Chapter 4
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OMG OMG OMG. That was sooo good, I wasn't making any sense when I tried to tell my Mum (who doesn't watch SHEILD) about it. I loved it soooo much. Melinda and Coulson were awesome but I wish we saw the apology between them. I loved the Coulson Tripp fanboying that was soo epic. I'm really worried about Fitz and Simmons, but I have to hope that they are okay. Next week can't have soon enough.
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Skye spends several minutes walking away from her godfather before pausing because she realises that she needs a plan.
"Okay Skye, think. What do you need?" She asks herself, "My bike, my bow." She realises, "It's stupid." She says to herself as she knows that it is risky to go back to the bus station for possessions, but these possessions matter to her because they were gifts from people who are truly important to her and she can't just leave them at the bus station, not when she's basically losing everything. Once her decision is made Skye uses her power to tell her where to go and she discovers that she is six miles away from the bus station which is further than she would like to be, but on the plus side she is able to stay in the tunnels the whole way which will help her stay hidden.
The walk through the tunnels to the bus station takes over an hour and a half. When she arrives under where she knows the bus station is, Skye is able to use the access chamber to get back up to the lowest level of the station, before she removes the cover she uses her power to tell if there are any Hydra agents around and she is glad to discover that there are not.
"No time like the present." Skye says and she climbs out of the tunnel and heads inside. Once she is inside Skye once more uses her powers to avoid the security cameras and collects he belongings and then heads back to where she parked her bike.
Once she is back in the car park Skye puts on her jacket and helmet and makes her bow go back to its regular size before putting her bow and quiver on her back.
"Okay, I need a plan." Skye thinks to herself, as she arrives back at her bike, because she knows that while she has to get to the location Fury told her to get to she can't do that looking the way she does because thanks to the bright blue of her outfit. That and the fact that she has a bow on her back is going to draw attention to her and that's the last thing she needs at the moment. "Okay, think. You know this." Skye tells herself, "тетя Наташа. This is a major city she is bound to have a storage locker here somewhere." Skye realises, "Come on." Skye says and she uses her power to discover if she does, "Yes, thank you тетя Наташа." Skye says as she climbs on her bike and drives away.
While Skye spends over an hour and a half getting herself to the bus station Fury spends over an hour and a half getting himself to an apartment of Tony's. The apartment that Steve has been living in for the last couple of months, as he has been spending more time in DC than New York, because he knows that he can trust Steve and he needs his help.
Steve arrives back home half an hour after Fury arrived and when he does Fury informs Steve by using his phone that ears are everywhere and that SHIELD is compromised. When Steve asks who knows he is shocked to discover that one of the three people who know is Skye but before he can find out anymore they are attacked.
The bus has touched down in DC and Coulson, Melinda and Clint are in Coulson's office using every single number that between them they know for Fury to try and contact him and with every failed call they get more and more worried.
"Maria might know something, she's our last option." Clint comments.
"It's worth a try." Coulson comments and he calls Maria's number.
"Hill." Maria answers to the others relief.
"Maria, what's going on?" Coulson asks, "Skye left his morning saying that she needed to talk to Fury and we haven't heard from her since, and we haven't been able to get a hold of Nick." Coulson tells his friend as he puts the phone on speaker so that the others can hear.
"Phil, you Melinda and Clint need to get to George Washington University hospital. Leave the rest of the team on the plane, only you three come." Maria tells him.
"Why? What happened?" Coulson asks worried
"I need you to trust me Phil." Maria tells him, "Leave Ward, Fitz and Simmons on the plane and get to the hospital as soon as possible." Maria requests.
"We'll be right there." Coulson responds and he, Melinda and Clint exchange worried looks.
"This isn't good." Clint responds.
"No, it's not, let's go." Melinda says and the three head downstairs.
"What's going on?" Ward asks as he sees the three friends run down the stairs.
"We'll be back in a few hours." Coulson tells Ward, "Stay here until we are."
"Yes Sir." Ward responds and Coulson, Melinda and Clint head downstairs leaving a confused Ward.
About twenty minutes after she left the bus station Skye arrives at the security facility where Natasha's storage locker is. Because it is an outside facility Skye rides right up to the locker.
"Okay, first things first, any traps?" Skye asks herself and uses her powers to find out, "No, huh, that's surprising." Skye says then she realises that no one is supposed to know this place, "Sorry тетя Наташа, but I'm despite." She says as she picks the lock.
Once she is inside the locker Skye turns on the light, pulls her bike in and pulls the door back down.
"First things first, med supplies." Skye says to herself as she removes her jacket, bow and quiver because she knows that she needs to treat the cut she has on her arm. Once Skye finds the medical equipment she cleans the cut and puts a dressing on it before going in search of what else she needs. She finds a bag where she puts a bit of cash, her bow, quiver and her jacket in.
"Come on, please have more around here." Skye says to herself hoping that because of who her partner is that Natasha has extra arrows, "Perfect." Skye says to herself when she finds them and she puts them in the bag as well, "Okay, pants and top are fine, need another jacket and boots." Skye says as her jacket and boots are what stand out the most. Skye easily finds a jacket that she likes, finding shoes on the other hand is a bit harder but she does manage to find herself a pair of black boots and she is very thankful that her and Natasha have about the same size feet as they fit okay. Once she has changed her shoes Skye puts her other pair in the bag because she realises that she may just need them.
Once she has put her boots in the bag Skye looks around the storage locker trying to determine if she has forgotten something when she spots something which she walks over to. The something she walked over to is a whole bunch of wigs. Knowing that it will help her to disguise who she is Skye picks up a shoulder length peroxide blond wig and remembering when she watched her aunt correctly put on a wig Skye does just that. Once she is sure that she has the wig on correctly Skye realises that there is just one more thing that she has to do and she begins her final search,
"Gotcher." Skye says several minutes later when she finds Natasha's collection of license plates, grabbing one of the ones that is marked for motorbikes Skye removes her bike's current plates and puts on the new ones. "Done." Skye says and she walks over to where she left the bag, she is just about to zip it closed when she remembers the two things in the back of her pants, her badge and the gun. Skye decides to leave the gun in her pants but she grabs her badge, which she opens and spends several minutes staring at the Shield. Even though she knows logically she should leave the badge she can't bring herself to do it so instead she puts it in the bag, zips the bag and walks over to her bike where she puts on her helmet and rolls the bike outside where she locks the storage locker before ridding away.
When they arrive at the hospital Coulson, Melinda and Clint are confused about where they are meant to be going until they see Natasha running inside with a look of fear on her face, something that isn't seen often.
"NAT." Clint calls out and she turns to look at them.
"You heard." She realise when she sees them.
"What? What's going on? Maria just told us to get here." Coulson tells her.
"Nick's been shot." Natasha tells them and she continues to run inside the others right behind her.
Five minutes later Natasha, Clint, Melinda and Coulson rush into the observation room to see Steve watching Nick's operation.
"No, don't do this to me Nick." Natasha says and Clint walks over to his partner and grabs her hand.
"What the hell happened?" Coulson asks Steve, shocked to see the man he cares about so much fighting to survive.
"He showed up at my place, he was hurt and we were attacked, he was shot." Steve tells him as beeps are heard from the other room.
"What did the shooter look like?" Melinda asks as she walks over and stands next to Clint, and Coulson walks over and stands on her other side so that the five of them are standing and watching as the doctors try their best to revive Fury.
"He's fast... strong... and has a metal arm." Steve says and Natasha and Melinda exchange looks. "You know him." Steve realises noticing the looks.
"What were the ballistics?" Natasha asks Maria who just walked in.
"Three slugs, no rifling, soviet made." Hill informs them.
"No, no, don't do this, come on Nick fight." Coulson says as the doctors start to put down the instruments.
"Time of death 1:03 am." The doctors declare and all six of the people in the observation room have tears rolling down their faces, as for the five agents Fury is the closest thing to a father that they have known in a long time and to Steve he is a friend.
Several minutes later the doctor comes in and gives them his condolences and allows them to go in and see Fury.
Natasha and Coulson who were the closes to Fury walk over to his body while Maria stands back against the wall and Melinda, Clint and Steve stay several steps behind them.
"I need to take the body away." Maria says several minutes later.
"Did he say anything about Skye?" Coulson asks as Natasha puts her hand on Fury's head.
"Skye? What does she have to do with this?" Natasha ask concerned and confused.
"She left the plane this morning desprate to see Nick, she used her power to knock me out." Coulson reveals.
"She was with him earlier. I know that for sure but I don't know anymore." Maria informs them.
"How do you know?" Melinda ask.
"Because I heard her voice when he called me to tell me to get to DC." Maria explains, "I'm sorry I've really got to take him now." Maria says and the other five nod and leave the room.
"What was he doing at your place?" Natasha asks Steve angrily.
"I don't know." Steve responds, "But I do know that Skye wasn't with him when he showed up." He says looking at Coulson and May.
"Steve, tell us everything he said." Melinda tells him, "Nick had a thing for riddles, so he might have given you a clue that you don't realise." She tells him.
"Captain Rogers, get back to SHIELD, NOW." Rumlow tells Steve.
"I'll be right there." Steve responds and he lowers his voice because while Fury told him not to trust anyone he truly trusts the four people standing before him, "He gave me this and told me that S.H.I.E.L.D is compromised, and that me, him and Skye are the only ones who know." Steve reveals pulling out a drive.
"Don't flash something like that around." Natasha says quickly taking the drive off Steve.
"You need to go to S.H.I.E.L.D, but be careful." Coulson tells his hero who he now considers to be one of his closest friends, a brother.
"There is a building on the corner of North Queen Street and 16th street north, it's condemned on the outside, get there when you finish at S.H.I.E.L.D. We'll be there waiting." Clint tells Steve in his voice barely above a whisper.
"Look after that drive." Steve says to Natasha who nods.
"ROGERS." Rumlow yells.
"Go." Coulson tells him and Steve nods and he goes.
"Now, we've got to get out of here." Melinda says.
"First things first. Phones." Natasha says and everyone hands them over and they drop the multiple phones that each of them have into the bin.
"Do we go get Ward, Fitz and Simmons?" Clint asks as Natasha does that.
"Nick went to Steve instead of a hospital to warn him that S.H.I.E.L.D was compromised." Melinda tells her brother, "We don't know if we can trust them, and if we can it's likely that they are safer away from us." She comments and the other three nod.
"We've got to continue this conversation later, move." Natasha says when she spots several agents coming towards them.
"Now." Coulson says echoing Natasha and the four begin to walk in the opposite direction, not fast enough to draw attention to them but fast enough to get away.
"Out through the basement is our best bet." Clint says and that's where they head.
Before she can get herself to Fury's base Skye realises that she needs to put gas in her bike otherwise she won't make it very far. As she is ridding she uses her powers to tell her where the nearest gas station that doesn't have security cameras are so that's where she goes.
Once she has filled her bike up with gas Skye hits the road again and starts to make her way to the location that Fury told her.
Ten minutes after they decided to use the basement to get out of the hospital Coulson, Natasha, Melinda and Clint exit through the car park.
"We're stealing a car aren't we?" Coulson asks when he sees the looks that Melinda, Natasha and Clint have on their faces; it's the look of them trying to decide tactically which would be a good choice.
"Borrowing." Clint corrects, "Got the perfect choice." He says referring to the dark green SUV.
"I'm driving." Natasha says as they walk over to the car.
"You don't know where we're going, I do, so I am." Clint says.
"We're did you tell Steve to go?" Melinda asks curious.
"A safe place that I have in DC." Clint says as they get the car doors open and he gets in the driver's seat before Natasha can.
"Does anyone know about it?" Coulson asks.
"You guys don't know about it, what do you think?" He asks as he hot-wires the car as Melinda and Coulson get in the back and Natasha gets in the front.
"That we've got to hope that things go alright with Steve at SHIELD." Melinda says as Clint gets the car going.
Because she knows that she will draw more attention to herself if she speeds Skye makes sure to stay under the speed limit and follows all the road rules, so that she doesn't have any reason to be pulled over. Because of this she drives on different roads for forty five minutes then off road for another fifteen until she reaches where Fury lead her to.
When she gets there she finds that it is what looks like a dam with a door inside. Realising that this is the place she gets off the bike and walks it to the door, where she stands confused unsure what to do because it is locked.
"Okay, what do I do?" Skye asks herself and she gets the answer, "May Skye Philippa Coulson, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." Skye says and the door opens. "Handy." She mutters as she walks her bike inside, she is a few steps inside when the door closes behind her. "Not creepy at all." She mutters as she leaves her motorbike by the door, but far enough so that it's not in the way, and she walks down the corridor. When the corridor opens up she finds a large medical area, what looks like a meeting room and several doors.
"Secret base, why am I not surprised." Skye comments as she puts her bag down on the table and goes to look around to see whether she is alone or not.
It takes the four agents fifteen minutes to get to Clint's safe place which unknown to the other three is the top floor of a condemned building.
"You sure this is safe?" Coulson asks his friend.
"It's only condemned on the outside." Clint says going over to what looks like a pile of crates in the corner, "Here." He says grabbing out clothes and throwing them at Melinda, Natasha and Coulson, "These should fit you." He tells them, "Perfect." He says when he finds the spare bow and arrows.
"Do you have other weapons?" Natasha asks him.
"Of course I do." Clint responds looking like he is insulted by the question, "And I have some tec that we may need at some point." He tells them.
"We've got to find out what is on this drive." Natasha tells the others
"And we've got to find Skye." Melinda tells her.
"Did she say anything before she knocked you out?" Natasha asks Coulson.
"Not to go to an S.H.I.E.L.D base, that everything was on the line." Coulson tells her.
"She definitely knows that S.H.I.E.L.D was compromised then." Natasha realises, "Maybe she wanted to warn Nick." Natasha guesses, "It would make sense considering Maria knew that she was with him."
"That doesn't explain where she is." Coulson comments as he can't help but think of the worst.
"Steve said that when Nick showed up at his place he was already hurt, maybe Skye was with him when that happened and she wasn't hurt as much, or at all, so Fury sent her somewhere else, and they're going to meet up somewhere." Clint suggests.
"Which could mean that Skye is somewhere alone, waiting for someone who can't show up." Melinda points out, like Coulson her mind is going to all the worst possible scenarios.
"You're forgetting, Skye has her powers." Clint points out, "If Fury doesn't show up when they were going to meet then she would use her powers to tell her what's going on." Clint tells them. "Unless we hear otherwise we've got to assume that she is okay." He tells the others, because while he is just as worried as everyone else he is trying not to let it show.
After Skye looked around the base where she discovered that she was in fact alone she sits down at the table, takes of the wig she put on, and unsure of what else to do she grabs the pile of magazines she brought when she stopped for Gas and she starts to read them.
"Proximity alert." A robotic voice says causing Skye to jump.
"Crap." Skye says throwing down the magazine to put her quiver on her back and grabbing her bow as she makes her way to the door that leads outside. Taking her stance and grabbing an arrow out of quiver, once she has she draws her bow and prepares to fire just in case it's not someone friendly, or worse that it's Hydra, that they have found her.
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