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Skye watched as a fuzzy figure came into her field of view,
"Wake up, sweetheart." Jack said. Finally, Skye's vision managed to straighten. The first thing she noticed was a tingling sensation in her arms. She attempted to stretch her arms out in front of her, but discovered that her hands were tied behind her back. She was laying down on a cement floor, cold and hard. She sighed and attempted to get up. She could only manage a sitting position,
"What the hell-"
"Skyler-"
"Stop calling me that, damn it! My name is Skye!" Skye spat at him. He then kneeled down, trying to level himself with Skye, but he still ended up inches taller than her,
"Skye, how are you feeling?" He asked as he reached out and stroked Skye's hair. She retreated back,
"Peachy." Skye replied in a mutter. She focused her eyes on a single spot on the cement ground. Her heart pounded as she felt the damp cold ground sting her bare feet.
"Skye, where did you grow up?" He asked her.
I'm not telling you a damn thing! She wanted to scream…but she couldn't. Instead something very different came out,
" Orphanage mostly-" She said in a pale voice. Right as the words came out, she looked up at him in surprise. She didn't mean to say that. She didn't. It wasn't her…something inside her forced her to say it. Jack let out a small grin,
"Where do you live?"
"In a S.H.I.E.L.D mobile unit-" Came out of Skye's mouth. She couldn't fight it. Words,the truth,was spilling out and she had no control over it.
"If you are wondering, I have injected you with a truth serum…" Jack started to say. He continued speaking, but Skye had lost her focus. She immediately thought about the first day she had met Ward. Skye remembered the interrogation room, Coulson and Ward tricking her into believing there was a truth serum, Ward telling her everything with those sad puppy dog eyes…and then she giggled. The memory of Fitzsimmons constant bickering snuck into her mind, causing her to laugh even harder.
"Is something about this funny to you?" A voice said, bringing her back to earth. Skye stared at Jack Simeon, not saying a word. Soon, she began to feel the truth fighting its way out of her mouth.
"I was just thinking of-" She cut herself off. Fight it. She told herself, "I was just thinking of something funny my friend once said about…about the truth." Skye said, and was shocked. Okay, thats a good sign, that wasn't entirely the truth….
"Nevermind, I don't care," Jack said. He made his way to Skye and loomed above her,"Now tell me your biggest secret." He said. Skye was taken back. She was about to tell him that she didn't know, didnt have a biggest secret, but something came out of her mouth before she could,
"I have-" She stopped herself. She fought the urge to say it. What exactly, she didn't know, but she wasn't intending on finding out. She took a deep breath. Think Skye, think. She though of her options and she came up empty. Skye was desperate. She searched through her mind and thought of the only thing she could at the time.
"I cheated on my Freshman year final exam off of Kate Winsmith," She said. Though she admits that this was the full truth, it wasn't what she was going to say before. Jack was staring at her with an eyebrow up. She knew he didn't buy it, "And then I stole 50 dollars out of her wallet." She said.
….
"How long has it been?" Simmons asked the team,
"As long as it was the last time you asked 5 minutes ago, and add that to the answer." Fitz said. Jemma shot him a glare.
"Sir," Ward said anxiously, "Please tell me there is something more we can do. We analyzed the feed 8 times and came up with nothing."
"No hits on the plates from the car?" Coulson asked,
"Nothing," Fitzsimmons chorused. The team then plunged into another awkward pause. Wards mind wandered to the memories of the team meetings held where they stood now. Every meeting, each agent went to their respective spots: Fitz next to Simmons, Coulson next to May, and Skye had always been next to him. Her Supervising Officer. Ward became anxious. He escaped the room and ran to Fitzsimmons lab. He raced down the black steps and flew into the lab, heading toward the monitor. The screen displayed the same image it had been for 24 hours-a map with the words "No Signal" placed in front, blocking the view of the map. Ward concentrated on the map,
"Come on Skye, tell me where you are…"
….
"Skye, this could be so much easier if you would just stop fighting the serum!" Jack yelled. He was completely right. Skye had managed to completely override the first dose, but Jack found out when she started rambling off track, causing to completely lose his patience. Now, she was fighting off the second dose. It felt as if you wanted to vomit but your mind refused to. Since the serum was so hard to manipulate, Skye had begun spitting out half truths. Half lies, but somehow, crazy things made their way into sentences.
"Everything would be easier if I stopped fighting! Take Kids Bop for example-"
"Skye, don't fight it!" Jack growled as he snatched the back of her head, holding her by her knotty brown hair,
"Why do you care? These questions are pointless-"
"They won't be if you answer them!"
"Never!" Skye shouted.
"Why did that village die to protect you!?" Jack shouted, "Why am I being paid to capture and question you? Why are you so special?"The room became silent, "Tell ME!" Jack shouted. Skye refused to even look, twisting her head to the side and forcing her eyes to stare at the ground. Her stomach dropped as everything started to fall into its horrible, messed up place. After moments with no answer, Jack roughly released her hair, causing her numbing body to shiver. The room had been getting progressively colder, and the fact that she had nothing but a tank top and thin black pants on was not helping. Jack circled Skye, who had positioned herself in the small ray of sunlight coming from the window. Jack started to speak,
"You are strong, but I will crack you." Jack said,
"People crack eggs," Skye muttered, "eggs are…weak. They have shells but they have not spent 24 years building up that shell for when people like you try to take it down," Skye said, growing louder, "You have no idea what I've been through and what I've done to strengthen the walls around me. The life I have lived so that nobody can know who I really am except for me. Believe me, I have tried to give up but I can't. But that made me stronger because thats what happens when you don't give up, you make your fortification so strong that nobody, not a truth serum nor a narcissistic sociopath, can break me," Skye spat. With every word came the agony of the truth serum fighting her but every sound brought more and more power, "So no. You're wrong. You will never crack me, no matter how many times you stick me with that truth serum. You will never find out the truth. Not from me, at least."