A/N: So this scene is the longest I've written for this fic, I think. It's mostly a Kara/Skye bonding moment :3
Thank you to changingdestiny40 for your review! I posted the previous scene about twelve hours ago, but my email alert didn't show up until a little while ago. I don't know about anyone else, but if that's the way it is for most of you, that would explain the one review.
You guys should love this one, and the next two scenes even more! :)
Grant pulled up to a clearing near a river just as the sun was starting to rise. Skye, who was still awake, peered out the window to see the sunrise over the treetops.
"It's beautiful out here." She said breathlessly, nearly pressing her nose flat against the glass.
"The upside of severe isolation." Grant dryly remarked. Skye turned to look at him with a slightly confused expression.
"I was trying to see this place as it is, not as it was." She muttered, frowning.
"Whatever." He got out of the car, slamming the door and striding away in a sulk.
Wow, what's your problem? Skye thought. Shaking her head, and thinking that he needed some time to lose some steam, she got out of the car. "Kara!" she said loudly, opening the back door. "Kara, wake up, we're here."
"Hm wha?" Kara slurred as she stirred. "Skye?"
"Morning, Sleepyhead." Skye laughed. "Get up, we're here."
Kara struggled out of the car in her half-awake state, getting to her feet with a little bit of a sway. Blinking in the bright sunlight, she looked confused as she glanced around the clearing. "Where's Grant?"
"I think this place makes him grumpy." Skye answered her, moving further away as she paid closer attention to the details, from the flowers in the grass to the squirrels in the trees.
"Probably cause of Garrett." Kara said, rubbing her eyes.
"Probably." Skye agreed. "I mentioned that it was beautiful out here, and all he said was 'the upside of severe isolation.'" She stopped in the middle of the clearing, clenching her hands into fists as she considered something.
"Poor Grant…Garrett really did a number on him."
"Yeah." Skye turned around to face Kara, her mind almost made up. "Grant walked off that way," she pointed to the trees on the other side of the sedan. "We should give him some space."
Kara nodded, finally feeling like she was mostly awake. "So where's the safe house? Some sort of cabin?" she started moving away from the car.
"Wait!" Skye panicked momentarily. "I, um…" Taking a slow, deep breath, she calmed herself before she lost control. "I want to try something."
"Okay." Kara turned to face her, unfreezing from the position she was in when Skye called out. "What do you want to try?"
"It's something that's…kind of weird. And, it's…" Skye stuttered out, clearly overwhelmingly nervous.
"Skye!" Kara got her attention easily. "Just relax and tell me what's on your mind."
"Okay, um…" Skye took another deep breath. "This-what I want to do is why Simmons did what she did. Ever since San Juan, I've been feeling like I have a swarm of bees inside me. And they're moving, always moving. And…I can make things shake, so…"
"You're powered." Kara clicked. "The little earthquakes that happened when you got upset. That's why you ran from S.H.I.E.L.D."
Worry plastered all over her face, Skye nodded. "They tried to get it out of me. Like I was cursed." She shook her head. "But I'm not, am I?" she asked pleadingly.
"No, Skye." Kara said softly. "Your powers are a part of you, and that's nothing to be ashamed or afraid of."
Relief blossomed on Skye's features. "So what I wanted to try was if I could push the bees out."
Kara pursed her lips as she considered why Skye was feeling abuzz. "Skye, have you thought about why you have these bees?"
"My powers." She replied. "How else?"
"Yes, but," Kara wondered how to say it. "Everything has a rate of frequency and vibration. It's how sonar works, and how the Earth feels like it's still when he know that it speeds around the sun."
"So you're saying that I'm feeling my own frequency?"
"Yes! You're not yet adapted to it, so it feels…"
"Prominent?" Skye supplied, a small smile on her face.
"Yeah. And I think the reason you can cause earthquakes is because you can feel the vibrations of the earth. When you're upset, you subconsciously reach out to those vibrations."
"Okay." Skye breathed. "So I'll try to consciously reach out." Without wanting to wait and become more anxious, she closed her eyes and spread her arms wide to give a sense of stability. Slowly, she opened the walls she'd tightly woven around herself, and tentatively felt for the vibrations of the earth.