Chapter 34

Andrew felt defeated in a way but that didn't stop him from trying to follow his wife and her capture, Grant Ward. He was part way up the stairs when May grabbed him from behind and began pulling him off the staircase. He couldn't control himself through the tears and screaming for Skye to come back.

"Agent Parker, let go!" May yelled as he held onto the railing. "There's nothing we can do right now. We need to get this plane into safety."

He wasn't one for this normally but his emotions had played the best of him. Andrew did what he was told realizing that it was all too late. If he wanted to see Skye again then he had to make sure the rest of the team was safe.

"Agent May, I'm sorry." He sobbed as he fell to the floor near her feet.

The older agent looks at him sadly for only a brief moment placing a hand on his shoulder. Now wasn't the time to be sentimental as she had to help Trip fly the plane.

"We need to get to safety Agent Parker. I need your help by releasing the pods off the Bus." She says.

Andrew dries his eyes and looks up nodding telling her that he understands what must be done. By releasing the extra pods stored on the Bus amongst extra items they didn't need that meant they could create a decoy. They could get away from the fighter jets that were coming their way quickly.

The agent stands up and runs to towards the emergency pods just as May takes off towards the cockpit to help Trip fly their way out of this mess.

There's about four emergency pods still in the Bus waiting to be pushed out. The one that Ward trapped FitzSimmons in was never replaced as they could never find another one. There was just caution tape surrounding the area.

"Agent Parker, I need you to get the pods in position." May says over the Bus's com system.

Andrew is normally quick on his feet but right now he's lagging. The agent knows he needs to pick it up in order to make sure the team is safe.

He quickly pushes the emergency release just as May is counting down and Andrew is bracing for the wind gusts against the wall of the Bus trying to get the hanger doors to come back down. He knows that they made it out alive when he hear Trip yelling over the coms.

"You're the man, Agent Parker!"

Andrew only takes that as something to boost his confidence. He knows he can save Skye now. It's just a matter of time until they can get to San Juan.

When they land, the rest of the team is there waiting. Everyone except for Mack though. FitzSimmons are still trying to figure out ways on how it could have happened and how they can get him back to normal if that is even possible. Fitz wants it possible because without Mack, he would lose a really good friend. One that helped him get over that Simmons and Parker were gone and undercover with HYDRA.

FitzSimmons heard what had happened to Skye but is surprised when they see their best friend standing on the ramp to greet them. Its only briefly with a nod and a smile that Jemma could tell was fake. The two don't says anything to him but acknowledge that Andrew is there and he is okay for now. They decide to take the gear that they brought in and head towards the cage to brainstorm some ideas off of each other.

Parker sees that Coulson is talking to May. She explains what had happened. How Ward came for Raina but also left with Skye as he had supposedly made her a promise that he intended to keep. Andrew sees Coulson looking over at him with a blank expression. He can't tell if the director feels anything for him but he just knows he does for Skye.

The agent leaves the garage area when he sees Bobbi come up the ramp. As much as he wants to go talk to his acting big sister, now just isn't the time since Hunter is already greeting her. Especially when it deals with what he had found in the old lab.

Instead he goes upstairs asking the Koenig brothers where Leo and Jemma disappeared to. When he gets the answer of the cage, the agent makes his way over there. He peeks into the opened door and finds his friends sitting at the table clearly discussing ideas and plans to get Mack back.

Fitz is the first one to see his best friend standing in the doorway since Jemma has her back faced to it. He uses his right hand to try and motion Andrew into the room while Jemma gives a puzzled look at Fitz. She doesn't realize what the engineer is doing until her ex-boyfriend is officially in the room standing next to the table.

The three of them are silent for a few minutes until Jemma decides to get up from her spot at the table. She reaches her arms around Andrew's neck to give him a hug. The biochemist is much shorter than the specialist and it makes Fitz smile when he sees her standing on her tip toes. It makes the engineer get up himself and initiate it as a group hug now. One that they haven't had since shortly after their academy days when Fitz and Simmons began working together in a lab.

Somehow the memory of their group hug comes back to Fitz. It's one he used to remember so fondly until it was too painful. The one of their last group hugs they shared, when Jemma learned she was pregnant. But now Fitz didn't want to remember that one, he wanted to remember the group hug they could all share after they got Skye back.

Andrew is walking down the staircase back to the garage after spending time with FitzSimmons. He walked through the common area and saw Hunter walking by giving him a nod. The agent takes it as he is done talking to his ex-wife. When he gets half way, Andrew sees Bobbi looking through more of the cases that fell on the floor in the make shift garage.

"Mack would hate to see this." Bobbi says when she finally sees him.

"Well it's a good thing he's not here." He replies slipping a hand into his pants pocket.

Bobbi just sighs and moves through another case. She sets it back on the counter and then looks over at Andrew.

"You want to help?"

Parker shakes his head no but pulls out the thumb drive wrapped around his hands. He positions it to where Bobbi can see it.

"You should probably be careful with this. Need a better spot." He tells her.

"Where did you find that?"

"Where do you think, Bobbi!? In this pile of rubble. You're lucky I found it before May or Coulson."

Bobbi gets up off the ground and plucks the thumb drive out of his hand as she comes closer to him. She immediately puts it in her pocket before staring him in the eye.

"You haven't told Skye about this right?"

"This is one thing she doesn't need to know about."

Skye grunted as Ward pushes her through the building in San Juan. He was complaining about her husband as usual and how he would be better for her. She wanted to punch him in the face but decided against it.

"You know I'm not loyal to HYDRA." He eventually says.

"Sounds like you are." She answers.

"But I'm not." He repeats. "I mean my orders were to bring in Raina but taking you with me was my decision."

"Maybe you don't remember, but we've played this game of 'let's kidnap Skye' before, and it didn't end well for you."

The hacker sees Ward make a face dismissing the comment a little bit.

"I'm keeping my promise though. Taking you to your father."

"Sounds fun." She answers sarcastically.

Ward takes her to a door and opens it to reveal a man on the other side. He's an older man and Skye only assumes it is father.

"I bet you have a lot of catching up to do." Ward tells her before leaving.

Before her is the man she never grew up knowing. He's standing there in a suit and tie with a smile on his face. She can only think that he is happy to finally meet her.

"The way you tilt your head. It's almost like its nature or is it nurture." He tells her.

Skye just stares at him not saying anything. She wants to leave, be in the safe arms of her husband.

"My name is Cal. I'm your dad." He explains. "I want to thank you for agreeing to meet with me."

That's when Skye loses it briefly. "I was kidnapped! I didn't want this."

It takes Cal by surprise that his daughter would even say that. It's their first time meeting and he wants it to go well but so far it's not.

"This is not how I planned this going."

"You're a murderer, a monster."

"Okay those are true, but you have to understand. My daughter was taken from me. I had to."

Cal begins explaining what had happened around the time that she was taken. That Skye was stolen from him. How he went everywhere to find her and that she was supposed to be safe. He had trusted people to watch her but then the village was destroyed. Skye had known that part. From the information that Coulson and May had brought to her. The information that she had attempted to get when she and Andrew had begun dating after finding his S.H.I.E.L.D. badge.

"I'm sorry." Cal starts. "About everything. How I couldn't be there to watch you grow up."

Skye crosses her arms. "Yeah, a lot happened."

"I wish I could have been there. At your wedding and such. Or your first date with that kid. Your husband."

Skye looks away for a brief moment to compose herself.

"You almost killed him."

"I didn't know that was your husband. But I saved him."

"You shot him!"

Cal shakes his head. "That wasn't me."

Skye doesn't want to believe him. He hurt her husband, she just knew that. The hacker sighs and then tries to leave. Skye has had enough. She opens the door to reveal a few of the HYDRA guards.

They all look alarm when Skye opens the door but Cal is immediately there, shutting the door so they don't come in.

"I want out of here." She says defiantly.

"Oh no you're right where you should be. It's your destiny." Cal tells her.

Bobbi and Andrew managed to get off the plane in one piece without Hunter questioning everything but the specialist explained that he and his ex-wife were just going to meet Diego. That seemed to get Hunter to stay put with the rest of the team and help them get all the gear ready that they needed.

They had reached the town after a short ride from a native villager who thought they were married. Instead Andrew made a face and then proceeded to explain that Bobbi was his sister. After that the villager could totally see it and that made much better sense.

When they were dropped off at an edge of town they walked the rest of the way in hoping to eventually meet Diego.

"You can't mention that thumb drive to anyone else." Bobbi comments reminding him.

Andrew just groans and looks over at the other agent. "I told you I haven't even told Skye. What makes you think I'm going to tell anyone else?"

"I don't know." Bobbi says honestly.

"No one really knows what happened on that mission I came back from before Coulson got ahold of me. It's all been lies."

"What about your aunt."

"Bits and pieces. You were there for some of the explanations."

They get to the corner when Bobbi stops him for a moment, scoping out the upcoming area. That's when Andrew hears a gasp.

"What?"

"Diego is early and he's wearing a suit."

"And that's bad how?"

"He's never early and never wears a suit."

Andrew peeks around Bobbi to look at the contact's position. Well that made sense. There were other men around him in suits.

"My dad is here." He whispers.

"Probably somewhere near the temple."

"Uh Bob, they're coming near us." He says.

Bobbi thinks for only a few seconds before coming up with something logical.

"I need you to kiss me."

Andrew gasps and makes a face at the comment. "What the hell? No way."

"Drew we don't have a choice."

"But Skye… aww man." He doesn't have a choice now as Bobbi pulls on his shirt to kiss him to hide their identities.

When the men go by, Bobbi releases her grip. There's now a paper in her hand and Andrew his wiping his mouth with his sleeve.

"That was gross. It was like kissing my sister." He tells her.

"Well it's a good thing we already go by that. You won't miraculously get feelings for me right?"

He knows she's joking in the last part. The agent never really felt like that around her.

"Hell no. I'm married, I love Skye."

His feelings that were brought for Jemma when he first came to Coulson's team were long gone. He wasn't going backwards, he was going forward now.

"What's the paper?" he questions as soon as he sees it.

"It's from Diego. It's an address here in San Juan." Bobbi shows him the paper. "We should go back."

"Let's go then."

"You're HYDRA." Skye points out once Cal has her sit on the sofa. "You work for Whitehall."

It was quite amazing for Skye and Drew to learn that both their father's had been working together. It made both of them wonder if the other knew who their child was. How Andrew was the creation of a HYDRA leader and a senator's aid. How Skye was a child of a doctor and Chinese decedent. She still had no information about her mother.

"I don't work for Whitehall!" Cal yelled. "I needed his help for to get the pieces of you."

Cal sits down next to his daughter, sighing in the process, starting to explain her mother to her.

"Your mother was special because she had a gift. But Whitehall took that all away."

Skye looks at her father confused for a minute. What did her mother have that Whitehall need?

"Whitehall had cut her all to pieces. She was gone when I tracked her to Europe."

The hacker feels like she lost the will to breathe when she realizes what has happened. Whitehall killed her mother. Her husband's father killed her mother. Their family was more linked to each other more than they had known.

"Drew." She whispered with tears beginning to come down more.

She felt so bad. Her family was torn apart so he could have his own happy childhood. One where he could grow up with both his parents until eventually he started at the academy. His parents tore that apart just as they had done before with hers. They were children of monsters.

Skye felt Cal begin to rub her back as her tears flowed just ever so slightly. She couldn't tell him.

"You said something? Drew?" Cal questions. "Who is that?"

"My husband." She says. "Whitehall's son."

It's all out of her mouth suddenly. The thoughts about it were in her head and they were bound to come out. Cal looks at her but doesn't get a chance to say anything since a man comes in saying the leader of HYDRA has requested his presence.

When Andrew and Bobbi return, they find the team preparing the gear so they can storm into the base that HYDRA is located in. Coulson and May are already in their tactical suits while FitzSimmons and Trip prepare the other gear they are using to dentate the temple. Hunter is talking to Koenig about whatever it is they are talking about.

That just leaves Bobbi and Parker to get into their tactical suits they can get ready to save Skye from whatever was going to happen.

Five minutes after Cal leaves, Skye is approached by two guards. She tries to fight them off but it's no good. They handcuff her and take her by her arms leading her to where Whitehall was with Cal, Raina and Ward.

"Well look who it is." Whitehall says when he sees her. "Even prettier in person. He has good taste."

Skye knows he's talking about Drew. After all this is his father standing right in front of her. Their bone structure similar but the hacker can see where Sara fits into some of Drew's features.

"I have a theory why you are here." He says walking a bit towards her. "You're just as special as my boy is."

There is a silent pause that surrounds them. No one says a word. Not a single movement. It's like everyone is too stunned to move.

"I want you to pick it up."

"You first." Skye tells him earning a smile from her father in-law.

Eventually there is a gun that gets pointed towards her and she reaches for the Obelisk. Using it, the hacker takes out the guards that were brought with Whitehall. In that moment, Cal does the same but instead of the guards he goes for Whitehall.

The doctor eventually gets retained and falls to the ground. Skye and Ward are brought to another room and are tied to separate chairs across the room.

For the next few minutes, Skye has to listen to Ward as he talks to Agent 33 and how he used to know the woman who shares her face. It makes the hacker roll her eyes a lot.

Eventually Cal wakes up and asks if she was hurt but after she shakes her head no, Whitehall comes back in with a buzzer sending him to the ground just as he comes near the HYDRA leader.

"I hope you are as special as your mother was." Whitehall repeats as he kneels in front of her. "Well actually, you probably are special if my boy married you."

Skye doesn't say anything to her father in-law.

"Do you know what your mother's power was? She doesn't age."

It all made sense to her now. The information that Andrew had shared with her. The information that Jemma had mentioned to her. That was how Drew was born. Mixed in with the DNA of his parents was just slightly the powers of her mother. They were met to be together, they were attached.

When Skye tries to say something, there's gunfire echoing through the building and she can only pray that her husband will be there soon to rescue her.

Andrew goes into the building with Coulson and May near his side. For the first time since being undercover with HYDRA, he is holding a real gun, prepared to shoot if he has to. The three agents are silent but when Coulson gives signals, he knows what to do. The specialist takes one way while the other two go towards another. They had to split up in order to find Skye.

There's nothing along the way that Andrew takes. He finds a dead HYDRA guard but that's about it. Eventually when he gets to a staircase, he sees someone he knows. His father.

His father holding a gun towards his father in-law to be exact. That's all one movement it takes for Andrew to raise his gun himself. As a child, he knew his dad wasn't a killer. Daniel Parker was a loving father, one that cared for his son. Not one that took away another life if there was no need. Andrew Parker grew up thinking that his dad was a war hero and that was what he intended on keeping in his memories. This wasn't his father. This man, Daniel Whitehall was monster.

"Good-bye dad." Andrew says as he pulls the trigger.

There's a brief moment when all of Andrew's memories of his father begin to flash. Everything they did together. The baseball games they went to. The family trips they went on. Every stat for Jake Peavy that Andrew told his father on their weekly phone calls when Daniel was gone.

It's all gone when he sees Cal rush towards the body, anger flowing through him.

"What did you do!?" Cal screams at him.

Well that's one way to make him feel bad about shooting his father.

"I'm making sure my wife has family still!" he yells back just as he spots Agent 33 shooting at them.

Andrew immediately takes a shot back and runs off just as Cal does as well. He's trying to find Skye but that doesn't last long. He's instantly ambushed by his father in-law and is thrown onto the ground.

"You killed him! He was mine and you killed him." Cal says throwing repeated punches. "I'm going to do the same to you too."

"You won't kill me." Andrew tells him spitting up blood. "You won't kill her husband. The man she loves, the man she vowed to love for the rest of her life."

"You're Drew. You're Whitehall's son." Another punch to the face. "You're just as bad."

"You can't take me away from Skye."

"That's not her name!" a punch to the stomach.

That's what Skye hears when she enters the room. The gun she had taken from a guard is drawn in front of her. The hacker tries to control her breathing as much as she can.

"Stop!" She yells as Cal takes another punch. "Dad, stop it!"

That seems to do it for Cal once he hears his little girl say dad for the first time. It's a long time coming and he's waited so long for it.

"He took something away from me." Cal says.

"No, Drew is saving you from hurting more people." Skye tells him. "Now step away from my husband."

"You have to finish what you started."

"No! I'm not going down there. You need to leave."

"Why can't you see it as a good thing?"

"You're going to leave or I'll kill you myself."

Cal gets the hint and starts to back away from Andrew.

"Okay, I'll go. Good-bye Daisy." And then he's gone.

Skye releases herself and the tears start flowing when she reaches towards Drew. The hacker takes her husband's hand and cries into it.

"Skye, it will be alright. I will… I will protect you."

"I'm sorry I couldn't kill him. I should have."

"Skye, you did… you did what had to be done. My dad… my dad is dead. You still… still have family."

"I'm going to make it right. I'm going to go find the obelisk."

By the time Andrew can protest, Skye is already running towards the doorway.

"Skye! No! Skye don't go down there!"

Parker is struggling to get up when May and Coulson find him. He is trying to lift himself off the ground but his hands feel like jelly. They can't seem to support him to get up on his own.

"Agent Parker!" May yells as she and Coulson are running towards him.

Both the she and the director attempt to pick him up off the ground. There's blood dripping from his mouth but it stops once he gets stood back onto his feet.

"Where's Skye?" Coulson questioned.

"She… she went after the obelisk."

May takes Parker in her support as Coulson leads them towards where HYDRA was digging at. When they get there, no one is in sight.

"Skye's not here. The obelisk is gone." Coulson says taking his eyes off the case.

"That's not good." Andrew says.

"Skye must have went after Raina." May tells them.

Coulson grabs the rope that leads down the hole and gives it a firm tug.

"I'm going down there." he says.

Andrew feels the grip around himself loosen as May goes to protest.

"Coulson, it's not safe."

"I have too." And then he's down the hole.

Andrew grabs a hold of his side and wiggles out of May's grip. He needs to go down there. The agent needs to save his wife.

"Agent Parker, where are you going!?"

"I'm going to save my wife." He says grabbing the rope.

"You can barely stand. What if you don't make it?"

"I'd rather die knowing Skye is safe then have her die knowing I should have saved her."

May doesn't get another word in as she is partly speechless. Andrew is down the hole and all she can do is contact the rest of the team to make sure that he and Coulson can get out.

Trip and Fitz are helping Jemma up out of the tunnel when they hear one of their phones go off. Fitz thinks it's his for a brief moment only to realize it was Trip's.

"Agent Triplett." He says into the phone before putting it on speaker.

"Trip, we have a problem. Coulson went in the tunnel after Skye and so did Parker."

Jemma and Fitz both look at each other at the same time with wide eyes. Their friend is down there with all of the detonates that were placed.

"Andrew." Jemma whispered as Fitz reached for her hand.

"I'm going down there." Trip announces hanging up on May and grabbing the rope.

"Trip, it's unsafe." Fitz protested.

"I know but we have to save them. Skye is my friend and Parker is yours."

He had a point. Their friends needed to be saved plus Mack was still down there. What were the chances that he was still alive?

Trip took the rope with both hands and maneuvered himself down it. There was only just a matter of time.

Skye felt lost as she jumped into the tunnels. Who could blame her though? There wasn't a map or anything for her to use. The hacker was on her own once she realized that Raina took the diviner. She takes a hallway, carefully shinning her flashlight around and steadying the gun. If anyone was down here that wasn't supposed to she could shoot them including Raina.

She gets closer to a light when she sees a shadow of a person. It takes her a bit to figure out who it is but when she does, Skye is relieved.

"Mack!" she says with a smile only to find out he's being controlled.

The taller agent doesn't want to move when she tells him they need to go. Eventually she decides that she'll come back for him. She needs to find Raina.

The light at the end of the hallway is bright but dimmed at the same time. The hacker hides behind the wall before taking the chance to peek in. There is Raina holding the Obelisk in her hand.

"I knew you would come." Raina tells her.

"Somebody needs to stop you." She answers.

"My whole life, I have been waiting for this."

"No, we are taking the Obelisk back and are leaving. Too many life's are at stake."

"You don't understand. This doesn't destroy. This is destiny."

The Obelisk begins to light up in Raina's hands and then moves towards the platform.

"Make it stop!" Skye yells.

The hacker is scared now, not sure what will happen to them now.

"Your husband, Andrew, he will be here soon. It's his destiny too."

"No!"

Andrew managed to catch up with Coulson but it wasn't at his full pace. He was still gripping his side and he could feel the blood leaking from the few cuts he sustained from having his father in-law use him as a punching bag.

"Why did you follow me?" Coulson asks. "You know it's not safe for you to be down here injured."

"I'm going to save my wife." He tells the director.

Coulson doesn't answer but keeps on running. It's hard for Andrew to keep up with the director but he keeps trying. There is no stopping now. He needs to get to Skye.

The agent stops when Coulson stops in front of him. He nearly runs into the director's back. In front of them is Mack or not Mack. Whatever he is right now. The mechanic is picking up the director in his hands and Andrew takes that as a chance to keep moving. Too keep running to find Skye.

He's almost to the dimmed light that is disappearing when he sees Trip coming up next to him. The other specialist is all sweaty, panting for air. Andrew takes that as a chance to push him away towards another hallway. He didn't need to put any others in danger as he began to sneak through the doorway.

"PARKER!" he hears Trip scream.

There in the room are his wife and Raina. He starts to feel for an exit when he hears his name come out of Skye's mouth.

"Drew, what are you doing here?"

"I came to rescue you." He says. "I promised to keep you safe."

"SKYE! ANDREW!" they hear banging on the door and Coulson's voice mixed in with Trip's.

The agent walks towards his wife and tries to shelter her from the diviner. He's seen it before from the pictures that were found in his father's office when he was undercover at HYDRA.

Skye grabs onto Andrew's hand but are pushed apart when a blast begins.

"It's starting." Raina announces happily.

Skye and Andrew are in separate corners of the room when they both notice each other beginning to get covered by a rock type cocoon.

"Andrew!" Skye whimpers out as a half yell.

The agent tries to reach out to his wife but he can't get to her. He's stuck in the place where he is still leaned up against the wall holding his side.

The ground begins to shake as everyone takes cover. Jemma buries herself into Fitz hoping that everyone makes it out alive. Fitz biggest wish to see his brother just be okay.

Bobbi holds onto Hunter as they try to get out of the way of falling debris around them. They didn't know what was happening until only a few minutes ago when May had finally contacted them. The mockingbird wanted to go down there and rescue her baby brother but Hunter held her back telling her it was too dangerous.

May tried her best to take cover as she stood her ground near the hole waiting for the team to come back up. The ground was shaking and she lost her footing falling near a table, grabbing it for support.

Coulson and Trip continued to bang on the wall until they were pushed away by the force of the diviner beginning. They had ended up near Mack who was rubbing his head and seemingly back to normal.

The last thing Skye remembers seeing is her husband reaching for her as he is engulfed in the cocoon. When she breaks out everything seems to be okay but when she looks over at where Andrew was, something seems to be wrong. His cocoon of his body is there and starts to begin breaking off pieces.

The hacker hurries over to him waiting for something to happen. She hopes that he is okay and they can go back to their normal lives.

But Drew isn't okay. As his pieces break off, Skye begins to notice there's nothing under the shell. There's not an agent, not the man she fell in love with, not her savior. There's nothing and she begins to feel all alone again.

Tears begin to trickle down her face as she picks up the pieces. The hacker doesn't even notice Coulson and Trip running to her safety.

"NO!" Skye screams out.

Her world is gone. Shattered into a million pieces. Everything she has dreamed about with him is gone.

Andrew Parker is gone.

And that is the end of part three. An emotional ride there towards the end. Please review and give me your input.

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