Chapter 7

Skye practices with Ward for the next hour, Skye is exhausted after they finish. "Next time if you bring your bathing suit we can use the hot tube if you want." Ward offers.

"Really, that'd be so much fun. I don't think I've ever been in a hot tube before."

"You've never been in a hot tube?" Ward says with confusion.

"Well I did go in once with my friend Miles, but it wasn't really our hot tube and we got chased out of it before we got to really even enjoy it." Skye thinks back at the memory. It was a total stranger's hot tube and they'd ended up phoning the police on her and Miles. Probably just another thing on her record.

"Didn't your parents take you as a kid to the public pool or something?" Ward asks. Skye shrugs her shoulders.

"I don't have any parents, so no parents to take me." Skye offers.

Ward frowns. "So you're an orphan." Skye shrugs again as she unwraps her hands. "For some reason I had in my mind that you were some rich heiress on the run from kidnappers." Skye starts laughing.

"I wish, but wouldn't that make life a little more interesting." Skye starts heading for the door. "While I'm going to shower, see you at dinner I guess?" Skye says.

Ward nods hesitantly. "Yeah."

Skye heads over to dorm room, upon arriving she notices that a pile of boxes lays on her bed. "No way!" She says with excitement. "My clothes." Skye notices a note on the table.

Thought the things from your van would make you feel more at home

- Coulson

Skye smiles, thinking how sweet this headmaster actually is. Skye has a shower and gets dressed heading for dinner. Upon leaving her room though Skye notices Simmons in the hallway. "Oh hey Skye." She greets. "Do you want to head into town with Fitz, Triplett and I for dinner?" Skye thinks about this for a second. She looks at her bracelet.

"Yeah sure." Skye remembers what she said to Ward. "But do you mind if Ward comes along?" Simmons raises her eyebrow.

"Uh I guess it's okay, but ah… yeah sure. We're meeting in front of the school, if you're not there in five minutes I presume that you're not coming."

"K thanks Simmons, I'll see you in five."

Skye runs to the cafeteria, unsure why all of a sudden she has a desire to invite Ward. Maybe it was his reaction to her scars, but something about Ward made Skye want to get to know him more. Coming into the cafeteria Skye tries to pin point Ward. She doesn't spot him anywhere. Skye looks at a clock on the wall. Only a couple of minutes till Simmons left. Skye sighs.

Turning around she bumps into something hard. It's Ward. "Ward!" Skye says happily.

"Skye?"

"Hey do you want to go into town for dinner with Simmons, Triplett, Fitz and I. It'll be fun."

Ward frowns. "Skye you're not allowed to leave the school property without a teacher or me."

Skye frowns this time. "What do you mean?"

"I'm not sure but May was laying some ground rules for me and she doesn't think it's safe without someone there with you."

"Fitz, Simmons and Triplett." Skye protests.

"Yes but she doesn't trust them." Ward sighs. "Skye I don't know why you are so special but for some reason you are, and for some reason May thinks it's unsafe for you to leave. I think we should trust her."

Skye bites her lip, pushing past Ward. "Screw her; I'm not a prisoner here. I can leave when I want." Skye keeps walking past Ward.

Who did he think he was? He wasn't allowed to be another one of her stupid body guards who wouldn't leave her side. She hadn't been attacked in years, why did everyone want to protect her so darn much. Skye heads for the front of the school, hopping Triplett and FitzSimmons are there.

When she arrives though she can't see a trace of them. "Darn it!" She kicks the concrete wall beside her. "Ow." She screeches realizing how it hurt to hit a wall with your toes.

"Skye?" A voice says coming from inside. Skye turns around to see Professor Raina.

"Oh Professor Raina." Skye says softly. She was wearing a lab coat over top her flower dress as she'd been wearing for class today.

"Your foot." Raina notices.

"Ah it's nothing I was just letting out some anger."

Raina frowns. "Do you mind coming to my office, I'm also a fully trained nurse so I'd like to look over it." Skye doesn't answer, not really wanting to spend time with this teacher. "And Coulson also asked me to update your medical file."

"Oh okay." Skye answers. Skye didn't really want to say yes, but Skye remembered the note and all her stuff that Coulson had left for her on her bed. He seemed like a nice guy, and as long as Raina was just writing stuff down and not touching her she'd be fine.

Skye follows Raina to a new section of the school. Raina unlocks a door with a key, opening up a rather tidy office space with a couch in the corner and a little mini fridge. "Please take a seat." Skye does as Raina says. Raina grabs a file from a cabinet. "You want some tea, or a coke?"

"A coke would be nice." Raina goes to the mini fridge and grabs the soft drink. Behind the coke Skye could see all sorts of test tubes refrigerated. Raina was obviously a scientist. Raina hands Skye the coke and goes back to her desk.

She asks mostly normal questions about height, age, etc. "Allergic to anything?" She asks.

"Pollen occasionally in the spring but it never gets that bad." Raina writes that down on her paper.

"That's mostly it." Raina looks over her document. She takes a breath. "Now Skye, can you tell me please if you still have panic attacks." Raina touches her pen to the paper. "Coulson has trusted your medical care to me personally, and I need to go over these things to make sure we can help you."

Skye goes quiet. Coulson had said it wouldn't be telling teachers about this, but to be safe it made sense for a doctor at the school to know. Skye swallows her saliva. "So than you know, I guess."

Raina nods.

"Only Coulson, May and I know." Raina explains. "For safety and your own personal reasons, won't be telling anyone else." Raina writes something down on the paper. "But do tell me Skye, do you have nightmares still? Is it hard to look at your scars?"

Skye shakes her head, for some reason Raina was making this difficult. She didn't want to talk about these things. Skye didn't want to go over those memories she was trying to forget. Maybe after just telling Raina that Skye felt completely normal Coulson wouldn't ask for any more of this.

"No to all of the above. No panic attacks for the last year, nightmares barely ever and looking at my scars is just a normal part of my body." Raina looks at Skye as if she's having trouble believing her. Skye realizes she'll need to show proof. She lifts up her shirt revealing her stomach. "See." She convinces.

Standing up Skye leaves her unopened coke on the table. "I'm perfectly normal alright. So you don't have to worry."

"Oh but Skye your anything but normal now, aren't you." If Skye even liked Raina the tiniest, she didn't now.

"But I am, just because you've labeled me this object of unknown origin doesn't mean I'm not normal."

Raina almost looks as if she's trying to suppress a smile. "You're right, I'm sorry Skye. This is rude of me, it's just my inner self as a scientist finds you so fascinating. But you are right Skye, you are a normal student here according to Coulson." Raina puts away her folder. "Now why don't you head back to your room, it's getting late." Skye looks at her watch. She'd literally spent an hour answering questions.

"Right, thanks." Skye says blindly unsure of why she said thanks in the first place. Frankly Skye wasn't that hungry and just wanted to go to bed. She'd had enough from her first day.

Wow a long first day for Skye, hope you guys are liking it, review if you are! Next chapter focuses on Ward and Skye mostly, and a little bit of Hunter.