Chapter 26
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For the next couple of days Skye does her best to avoid her Dad. She spends most her time in her bunk and only seems to leave it when Fitz and Simmons manage to lure her out or to eat.
Up in his office Coulson is attempting to do paperwork but he isn't getting too far because all his thoughts are on his daughter.
"You know it usually helps when you press pen to paper." Melinda tells her husband.
"I know." Coulson says putting the pen down.
"Are you okay?" Melinda asks though she knows the answer.
"No, but you know that." Coulson says as Melinda walks over and sits across from him, "We've never forget before, never, I don't like it." Coulson tells her.
"I know." Melinda tells him, "She's in her bunk playing music very loud so I don't think she likes it either." Melinda tells her husband.
"She hates me." Coulson comments.
"No, she doesn't." Melinda tells him, "She's just angry. She doesn't hate you Phil." Melinda tells him, "Have you tired talking to her?" Melinda asks as she has been doing her best to stay out of the fight but she really doesn't like seeing the two people she cares about the most fighting.
"No." Coulson admits, "I though giving her space letting her cool down before I talked to her again would be a good idea but that doesn't seem to be happening." He admits.
"Talk to her Phil, it's the only way to make things right." Melinda says before getting up and leaving Coulson's office.
Coulson sits at his desk pondering his wife's words for several minutes before he gets up and heads downstairs.
In Skye's bunk she is listening to music quite loudly while she plays the Sims on her laptop. While she is still mad at her Dad for what he does she has to admit that she does miss spending time with him.
She has just started to create the house for her Sims, the best part of the game in her opinion, when there is a loud knock on her door.
"Come in." Skye says pausing her music and the door opens and her Dad walks in.
"Hi." Coulson says to her.
"Hi." Skye says.
"Can we talk?" Coulson asks.
"Sure." Skye says closing her laptop and moving so that she is sitting cross legged on the bed.
"Good." Coulson says walking over and sitting on the edge of her bed, "I really don't like fighting with you." Coulson tells his daughter.
"Neither do I." Skye tells him, "But you scaring someone I was just talking to isn't okay Dad." Skye tells him.
"You're my Baby Girl Skye, everything I do I do for you to make sure you're safe, that you don't get hurt." Coulson tells his daughter, "You saw a boy, I saw you talking to someone who could hurt you, and did I overreact, maybe."
"Definitely." Skye corrects.
"My point is, I see everyone as someone who might hurt you and I will do whatever I can to make sure that doesn't happen. The most important job I have is protecting you and it's something I will always do, no matter how old you get." Coulson tells her.
"I get that, I do." Skye admits, "But Dad, you've got to let me live I get that there are people after us and that our lives aren't exactly the safest but that doesn't mean you have to treat me like I'm living in a plastic bubble." Skye tells him, "No matter what happens I will always be your Baby Girl and truthfully in a way I'm always going to need my Dad's protection, but I'm also growing up and need to be allowed to talk to more than the people on this plane and the rest of our family." Skye tells him.
"I can't tell you that I'll ever be completely okay with you talking to boys and people you don't know, but I'll try and do better. That's all I can do." Coulson tells her.
"That's good enough." Skye says and she gives her Dad a hug, "I love you Daddy." She says as she hugs him.
"I love you to Baby girl." Coulson responds, "I noticed that Jem got some of the chocolate syrup you like in milkshakes the other day, do you want one?" he asks curious.
"Yes." Skye says happily and she and Coulson stand up, Coulson pulling up Skye as he does.
"I'll get the blender, you get the ingredients." Coulson says to his daughter.
"Yep.' Skye responds happily and the father and daughter head into the kitchen, neither noticing that Melinda is standing at the door to the cockpit watching them with a smile on her face.
A few days after Skye and Coulson have made up Skye is a little bit older than fourteen and she is currently down in the lab trying to convince Jemma to help her convince her parents to buy Guitar hero.
"Come on Jem, it will be fun." Skye tells her sister, "I was reading about it online after I saw an ad, it looks awesome.
"Skye it will not be fun on this plane, believe me I know." Jemma responds.
"How? How do you know?" Skye asks curious.
"Because I do." Jemma responds.
"At least give me a reason." Skye requests, "If you're not going to help me I would like a reason." Skye tells her and Simmons sigh and walks over from the Holotable to where Skye is sitting on the desk, which is where she usually sits when she is in the lab because teenage Skye apparently likes sitting on chairs even less than adult Skye.
"Because we've had Guitar hero on the plane before and it didn't end well." Simmons tells her.
"We did? I don't remember ever having it." Skye comments.
"You wouldn't." Simmons tells her, "It was a long time ago and Fitzy and Ward played it all the time so much so that me and your mother hid it from them." Simmons explains, and because she is only slightly changing the story instead of lying she is convincing.
"Oh, so it really wouldn't be a good choice to get it again." Skye realises.
"No, it wouldn't." Simmons responds.
"Where are Fitzy and Ward?" Skye asks curious
"Upstairs, doing something." Simmons responds.
"Right." Skye comments, "You have Nerf weapons down here don't you?" Skye asks curious.
"You really are bored aren't you?" Simmons answers.
"Extremely, and it could be fun, you and me against Fitzy and Ward, neither team having the advantage that is Uncle Clint." Skye comments.
"Have you talked to your uncle lately?" Simmons asks curious.
"Yeah I talked to him and тетя Наташа this morning. They are both fine, said they miss me and you're avoiding the question." Skye realises, "Come on Jem, it will be fun." Skye tells her sister.
"Give me ten minutes to finish this first." Simmons requests.
For ten minutes Skye keeps quite as she watches the clock, "Come on Jem, it's been ten minutes." Skye says the second it has.
"Barely." Simmons responds, "Just give me another minute." Simmons requests as she finishes what she is doing, "There, done." She tells her sister, "You do know this won't end well, right." Simmons tells her.
"Of course." Skye responds and they collect the Nerf weapons that are kept down in the lab and do a surprise ambush of the boys.
Simmons prediction of a Nerf war between them and the boys not ending well is proven correct when an hour later the entire upper level of the plane is a mess.
"We've got to clean this up before your parents see." Ward comments when he realises just how much of a mess they have made.
"Too late." Coulson and Melinda's voices say from the stairs that lead up to Couslon's office.
"Hey Mom, Dad." Skye says giving them her best innocent face.
"What if the first rule of having Nerf battles on the plane?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"Don't break anything." Skye comments.
"Okay, what's the second?" Coulson asks.
"Don't go anywhere near Lola." Skye says.
"That's actually the first." Coulson tells Skye and Melinda rolls her eyes.
"Try again." Melinda tells her daughter and going by the looks that her parents have on their faces Skye can't help but think that she is in serious trouble.
"Clean up any mess you make." Skye realises, "But technically we only just finished so we haven't had time to clean up yet." Skye points out.
"No, the first rule when there is a Nerf battle on the plane is that you are to never let your guard down." Melinda tells her daughter as she pulls a Nerf pistol from behind her back and fires.
"Oh, it's so on." Skye says and she quickly fires a shot at her Mom with the Nerf Crossbow, which Melinda easily avoids and within seconds the second Nerf war on the plane has broken out.
A few days after the Nerf battle while everyone else is spread around the plane Skye is in the main part of the plane playing music loudly and is in the kitchen attempting to make lunch for everyone else as she knows that they have all been very busy. Even though she isn't meant to be in the kitchen by herself Skye figures that it will be okay this time because what she is doing she is doing for everyone else.
As it is quite simple Skye has decided to go with making Pizza's because there is already frozen pizza bases in the freezer and her Dad's pizza source in the pantry. Even though there are quite a few bases in the freezer Skye has decided to only defrost three as she figures that that will be enough for everyone.
Once the bases as thawed she spreads the source and tries and decides on the toppings. As she knows that both her and Jem only like Ham and Cheese she makes sure that one pizza is just that so that they both have what they like. Her parents, Fitz and Ward are harder because they like a lot of different types of pizza. In the end Skye decides on meatloaves and Supreme. Once all three of the Pizzas are ready she puts them in the oven.
"Now, what does Dad usually put the oven on?" Skye asks herself, "High." She realises after a couple of minutes and she puts the oven on as high as it can go and goes and sits down on her computer planning to check the pizza in about ten minutes because she thinks that's about how long it takes.
As she gets distracted by something she is reading Skye doesn't even realise that fifteen minutes has passed until she looks over and the oven and sees that smoke is coming out of the oven.
"CRAP." Skye says worried racing over to the oven, the first thing she does is turn of the oven then she opens the door and pulls out the tray, completely forgetting to put on a glove so the second she touches it she burns her hand slightly and she drops one of the blackened pizza's on the ground.
"Great, great, great." Skye says sitting down on the floor next to the oven. As she sits she lets tears full due to both the pain in her hand and the feeling of failure about her attempt to make lunch.
"SKYE." Ward's worried voice asks.
"Over here." Skye answers and Ward rushes over, the first thing he does is checks to make sure the oven is off, then he turns on the fan to suck away the little smoke that there is, before kneeing down in front of her.
"Are you okay?" He asks worried and Skye nods though Ward realises that she is holding her hand. "You burnt your hand?" Ward asks and Skye nods, "Come on, we've got to put that underwater." Ward says pulling Skye up with her hand that isn't burnt and leading her over to the sink where he turns on the code water and puts Skye's hand under it, "What happened?" he asks.
"I was trying to make lunch for everyone." Skye tells him.
"That's really nice of you, but you're not meant to be in the kitchen by yourself." Ward tells her.
"You've all been so busy lately so I wanted to do something to help." Skye says, "But of course I screwed it up." She comments.
"You left something cooking for too long, that's a mistake not a screw up." Ward tells her, "Everyone on this plane, your Dad included has burnt something before, it's a part of cooking." He tells her.
"Really?" Skye asks.
"Really." Ward tells her, "Skye the reason you're not allowed to cook alone is so that accidents like your hand being burnt don't happen." He tells her.
"That was stupid of me, I know better than to grab something that's in the oven without a glove, I was an idiot." Skye admits.
"A little yeah." Ward admits, thankfully that the burn is very small and doesn't seem that bad, "But wanting to make lunch for us all was a nice gesture." He tells her.
"Yeah, if I wasn't such a screw up I could have pulled it off." Skye comments and Ward who can tell that she's pretty upset gives her a hug,
"You didn't succeed at something, that doesn't mean that you are a screw up." Ward tells her.
"I think it does." Skye tells him.
"Hey, look at me." Ward tells her and that's what Skye does, "It doesn't, I promise you that." He assures her.
"It feels like it." Skye comments.
"You've got to keep your hand under water for another ten minutes but how about after that you try and make lunch again, this time I'll help and prove to you that you're not a screw up." Ward tells her.
"You would do that?" Skye asks.
"Yeah, I would." Ward tells her.
"Thanks." Skye responds.
"Keep your hand underwater, I'll clean this up." Ward tells Skye who nods.
An hour later Skye and Ward have used the rest of the bases to make a second attempt at Pizza for everyone.
"I think we did pretty good, don't you?" Ward asks.
"Yeah, I do." Skye responds, "Thanks Ward."
"There is no need for thankyous." Ward tells her, "Go, get your parents, I'll get FitzSimmons." Ward says as he puts the last pizza on the table.
"Okay." Skye says running upstairs to get her Dad.
"Hey." Skye says knocking on the frame of the door.
"Hey." Coulson says back, smiling when he sees that it's his daughter.
"Lunch is ready downstairs if you're hungry." Skye tells him.
"You made lunch?" Coulson asks curious.
"I attempted to, it didn't go too well but then Ward helped me and we succeeded." Skye tells her father.
"What do you mean it didn't go well?" Coulson asks concerned.
"I burnt everything, including my hand." Skye tells her father.
"What? Let me have a look." Coulson says standing up and Skye walks over to her father,
"It's not that bad honestly, and Ward made sure I kept it under running water for like twenty minute." She tells him.
"Show me." Coulson says as he reaches his daughter side glad that Ward helped her with the proper treatment.
"See not a big deal." Skye tells him.
"Skye you getting hurt is always a big deal." Coulson tells her, "If you want to cook something in the kitchen ask someone to watch you." Coulson tells his daughter.
"I'm fourteen, I shouldn't need supervision in the kitchen." Skye tells her Dad.
"Your Mom is a lot older than fourteen and she isn't even allowed in the kitchen with supervision." Coulson tells his daughter and Skye can't help but laugh at that.
"Come on Dad, food's getting cold." Skye says and when her and Coulson get downstairs they see Ward, Fitz, Simmons and Melinda waiting.
"Are you okay?" Melinda asks as soon as she sees her daughter.
"I'm fine." Skye assures her mother and Melinda gives Coulson a look
"She is." Coulson tells her, "Wow, this looks really good Skye, Ward." Coulson tells the pair.
"Thanks Dad."
"Thanks Sir." Ward says, "Dig in." he tells everyone and that's just what they do.
Far away from the plane Quinn is in his new base waiting on his sister so that he can tell the good news, and if she is willing test his theory.
"Ian?" Victoria's voice asks from above.
"Down here." Quinn responds and Victoria walks from above down to the basement, "Hey, Hill still on the warpath?" he asks curious
"Of course." Victoria tells him, "It doesn't matter that Garrett is healing perfectly and is only a couple of weeks away from being cleared for field work Hill has made it her personal mission to find you and who shot him which makes her even worse than usual." Victoria comments annoyed.
"Well I appreciate the warnings you've given me." Quinn tells her.
"I've always got your back, you know that." Victoria tells him, "Why did you need to see me?" She asks curious
"Because I've got good news and bad news, which do you want first?" Quinn asks his sister curious.
"Ian." Victoria says in a bored drawn out tone.
"Good news it is. I've worked out a way to get the energy into you." Ian reveals.
"That's great, what's the bad news?" Victoria asks knowing that because he said that there is good news and bad news it wouldn't be smart of her to celebrate yet.
"That I can only put the smallest amount of energy at a time, which means I will slowly have to introduce it into you but there has to be a gap of time between each time I introduce the energy." Quinn explains.
"How much of a break?" Victoria asks.
"Ten days." Quinn answers, "I can run the procedure to get the first bit of energy into you today but then there you will have to wait at least ten days before I can run the procedure again to get more of the energy into you." Quinn explains.
"What's the procedure?" Victoria asks.
"Connect you up to this machine that will run your blood through it and add a small but of the energy through that then give you a small, very controlled electrical shock with the energy to get a bit more into you." Quinn explains, "If you're still sure that this is what you want then it's going to be painful." He tells her.
"It's what I want." Victoria says determine, "I want to stop Skye and the rest of the Dream Team and the only way to do that is if we have the same power." Victoria tells her brother.
"It will be months, maybe longer before your power is the same level as Skye, not to mention that you're going to have to learn control." Quinn points out, "This isn't a short road Tori."
"I know that Ian. I've heard Dad talk about his power my whole life, learning control will be simple, and I'm used to pain." Victoria tells her brother, "How long do you need to set everything up?"
"Give me fifteen minutes." Quinn requests and Victoria nods.
A little over a week later, unaware of what Quinn and Victoria have done the team is once again spread out around the plane. Fitz, Simmons, Ward and a fifteen year old Skye are down in the lab playing volleyball with a balloon, Skye and Ward verses Fitz, Simmons, while Coulson and Melinda are upstairs.
"Can everyone please report to the command centre." Coulson's voice says through the coms system.
"Wonder what's up." Ward says catching the balloon.
"Wonder why I'm being called too." Skye comments as she is never called to the command centre when the others have a mission briefing.
"Who knows?" Simmons says and the four head to the command centre.
"What's going on?" Skye asks her Parents curious.
"We've got a Deathlok sighting." Coulson tells them.
"What?" Fitz, Simmons and Ward ask surprised.
"What's a Deathlok?" Skye asks confused
"Not what, who." Melinda tells her, "Do you remember that man who attacked the plane when you were with тетя Наташа and then she took you away from home for a few days?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"Yeah." Skye says thinking back.
"That's Deathlok." Coulson tells his daughter.
"Oh." Skye comments, "As nice as it is to actually be in here when you all are talking, why am i? What does this have to do with me?" Skye asks and while everyone would like to say everything, no one does and instead Melinda answers.
"We will be landing in a hour near where the sighting took place, we have a possible clue on Deathlok's location, but as we have to consider the possibility that this is a trap your father and I will investigate this alone while you Ward, Fitz and Simmons stay here, but you have to be on the lookout for Deathlok." Melinda explains.
"Wouldn't it be a better idea if I go look for Mike so that one of you can stay with Skye?" Ward asks.
"Mike?" Skye asks confused.
"Deathlok's other name." Simmons explains.
"We need one specialist on the plane and one to investigate the lead." Coulson tells Ward, "It works better this way." He say and Ward nods.
"You are to keep the plane on lockdown until we get back." Melinda tells the others and they nod.
"Good, dismissed for now." Coulson says and everyone except for Skye nod and leaves.
"You'll be careful right." Skye tells her parents.
"Of course." Melinda tells her.
"Good." Skye tells her parents before leaving the room.
An hour later everyone is down in the Cargo Bay.
"We'll monitor you why you're gone." Simmons informs Coulson and May.
"Good." Coulson responds, "Keep the plane on lockdown if Deathlok is around and he does come after you then that may hold him off for a little while." He tells them.
"We'll be back soon." Melinda tells her daughter, "Just be alert until we are." Melinda says giving Skye a hug.
"I will." Skye promises her mother.
"Be careful." Coulson says as he gives his daughter a hug and then he and Melinda go over to the SHIELD SVU, get in and drive off.
"You and Mom are the ones who have to be careful." Skye tells her father.
"Come on, we've got to monitor everything from the command centre." Jemma tells her sister and Skye nods and follows her upstairs.
"Ward, we're approaching the location, what's the thermal satellite saying?" Coulson asks ten minutes after he and Melinda left the plane.
"Nothing." Ward answers, "There is no signs of life." He informs them.
"But that doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't Quinn has fooled us before." Fitz points out.
"We know." Melinda responds.
"Be careful, please." Skye requests as she can't explain why but she has a bad feeling about what her parents are doing.
"We will." Coulson assures, "We're entering the warehouse." He reveals.
For several minutes the only sounds are that of Melinda and Coulson walking.
"Fitz on the building planes is there basement?" Melinda asks.
"Um hang on." Fitz requests, "No, single level." He tells them.
"There's stairs leading below, we're going to have a look." Coulson explains and the only sounds that is heard is once more that of working.
"They disappeared" Skye comments as the two heat signatures on the screen that they have been looking at have gone."
"Coulson, May, you there?" Ward asks worried.
"Yeah, we're fine." Coulson assures, "It looks to be a lab. Simmons, Melinda is sending you live video." Coulson informs her.
"Yep, we're getting it." Simmons says putting an image on the big screen.
"Well this is a surprise." A voice that is familiar to Ward, Simmons and Fitz and even though she doesn't remember, Skye, says and Melinda turns the camera to reveal Ian Quinn with what looks like a grenade in his hand and the next thing Fitz, Simmons and Ward know the video has been lost and they've lost coms.
"MOM, DAD." Skye says sounding terrified.
"Skye stay with Jem and Fitz. Whatever you do, do not leave." Ward tell her, "Lock down the plane as soon as a I leave and grab ICERS, I'm going to help." He says and he runs out of the plane both Fitz and Simmons grabbing Skye to stop her from following him.
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