Chapter 6

Skye takes a deep breath. Even though the face and name sounded familiar she couldn't keep thinking back to the past. The past was gone, she was safe. Everyone involved in the horrid incident died in a fire. "You must be the new student Skye." Skye nods. "Welcome to Variety Sciences, I'm looking forward to having you in my class." Her voice was delicate, creepy in a sense.

"Right…" Skye mumbles, as Raina walks to the front of the classroom. Skye takes a seat next to Mack, as she thought she should let Fitz sit next to Simmons, considering the obvious attraction he had for her.

"So where you from?" Mack asks to try and make small talk.

"Los Angeles." Skye says wearily, seeming as that is what it said on her fake file and that was where she'd been for the past few months.

"That's cool, I've actually only been to L.A once, but it's a nice city. Way to hot in the summer though." Skye nods in agreement.

Raina assigns them a task to look at some bacteria through a microscope, so Mack and Skye get on it. Half way through class Ward comes in. Skye expected him to be there for her, but turns out he was a student in the class. "You're late Ward." Raina chimes in.

"Sorry I have an excuse." He hands Raina a note. Raina stares over it and nods. Skye couldn't help but feel she'd seen Raina somewhere before, she just wasn't sure where. Ward takes a seat next at the back by himself and begins to work on the project assigned on the board.

The bell rings a few minutes later and Ward walks over to Skye. "You have Self-defense and Weapons Training after lunch. May is teaching it so…" Ward looks at Mack and the approaching Simmons. "We want things to go smoothly."

"Whatever you say robot." Skye jokes. Mack chuckles at the nickname. Ward frowns and leaves them, obviously not wanting to stick around.

"You two know each other before starting here?" Mack asks.

"Something like that." Skye replies. Since technically Ward had been the one to pick her up, and shoot her. Skye still hadn't gotten even for that.

"What's his deal anyway?" Skye asks.

"He's top of all the operations classes, and has never lost a fight to anyone at this school." Skye smiles, thinking how technically she had beat him once with handcuffs on. "He even went on a mission the other day. Only the top agents in training get to do that." Simmons continues.

Skye realizes that she had been that mission. Hopefully no one would connect the dots about her arrival. "Does he have any friends?" Skye asks.

"Ward doesn't play well with others." Fitz says. "He mostly just keeps to himself." Skye nods. "Anyway let's get some lunch I'm starved."

The four of them head to the cafeteria and grab some lunch, Triplett joining them in line as they go pick up some food. Sitting down at a table Skye digs into her sandwich. It felt weird to be having two meals in one day considering back when she was living in her van she didn't even see a need to have both breakfast and lunch.

"So Skye you were saying you were from L.A, but why did you come so late." Skye chokes a bit on her water, realizing she has to enact the cover story laid out for her.

"A teacher at the school became my official guardian a few days ago. We hadn't had it all sorted out yet but she couldn't afford to quit her job to look after me and I wasn't going to make her make that decision. So I came here."

"Which teacher." Triplett asks as he comes and takes a seat at the table.

"May." Skye answers. But then realizes that considering the two have the same last name calling her May might not work. "Aunt May." She corrects.

"Your Aunt is the cavalry?" Fitz gasps. "Wow that's shocking."

"The cavalry?"

"You mean you don't know?" Simmons answers.

Skye shakes her head trying to come up with an excuse. "I don't know her that well; I only met her a few times." Skye lies. "To be honest I barely know anything about her, and she's not exactly the talking type." Skye guesses considering the few moments she'd actually been with May.

"I understand that but wow, you must have some strong fighting senses in you girl." Triplett observes. Skye nods as she finishes off her sandwich, unsure what to say.

"I don't know about fighting. Frankly I just want to treat Shield Academy as a normal school." The group bursts out laughing.

"Yeah like that will ever happen." Mack says.

"Here we're all protégées, ready to give our lives for shield. We're the future of shield. Each with a unique gift that will help our organization in the future." Skye feels the metal of her bracelet. She still hadn't had time to try hacking outside of school yet. She'd better get on that before she got too attached to anyone here. After all she'd probably only end up staying till she figured out if her bracelet worked or not.

After lunch Triplett walks with Skye to their next class, Self-defense and Weapons Training. Triplett explains how the class works, but once he got into the different weapons Skye got lost. The class was held in a large ballroom with blue mats everywhere. Skye took a seat on a blue mat like Triplett. Skye was surprised to see when May walks into the room ready to teach the class. Skye avoids her gaze.

"Today class we will be going over blocking." May shows them a demonstration on the ground and asks them to practice. Skye wishes that she could practice with Triplett but realizes that that won't be an option when a girl has already stolen him. Skye turns around to see who her partner is.

"Well this shall be fun love." He says in his U.K accent. "Names Lance Hunter." He greets but doesn't extend a hand. Skye remembered seeing this guy at breakfast eating with that girl Hartley in her History and Shield Coding class.

Skye stands up to begin practicing with him. Skye throws a few punches and Hunter blocks, but Skye's attempts weren't that great to begin with. When it's his turn Skye trips a few times over her own two feet unable to hold her ground as she practices the blocking. "So you're the new beauty I keep hearing about." He remarks. "You're much prettier in person."

Skye uses the block move on his next attack, this time able to hold her stance. "So I'm guessing this school calls you the flirt."

"I like to be known as the handsome gentlemen girls are intrigued by." Skye rolls her eyes as this time she goes in for a punch. Hunter blocks it easily. "You attitude reminds me of my exe."

"Gee should I feel complimented."

"Only time will tell."

The class ends a few minutes later and Skye heads with the rest of the girls to go get showered, but Ward drops by before Skye has a chance to wipe away her sweat. "We have training." He tells her. Skye sighs not really wanting to go and do anything else but lie down and relax.

Skye walks with Ward till they reach a room he has to unlock. Coming inside Skye realizes the rooms is just a regular fancy gym like you'd find at a hotel. With a swimming pool included. Skye wants to go for the hot tub, but Ward passes Skye a pair of sweats and a tank-top. "Get dressed into those, it'll be hard to learn in jeans."

"Right…" Skye agrees. Going to the bathroom to change Skye goes and looks in the mirror at the image of herself with a tank-top on. She changes out of her shirt and puts the tank-top on along with the sweats. Skye looks at her back in the mirror, cringing at the scars. Skye throws her jacket over top of herself as she heads outside. Ward is waiting by a punching bag.

"Wrap your hands in these." He says giving her a bandage like material. Skye does as he says. "You know it'll get hot in the jacket." Ward says.

"I know, but I'm cold."

Ward frowns. "The leather from the jacket will impact the training you'll need to take it off." Skye frowns, scared of what Ward will think once he sees. But Skye takes a deep breath.

"No one will walk in on us right." Ward nods, unsure of why Skye asks this. "Okay than." Skye unzips the jacket, her shoulders showing off just a few of the scars she had. Ward eyes go wide, but Skye knew they would go even wider if he saw her back, and her stomach.

Skye wasn't sure why she did this, or why she was letting Ward in like this but she just sort of knew it'd be okay. Ward looks dazed for a minute but then he returns to a normal expression. "Let's get started."

Skye's heart skips a beat. He wasn't going to ask? He didn't care how ugly they looked on her skin?

Skye tries hard not to cry. No one had ever had this sort of reaction before.

Updated like I promised. Gosh schools so boring, and I have so much homework tonight, I really should be working on it. But at least Arrow's on tonight, I'll start homework after that. Review and tell me what you think. The next chapter I'm bringing back Raina. Tell me you theory's for the future of the story, or ideas you have.