Previously: Skye learned who her parents were.
Chapter 21: Soulmates?
It was four days later when Skye went to Peggy and told her she wanted to meet Tony and Pepper. She had spoken with Sharon last night about it, she felt stressed by the situation.
Peggy had told her she would arrange a meeting with them.
Right now, Maria, Sharon and Peggy were in Peggy's area, going over more of the files they had gotten from the CPS, "WHAT THE HELL!" Maria suddenly exclaimed.
"What, what is it Maria?" Sharon asked, alarmed.
While Peggy also looked at Maria for answers for the loud exclamation, "Look at this and tell me what you are seeing," Maria said and handed over a picture of a young Skye, around 5 years old.
"Is that…?" Sharon asked in a quiet voice, Peggy who had moved behind Sharon took the picture to look at it too. Peggy had known about this, how could she not, she had seen it before when Skye was a baby.
But now she was confused, why had Skye not mentioned this, they would have to ask Skye about it.
"That is my handwriting, and as far as I remember, that was also the first thing I said to her," Sharon said.
Wait what, Sharon's handwriting and her first words?
"Are you sure Sharon?" Peggy asked.
"Yes" Sharon said, looking at Peggy.
"Okay, we should talk to Skye then" Peggy said.
Peggy had barely finished speaking before both Maria and Sharon were out the door.
Skye was lying with her computer on one of the sofas in Sharon's Lair, when the door swung open and Maria and Sharon all but ran over to her, with Peggy trilling behind, with what looked like a piece of paper in one of her hands.
"What's going on?" She asked, barely managing to sit up and put her computer on the table, before she was in between Maria and Sharon, with Maria on her left and Sharon on her right, and Peggy sat down on the sofa in front of her.
"Okay, I ask again, what's going on?" Skye asked looking between them.
"Skye, how many soul marks do you have?" Maria asked.
"One," Skye answered looking weirdly at Maria, "you know this," she said.
"Are you sure?" Sharon asked.
"Well yes, I think I would know if I had more than one," Skye replied sarcastically.
Maria made a sound that sounded like a mix of a growl and a whimper, confusing Skye even more. She was startled when Maria's hands were on her shoulder and pushing the fabric away from her shoulder, "What are you doing!" Skye said shocked.
Maria just stared at the bare skin for a moment before, she drew closer, and took a deep sniff, snapping her head up, she stood up, and went to the bedrooms.
"Okay, seriously what the hell!" Skye said, looking with narrowed eyes at Sharon and Peggy for answers, but before they could say anything Maria was back with some makeup remover.
"Hold on," Skye said standing up, but Sharon pulled her back down.
"Skye, why are you wearing makeup, on your shoulder?" Sharon asked.
When Skye didn't answer and just looked at Sharon with pleading eyes, Maria removed the makeup, but froze when she was done.
"Skye, what happened to your shoulder?" Maria asked when she saw the now make-up free shoulder, instead of the words that should have been there, there was a small nasty looking scare.
"I don't want to talk about it,'' Skye just said, pulling the sleeve back. She saw out of the corner of her eye that Peggy handed the paper she had to Sharon, who then showed it to her. It wasn't just paper, it was a photo of her in a spaghetti strap shirt and shorts, but what she was focused on was her left shoulder, there was no scare, but a soul mark.
And the words seemed familiar, she looked at Sharon with confusion, "What is this? How is that possible? If this is a joke, it is not funny," Skye said.
"It is not a joke," Peggy said, "and I know for a fact that when you were born you had two soul marks, one on your left shoulder, in the front, and one on your right hip, they were Born Marks that you had," Peggy said.
"I only remember having Bobbi's mark, and that I got when I was twelve," Skye said trying to stand up again, but Sharon still would not let her.
"Where does the scar come from, Skye?" Sharon asked with a hint of a growl in her voice. Skye was searching for something to say, until she gave up after she saw both Maria and Peggy looking at her the same way as Sharon.
Sighing, "I don't really remember, I was at a foster home one moment and the next I was at the hospital," Skye said in a small voice looking down at her feet.
"When was this, do you remember?" Maria asked, moving closer to Skye.
"Um yes, I think I was seven, so around ten years ago. All I remember is that it was evening, I was doing the dishes, and I um dropped a plate, because I remember the water was hot and it was slippery from the soap, and the last thing I remember is him, storming into the kitchen, and grabbing me by the arm and screaming in my face, and then I woke up in the hospital," Skye said, after a moment she felt Maria's hand on her cheeks removing tears from her face she didn't know were falling.
So, Skye did the only thing she could think of, she leaned in and pressed her head to Maria's chest, and Maria's arms were fast to circle around her and hold her close.
"Can I have a look at the scar on your shoulder?" Peggy asked.
Shrugging Skye turned around in Maria's arms and showed it to Peggy.
"Ah just as I expected, Suppression," Peggy said.
"Wait Suppression? Isn't that dangerous and painful, and let's not forget illegal?" Maria asked.
"Yes, but it would explain things," Peggy said.
"But wouldn't Skye have remembered having two other markets? I mean I get that the event for her to lose them was very traumatic and she likely suppressed that, but forgetting our marks completely," Sharon asked.
"It is a possibility?" Peggy answered.
"Right now the only thing I want an answer to is, who is this man and how did he accomplish this? Was he alone or did he get help, to remove our marks, on Skye?" Maria said angrily, tightening her hold on Skye.
Skye, who had just been listening to them talking, was a little confused; she didn't understand what they were talking about, her having more marks, suppression of memories, Mark Suppression, and Sharon and Maria kept saying their marks, on her.
"Guys, what does this even mean?" Skye asked, Sharon, looking at her and feeling her emotions and confusion, softened before replying.
"It means that you are mine and Maria's second, we are a Triade," she said.
Lifting her shirt up a little so Skye could see the line of Sharon's pants and just above the line was an awfully familiar handwriting, her own, spelling out the words "I think everyone would be," in a fated black color.
Skye could not help herself, she reached out to touch it, but right as she was about to make contact, she pulled away, only for her hand to be grabbed by Sharon, who pulled it close again. Skye looked up at Sharon's smiling face before resting her hand on the words.
"Wait, does this mean you believed I was dead for ten years?" Skye suddenly asked.
Sharon's smile dropped, "Yes we did," Maria said sadly, circling her arms around Skye's body again.
"Where is Peggy?" Skye asked after she had looked behind her to look at Maria and noticed that Peggy was not in the room anymore.
Both Maria and Sharon looked over to where Peggy had been sitting "I don't know," Maria said.
They didn't need to wonder long because Peggy walked back in the room with one of the boxes from CPS, "This is the box containing your files from when you were 6 to 7 years old, we are going to find this man."
"Right, what do you remember about after you woke up in the hospital?" Maria asked, untangling herself from Skye. When Maria's arms left her, she quickly pulled her hand away from Sharon's right hip/lower stomach, much to Sharon's displeasure.
"Not much really, I talked to some cops and psychologists for some time after, that's all I remember," Skye said.
"Okay well, look through these files, and tell us when you find him, okay?" Peggy asked.
"Okay," Skye said, moving over to the box and started looking through it, it didn't take long before she found it, with the Hospital records attached.
"This is it, Davidson," Skye said, reluctantly handing it over to Peggy and sat down beside Maria and Sharon again.
From where she was sitting, she could see Peggy getting angrier and angrier, "Maria get your computer," Peggy ordered, Skye had never heard Peggy use that tone before and it sent chills down her spine.
"It is Peggy's alpha voice, it is rare that she uses it, it must be upsetting what she is reading," Sharon explained.
Maria returned with her computer and handed it to her, Peggy was typing away on the computer for a while, and in the meantime, the three other wolves were sitting quietly and watching, none of them knew what to do or say at the moment.
Skye was about to ask something when they heard a loud growl from Peggy, both Sharon and Maria stood up and were about to walk over to see what had made Peggy growl, when they stopped, and looked at Skye, when Skye nodded, they then hurried over to see.
And now that they did, they growled too, "How can they just let someone like that get off, with barely a slap on the wrist?!" Maria said angrily after reading the hospital file and the police and court files.
"What, what did he get?" Skye asked. "three years, that he didn't even spend in prison" Maria answered.
"I don't understand, he took away your words, and he gets nothing? And does it say why I wasn't called to testify or anything?" Skye then asked.
"Yes it does, it says because of your memory loss and the fact that you had been moved to a new foster home in a different state, at the time of the trial, and the fact he made a deal, but what that deal is, it doesn't say," Maria answered.
"And the police couldn't get a warrant until much later, by then the house had been cleaned, so they didn't have a lot to go on. Only evidence that they had was at the beginning of your stay, you had soul marks and when you were at the hospital you didn't." Peggy then said.
"And the police officers and paramedics who responded to the neighbor's 911 call disappeared." Maria contributed.
"So, this is my life now, full of questions and when they get answers there are just more questions?" Skye asked, "I don't even know if I want to deal with this," she said.
When both Sharon and Maria were about to argue with that, "Don't get me wrong I am pissed about the situation, but he has already been "punished" so we can't really do anything. I am also pissed that I, we, have lost so much time together and that you two believed I was dead," Skye explained to her two new, or should she say old, soulmates.
"The only thing I wish is that I could get the marks back and that my words on you would return to black," Skye said quietly looking down at the floor.
When suddenly she was in both Maria's and Sharon's arms.