Chapter 13
The seven year old girl watches as the nun from Saint Agnus talks with a doctor outside. When she's finished talking she frowns, and walks back inside the room. "Mary darling, how are you feeling?"
"Fine Sister Ava" Skye looks over outside the door. The doctor was gone, but she still felt a lingering presence watching her. "Are you taking me back to Saint Agnus?" Skye asks the woman.
Sister Ava shook her head. "Mary I know this might be surprising, but the doctor says you're quite sick, and in order to get better they need to move you somewhere else."
Skye blinks "But I only fainted? I don't understand Sister Ava, I won't faint again." Skye says. "Will they take more blood, or make me eat this weird hospital food." Not that it was much better than at the orphanage, Skye thought.
"Mary their only taking you so you get better." Sister Ava explains. "They say you have cancer and it needs to be treated."
That was a lie, told by the doctors. But the young naïve freshly turned seven year old believed it.
"But they say it's in the early stages Mary, and they can save you. They just need to take you to a children's hospital in Boston. Don't worry you'll be fine there, and they'll be able to help you." Sister Ava wraps Skye into a hug. "I'm sorry Mary, I'm sorry you're going through this."
"Sister Ava what will happen after I'm better, will I come back?"
"If you're lucky, maybe the hospital will be able to find you a foster family." Sister Ava says with optimism. "After all you are one special girl Mary."
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Skye awoke, her eyes strained and heart beating. Why was her brain letting these memoires of the past come into her head? Shouldn't they be gone? She hadn't had dreams in years. Of course this dream/memory hadn't even been at the facility, she might even say it was a good one. It had been her last normal day before she'd been taken.
Skye sighs and walks over to her window to undo the blinds. The sun shines into the room. Skye looks at her watch. "6:30, huh."
Yesterday after the Hub, Coulson took Skye out for dinner at a restaurant than flew with her back to school. They'd arrived late, but Skye appreciated Coulson taking her with him on the journey. It was nice of him to take such special care of her. Skye hadn't had someone do that in a while.
Skye goes into her bathroom to have a shower, getting cleaned up Skye puts on a pair of jeans and a red t-shirt. Grabbing her bag of freshly used text books, Skye walks over to her door. Exiting into the hall, Skye gets a nice surprise bumping into Simmons in the hallway. "Ah good morning Skye." She greets with a happy smile on her face.
"Morning Simmons." Skye says in return.
The two girls walk to the cafeteria together. Skye gets in line and grabs some cereal and milk. Simmons goes and makes tea for herself, while Skye gets one of their awful tasting coffees. Skye follows Simmons to a table where Triplett and Mack are already sitting.
"Where's Fitz?" Simmons asks, taking a seat.
"He's not feeling well." Mack replies.
"Oh" Is all Simmons says, but Skye can see the worried look in her eyes.
"Maybe you should go check on him?" Skye suggest, already guessing the feelings the two have for each other.
"No it's fine; I'll check on him at lunch." Simmons mumbles.
"Where were you yesterday?" Triplett asks Skye as she's half way through a bite into her cereal. "We wanted to invite you to play video games in my room like we do each Sunday afternoon, but you never answered when we knocked."
Video games? Skye never had been good at video games, or liked them that much. It reminded her of simulations and memories from her past.
"Oh I was just out." Skye replies distantly, not wanting to put a target on her back like how Hunter was talking about Ward and how Coulson treated him. She didn't want people to think she was different, and Skye guessed not any normal students got to go out with their principal on day excursions.
"Out? Like where?" Mack asks. Skye drops the spoon in her cereal and picks up the tray.
"Just with a teacher running some errands. Anyway need to find Ward, sorry." Skye pulls out of her chair and drops the tray off at the washing station. Skye runs towards the exit, where she accidently bumps into Ward. "Ow" Skye moans.
"Watch it rookie." He says to Skye. "What's got you in such a rush?" Skye looks back at her table, Triplett was looking at her from across the hall. Skye grabs Ward's hand.
"Hey come with me for a second." Skye pulls Ward out into the hallway, a few people looking at their intertwined hands.
"What's the problem Skye?" Ward asks, sounding a bit irritated.
"There's no problem." Skye explains. "But I want to see something; can you take me to the wall of memories?" Ward frowns
"Uh sure, but why do you want to see it."
Skye crosses her arms. "Can't you just answer a girls wishes?" Skye says.
Ward nods, and sees there is no harm in showing Skye the wall. Heading upstairs, Skye is brought to a wide area in the hallway, with a view over the field. The wall was shorter and had many less names but Skye could see the resemblance.
"You know anyone on there?" Ward asks her as Skye drags her fingers along all the names.
"Nope." Skye answers. "But I saw the one at the hub yesterday."
"Yeah May told me about your excursion with Coulson. That was nice of him to take you. When I first arrived he took me as well. He showed me the wall of memories well there to."
"Well Coulson wasn't the one to show me, but it was super nice of him to bring me along."
Ward frowns. "The time that Coulson brought me to the Hub was also a period in my life where I was struggling." Ward puts his hand on Skye's shoulder. "Are you struggling with something Skye?"
Skye bites the edge of her lip. "Nope, I'm not." She lies.
Ward lets go. Skye looks over her shoulder at him, his hands at his side. "Well I'll see you in class." Ward says somewhat coldly. Ward walks away leaving Skye to look at the wall. Skye puts a hand to her forehead.
"What am I doing?" She says out loud. Why had she just rushed out of the cafeteria? Why did she want to come here? Why was it so hard for her to be normal?
"Oh but Skye your anything but normal now, aren't you."
Professor Raina had said that. And as a scientist she must have been right. Skye wasn't normal, and any hope of being normal was just a big act.
She was broken, and trying to play video games with friends and hang out with them was all an act. They didn't know what she really was; she was tricking them, hiding her whole identity from them. How could she possibly be normal with that?
Sorry if this chapter feels sort of random, but you know that's okay. Next chapter will be a bit better, there is a nice SkyeWard moment that SkyeWard shippers will really enjoy! But nothing to crazy yet XD