Hey guys! This prompt was inspired by GothicPheonix's prompt: "Skye loses her necklace." Just a quick reminder that the necklace I'm talking about here is that one that Wanda and Pietro sent her in You Can Trust Me.
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Skye stared outside her car window and softly sang along to The Little Mermaid song that was playing. It was raining outside and the sky was dark grey but she didn't really mind. She liked the rain. It was fun to play in and whenever it was rainy, her family always had a movie night or a game night and that was always really fun.
She was watching the raindrops race down the window when her mom turned down the music a little so that Skye could hear her, "What'd you learn in school today?"
Thinking back to her time in the classroom, Skye grinned, "We played games."
Her mom glanced at her through the rearview mirror, "Like what?"
Skye started kicking her legs back and forth and went back to looking at the raindrops on her window, "Duck Duck Goose."
"You guys played that inside?"
Skye smiled and nodded her head, "Yeah, we pushed all the desks to the side of the room so that we could do it. It was fun."
"Well it sounds like you had a good day."
"I did."
Instinctively, Skye's hand wandered up to her throat so that she could grab onto her moon necklace. When she didn't feel anything, her eyes widened and she reached her other hand up and tried to see if she just hadn't felt her necklace the first time.
She couldn't feel her necklace.
Squinting her eyes so that she could see her reflection in the window, she let out a little whimper when she didn't see her necklace around her neck. It was always there.
Maybe it had just fallen off when she had gotten into the car. Keeping that thought in mind, she felt around her booster seat and came up empty. Leaning over, she ignored the way her seatbelt was pushing against her and looked at the floor. Her arms couldn't reach the floor because of her dumb seatbelt and she let out a frustrated sound.
Her mom spoke up, "Skye? What're you doing?"
She continued her search as she answered, "My necklace."
"What about it?"
She sat upright and let out a frustrated breath, "I can't find it!"
Agitatedly pushing her hair out of her face, she searched for her necklace in the seat beside her while her mom answered her, "Okay calm down sweetie, we'll find it."
She stuck her hands between the seats and fished around before whimpering when she felt nothing, "I am calm! I just need to find it!"
"Okay, we're almost home and I'll help you look for it. I'm sure it's here somewhere."
Skye leaned back against her seat and tried not to cry. Wanda and Pietro had given her this necklace when she first came to live with her family and it meant everything to her. Besides being one of the prettiest things she owned, it was also her most precious and cherished object. It had been with her through too much for her to just lose it like this.
As her mom turned into their driveway, Skye blinked away her tears and fumbled with her seatbelt until it unlocked so that when her mom stopped the car, she could immediately open her door and hop out. Before her mom could even open her own door, Skye leaned into the car and started searching beneath the car seat. She let out a frustrated groan when all she saw was some gum wrappers and an empty water bottle.
She glanced around the backseat one more time and slapped the seat when she didn't see her necklace. It could be anywhere, in her classroom, in the school parking lot, somewhere in her front lawn, in the school cafeteria, thinking of all the places that her necklace could be made the tears that had been welling up in her eyes finally fall.
Skye felt someone stand behind her and she immediately turned around and wrapped her arms around her mom in a tight hug. Pressing her face against May's tummy, she felt her mom run her fingers through her hair and Skye didn't hold back her sobs. She couldn't believe how careless she had been. When her brother and sister had given her that necklace, she had finally started to think of them as her family. They had seen it in a shop and thought of her and for Skye, that meant everything to her. She hated herself for losing it.
Her mom squeezed her tight before gently pushing her away, "It's probably in your room sweetie, we'll find it."
Trying to catch her breath, Skye shook her head, "It could be anywhere mommy. What if it's gone forever?"
Reaching past her to grab her backpack, her mom shook her head confidently, "No, we'll find it. C'mon baby."
Her mom held out her hand and Skye sniffled before grabbing onto it. May gave her a reassuring look and led her into the house. Skye wiped her face with her free hand and let herself be tugged along.
When they were inside the house, her mom let her backpack slide to the ground and turned to her, "We'll start looking in your room, alright?"
Skye nodded and wiped away the last of her tears, "Okay."
Squeezing her hand, her mom led her up the stairs and towards her room, "If it's here, we'll find it baby, don't worry."
Even though her mom's words were reassuring, there was no way that Skye wasn't going to worry. They entered her room and Skye immediately dropped to the floor to search under her bed while her mom made her way over to Skye's closet.
After an hour, they had torn apart Skye's room, scoured the bathroom and playroom, searched through the living room, and combed through the kitchen and dining room. Her necklace wasn't here.
She had tried to remain focused while she was searching for it but now that she knew it wasn't here, all she could think about was how terrible she felt for losing her necklace.
Skye didn't really care if she was acting like a little baby, she just sat in the middle of the dining room floor, pulled her knees to her chest, and cried.
As a foster kid, she never really had things of value. She had hand-me-down clothes and rejected toys and her necklace was one of the first real things of value that she had ever been given. Wanda and Pietro had seen the beautiful star and moon necklace and thought of her. They cared enough about her to buy it for her and send it all the way across the ocean just to give it to her. That necklace reminded her of her family and it had helped her get through a lot. She held onto it when she was scared or nervous and it always made her feel better and right now, all she wanted to do was rub the warm metal against her fingertips but she couldn't because she had been careless and had lost her favorite thing in the whole world.
She felt gentle hands start to rub soothing circles on her back and instinctively crawled over onto her mom's lap. She curled herself around May and her mom wrapped her up in a tight hug and let her cry into her shirt.
Her mom rubbed her hands through her hair like she always did when she comforted Skye, but right now, it didn't calm her down as much as it usually would have, "We'll find it Skye."
Skye just pressed her face against her mom's neck and mumbled, "It's not here, it's gone."
Instead of the lie that Skye had been expecting to hear, her mom gave her the truth, "You're right baby, it might be gone, but if that's true, I need you to know that it was just a necklace. We can always get you a new one sweetie."
Skye pulled away from her mom as a flash anger rushed through her, "You don't get it! It wasn't just a necklace mommy!"
Her mom's forehead scrunched up in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Skye let out a breath and tried to think of how she could explain it, "It was more than a necklace."
Her mom silently urged her to go on and Skye struggled to find the right words, "Wanda and Pietro gave it to me because they love me and I'm their sister."
Her mom still looked confused, "I know that baby."
Skye shook her head and tried to explain it better, "They gave it to me because they wanted to show me that I was a part of this family and now that it's gone…"
Her mom pulled her into a tight embrace, "Skye, you have to know that even without the necklace, we're all still a family."
"I know… but the necklace was real proof that someone… someone loved me enough to get me something just because they thought I would like it and it would make me happy. No one had ever really done that before."
Skye took in a shuddering breath and felt her eyes well up with a new batch of tears, "And now… now I lost it."
She willed herself not to cry even though she really, really wanted to and hugged herself closer to her mom instead.
Her mom gently patted her back, "I'm sorry, I know you loved that necklace."
She did love it. She would do anything to get it back right now, anything, that had to count for something right?
Her mom hugged her for a little while longer and said, "We'll go to school early tomorrow so that we can look for it."
She leaned back and gave her mom a wobbly but grateful smile, "Okay."
Pressing a kiss to Skye's forehead, her mom stood up with her in her arms and made her way into the living room. She turned on the tv and plopped down onto the couch with Skye on her lap. They sat in companionable silence for awhile and Skye appreciated it. Her neck felt naked and lighter than usual and all she could think about was her beloved necklace sitting in a puddle in the parking lot or getting stepped on by a bunch of kids at school.
The more she thought about it, the sadder she got, so she tried to focus on the sounds coming from the tv and the way her mom was rubbing circles on her waist with her thumb.
Suddenly the door flew open and Trip and Natasha walked in with smiles on their faces. They both threw their backpacks on the ground, not caring that their dad was going to tell them to pick them up as soon as he got home, and walked into the living room to join them.
Trip collapsed onto one chair while Nattie sat on another and he studied them, "Why the long faces?"
Skye's lower lip trembled and luckily her mom saved her from having to answer that question, "Skye lost her necklace."
Trip's smile immediately dropped and he gave her a sympathetic look, "I'm sorry Skye."
Nattie held out her hand and stood up quickly, "Wait!"
Her sister jogged back over to her backpack and brought it over to them. Natasha unzipped her bag and rooted around in it for a couple of seconds before letting out a triumphant grin and thrusting Skye's necklace at her, "Here! I found it on you chair in the dining room this morning and didn't want to lose it so I brought it to school with me."
Skye quickly grabbed her necklace out of her sister's hands and held it close to her chest. She was so relieved that her necklace wasn't lost and was safely in her hands that she couldn't help it, she started crying again. Apparently, today was a crying kind of day.
Studying her necklace, she smiled through her tears when she saw that it was okay. The little blue star was still hanging happily from the end of the crescent moon and it didn't look any worse for wear.
Making sure that her necklace was securely in her hand, she reached forward and hugged Nattie tightly. Her sister laughed and hugged her back before gently pushing her back and wiping the tears off of her cheeks, "You okay?"
Skye nodded and rubbed her moon pendant between her fingers and the action was so familiar and comforting that her tears slowed down and came to a stop, "Yeah. I thought it was gone forever!"
Nattie shook her head, "Nah, I think that clasp is a little loose and that's why it fell off."
Skye worriedly looked at her necklace and saw that her clasp was hanging half open, "Is it broken?"
Her mom leaned over and examined it, "No, we can easily fix this sweetie. You're necklace is fine."
Finally relaxing a little, Skye sat back down on the couch and looked at her necklace, "We need a super strong clasp, okay mommy?"
Her mom let out a breath and ran her fingers through Skye's hair, "Baby, with everything that went on today, I'm considering putting a padlock on it so that you never lose it again."
Skye seriously considered that and her mom laughed a little, "I was joking Skye."
Let me know what you thought! I think we've all been where poor lil Skye was when she thought she lost something she loved :(
Also, which one-shot has been your favorite so far? I'm really curious to know! Mine is still the one where they all went to the beach :) Thank you so much for reading! xx -Ariel