Chapter 27
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"Let me go, I want to go with him." Skye tells Fitz and Simmons, "They're my parents."
"We know. We know Skye." Simmons says wanting to calm her down, "The most important thing to them is keeping you safe, so that's what we're doing. Let Ward see what he can find, you have to say here." Simmons tells her.
"They have to be okay." Skye tells Simmons.
"I know." Simmons tells her and instead of holding her Simmons gives Skye a hug.
Almost ten minutes after he left the plane in one of the nearby cars Ward arrives at the location that was May and Coulson's last known location. As soon as he arrives he draws his gun and starts investigating, slowly making his way downstairs. Where un known to him he gets hit with a dendratoxin grenade as soon as he enters.
"There's nothing here." Ward says fifteen minutes after he arrived at the warehouse though to him it feel like minutes, "I'm taking pictures of everything but I don't seen any sign of May or Coulson." Ward reveals through the coms, "Be back at the plane in a few." He reveals.
"No sign, that's bad right?" Skye asks Fitz and Simmons.
"It can be, but it could also be a positive thing if there was no sign of blood or a fight, because it likely means that whatever happened to your parents they are un harmed." Simmons reveals.
"You think?" Skye asks and Fitz and Simmons exchange looks.
"We can't be sure, but that is what we think." Fitz tells her, "We'll know more when Ward gets back." He tells her.
Ten minutes later Skye, Fitz and Simmons are waiting in the command centre when Ward gets back.
"Here's everything I got." Ward says handing his phone to Simmons, "You okay?" He asks Skye worried.
"My parents are missing Ward, I'm pretty far from okay." She tells him.
"We'll find them." Ward assures her, "What I want to know is how Quinn got away with them in the first place, you've been monitoring satellites right?" he says to Fitz and Simmons.
"Of course, but the basement was shielded from satellite so It's possibly that he had an underground shielded escape route which he took May and Coulson along." Fitz tells Ward.
"Skye there was no sign of blood, nothing to indicate that either of your parents were hurt. That is a good thing." Ward tells her.
"What do we do now?" Skye asks ignoring his attempts at making her feel better.
"We've got to contact Director Fury, but because I don't know a direct way to do that we've got to go through channels and that's going to take a while." Ward comments.
"I guess it's a good thing I do then." Skye says walking over to the table.
"You know how to contract Director Fury directly?" Ward ask surprised.
"Yep." Skye says with a grin as she starts to type things on the control remembering what her parents showed her the first day that they were back at the plane after Natasha and Clint left.
"Coulson what is it?" Fury asks answering the call.
"It's not Dad Nicky." Skye informs the director.
"Skye, what happened?" Fury asks worried, though he wouldn't show it because for Skye to be the one calling him something bad must have happened.
"Mom and Dad have been taken." Skye reveals.
"Are you sure?" Fury asks.
"Yeah, we saw some of it." Skye tells him, "They were taken by, what's his name?" She asks looking at Ward.
"Quinn." Ward answers, "Ian Quinn took them Sir." He informs Fury.
"Are you sure?"
"Positive." Skye, Ward, and FitzSimmons say.
"Stay where you are. Agent Hand will be there within the hour to assist with the search." Fury informs her.
"Agent Hand?" Ward asks surprised, "I don't mean to seem like I'm questioning orders Sir but wouldn't Commander Hill be a better choice, considering the circumstances." He comments.
"She would, and I am ordering her to get to you as well, but Agent Hill is half a day away from where you are, you need someone there as soon as possible and the closest senior Agent is Agent Hand" Fury tells him, "I will brief Agent Hand on the very basic information that she needs but that is it, and when Agent Hill arrives she will be in change, clear?" He asks.
"Clear Sir." Ward, Fitz and Simmons reply.
"Skye, I will dedicate every resource I have to finding your parents, I promise you that." Fury tells his goddaughter, knowing that he can't promise that he will find them but he can promise that he will do everything in his power to do so.
"Thanks Nicky." Skye responds.
"Call if you need anything." Fury tells his goddaughter before ending the call.
"I'll be in my bunk." Skye says as soon as Fury hangs up, not wanting to talk to any of the others.
"Poor Girl." Simmons comments watching her sister go.
"We've got to be careful with Agent Hand, after Blake and Sitwell we can't be sure that we can trust her." Ward tells Fitz and Simmons.
"Director Fury wouldn't be sending her if he didn't trust her." Fitz points out.
"Up until they died Fury trusted Blake and Sitwell, more than he trusts Hand. We've just got to be careful." Ward tells Fitz and Simmons and they both nod.
"What do we do to help Skye?" Fitz asks.
"Nothing, for now. We give her her space and help her when she lets us." Ward tells the others and they nod.
Once Skye left the command centre where the first thing that she did was play music so that Fitz, Simmons and Ward can't hear her cry, which is exactly what she is doing. She is laying on her bed crying as she looks at a picture of her and her parents from when she was about ten, her only thought is how much she wants them back.
For over forty minutes Skye stays in her bunk crying, wanting to hug her parents more than she's ever wanted anything before and then there is a knock on her door.
"Come in." Skye says with a sniffling voice as she pauses her music.
"Oh Skye." Jemma says walking over and pulling her sister into a hug.
"I want them back." Skye tell her.
"I know." Simmons tells her, "And where going to do whatever it takes to get them back." Simmons tells her, "Agent Hand is about five minutes away, she's going to help get your parents back, she's amazing at finding people if anyone can find your parent's then it's going to be her." Simmons tells her.
"Really?" Skye asks.
"Really." Simmons assures, "Go wash your face, she'll be here soon." Simmons tells Skye and Skye nods and heads to the bathroom. Once Skye has left the room Simmons puts the picture that Skye was hugging back on Skye's side and she exits Skye's bunk.
"Fury just called." Ward reveals when Simmons walks over to him.
"What did he say?" Simmons asks interested.
"He said that he told Hand that the accident that Skye had on the mission where she took down the Clairvoyant, which students at the academy know about, caused her to regress back to fifteen years old with no memories of her adult self, that's all she knows and that's all we can tell her, nothing about Skye's powers or anything else, understood?" He asks Fitz and Simmons.
"Understood." They responds and Ward's phone rings.
"Hello, Yes Ma'am, right away Ma'am" Ward responds, "Hands here, I've got to end the lockdown." He says walking back into the command centre when he does he sees Skye, "Agent Hands here." He tells her and Skye nods, "You doing okay?" He asks worried.
"I guess." Skye responds shrugging.
As Hand makes her way up the stairs in the cargo bay she goes over in her head what she is supposed to know rather than what she actually does. She was on her way to see her brother when she got the call informing her about Coulson and May though of course she already knew, not that Fury knows that. She was surprised by the orders but at the same time very thankful because it could be just the opportunity she has been waiting for.
When she walks into the main area of the plane she sees Agent's Fitz, Simmons and Ward waiting with a teenager that must be Skye. That was actually the most surprising part of Fury's call finding out that the girl who was a child a few months ago is now a teenager.
"Agents." Victoria greats.
"Ma'am." Ward responds.
"Agent Hand." Fitz and Simmons
"Hi, you must be Skye. I'm Agent Victoria Hand." She tells the teenager.
"Hi." Skye responds, "Are you going to find my parents?" Skye asks.
"I'm going to do my best." Victoria lies, "But for me to do that I need you to stay in your bunk until transport away from here for you can be made." She tells Skye.
"Excuse me?" Skye asks angrily, "What makes you think I'm going anywhere?"
"You are going somewhere because I am sending you." Hand tells Skye realising that she is just as stubborn as her teenage self as she was as an adult.
"What authority do you have to send me anywhere?" Skye asks and Fitz, Simmons and Ward exchange looks all three of them quite worried as it seems like Skye is getting both angry and upset at the same time, something that likely won't end well.
"I'm a Level Eight Agent and this is a S.H.I.E.L.D plane, that's all the authority I need." Hand tells Skye.
"Well you may be a level eight agent but I'm a child of S.H.I.E.L.D and even though I don't know exactly what that means because Uncle Tony didn't exactly explain it properly I do know that it means something pretty important, especially considering I have a way to contact Director Fury and quite a few of S.H.I.E.L.D's top agents directly, something that Agent Ward can't even do." Skye tells Hand remembering the confusing conversation that she had with her Uncle Tony before they left the tower the last time, "So you can try to send me away from this plane, my home, but my bet is that you won't succeed." Skye responds and Fitz, Simmons and Ward once again exchange worried looks.
"You arrogant Child." Victoria tells Skye who is managing to push all her buttons, "I don't know what you're used to but the fact that your last name is Coulson won't get you any special treatment from me, you are a child and I will treat you like one." Hand tells her and Skye would like nothing more than to hit the agent but before she can even take a step forward Ward is in front of her, "Skye, take a deep breath, calm down." He says loud enough for everyone else to hear, "Go call your Aunt and Uncle, see where they are." He adds quiet enough for only her to here.
"I'll be in my bunk, but I'm not leaving this plane." Skye says angrily walking past Ward and into her Bunk.
"What a spoiled brat." Hand comments once Skye is out of hearing range.
"Her Parents are missing, she's scared." Simmons tells Hand, "And you want to send her away from her home, her actions make sense."
"Her actions are that of a spoiled child who has never been told no in her life." Hand tells the others, "But enough about her, tell me what you've got on Coulson and May." She requests and the four agents head into the command centre, Ward, Fitz and Simmons worriedly looking back at Skye's bunk as they go.
As Skye gets to her bunk she angrily pulls the door closed with force and wonders just who this Agent Hand thinks she is. Once she has checked to make sure she didn't break the door because that wouldn't have gone down well with her parents, Skye pull out the phone she was given and calls one of the two numbers in it.
"Hey Kid." Clint answers.
"Hey Uncle Clint, out of curiosity how much trouble would I get into for punching a level eight agent in the face?" She asks her Uncle curious
"Depends, which Agent do you want to hit?" Clint asks curious a small bit of amusement clear.
"Hand." Skye answers.
"Hand?" Clint asks shocked, "Why is Hand on the plane?" he ask confused.
"Because Mom and Dad were taken, Nicky sent her to help find them." Skye tells her Uncle the sadness clear in her voice, "But she's been here five minutes and all she has done is be a compete and total bitch." Skye comments
"Skye, slow down and watch your language." Clint tells his niece, "Explain to me, what do you mean Mel and Phil were taken?" Clint asks all amusement that was present in his voice is now gone.
"What? Melinda and Phil were taken?" Natasha's voice in the background asks.
"Mom and Dad went to investigate a sighting of Deathlok." Skye explains, "There was a basement at the location that there wasn't meant to be so they went to go look, Dad said that it was some kind of lab and Mom started to film and a man said something about this is a surprise, and the camera showed a man that according to, Fitzy, Jem and Ward, was Ian Quinn, and then all the coms went dead." Skye explains, "Ward went to investigate but he found nothing so I called Nicky and he sent Agent Hand." Skye explains, "And she is a total Bitch Uncle Clint." Skye explains to her Uncle.
"Nat and I are about an hour away from you but we can probably be there in a half an hour, do you think you can hold off on your anger until then?" Clint asks not bothering to scold her once more for her language as there are currently more important things.
"How do you know where we are?" Skye asks.
"It's one of the Advantages of using one of your Uncle Tony's inventions it tells me the location of the other caller." Clint explains, "Oh, forget half an hour your Aunts Driving, we'll be there in twenty minutes. Do you think you can keep calm until them?" Clint asks.
"I can try." Skye tells him.
"Good, call back if anything changes, see you soon Kid." Clint tells his niece.
"See you soon Uncle Clint." Skye says hanging up the phone.
"Does she sound okay?" Natasha asks worried.
"Yeah, I think so, she seems more angry at Hand than anything else." Clint responds.
"Out of all the agents Fury could have sent why would he send her?" Natasha asks.
"Because there really aren't that many senior, trusted, agents left." Clint points out, "Blake and Sitwell are dead, Garrett's still not cleared for field work, you and me and un reachable to anyone but Skye, and Phil and Mels are the ones that are missing, that leaves Hill and Hand, and I'm betting considering everything he has a very good reason why he didn't send Hill." Clint tells her.
"Wow, you're right." Natasha comments realising just how few senior agents that Fury actually trusts are left.
"You know it's been a while since I've had a good old fashioned yelling match with Hand, it will be nice." Clint comments.
"Well I'm pushing this thing as fast as it will go so it won't be too long, then you can have your screaming match." Natasha tells her partner.
"Good." Clint responds and Natasha has an amused smirk on her face.
After hanging up with her Uncle Skye peers open her door and once she is sure that everyone is paying attention to whatever Hand is talking about Skye sneaks out and down to the Cargo Bay where she sits on the platform with her legs hanging over the edge waiting for her Aunt and Uncle.
For the next Thirty five minutes Natasha and Clint speed to the location of the plane while Skye sits and waits and Hand suggests legitimate ways to find Quinn that she knows won't work so that it looks like she is doing her job when in fact she is helping her brother.
Down in the Cargo Bay Skye keeps checking her watch waiting for her Aunt and Uncle to arrive. Skye is just about to call them again to see just where they are when a black SVU pulls up and Clint and Natasha get out.
"Uncle Clint, тетя Наташа." Skye says happily standing up and racing down the stairs to them.
"Are you alright?" Clint asks as he hugs her.
"I want Mom and Dad back." Skye tells him.
"We'll do everything we can Ребенок. Where is Agent Hand and everyone else?" Natasha asks as she hugs Skye.
"Upstairs, Command Centre." Skye answers.
"Let's go say hello then." Clint comments and the trio head upstairs, Skye more than happy that her Uncle and Aunt are back home.
Up in the command Centre Agent Hand has just finished giving Fitz his orders and she is about to give Ward and Simmons theirs when Fitz interrupts,
"It will take me about an hour to run all those searches." Fitz informs Hand.
"Try and make it quicker, the faster we find Agents Coulson and May the better." Hand tells Fitz, completely lying but after years of doing it she is quite convincing.
"And until that happens, what do we do?" Ward asks.
"For now, nothing Agent Ward. We need something actionable before we can act and at the moment we don't have anything." Hand tells him.
"I would like to take Agent Simmons back to the warehouse and see if she can determine exactly what Quinn was doing, that could give us some leads." Ward tells Hand.
"That's a great idea Agent Ward, I think I'll join you when you go, but let's hold off on that for a little while." Clint says as he, Natasha and Skye walk into the room.
"Agent Barton, Agent Romanoff, what are you doing here?" Hand asks trying to keep the genuine surprise out of her voice.
"Skye called us, she told us what happened and we thought considering that it would be best to put what we are doing on hold and come see what we can do to help." Natasha tells her.
"What were you doing that you thought you could take time away from without authorisation?" Hand ask.
"That's classified." Clint answers trying to keep the smirk of his face.
"I have a higher security clearance than you do." Hand tells him.
"Not on this you don't." Clint tells her, "What have you got?" he asks putting all discussion on what he and Natasha were doing.
"I will be more than happy to tell you and Agent Romanoff what information we have gotten on Agents May and Coulson's disappearance but not why she is in the room." Hand says looking at Skye, "She is a child and as such I will not reveal classified information in front of her." Hand tells Natasha and Clint.
"Her name is Skye, not she." Natasha tells Hand angrily, "And in the event that something were to happen to Melinda and Phil, let's say for example them getting kidnapped, temporary guardianship passes to Clint and I until Skye can be reunited with her parents, which means it's our decision what Skye is told, not yours, and we feel that Skye is both old enough and deserves to know what is known on her parents abduction. Skye is staying and that's final." Natasha tells her.
"Oh it is, is it?" Hand asks.
"It is." Natasha comments as her and Hand begin staring each other down, "You can fight us on this, but we both know how it will end." Natasha tells Hand.
"We do." Hand confirms, "And we're wasting time, fine the child can stay." She says knowing that having Barton and Romanoff present makes what she wants to do so much harder but just maybe giving them this victory will help make things better. As she speaks she realises that as she still hasn't gotten control of the small bit of energy that Ian put into her, and because she is angry, she is at risk of pushing it out without meaning to which wouldn't be a good thing considering who she is currently with.
"Good." Natasha responds and her, Clint and Skye walk over to the table.
"Thanks." Skye says to her Aunt.
"No need Ребенок." Natasha tells her niece.
"Jemma, Fitz, Grant, what have you got?" Clint asks.
"We've got the video that Agent May was taking." Jemma says playing the video.
"That's defiantly Quinn." Natasha comments, "The lab equipment, do we know what he was using it for?"
"Not yet." Ward answers, "That's why I was going to go with Simmons to investigate the equipment."
"I think that's a good idea, what do you think Agent Hand?" Clint asks.
"I think that would be a good idea." Hand lies and as she does she loses control for a split second and she pushes the tiniest bit of the small amount of energy she has inside of her out, though she is very thankful for the fact that she doesn't think anyone saw.
"Good, I'll go with them." Clint responds and as he does everyone watches stunned as Skye lifts an arm and sends a beam of energy at Hand causing her to collapse.
"Skye, what did you just do?" Clint asks his niece shocked.
"She's just stunned and we've got about a minute before she's not anymore." Skye says running to Hand's side, "Help me get her up." She requests.
"Not until you explain what is going on." Ward tells her sounding completely shocked.
"Look I promise you I will tell you everything, but not right now, we don't have the time." Skye says looking directly at her Aunt and Uncle, "We've got less than thirty seconds before she wakes and believe me when I say we want her to be in the interrogation room when that happens. Please, Uncle Clint, тетя Наташа, trust me." Skye begs her Aunt and Uncle.
"Okay." Clint says and both he and Natasha run over to Skye and help her lift Skye and take her into the interrogation room, the others following surprised. They have just placed her on the floor when she starts to wake.
"Time to explain Kid, what happened?" Clint asks his niece once he, Natasha and Skye are out of the interrogation room at the door is closed. Instead of looking at her Uncle Skye turns to her Aunt and utters two simple words
"Thank you." And it is thanks to the way that Skye says those two simple words and the half smile that she has on her face when she says it that leads Natasha to come to a realisation.
"You remember." Natasha realises shocked.
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