AN: a thanks to Fun_size_Tasha for beating
Chapter 29 Lumley, You Can't Hide Forever
The rest of the week Skye and the others spent some time together with Tony and Pepper. Pepper managed to convince Skye to go shopping, after learning Skye didn't have much clothes, so the two of them made a day out of it.
They left in the morning and did not return until late in the evening, and when they returned, they were both extremely tired.
Skye was mumbling something about talking the next week, before she went to bed, leaving Tony, Pepper, Sharon, Maria, Bobbi, and Peggy amused.
Tony had then asked if Pepper was just as tired, she just said see you in the morning before she left too, Tony then made a joke about guess not, Sharon and Bobbi found that hilarious. Maria managed to convince Skye to get up the next day.
Skye also spent a whole day with Tony in his computer lab, he had shown her JARVIS's code, and they had a hack off. They were going to hack Stark industry, with two new identical computers, which Skye won.
Pepper had asked before they began if that was fair, since Tony did know a lot about the systems, but Skye had just said that it was fine, then Pepper had made a call to the IT security department to inform them, that they were going to be hacked soon, and to try to stop the hackers.
Tony had just stared at her for five minutes and asked her how she had done it so fast. Skye then showed him the programs she created before she started the hack.
Tony just smirked at her and told her she could keep the computer, which Skye thanked him for.
On one of the last days before they had to return to the Triskelion, Skye had dinner with Tony and Pepper alone.
Tony had asked Peggy if Skye could stay with them, and Peggy had reminded him that Skye hadn't presented what rank in the pack she had yet, and therefore couldn't be away from her pack for long, and since Sharon was sent on missions, and Maria was stationed at the Triskelion, and herself wasn't enough.
But if she had, she could have stayed; Tony's response was a sad, "Yeah I understand, I just forgot."
It was a tearful goodbye that Sunday for Tony, Pepper, and Skye; they all promised to email, call, and text. Maria, Sharon, and Bobbi stood off to the side, with smiles on their faces, letting the little family say their goodbyes, Peggy hadn't come down yet.
They had been back at the Triskelion for a few days, Bobbi had left to meet up with team 616 again, Maria had told Bobbi that Fury planned to put Ward back on the team soon, so she shouldn't expect to be there for long.
Skye, Maria, and Sharon were watching a movie when Maria's phone began to ring, "This is Hill," she answered a little annoyed at the person who was ringing her at this hour.
"We found Lumley, I have already sent Kara to the Triskelion to pick up Sharon," Victoria's voice said on the other end.
"When will she be here and where did you find him?" Maria asked, looking to see that Sharon was already moving. She had probably heard what Victoria had said, and by the look on Skye's face she had heard some of it.
"She should be there in forty minutes and he is in Columbia, but we don't know for how long or if he is still there. We found him via one of the locals, they took a photo and he was in the background," Victoria said.
"Okay, thank you," Maria said, hanging up the phone. "They found Lumley in Colombia," Maria said to Skye who was looking a bit confused.
"Okay, I only heard that Kara was on her way here," Skye said.
"You are getting a hang on that, the background noise both from here and on the other end of the phone can be distracting, that is why that was one of the first things we worked on, learning to put all the noises in the back of your head, but we still have a lot of training to do," Maria said.
"It took Sharon a lot longer to get the hang of it," Maria whispered to her.
"I HEARD THAT," Sharon yelled from the other room, much to Skye's amusement.
"I KNOW," Maria yelled back.
"Come on, we need to tell Peggy," Maria said when Sharon came back with her bag.
They found Peggy talking to Natasha in the shared kitchen, "Hi guys," Natasha said with a smirk.
"They found Lumley, Kara should be here in 25 minutes," Maria said, not addressing Natasha.
"Take Natasha with you," was Peggy's answer, Maria and Sharon didn't even argue, and Natasha just shrugged before walking to her area to get her bag.
While Natasha was gone, Sharon said her goodbyes to Maria and Skye.
When Natasha came back she and Sharon left for the hanger to wait for Kara, so they could leave right away.
"Do you think they will be able to get to Lumley in time?" Skye asked a few moments after Natasha and Sharon had left.
"We can only hope," Maria answered, "now come on, we have a long day with training tomorrow," Maria said.
"What are we working on tomorrow?" Skye asked.
"Your wolf's teeth," Maria said.
"Come again?" Skye asked.
"Do you remember that piece of rope you and Kara were playing with, when all the packs were together?" Maria asked.
"Yeah," Skye answered.
"Well do you remember how you were complaining the next day about how sore your jaw was?" Maria then asked.
"Yeah I do," Skye said.
"If we practice working with your teeth and jaw some more it won't hurt," Maria explained.
"Ahh, that makes sense, I think," Skye said. "Night Peggy," Skye called to an amused Peggy.
"Goodnight," Peggy called back.
Sharon, Natasha, and Kara had just landed near the place the picture with Lumley in the background was taken.
"Come on, let's hurry, we don't know if he is still here," Sharon said, walking out of the plane, Natasha and Kara just shared a look before following Sharon.
They were walking down the street where the picture was taken when Kara told them that she had spotted Lumley, and true enough there he was, packing a car and looking like he was close to taking off. When he looked around and spotted them, he took off running. Sharon and Kara ran after him while Natasha took his car driving off to intercept him.
Sharon and Kara had chased him into an alley where Natasha was waiting with a smirk, "Agent Lumley we are from SHIELD," Sharon said.
"Oh, thank god, this is about the baby girl, right?" he asked, clearly relieved that they were from SHIELD.
"Yes, it is," Natasha answered.
"Let's go to our plane," Kara suggested.
At the plane, Lumley explained what had happened all those years ago.
"We arrived in Hunan province to investigate an 084, Linda and I were barely out of the academy, so the two of us and two others stayed at the plane, while the senior agent and three other agents went in to investigate. We lost contact with them, so we went to check up on them, but all we found was death. We found the senior agent dead under a bridge, he was holding the 084, we thought she was dead too, but she was just asleep-" He said but was interrupted by Kara.
"Wait, the girl, she was the 084?" she asked.
"We don't know if she had powers or anything," Lumley said.
"Then why did you think she was the 084?" Natasha asked.
"Because of the files the agent who called us in had," he said.
"We took her with us to the states. We agreed on the way not to bring her in, we didn't like the idea of what would happen to her, she was just a baby. We had a babysitter look after her while we made our reports and were debriefed. Linda took some time off to look after the girl, she wanted to keep her, she just had to talk to her soulmates about it, but soon after we were getting crossed off. The other two agents were tortured and killed, so we knew it wasn't safe; Linda faked a level 8 clearance and told CPS to move the girl around. We agreed to meet up after she had dropped the girl off, before we went back to our lives, but she never showed up, so I ran, and I have been running ever since," Lumley said.
"Do you know how much pain you brought her putting her in the system only to be moved around all the time?" Sharon said angrily.
"I don't want to know anything about her, the only thing I know about her is that death follows wherever she goes, and I don't want to be involved in that again," Lumley said.
Kara had to hold Sharon back, so she wouldn't kill Lumley, and when Kara wasn't enough to hold her back Natasha stood up and helped. Together they pulled Sharon to the cockpit area where they could talk.
"Easy Sharon, you don't want to kill him," Natasha said.
"I just don't like the way he is speaking about her," Sharon said, breathing hard.
"I know," Natasha said.
"You good?" Natasha asked after a moment, and at Sharon's nod both Natasha and Kara let go of their hold on her.
"Come, let's figure out what to do with Lumley," Natasha said.
"Um, he's gone," Kara said, looking at the empty plane, and open hatch on the floor where Lumley had gotten out, since the hanger door was closed.
"Let him run, he is a coward, and we got our answers," Sharon said sitting down in the pilot seat, Kara closed the hatch and soon they were in the air and on their way back to the Triskelion.