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Chapter 7

11 MONTHS SINCE RESCUE

We were about one mile away from the lab when Coulson told me it was time. I got up from my chair and started walking towards the cargo bay of the BUS. My skin still stung from where Simmons had put the micro tracker in my arm.

Skye, who was talking to me about last minute details, stopped and crouched in front of me so she was about the same height as me said, "All you have to do is get in there, shut off the power, and wait for us to come and get you. Okay?"

"Okay." I said in the strongest voice possible.

"Your team is right behind you and we will never leave you." She said in a reassuring voice that made her sound confident and brave. Her eyes said she was worried.

"Promise?"

"I promise."

She gives me a small hug and goes to walk behind the lab doors as they seal behind her. I get encouraging looks from the whole team and a smile from Mel. A real smile. With teeth and everything.

Coulson pulls the lever to open the ramp as I move towards the opening. As I came up on the edge I suddenly got a surge of confidence as I see the Earth below me.

So I stepped off, and started falling towards the place I never wanted to see again.

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As I started flying my raptor vision saw the compound in great detail. I located my entrance and started to descend.

Once I landed on the roof, it felt weird because there were turrets and cameras all over the place but there were no people. I looked through the skylight to search for any guards or scientists and seeing none I broke the glass. I started hanging off the pipes that were mounted on the ceiling and swinging myself over to the air duct vent. I quickly and silently pulled the vent off and crawled inside.

If you have ever been inside air ducts, you know how annoying it is. To move comfortably is one thing, but moving and not making noise is another thing entirely. Luckily I am small and it is one of the best ways to infiltrate a building. When Coulson taught me this he called it The Barton Principle. I have no clue why he named it that but whoever "Barton" was, he was good.

I arrived at the vent directly above the panel and undid the vent and lowered myself into the room. As soon as I pulled the lever everything went dark and I felt someone grab me from behind. I tried to escape and almost did until two more big men came in and grabbed my limbs. They carried me to a room that had been saved from the power outage. They strapped me down, walked out, and locked the door behind them.

Then I heard gunshots and yelling. I allowed myself to smile just a bit, in knowing my team was here and they were never going to leave me behind.

I was hopeful until hearing Coulson yell fall back. Skye then ran right past the glass of the room I was in. She looked at me and yelled in a broken voice, "We will come back, I promised I would."

Then she ran.

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The next hours were complete and utter hell. I had been crying and thrashing until a scientist got an IV in my arm. I had been in and out of consciousness since. About an hour later I woke to a searing pain in my arm. The tracker had been cut out.

Then a man in a white coat came in and sat down in the chair in front of me.

"You are Experiment one-zero-six-three- five, approximately nine years old, blond hair, green eyes, 98 percent human and 2 percent Avian, and is one third of the way through the training process," He said as I was glaring daggers at him and his stupid file.

"You're wrong," I said. "My name is Alexandra and my family is going to come back and get me!"

He raised his eyebrows and started to chuckle. "Your family, you mean the ones who just ran away and left you here? The rogue SHIELD team? You think they are going to come back for you? An experiment?"

He stood up by now and was gradually getting closer. I kept staring at him with a blank face, just as Mel taught me.

"You are nothing but a being that needed fixing to them." He paused and said, "Like a problem child!"

He straightened his lab coat and his tie.

"Then I guess it is a good thing you get to complete your training in Russia. You are being transferred tomorrow." He said with a smirk on his face as he walked out the door.

Those three words kept bouncing around in my head. Not I love you or pancakes are life. Those three words.

A problem child.

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