Awakening Quake
By Misha

Disclaimer in Chapter One.

A.N- I relied on comic knowledge for what happens with Mjolnir in this chapter and then kind of just made it up. Technically Mjolnir just drops again when disturbed and causes tremors, but I figured that since Thor was standing right there, it would go to him. I move ahead to give Skye time to start settling in, but not enough time that she would have started opening up. That will come in the next few chapters.

Chapter Seven: Fitting In

Three Weeks Later

THUNK! Tony slammed against the wall.

"I'm glad you're on our side," he told Skye as he got up.

"I didn't know I could do that." She said in wonder. They were experimenting with her powers. She had had a decent amount of success learning how to control the tremors and now they were trying to get her to channel it at things, not just the ground.

Like trying to target Iron Man mid-flight. It had taken a few attempts, but Skye had finally been able to focus her energy on him and the result had been him crashing into the wall.

"You are amazing." Darcy gushed and then pouted. "I wish I could do that. Everyone else gets all the cool powers." She perked up. "Do Thor next!"

Jane raised an eyebrow at her choice of words.

"I'm not sure what 'do me' means," Thor said, which caused everyone except Steve to bite back laughter. Some more successfully than others since Clint was openly chuckling. "However, I will happily volunteer to test your powers Lady Skye."

"Ok." She stood where she was.

"Test it on Mjolnir." Tony piped up. "None of us can touch the damn thing, it would be interesting to see if you can move it with your powers." She could hear the annoyance in his voice and tried hard not to laugh—Pepper told her that he had spent many hours trying to lift the damn hammer.

Thor set Mjolnir down on the ground.

Skye concentrated on the Hammer. She started with shaking the hammer itself, but she could feel some repelling her. Then she focused on the ground just beneath the hammer and gradually increased the strength of the tremors and the hammer fell sideways and once jolted flew at Thor, who caught it.

"Very nice." Tony said with a whistle. "I told you someone else could move it. Eventually."

"The hammer itself is resistant to my powers, but it is affected by the ground under it." Skye explained, "So I can't really move it. I can just disturb the Earth under it."

Tony looked disappointed. Apparently he had quite the obsession with disproving the 'only someone worthy' thing.

"Still impressive." Steve assured her.

"I think we should take a break," Bruce said after a moment, "Skye has demonstrated her powers pretty impressively, but we don't want to push it."

Skye nodded. Natasha, with some help from Clint, was training her, but Bruce was a huge help. They did Tai Chi together and he was helping her control her emotions. He did not give her sedatives though.
"You don't want to get dependant on artificial means to control and suppress your powers," He had warned her, "instead you need to figure out ways from within yourself."

So she had suffered through some bad dreams. Thankfully the re-enforced bed Tony had supplied had proven to be very durable and she hadn't had a repeat of her first night in the tower and her nightmares hadn't gotten bad enough to warrant JARVIS calling Steve in again.

However, the blonde man had been around a lot. Every morning, he checked to see how she had slept and expressed his concern over the nightmares. Everyone in the Tower was friendly, but Steve was a little more attentive, but in a very polite way. Skye didn't get the impression that he was hitting on her or if he was, he was very subtle about it. Not that she actually thought Captain America could be interested in her.

He was probably just being friendly because she was looking for Bucky. After three weeks, she hadn't made a lot of progress, but she was determined to keep looking. A part of her wished she still had access to Ward locked up in a basement, maybe he knew something. On the other hand, she was happy to be far, far away from Grant Ward and hoped she would never have to see him again. Though she knew it was unlikely. There were mistakes you could forget and there were ones that would haunt you for the rest of your life and Grant Ward was definitely the latter.

Unfortunately, he was also not the type to go quietly into the night and just accept that she never wanted to see him again. He would come for her again, Skye knew that with a terrifying certainty.

"We need to come up with a cool code name for you." Tony told her as they all exited the training area, forcing her out of her unpleasant thoughts.

"Code name?" Skye asked, wondering if she had missed something,

"You can't just be 'Skye' when you're out in the field," he pointed out, "Thor's the only one that makes that work and well, he's a God."

Skye was still stuck on the 'go out in the field' part. "I didn't know I was going to go out in the field." She said quietly.

The party all stopped walking and several people turned to stare at her.

"I thought that was a given." Natasha told her. "After all, that's why you're here, because we thought you had potential to be an Avenger and in three weeks, you've more than lived up to that potential."

"I think I speak for everyone when I say we'd be lucky to have you on the team." Sam told her. "And not just because you're nicer to look at than everyone other than Natasha."

"I didn't…" Skye began.

Clint looked at her sympathetically. "You didn't want to think about belonging." He guessed. "I get it. I also grew up in the system. I know what it's like and how you grow up knowing not to trust anyone other than yourself."

"I thought I had a team." Skye said quietly. "Then I didn't."

"Well, you do now." Tony told her. "And I think we should celebrate your awesome powers. Dinner? Dancing? A night on the town?"

"That is pretty much guaranteed to end badly." Natasha said dryly.

"Also, there are a few people who I'd really rather not know where I am." Skye pointed out. She definitely didn't want Ward or Cal knowing where she was. If Ward knew where she was, well then he'd come for her. Same with Cal. Not that she thought they'd be able to get to her here, but… She definitely felt safer with them thinking that she was still with Coulson's team.

"Then we'll stay in." Tony declared. "But we'll still have a celebration. Dress up and everything. JARVIS call the caterers for me and tell them I need them tonight."

There were groans from everyone. Skye bit her lip, not wanting to mention that she didn't have any formal clothes with her. Not that she'd ever owned much to begin with.

Pepper rolled her eyes. "I guess we're all going shopping." She told the other women. "JARVIS clear my schedule and order us a car please."

"Yes Miss Potts." The AI said immediately.

Skye followed Pepper and the other women to the elevator, while the other men were groaning and complaining to Tony about requiring formal ware when they were all staying inside.

One thing she had observed in three weeks was that life in the Avengers Tower was never dull.