Chapter 21
May's POV
"What are you doing?" Mum asks standing in the door way of my office. As I put the books Skye and I came to get in a bag.
"Packing up these books for Skye" I tell her putting in the S.H.I.E.L.D. hoodie too.
"Why do you call her Skye?" she asks and I sigh, I liked it better when she was doing Tai Chi and being quiet.
"Because that's her name or what she calls herself. Not everyone knows that I am her Mum so it would be strange to call her Daisy in front of the people we work with" I tell her.
"Why did she chose the name Skye?" she asks as I pick up the bag and place it beside the front door beside the others, with her following behind.
"I don't know, Mum" I tell her going around the house and making sure everything had been turned off. "I never asked her. Why do you want to know?" I ask turning to face her.
"I just wanted to see if you knew" she says turning away. Why does she do that? I ask myself never understanding why she asks random questions. I head back upstairs to my room to wake Skye. I find her curled up in a ball in the middle of the bed still sound asleep. "Skye, time to wake up" I say lightly shaking her shoulder.
"Go away" she groans, pulling the blankets over her head.
"Come on you need to say good bye to Grandma" I say, starting to poke her under the blankets.
"No, need to sleep"
"Come on, I was going to take you out for breakfast before we start heading back to the base"
"Food?" she asks and I laugh.
"Yes food"
"What kind of food?" she asks poking her head out of the blankets.
"Come say goodbye to Grandma and then I'll tell you" I say as she begins to untangle herself from the blankets.
I say good bye to Mum and even give her an awkward hug. She also made sure that I knew, her offer still stands if I ever want to switch agency. I then watch as she pulls Skye to the side out of hearing range.
Skye's POV
I watch as M and Grandma say good bye to each other and almost laugh at the awkwardness between them. Then I get pulled away from M by Grandma.
"I need you to do something for me" she says looking over at M to make sure she can't hear.
"Sure, what is it?"
"I need you to make sure your Mum does not do anything stupid. She will do anything to protect others even if it means risking herself, especially after what happened in Bahrain" She tells me and I'm shocked that was not what I was expecting her to say.
"I will try my best" I tell her, not wanting to promise her anything.
"and make sure that Phil boy doesn't make her do anything stupid either, he always was a bad influence on her" she says seriously, and I get the feeling she does not like Coulson.
"I will try my best" I tell her again, barely containing my laughter at hearing Coulson be referred to as 'that Phil boy'.
"Thank you, take care of yourself to. I have a feeling you are going to be just like your mother" she tells me and I can't help but grin.
"Maybe one day" I say as she gives me hug, I hug her back, glad that it is not as awkward as I thought it would be.
"Good bye Daisy" she says opening the front door.
"Bye Grandma" I say as she closes the door giving M a nod good bye. Is that an agent thing? I wonder because I have seen a lot of people do it since joining S.H.I.E.L.D.
"What did she say?" M asks, suddenly beside me.
"Nothing important" I tell her with a smirk and she looks worried. "Now I was promised food" M just rolls her eyes and bends down to pick up one of the bags beside my feet and hands me one to. I almost drop it not expecting it to be heavy.
"You can carry your own books, now" She says and I just frown.
"So where are we going?" I ask her.
"Leena's Bed and Breakfast" she say as we pull away from the house. I can't help but look back.
"That was sooo good" I say when we are back in the car and heading back to base. "How did you know the owner?"
"We met in town one day I believe she stopped me to tell me how cute you were" she laughs.
"That sounds about right" I laugh before sighing "Why is it so cold. It's June shouldn't it be warmer by now" I complain.
"If you can reach the bag with all the books your hoodie is in there" M say glancing over at me.
"Really, why did you take it" I ask reaching behind me to grab it, then opening it up to use as a blanket.
"You seemed to like it" she says looking over and smiles when I nod. "Why do you like it anyway?"
"I don't know" I shrug "It has my name on it, my real name not a name that some nun gave me or I gave myself" I tell her looking out the window, starting to feel embarrassed about it. "and it's big, like you wanted me to grow into it" Like you wanted to keep me around that long I don't tell her the last part but, she seems to understand what I mean anyway.
"Of course I wanted you to grow in to it" She says looking over at me and I have to remind her to keep her eyes on the road. "I wanted you, I want you" she says, grabbing my hand.
"Really?"I ask because, Im still worried that one day she wont want me around any more.
"Yes, I always will want you" she says.
"But what if…"
"Always Skye" She says before I can finish, I go back to looking out the window not sure if I believe her. "Your turn. Ask a question" she says I just look at her confused. "You look like you could use a topic change"
"Have Grandma and Coulson met before?" I ask glad that she changed the topic.
"Yes, they have met a few times. She worked with S.H.I.E.L.D on a few missions, Fury normally made me work with her. Coulson was my partner so he ended up working with her too. They never got along well, I think Coulson was a bit scared of her" she tells me and I try my best not to laugh, imagining Coulson getting nervous around Grandma.
"Okay, your turn" I tell her.
"Why did you choose the name Skye?"She asks straight away, like she had been waiting to ask.
"I had just gotten back to the orphanage after being sent back from a foster family" I start deciding to give her a more in-depth answer. "Most of the other kids were at school, and the Nuns had taken the younger kids to the park so I was alone. I had somehow ended up in the attic and I found this window, for some reason I decided to climb out and I ended up on the roof. After that I started sneaking out on to the roof at night to look at the sky. Eventually when I was at foster homes I would try to find a way to look at the sky. I don't really know why I did it, I think it was because it was always the same no matter where I was. It also it…" I pause not sure how to explain, " I knew that my parents could see it, that you could see it it made me feel connected to you. Anyway, when I left the orphanage I knew I needed a different name I was not going to use Mary Sue any more. Skye it just… seemed appropriate I guess" I tell her not sure if that answered her question.
"I think Daisy Skye May sounds kinda of nice" M says looking over at me with a small smile.
"So do I" I pause before continuing "How did you steal the mascot from Sci-Tech?" I ask.
"My roommate, Hartley and I thought it would be fun to…" She tells me and we continue asking each other questions until we get back to base.
May's POV
"I'm going to go see Fitz and see how Simmons is doing" Skye says as soon as we get back to base and runs off.
"Your back" Coulson says as I walk into his office. "Oh, no I know that look. Please tell me your Mother is not here" I just sit down and shake my head.
"Don't worry she turned up at the safe house, she is not here" I tell him internally laughing at his panicked expression.
"Good, no offence" He says looking down at some papers before his head snapped back up. "Wait, Skye was with you. Please tell me Skye didn't make a sarcastic comment that made your Mother attack her"
"No, Skye is fine. Actually they got along great, at one point I walked in to the room and found them both laughing" I tell him glad that I was being partly honest with him.
"Skye got your Mother to laugh" He asks gobsmacked.
"Surprised me too" I tell him "How were you, when I was away did you carve?" He looks away before nodding.
"I don't know what to do Mel" He says. "I thought maybe I could ask Skye see if she can find something out about it" no, thats not going to happen I think to myself.
"You can't do that, it could trigger something in her to start carving" I say trying to control my breathing, not liking the idea of this happening to Skye.
"I know it's a risk but, we need to work this out. For all we know Skye is already carving" he says. No, she would tell me. Wouldn't she? but if she is embarrassed about it like when she has trouble sleeping she might not. I think, beginning to panic.
"Coulson you can't do that, if she isn't carving, you shouldn't tell her about it" I say feeling the panic building.
"Your right" He says and I can feel the panic lessen but, not by much.
Skye's POV
It had been harder to get Simmons to leave, when she was expecting Fitz to wake up at any second. I had been trying to read one of the books M had given me but I couldn't concentrate, so I just sat watching Fitz, playing with the locket that Grandma had given me.
"Any changes?" Coulson asks, and I look over to see him standing at the door holding a file.
"No" I tell him looking back at Fitz.
"I heard that you meet May's Mother" He says sitting down next to me. I feel nervous talking to him. I hadn't spoken to him much since we got to the playground.
"Yeah, she was nice" I tell him and he mutters something under his breath that I can't hear. "She asked me to do something for her"
"What" Coulson asks.
"She told me to make sure that Phil boy doesn't make M do anything stupid. Apparently you're a bad influence on M" I tell him and he looks embarrassed.
"Did she really say that?" He asks and I just nod. "I have a job for you" He say getting serious and standing up.
"What is it?"
"I need you to try and find some information on these pictures" He says handing me a file I open it to see photos of a bunch of patterns.
"What are these?" I ask confused.
"It's need to know"
"But, how can I find anything if I don't know what they are" I ask confused standing up.
"I am sure you can work it out" he turns towards the door before turning back around. "Skye it's need to know. Don't tell anyone about it" He tells me walking out. I was about to follow him but Simmons came back in to the room asking if there were any changes to Fitz.