A source of hope 35
After about a hour sitting with Steve in comfort Skye finally decided she could return to the tower. Skye stood up but immediately clutched her ribs as sharp pain shot through them in protest, Steve saw her pained face and quickly asked "Skye!? What hurts?"
Skye frowned before telepathically replying "MY RIBS... FEELS LIKE SOMEONE IS CONSTANTLY STABBING ME AND IT BURNS." Steve moved closer to her and hesitantly asked "Can I- can I check to see if the Running you did to get here refractured your ribs since they weren't anywhere close to being fully healed."
Skye raised an eyebrow but slowly pull her shirt up enough so he could check her ribs, he tentively touched her ribs and as he came to the middle of one she cringed and jumped away in pain. She telepathically says "Ow ow ow! Yeah something is cracked... Looks like we will be walking back not running... Sigh this is sooo not fair."
Steve chuckled at her adorable pouty face before he said "Actually... I came on my bike I was to wiped after the run to go running again when I had no idea where you'd be. Come on it's parked out front." he gestured for her to lead when his phone rang.
Steve- Hey Stark what's up?
Tony- Hey Cap did you find telequeen? Coulson, Simmons, Clint and Natasha are all concerned and are acting like mother hens and protective father and brother. Where are you at?"
Steve had to contain his laughter at the description of their friends concern for Skye, he looked to Skye who was observing him and smiled.
Steve- Firstly yes I am with Skye, secondly don't even try to hide the fact that you are just as concerned as the others and thirdly we are at the place where she was held captive... She hurt her ribs running all the way down here so we are taking my bike back.
Tony- Is she okay!? Should I have Simmons and Banner waiting?
Steve- She is fine just pulled on one of her still healing broken ribs... No need for them to be waiting besides I think it's time we stop smothering Skye. While she was here she remembered everything related to me. Got to go be at the tower in ten.
Skye smiled at him as he hung up the phone, they walked to his bike and he took his helmet and gently eased her into it. "There you go ... Now I have to say you look good in my helmet. Come on get on." he said sliding on and gesturing for her to sit behind him.
Skye cautiously sat behind him and he chuckled she telepathically asked "WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?" Steve looked over his shoulder and locked eyes with her before saying "Hold on to me or your going to go flying." with that said the engine roared to life and just as Skye flung her arms around Steve's stomach the motorcycle took off, speeding down the busy streets.
When they got to Avengers tower Skye was quiet and remained close to Steve. She was lost in thought when the elevator dinged and they arrived on the central floor, as soon as Skye stepped out of the elevator she was knocked back by Simmons pulling her into a hug.
Immediately Skye was over come with multiple thoughts as she saw that everyone had been waiting for her, she squeezed her eyes shut as he hears Natasha's, Clint's, Tony's, Bruce's, Fitzsimmons, Mays, Coulson's, Thor's, Sams, Trips and Steve's immediate thoughts all at once as her telepathic powers activated without her consent.
Skye's hands went to her head as her mind shot with pain, Steve cautiously pulled her towards him and asked "Skye!? Skye are you okay?" his voice was filled with concern as both Bruce and Jemma moved towards them ready to help. Skye pulled away from Steve's embrace and stumbled to the nearby wall, she pulled herself into the elevator and telekinetically closed the doors faster, she went up several floors and exited on the seventeenth floor the lead to Tony and Peppers private floors.
She furrowed her eyebrows as a flashback of her rounding the nearby corner with Natasha and Bruce both heavily armed, Skye's eyes widen as she looked to lounge. She froze when she realized that something bad happened here not to long ago, she stood there till the elevator dinged and everyone burst onto the seventeenth floor.
Steve stopped a few feet behind Skye and looked to everyone else in concern, Natasha and Bruce hesitantly took a few steps and were at her side in a instant. Skye's face was scrunched up in pain before she asked signing "THIS IS THE PLACE ... ISNT IT? THE CENTIPEDE SUPER SOLDIERS SURROUNDED US HER. THERE WAS A DOZEN OR SO OF THEM AND THEY WANTED ME... BRUCE TURNED INTO THE HULK AND WE ALL FOUGHT TOGETHER. BUT THEY DRUGGED ME AND I COULDNT FIGHT ANYMORE... I WAS TAKEN."
Her face remained straight ahead as Bruce gently said "Not even the hulk could stop them... We tried to get you back Natasha and I but you vanished. " Skye slowly spun around and looked to everyone before signing " I REMEMBER THAT COULSON REFUSED TO LET ME GO ON THE MISSION AND IT TURNED OUT THAT YOUR MISSION WAS JUST A DISTRACTION AND THATS HOW I WAS TAKEN... BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME THERE? WHO WERE MY CAPTORS?"
She looked to them with pleading eyes and Tony surprisingly was the one to speak up "Miles Lydon, Ian Quinn and Grant Ward" Skye's body tensed and suddenly her eyes glazed over and her body shook as a memory surged through her showing how mad Grant Ward was when he found out she had been taken and tortured. She remembered him spinning around and punching Ian Quinn In the nose breaking it before rushing to her side and trying to get a response from her as he examined her injuries. She sucked in a breath as he dabbed her cut and when she opened her eyes everyone stood frozen in concern.
Skye looked to them and signed "WARD WASNT AWARE OF MY KIDNAPPING OR TORTURE... WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE HELPED AS BEST HE COULD AND HE ALSO BROKE QUINNS NOSE." she smiled at the last part. Director Coulson raised an eyebrow and asked "Why wasn't he found when we found Miles, Raina and Quinn?"
Everyone looked to her expectedly for a answer, she bit her lip before suddenly remembering "I LET HIM GO." she signed and everyone immediately tensed excluding Steve and Tony who immediately stepped closer to their hacker. "Skye... Why would you do that? He is suppose to rot in jail for betraying SHIELD and murdering several loyal SHIELD personal." said Agent May careful to keep her tone withdrawn.
Skye looked to the ground before signing "BECAUSE HE WILL ALWAYS BE APART OF ME ... NO MATTER HOW MUCH I WISH HE WASNT." Everyone's face was Impassive but Fitz broke the silence as he asked "What else do you remember Skye?" Their hacker tensed and her head snapped up before she could say a thing images flooded her mind, her eyes widen before she clutched her head and fell to her knees.
As a group everyone went to her side before suddenly stopping when full memories of Skye's torture flooded their minds. Clint, Coulson and Steve's fists clenched and jaws slacked as they watched Miles and Quinn punch her consistently. Natasha and May tensed as the agonized look to Raina as the women in the flower dress injected her with sodium pentathol, everyone could feel her pain. Thor, Sam and Triplett all muttered under their breath "To bad their dead or they would be in for a world of hurt." as they watched how super soldiers pounded Skye's defenseless body when she spit blood into one of their faces in defiance.
Fitz, Simmons, Pepper and Tony all had tears in their eyes as they saw Skye curl within herself at night crying and wincing from her entire beaten body. Banner was breathing heavily as the memories played out in his mind and he fought to keep control of the green raging monster fighting it's way out of him. While Skye was clutching her head and curled in a fertile position on the ground remembering the pain of all the torture, suddenly she was being tased relentlessly and her mind let out a powerful bloodcurdling screaming.
Fitz, Simmons, Pepper and Tony all cried out in pain as they fell to their knees holding their heads in pain, they watch as Skye begins to break free from her restraints as all the guards in her cell threw themselves around screaming from the pain and pressure in their brains, Steve was fighting hard to not react to the pain increasing on his mind.
Skye finally opened her eyes as she still watched herself from the memories as she ran down the hall and met Ward on the ground crying out in pain clutching his head before she took pity on the one person she really loved before his betrayal and stopped the screams in his head. The hackers eyes widen as she looked around the room as four of her friends were crying out while the rest were groaning and grunting, she realized that she had been amplifying her memories into their minds which meant they could hear and feel her pain.
Skye looked to Steve and saw the agonized look of his face, she snapped her head in one direction before using almost all her strength to completely cease the screams in her mind. Everyone shook their heads coming out of the memory daze and looking around, Fitz, Simmons, Pepper and Tony all shakily gripped the wall and stood up now that the pain was gone. Steve looked to down at Skye who was back in a curled ball crying, he kneeled down beside her and tried to pull her into a comforting hug but instead she sprung away from the embrace.
She jumped to her feet and put her hands out in a stopping manner before signing "STAY BACK! I AM SORRY I DIDNT MEAN FOR ANY OF YOU TO EXPERIENCE THAT! STAY AWAY I CANT CONTROL MY POWERS AND I HURT ALL OF YOU." she had a terrified look on her face as she noticed that Tony and Simmons had blood dripping from their noses. Skye backed up more and as soon as Coulson opened his mouth to respond she bolted past them to the elevator and used her telekinetic powers to slam the doors shut.
Everyone stared at the elevator slack jawed before Banner growled "They tortured her more then any one could possibly handle. How could she possibly survive that?" he says with a solemn voice. Steve cleared his throat and said "The only way she could... She believed that we would find her and she was determined to stay loyal to us and not let her powers get into the wrong hands. She protected us at the cost of her life ... just like the Avengers."
-Authors Note- Hi all! That was a intense ending right? Well I hope you liked it :-) One chapter left and there will be a sequel that will follow. I hope to hear from you and thanks for reading -PiratePrincess16-