Story recap:
There are two types of soul marks, there is the born marks and emerged marks, either can be platonic or romantic. Born marks mean your are born with it or get it when your soulmate is born and are in black, emerged marks can appear at anytime and are silver. Skye and Bobbi have soul emerged marks.
So far Skye was forced to join the wolf project and go through it all mostly alone because Natasha and Melinda are suspicious of her. Skye didn't know that there where 2 packs until Bobbi made a slip and May was forced to explain there were 2 packs. Eventually something happened on a mission causing Sharon and Maria to leave Natasha's pack and form a 3rd pack, in which Peggy had Sharon claim Skye because Natasha wouldn't.
Skye only told Coulson about trying to find anything on her parents and where she came from, about the redacted file. Coulson found the file but didn't think it helped any because no one realized how young Skye really was. Skye was made to stay at the Triskelion while the team went to the Sci-Tech Academy to give a seminar/talk to students and recruits about the life of an agent and Coulson is on a mission. During this time Sharon, Maria, Peggy, and Fury find out Skye's real age and start looking into the redacted file, Lumley, and everything else from the orphanage and CPS.
Packs:
Head alpha Peggy Carter
Pack one Originally: Natasha - Maria - May - Sharon - Clint Barton (Hawkeye) - Bobbi - Izzy and Kevin who was killed. (Skye)
Pack one Now: Natasha - May - Clint - Bobbi – Izzy.
Pack two: Victoria - Kara -Rick – Jonathon- Samantha - Simmons – Fitz.
The original pack three: alpha – beta – Sigma – Sigma – omega.
The new third pack: Sharon - Maria - Skye
Chapter 18: Revelation
The next day Peggy went back to New York for her meeting. When she entered the Tower, she went over to the private elevator and went to the top floor.
When exiting the elevator, she was greeted by a woman with strawberry blond hair, "Hi Peggy, Tony should be up soon. You know him and his crazy projects," the women said.
"Yes, I am well aware of that Pepper," Peggy said with a smile.
"So, you said you had some good news?" Pepper Stark asked.
"Yes, but we should wait for Tony," Peggy said.
Just as Peggy said that the elevator opened, and Tony Stark walked out. "Hi Peg, hi my lovely wife," he said and kissed his wife's cheek. "So, Peg, Pepper said you have some news for us and that you also sounded a bit mysterious about it, so spill, is it about the wolf project?" he asked.
"In a way, we got a new wolf a few months back, she is under Sharon now. Before that, she was supposed to be under Natasha, but it didn't work," Peggy said.
"Peggy why are you telling us this?" Pepper asked confused as to why Peggy told them this.
"Well when I first saw her through one of the other wolves, she looked so familiar and lost, so I did a DNA test recently and I got the results yesterday," Peggy said.
"What are you saying Peggy?" Pepper asked nervously.
"What did it say?" Tony asked, looking at Peggy just as nervous as Pepper sounded.
"It is a match to you and Jiaying, she is your daughter," Peggy revealed to them.
Both Pepper and Tony just stared at Peggy for almost three minutes before Pepper shook her head, "Are you sure?" Pepper asked, her mouth getting very dry.
"Yes, she looks so much like Jiaying," Peggy said with a smile which Pepper mirrored.
"Where is she now?" Tony asked, jumping up from his seat on the sofa and almost running to the elevator again.
"Tony, she doesn't know yet, and there were some problems when she joined the project," Peggy said to the man-child.
"What do you mean by problems?" Pepper asked. That seemed to get Tony's attention again because he was at Pepper's side in an instant.
Peggy exhaled before she spoke, "Do you remember when we started making the serum, and what Jiaying learned about how important it was for a new wolf to have an older wolf, preferably the alpha, beta or a sigma, help with the process and could rely on them? Well Skye, as she has named herself," Peggy said with a smile, "didn't have much of that, pretty much only Maria and Sharon. So, it would be best to wait a bit to tell her about you, I want her to be in control with her wolf and comfortable with her pack," Peggy explained.
"What about Natasha? From what you have told us, she is a good and caring alpha," Pepper asked.
"Yes, well Natasha was suspicious about Skye from day one and she just didn't trust Skye, probably still doesn't. It was my decision to put her in the pack, I didn't ask or talk to anyone about it, I just told Fury that the girl should join us no matter what, and that may have been a factor to the pack's reluctance to accept Skye, well most of the pack. Victoria was a bit displeased about it and a little suspicious about Skye too, but she didn't deny that she was a part of the pack," Peggy said with a chuckle.
"Why were they so suspicious about Skye?" Tony asked, and both Peggy and Pepper could hear his protectiveness of his daughter, who was finally found again, in his voice.
"Well, SHIELD could not find any information on her, she told them she was twenty-three years old, and she was quite quiet about her past, which I can understand."
"What do you mean, how did she grow up?" Pepper asked.
At the same time Tony started laughing, "So, are you telling us that she fooled a bunch of SHIELD agents, among them the Black Widow and Hawkeye? That is the best news I have gotten all day!"
"TONY!" Pepper yelled at him.
"Sorry," he said when he saw Pepper's face.
"How did my daughter grow up?" she asked again. That also seemed to slap Tony across the face and he looked even more guilty about making it all about how their daughter had fooled a lot of people.
"It is not my story to tell, all I am saying is, it wasn't pretty. She grew up in the foster system," Peggy said.
"When do you think she will be ready to meet us, if she wants to of course?" Pepper asked.
"I can't say, but I do know she has been looking for you for years, that was why she hacked SHIELD. She had found a lead that led to SHIELD, we are working on that, and I will tell you about it when we have answers," Peggy said.
And then proceeded to tell them about what they had found on the mission to China and Skye ending up in the system, and their plan on finding Lumley. Tony had immediately offered them to use some of Stark Industries resources.
"Wait, stop! So, SHIELD knew where our third and daughter was?" Tony asked angrily.
"Yes, it appears to be like that, but Tony, remember no one really knew about Jiaying or that you have a daughter. Even if they did, how should they have known that the child there was yours?" Peggy said, trying to reason with him.
"You're right, sorry, we have just been looking for so long," He said.
When Tony and Pepper sat down for dinner later, Peggy had left a short while earlier, they talked about who knew about Skye and what they were doing to figure out what had happened in China. They didn't eat very much, if at all, they weren't hungry. They both kept thinking about the day seventeen years ago when Jiaying had told them she would take their daughter to China so some of her relatives could meet her. Neither Tony or Pepper could go, so it would just be Jiaying, their daughter, and a few bodyguards.
They had taken the private plane, but not long into the stay, things changed. Tony and Pepper hadn't heard from Jiaying in a couple of days and they had gotten worried, they had talked about going when suddenly an intense pain shot through them both. Where Jiaying's words were on them, when they had gotten their breath back, they discovered that the words were gone.
Pepper had broken down crying and Tony had hit the nearby wall, "I am going to China," Tony said. Pepper had only nodded, she couldn't do anything else.
When Tony had returned, it was only with Jiaying's and the bodyguards' bodies. The Chinese police had found Jiaying's body in the ditch, 60 miles away from where she was staying. Tony knew it was Jiaying because he had to identify the bodyguards' bodies when they had brought her body in.
He wouldn't tell Pepper what he had seen over there, but when she had seen Jiaying's body she didn't want to know. They had put out a missing person report with the Chinese police for their daughter and a reward but there had been nothing.
Skye, Maria, and Sharon stayed at the Hub for the night and left in the early morning. So now Victoria was sitting in the big common area with Kara and Izzy, "So, what did you two love birds, or should I say love pups, do yesterday?" Kara asked jokily. Ducking the pillow Izzy threw at her and throwing one back.
"We had a meeting with Peggy and Sharon's pack," Victoria said, ignoring the pillows flying.
Stopping the throw, she was about to make at Izzy, Kara looked at her alpha, "How did that go?" she asked.
Victoria was happy they had agreed this morning to let the betas know a little more information, especially Kara since she was to be put on the lookout for Lumley together with Sharon.
Skye had spent a lot of time yesterday, after they had eaten, with Victoria and Izzy talking about Linda and how Skye had grown up. True she was still vague with details, Victoria had felt a little heartbroken when Skye had told them that her life hadn't been that great in the system. She had felt a flare of protectiveness deep down and she would vow that she would help Skye, because Linda had given her life to protect Skye. Victoria didn't know the reason why Linda had done what she had, but to be honest, she didn't care.
"It was informative," she said.
"What, what did you talk abo- "Kara was interrupted by a pillow in the face, "aww that hurt," she said, glaring at Izzy playfully.
"We talked a little about Linda and other stuff," Victoria said, then they proceeded to tell Kara what they had learned about the mission in China and their plan on finding Lumley, and Skye's involvement and age, with her permission of course.
"Wow," Kara said leaning back on the sofa, "we will find him," She added.
"I just hope he is still alive," Izzy said just as the door opened and Natasha walked in.
Natasha was tried, to say the least, considering she was coming to the Hub after a week of vacation, well vacation from SHIELD. She had spent her time with Melinda and Bobbi, mostly helping Bobbi with her anger.
It had been difficult at first, Bobbi had resisted fighting more when shifting into her wolf and losing control after the night she had told them, and of course, there was the issue of space. They didn't have that much of it being at the Sci-Tech academy, the gym there was small and wouldn't even be called a gym at any of the other academies, and they couldn't go outside in fear of being seen by someone.
But they had made it work, they had gone to the Bus, spending most of their time in the cage, well Bobbi was in the cage in her wolf form while Natasha and Melinda watched through the cameras, guiding her through her anger.
She remembered one night when Melinda had asked about how she thought Sharon and Maria were handling Skye, considering Skye had held the whole Berserker staff and Bobbi had only held two of the pieces.
She had answered that she didn't know, and that it could not be worse then what Bobbi was dealing with.
"Can I ask you something?" Natasha had asked suddenly, when Melinda had nodded, "Why did you tell Skye about Bahrain?"
"I don't know, and I'm kind of regretting it. I don't want anyone else knowing, and it could become a problem later on if our pack and Sharon's get in a fight," May had answered.
"You think that Skye would use what she knows about Bahrain against you," Natasha had tensed by the possibility of that, it wouldn't have been a problem if Skye was a part of their pack because Natasha could have ordered her not to tell anyone. She still could but that would cause more problems because Skye wasn't in her pack anymore. She just hoped that Skye hadn't told anyone of what Melinda had told her about Bahrain.
She did not expect to see Victoria, Kara, and Izzy in the common area when she walked in.
"Hi Natasha," Izzy said, "feeling better about everything?" she asked.
"A little, what are you guys talking about?" she answered plopping down on a vacant sofa.
"Something Peggy has put us on, classified," Victoria said.
"Izzy?" Natasha tried.
"Sorry, can't talk about it without Peggy's or umm another person's permission," Izzy said ducking her head when Natasha narrowed her eyes at her.
There was just this uncomfortable silence while Natasha stared at Izzy, Victoria and Kara looking on, before Natasha just gave Izzy a nod.
Skye was sitting with her computer in Sharon's Lair, what she had decided to call their part of the facility, and she hoped that the rest would agree. Instead of calling it the facility they could call it the Lair, and every pack would also call their part something like that, along with there being the communal area for all the packs being called The Lair.
She had done the same with the facility at the Hub, just instead of Lairs it would be the Den, and their part was Sharon's Den. When she had presented her idea while eating breakfast, Sharon, Maria, Victoria and Izzy had laughed and agreed. Now they just needed to ask Natasha, May, and Peggy if they were okay with it, but Skye had a feeling that Peggy wouldn't mind, especially considering the talk they had had a few days prior about it.
She was brought out of her head when a hand touched her shoulder, when the hand contacted her shoulder she jumped and made a yelping sound, "Why did you do that?" Skye said, glaring at Maria who had startled her.
"Come on, we have training to do," Maria said with a smirk. Turning around and walking over to their training area, her smirk grew bigger when she heard Skye grumbling behind her.
"Okay, first we need to be in our wolf form," Maria said.
"Are you sure that is a good idea? I mean I haven't shifted since I lost control," Skye asked Maria, smiling at her.
"Yes, I should be fine. We have worked on your anger and you need to become more comfortable with your wolf and learn to control your senses when not in wolf form. That way you will be able to hear or smell when someone is getting close to you and you won't get startled so easily," Maria explained.
"Okay," Skye said, a little uneasy.
Maria walked over to the back wall and pushed a button there that Skye had seen but didn't know what was for. After Maria had pushed the button there was a big hidden door beside it that opened, and Maria guided Skye through the door, on the other side was a massive room, there was nothing in the room, so she looked at Maria with confusion.
"This is a bigger room for training in our wolf forms, so we don't get hurt on any equipment like in the other room," Maria explained, "I don't know why we didn't think to use this before," Maria then said, likely more to herself then Skye.
"So, shall we?" Maria asked, Skye just nodded. Maria shifted to her wolf first, Skye following suit.
The next day Peggy took Skye with her into her own area again, while Sharon and Maria were at work. Peggy and Skye did mostly the same as last time, just talking until Skye mentioned Maria had been training with her wolf the day before and Peggy decided to do that too.
They did a little training in her human form but using her wolf senses, like Maria had mentioned. Skye and Peggy were both surprised when Skye could use her wolf senses fairly well considering it was new to her.
When she had told Maria and Sharon about it, they were happy to hear it. Maria also told her that she would get the results from her test the next day, Skye had just groaned about it, having happily forgotten that she had done a test a few days prior.
Skye was having lunch with Peggy and Sharon when they noticed Maria walking in with a tablet grinning from ear to ear, "Oh no, is that the results?" Skye asked, putting down her fork, no longer hungry.
"Yes, it is," Maria answered.
"What does it say?" Skye asked, dreading the answer.
"Don't know, I waited so that we all could view them together, or after you, if you would like to see them first," Maria said.
"No, that is okay, you look first," Skye said, closing her eyes and laying her head on the table after she had pushed her plate away. Sharon just chuckled at her actions before sliding over to Maria and Peggy to see the results.
"Wow," Sharon said.
"What, is it that bad?" Skye asked from her spot of misery.
"Oh, would you stop that and come and look for yourself, I promise you they aren't bad," Sharon said.
"No, I don't want to see how bad I failed," Skye said. Maria gave a huff and, standing up, moved over to the stubborn pup.
"Skye just look," Maria said.
Skye did so, frowning when she saw the results, "What does this mean?" she asked.
"Well, it means that you don't have to go back to school, and that you just earned yourself a GED, a real one this time," Maria said, "and that your IQ test is 139; that is an exceptionally high IQ score. I think that Jemma's is 161 and Leo's is 159."
"So, I am smart?" Skye asked just to be clear.
"Yes, you are smart," Maria said with laughter in her voice.
After receiving her scores and her real GED Skye was told she could not start her SHIELD training until she turned 18, but they would continue her wolf training. So, for the next week, Skye spent time with Maria, Sharon, and Peggy training her Wolf or just relaxing, and sometimes Kara took over when the others couldn't.
Sharon and Victoria had talked about it and decided that Kara had pretty much free range with the training. Kara had taken that to heart and took Skye to a forest for an overnight training exercise, with permission from Peggy. Skye had gotten complete control of her wolf and her anger fast with all the help she had received.
And now the day had come where Coulson would be back from wherever he had been, and the others would be back from the academy too. She had to come clean about her age, she was glad that Coulson would be back in the morning and the others would arrive around noon.