Chapter 19
Skye's POV
"Do you think Fitz will wake up while we are gone?" I ask M as we climb into one of the cars that were at the playground.
"I don't know. The doctor says he could wake up at any time" She says starting the car and driving out of the playground. I sit silently watching out the window feeling nervous about going to the house I was supposed to grow up in. The whole situation was reminding me too much of when I was being taken to a new foster home.
"How long will Coulson be gone for?" I ask M. Coulson had left before I had woken up this morning hoping to recruit some agents that were near by.
"Not long, he doesn't want to be leaving for long periods of time until Fitz has woken up. He probably will be back before us" she say eyes never leaving the road. I lean back in the chair tired from the training that we have had every morning for the last five days and lack of sleep. M and I had been debating going to the house for the past few days both of us wanting to go but, we both seemed to have reason not to at the same time. I was nervous about going back to the house I was taken from but, I was also excited to see it. M says that she wanted me to see it but, she hadn't been back there since around the time had been taken.
"How far is it?" I ask and she glances over at me smiling.
"You are not going to do that 'Are we there yet?' thing are you?" She asks.
"Mum, how could you accuse me of wanting to do something so terrible?" I ask in mock horror.
"It just seems like something you would do" she says simply and I can't say she is wrong. "It's about two hours but it will take longer on the way back, because we have to sure no one sees us getting there" I just nod and lean my head against the window.
I wake up about an hour later confused, I look over to see M driving. Temporarily forgetting where we are going. I rub my forehead that has become numb from being squished against a window.
"Here" M says handing me a bottle of water from behind her seat.
"Thanks" I say taking a few sips.
"Are you okay?" she ask looking over at me concerned.
"Yeah, just tired I guess"
"We are only about an hour away" she tells me still looking concerned.
"Okay" I pulling out my phone to see if Simmons or Trip had text about Fitz.
"So is this what it would have been like taking you on road trips growing up. You would either sleep or sit on your phone?" she asks sarcastically.
"Of course not, I would have sang really loud annoying children songs, asked you how long it was until we get there and make you stop every five minutes to use the bathroom" I laugh putting away my phone after texting Trip, asking him how Simmons and Fitz were.
"Really?" she asks looking concerned like I'm going to burst in to song any second.
"No, the nuns always said that being in the car was the only time I behaved. I would sit looking out the window or read a book" I say and regret adding the book part because it just gives M more reason to call me bookworm. She just gives me a sad smile though and starts to pull in to a gas station.
"Why do I feel like I shouldn't leave you alone in here?" M asks as we walk in.
"Because you have trust issues" I say making my way over to the chocolate.
"Ha ha" she says following me "I don't think chocolate is a good idea while you are training" she says when she notices me picking some up.
"But, Mum" I gasp spinning around to face her.
"Sorry, Skye" she say taking the chocolate from me.
"But…but…but" I stutter out. Then notice a little boy standing at the end of the aisle having the exact same conversation with his Dad. "Pleaseeeeeeee" I beg and see the Dad giving in and letting the boy pick one. "He got one" I try again gesturing to the boy.
"Really" M say looking unimpressed "He is a child" I just continue to pout. She looks away for a second then back at me before sighing "You can have one and that's it"
"Yes!" I yell loudly causing the little boy to look over at me and grin. While his dad seemed to be sympathizing with M, who now had her head buried in her hands. I spend a few seconds looking over the chocolate they had before grabbing a bar of dark chocolate. "Are you getting one?" I ask M, as I begin to look at the magazines that were behind us I smirk when I see her reach out and grab one.
"You like dark chocolate?" she asks.
"Yes, I don't care if you don't like it and think it's gross, I like it" I say not looking at her and flip through a magazine. When I do look up she just holds out the chocolate bar she picked up and I grin realizing we picked the same one. "Nice, finally someone that knows their chocolate" she just shakes her head and laughs then grabs my arm when I go to pick up another magazine.
"Come on" she say pulling me away while I dramatical try to walk the other way. She stops suddenly and I almost bump into her but I laugh when I see the Dad pulling along his son too. I give the boy a high five as we walk out the store having both successfully gotten candy, his dad laughs gives me a small nod and carries the boy over to their car.
"Next time you are staying in the car" M says shaking her head and getting in to our car.
"What?" I ask innocently "You asked what it would like taking me on road trips. I showed you"
"I thought you said road trips were the only time you behaved" She says smiling and looking less upset than when we pulled into the gas station.
"That was me behaving" I tell her opening my chocolate bar.
After spending several minutes texting Trip checking on Simmons and Fitz, with him replying promising to text me if anything changes. I look up when I notice we are slowing down to see that M was pulling into a small town. She then takes a turn up a driveway and stops I bite my lip nervous as M just seems to be staring out at the house looking lost.
"When was the last time you were here?" I ask her taking her hand to try and comfort her. As she lets out a shaky breathe and looks like she could burst into tears at any second.
"July 1st 1989" she answers shutting off the car and unlocking it. "I couldn't be here for your birthday when I didn't know where you where. Told myself that I wouldn't come back till unless you were coming back with me" she says opening the door and climbing out. I follow behind slowly and try to shake off the nervous feeling I had growing inside me. When we get to the door M pulls out a small key and hesitates before opening the door. I'm shocked to see that when we get in there are lots of pictures on the walls I was expecting it to look more S.H.I.E.L.D like and empty. M takes my hand and give me a small smile before leading me to a closed door.
"Fury sent in a S.H.I.E.L.D team to clean the downstairs up but, I refused to let them in here. I didn't want anyone to touch any of your things" she tells me and I freeze guessing that she meant this was my room. I had never really had a room before never one that was really mine anyway. M gestures for me to open it. I slowly turn the handle and open the door to see a crib with the word 'Daisy' written above it on the blue wall. I look at M silently asking for permission to go in. She nods, I step in and stand in the middle of the room looking around not wanting to touch anything I notice a picture on the book shelves near a rocking chair and take a step forward towards it. I reach towards it to pick up but stop myself not wanting to touch anything when it had been the same for over two decades. Suddenly a hand reaches around me and picks it up handing it to me. I take it and smile when I see it's a picture of a younger M with a baby that I'm guessing is me. I had never seen a picture of me so young before the pictures that M had of me on the Bus where when I was a little older and crawling around.
"Fury took that picture the first day, that I had taken you home from the hospital" M tells me quietly looking at the picture. I place the picture back on the shelf exactly as I found it, noticing that there a few shelves of books under it bending down to look at them. I notice that I had read most of them growing up. "I may have wanted you to be a bit of a bookworm growing up" M laughs when she sees me looking. I stand back up looking around the room. M and I look around the room for more that an hour as I would pick something up and she would tell me the story behind it.
"Is this yours" I ask picking up a S.H.I.E.L.D hoodie from the rocking chair in the corner. M laughs taking it from me.
"No, it's yours Fury got it for you. He said you were going to be the first Agent to go to all three of the academies" she says handing it back and showing me the arm that had the three Academy logos down the side. It also had the name Daisy May written under them.
"Really!" I say running my thumb the name.
"Yeah, I think he did it to annoy me. He knew I didn't really want you involved with S.H.I.E.L.D" She says and I look up at her we had never talked about me being apart of S.H.I.E.L.D before.
"I didn't like the idea of you being in any danger. He said that I couldn't stop you from joining if you wanted" She tells me.
"Would you have?" I ask worried.
"No, but I would have made sure you didn't go to the Science and Technology Academy" She tells me.
"Why" I asks confused for a second. "Wait, no way, you were part of the whole rivalry between the Science and Technology, and Operations weren't you" I say shocked.
"What? they thought they were better then everyone just because they needed a PhD to get in" She says frustrated crossing her arms.
"You stole there mascot didn't you?" I laugh as her phone rings she turns away to answer it muttering a maybe under her breathe. M walks out leaving me in what should have been my room.
May's POV
"May" I say as I leave the room.
"Are you on your way back yet?" Coulson asks getting straight to the point.
"No, not yet why?"
"Billy said he has seen some cars driving to close to the playground and we don't want anyone to find us" He says and I wait for him to continue. "Could you find somewhere to stay and come back tomorrow?" He asks.
"Yeah, we can find somewhere" I tell him.
"We?" he asks and I cringe I hadn't told him that Skye was coming with me.
"Skye is with me" I say stalling to come up with a lie.
"You took Skye with you to one of your safe houses" He asks confused.
"Yes, she wanted to see what it was like" I tell him technically not lying.
"Okay then, I'll see you both tomorrow" He says hanging up.
I walk down the hall and stop in front of a picture, it was of Skye and I taken just as she had started to take her first steps over to me, I can't stop the tears that start to fall as I realize that was all I got to see of her growing up. I wait a few minutes before I go back to Skye not wanting her to see that I had been crying, but when I walk into her room that's exactly what she is doing.
She is still clutching the hoodie but, she somehow ended up sitting on the floor crying I walk over and sit down next to her placing my hand on her shoulder she looks up at me before, launching herself at me and wrapping me in a hug.
"It's not fair" she sobs into my shoulder.
"I know" I say crying again as I hold her.