Skye awoke to water being splashed onto her face. She gasped in air and examined her surroundings. It was a darks room and she was in the center. She tried to blink away the water as she looked down. She was tied to a chair. Not with ropes or duct tape, it was something else. Wires. They were a dark red color and they ran down the chair, tying her wrists and ankles to the wooden chair,
"Good," She heard a voice say. She whipped her head around to see who had spoken. It was the boss guy, "finally, you're up,". He circled her chair, holding a sharp knife in his hand,
"Now, I don't want any trouble," He said,
"Really?" Skye said, "Cuz it looks to me that is exactly what you want," The man shot her a look of rage. Whenever she was in trouble, she immediately turned to sass. It was, she might say, her secret weapon,
"You probably wouldn't know this but you see, I am a profiler. Do you know what that means?" The man asked, stopping in front of her chair. He continued to explain, not allowing Skye to speak, "It means I examine every little thing about you. I learn things about you that you don't even know about yourself,"
"I highly doubt that," Skye said softly,
"You are selfish," The man said, ignoring Skye's comment, "you seclude yourself from others and don't allow them to be close to you. You are stubborn, you don't respect authority, and you believe that rules are meant to be broken. You fail to see the truth even when it is right in front of you." The man finished. SKye looked unamused, but inside she was terrified. Her heart started pounding,
"So what, you read my file," Skye said, "I'd give you a gold star for doing your homework, but unfortunately I am tied to a chair," The man laughed softly,
"You really don't see whats happening right now, do you?" The man said. He approached the end of the room and came back with a small electrical board. Skye started to breathe heavier when the realization hit: Wires and electrical boards.
"Now, you're a smart girl, I'm guessing you know the drill," He said, setting up the board,"I ask you what I want to know and you pour your heart out to me, got it?"
"Wait, no. Sorry I still have some water in my ear, could you please repeat that last part?" Skye said. She regretted saying it right when she did. Just as she finished her last breath, the man jumped up and held a knife to her throat,
"Do you understand now?" he said to her,
"Loud and clear," Skye said. Just before the man went back to the board, he cut the edge of her throat as she felt the blood trickle down her neck. It was only a flesh wound, but the knife stung her throat,
"First thing you will tell me is how to decode the files you stole," He said, his hand on a red knob,
"Well the first thing you should know is that I can't just TELL you how to decode something. Its like…like a puzzle," Skye said, suddenly thinking of Ward, hoping he was still alive. She pushed the thought away and continued to talk, "Its a sequence,"
"Fine, whats the sequence?" The man asked. Skye looked down at her feet, refusing to answer. She saw the man step forward and braced herself for the shock. She looked up just in time to see the man pull the knob. Pain struck through her body, starting at the ankles but traveling up. She tried not to scream but the pain was unbearable. She let out a shrill as the man turned the knob back,
"Would you like to reconsider your answer?"
Back on the bus, people were running frantically back and fourth,
"Hey!" Coulson shouted, "focus. Ward, where were you in the building when they took her?"
"Control room, thats the last place I saw her," Ward said. He was anxiously pacing back and fourth,
"They wouldn't stay in the building, that would just be stupid of them," Coulson said,
"Wait! The bracelet!" Simmons yelled, the hope in her voice made the team freeze what they were doing,
"I had to disable it so she could hack into the computer," Coulson said,
"There has to be something," May said. On the screen was the blueprint of the building,
"Heres what we know," Ward said, "they took her. I hate to say this but most likely are torturing her. They would need to hide her in a place where nobody could hear her. Soundproof and isolated,
"Fitz pull up the names of the identified agents in the organization," Fitz started frantically typing as the team breathed down his shoulder. He projected the known names and ranks of the operatives,
"Okay now how many own properties close enough to drive to but isolated. Like a farm," Ward said. His hand was shanking as Simmons turned to him,
"Hey," she whispered, "we're going to find her," Ward looked down at the table,
"She sacrificed herself for me," he said, growing angrier, "I was supposed to do that, not her!They're supposed to be torturing me! Not her! It's all my fault," The whole team was now looking at ward. He quickly turned around and smashed the trash can behind him,
"hey, calm down Ward," Coulson said. Ward glared at the team and dashed out of the room.
Skye's body was in so much pain that she could not support her own head. Her wrists and ankles were bleeding from the wires and her neck was stained of blood,
"You do realize that if I move this knob one more time, your organs will fail," The man said. Skye refused to look anywhere near him. He walked to Skye's chair,
"One more after that, you will go into cardiac arrest," He kneeled down next to Skye forcing her chin up,
"You think you are so brave," the man said, raising the knife to a position under her right eye, digging in to cause blood to rush down her cheek, "Just like your mother," Skye's head jumped up so fast, she knocked her nose into his face. She struggled to speak as her voice came out hoarse,
"Mother?" Skye asked. The man was at the door, reclining. He took a photo out of his jacket and shoved it in her face,
"Beauty, right? I thought that too," The man stared at Skye's face, dripping with blood and tears, "when i first saw you in the control room you looked familiar. We took your blood sample while you were out. Turns out the little rat did have a daughter!" The man walked over to Skye and made a cut with his knife above her left eye, "now I never got around to torturing her, but you," He paced around the room and landed at the red knob, "well I have all the time in the world," He said as he stared into Skye's eyes and pulled the knob.