Chapter 6
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AN2 SPOILERS FOR THE NEW EP BELOW READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
Okay so I am still shocked about the New Ep. I still firmly believe that Melinda is doing what she is doing to protect Coulson she is NOT reporting to Hand/Clairvoyant, SHE IS PROTECTING HIM I BELIEVE IN MELINDA MAY AND I ALWAYS WILL, if you had any doubt the look on her face at the end should prove that to you, she looked heartbroken when Coulson pointed the gun at her.
On another note I screamed I was right when the truth about Hand was shown. The ep was EPIC and AMAZING and I'm still recovering.
END OF SPOILERS
The following afternoon Skye is hiding from Tony in the lab where she isn't meant to be alone, totally unaware of what happened only hours earlier to her family.
"Skye what are you doing?" Bruce asks as he sees Skye hiding under the desk in the lab, "How did you get in here?" he asks.
"The door was open." Skye answers.
"And why are you hiding in here?" Bruce asks kneeling down in front of Skye.
"I'm playing hide and seek with Uncle Tony." Skye answers.
"Does Tony know that?" Bruce asks.
"Um, no." Skye answers.
"Jarvis tell Tony that Skye's down in the lab with me." Bruce requests.
"Yes Sir." Jarvis responds.
"You know Tony and Pepper are probably very worried about you." Bruce tells Skye.
"I didn't mean to worry anyone, honest." Skye tells her Uncle, "I just wanted to play."
"Well next time you should just tell Tony or Pepper, or me or Steve that." Bruce tells her, "We'll always want to play games with you." He tells him, "Now if I understand the rules you're not meant to be down here alone." He tells her.
"I'm not alone, you're with me." Skye points out.
"True." Bruce admits, "But you were down here alone." He tells her.
"Am I in trouble?" Skye asks.
"Not this time, but you will be next time." Bruce tells her.
"Okay." Skye says and she gets out from under the table, "What you doing?" she asks.
"Do you want to see?" Bruce asks and Skye nods and he spends the next hour showing her what he is doing.
After Skye gets bored with Bruce showing her the science that he is doing, not surprising considering she is three years old, she heads back up to the main floor to find someone else, Bruce making sure to watch her until she is in the elevator.
When Skye gets to the upper floor she looks around and finds Tony on the couch on one of his tablets.
"What you doing?" Skye asks her Uncle sitting down next to him.
"Working on improving my design for my suit." Tony tells her.
"Ohh cool." Skye tells him, not really understand what he is saying but it sounds cool, "Where's Aunt Pepper?" She asks.
"She went out to do a couple of thing." Tony answers, "So do you want to tell me why you were in the lab, when you know you're not meant to be down their alone?" he asks.
"I forgot." Skye answers
"Remember next time." Tony tells her.
"I will." Skye tells her Uncle, "Can I help?" she asks.
"How about I tell you what I am doing and you say whether you like the idea or not?" Tony suggests.
"Okay." Skye answers and she makes herself comfortable next to her Uncle.
Twenty minutes after Skye sat down next to Tony Pepper returns.
"Aunt Pepper" Skye says happily when she sees her.
"Hi Skye." Pepper says when she sees her, "I was thinking later, if you want, that you could help me bake a cake." Pepper comments.
"Do you really think that's a good idea?" Tony asks surprised, "You know how…" He begins to say but the look he gets from Pepper and his own self stops him from saying anymore because he realises what he was going to say and he really doesn't think he's the right person to explain what is going on.
"I'm helping Uncle Tony, maybe later." Skye tells her Aunt and Pepper nods and heads into the kitchen.
"Sir Director Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D is here." Jarvis says several minutes later.
"Send him up." Tony says exchanging looks with Pepper who has walked back into the room.
"Nicky." Skye says happily.
"Oh, I am never going to let him forget that." Tony says amused, but as soon as Fury steps of the elevator and Tony sees his face his amusement is gone.
"Skye, Uncle Steve is in his room, why don't you go see if he is awake." Pepper says noticing the same thing that Tony has.
"Okay." Skye says getting off the couch, "Hi Nicky." Skye says to Fury.
"Hi Skye." Fury responds and Skye happily skips off to see Steve.
"What happened?" Tony asks worried.
"We've lost all contact with the plane." Fury reveals.
"How long ago?" Pepper asks.
"A few hours ago, we've been digging through the data we've got. They just fell off all radar, and there was no warning." Fury explains.
"I've been on that plane, there are emergency beakers and several backup systems." Tony comments.
"As far as S.H.I.E.L.D can tell they are nowhere." Fury tells him, "But we can't get into their systems not after what Skye did, you can though, correct?" Fury asks.
"Yeah, I can. Skye left me a way." Tony says going over to his computer.
"When Phil called us to look after Skye he told us that there was going to be another team providing back up, have they gotten any contact?" Pepper asks.
"No, not since they sent the information over." Fury explains.
"The plane systems are dead." Tony tells everyone.
"Are you sure?" Fury asks.
"Positive, I'm in the computer systems which would allow me to turn things on or off, basically control, any of the electrical things on that plane, but I can't because the systems dead on their end." He reveals.
"Melinda would have sent a distress call if they crashed, wouldn't she?" Pepper asks.
"Of course, Melinda an expert pilot." Tony comments.
"Unless she didn't have time." Fury reveals, "From what you have said it seems like they lost power, there is very little that could have done that and it's likely to have happened quickly, maybe too quickly to send out a distress." He tells them, "We'll start a search for them." He tells them.
"What do we tell Skye?" Pepper asks and all three of them become silent.
"We shouldn't lie to her." Tony comments knowing how much adult Skye hates lies.
"Is keeping the truth from her until we know more a lie?" Pepper asks.
"I don't know." Tony answers truthfully.
"We should discuss what happens to Skye until we find them or in case we don't." Fury says to them.
"She stays with us." Tony says, "Phil and Melinda asked us, trusted us, to look after her and that's what we will do. She does not leave us until she is back with her parents." Tony tells Fury, "No matter how long that takes." He says and Fury nods.
"I should get back to base, I'll keep you updated." Fury says, "For what it's worth my vote is wait a couple of hours then tell Skye." He says as he heads to the elevator
"She'll have a nap in about an hour, after that if we still don't know anything we'll tell her." Tony says to Pepper who nods.
Far away from New York Ian Quinn is celebrating his brilliance in making it so Coulson's plane lost all power when the door bursts open and Victoria, clearly angry, bursts in.
"What were you thinking?" Victoria asks Quinn angrily.
"Hello Victoria, would you like a drink?" Quinn asks his sister.
"No I would not like a drink Ian, I want to know what you were thinking when you decided to crash Coulson's plane." Victoria says angrily.
"It hasn't crashed, it's just lost all power, so have the cars as well, for now anyway, it won't last forever." He reveals, "Unfortunately Barton and May we able to get the plane down safely." Ian tells her sounding disappointed by that fact.
"You're an Idiot Ian." Victoria tells her brother, "We said we would go after them again until we could plan it so that there won't be any mistakes, this is a mistake." Victoria tells her brother, "Fury has ordered all free agents to work on two things finding you and finding the plane. You've just made things a hundred times harder for us. Seriously Ian, you're a genius, use your brain next time." Victoria tells her brother
"First, there is nothing to link this back to me." Ian begins to say but Victoria cuts him off.
"I just came from a meeting where Fury informed me that Coulson had a lead on you and that's what he was doing, coming after you and then his plane just happens to disappear. It doesn't take a genius to make that connection." Victoria tells her brother angrily, "You just risked both of us, and now I have to clean up your mess." She tells him.
"And how are you going to do that without drawing attention to yourself?" Quinn asks, "You should just wait on S.H.I.E.L.D to find them." Quinn tells her.
"I can't do that because I am meant to be an expert in finding people." Victoria tells her brother, "Stay here and don't do anything unless I tell you that you can." Victoria tells her brother before angrily storming out of the house.
"As always pleasure talking to you." Quinn says sarcastically as he watches his sister go.
At Stark tower an hour and a half after Fury left Skye is down for a nap while Tony, Pepper, Steve and Bruce are in the living room Tony and Pepper explaining to the other too what Fury told them.
"So he has no idea what happened to the plane?" Steve asks.
"He didn't say anything, which doesn't mean he doesn't know." Tony answers, "Quinn having something to do with this would be a safe bet." He tells them.
"It would make sense considering everything, but would he be stupid enough to do something when they were heading for him?" Bruce asks curious.
"I wouldn't put it past him." Tony says and a scream coming from where Skye is interrupts there conversation and causes all of them to run towards her.
As they enter the room they find Skye in her bed, clearly still asleep crying and screaming and without a word the others stay back and let Tony approach her, deciding not to crowd her and letting Tony be the one that approaches her because she is closes to him.
"Tony be careful, she could use her powers without meaning to." Bruce points out.
"Skye, kiddo, wake up." Tony says to his niece making sure not to touch her because he doesn't want to find himself accidently electrocuted.
"Skye, come on wake up." Tony repeats, his voice both more forceful and louder, and she does.
"Uncle Tony, it was horrible. Mommy was flying the plane and then it stopped flying and Uncle Clint tried to help and Daddy fell over and hurt his head and тетя Наташа tried to help and…"Skye begins to say but she is so upset that she starts to hyperventilate.
"Skye, look at me, do what I do." Tony requests, "Deep breath in, deep breath out." He tells her and he does it and slowly Skye starts to imitate him, "Good. That's good." Tony tells her, "Now why don't you go to the kitchen and I'll be there in a minute for hot chocolate, how does that sound?" he asks his niece after giving her a hug and suggesting something that his nanny did for him when he was a child that always made him feel better.
"Good." Skye says in a quiet voice, "Can we call Mommy and Daddy?" she asks.
"Hot chocolate first, then we'll talk." Tony tells her and Skye nods and leaves the room.
"Did she dream what happened?" Steve asks surprised.
"It would make sense." Tony comments, "Clint told me that her knowing power caused nightmares about things, that's likely what happened. She has no idea that what she saw was true." He tells them, "Call Fury, I'm going to go and talk to her some more." Tony says exiting the room.
Once Tony has made the hot chocolate he takes it over to Skye who is sitting on the couch.
"Can, we call Mommy and Daddy? I want Mommy and Daddy." Skye tell Tony.
"Skye do you remember how Nicky was here earlier?" Tony asks Skye still amused about what Skye calls Fury but he knows that it's not the time.
"Yeah." Skye responds not understanding why her Uncle Tony is bringing up Nicky when she wants to talk to her parents.
"Well he was here to tell us that there was a problem with the plane." Tony tells her, "And we can't call them."
"But I want Mommy and Daddy." Skye says.
"I know you do Kiddo, but we can't call them at the moment." Tony tells her.
"NO, I WANT MOMMY AND DADDY. I WANT MOMMY AND DADDY." Skye says getting up and running away.
"Jarvis make sure she can't leave this floor." Tony requests.
"Yes Sir." Jarvis responds.
"Guessing it didn't go well." Pepper comments as she Steve and Bruce stayed in the other room after they called Fury to try and give Tony some privacy to talk to Skye and they came out when they heard Skye's yells.
"Nope." He responds, "What did Fury say?" he asks.
"He's on his way, said we've got to try and find out what Skye knows." Bruce explains.
"I don't see that happening at the moment." Tony tells him.
"Jarvis where is she?" Steve asks.
"Northwest corridor." Jarvis answers.
"I'll try talking to her." Steve says leaving the room.
"Good Luck." Tony tells his friend as he leaves.
"Well at least Skye's dream told us one thing." Bruce comments and the other two look at him, "We know that they are okay, for the most part." He tells them.
"Except for Phil." Pepper points out.
"That would be the 'for the most part'" Bruce explains.
After leaving Tony, Pepper and Bruce Steve makes his way to where, according to Jarvis, he will find Skye.
"Can I sit down?" Steve asks Skye.
"I don't care." Skye tells him though her tears and Steve sits down next to her, "Did I do this?" Skye asks, "Did my dream hurt Mommy and Daddy?" Skye asks her Uncle curious.
"No." Steve tells her, "You're special Skye. Sometimes you dream about things that happen, but they don't happen because of you, you just know about them." He explains.
"How?" Skye asks confused.
"Uncle Tony could explain it better but it's because of your brain, it's different." He explains.
"So I'm a freak." Skye says.
"No, never think that, never." Steve tells the girl, "You're special and you know, so are all of us." He tells her.
"Mommy and Daddy?" Skye asks and Steve nods,
"Yep. In different ways." He tells her.
"Are you?" Skye asks.
"Yeah, I'm really strong." Steve tells the young girl and Skye becomes quite trying to understand everything that Steve has said to her.
"Skye, Director Fury.." Steve begins to say but Skye cuts him off.
"Nicky?" Skye asks.
"Yeah, Nicky is going to be here soon and he needs your help." Steve tells her.
"Why?" Skye asks confused.
"To find your Mommy and Daddy." He tells her.
"How can I do that?" Skye asks confused.
"He's going to ask you about your dream, and even though it's scary we need you to tell him everything you remember." Steve explains to her.
"Will I help Mommy and Daddy?" Skye asks.
"Yeah, you will." Steve tells her.
"Then I'll tell Nicky, even though it's scary." Skye tells her Uncle.
"How about if you're a brave girl for Nicky and tell him everything you can, we go out for ice-cream when you're done." He says to her.
"Yes please." Skye responds and both of them become quite.
Five minutes after Steve and Skye have become quite Tony comes to them and he kneels down in front of Skye, "Fury's here if you think you can talk to him." He informs his niece.
"I can. I am going to help Mommy and Daddy." Skye says standing up, "Ice cream later?" She asks Steve.
"Ice cream later." Steve confirms and Skye makes her way to the lounge room.
"Are you bribing her?" Tony asks Steve as they walk back to the lounge room.
"No, rewarding her for being brave, actually." Steve corrects and the pair entre the lounge room, "Hi Nicky." They hear Skye say.
"Skye this is really important, I need you to tell me everything you remember about your dream." Fury tells Skye sitting across from her.
"Mommy was flying and everything went dark." Skye says screwing up her face as she tries to remember, "тетя Наташа was next to her then Uncle Clint, Daddy and Ward came in." Skye tells him, "Uncle Clint sat where тетя Наташа was and Daddy, Ward and her went back. Daddy was checking Jem and Fitzy when he fell and hit his head on the chair." She says becoming upset.
"It's okay Skye." Pepper says walking over and picking up Skye and sitting her on her lap with her arms around her, "Continue when you can."
"тетя Наташа, was helping him, then I woke up." Skye tells them.
"That's really good Skye, do you know where they are?" Fury asks.
"No, that silly, why would I?" Skye asks confused.
"You're right that is silly, so why don't you try something for me." Tony says walking over to the young girl, remembering everything that older Skye has told him about her powers, "Come sit with me and Bruce on the floor." Tony requests and Bruce looks at him confused wondering what he is doing.
Skye is clearly just as confused as Bruce but she does what Tony says anyway.
"Okay now, Uncle Bruce is going to show you how to relax a bit." Tony tells his niece.
"I am?" Bruce asks confused then sees the look Tony is giving him, "Right I am." He comments, "Okay Skye, we're going to start with some breathing exercises, do you think you can do what I do?" he asks her.
"Yep, coz then I get Ice Cream right?" Skye says looking at Steve.
"Right." He confirms.
"Okay, tell me what to do." Skye tells Bruce.
For several minutes Bruce gets Skye to imitate and do what he says, once he is as confident as he can be that Skye is relax he gives Tony a nod.
"Okay Kiddo, I need you to think about your Mom and Dad okay. Can you do that for me?" He asks.
"Yeah." Skye answers.
"Good." Tony tells her, "Are you thinking about them?" he asks and Skye nods, "Good." He says having no idea whether what he is going to suggest will actually work but needing to try it, "I need you to just think where are Mom and Dad, okay? Say it over and over in your head. Do you think you can do that?" he asks and Skye nods.
Watching his watch Tony waits for five minutes before he says anymore, "Skye I'm going to ask you a question and I need you to say the first thing that comes to your mind. It doesn't matter how silly you think it is, do you think you can do that?" he asks.
"Yes." Skye responds.
"Good, now. Where are you Mom and Dad?" Tony asks hoping that it will work.
"In a valley, in in-in-indo…." Skye begins to say but Fury cuts her off.
"Indonesia? Is that what you are trying to say?" he asks.
"Yes." Skye responds.
"That's really good Skye, you helped a lot." Fury tells her and he gets up to make a call to Hill who is running the search.
"Was I brave enough for Ice Cream?" Skye asks Steve.
"You were brave enough for a double scope." Steve tells her, "Go get your jacket." He says.
"Do you really think that it's the best time for that?" Pepper asks him.
"I think what she needs most at the moment is a distraction and I did promise her ice cream." He tells Pepper.
"Good news is that there are only a few large valleys in Indonesia, we should have them all swept with satellite within a couple of hours." Fury informs them after ending his call with Hill.
"That's good." Bruce comments.
"I'll let you know when we find them." Fury says before leaving.
"I'm ready Uncle Steve." Skye says.
"You guys coming with us?" Steve ask Bruce, Tony and Pepper.
"Why not I could do with some Ice Cream." Tony says, "Pep? Bruce? What about you?" he asks the pair.
"Please, please, please." Skye says to them.
"How can we resit?" Bruce says, "Alright." He says getting up.
"Come on Pepper you too." Tony tells her and Pepper stands up as well and the four adults and Skye head to the elevator none of them allowing themselves to think about everything that they know.
At Quinn's safe house he is drinking his scotch, angry at his sister because he doesn't understand why she reacted the way she did when his phone beeps, he looks at it and sees as simple five word message.
"Get out of Asia now." There is no ID who sent the message but because only one person has the number he doesn't need it.
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