Chapter 2
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For half an hour May and Coulson sit in the cockpit in silence both of think thinking of the same person, their daughter.
Once he comes up with an idea of how to tell Skye the truth. Coulson gets up and leaves the cockpit leaving May alone to her thoughts.
"Skye, my office." Coulson says as he walks past Simmons and Skye who are talking about something. Fitz and Ward are nowhere to be seen.
"What's up AC?" Skye asks curious as they walk up the stairs.
"Take a seat." Coulson requests as they enter the office.
"Is something wrong?" Skye asks clearly concerned about how Coulson is acting.
"No, I just want to tell you a story." Coulson explains.
"Okay." Skye says confused about why Coulson would call her to his office just to tell her a story.
"When I first started at the Academy for a while I spent most of my time alone. All I cared about was being the best Agent that I could be, but I wasn't the only one. In my first few weeks I met someone who had just the same amount of drive and determination as I did but who had more fun, and she helped me to loosen up a bit. We pushed eachother and were the best of friends. To this day she is the most amazing Agent and person I have ever met." Coulson explains a small smile on his face as her remembers.
"You loved her." Skye realises.
"Yeah, I do." Coulson admits.
"What happened?" Skye asks concerned as she has a feeling that it isn't a good story just by the look Coulson has on his face.
"I'm getting to that." Coulson explains, realising as he looks at Skye that she looks so much like how May looked when she asked what happened to his parents when they were still at the Academy.
"When we graduated we're assigned to different places, but then a year after we graduated we were assigned as partners for missions. When we were at the Academy we were in a relationship, there was no rules against it back then, but when we graduated we decided to end it because we felt like it was for the best, but within a year and a half of being partners we were back together and were even married, secretly, because we weren't sure how S.H.I.E.L.D would react if they knew. We had only been married a couple of months when we found out that we were going to be parents." Coulson explains remembering the joy he felt when May told him that she was pregnant.
"You're a father?" Skye asks surprised.
"Until she was taken from us." Coulson says sadly.
"What happened?" Skye asks becoming even more confused as to why he is telling her this story when it is clearly something very personal.
"The day my daughter was born was the best day of my life. S.H.I.E.L.D suspended Melinda and me for keeping our marriage secret, but we didn't mind. It gave us more time to spend with our baby girl who we loved more than anything." Coulson explains but before he can explain more Skye interrupts.
"Melinda? Are you talking about Agent May?" Skye asks surprised.
"Yes."
"You and Agent May, are married?" Skye asks shocked.
"Not anymore." Coulson answers sadly.
Skye has a million questions for Coulson but she realises that it might be best to let him finish his story before she asks any of them.
"Three months after she was born we put our daughter to bed just like we always did. We checked and there was nothing unusual. All the doors and windows were locked and the security system was on, but as soon as we woke up the next morning we knew something was wrong." Coulson explains doing his best not to remember the dread he felt when he woke up that morning and just knew that something had happened "For the first time since she was born she didn't wake us once. We raced into our daughter's room and we found her gone." Coulson explains.
"Oh god, I'm so sorry." Skye says not being able to imagine what Coulson and May went through when they discovered their daughter gone.
Coulson gives Skye a small nod in responds then continues with his story "We called S.H.I.E.L.D and within a few hours we discovered that we were drugged with a gas that put us into a deep sleep, which is why we didn't hear anyone break in and take our daughter. Director Fury assured us that they would do whatever it took to get our baby girl back but Melinda and I weren't to be involved. We didn't listen, we couldn't. It was our little girl out there and there was nothing that anyone could do to keep us from looking her. Thirty six hours after she was taken, the longest thirty six hours of my life, S.H.I.E.L.D was contacted by an organization similar to Centipede. They had taken my daughter because they wanted a test subject and they somehow found out about my daughter and thought that the child of two of S.H.I.E.L.D's best agents was the perfect person to test their newest experiment on, they thought that someday she would be the perfect weapon against S.H.I.E.L.D. S.H.I.E.L.D did what they could to trace the contact, but they told us that they couldn't, that they had no leads." Coulson explains now wondering if that was actually the truth or not. "Three months after she was taken, when there was still no word on her, and when the one lead we did have turned up nothing, Melinda and I were falling apart. We were doing everything we could think of to try and find our daughter but we couldn't find anything. We had both moved out of the house, neither of us could bear to live there anymore but we couldn't sell it either so it just sat there, still does, the whole house is still almost exactly the same as it was the night our girl was taken. It was at that time that director Fury called Melinda and I for a meeting. He told us that there was no more leads as to where our girl was so unless they found another lead it would no longer be classified as an active investigation. He said that in his opinion our daughter was most likely dead." Coulson explains.
"They gave up looking for your daughter just like that?" Skye asks disbelief and anger clear in her voice.
"Just like that." Coulson answers "Melinda and I didn't take that too well. Melinda actually knocked out about dozen agents that Fury ordered to try and subdue her. Neither of us took Fury telling us our daughter was likely dead well, but it destroyed Melinda. Both of us blamed SHEILD, Fury, whoever it was that took her and eachother, but neither of us blamed anymore more than we each blamed ourselves. We kept trying to make our marriage work but we were broken, losing our girl broke us and staying together would have just hurt us more. " Coulson explains "Eight years after our girl was taken, long after Melinda and I were divorced was the Bahrain mission, where as you know Melinda got her name the Calvary. Losing our girl changed Melinda so much, but it was Bahrain that truly made her into the Agent, the person, that you know now." Coulson explains. "I never gave up trying to find my girl and neither did Melinda, but neither of us found a solid lead."
"Do you want me to try?" Skye offers assuming that maybe this is why Coulson is telling her the story "I can do whatever I can to see if I can find something that you and May couldn't. See if I can find your girl for you." Skye offer wanting to do whatever she can do to help.
"I've already found her." Coulson says pulling out the DNA results out of his jacket and handing them to Skye.
"I don't understand, why are you showing me this? What does it mean?" Skye asks confused.
"Ever since I talked to Agent Lumley I had this feeling, this feeling that there was more than just what he was saying. I couldn't help but think that there were two baby girls both born around the same time and at one point both had SHEILD agents after them, and I wondered could they be the same girl." Coulson explains.
"Are you saying…?" Skye asks not even being able to bring herself to ask what she is actually thinking.
"This morning I took a DNA sample of your Coffee mug, one of Melinda's and collected a sample of my own and took the three down to Simmons to get her to test the samples and determine if there were any relation. You're holding the results." Coulson explains.
"I'm your daughter?" Skye asks in a quiet voice, barely able to say the words out loud.
"Yes." Coulson asks.
"The daughter that was taken form you at three months old?" Skye asks and Coulson nods "If I'm your daughter then why did Avery take me to the Orphanage?"
"I don't know." Coulson answers truthfully "I think the most likely answer is that she didn't know who you were. I think that she and the others on her team were only told that you were an 0-8-4. I don't know if Fury knew that you were our daughter when he sent a team in to investigate." Coulson explains.
For a while Skye just sits in her chair in silence, trying to understand everything that Coulson just told her.
"Skye, are you alright?" Coulson asks concerned when after a while she hasn't said another word.
"I need some time. This is too much, I need some time to think." Skye says standing up.
"Okay, well I'm here when you're ready." Coulson says as he opens his desk draw to try and find something, knowing Skye well enough to know that he can't push her. "I want you to have this." Coulson says handing Skye over a picture. "It was taken the day you were born. Your mother and I both have about ten copies each of that picture. You should have at least one."
Skye looks down at the picture and the second she does she feels tears well up in her eyes as she looks down at a younger Coulson and May holding a newborn baby, her. "Why isn't May here telling me this as well? Did she not want to?" Skye ask doing her best to try and make it sound like she isn't asking doesn't she want me.
"She thought it would be best if you weren't crowed when you were told, considering how you two have been getting along she thought it would be best coming from me, but I know that wasn't her only reason." Coulson explains.
"What do you mean?" Skye asks, fighting to keep her voice steady.
"Like I said losing our girl, loosing you, destroyed Melinda. I think that she didn't think she could handle seeing your reaction if you didn't take it well. As strong as she may seem I know that she wouldn't be able to handle loosing you for a second time especially when she just found out who you really are." Coulson explains.
Skye nods and without another word she leaves Coulson's office.
After leaving Coulson's, her fathers, office Skye runs down the stairs and into her bunk. Not hearing, Fitz, Simmons and Wards worried calls.
"I wonder what that's about." Fitz asks concerned about the woman that he is beginning to start to see as a sister.
"Should one of us go talk to her?" Ward suggest worried about what could possibly make Skye cry, which it was clear she was doing, and ignore them.
"I will." Simmons says standing up "Neither of you are particularly good at talking to women." Simmons says before walking over to Skye's bunk.
"Skye, it's Jemma, can I come in?" Simmons asks as she knocks. Simmons waits a couple of minutes but she doesn't receive an answer in return but she does continue to hear Skye's cries. "Please Skye, I'm alone and I just want to make sure that you are alright." For about another minute Simmons just waits and listens to Skye crying until she hears someone moving and the distinct sound of the bunk door unlock. Sliding open the door Jemma enters her friend's bunk, wondering what could have possibly effected Skye so much.
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AN: I know that you didn't get to see much Skye's reaction but you will in the next chapter. I wanted this chapter to be able Coulson telling Skye the story of her parents before she knew that they were. The next chapter is longer than the previous two chapters combined, and chapter four is even longer.