Chapter 15
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AN2 IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: Sorry that this update is later than usual but my computer completely died today, so I had to use my savings to by another and that took a while to set up. Thankfully I only lost half of chapter 20 and all of chapter 21 of this story, which is annoying but not as bad as it could be. I'm attempting to rewrite it but I don't know if it will be as good as it was because I really liked what I wrote.
Unknowns to Skye twelve hours after Quinn injected her with a sedative she wakes at another location, very, very far from the warehouse. When she wakes she has no idea where she is or how much time has passed. The only thing that she does know is that her arm is hurting a lot and she is tied to a chair.
As soon as she remembers what happen Skye attempts to get out of her restraints which, turn out to be zip ties but every time she tries to do what May taught her to do she gets another blinding flash of pain from her arm.
"I wouldn't do that if was you." Quinn's voice says from the corner of the room. "Not that it would matter if you did manage to get free." He comments walking over and placing the chair he was sitting on several meters in front of her and sitting down "All you're going to do is do more damage to that arm." He comments.
"Oh yeah? Why won't it matter if I get free?" Skye asks.
"Because on your arm that not broken you'll find a bracelet that will render any form of GPS un operable. If you get free then yes you can use technology but no phone GPS, GPS transceiver, GPS or satellite of any kind will be able to tell your location." Quinn explains "If you are cooperative then your arm will be treated, so stop fighting Skye." Quinn tells her.
"I think I'd rather the pain." Skye tells him "What do you want from me anyway?" she asks.
"I don't want anything, my associate does." Quinn explains.
"Who's your associate?" Skye asks though judging by who was with him at the warehouse she is pretty sure that she already knows.
"The Clairvoyant." Quinn answers "I'm not normally one to take part in these kind of undertakings but when the Clairvoyant asks you do." Quinn explains.
"I'm just a hacker. Why does the Clairvoyant want me?" Skye asks faking confusion but at the same time she is wondering whether it has anything to do with what happened when she was a baby.
"Oh Skye, we both know you are much more than that." Quinn tells her "The Clairvoyant has been looking for you for a very, very long time." Quinn tells her.
"Well if the names anything to go by why hasn't he found me before now?" Skye asks curious "Shouldn't he have just been able to see me?" She asks.
"Normally finding someone wouldn't be a problem but you Skye, are special." Quinn informs her "But I'm betting you already know that."
"Me? Special? I think you have the wrong girl." Skye tells him actually believe what she is saying to some degree.
"Oh, I know I don't." Quinn tells her "Skye was the name you were given at St. Agnes but you've gone by others. You went by Sarah Mac for six months, Jade for three, Chloe for four, Paige for two, and Lisa on and off since you were a teenager but your real name is May Philippa Coulson." Quinn says to Skye's surprise but she doesn't let it show.
"So you know who I really am, impressive." Skye comments "But that just begs the question if you know all that then how come this Clairvoyant hasn't been able to find me?" She asks. "I did spend most of my childhood at the same place, guess your boss isn't as good as you think he is." She comments trying to make Quinn annoyed so that he says more than he should.
"The Clairvoyant couldn't find you because The Clairvoyant couldn't see you, because you are like him." Quinn explains.
"What do you mean?" Skye asks this time really confused.
"I know what you are doing." Quinn says getting up and walking behind Skye to tighten her restraints. "But I'll indulge you after all according to your friend Miles you've been searching for answers for a very long time." He says.
"You killed Miles." Skye says angrily.
"No, that was your ex-boyfriends work. The only thing I did is get you here." Quinn says.
"What about Anna? And the others? Are they safe?" Skye asks as even though she wants to know what exactly Quinn meant by The Clairvoyant being like her she needs to know that her friends are safe.
"Your friend Anna is fine, she was realised hours ago unharmed. The rest of your friends were never in danger. Just bait to get you to the warehouse." Quinn explains.
"How long have you had me?" Skye asks, trying to put out of her mind just how worried Coulson and May must be.
"Oh about twelve hours or so." Quinn comments looking at his watch "We've been doing some traveling. From what I understand your parents are doing everything they can to try and find you. But they won't." Quinn tells Skye.
"Oh yes they will." Skye says surprising herself by being absolutely sure of that.
"Are you sure about that? They looked for you for twenty five years and couldn't find you after all." Quinn reminds her.
"It's because they couldn't find me for twenty five years that they will this time, and I really wouldn't want to be you when they do." Skye tells Quinn.
"Believe what you want, but they couldn't have been looking too hard if they couldn't find a single clue to where you were in all that time." Quinn tells Skye, clearly trying to put a sense of doubt in her mind.
"The same could be said about your boss, after all he couldn't find me. How good could he be if he couldn't find one girl?" Skye reminds Quinn being determine not to let what he is saying get to her.
"The Clairvoyant is all knowing, all seeing and more powerful than you can imagine." Quinn tells Skye sounding irritated.
"If you say so." Skye says sarcastically. "But that doesn't change the fact that he couldn't find me."
"He's got you now." Quinn reminds her "And not for the first time."
"Yeah how exactly did he find me now? What did it take?" Skye asks "Because in the last few months I have come into contact with Centipede operations more than once, and met you, so if you ask me he just researched into the team and realised who I was. Not exactly genius work." Skye comments and then notices the look Quinn has on his face "Oh, that's how he did it didn't he? No knowing or just seeing but good old fashion research. Guess the Clairvoyant isn't as great as you think he is." Skye tells him trying to make it sound like she thinks the Clairvoyant is a big joke so that Quinn will tell her more of what she wants to know.
"The Clairvoyant is great." Quinn angrily "He took you from your parents when you were three months old and they never found you again. He gave you want you needed to be just like him and if one of his employees didn't get nervous about testing it on a baby and sneak you out of the lab and back home to his village, then you would have grown to be the greatest weapon against S.H.I. this world has ever seen. So don't you doubt the Clairvoyant's greatness." Quinn says angrily.
"Thanks for telling me everything I wanted to know." Skye tells Quinn with a grin "So the Clairvoyant tried to make me like him, is that why he can't see me?" Skye asks curious.
"Nice trick." Quinn admits, "But it doesn't matter you would have found out all of that eventually and it's not like you're getting out of here anyway, so there is no one you can tell." Quinn tells Skye "And yes that's why the Clairvoyant can't see you. What he gave you, what gave you your abilities also keeps you hidden from him." Quinn tells Skye.
"What abilities?" Skye asks confused "I don't have any abilities" She informs him.
"Oh, but you do. You just don't realise it." Quinn tells Skye, "But don't worry we're going to show you." He says once more tightening Skye's restraints and heading to the door. Even though his orders are to stay with Skye until the Clairvoyant tells him otherwise he has to disobey those orders because he has already told her too much and if he stays in the same room with her she may just manage to get him to say more, something that no one wants.
"I've got to ask, what's with the ugly shirt?" Skye asks as under Quinn's jacket he is wearing a shirt with very small flowers on it which really doesn't look too good.
"Who doesn't like flowers?" Quinn asks before exiting.
"Okay Skye this is bad like really, really horribly bad." Skye says to herself, "But don't think about that, don't think about how bad this is or how much your arm is hurting, just concentrate. Remember what May told you." She thinks to herself. "Okay what's first?" She thinks to herself trying to remember everything that May, Coulson and Ward taught her "Scope out the room, see what you've got." She realises. Skye spends several minutes looking around the room and she sees that the room is completely empty except for the chair that she is tied to and the one Quinn was sitting on. There is a little light right above her that is lighting the room and there is absolutely no windows and the only door is the one Quinn left through.
"Okay, one door." She thinks "Which will be guarded by who knows how many Super Soldiers." Skye comments knowing that even if there was just one Super Solider she would stand no chance. "Okay, you need a plan." She thinks to herself. "I could get out of these restraints wait to Quinn comes and use him as a hostage." She thinks "No, wouldn't work, I doubt they or the Clairvoyant would care." She realises.
"Okay first things first you need to get out of the restraints." Skye thinks to herself knowing that before she can do anything she has to get out of the zip ties. Skye attempts a couple of times to break free of them but the pain in her left arm is making it so much harder than she already finds it. "Come on Skye, focus. Don't think about the pain." Skye thinks to herself, just before once more attempting to break the ties around her hands. This time she is successful but it took all her strength not to scream out in pain from her arm. Once her hands are free she unties the rope from around her feet and starts to look closely at everything in the room so that she can try and get free, keeping her left arm in the least painful position possible as she does. Looking around the room she realises something and comes up with an idea that isn't the stupidest idea that she could have had but one that is pretty stupid.
"Please still be in here." Skye says sticking her hand inside the inside of her bra and pulling out a bobby pin a minute later "Thank you May." She says to herself as May gave her the advice to hide a bobby pin in the inside folds of the inside of her bra so that she could pick a lock if needed.
Being as quite as possible Skye goes to the door and within a couple of minutes she has picked the lock, she hears it unlock but she doesn't open it. Instead she walks back over to the chairs and stands on the one that Quinn was sitting on so that she can reach a pipe that is above her. She grabs the pipe with her good arm but as she does she realises that she isn't going to be able to do what she wants to attempt to do with one arm, she is going to have to grab on with both arms, and even then there is a strong possibility that she won't succeed. "Okay, this is going to hurt." Skye thinks to herself and at the same time she is thankful for the strength training that Ward forced her to do and the Tia-Chi she has been doing with her Mother because otherwise she would have absolutely no chance of being able to do what she is about to attempt to, "Okay, deep breaths. Just focus on what you need to do." Skye says to herself and with a huge amount of pain she reaches up with her left arm and with extreme difficulty grasps the pipe. "Focus on the objective no the pain." She says to herself remembering what May told her and as quietly as possible she moves the chair over with her legs but doesn't knock it over. Once the chair is out of her way Skye swings backwards and doing the best she can to remain holding the pipe, and ignore the pain in her arm which feels like someone is slowly stabbing glass into it, Skye swings forward and grabs the door handle with her feet and pulls it open as she swings back. As soon as the door open the two Centipede soldiers who were holding her at the warehouse come into the room. Skye is still holding on to the pipe and as she swings forward she pulls he legs up to her body and lets go as she's as forward as she can go.
It takes the soldiers a second to realise what she is doing but in that second Skye is able to land on her feet outside the room and pull the door close behind her, locks it and knowing that will only buy her about thirty seconds at the most she runs.
Less than twenty seconds after she closed and locked the door Skye hears the sound of the Soldiers breaking through the door, so she runs faster down the corridor that her door opened out to. As she runs she sees several doors but as she knows that she doesn't have enough time to check each of them and hope that she finds the right one she runs to the widow that she sees at the other end knowing that it is her best chance. "Please don't be too high up." Skye says to herself as she runs full speed at the window, bracing herself for the impact as she does.
After breaking through the window Skye realises that she is only a story of the ground. She braces herself for the landing and manages to land on her feet before rolling forward, into a whole lot of broken glass from the window. Incredibly sore and positive that she has at least a few mildly serious cuts from the glass Skye gets up and with extreme difficulty she runs, knowing that it is her only chance.
As she runs Skye lets the adrenaline take over and only focuses on running. As she does she takes notice of her surrounding's so that she can try and figure out where she is, she realises that the sun is just setting and it is a little cooler than it was in Los Angeles. As she runs Skye doesn't look back she just keeps running, as she does she doesn't recognize any of the architecture but she is sure that she isn't in a big city.
She has been running for almost twenty minutes when she sees that she is near a more populated part of wherever she is which means it's time to stop running, blend in and obtain a few things. She quickly ducks into an alley and carefully removes her jacket to shake out all the glass that is still on it. As she does she notices that along with having glass sticking into her, which she doesn't attempt to remove because she knows that it is a very real possibility that doing that will make her injuries worse, she has a few cuts on her torso and stomach that look pretty bad and she is sure that once the adrenaline wears off will be very painful. She also notices that she has a few cuts on her legs and she is sure that they will also be sore later but thankfully the cuts on her legs don't look as bad as the ones on her torso and stomach, and as she is wearing dark jeans they aren't that notable. Once she is sure that all the glass is out of her jacket, being careful of her injured arm, and being sure not to move the pieces of glass that are still sticking into her, she puts it back on and does it up to hide the blood that her shirt is almost covered in.
Once she is as sure as she can be that her appearance won't draw more attention to herself she leaves the alley and starts to mingle amongst the people. Using talents that she has picked up over the years Skye picks a couple of pockets stealing a phone and well as a couple of wallets so that she has money. She takes the cash out of the wallets and ditches the rest knowing that before too long the credit cards will be useless. As she looks at the money she realises that the Currency doesn't give her much of a clue to where she is because some of the money she collected was Euro's and some was American dollars, the two most common form of currency in the world. As she looks at the phone she sees that it won't be much of a help either because it is in English and says location unavailable, which is most likely from the Bracelet that Quinn put on her. Glad that the number she wants to call doesn't need an area code Skye enters the number, presses call and hopes that it works.
"Hello? Who is this? How did you get this Number?" Coulson's voice answers.
"Dad." Skye says more relieved than she has ever been to hear another person's voice.
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