Summary:
Skye runs away.
Where?
Why?
How?
Who cares?
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Chapter:
She was there in a moment, her stare on Ward.
The two looked intently, but her gaze was hard, hateful: it was evident that she was suffering.
"I can't feel It anymore! What have you done to It?!"
No answer came.
"You killed it, you damned!"
Then she threw herself against Ward, slapping and punching him, shouting with an incredible rage:
"Why did you do that?!
I needed Hive!
And you killed It!
You destroyed It, like you did with your parents and so many others!
Killer!
Monster!
You are a monster!"
And Ward, managing to grab her and holding her hands on her belly firmly from behind, not permitting her any movement, yelled:
"Stop!
Stop!
It's over!
It's all over!"
But she continued struggling, and he gripped her even more strongly, almost painfully, continuing:
"Skye, you don't understand!
You were addicted to it!
It wasn't real!"
But she screamed back:
"Yes! It was!
It was absolutely, totally, the reality!
I loved Hive! Like nobody before in all my life!
It made me whole and gave me true happiness!
And now it's over!
You snatched it from me!
…
Oh, I hate you!
I hate you so much I would kill you if I could!"
And she bursts into tears, in a desperate cry, while he was still holding her in his arms.
Then continued:
"Let me go, please!
Let me go!
And I promise you will never see me again."
"This is not what I want, Skye."
"But this is exactly what you'll get!
And stop calling me Skye!
I'm Daisy!"
After a moment, keeping always her blocked, he added tenderly:
"It's true: you loved It.
But It didn't love you back!
It would have used you to help destroying the Earth!
And then he would have dragged you to Hell with him and the rest of humanity!"
"It wanted peace for the world, not war!
How can you say something so false?
You're a liar!"
"No, I'm not lying.
I promised that I wouldn't lie to you for the rest of my life, and I never failed that promise.
I'm sure of what I say, because the One that sent me on this mission is extremely trustworthy."
"Oh, please!
I'm sick of this story!
You always have some mission as an excuse!"
"It's true! And this time it was personal.
I had to return Hive to the hellfire it belongs to, to save the Earth!
And to save you!"
She scoffed:
"Of course!
There's always someone who needs to save poor Daisy!"
After a few moments, her voice dropped and she quietly pleaded:
"Let me go.
Please let me go.
I wanna go… go away… far away…"
At those supplicant, pleading words, he felt such a deep, tender, heated love for her that he wanted to hug her, and kiss her, and warm her, and protect her from the cruelty of the world.
But he knew she didn't want that.
So he obeyed and slowly and unwillingly let her go.
She kneeled down and covered her face with her hands, crying silently, while he, eyes closed, stood behind her, arms abandoned along his sides, hands relaxed, breathing deeply and slowly, forcing himself to stay aside with all his might.
"Please, do not follow me.
Please, get out of my life.
I never want to see you again.
I hate you.
…
Oh, I am so, so tired of everything!"
After a few instants, she bolted up and ran away, out of the base, out of their lives, out of their world, far, far away.
And he let her.
Everybody let her.
Ward asked for some clothes and a pair of boots, which were given.
Then he turned to Coulson:
"We both love her, although in different ways.
So I ask you this: protect her from the Sokovia Accords."
"Absolutely. Never passed through the antechamber of my brains to adhere to those!"
"Thanks.
On my behalf, I guarantee you that I will do everything in my power to help, to protect, and to save her.
Even from herself."
Back to a more businesslike speech:
"Regarding the infected men, without Hive they are harmless, they can't diffuse the infection anymore, but they will definitely be plagued by a bad meningitis.
If you go in our old base, of which I give you the coordinates", and he scribbled something on a piece of paper, "you will find the records of all Dr. Radcliffe's experiments, and the Doctor in person.
Fitz and Simmons should be able to work with him and find a cure for the meningitis."
Coulson took the piece of paper.
Then Ward showed signs that he was about to leave.
But May, almost shocked, said:
"Coulson, are you going to let him go just like that?
He cannot be free!
He's a criminal!
He has to be incarcerated for the rest of his life!
Executed!"
Ward immediately snapped, glaring with venom at her, and shouted:
"I have already been executed!"
Then, more calmly:
"And, in US law, you cannot be punished twice for the same crimes…
And I have already been incarcerated, all my life!
I get that you can't understand me: your life had been so easy, compared to mine, with your loving parents that protected and guided you during all your infancy and childhood…
You will never understand the traumas I've been through!
But this is not my problem.
Remain in your ice tower where you belong, with your superiority and your coldness and your grasp on your feelings that is really something next level!
Now I'm finally free from the evil and I will let my feelings overflow.
I'll let them burst out, to try to melt the ice you put around Skye's heart and to try to fix the damage all of us inflicted on her.
I love her, enormously, and I'm going to prove that!"
He said all of that with extreme seriousness and convincement.
Then, some instants later, as an afterthought, he added calmly and almost uneasily, first looking at the floor, then raising slowly his eyes to look at all of them:
"One last thing…
Perhaps this is my only opportunity to say this.
I want to tell you that I'm sorry for all the bad things I did and that, if I could go back in time, I would have been a very different person.
I ask you all humbly to forgive me.
Please say this also to Fitz, Bobbi, Hunter and the Koenig brothers."
And then, decidedly:
"But I cannot change the past.
My only chance to demonstrate my sincerity is to change the future."
And with that he left.
Nobody tried to stop him anymore.