AN edited and betaed 03/10-2020

Chapter 3: why are you here

Skye's idea was simple, she would text Miles and warn him about SHIELD agents looking for him, ask to meet up, and he would agree. May was to go with Skye and wait for him at his apartment.

When Lydon arrived, May could hear from her hiding place that he was happy to see Skye and for the warning she sent him. "I have missed you a lot honey," he told her while hugging her. Skye looked mad at him, and it seemed like Lydon saw it too, because he asked her about it. Skye only shook her head and asked him about what he thought he was doing hacking SHIELD while she was inside, like she had forgotten May was there, so May decided to step out of the shadows she was hiding in, and arrested Lydon. And with the look on Skye's face, she had forgotten May was there, and she had not meant to say that.

Back at the plane Coulson and Ward went to talk to Lydon, while Skye, May and Fitzsimmons looked through the camera link and looked through his computer that they had taken with them from his apartment.

Suddenly Skye slammed her fist down on the table they were at and cursed loudly.

"What is it? What have you found?" May asked.

"He took money for this hack," Skye said in an angry tone, and walked out, went toward the interrogation room, and walked in. "What the hell, Miles? You took MONEY for this? Why would you do that? Tell us who you sold this information to?….NOW!" Skye said to him, shocking Coulson, Ward, and May who had followed her.

"Us?" Miles said with a huff, "since when have YOU been a tool for the government? Have you told them why YOU are HERE?" Miles said back.

Before Skye could react, Coulson spoke up and told Miles that if he didn't start to talk, they would lock him up for the rest of his life, and if he talked, he could walk out of here.

So, Miles told them that about a woman in a flower dress, and that when he had done a background check on her, he had found out she was from an ego group studying insects, Centipedes. After they had checked the information that Miles had giving them, Coulson did let Miles go with a little gift, a bracelet that wouldn't allow him to do any illegal activity on a computer or other electronic devices, and the money that he had been paid was confiscated.

The team went to Hong Kong from there, to save Mr. Yin, but unfortunately they were too late. He ended up dying, and so did a few other SHIELD agents. The woman in the flower dress got away and the Centipede serum was stable, thanks to Mr. Yin's blood.

After the mission May and Coulson were in Coulson's office talking about the mission, when May asked Coulson, "What are your thoughts about what Miles said earlier about Skye? And why is she here?"

Coulson at first said nothing, then he took a deep breath, "I don't know, can you get Skye so I can talk to her about it. We knew that she was a liability and was hiding a lot of secrets about herself, when I asked her to join us, but I want to know what she is hiding from us," he said.

"You don't want me to stay? Or Ward to come too? He is her SO after all," May asked.

"No, I will handle it alone, I think she will be more open if it is just her and me. Beside her and Ward don't seem to get along. Again, I think it is because of the new information about her and Miles," he said, May just nodded and left to go get Skye.

Down in the common area Fitzsimmons and Skye were sitting on the couches playing a game, Ward was in the cargo hold beating the punching bag, he had said he didn't want to play, that he needed to get rid of some extra energy he had. Fitz had made a comment about some anger he needed to get rid of first.

"That was a hard mission," Skye said.

"Yes it was, how are you, by the way? You seemed close with Miles," Simmons asked.

"Hmm, I don't really know, I never thought he was one for taking money for a hack. He always told me when we were together that information should be free for all," she said.

"Do you still believe that? I mean, that information should be free for all?" Fitz asked her.

"I think after I joined this circus, I have started to realize that not all information is meant to be known by all. So no, I don't think so. I still don't like all the secrets though," Skye said and at that point May walked down the stairs and towards them.

"Skye Coulson would like to see you in his office," she said. Skye nodded she knew what it was about.

"Does Ward need to be told or is he on his way?" she asked May.

"No, it is just you Coulson wants to talk to," May answered. Skye nodded again and went up the stairs.

"Where is Skye going?" Ward asked, he had come up the stairs from the cargo hold and was drying sweat from his head with a towel.

"To talk to Coulson about today," May said, "alone, Agent Ward, Coulson wanted to talk to her alone," May said when Ward made a move to walk after her.

"But I'm her SO," he said.

"I know, but he still wanted to talk to her alone, considering how this morning's conversation went, when she told us about her relationship with Lydon," May said back. She could see that Ward wasn't happy about it, but he nodded, and told them that he was gonna take a shower.

When Skye reached Coulson's office, she took a deep breath before she knocked. Once Coulson had given her permission to enter, she opened the door and walked in.

"Hi Coulson, May said you wanted to talk to me. I suppose that's about what Miles said?" she asked.

"Yes, please close the door and sit down," he answered her, so she did as she was told.

"Let's be clear about this conversation," Coulson started, and as Skye nodded he continued, "what you say in this conversation, is going to mean a lot for your future. Many of the higher up agents are concerned about your loyalty and I understand them. So, if you want to stay here, you have to tell me why you're here," he said. He could see that Skye was about to deny that she had other motives as to why she was there so he interrupted her before she could. "We both know that you have another reason as to why you are here, and not just to open your eyes as to how we here at SHIELD work, you have a different motive and this is your one and only chance to come out with it, otherwise we are done," he said, the last thing was said with a harsh tone.

When he could see that Skye was struggling with what to choose, he continued, "It can be between us, it all depends on what it is. If it is a risk to SHIELD or its agents, it won't be between us, but if it isn't, it will stay between us."

Skye took a deep breath, she knew that this was her last chance, so she reached into the hidden pocket of her bra and didn't see Coulson's shocked face when she did.

She gave him her SD card, "That's all I have," she said.

"Have? Have on us, SHIELD? What is this?" he said while standing up.

"No, everything I have about me, the search for my parents, who I am, where I come from. There is nothing, I have only been able to find one document, a document that has been redacted -" she didn't get to finish.

"By SHIELD," interrupted Coulson, with a tone Skye could not identify.

"I assume you don't want the rest of the team to know about this?" he asked.

"No, not right now. What are you going to do now?" she said.

"If you don't mind, I could help you, but I would like to warn you that you may not like what you find," he said.

"It can't be worse than what I have imagined, and yes, I think I would like your help."

"Okay, but I need you to put this on," he said while handing her a box, when she opened it she saw it was a nanny bracelet, the same one that Miles had gotten.

"Why?" she just asked.

"Because it would reassure those who don't trust you, and you said in our meeting this morning when we made the plan to take in Lydon, that you had been in contact with him, so people are a bit wary about letting you run around SHIELD with no oversight. This will show them that you want this and that they can trust you. You do still want this?" he asked,

"I would like to stay, yes, and I can understand their concern, I was blindsided about Miles too. How long do I have to keep it on?" She said, Coulson gave her a smile and told her he couldn't tell her that and that it would be a process, but he hoped that it wouldn't be too long. She nodded and asked if they were done. He nodded and told her to go get some sleep because it had gotten rather late. She smiled and left his office.