Chapter 42
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AN2: Here's the final chapter of Her Story Started Here, thank you so much to all of you who have supported me though this story, I am so thankful and your support means the world to me. I will post the first chapter of the sequel either Friday or Saturday Australian time and I hope you support that story as much as you have supported this one, thank you.
For the entire walk from Tony's plane to the bus they walk in silence. When they are only a few hundred meters form the plane the four of them squat down behind bushes so that they can see what is going on.
"Not good." Skye comments as they notice several guards outside the cargo bay.
"No it's not." Melinda confirms.
"Tony do you have any way to see how many people are inside?" Natasha asks her friend curious.
"Yeah, give me a minute." Tony says closing the face of his armour. "There is ten people in there." Tony reveals. "Four down in the lab. Six upstairs in the command centre." He reveals
"Five are our people, five are hostiles plus the three outside." Melinda realises.
"Who's the better shot?" Skye asks her Mother "You or тетя Наташа?" Skye asks curious.
"Why? What are you thinking?" Melinda asks her daughter curious.
"I have the night night gun, the Cargo bay is open so if we take out the outside guards then we can get inside easily." Skye explains.
"Unless we time the attacks perfectly then we could be endangering the people above if we hit below first." Natasha points out.
"Skye, Clint and Ward have been giving you lessons, do you think you hit the guards from over there?" Melinda asks her daughter pointing to the best tactical position.
"Yeah, I think so." Skye responds slightly uncertain.
"I believe in you sweetheart, have the faith in yourself that I have in you." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Thanks Mom." Skye tells her mother, her words meaning the world to her.
"Tasha do you have your bracelets?" Melinda asks her friend.
"Of course." Natasha responds.
"Okay, then you and I are going in through the windows near the command centre." Melinda tells her friend, "Tony you and Skye handle things down here. Look after my girl." Melinda tells her friend.
"Of course." Tony tells her friend.
"Good luck." Skye tells her mom and Aunt.
"Have faith May." Melinda tells her daughter as she hugs her.
"Be careful Mom." Skye responds.
"On my mark, Com channel 1." Melinda says and she and Natasha sneak away.
"You ready for this?" Tony asks Skye as they get into position.
"Yeah, I think I am Uncle Tony." Skye responds.
"In five." Melinda says through the coms, "Four, Three, Two, One."
As soon as Skye hears her mother say one Skye shots the first guard with the night night gun, then the second, she misses the third the first time which results in both her and Tony needing to duck to avoid bullet fire but she manages to hit him with a second shot.
"Come on, and stay behind me." Tony instructs the young woman and the pair start to head closer to the cargo bay and once more have to throw themselves down on the ground to avoid getting hit by bullet fire.
"Shot him." Tony tells Skye.
"I need a clear shot first." Skye says back and manages to get a prefect shot on the guard while FitzSimmons manage to take down the final guard while he is distracted.
"What the hell happened?" Skye asks worried as she rushes towards her friend.
"We've got to get upstairs." Simmons tells her friend.
"Mom and тетя Наташа are up there, they'll handle everything." Skye tells her friends.
"No you don't understand, they put bomb vests on Coulson and Clint to get us to do what they wanted. They will blow them up." Fitz reveals.
"What?" Skye asks sharing a look of horror with Tony, "Mom and тетя Наташа, they don't know." She realises in horror.
"Melinda, Natasha, Clint and Coulson are rigged to blow." Tony says through the coms.
"We know, we're handling it. Get the others out of here." Melinda orders through the coms.
After leaving Tony and Skye, Natasha and Melinda make their way to the side of the plane where they hide in scrubs and Natasha silently fires a graphing hock out of her bracelet and it hits between the windows they plane to use to enter the plane.
"In five, four, three, two, one." Melinda says and as soon as she says one she wraps her arm around Natasha's waist and Natasha presses a button and on her bracelet that pulls the towards the hook and the pair each go in through one of the widows either side of the hock.
When they enter they manage to survive the guards so that they each manage to take down all three of them before they can react. Not hearing what Clint, Coulson and Ward are yelling as they do.
"What?" Natasha asks turning to face them and then noticing the bombs that Clint and Coulson have around them.
"We know, we're handling it. Get the others out of here." Melinda says through the coms to Tony.
"Who's here with you?" Coulson asks as Melinda and Natasha carefully untie the three men.
"Skye and Tony." Melinda answers, "What exactly are we looking at here?" She asks worried.
"C4, set to a timer. If a code isn't entered every five minutes they blow." Ward answers.
"How long?" Natasha asks.
"Three minutes." Clint answers.
"Ward, Tash, you're on." Melinda comments knowing that they are the two best bomb defuses there is.
"Mel get out of here." Coulson tells Melinda as Natasha and Ward remove the panels from the bomb casing in unison.
"No way." Melinda responds.
"Mom what's going on?" Skye's worried voice ask through the coms.
"Stay away from the plane until I tell you that you can come back." Melinda tells her daughter as Natasha and Ward start discussing what wires to cut. "Tony keep them back." Melinda instructs.
"Will do." Tony responds.
"Mom, what's going on?" Skye asks worried. "Are Dad and Uncle Clint still connected to the bombs?" She asks worried.
"Ward and Natasha are working on it." Melinda responds. "Tasha, Ward?" Melinda asks.
"So we're agreed?" Natasha asks Ward and Ward nods. "In three, two one." Natasha says and at the same time they both cut the same wire on the respective bombs. Once the bombs are defused they both grab the bombs off of Coulson and Clint and run over to the broken window and throw them out of the window.
"It safe for you to come up." Melinda says through the coms as she pulls Coulson up and into a hug and kiss.
Once Natasha gets back from throwing the bomb out the window she does the same with Clint.
About a minute later, Tony, Skye, and FitzSimmons comes running in. Skye gives Ward a quick hug then hugs both her parents at the same time.
"How did you guys know that something was wrong?" Clint asks interested.
"Long story." Natasha responds.
"We've got the time." Coulson responds.
"I realised that it had been a few days since we heard from you and Mom said that she you didn't respond to her message about her being off bed rest so we tried to call you and Mom called your number that only she has and when you didn't answer that we realised something was wrong." Skye explains.
"So we called Fury and he told us that you were on a mission without Coms but that didn't explain why you didn't answer the phone. So Skye and I went to the Stark tower and find out where the plane was and came here." Melinda explains leaving out the part about Skye using her powers until she can talk about it privately with Coulson as her agreeing to let Skye practice with and develop her powers goes against what they agreed to.
"Well thanks, we owe you guys." Clint tells them.
"You know that's not true." Melinda tells her brother.
"We should secure all the prisoners and call Fury." Ward comments.
"Right, we should." Coulson comments agreeing and that's just what they do.
An hour and one angry conversation with Fury later the group are sitting on the couches and chairs waiting for Fury and a team. They have secured all the prisoners and Ward, Clint and Tony are currently on guard duty.
Skye is sitting over by one of the un broken windows and Melinda walks over and sits next to her daughter.
"How are you feeling?" Melinda asks concerned.
"Stronger, still not strong enough to use my power but strong." Skye informs her mother.
"I'm sorry about our plan for today. When we get home we'll do what you want." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Aren't we staying?" Skye asks surprised.
"I'm still technically not cleared for field work for at least another week and a half." Melinda tells her daughter.
"I think you've proved that you are." Skye tells her mother.
"I don't know if my Doctors, or Fury will see it that way." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Do you not want to come back?" Skye asks interested as that's what it seems like.
"Of course I do." Melinda tells her daughter, "But I've loved spending time with you and I owe you a day of doing whatever you want." Melinda tells her daughter.
"I want to go horse riding." Skye tells her mother, "That' what I want, but whether we're home or out in the field we can find time to do that." Skye tells her mother.
"You called the house home." Melinda tells her daughter surprised as it is the first time she has heard Skye refer to the house as home.
"Yeah, I guess I did." Skye comments, "It is home and it's going to be hard leaving it even to come back here, but whether we come back here now or two weeks doesn't mean our spending time together ends, or at least I hope it doesn't." Skye tells her mother.
"I hope that too, Tai-Chi in the morning?" Melinda asks her daughter curious.
"Of course." Skye responds with a grin, "And I'm guessing after, yesterday morning." Skye says hesitantly trying to get the days right, "You're going to want to supervise me practicing with my powers."
"No. I trust you." Melinda tells her daughter, "But you've got to tell me when you are going to practice with them so that I can make sure you are okay, and check up to make sure you're not pushing yourself to hard."
"I'll try better, It's just it was like three in the morning, I didn't want to wake you up." Skye tells her mother.
"I don't mind Skye, I would prefer you have woken me in case something happened." Melinda explains to her daughter.
"I'll remember that." Skye tells her mother.
"Are you both okay?" Coulson asks concerned walking over and sitting across from his daughter and partner.
"Yeah, we're fine." Skye tells her father, "How about you?"
"I'm good." Coulson responds. "Despite everything, I'm glad you're here, I've missed you both."
"I've missed you too Dad." Skye tells her father with a yawn.
"Are you okay?" Coulson asks concerned.
"I'm okay, just tied." Skye comments. "But that's understandable."
"What do you mean?" Coulson asks confused.
"Skye you're Aunt Natasha is boarding up the windows, why don't you give her a hand." Melinda suggests.
"Huh, why?" Skye begins to ask then notices the look her mother is giving her, "Right I'll go help her." Skye says getting up and walking over to Natasha.
"Want to tell me what that is about?" Coulson asks curious.
"A couple of days after you left for the plane there I heard a scream coming from Skye's room. I rushed in and she explained to me that the reason she screamed is because she was practicing with her powers and she actually managed to push some of electrical energy out. We sat down and we talked she said that she was petrified that now she knew about her powers that she would accidently use them and hurt someone, so we came up with a deal." Melinda explains.
"What kind of deal?" Coulson asks.
"She would continue to practice with her powers, which she was going to do anyway, but she would always tell me that she was planning to and if I told her to stop she would. For the most part she has suck to that." Melinda explains.
"What do you mean for the most part?" Coulson asks worried.
"The reason she is so tired now is that because at three am this morning she couldn't sleep so she decided to practice with her powers until she was tired enough to fall asleep, I didn't know about that." Melinda explain.
"How could you let her practice with her power?" Coulson asks "You don't know what effect they could be having on her." He comments worried
"She was going to practice anyway. This way I know when she is and if I think she is getting to tired or loosing control when he does then I can put a stop to it." Melinda explains.
"That's if she tells you." Coulson points out.
"You didn't see her Phil." Melinda tells him, "She was terrified that she was going to hurt someone by accident. Yes I was worried about what it would do to her, I still am, but I've also seen what she can do now. She was able to tell that you we're in trouble, even though she had nearly exhausted her powers." Melinda tells Coulson, "Will I feel much better when she is being monitored by FitzSimmons when she uses her powers, of course, but she needed to start to learn that control or she would have been terrified ever second that she was going to hurt someone, I'm not going to apologise for that." Melinda tells Coulson.
"I'm sorry." Coulson responds, "You shouldn't have to, I just feel like I've missed so much while you two were home and I was here." He admits. "I've missed you."
"We've missed you too." Melinda tells him, "If I even suspected that using her powers was doing more to her than making her tied I would have stopped her from using them." Melinda tells Coulson.
"I know you would." Coulson says, getting up and walking over and sitting down next to her.
"How are you really dong?" Coulson asks worried, "You are just off of bed rest after all." He comments.
"I feel good." Melinda admits, "So you want to explain to me exactly how all of this happened?" Melinda asks curious.
"Sure." Coulson says and he begins to explain the story of what has happened the last few days.
An hour later Director Fury has arrived the bus with repair men to fix the widows and a team to take away the prisoners. Coulson is currently getting yelled at by Fury up in his office.
"Agent Ward, a word please." Melinda requests when the last of the prisoners are gone.
"Of course Agent May." Ward responds positive that he knows what this is about.
"You know what this is about so I'm going to cut right to the chase." Melinda informs him, "I know you have had this conversation with Phil and Clint and the others but you haven't from me so I'm going to put this as simply as possible. My daughter likes you and wants to be with you and as long as that doesn't change then I will not interfere and I will do my best to make sure no one else does either, but the second that changes, the second she gets hurt I will personally make your life a living hell. Are we clear?" Melinda asks Ward.
"Yes Ma'am."
"Stark, Romanoff, Barton, May, up here." Fury orders from the stairs.
"What are you doing Kid?" Clint asks amused as Skye has gotten up.
"He said May, I'm May." Skye reminds her Uncle.
"True." Clint says amused, "But I think he meant you're Mom." Clint tells her.
"You don't know that." Skye tells him.
"You might want to go talk to your Boy-Toy, it looks like he just had a conversation with your Mom." Tony tells her.
"Yeah, I might do that." Skye comments seeing Ward's expression as Clint and Tony climb up the stairs, Natasha and Melinda not far behind them.
"Close the door Romanoff." Fury requests when they all reach the office. "First, May, Stark, Romanoff, what were you thinking?" He ask angrily.
"We knew that something was wrong, we did what we had to do Sir." Melinda answers.
"In a few hours the windows will be fixed. Romanoff and Barton you are to report to the New York office in a week for re assignment. Melinda you are to go back in Stark's jet and are not to step foot on this plane until you're cleared to be. I believe you have an appointment with Doctor Streiten in six days, if you are cleared then you can re-join the plane when they arrive in New York in a week." Fury informs her.
"Yes sir." Melinda responds.
"Good you have an hour to be on your way back to New York." Fury says before leaving the office.
"So looks like we've got another week." Coulson comments.
"Looks like it." Melinda comments
Half an hour later everyone is down in the Cargo Bay saying goodbye to each other.
"See you in a week Baby Girl." Coulson says hugging his daughter goodbye.
"See you Dad." Skye says hugging him and when they break apart Skye walks over to Ward while Melinda walks over to Coulson.
"So I guess I'll see you in a week." Skye comments to Ward.
"Yeah, I guess you will Rookie." Ward tells her and Skye gives him a hug goodbye, both of them worried about what everyone else will do if they do more.
After saying goodbye to everyone Skye, Natasha, Melinda and Stark leave the plane. Melinda and Skye both thinking that they want the next week to pass quickly.
For the next week Melinda spends most of her time doing everything she can to make sure she will be cleared for field work, most of the time Skye is right by her side doing the same things or if she isn't she is watching her mother. Two days after they get back to New York they have their day together which like Skye wanted is Melinda teaching her to ride a horse.
When Melinda and Skye go to the New York field office the day before Coulson is due back in New York Melinda is cleared for duty though Skye suspects that part of the reason she is, is because Doctor Streiten was scared about what she would do to him if he didn't clear her.
It about nine am a week after Melinda and Skye left the plane and Skye is in her room packing the stuff that she wants to take with her to the plane. For the first time she is leaving her possessions somewhere because she knows that they will be safe.
"Come in." Skye responds to the knock on the door and she turns to see her father standing at her door.
"Dad, when did you get here?" Skye asks surprised.
"A few minutes ago, I believe you we're singing along to Spice Girls." Coulson comments with a grin.
"Please don't tell anyone." Skye says as she walks over to her computer and turns off her music that is playing, "Uncle Clint and Fitz would never let me hear the end of it." Skye tells her father.
"Don't worry your secret is safe with me." Coulson tells his daughter.
"Good, thanks Dad." Skye tells him.
"You ready to go?" Coulson asks curious.
"Almost." Skye responds, "MOM HAVE YOU SEEN MY BLAK LEATHER JACKET?" Skye yells.
"WHICH ONE?" Melinda yells from across the hall.
"THE ONE WITH BUTTONS OVER THE ZIP." Skye yells back.
"You know you could just walk across the hall." Coulson tells his daughter.
"This is better." Skye responds.
"It's in the bathroom." Melinda says standing at the door with a large duffle bag.
"Why's it the bathroom?" Skye asks confused.
"You put it there after you cleaned it after the milkshake incident." Melinda explains.
"Ah right, that makes senses." Skye says, "Excuse me." Skye says walking between her parents to head across to the bathroom.
"Milkshake incident?" Coulson asks curious.
"Don't ask." Melinda responds and a minute later Skye walks back in.
"Okay, I'm ready." Skye comments as she pics up a couple of her photos from her chest of draws and puts them in her bag and places her laptop in her its bag.
"That all you're taking?" Coulson asks surprised as Skye has only a large bag and her new laptop bag on her bed.
"Yeah." Skye tells her father "This is my room, for the first time I have a place where I can leave things and know that they'll be here when I come back, that's an amazing feeling." She reveals.
"Are you okay?" Melinda asks concerned as she notices Skye staring at different things in her room.
"Yeah, it's just…." Skye begins to say but she trails off.
"Just what?" Coulson asks concerned.
"This is my room, I've never had that before." Skye tells her parents, "I thought the story of who I am now began when you and Ward picked me out of my van but it didn't, my story started here with you guys, it's hard to leave that." Skye explains.
"It's not forever." Melinda tells her daughter, "This is your room and it always will be, no matter what." Melinda tells her "This is your home, we can come back any time you want." Melinda tells her daughter.
"I'd like that." Skye tells her mother, "I'll see you down in the car." Skye says grabbing her bags off the bed and walking out of the room.
"Are you alright?" Melinda asks Coulson concerned as he is running his hand across the 'May's room' sign on the door.
"Yeah I'm okay." Coulson responds, "I didn't think I would be able to call this place home again, but now I can without it feeling like my heart is going to explode." Coulson explains to Melinda.
"I know the feeling." Melinda responds, "You know, we may have met at the academy but her story isn't the only one that started here." Melinda comments before following her daughter downstairs.
Coulson has one last look at the room that wasn't changed for so long the room that finally looks like what it should always have, lived in, before turning of the light, closing the door and heading downstairs to face whatever it is that may come with his family by his side.
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AN3: Once again thank you so much. Like I said the sequel will be out either Friday or Saturday, potentially earlier if I get a lot written.