Chapter 14
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"Satellite will be at least an hour Sir." Ward says entering the warehouse minutes after Coulson and May found the body.
"We can't wait that long." Coulson tells him sounding frustrated.
"Sorry Sir, it was the best I could do." Ward tells him "Any sign of her?" He asks.
"No." Coulson says "But Lard's dead and the flash drive's here which makes me think that whoever is behind this only wanted Skye that they didn't care about anything else." Coulson comments.
"Does this seem a little bit familiar to anyone?" Fitz asks the others curious.
"What do you mean?" Coulson asks.
"Fake hostage exchange, one of our own disappearing in a helicopter. I don't know about you but I'm getting a sense of Déjà vu." Fitz explains.
"It is a little too similar to what happened to you." Ward comments looking at Coulson, "But why would what's left of Centipede want Skye?" He ask confused.
"Sir, you don't think? Do you?" Simmons asks Coulson looking terrified as she remembers what Skye told her when she first found out about Coulson and May being her parents and what it would mean for Skye if that was the reason she was taken.
"It's possible." Coulson comments knowing exactly what Simmons Is thinking.
"What's possible?" Ward asks confused but assuming by the looks on both Coulson's and Simmons faces that it's not good.
"There is a possibility that Skye could have powers." Coulson explains to him "Send out alerts make sure everyone is on lookout for that helicopter." Coulson tells Ward "FitzSimmons I want this entire warehouse swept, find out what happened." He orders.
"Yes Sir." The three reply and they get to work why Coulson walks over to May who hasn't said a single word or moved at all since they realised that this whole thing was a trap to get Skye.
"Melinda." Coulson says concerned. "Melinda." Coulson repeats and Melinda doesn't say anything. "Melinda, can you hear me?" Coulson asks but he receives no response.
"Melinda." Coulson repeats tentatively reaching out and putting one of his hands on her shoulders which turns out to be a mistake as due to reflex Melinda grabs his arm and flips him onto his back as soon as he does.
"Good, you had me worried." Coulson says standing back up actually glad to have been flipped onto his back because at least it means that Melinda is well, not okay considering everything, but better than he thought she was. "Melinda." Coulson begins to say but May cuts him off.
"I'm going to go see how FitzSimmons are doing." She says Walking away from Coulson as the last thing she wants at the moment is to talk to him.
Twenty minutes later FitzSimmons, Ward, May and Coulson are back at the Plane. They collected everything that was off use from the warehouse and headed back to the Plane as it's where they can make the most progress. Coulson and May are down in the lab getting an update from FItzSimmons on what they have found while Ward is upstairs coordinating the search for the helicopter.
"What did you find?" Coulson asks the two scientists.
"We know why the sent stopped working." Simmons tells him.
"Why?" May asks.
"In the area where the helicopter was kept there were buckets, several of them. All of them were empty but going by the residue they were all full of different things. One was full of plan normal water, another was full of warm soap water and the third was full of lavender scented soap and water, out best guess is whoever took Skye poured all of that over her to get rid of the sent." Simmons explains.
"And it worked." Coulson mutters.
"Did you find anything else?" May asks the pair.
"Yes. There was a figure print on the flash drive were just waiting for it to finish running." Fitz tells them.
"Let us know as soon as you get a result." Coulson says and as soon as he does there is a beep from the computer.
"We've got a match." Simmons announces "It's Ian Quinn." She informs Coulson.
"Ward, Quinn took Skye. I want all of his of aircrafts found and grounded, and I want him." Coulson informs Ward.
"Yes Sir, I'm on it." Ward tells him "Director Fury is on standby Sir, he wants to know what is going on."
"Good, I was just about to call him myself." Coulson tells Ward, "I'll be right up." He says.
"Find Quinn." He tells FitzSimmons. "You coming?" Coulson asks May.
"Of course." Melinda responds and the pair head up to the Command Centre.
"Go help FitzSimmons." Coulson says to Ward as he and May enter the Command Centre.
Ward nods and leaves the Command centre as Coulson connects the Call.
"Coulson what is going on? You had three teams on standby plus a strike team and now your requesting satellite time and have calls out to every agency to be on the lookout for a helicopter? What are you playing at?" Fury asks angrily.
"I need to know something first, Sir." Coulson says "In April of 1989 when you sent a team into the Hunan Province in China to investigate a 0-8-4 Baby Girl did you know that that baby was my daughter?" Coulson asks.
"You're what?" What are you talking about?" Fury asks confused.
"The team you sent into China consisted of Linda Avery, Agent Lumley and at least four other agents. All the agents with the exception of Lumley were murdered. The baby Girl was left at St. Agnes orphanage and the foster system was ordered to make sure she never stayed in one place for too long. That baby girl is the consultant I took onto this plane Skye, and as we found out six weeks ago our daughter. So I need to know, did you know Sir?" Coulson asks fighting to keep his voice calm.
"May's alive?" Fury asks and it is clear that he didn't know as even though Fury is one of the best liars there is there is no way to fake the emotion that he has on his face, or in his voice in that moment.
"You didn't know." May realises.
"No." Fury says still clearly surprised "I sent the team into China when we got word of a baby with possible power because I thought that whatever gave the baby powers could have been the same people who took May. I didn't even know that the baby survived until two minutes ago, I believe that she along with the team were killed, it was a few weeks after that I told you both that I believed May was dead because whatever had gave that baby girl powers was my last lead on what could have happened to May. How did you find out?" Fury asks still surprised.
"Skye was curious about her parents because all she had ever been able to find on them is a single piece of paper retracted by S.H.I.E.L.D so I told her that I would look into it. I found out about Avery was the one who dropped her off at the orphanage and her death but I didn't find out any more than that. Melinda looked into it and we were able to speak to the only surviving member of the team and found out the rest. We were told that there was a nearly invisible protocol in place to keep the baby safe, I'm guessing it was so good that not even you found about it." Coulson explains "After hearing the story I had a suspicion so I collected a sample of mine, Skye's and Melinda's DNA and I got Simmons to run it and I found out that Skye is May." Coulson explains.
"I don't know what to say. If I knew the baby was May I would have told you." Fury tells Coulson and May.
Melinda and Coulson exchange a look both wanting to believe Fury as it seems like he is telling the truth but at the same time after everything that has happened and what they know he has kept from them it is hard to.
"If you wanted to know if knew about all this why did you wait six weeks?" Fury asks curious.
"Because I wanted to ask you in person. After what the surviving Agent told us we believed she was still in danger so I didn't want to talk to you over video conference about this." Coulson explains. "But circumstances has changed." He adds.
"What happened? What changed?" Fury asks curious.
"Skye's been kidnapped." May explains. "She received an email video this morning from an old boyfriend who had abused her in the past threatening to kill people that Skye cares about unless she turns herself over to him and by extension the Rising Tide with a file on S.H.I.E.L.D. As proof about how serious he showed Skye her ex-boyfriend dead on the floor and a very good friend of hers tied to a chair." May explains "He threatened to kill Skye's friends if she didn't turn herself over to her. If we sent in a strike team he said he would kill them all, Skye said that she knew that he had access to explosives. If Skye had backup or any type of surveillance or tacking she and the people she cared about who have been killed. Skye said that she was going to turn herself in no matter what, even said that she would jump out of the plane if we didn't take her to the location. So Coulson, Agent Ward and I spent all day teaching her to escape all kinds of restraints because she was certain that she had a gap between giving her ex-boyfriend and the Rising Tide members the files and them deciding what to do with her which she could use to escape. She turned herself over to him forty minutes ago but ten minutes after she did the sent tracking that FitzSimmons put on her stopped working. We approached the warehouse that Skye went into and as we did we saw a black helicopter taking off from it seemed like inside. When we entered the warehouse we found no sign of Skye but we did find the body of the person who was threatening her and the flash drive that Skye and Fitz filled with fake files and a hidden GPS tracker near the body. We realised that this whole thing was just a trap to get Skye using her history in Rising Tide to do it." May explains.
"Do you have any leads?" Fury asks.
"FitzSimmons found a fingerprint on the flash drive that was left at the warehouse, they ran it and it belonged to Ian Quinn, we believe that he's the one who took her, possibly on the Clairvoyant's orders." Coulson tells his boss and friend.
"Well Ian Quinn just made it to the top of S.H.I.E.L.D's most wanted list." Fury informs May and Coulson "I will help in any way I can, anything and everything you need will be at your disposal." Fury informs May and Coulson as due to the fact that very, very few S.H.I.E.L.D agents have kids and the fact that May or Skye as he guesses she now goes by is the daughter of two of his most valued agents and Friends he has a soft spot for the girl, so much so that he since she was born he has considered himself her unofficial godfather something that he hasn't really done a good job of being.
"Thank you sir." May and Coulson tell him.
"Sir, is Agent Hill still working out of Europe?" Coulson asks Curious.
"Yes, why?" Fury asks curious.
"Quinn is a citizen of Malta, he could be trying to get Skye there where S.H.I.E.L.D doesn't have jurisdiction. Agent Hill is a lot closer than us. She may be able to stop him before gets her there if we can't on this end." Coulson explains.
"Of course, permission to tell Maria Skye's real identity?" Fury asks.
"Granted." May and Coulson say after exchanging a look both knowing that they can trust Hill because she is a friend to both of them and has been for a while.
"Sorry to interrupt but we've found the helicopter." Ward says running into the command centre with FitzSimmons right behind him.
"Tell us." Coulson, May and Director Fury all say at the same time.
"The Helicopter landed at a private airport fifteen minutes ago, since then seven different planes have taken off. We're working on getting the flight manifests and destinations on each as well as the security footage so that we can figure out which one Quinn and Skye are on, but that's going to take time." Ward explains.
"You'll have everything you need within the hour Agent Ward." Fury informs him "Phil, Melinda. I'll have teams standing by." Director Fury informs the group before ending the video conference.
"Sir?" Ward asks Coulson surprised by Fury's response.
"Director Fury was the first person after Melinda and me to hold Skye after she was born. He's always had a bit of a soft spot for her." Coulson explains. "Let me know as soon as you get the flight details and security footage." Coulson says before leaving the Command Centre and heading up to his office. May also leave the room without a word but she heads to her bunk.
"What do we do?" Fitz asks.
"Follow any leads on Quinn that we've got." Ward tells him "We need to find Skye, and Quinn is the only lead we've got." Ward tells the pair.
"Do you think May and Coulson will be alight?" Simmons asks concerned.
"Their daughter has been kidnapped for the second time in twenty five years just when they have gotten her back. They're far from okay." Ward reminds her "We've got to find Skye." He says.
Up in his office Coulson is staring at two things the first is a bottle of scotch and the second is a framed picture that he has pulled out of his draw. He took the picture a few weeks ago on his phone and got Fitz to print it off for him. The photo is of May and Skye doing Tai-Chi together both of them having smiles on their faces because Skye had just said that she would take Tai-Chi with May over strength training with Ward any day.
Ever since they have started to Tai-Chi together Coulson has made an effort to get up and watch them, while he is positive that May has realised what he is doing she hasn't said anything. They are the two most important people to him and today he failed them both, he didn't protect Skye and he once more hurt Melinda, and honestly he wouldn't blame her if she stuck to her word and never forgave him, because he knows that even if, no when they get Skye back he will never forgive himself for letting her go.
Unlike Coulson May isn't staring at a bottle of Scotch she is drinking it as she feel silent tears roll down her face. Every single promise she made to both Skye and herself was broken today. She let Coulson talk her into allowing Skye to do something she knew was a bad idea and truthfully she doesn't know who she I madder at, who she blames more, Coulson or herself.
True to his word Less than an hour after he ended the video call Director Fury has gotten all the security footage as well as all the flight manifests sent to them.
"We've got to go get Coulson and May." Fitz remains them.
"Maybe we should wait until we find something." Simmons suggests.
"No, Fitz is right. We should go get them." Ward tells Simons.
"Okay, go get them then." Simmons tells Ward.
"What? No. It was Fitz's suggestion he should get them." Ward comments.
"No way." Fitz comments.
"Well I'm not going." Simmons says.
"We draw straws." Ward says breaking a pencil into three different sizes pieces. "The person who picks the longest piece doesn't have to go get either, the second longest picks which one they go get and the shortest gets who's left. Fair?" Ward asks the other two.
"Fair." FitzSimmons reply and Ward shuffles the piece in his hand and each of them pick a piece, Fitz having the longest, Simmons having the second longest and Ward having the shortest.
"I'll take Coulson." Simmons says before walking up to Coulson's office.
Simmons hesitantly knocks on Coulson's door and receives a faint "Enter" from Coulson. When she enters she sees him sitting at his table holding a picture, looking like he has been crying and what looks like a smashed bottle of scotch on the couch near the door.
"What is it Simmons?" Coulson asks when he sees her.
"You wanted us to let you know when we got the details from the airport, we'll we've got them Sir." Simmons tells him.
"Thank you Simmons' I'll be down in a minute." Coulson tells her.
"She referred to you as Dad this morning." Simmons informs Coulson.
"What?" Coulson asks confused looking up at Simmons.
"When she first showed me the email I said we've got to go to you and Agent May and she said 'I can't tell my Dad about this, he would have freaked out about me getting an email like this before he knew I was his daughter he'll be a hundred times worse now.' I don't even think she realised that she said it. She was terrified Sir, and as you know when Skye is terrified is usually when she shuts herself of from people, but she didn't this time. She was scared and she called you Dad something she has never called a person. She has faith in you Sir. You need to remember that." Simmons explains to Coulson not entirely positive about whether what she is saying will help or hurt Coulson but she knows that she has to try.
"Thank you Simmons." Coulson tells the young scientists her words actually helping him "Really, thank you."
"Of course Sir. See you downstairs."
When Ward knocks on the door to May's bunk several minutes after Simmons went up to talk to Coulson he finds her in a worse state than Simmons found Coulson.
"Somehow I don't think that will help." Ward says referring to the bottle of Scotch that May is drinking.
"It won't hurt either." May tells him.
"You can't do this." Ward tells May.
"Don't tell me what I can't do." May tells him angrily
"Skye's not dead, she's missing, but we will find her." Ward tells his friend.
"I said that for twenty four years." May says taking another drink of the Scotch.
"Go help Fitz and Simmons." Coulson says appearing behind Ward.
"You sure Sir?' Ward asks concerned.
"Sure. Go." Coulson tells him.
"Don't you start" May tells Coulson angrily.
"You're going to listen." Coulson says reaching over and taking the more than half full bottle of Scotch out of Melinda's hands "You can't do this because Ward is right, she's not dead, she's missing, and she could be far away and the only way we can get to her is if you fly this plane and you can't do that if you've been drinking. You're hurting believe me I know, I'm feeling the same. If you want to lash out then lash out, if you want to hurt someone then hurt me, don't hurt yourself, not again. Skye is out there and we will find her even if I have to call in every favour I'm owed, call Tasha and Clint, every one of the Avengers and tell them that I am alive so that they can help to do it, because I won't accept anything else and when that happens she is going to need you Melinda. Hate me if you need to because believe me I am, but don't do this, please." Coulson tells her. "Come help find our girl." He pleads.
"Is May coming?" Simmons asks Ward as he enters the Command centre closing the door behind him as he does.
"Not sure, she's in bad shape." Ward reveals "Coulson's talking to her so hopefully that will help."
"It could make things worse, she did punch him in the face only a few hours ago after all." Fitz remind him.
"There is no one who knows May better than Coulson, no one. I am sure that he'll be able to help her." Ward explains "What have we got?"
"I'm still working on the security Camera's but Simon's got something with the manifests." Fitz informs him.
"What have you got?" Ward asks.
"All the passenger manifest have no names but consist of the pilot, the first officer, and two passengers a man and a woman, all of the planes are heading for Countries that don't recognize S.H.I.E.L.D authority." Simmons explains.
"How do we figure out which one she's on? Skye could be on any of them." Ward comments annoyed.
"Or none of them." Simmons comments.
"What are you thinking?" Ward asks her.
"From the beginning this has been very elaborate. Quinn had to contact Lard and get him to send the video to Skye pretending to be working for Rising Tide and just to make it more convincing they murdered Miles and kidnapped Anna. They did all that to just get Skye to that warehoused. They had to have known that S.H.I.E.L.D would be after them as soon as we knew something was wrong, especially if they know who Skye really is, so this whole thing, this whole multiple plane thing could be a way for us to waste time while they get Skye out of the country under S.H.I.E.L.D's radar." Simmons explains.
"I think your right." Fitz comments. "Look." He says pointing to something on the screen.
"Pause it." Ward says to Fitz.
"Coulson, we've got something you'll want to see." Ward says opening the door and informing Coulson who is holding May, who has completely broken down, in his arms.
"Be right there." Coulson says back.
Less than a minute later Coulson and May both enter the command centre. Apart from a little redness of her eyes May doesn't even look like she was crying into Coulson's arms profusely a minute earlier.
"Show me." Coulson says.
"This was ten minutes after the tracker went dead." Fitz says pressing play.
The video shows a helicopter identical to the one that they all saw at the warehouse landing. The front doors to the helicopter open and two men get out, both dressed in military gear.
"Pause that." Coulson says and Fitz does just "Anything on facial recognition?" He asks.
"Running it now sir, but the image quality isn't that great so we may be out of luck." Fitz explains.
"I'll say the quality is pretty good. Are you all seeing what I'm seeing?" May asks looking at the soldiers arms.
"Centipede." Simmons says worried "So it's not just Quinn who wants Skye." She says and everyone looks even more worried as while they had suspected as such they hadn't had the conformation.
"Continue the video." Coulson says hoping that they will see Skye, and he gets his wish. Less than thirty seconds after Coulson told Fitz to once more play the video they see the back doors open and Quinn get out and then the soldiers pull out a woman, Skye.
"PAUSE IT." Everyone, even Fitz who is in charge of the pause button says.
"She looks like she's just sedated." Coulson comments walking close to the screen to have a look.
"It would make sense. Quinn wouldn't want her waking up while they are moving." Ward comments.
"She doesn't look like she's hurt." May says looking at the image closely.
"No she doesn't." Coulson says relived about that tiny fact "Fitz continue to play it. "
Fitz does just that but before they can see where Skye is taken a large truck comes along and parks right inform of the camera and by the time it moves Skye, Quinn and the Super Soldiers are gone.
"Are there any other camera's?" Coulson ask Fitz.
"Not in that area." Fitz comments "I could check the main gate but I don't know how much use that would be, there is another two gates in and out of that Air Field that aren't covered. If they did leave then I doubt it was through only gate with a camera." He guesses.
"Check it anyway." Coulson tells him "And we know what the team consist of check other local Air Fields get all private planes with four people total that have left in the last hour checked." Coulson orders.
"Yes sir." Ward, Simmons and Fitz say and they get to work.
"Come on." Coulson tells Melinda "I'll make you something to eat and then I'll go update Fury." Coulson tells his ex-wife.
"I'm okay." Melinda tells Coulson quietly.
"You need to eat something to absorb all that Scotch, come on." Coulson says leading May out of the Command Centre and into the kitchen.
Seven hours later, eight hours after Skye was taken and the team is no closer to finding her. There best lead is a plane that left an airport near to the one that they know Skye was at and has flown completely under the radar but they are still working on it.
FitzSimmons, Ward, Coulson and May are all downstairs in the lab working on different things to try and find Skye.
"Guys." Fitz suddenly says.
"What?" Everyone asks racing over to his computer.
"Twenty Minutes ago Anna Harris walked into a police station half an hour from here saying that she has been kidnapped and that a friend of hers is in danger." Fitz explains.
"Was she unharmed?" May asks.
"A few cuts a bruises, but yes. She was fine." Fitz comments surprised.
"They let her go?" Coulson says surprised "Why would they let her go?" He asks confused.
"Don't know, but I'll go find out." Ward says.
"Good idea." May says and "I'm coming." May says and the pair leave the lab.
"Sixteen hours." Coulson mutters to himself.
"Sir?" Simmons asks confused, having overheard what he muttered.
"If we haven't found Skye in sixteen hours we will have Superhero help." He explains.
"You don't mean?" Simmons asks surprised thinking that he can't possibly referring to who she thinks he is.
"I told Director Fury that I will call the Avengers to help try and find Skye if I have to and not even he would stop me and he said to wait twenty four hours. If twenty four hours since she has been taken has passed and we still haven't found her then the Avengers are getting called in to see what, if anything, they can do to help." Coulson explains.
"You really do have a lot of connections Sir." Simmons comments impressed.
"I just hope that one of them can find her." Coulson says quietly to himself.
An hour and a half later May and Ward arrive back at the plane.
"What did you find out?" Coulson asks as soon as he sees them.
"Not much. Anna was taken as she left her work at the shelter she had no idea why she was taken until she recognized Miles who was also being held. She said that there were two people there, one was Lard who she said is the one who gave her the bruises and killed Miles and the other was nicer and when shown pictures she picked him out as Quinn. She said that another man just walked into where she was being held half an hour before she went to the police station and told her that she could go, he didn't even tell her not to go to the police or anything" May explains. "And she was able to lead the police back to the warehouse where they found Miles's body."
"So after all the trouble of a kidnapping and holding her not to mention allowing her to see their faces they just let her go." Coulson comments finding something odd about that.
"Quinn is smart Sir. He knows that we know he took Skye, he wanted us to know. He wouldn't have left a finger print on the flash drive if he didn't. Who knows why he took Skye, but the reason that he is doing things the way that he is could be because he is trying to show just how much smarter than S.H.I.E.L.D he is." Fitz suggests.
"I don't care how smart he thinks he is, we are smarter we have to be." Coulson tells him "How's the search for the plane going?"
"It's difficult Sir. The plane flew entirely under any radar signals and didn't file a flight path." Simmons informs Coulson.
"Flew? Does that mean that you have a destination?" Coulson asks hoping the answer is yes.
"No, but I'm working on it." Simmons tells him.
"I'm going to update Director Fury." Coulson says before leaving the lab May right behind him.
"So you're saying that nine and a half hours after she was taken and we still know nothing?" Ward asks FitzSimmons once May and Coulson are out of hearing range because it is clear that both of them are barely hanging on as it is.
"We know Quinn took her and that she is most likely out of the country by now." Fitz tells him.
"Which is basically nothing." Ward says annoyed "He has all of S.H.I.E.L.D after him, how can still be hidden? How can no one find him?" He asks.
"We don't know how long he has been preparing for this but it could have been a long time. He had to know that taking the daughter of two of S.H.I.E.L.D's best agents would make him the most wanted man, which likely means that he had plans in place to make sure he could disappear with Skye." Simmons tells him.
"You're assuming he knew who Skye was when currently there are only eight people in the world who know." Ward points out to her.
"We got to assume he does, especially if the Clairvoyant is behind this." Simmons tells Ward as Quinn knowing exactly who Skye is makes the most sense, even though she logically doesn't believe in pre cognition she does admit that the Clairvoyant does seem to know things.
"About that, what did Coulson mean when he said that there is a possibility that Skye might have powers? In all the time that I have known her she hasn't showed any signs." Ward asks confused.
"Yeah, what's that about?" Fitz asks looking just as confused as Ward.
"I only know what Skye told me, but basically she was kidnaped when she was a baby by an organization like Centipede they took her in the hope of using her as a test subject and raising her to be a weapon against S.H.I.E.L.D. " Simmons explains "The agents who brought her back to America were investigating an 0-8-4, her. She had powers but they never saw them. "Simmons explains "That's all I know."
"So your saying that Quinn and by extension the Clairvoyant could have taken Skye to see if she really does have powers." Ward realises.
"It's possible." Simmons tells him.
"But how could he have known about Skye? Before she was taken the only people who knew who she really was were on this plane." Ward comments confused not a big fan of the possibility that Skye could be used as a test subject.
"How does the Clairvoyant know half of what he knows?" Fitz asks.
Three and a half hours later, thirteen hours since Skye was taken and once more everyone is down in the lab wanting to hear from a team that Director Fury sent into investigate the plane that flew completely un detected by radar.
"There's nothing here Agent Coulson." Agent Hand reports, "No sign of Quinn or anyone else." She reports.
"Are we sure that this is the plane that he used?" Coulson asks.
"It's the most likely option we've found." Agent Hand reports "But we have no idea from here there are another dozen counties that he could have gone to a dozen different ways. We're working on it." Agent Hand reports as due to the fact that all she knows is that Skye is missing not who she is, she doesn't understand why all the intense fuss is being made or why her orders from both Director Fury and Commander Hill are to do whatever it takes to find the girl.
"What about Rania?" May ask as in her last report Agent Hand said she sent men to talk to her but she hadn't said anything at that point.
"Still not talking Agent May." Agent Hand replies.
"Let us know if you get something." Coulson says before ending the video call.
"Anything other leads?" Coulson asks the rest of his team.
"Commander Hill sent a very, very small team into Malta and has found that Quinn's compound is completely deserted, he's not holding her there." Ward reports.
"Excuse me." May says leaving the room needing a moment to herself.
"The last time we lost Skye it broke Melinda, I will not allow that to happen again, because this time I don't think I'll be able to help put her back together. I want Skye found, no matter what it takes." Coulson says angrily, Ward, and FitzSimmons very sure that he didn't mean to say any of it out loud or if he did he didn't intend for them to hear.
"We're doing our best, Sir." Ward tells him "We all want Skye back."
"There has to be something we haven't tried, something that we can do." Coulson says clearly becoming upset once more.
"Sir, how about you take a break. Have a rest. We'll let you know as soon as we find something." Ward suggest feeling like the one thing that could help Coulson the most at the moment is a break.
"No, I can't rest until I find her." Coulson says.
"Sir.." Begins to say but is cut off by the ringing of Coulson's phone.
"I don't recognize this number." Coulson comments as he looks down at the caller id.
"On it Sir." Fitz says hurriedly typing something into his computer "Trace will start the second that you answer." He informs Coulson.
Coulson nods and presses the accept call button followed by the loud speaker one.
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AN2: The next chapter will be what Skye was doing during this time.