Previously: Skye and Maria spent time together; Skye talked with Bobbi, Natasha, and May; she started practicing on the mind link, and they set a date for when she would meet Tony and Pepper.
Chapter 24: The Talk
Sharon had returned 2 days later and jumped at the idea of going with Skye to meet Tony and Pepper. Both she and Maria had vacation time coming up, so why not take a vacation there, was her answer.
They agreed to go to the Hub Wednesday and upon arriving at the Den, they met Kara, who asked if she could take Skye to lunch the next day, to which they all agreed on.
On Thursday after Kara had picked up Skye, "I have a bad feeling about those two, I think maybe Victoria was right, they are trouble together," Maria said.
"Relax Maria, I think both you and Victoria are overreacting. They have been together a lot of times, they even had that small camping trip, and nothing has happened yet," Sharon said with a wave of her hand.
"I hope you are right," Maria said.
"So, where are we going?" Skye asked when they were in the elevator.
"I hope you aren't too hungry. I was thinking we take a minor detour before we go to lunch," Kara said with a smirk.
"Um no, not really, but then again I can always eat. What are you planning?" Skye asked, not knowing if she liked the smirk on Kara's face.
"How much longer?" Kara asked, looking between the three doors into the room.
"Almost done, I think, I haven't exactly done this before. I don't even know if this will work," Skye answered.
"Well, hurry up before someone comes in here," Kara whispered.
"Okay, okay, I think I have it," Skye said.
"Well, let us clean this up and get out of here," Kara said, and between the two of them they had the room cleaned up in no time, and then they were out.
"Where are they!?" Victoria snapped when she stormed into the Den's shared area where Maria, Sharon, Izzy, Samantha, and Natasha were sitting eating their lunch. They all broke out in laughter when they saw her.
"Honey you look ridiculous, what happened?" Izzy got out with difficulty because of how much she was laughing.
"What happened!? What happened is Kara and Skye, so where are they?" Victoria asked again, not seeing this as funny.
The door opened then, and Victoria turned around ready to tear Kara a new one, but it was not Kara and Skye walking in; it was Peggy, Clint, May, Fitzsimmons, and Bobbi.
Who all stopped in their steps when they saw her, "Victoria dear, what on earth happened to you" Peggy asked, holding back a smile.
Victoria threw her hands up in the air making a sound of annoyance before looking at Samantha, "I want to know the moment, when they show their faces here again," She commanded before storming out, probably to clean up.
The room burst out in laughter again, mostly Maria, Sharon, Izzy, Samantha, and Natasha, the others were still a little confused about what had happened.
"I told you," Maria finally said to Sharon when it died down a little.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am just happy it wasn't me," Sharon said.
"Okay, anyone want to explain?" Clint asked, plopping down beside Natasha and May on the other side of her.
"I think you three will be thrown off your throne of pranks by Kara and Skye," Samantha answered.
"Oh, is that so," Clint said.
"So, what are you guys doing here? I didn't know you would be here today," Samantha asked Fitzsimmons, May, and Bobbi before Clint would start something.
"We weren't supposed to be, but our last mission did some damage to the plane, so it is being repaired," May answered.
Izzy started to laugh again, "Oh you got to see this, it is the security feed from the upper-level break room," she said, almost running to the big screen and plugging in her iPad to show it to the others.
Victoria walked into the break room with Agent Jasper Sitwell, Sitwell opened the fridge but was hit in the head the moment a spray of whip cream that also hit Victoria when Sitwell ducked away opened it.
"What the hell!" Sitwell yelled, but then they heard something like a ticking sound.
Victoria looked up and was hit by flour, "Ahh!" Victoria screamed, stepping over to the sink. When she turned the water on it sprayed all over her. She shut the water off quickly and then turned around and was sprayed by silly string coming from every direction.
She looked at Sitwell and saw he too was also covered in whipped cream, water, and some silly string, but instead of flour it was feathers and what looked like honey.
Victoria was about to yell at someone when she could feel amusement over her wolf bond from Kara and knew she and Skye were behind this, "Get this clean up now!" She snapped and stormed out of the break room.
The room was quiet for all but 5 seconds before it roared out in laughter, "I will gladly give my crown away for that, genius!" Clint said from the floor, he had fallen down from his chair from laughing so hard.
Around 15 minutes later the door opened again and this time it was Kara and Skye, "Kara, I think you should run," Samantha said.
"Why?" Kara asked, faking innocence.
"Because Victoria is on the way, and she is pissed at you," Samantha said, Kara paled a little. Skye had already sought refuge between Maria and Sharon when the door slammed open, and Victoria was looking murderous at Kara.
"Hi Victoria, what's up?" Kara said nervously, and the way Victoria looked at her she was regretting the prank now.
"Run," was all Victoria said, and Kara did just that.
When Kara was out of the room after sidestepping Victoria, Victoria stopped and closed the door, looking at Skye who tried to make herself smaller between Maria and Sharon. Victoria just shook her head and sat down beside Izzy.
"I just spoke with the mechanics; they say they can have the plane fixed by Monday," Victoria said to May.
It was 40 minutes later before Kara poked her head in and asked if it was safe to come in and Victoria waved her in. She sat down beside Simmons.
"How did you two even manage that prank?" Victoria asked, glaring at Izzy who was about to laugh again.
"You do realize almost everything in the base is connected to some sort of device, right?" Skye asked, when Victoria nodded, "and every device can be hacked?" Skye then asked.
"Did you hack the security systems?" Maria asked.
"No," Skye said.
"How do you even do that, and wouldn't it take hours to do that?" Fitz asked, confused as to how you would do that.
"Yes it did, but I have done something similar before. Not in a kitchen but in a common room and that was mostly done with strings and stuff like that, so I knew kind of how to do it. And as to how we did it, well like a magician never reveals their secrets, neither will I," Skye said with a smirk, "but it only works once before it will be synced back to normal, with no evidence that it happened, besides the mess it made," Skye said.
"That is good to know, and don't do it again in my base," Victoria warned with a playful glare.
"Or mine," Maria quickly said.
Skye sat down beside Bobbi on one of the sofas, "Hi," she said.
"Hi yourself," Bobbi said with a smile. Bobbi decided to take a chance. She carefully lifted her arm and guided it around Skye's shoulders and pulled her into a sideways hug. Skye didn't mind, and she made herself comfortable at Bobbi's side.
In the corner of her eye, Skye could see Peggy, Maria, Sharon, Izzy, and Victoria talking, before they all nodded, and Peggy came her way. "Skye would you mind following me for a few moments," Peggy asked.
"No, not at all," Skye said, standing up and following Peggy. Maria and Sharon followed them out.
"I thought it would be a good idea while Bobbi is here that you should talk to her with Maria and Sharon, about the fact that you three are soulmates too. If you want to tell her more, Victoria and Izzy have given the go-ahead for that too, everyone already knows that Victoria and Izzy had a third who died," Peggy said.
Skye looked thoughtful for a moment, "Are you not ready to tell Bobbi?" Maria asked.
"No, it's not that, it's just what if we filled them all in, I mean about what is going on about my past and all, and then, either before or after, we could pull Bobbi aside and tell her about the whole soulmate thing?" Skye asked.
"I have just asked Victoria and Izzy to join us, let us hear what they feel about it, but you have to tell them you three are Soulmates first, they don't know that yet," Peggy said.
"Well, I think you should talk to Bobbi first, and then we can bring the rest in on what has been going on," Victoria said, still shocked about Skye, Maria, and Sharon being Soulmate's; she had known about Maria and Sharon having a third.
They all did, like everyone knew about Linda; Rick had been stupid enough to make a joke about the only two Triad couples not being complete, and if they would, then they could pick one of the pups to join them.
He never did that again and knew not to make comments about it ever again.
"Yeah, we could do that, it would make it easier looking for Lumley with more people on the search," Sharon said.
"Okay, we will tell Bobbi for her to meet you, Maria, and Sharon, and maybe Peggy too," Izzy said looking questionably at Skye and Peggy. She knew both Maria and Sharon would do whatever Skye was comfortable with, they were so smitten with her, that it was funny.
"No, that is not fair to Bobbi, to not really have anyone in her corner when we tell her. I think she should have someone, maybe Natasha or May, or both, I don't know," Skye said, not liking the idea of Bobbi being cornered by them.
"That might be a good idea," Maria said.
"Okay, we will send them your way," Victoria said, squeezing Skye's shoulder on her way out.
"Are you ready?" Sharon asked.
"No, but I, we, have to," Skye said, Sharon took Skye's hand in hers and squeezed it.
The door opened, and Bobbi, May, and Natasha came in, "What's going on?" Bobbi asked.
"Do you remember the phone call we had a few days ago about something I needed to tell you?" Skye asked.
"Yes," Bobbi answered.
"Well, I think it is best that we sit down," Skye said.
"Around a week ago we learned something about my past that will affect not just me, but you, and Maria and Sharon too," Skye said carefully.
Bobbi frowned at that, she was not the only one, both May and Natasha were also frowning.
"Then why are Melinda and I here?" Natasha asked, taking a step closer to Skye, but stopped on her second step when both Maria and Sharon almost jumped in front of Skye.
"Ladies let us sit down and have a conversation like normal people. And Natasha, I would advise you to be focused on Bobbi and be there for her, she might need it," Peggy said in a chilly voice.
After they had sat down at the table in the room, Peggy at the head and on her right was Maria and Sharon with Skye between them, and on her left was Natasha, May, and Bobbi.
"Bobbi, I didn't know about what we, I, am about to tell you and I really need you to understand that it was all so confusing that I didn't even think of telling you, and I am sorry," Skye said starting to ramble until Maria put a calming hand on her thigh.
"Skye just tell me you are scaring me a little," Bobbi said.
"Okay so rip off the bandage, and try to explain what we can after, yeah I can do that," Skye was still rambling.
"Skye, take a deep breath to calm yourself," came Peggy's alpha voice, and Skye did.
"Okay, um well, we, I mean Maria, Sharon, and I learned that we are soulmates," Skye said whispering the last word.
"I am sorry, but did you just say, you and Maria and Sharon are soulmates?" Natasha asked when Bobbi just stared.
"I thought you only had Bobbi's words, we all did?" May asked, narrowing her eyes a little.
"So did I," Skye confessed.
"Skye was in a bad foster home when she was around 6. The foster father had a Suppression machine and used it on her after she broke a plate; she has suppressed the memories until recently. Maria found a picture of Skye before that home, where she could see my words," Sharon said.
"I was under the perception that there was nothing about Skye's past, so how exactly do you know all of this?" Natasha asked.
"Well CPS still had paper files and after we learned Skye was 17, we requested the files, medical files and school and stuff like that. As Skye's guardian, I don't see the need for more info on what they said. If Skye wants to tell you, I will not stop her," Peggy answered, and Natasha knew not to question some more, but she was still getting answers to a lot of her questions a least.
"There are other things we have decided to include you in, but it will have to wait until we are all together because we have decided to include the rest of the pack, that are not already included," Maria said.
"And who is already included in this thing?" Natasha asked.
"Victoria, Kara, and Izzy are a part of the investigation you all will be a part of as of today," Peggy answered.
"And Victoria thought that we should talk to Bobbi before we brought everyone else in," Sharon said.
May had been watching both Bobbi and Skye while Natasha had demanded answers as to what was going on.
"I think I will take Bobbi and Skye for a walk, so they can talk. That was what this little meeting was about, right? Or, if you are done, we can talk about whatever questions we have later, and I also get the feeling we will get answers when we are told about what it is we will be brought in on, don't you think Nat," May spoke up, and she was glad to see Natasha, Maria, and Sharon dunking their heads and Peggy gave her a smile and a nod.
"Good, so I think we should let Maria, Bobbi, Sharon, and Skye talk, and just be here as support, as I think was the original plan," May then said.
They have been talking for a little while, only needing a little help from the others in the room.
"We are going on vacation tomorrow, do you want to come too, Bobbi?" Sharon asked after consulting with Maria over the link.
"Yeah, where we are going, they have the space," Maria said, Skye looked up with a little hopeful look in her eyes that Bobbi couldn't say no to.
"I don't have vacation time coming up until November," Bobbi said.
"Hey, I am the deputy director. I can give you vacation when I want," Maria said, waving Bobbi off.
"That way we will have more time to talk, and we will spend it in New York," Sharon said.
Bobbi looked to May and Natasha pleading, "Fine, I will not stand in between you and your soulmate, just remember no pack talk," Natasha said.
"What are you going to tell Coulson?" May asked Maria. Maria just shrugged, to the amusement of Natasha and Sharon.
"So, where exactly are we going on this vacation?" Bobbi asked.
"Stark Tower," both Maria and Sharon said.
When the three wolves in front of them just looked confused, "Why would you want to spend your vacation with Tony?" Natasha asked.
"Um he is my dad," Skye spoke up again.
"It is a part of what we will explain when we meet up with the rest, and Victoria just informed me that Rick and Jonathan are back," Peggy said.
They had just finished telling the rest of the pack about what the small group had found out over the past few weeks. Everyone was just staring in disbelief until Simmons broke the silence, "That would explain a few things. I mean if you three were a Triad then the bond would still pressure you, just because Skye doesn't have the word right now, doesn't mean the bond is gone," Simmons said.
"Kid, you have a confusing and messed up life," Rick said only to be slapped over the head by Victoria.
"Don't you ever not make inappropriate comments?" Samantha asked, causing most of the Pack to laugh.
Suddenly Natasha jumped up from where she was sitting, "That's it! Tony and Pepper, they are who you remind me of! I get the same suspicious vibes from Tony, a jokester, and by the prank you and Kara made earlier today, you are a jokester too, and the no-nonsense vibe Pepper gives me sometimes, I get that from you too. Have you any idea how frustrating that was, getting the same vibes as two of my friends who are so different. No wonder I couldn't figure it or you out," Natasha said with a satisfied smirk.
May shook her head and pulled Natasha down on the sofa again, just as the room busted out laughing.
AN:
Packs:
Head alpha: Peggy Carter (golden fur)
Pack one: Alpha: Natasha (reddish) – Beta: May (creamy dark brown) – Sigma: Clint Barton (Hawkeye) (gray) – omega: Bobbi (creamy light brown) – omega: Izzy (mix of black and brown)
Pack two: Alpha: Victoria (dark brown and black) – Beta: Kara ( light brown and white) -Sigma: Rick (mix grey) – Sigma: Jonathon (light grey)- Sigma: Samantha (dark grey) – Omega: Simmons light brown)– Omega: Fitz (dark brown).
The new third pack: Alpha: Sharon (white) – Beta: Maria (black) – Puppy: Skye (dark gray and a mix of black, white, dark, and light brown spots and floppy ear (right))
And a thanks to Fun_size_Tasha for beating.