Chapter 30

Ward sat next to her; she wore a white dress with a red ribbon tying her hair back. Ward had a hand around her shoulder. The girl rests her head on his. Ward bends down and kisses the side of her cheek.

The girl turns and smiles. "Aren't you sweet?" She lifts her hand up and shows Ward a scar on her left hand. "But can you really be kissing something that isn't even an it." The number were inscribed.

Blood dripped from her scalp and Ward reached. "Skye no I…" Suddenly they weren't sitting on a couch anymore. Ward was back in that basement the black van still in his memory.

"You're useless." Garrett tells Ward as he kicks him in the stomach. "Your parents should be paying me millions to get you back, but they haven't even reported you missing yet!" Garret drops the knife. "Make some use of it." He says before locking the door and leaving Grant in the dark.

Skye stands in the corner and walks over to him. "Skye?" the small child appearing as Grant says.

"You didn't take the choice then." Skye says her body stepping into a newfound spotlight, as if this were some performance. Skye bends down and picks up the knife. "Guess I'll take it instead."

"Wait, Skye don't!" A now grown up Ward says. He tries to catch her, he tries to catch her but it's too late as the knife enters her stomach. She falls, the knife falling from her hands. Blood drips from her lips.

"Skye, please don't go."

Skye moves her hand over Ward's. "It's okay, I never really was a person in the first place." Her eye roll back and Ward watches her body fade in his arms like some image lit by a match.

"Skye!" Ward shouts in a desperate attempt to take her back.

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"Skye!" Ward shouts jumping forward on a bed. His head instantly hurts and he feels a nasty bruise in his side. He squints his eyes closed as his body takes in the pain.

"Hey easy." Bobbi says to him pushing him back on the fabric. Ward fights her push and looks around; he was back at the chalet.

His thoughts drift back to his dream and much before that when Skye and him were attacked.

"Skye." Ward says again. "Bobbi is she here, is she okay?" Bobbi doesn't answer, and instead looks away. Ward knows exactly what that look means. "No… no, NO! Bobbi tell me she's here!?"

Bobbi holds her own hand. "We only found your body Ward. And unless she's still in the snow, which I doubt by the dendro toxin in your system…that means…"

Ward's heart sinks. He feels like throwing up.

He said he'd protect her, he said he'd watched out for her. Now… Now she was gone. He should have known better, he should have known better.

Ward punches the bed sheets. "NO!" He cries. "No, she was supposed to be safe!" Ward cringes the pain and exhaustion still left over in his system. "This is all my fault."

"Ward it's not your fault, I insisted she come on the ski trip." Bobbi admits. "I shouldn't have even suggested it, I really didn't think about the danger she was in." Bobbi bites her lip but keeps her composure. "I've already informed Coulson, he has a team on their way to search the area."

"She's gone, isn't she?" Ward mumbles. "I can't believe they took her."

"The question is who, and until we know we have no leads and no idea where Skye is." Bobbi explains. "Which leaves us pretty much clueless."

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"So was it easy getting to the girl?" Roy asks over his cellphone in his car. "I was far out of the way, so you can know I won't be under suspicion."

"Yes we retrieved the specimen, but she wasn't exactly in the most perfect condition."

"Well that's not my fault, I said that kidnapping her in the middle of the night would have been the smarter option, but of course you have to cause an avalanche and get her trapped in the snow." Roy complains. "Besides she's alive right, that's all that matters."

"Well I suppose you're right, I thank you for your help Roy. Your father will be quite pleased with you." Raina says.

"Does that mean I can leave the academy, I'm getting bored of it?"

"You're at Shield Academy because you're an informant Roy, getting Skye was just a change of mission. You shall still continue to monitor the Academy and report on agents activities." Raina gives as an order. "Understood."

"Yeah whatever." Roy cleans his ear with his finger. "Call if you have other things you need me to do." Roy hangs up the phone.

His calls with Raina were going to be annoying now. Now that the girl was captured what was left? Back to reporting on what Coulson was filing again. No that was boring. Roy needed to spice things up if he wanted to make Shield Academy a better more enjoyable place.

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Simmons brings down the sleeves on her white lab coat. She looks into the microscope at the DNA. "Remarkable." Simmons mutters under her breath. She writes down some notes.

The dark blonde woman named Janie next to her raises an eyebrow. "Are you looking at the specimen's old DNA?" Janie asks.

"Yes it's properties are just so peculiar, it's as if the DNA itself is trying to replicate the look of a humans but if you look at it closely, you can see the subtle differences that appear every so often." The woman looks at Simmons like she's crazy.

"But you need a better microscope to pick up on the changes? How are you seeing it with that model?" Janie question not really believing what Simmons was saying.

"Can't you, it's quite obvious if you observe it closely." Simmons explains. The woman next to her frowns. She obviously wasn't happy with what Simmons was saying.

"What would you know you're just an intern, I've been on this project much longer than you." Janie scrounges her face and walks away. Simmons sighs, unhappy with herself for being unable to make a friend.

Simmons takes off her glasses and walks over to the coffee room. She grabs a mug and a tea bag before pouring the hot water in. Simmons overhears the conversation behind her.

"Have you heard? The specimen's arrived." A man says with bushy grey side burns. His name was Gary. "We can begins the tests as soon as it recovers."

Simmons brings her mug and sits at the edge of one of the chairs. "I thought the specimen was being transferred, why does it need time to recover?" Simmons ask the man Gary.

"Yes but apparently it tried to escape and hurt itself." He explains.

Simmons science mind picks up. "Oh are we studying the healings of its injuries?" Simmons asks.

"No that will have to wait till later." A tall Asian woman named Mira next to Gary says. "Will begin all the studies in a few days."

"Do we ever get a chance to view it?" Simmons asks.

"I don't know, a friend of mine worked with studying the DNA before and apparently she never got to see the specimen. Us lab geeks usually don't, though you're in medicine as well right?" Simmons nods. "Oh lucky, you'll most likely get to work on it with your hands."

"I'm just curious what it looks like." Gary says. "I mean it must have like a bushy tail and four eyes or something." He guesses.

"Or it could look human, that would be even scarier." Mira admits. "The DNA we're researching almost certainly looks human, so my guess is the specimen itself must take that appearance."

Simmons sips her tea. "Are they 100% sure this creature is of alien descent?"

"I don't know the details." Gary replies. "But all I know for sure is that the specimen is an 0-8-4."

Simmons puts down her tea and thinks in her head what the specimen might look like. Her mind draws a blank, as she tries and comes up with an idea.

Review and give opinions. What do you think Ward's dream meant? How is Roy going to make Shield more interesting? Will Simmons ever find out she's really working on Skye? Guess you're all going to have to keep reading :D

But share your predictions and ideas for the future of the story and I may include some of them in the story if they're good, I'll credit you at the beginning if I use you're idea :)

Looking forward to tonight's episode as well! Something REALLLLLLLY big is apparently going to happen.