Chapter 12
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After watching the parent trap the group embarks on movie marathon resulting in them all falling asleep in the blanket fort.
The following morning Clint and Melinda are the first to wake. Giving Clint a signal to not say anything yet both him and Melinda get up and remove themselves from what has become everyone being intertwine without waking anyone else. Once they do they both head over to the kitchen.
"You know we can't pass this up." Clint tells her.
"Ideas?" Melinda asks her brother.
"Always." Clint says and whispers the idea to her.
"Let's get what we need." Melinda responds with a smirk.
"It's down in the lab." Clint responds and the two siblings, or the closes thing to siblings that you can be without sharing DNA, head down to the lab, both doing it without making a sound.
As they go neither realise that Coulson and Natasha have woken up.
"What are we going to arm ourselves with?" Coulson asks Natasha in a whisper.
"Well considering I'm pretty sure I know what they are going to get leave it to me." Natasha says getting up and walking across the plane without making a sound. She goes to Simmon's bunk where she grabs several Nerf guns and plenty or refills.
"Simmons and Fitz both brought a whole lot of the different guns and the refills, Fitz keeps his down in the lab but Simmons keeps hers in her bunk." Natasha says firing a Nerf at each of the others, except Skye, to wake them up.
"What's going on?" Ward asks confused.
"Melinda and Clint are likely on their way back up here likely going to wake us up just like I woke you, we're going to beat them to it." Natasha says with a grin.
"What do we do?" Simmons asks.
"We all pretend to still be asleep and get them when they try and get us." Natasha says handing them each a Nerf gun.
Melinda and Clint make their way back up from the lab after Melinda collects a large Nerf Gun and Clint collected a Nerf crossbow. They stand in front of the others and before they can start firing the others fire at them and an all-out war commences.
"What's going on?" Skye asks confused as she wakes about a minute into the war.
"You're helping me Kid." Clint says picking up his niece.
"How?" Skye ask confused as he moves quickly to avoid either of them getting hit with a Nerf bullet.
"Tell me where everyone is, it's me and you and against them Kid." Clint tells her.
"There, Ward is behind the couch." Skye says and Clint hits him, by managing to use the Nerf bow one handed and once more the Nerf War continues Clint and Skye working as a team.
For over ten minutes everyone continues to engage in their Nerf war until a voice pulls them out of their game.
"Some of the best agents that S.H.I.E.L.D's got and you're shouting at each other with forme bullets." Garrett comments.
"Garrett, good to see you, I wasn't expecting you for a few days." Coulson comment form where he is hiding behind the stairs.
"Fury approved our recommendation?" Clint asks to everyone but Coulson's, Melinda's and Natasha's confusion, and Coulson nods, "When?" he asks as everyone comes out from their hiding places.
"Yesterday, before you got back." Coulson asks.
"Uncle Clint who are they?" Skye asks her Uncle Quietly trying to hide her face in Clint's shoulder.
"The guys who's talking is Agent John Garrett, he's an old friend of your parents, me, Nicky, Ward and тетя Наташа. The other guy is his friend Agent Triplett." Clint says to Skye, "Why don't you say hello?" he asks her curious.
"Hi." Skye says to Garrett and Trip in a quiet voice.
"Hey Girly, you now it's been a while since I've seen you." Garrett tells Skye realising that this is the girl that he tried for so long to find for his friends.
"I've never met you." Skye says confused.
"I knew you when you were a baby." Garrett answers.
"Oh, okay." Skye responds.
"Sir, what is going on?" Ward asks confused about why his SO is here and why the only thing that Coulson sees surprised about is that he is here now.
"First we clean this place up and eat breakfast, then we talk business." Coulson says.
"I was hoping that you would offer food." Garrett comments, "As well as being one of the finest agents S.H.I.E.L.D's got Phil here is also a mighty fine cook." He tells Tripp.
"Get this place cleaned up, I'll start on breakfast." Coulson tells everyone.
"Would you like a hand Sir?" Simmons asks curious and Coulson nods as he knows that Jemma is a very good cook as she has assisted him quite often.
"You heard Phil, let's get this place cleaned up." Melinda says and Clint puts Skye down.
"You still mad at me?" Ward asks Skye walking over to her and kneeling in front of her.
"You still mean?" Skye asks.
"No." Ward answers, "I'm sorry Skye, I didn't mean to upset you." He tells her.
"I forgive you." Skye responds and she gives Ward a hug.
"Come on, we better help clean up." Ward tells her.
Once the plane is clean up, everyone gets changed just in time for breakfast.
"So now are you going to tell me why Fury told me to come here?" Garrett asks curious as the group start to take the empty breakfast dishes to the sink as he just go the orders from Fury, no explanation.
"Yeah, you've got a lot to catch up on, it's going to take a while." Melinda tells him.
"If you all have to talk for a while can Fitz and I take Skye to the park?" Simmons asks curious as after all the time Skye spends on the plane it could do her some good to play outside.
"Oh please, please, please." Skye asks excited.
"That sound like a good idea." Coulson comments, "Ward, Agent Tripp do you mind joining them?" Coulson asks.
"Of course not Sir." Ward comments and after getting a nod from Garrett Tripp agrees.
"Can we play with that ball you got me?" Skye asks Fitz as she has been waiting to play with a ball for a while but as no one could see Skye playing with a ball on the plane ending any other way except for something being broken she hasn't had a chance to play with it.
"Of course." Fitz answers.
"I'll go get ready." Skye says running to her bunk.
"I'll get her bag ready." Melinda tells Fitz and Simmons.
"Ward take your side arm as a precaution and keep your coms on." Coulson tells Ward.
"Of course Sir, I'll look after her." He tells Coulson.
"I'm ready to go." Skye says walking over to ward wearing jeans and a t shirt.
"Skye, you've got to listen to Ward, Fitzy, Jem and Tripp." Melinda tells her daughter.
"And not go off on my own and scream if someone tries to get me to go with them, I know." Skye tells her mother, her parents having the same rules as that which Tony and Steve had when she went to Coney Island with them.
"Good." Melinda says giving her daughter a hug.
"Have fun Baby Girl." Coulson says to Skye giving her a hug once Melinda has.
"Let's go. " Ward says to Skye and Tripp.
"Want to explain what that was all about?" Garrett asks once Ward and Tripp have walked away with Skye.
"That's what we are going to tell you." Natasha says, "Command Centre?" She asks the others and they nod.
"What we are about to tell you only a very select group of people know." Melinda tells Coulson.
"Mels, Phil, Nat, Me, Fury, Hill, Ward, Fitz, Simmons, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers and some of it James Rhodes, Thor and Jane Foster, are the only ones who know." Clint tells Garrett.
"Wow, you're making a guy feel real special." Garrett comments.
"The first thing you've got to know is that there is a mole in S.H.I.E.L.D, so you cannot tell a single person what we are telling you." Natasha tells him, "That's the most important thing."
"How do you know I'm not the mole?" Garrett jokingly asks as he guesses that whatever they have to tell him has something to do with Skye which means all of them will be very selective off who they tell information to.
"Because we've spent the last six weeks vetting you." Clint reveals.
"What?" Garrett asks surprised because he wasn't expecting that.
"We've known for a while that we have to bring someone who is a part of S.H.I.E.L.D but not Fury or Hill, or on this plane into this and the list of the people we would trust to do that is very short." Coulson reveals, "All four of us have used our own way to look into you, we've had Tony do the same thing his way, and once we were sure that you were the right choice Fury did too. You've been a friend to all of us for a long time John, which is why you were all of our first choice to bring into this." Coulson tells his friend calling him John, which is something he very rarely does but thanks to all the looking into John's background and every detail of his life that they have been doing they know without a doubt that they can trust him.
"Wow, this must be big." Garrett comments, "What have you got?" he asks and together the four friends explain what has been going on.
Five minutes after they left the plane the others arrive at the park.
"What do you want to do first Skye?" Simmons asks as she gets her out of the car.
"Swings." Skye says happily running towards the swings.
"Skye, slow down!" Simmons says chasing after her.
"I'll do a perimeter check make sure there is no one problems." Ward tells Fitz.
"And I'll go help Simmons with Skye." Fitz responds.
"Why are you doing all this for a kid who's playing at a playground?" Tripp asks confused, "You're treating her like you're on a protection assignment." Tripp says to Wards.
"That's because it is." Ward tells him.
"Look I get that she's Coulson and May's kid but I don't understand why she needs this kind of protection." Tripp says to Ward.
"That's because you don't need to know Agent Triplett." Ward says turning to face him, "What you do need to know is protecting that girl is off the up most importance and not just because of whose daughter she is. Take the north side." Ward orders
"Yes, Sir." He responds and goes and does what Ward tells him, still wondering what the hell is going on as he does.
"So let me get this straight, The Clairvoyant is the one who took Skye, and Quinn is the kid of the Clairvoyant and there is a mole in S.H.I.E.L.D but we don't know their connection." Garrett recounts.
"Yes." Melinda answers.
"Are you sure that the Clairvoyant had psychic powers? Couldn't he have just been using his mole to find out things?" Garrett comment.
"We're positive." Coulson answers, "Skye has the same abilities." He reveals.
"You can't be serious." Garrett comments surprised.
"What did Fury tell you about how he found the plane?" Natasha asks.
"He got a lead." Garrett answers.
"That lead was Skye." Clint tells him, "Only she doesn't exactly understand that at the moment but adult her did." He explains, "She can know things if she puts her mind to it and she can push out and manipulate electrical energy to do what she wants it to." He explains.
"How did she get those abilities?" Garrett asks shocked.
"The Clairvoyant gave them to her, you know what his intention was when he took her." Melinda reminds him.
"To make a perfect weapon against S.H.I.E.L.D." Garrett realises remembering what the message they got after Skye was first taken said, "Does Quinn know that Skye's been de aged?" he asks quickly.
"We don't think so." Natasha answers, "But we can't be sure." She tells him
"Could he have the same abilities that his father has? Could it be genetic?"
"No, not after something Skye said when she was defeating the Clairvoyant." Coulson tells him, "But if he does by some chance then we know that he can't know anything to do with Skye, that's why she was safe for the Clairvoyant for so long." Coulson explains.
"You do realises what it would mean, not just for Skye, but S.H.I.E.L.D, and the whole world if someone where to find out about her abilities at the age she is now, right?" Garrett asks his friend.
"Why do you think we're so careful about who we tell." Melinda tells him.
"Smart." Garrett tells her, "The mole, have you narrowed it down at all?" he asks curious.
"The only things that we know for sure is that the mole wasn't level eight twenty four years ago and has some connection to Quinn and or his father." Coulson reveals.
"That eliminates basically no one." Garrett tells him
"Now, you see our problem." Melinda comments.
"If the Clairvoyant is psychic then why would he need a mole?" Garrett asks
"Because Skye has explained that to know something she has to have a specific thought of what she wants to know and it takes concentration, the only times Skye has known things without searching for the answer first with her ability is when one of us were hurt or was going to be hurt. We believe that the Clairvoyant wanted a mole to find out things that he wouldn't think to think about, and now that the Clairvoyant is gone the Mole would have gotten a whole lot more important to Quinn." Coulson explains.
"Or possibility Moles." Garrett tells the others, "It would make sense if Quinn was covering his bases with more than one traitor." He comments.
"That it would." Natasha realises.
"Great, instead of one mole we can't find we have multiple." Clint comments sarcastically.
"If the job was easy it wouldn't be any fun." Garrett tells him.
"Get a new line." Coulson tells him amused.
"Why? It's a classic." He comments.
"Fury said you've been tracking Mike Peterson." Natasha comments before either Garrett or Coulson can say anymore.
"I call him Deathlok now." Garrett tells her, "But before I explain all that I've got to know, who'd I beat out, who else was on the short list?" he asks interested.
"Blake and Sitwell." Coulson answers, "We told you it was a short list." He adds
"Ah the other two members of the Fab eight, of course." Garrett comments not really surprised.
"Who calls us that?" Clint asks shocked, "Please tell me who so that I don't put an Arrow in the wrong person." He says to his friend who just laughs.
"Go on Garrett." Melinda says ignoring her brother.
Back at the park Skye is happily playing on the playground while Simmons, Fitz, Ward and Tripp watch on.
"Did Coulson, May, Natasha or Clint tell you that Garrett was coming?" Ward asks Fitz and Simmons curious.
"No." They both responds
"You've got suspicious look." Simmons says to Ward.
"It's just odd that none of them seemed surprise that he was here but we know nothing about it." Ward tells her, "What did Garrett tell you?" He asks Tripp.
"Just that we had to come here, it seems like I know as much as you lot." Tripp tells him.
"It's May, Coulson, Barton and Romanoff, they keep secrets." Fitz tells Ward, "You've had to notice that they've been spending a lot of time in Coulson's office together lately." He tells Ward.
"What do you think they're doing?" Simmons asks.
"Tracking…" Fitz begins to say but once he notices the look Ward is giving him he becomes quite.
"What are you all talking about?" Tripp asks interested but before anyone can say anything a cry that everyone but Tripp recognizes as Skye's distract them.
"Skye." Ward says and he Fitz and Simmons run over to her.
When they reach Skye they find her laying on the ground beneath the monkey bars obviously having fallen off, her left arm pointing at a odd angle.
"Jem it hurts." Skye says crying in pain.
"Oh, I know." Jemma tells her sister, "We'll get you back to the plane and I'll help you." Jemma tells her as she kneels down next to her.
"Plane? We've got to get her to a hospital." Ward comments.
"We can't." Fitz tells him, "And you know it." He adds.
"Skye, I'm going to pick you up and take you to the car, I'll be as gentle as possible." Ward tells Skye and he picks her up.
"We've got to let Coulson and May know." Fitz comments.
"On it." Jemma says hating that she has to make that this call.
"Whoever the Mole is they have to have some connection with Quinn, we should run through his history as detailed and possible, see what sicks out." Garrett comments.
"We've been trying, but Quinn's done a pretty good job of getting rid of all records of his past and we're currently down our computer expert." Natasha explains.
"Who's your computer expert?" Garrett asks.
"Skye." Everyone answers and the phone rings.
"Hello?" Coulson asks
"Sir there was an accident at the park we're on our way back." Simmons informs Coulson.
"What kind of accident? What happened?" He asks worried.
"Skye feel of the monkey bars and it looks like she may have broken her left arm." Simmons tells him.
"How far are you?" He asks.
"A couple of minutes." Simmons responds.
"Phil, what happened?" Melinda asks worried as Coulson hangs up.
"There was an accident. Skye's hurt." Coulson reveals.
"How bad?" Melinda asks trying to stop herself from going into panic mom mode.
"She hurt her arm, they're a couple of minutes away." He reveals.
"We'll finish filling in Garrett, go." Clint tells Coulson and Melinda, "We're almost finished here anyway." He says and Coulson and Melinda nod and head downstairs.
"Maria is going to keep trying to dig into Quinn and she's going to be your first point of call if you find Mike." Natasha tells him.
"And what are you all going to be doing?" Garrett asks.
"Us along with Fury are going to find Quinn, whoever he's working with, and protect Skye." Natasha explains.
Melinda and Coulson wait in silence for about a minute until the S.H.I.E.L.D car comes up and when it does they rush to the doors to the backseat.
"Mommy, Daddy, it hurts so much." Skye tells her parents.
"Oh Baby Girl." Coulson says getting her out of her car seat, being careful of her left arm as he does.
"Mommy." Skye says her voice full of pain.
"It will be okay." Melinda assures her daughter, "Jem will make you feel better." She tells her daughter.
"You're Mommy's right Skye." Jemma assures.
"You three upstairs, explain to Natasha and Clint exactly what happened." Coulson instructs, Ward, Trip and Fitz.
"Yes Sir." The three respond and they head upstairs why Coulson, May and Simmons head into the lab.
Fitz, Ward and Tripp get upstairs just as Natasha, Garrett and Clint are exiting the command centre.
"What are you three doing up here?" Natasha asks.
"Coulson instructed us to tell you exactly what happened." Ward explains.
"Well do it." Clint requests and the three agents begin to explain what happened.
"Is it broken?" Melinda asks Simmons the second the X-ray is taken.
"Yes." Simmons answers, "I have the equipment here to put a plaster on it but I'm not sure if that will be the best option." She tells the parents.
"Why not?" Coulson asks.
"Because of how quickly she ages." Simmons says to the parents, her voice barely above a whisper, "By tomorrow the arm could be healed because of how quickly she ages we still don't understand how exactly that works." She points out.
"What is your recommendation?" Melinda asks her.
"Put it in a bandage, get her not to move her arm at all, re-evaluate in the morning." Simmons suggests and Coulson and Melinda look at each other and have a conversation without words.
"Then that's what we'll do." Coulson says.
"I want to say I'm sorry, we were watching her so carefully and she still hurt herself, I'm sorry." Simmons tells them and they just nod in response and walk back over to their daughter, Simmons wondering if she will ever have their trust again as they do.
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