerves if only a little."

"You're welcome."

It was finally time for the interrogation Coulson was going to be the one questioning Veronica, with May staying close by his side. Skye hacked into the camera feed, she had told Ward it was so she could put her worries to rest. She was sitting on her bed with her laptop, he sat on the bed to behind her and she leaned back so she was resting against him.

Coulson stepped into the room and turned on the lights, Veronica was already standing up right at the edge of the cage as if she knew Coulson was coming. He sat down in the chair.

"Are you sure you want to watch this Grant?" Skye asked concern in her voice "I'll understand if you don't want to..."

"I'll admit it brings back unpleasant memories, but I'll be fine I have you here."

Skye smiled at that and then turned her attention back to the monitor.

"Good Morning ,Veronica, my name is Phil Coulson I'm the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. ."

"I'm honored, you must think I'm pretty special if the director is coming to talk to me." Veronica replied.

"Here's the deal Veronica, my partner agent May, is just outside this room monitoring your vitals, so she will be able to tell if you are lying."

"I'm hurt director, that you would just automatically assume I would lie to you, and you know what they say about assuming something..."

"That's enough, I'm just here to ask some questions."

"Then ask away director,"

"What is your name?"

"Oh let's start off with a hard one, I already told you my name is Veronica Bishop."

"Do you have any relatives?"

"Just mom, dad and dear little sister."

"Do you have a criminal record?"

"No, you know as well as I that would have popped up when you were searching for my name in your database."

"How did you know about that?"

"Isn't that what all government agencies do when they bring someone suspected of doing a crime, let's just cut to the chase director, you,and I both know the real questions you want to ask."

"Alright, are you the one going after people with powers?"

"Ah so now the real questions have begun... Yes director I am the one who has been going after people with powers."

"Why?"

"I'm a collector of sorts"

"Of what money? Jewelry ? Or maybe you're one of those sick people that collects organs and sells them on the black market?"

"I assure you director i'm interested in something far more... Unique."

"And that would be?"

"Shouldn't it be obvious director?"

"Powers, you're going after people's powers,"

"Exactly."

"How is that possible, are you telling me you can extract people's powers?"

"That is exactly what I'm saying,"

Coulson stood up.

"Thank you for your cooperation, I'll talk to my team and see what needs to be done with you." He headed to the door Veronica's eyes boring into him the whole while. The door slammed closed, and and before the lights shut off, Skye could have sworn Veronica looked directly at the camera and winked.