Chapter 2

Skye wakes up feeling a nasty headache. She opens her eyes as a reaction to the light shining at her. She takes deep breaths reminding herself she isn't back in that horror of a place. Skye sits up, she had been lying on some sort of office waiting chair, and now seemed to be in an office waiting room. It reminded her of some sort of wait for the dentist. The May girl who handcuffed her earlier was across the way. "You're awake." Skye averts her eyes and looks for a door. She finds one, but it has a key lock pad on it. She could hack it with a computer, but without one all she could do is run and hope for the best. The second door had a silver name engraved on it 'Headmaster Coulson'. Skye wondered who that could be.

Skye hears some shouts from inside this Headmaster Coulson's room. It sounded like the Ward guy she'd encountered before.

"Your one of my best Ward, how dare you go and shoot your assignment. Unharmed were the conditions remember?" Skye can't hear what Ward says, but she presumes he's mumbling apologies. "And also, weren't you said to stay in place, approach with caution try to reason first. Why did you chase after her?" Skye tries to focus on the rest of the conversation but May interrupts Skye's ease dropping.

"Escaping is pointless from this room." May points out.

"Where am I anyway?" Skye asks, zoned out from Ward and Coulson's conversation.

"Shield Academy. It's where we train future agents." Skye's jaw drops.

"So why bring me here?" Skye hears the door fly open next to her. She looks as Ward comes out of the room followed by a short man wearing a suite. The Ward guy doesn't look happy glaring at Skye as he leaves the office.

"Skye I presume." Skye nods, unsure of what this is about. "Well please come into my office." Skye stands up unsurely and walks over to Coulson. Usually she wouldn't listen to people when they told her what to do, but for some reason Skye wanted to listen to this guy.

Looking back Skye saw Ward take a seat across from May, the two beginning a hushed conversation.

Skye walks into Coulson's office. A place filled with glued down collectables and pinned up old Captain America cards. Skye takes a seat in the guest chair as Coulson takes a seat at his desk. He pulls a file out of his drawer. He puts on some reading glasses and begins to read. "So Skye, you've been trying to avoid shield's protection. Want to tell us why?"

"I don't like to be watched." Skye confirms. "You don't give me freedom with an agent always looking down my neck."

"So your safety isn't a worry. You're not scared about the multiple organizations after you." Skye crosses her arms to Coulson's statement.

Skye bites her tongue, unwanted memories resurfacing. She tries to block them best she can. "Please, there's only one, and they all evaporated in a fire anyway."

Coulson takes off his glasses. "I'm afraid that's not good enough Skye. You're special to shield, and we have to keep an eye on you."

"You mean because I'm a freak, something to experiment on." Skye's fingers dig into her arms. "Well I'm not, and I won't let shield use me."

"That's not what I want. Skye I realize that shield agents attempts to look after you haven't gone so well. You've dropped out of high school, and you don't seem to have any purpose." Skye frowns her grip coming undone. "I want to give you a purpose by letting you become a student here."

Skye looks as if she wants to burst out laughing. A student here? What, was this guy crazy.

"Sorry pal, but I dropped out of high school for a reason; I'm just not interested in committing to this." Skye twiddles her thumbs. "So why don't you let me go, or throw me in another prison. I'll just escape."

Coulson frowns. "You're not a prisoner, and I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter of becoming a student here."

Skye crosses her arms. "Oh really now?" Skye notices a crackle on her wrist. She looks down, a bracelet there. "What is this?"

"You're internet nanny. You'll have some trouble accessing the internet outside of this school, along with other wireless devices." Skye frowns, standing up in protest.

"You can't do this, how am I supposed to do anything without the internet! We live in 2014, not the 1900's."

"You're free to leave whenever you want Skye, but here at Shield Academy were offering you something that the streets of the world aren't going to give you. You're not even eighteen Skye, and without parents you're technically under the authority of shield." Skye grinds her fist. This is why she didn't like agents grinding down her neck. They said things like this.

"Still you're welcome to leave." Coulson informs. Skye looks at the bracelet.

"What do I have to do to get if off?" Skye asks.

"Graduate." Coulson says. "If you can graduate from my school I'll take it off and you can go live where ever you want without even a shield guard posted with you every moment. Show me you're capable and I'll settle for a shield agent just calling you once a month to make sure you're okay." Skye looks at her wrist unsure if what Coulson said was really true. She could always test the theory, or try to take the bracelet off.

"So does graduate mean having a passing grade?" Skye asks. Coulson nods. Skye looks around at the strange trinkets and souvenirs around the office, trying to keep her mind distracted.

Skye could try school? It might be interesting for a short while. She didn't have to stay for long. All she had to do was stay till she got the bracelet off or found a good opportunity to escape from here.

"So what will it be Skye?" Skye liked how this Coulson guy used Skye instead of the awful name the foster system had given her. Not that her real name would usually be used considering the incident and the fame she got for the short while. Luckily she looked a lot different than when she was younger.

"I'll stay." Skye admits. "It's not like I have anything better to do." And it'd also be easier to try and hack into shield from here and get the files she needed. Even with the internet nanny.

"Excellent, welcome to Shield. Future agent Skye." Coulson stood up and shakes Skye's hand. Skye hoped she wouldn't begin to regret this.

End of the second chapter, what do you guys think of Coulson? Will meet Simmons in the next chapter, and Skye will have a longer conversation with Ward.

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