It had been 7 months since Skye had disappeared, 7 months where they had twisted her reality, 7 months her team had searched before they found her. "We want you to break her. Sever all of the ties that she has…We want the word 'hope' to be out of her vocabulary. If we let her go, she'll stay because she knows there's nowhere to run." Warning: torture/sexual abuse/suicide attempt.

"Looking at Skye after close to ten years Ward found he couldn't help but fall in love all over again, she was still beautiful but her eyes definitely held a hauntedness he hadn't seen before." Upon registering his daughter for SHIELD Youth Academy and applying for a teaching position, Ward finds himself face to face with the woman he'd given up years before. Post HYDRA