Chapter 2
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Minutes after Skye's head hit the pillow she was asleep. Due to the fact that she was so tired Skye slept well into the following afternoon. When she does she finds no one around, she even checks the cockpit and her Dad's office and finds both deserted. Deciding to try downstairs before she starts to panic and make phone calls; Skye is relieved when as soon as she goes out onto the platform above the cargo bay she finds her Uncle practicing with his bow.
"Hey." Skye comments as she walks down the stairs.
"Well, well, well. Sleeping beauty is finally up." Clint jokes, "You feeling better?"
"Funny, and much." Skye tells her Uncle, "Where is everyone?"
"Investigating odd things that have been going on around town." Clint explains
"Which is what town?" Skye asks curious, "Where are we?"
"Tennessee, outside of Nashville." Clint explains, "Depending what they find we're likely heading to Boston tonight." Clint explains.
"Okay." Skye comments, "May I?" Skye asks curious referring to the bow.
"Be my guest." Clint says handing Skye the bow, Skye being the only person with the exception of Natasha that he let's use his bow, "Here." He says handing her the quiver which she puts on her back. As soon as she has the quiver on her back Skye fires three shots in quick succession, getting a bull's eye with every single arrow.
"Nicely done." Clint says with a proud smile as Skye hands him back his bow.
"Well I guess after practicing every day for seven months I've gotten pretty good." Skye tells her Uncle, "Though of course I had an amazing teacher."
"More than pretty good, you're amazing." Clint tells her and she smiles at the compliment that she gave him.
"Thanks." Skye says, an embarrassed look on her face.
"Accept the compliment Kid." Clint tells her.
"I'll try." Skye says taking off the quiver and handing it to her Uncle, "I'm going to have a shower." She tells her Uncle and she heads back upstairs.
Thirty five minutes after she went to have a shower Skye leaves the bathroom to find Clint standing in the kitchen pulling containers of food out of a bag and putting them on the counter.
"What did you get?" Skye asks curious.
"Italian, are you seriously only just getting out of the shower?" Clint asks her.
"You've been living on a plane with me on and off for about a year and a half, you should know by now how long I take to shower." Skye tells her uncle as she opens one of the food containers, "Oooh, Chicken Parmy." She says happily.
"There are chips and both cheesy and normal garlic bread too." Clint tells his niece, "You know it's when I comprehend how long each of us spend in the bathroom, or how long the lines get in the morning, that I really miss Tony's place in the Alps where we each had our own bathroom." Clint comments.
"You spoil me." Skye says referring to the food, "You know the own bathroom thing wasn't the only awesome thing about that place." Skye tells her Uncle, "There was the huge beds and the spa, the indoor heated pool; it was kind of awesome." Skye comments.
"You're forgetting about the skiing, that was epic." Clint tells his niece.
"For you maybe." Skye comments, "You, Mom, тетя Наташа, Uncle Steve, Uncle Tony, Ward, and Aunt Maria, all the competitions you guys had how competitive you got. I'm amazed that you didn't end up breaking your necks." Skye tells her Uncle.
"Wasn't a chance, we all knew what we were doing." Clint tells his niece, "Well I'm not sure Tony did but the rest of us did." Clint tells her.
"Why didn't Dad and Uncle John join you guys?" Skye asks curious.
"They both know all too well where a competition with Mels and Nat, gets you." Clint tells her
"Don't you too?" Skye asks amused.
"Of course, but that's the fun." Clint tells his niece and Skye laughs.
"That whole time was fun." Skye tells him, "The snow ball fights especially." She comments.
"Oh yeah that was." Clint laughs, "Do you want a coke?" he asks and Skye nods.
"Even watching Ward and Maria almost fight was slightly amusing." Clint comments.
"No it wasn't." Skye tells her Uncle as he walks over and hands her her drink, "I was glad when Dad and Uncle John pulled them apart before either of them could actually trade blows." Skye comments then asks, "How long until everyone else is back?"
"Why? Are you getting bored with your old Uncle already?" Clint asks pretending to be insulted.
"Never." Skye tells him.
"They should get back in the next couple of hours." Clint tells her, "Now eat up, it's getting cold." He tells Skye.
"So what made you think that you had to prove yourself?" Clint asks curious several minutes later, "You already have, more than once." He tells her.
"Not by myself." Skye tells him, "Even when I knocked out Ward to face the Clairvoyant you guys were still in the building." She tells her.
"You knocked out Ward?" Clint ask surprised.
"Didn't I tell you that?" Skye asks surprised as she thought she mentioned it at some point.
"No." Clint responds, "Kid we're a team, all of us. That means that it will be rare that you have to do something alone." He tells her.
"I know, but I may have to." Skye tells him, "And let's face it I may officially be a coms agent but thanks to what we do and my powers, I'm a field agent and we both know it." She tells him.
"I would say you're more of a specialist." Clint comments.
"Seriously?" Skye asks surprised.
"With your powers and your archery skill you would likely be classed as a specialist rather than a field agent, not like a regular specialist but a specialist none the less. Of course if you say yes to Fury you would be an Avenger." Clint comments.
"I called Nicky before I had a shower, I said yes." Skye reveals.
"Well then, welcome to the team Kid." Clint tells his niece with a proud smile on his face.
When everyone else returns to the plane an hour after Clint and Skye sat down to eat the find both Skye and Clint down in the cargo bay, Skye with a blindfold on and her bow in her hands.
"Skye, stand down. Remove the blindfold." Clint says to his niece when the cars pull up.
Coulson and Melinda get out of Lola while Natasha, Ward, Fitz and Simmons get out of the SVU. Natasha being the one driving.
"What are you doing?" Simmons asks curious.
"Failing." Skye comments
"You're not failing." Clint tells her, "You're trying. As long as you try you can't fail." Clint tells her.
"Right is that why I'm getting everywhere else but the target?" Skye asks her Uncle curious.
"You're trying to hit a target without being able to see it, that's not easy." Clint tells her. "It took me a while to get it, you will too eventually." Clint tells her.
"That may be true, but I'll never be as good as you." Skye says with a smile, making it clear that she is stating a fact not feeling bad about it.
"Don't feel bad, no one's as good as me." Clint jokes, "How did it go?" he asks the others.
"We got nothing, looks like there is nothing here." Natasha answers.
"So we're going to Boston right?" Skye asks.
"Later tonight, yeah." Melinda tells her, "I've been getting some odd readings on some of the instruments so I want to check the out." She comments, "And Fitz, Clint I need your help." She tells the pair who nod.
"We'll be upstairs if you need us." Ward says and Melinda nods and heads to the avionics bays with Fitz and Clint.
"How you feeling?" Coulson asks his daughter as everyone else heads upstairs.
"Better, I'm still a bit tired but I'm better than I was." Skye responds, "Why are we the ones going to Boston? Couldn't another team go? I mean what If there was something here?" Skye asks her father curious.
"I don't know why another team couldn't go to Boston, all I know is that Fury wanted us there." Coulson explains, "I've got to get paperwork done, you being quiet would be appreciated." Coulson tells Skye, Natasha and Simmons, Ward having gone into his bunk when he reached upstairs.
"Your office is practically sound proof, just close the door." Skye tells her father who nods and heads upstairs.
"If you are going to be single handily fighting your way through Chinese compounds now then I want to show you a couple of things." Natasha tells her niece.
"Seriously?" Skye asks surprised.
"Yes." Natasha tells her, "Grab a bottle of water and met me downstairs in five minutes." Natasha tells her niece.
"Wow." Skye says to her sister once Natasha has left the room.
"What's wrong?" Simmons ask confused, "You've been doing dance lesson with your Aunt since you were like four." She comments.
"Yeah, I know." Skye tells her, "But this is different." She explains, "I think it's going to make me miss my early lessons with Ward." She comments.
"Well you shouldn't keep her waiting." Simmons comments.
"Crap, your right." Skye says as he goes and grabs a bottle of water, and being glad of the fact that she is wearing a tank top and pants she can move in, Skye heads downstairs.
When Skye has gotten downstairs Natasha is just finishing putting down the mats so Skye puts the bottle of water at the bottom of the stairs and she walks over to her.
"I know Wards been teaching you and he is a good teacher but there are things that he wouldn't think to teach you, that he couldn't." Natasha tells her niece.
"What do you mean?" Skye asks.
"You're smaller than Ward, so myself and, once she fixes whatever is wrong with this plane, your mom are going to show you how to use that against your appoint. You up for that?" Natasha ask.
"Yep." Skye responds.
"Good, so I read the mission report you wrote." Natasha informs her niece, "You made your way through a compound facing dozens of men and you didn't hurt a single one of them." Natasha says to her niece.
"Perks of my power, I can knock people out and there will be no long term affects" Skye comments.
"But according to what you wrote there was times when you couldn't use your powers quickly enough." Natasha reminds her.
"I handled it." Skye comments.
"Yeah, you did." Natasha tells her, "I just want to show you more things to do if something like that ever happens again." She explains.
"I already said yes, no need to convince me." Skye tell her Aunt.
"Good, start with the stretches I have you do before dance, you use a lot of the same muscles." Natasha comments and Skye does just that.
Several hours, and several breaks later Skye is training with both her mother and her aunt, while Clint watches from the platform above the cargo bay. From his vintage point Clint makes comments which cause Melinda and Natasha to send him death glares. This occurs until Coulson comes and gets them for dinner.
"How did you go?" Coulson asks Skye curious.
"Good, I think." Skye comments, "Did I do okay?" Skye asks her mother and Aunt.
"Yeah, you did pretty good." Melinda tells her daughter.
"You did." Natasha confirms.
"Cool." Skye says with a proud smile, "Did you get your paperwork done?" Skye asks her father curious.
"No, it seems like it is never going to end." Coulson tells his daughter.
"I'm sure it will eventually." Skye tells him as everyone sits down for dinner.
After dinner Coulson goes back up to his office, Melinda goes to the cockpit and Ward goes to his bunk leaving Skye, Fitz, Simmons, Clint and Natasha in the main part of the plane.
"It's just us, does that mean we can continue Game of Thrones?" Fitz asks when he realises who actually stayed in the main part of the plane.
"No." Clint tells him, "It means we have to." He responds.
"I'll get it." Skye responds.
"We'll get the popcorn." Fitz and Simmons say.
"Drinks." Natasha and Clint respond.
Five minutes later the five of them are sitting in the lounge area about to press play.
"How many eps do you think we can get through before one of them tell us we have to turn it off?" Fitz asks.
"I would say two." Skye says as she makes herself comfortable on the end of the couch that she is sharing with her Uncle and Aunt, "But only if you hurry up and press play." She tells Fitz, which is exactly correct.
Skye's prediction is proven correct when just as they finish their second episode Coulson comes down from upstairs and they have to turn it off as he really doesn't like watching it.
"So what do we want to watch now?" Skye asks and Coulson sits down on the couch with her, Natasha and Clint.
"No idea, but you all have fun, I'm going to go see Melinda." Natasha says getting up and heading into the cockpit.
"How's it flying?" Natasha asks when she walks into the cockpit and sits down in the co-pilots seat.
"Perfectly." Melinda answers.
"Did you fix whatever it was that was wrong?" Natasha asks curious.
"It was a wiring issue and we're sure we did." Melinda answers as a beep is heard from Natasha's phone.
"How long to we land?" Natasha asks curious.
"A few minutes, why?" Melinda asks curious.
"There is a plane waiting for me at the airport. Fury wants me to get to the Triskelion, he has a mission for me and Steve." Natasha explains.
"Any details?" Melinda asks.
"Not yet." Natasha answers, "I better go grab a couple of things." Natasha says standing up and leaving the cockpit.
Fifteen minutes later, Coulson, Melinda, Skye and Clint are in the Cargo Bay saying goodbye to Natasha, Fitz, Simmons and Ward having said their goodbyes upstairs.
"Be careful with whatever you're doing." Clint says to his partner.
"I always am." Natasha responds, "Keep those three out of trouble." She says referring to Skye, Melinda and Coulson.
"Hey." Skye says annoyed while Melinda rolls her eyes.
"I'll do my best." Clint responds and the pair kiss.
"See you later." Natasha says giving a hug to Skye, Coulson and Melinda before leaving.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm exhausted. I'll see you in the morning." Skye says heading upstairs.
"She'll be okay, she has Steve watching her back." Melinda says to Clint.
"I know. I just wish I was going with her." Clint says and the three friends head up to bed.
Due to the fact that she is likely still recovering from the strain that using her powers puts on her it is decided that the following morning Skye can continue to sleep instead of being woken for the mission. Because he still has quite a bit of paperwork to do Coulson stays on the bus with her while everyone else goes.
It is about eleven am when Skye is woken by a wave of knowledge. This is something that has happened to Skye a couple of times since she got her memories back but the wave hasn't been as big as this, or as overwhelming.
Due to the force of the information, and what it is, Skye has to sit up in her bed and spend several minutes catching her breath; trying to comprehend what she now knows.
"No." Skye says several minutes later once she truly understands what she just knows means, "No, no, no." Skye says as she throws of her blanket and begins to look for her mission outfit because knows that with what is coming, with what she is going to have to do, she is going to need it.
Once she is changed Skye quickly brushes her hair and runs out of her bunk as she puts it up in a high ponytail, "MOM? DAD? UNCLE CLINT?" Skye yells at the top of her voice, knowing that she doesn't have time to search the entire plane so she has to do it the quick way.
"Skye? What's wrong?" Coulson asks running down from his office, clearly concerned about Skye yelling.
"I've got to go." Skye tells her father.
"What do you mean go?" Coulson asks confused, "Why are you wearing your tack gear?" He asks concerned, knowing that it can't mean anything good.
"Look, I don't have time to explain." Skye tells her father as starts to put her jacket on, "What matter is that I need to talk to Nicky face to face, like yesterday." Skye tells her father.
"Why?" Coulson asks, "You're worrying me." Coulson tells her.
"Trust me Dad, you should be worried." Skye tells her father, "I'll be back as soon as I can." She tells her father
"If you need to get to Nick as soon as possible then wait for your Mother to get back and fly there." Coulson tells her.
"No. I can't wait." Skye tells him, "And you'll all be safer if you stay away." Skye tells him as she does up her zip, "But there is something I need you to do for me." Skye tells her father.
"What?" He asks.
"Whatever you do, do not go to any SHEILD base." Skye tells her father and she starts to walk away but he blocks her path.
"I'm not letting you go alone." Coulson tells his daughter.
"Dad I have to go. I need to talk to Nicky, everything is about to be on the line." Skye tells her father.
"I'm getting that." Coulson tells her, "But whatever's going on it's clearly something bad and dangerous and I'm not going to let you go face that alone." He tells her.
"Dad, I have to." Skye tells him, "The team needs you, let me go." She tells him.
"No." Coulson responds, "Skye you're my daughter, if I can't talk you out of it then I'm never going to let you go into something dangerous alone." Coulson says and to his surprise Skye hugs him.
"I love you Daddy. I'm sorry." Skye says as she hugs him and uses her power to knock him out. Once he is unconscious Skye slowly lowers him to the ground and even though she knows that she doesn't have time to waste Skye runs to her bunk and gets her pillow which she puts under his head, "You'll understand soon. I'm so sorry." Skye says to her father as she kneels down next to him, "If I make it through this, I'll never stop apologising." Skye says to her father before standing up, taking a deep breath to pull herself together, and running downstairs.
When she gets downstairs she grabs her bow and quiver from where they are kept, as well as her helmet. She puts the bow and quiver on her back, climbs on her motorbike, where she disables the tracker that she knows her Uncle and Aunt put in the bike, and turns on the engine.
"Eight hours to DC, let's see if I can do it in half the time." Skye says before putting on her helmet and speeding out of the cargo bay. As she does her thoughts are divided by two things, whether her dad will forgive her and what she now knows.
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