Project Lupa Assassins vs the Pack chronicles CHAPTER 8

Alex ended up sleeping through the night she woke up at dawn. Looking next to her she saw Skye asleep next to her. As Alex sat up she ended up waking Skye.

"Go back to sleep."

"You're awake." Skye replied rubbing her eyes she sat up.

"I didn't mean to wake you."

"What time is it?"

"5.30." Alex replied looking at the clock. "I'm having a shower." She stated getting up as Skye laid back down.

"You know where everything is?"

"I'll find it." Alex replied moving into the bathroom she looked at her reflection but did not recognise the person looking back. She had a panic attack, she lost control. She never panicked and she always maintained control what was happening to her?

She turned the water on and waited for it to heat up. She got in when she saw the steam letting the water run over her. She closed her eyes just enjoying the warm water...that was until she heard an explosion followed by screams she gripped the wall to stop herself from slipping. It was not real, she didn't smell anything and Skye wasn't calling out to her. Closing her eyes she tried to push past the screams she heard when she opened them she saw blood, her hands were covered in it. It wasn't real she did not smell blood. She heard their voices, those that begged her to live...but even this was drowned out by the screams. Alex held her hands to her ears hoping to block out the sound she ignored the blood she could see as she huddled into a ball trying to bring herself back to the present.

"Alex! Alex! Alex!" Skye was shouting at her making Alex open her eyes, she was in the shower that was right. The bathroom was now all steamed up. Skye had shut off the water and was crouched in front of her.

"Skye?" Her voice croaked, she wasn't sure why. Maria was behind her with Natasha who handed Skye a towel as she draped it over Alex's back.

"What happened?" Alex asked

"You were screaming." Skye stated pulling her up.

"They were screaming..." Alex mumbled

"Who?" Skye asked

"All of them." She stated looking down at her hands. They were back to normal a little wrinkled from the hot water but normal no blood. Alex was led out into her room she saw the date on her phone that seemed to wake her up. "I need to go." Alex states

"Alex?" Maria asked getting her attention she looked down, right she was still naked. Clothes will help. "Where exactly do you need to go?" She asked

"New York. Marcel has a package being delivered on the 3pm train today from Manhattan to Brooklyn."

"Alex you're in no shape to go out." Skye stated

"I am taking down his organisation. This package he spent half a million to buy whatever it is must be important." Alex replied but as she finished speaking a memory was surfacing. One of her jobs was to steal a broach she got in with no problem getting out though the owner came across her. He saw her...she had to take him out. He begged her for his life in sobs.

"Hey." Skye stated placing a hand on her making her flinch.

"What?" She demanded going on the defence.

"Alex your wings." Skye stated making Alex turn to see that they were out.

"Huh." Alex mumbled

"Alex." Natasha stated getting Alex's attention "what hurts?" Natasha asked confusing Alex

"What?" She asked as she did though she could feel her chest constricting, not to mention she could hear a child crying. Which was strange because she has never harmed a child.

"What hurts?" Natasha repeated "assess yourself." She instructed

"My...my chest feels heavy and tight. My head...I hear a child crying... I think I'm losing it." She mumbled the last part as her body lurched forward forcing her to cry out as her bones started cracking.

"Maria?" Skye asked not sure what was going on.

"She's changing."

"Her wings are still out."

"I can see that. Nat!" Maria replied as She stepped forward to catch Alex as she fell to the ground.

"What is going on?" She asked but it was an echo all she could hear was a little girl crying her vision blurred and she was no longer in the bedroom with Skye no she was in a very familiar room a lab to be exact.

"She's crying." A males voice stated

"Please no more." The little girl states between sobs.

"We can stop..."

"No! Proceed." A familiar voice stated it was Marcel. It was followed by the girl screaming. Alex found herself screaming as she felt the pain that was no longer there return.

"You're going to be okay." Maria informed her she was holding her in her arms as Natasha ends up sedating Alex that stopped her from screaming.

"Maria What's going on?" Skye asked concern for her friend all to obvious.

"You just saw that, what was that?"

"A memory, before we were introduced I said they experimented on her. She never talked about what they did. I never asked." Skye stated

"You remember your transition the nightmares? It seems her nightmares are appearing during the day."

"We'll need to move her to a containment unit." Natasha stated crouching down next to Maria. Alex looked peaceful in her sleep with her wings out and how her blonde hair flowed around her she looked like an angel. Skye and Natasha ended up helping to put pants in her. Considering she still had her wings out they couldn't put a top on her so they kept a blanket wrapped around her.

"She's not having any nightmares now is she?"

"No the sedative will stop that. For the next few days it is best for Maria to only have contact with her. Help her through it, that way we won't all see whatever it is she is seeing." Natasha stated

The next few days Skye was worried about Alex, Maria was the only one to have contact with her and it wasn't only Skye that was worried about her so was Sharon. Skye was currently sitting on the couch, Bobbie and Trip had went to intercept the package but so far they have been unable to open it. Simmons and Fitz were working on it.

"She is going to be fine." Bobbie tried reassuring her for probably the 5th time that day.

"You don't get it, she's never reacted that way…not when we went through training, not when we escaped…not even when…when Maia was killed." Skye stated

"Who is Maia?" Bobbie asked

"Our first real friend we made after we left. Alex tried saving her, there wasn't anything we could do." Skye stated shuffling in closer to Bobbie and turned to watch the movie that was being played even though she wasn't really watching it. She was staring at the screen but she was lost in thought as she was pulled into a memory.

Skye was in a white room there was nothing else in there except herself, she looked down and saw that she was also wearing white, when the door opened and two men came into the room wearing lab coats. She remembered them, these were the men that ran many tests on her, painful tests. As they stepped towards her Skye stepped back until she was up against the wall. She heard screaming coming from the room down the hall, as one of the doctors grabbed her Skye flinched under his touch.

"Now behave." He stated as the second man came over with an injection. She hated this injection, she had no idea what it was but it made her blood feel like it was on fire. She tried resisting but the mans grip on her was tight and it tightened so she couldn't move. The man injected her and it took five seconds before the pain started. She really tried not to scream, screaming always made it worse but the pain was unbearable so she started screaming. The man had let her go as she huddled on the ground in the corner screaming as loud as she could hoping for some respite from the pain.

"Skye." Bobbie stated squeezing her arm to get her attention and noticed the flinch at the touch she turned to look at her.

"Huh?" Skye asked blinking back that memory

"What was that?"

"What was what?"

"Don't play cute."

"But I am cute." Skye retorted, she knew exactly what Bobbie was asking she no doubt broadcasted that memory over the link without meaning too…she had no idea what had made her think of that…until it did. She jumped to her feet and ran to the containment room where Maria and Alex were, Maria had Alex in a hug but she was out of it.

"Skye?" Maria asked wondering what she was doing here

"You need to let her out of here." Skye stated looking around the pristine white containment room.

"Skye…"

"Maria you need to let her out of here." Skye stated not waiting for her to respond she moved over to Alex and pulled her up guiding her out of the room. Maria didn't stop her seeming the look in Skye's eyes had her concerned. Once they were out she was surprised that Skye took her to the garage where Mac was working with Fitz.

"Hey what's going on?" Mac asked but Skye ignored him instead she pulled Alex so she was looking at her and dug her nails into her arms.

"I'm sorry, I should have remembered. You're not back there." Skye mumbled as Alex took a deep breath and made a distressed noise in the back of her throat. "Its me."

"Skye?"

"Yeah." Skye replied at this Alex punched her

"They have white rooms too." Alex stated

"Different uses…they would never do that." Skye stated and watched as Alex ran her hands through her hair. "You still you?" Skye asked worried for her friends headspace

"I'm no longer living my worst memories if that is what you are asking. I have a headache. Did you have to bring me to the garage."

"The smell of motor oil…and other things…it was this or the gym." Skye stated "Plus a bright red car." Skye stated pointing to Lola. "Yeah, don't touch that's Coulson's baby." Skye added seeming Alex was semi interested in the car.

"I want to see the sky."

"I think we can do that." Maria stated she really needed to know what triggers would effect Alex and Skye, she had already made a mental note to change white rooms to a bit more colour but in order for her to do that she would have to have a rather uncomfortable talk with Skye.