A/N: Hey guys! Here's the next chapter, hope y'all like it!
The group stopped in the town of Weimar, Germany, more than two and a half miles from the concentration camp.
Lilith anxiously turned to Coulson, blue eyes growing big.
"Can't you come with me?" She asked, tugging on the sleeve of his jacket, blue eyes wide with fear and anxiety.
Coulson sighed.
"I'm afraid not, Lili-Pad. You'll do just fine. Be yourself. Stay calm and give a fake alias if you have to. Understand?" He asked, tilting her chin up with his hand as she nodded, sniffling as she did so.
"Good luck." Fitz said, holding two thumbs up as Coulson kissed her on the forehead before gently ushering her out of the van.
Slowly, she disappeared into the distance, not eager to get to the camp that she knew very little about.
The mission was simple.
Lilith would pretend to be a lost child of a made up SHIELD Agent and Marco would keep her hostage, trying to get useful information about SHIELD and the teams whereabouts, while she'd, unbeknownst to him, spy with a comm. Link in her ear.
The streets of Weimar were deserted as her small feet tentatively padded through the town, only the occasional passerby would give her a strange look, wondering why a child was left unattended.
Buchenwald was a fairly large concentration camp located about a half an hour outside Weimar by foot, and as she grew closer, the team whispering reassurance to her via the comm link, her heart skipped a beat.
"Lili, we don't want to scare you, but if things seem…off, we'll come and get you. We are off to the west, concealed by the trees about a mile away, but these men have guns, but I am eighty percent certain they won't shoot." May said, her voice deadly calm.
"What about the other twenty percent!?" Lili whispered urgently, hearing the others sigh at Agent May's oh so positive attitude.
"We won't worry about that now, and trust us, we will not let them hurt you." Grant said, not receiving a response as the guards saw the girl and started shouting at her in German.
The five-year-old almost immediately burst into tears, fake-ish ones, as she ran up to the guards, shocking them as she hugged the younger one around the waist.
"Please! You have to help me! There are people chasing me and I lost my Mama!" She shouted hysterically, one of the guards, a brunette who appeared to be only a teenager, seemed to soften up a bit.
"Calm down, child. We'll find your Mum." The younger guard said, starting to kneel down to her height when the older guard with red hair, that appeared to be in his mid thirties, pulled him roughly up right.
"Stop crying and come with us!" He barked, grabbing her by her bicep as they lead her into the compound, feet crunching into the gravel as they walked along, briskly walking into another building as a few of the other guards looked on, curious.
The halls were dark enough that she had to squint to get her bearings and adjust to the sudden light change, it smelled old and retched; the floor appearing to be molding, looking as though it were made of tree bark.
Along with the floors, there were over two dozen, perhaps more, pairs of bunk beds that looked as though they haven't been slept in for decades.
The guard punched in a code to a metal door at the end of the barracks, and the door slid open with ease and revealed a room with nothing but a sink and a cold metal table, which appeared to be used for surgery or experiments of some kind.
"Stay here. Try to escape and we won't hesitate to shoot," he said, turning to the younger guard, "watch her," he ordered and briskly left the room.
"What's your name?" Lili asked him, shocking the teenage guard.
"Uh…I'm…uhm…Thomas, miss." He stuttered, giving a slight bow of his head.
"How old are you?"
"Fifteen." Thomas answered, looking out the small window to his left.
"Wow. You're really young to be a soldier or work with the bad guys. Cute too." She said, giggling at Thomas' flushed cheeks and her uncle and the rest of the team choking back laughter.
"You're going to give your parents a run for their money." Skye commented, only for Lili to ignore her.
"Well, I_" Thomas started, only to be cut off by yelling and footsteps stopping outside of the door, making them both tense up.
"A child!? You brought a child into the damn compound!?" Marco yelled, sounding Furious.
"She might have information about SHIELD, sir."
Marco sighed.
"Fine, Shawn! I'll let this slide, but fuck up anymore and I will not hesitate to kill you!" Marco snapped, opening the door and entering the room with Shawn, the same red haired guard from earlier, and roughly picked up Lili, setting her down onto the table.
"What's your name?" Marco ordered, glaring down at her.
"Rose. But I go by Rosie." She lied, giving her middle name, trying not to stutter in fear.
"Well, why are you hear? I don't have all day!"
"I was at the park with my Mama, she works with the government peoples, you know. Then these bad people came with guns and came after us. I ran ahead and I lost her." She replied, giving the answer that she had rehearsed with the rest of the team.
Marco nodded and took a syringe out of his baggy pockets and sticking it in her arm, drawing blood.
"What are you doing?" She asked tentatively, watching as Shawn took the syringe and left.
"Gotta take a blood sample. Wouldn't want a sick child around my men, now would we?"
She shrugged as he took a picture out of his back pocket.
"Does your Mum work with SHIELD?" He asked as he unfolded the picture.
"What the heck is SHIELD?" She asked, smiling innocently at him as he sighed.
"Have you seen this woman? Her name is Skye."
The child pretended to examine the photo before looking up at Marco, silently wondering how he got the picture.
"Ew. This creep has been stalking me on Facebook and crap?"
There was the answer.
"No," she lied, "why do you wanna know?" She added a moment later, acting oblivious.
"Well, I used to care about her very much, but she hurt me. All I want is to make things right and make her mine again."
Skye gagged over the comm. Link.
"Uhm…ew! No thank you!"
Lilith resisted the urge to roll her eyes, while Skye scoffed once more over the comm. Muttering something along the lines of 'liar' under her breath.
"Welp, I haven't seen her. All I want is my Mama." She lied again, her blue eyes boring into his green ones as he brushed his blonde hair out of his eyes.
"Rosie, did your parents ever teach you that lying is bad and that liars go to bad places?"
Lilith nodded.
"But I'm not lying."
Marco grabbed the metal table, resisting the urge to slap the child and opened his mouth to speak some more when Shawn came and asked to speak to him in the hall.
"This better be good!" He snapped, closing the door behind him as he disappeared into the hall.
"You're doing great, Lili. Just keep calm and keep doing what you're doin'" Simmons said as Lilith strained to hear what was being said in the hall.
"How long have I been here?" She asked, meaning for one of the team to answer.
"About an hour or two." Thomas answered, giving a soft smile.
She blinked rapidly, surprised at how much time had actually passed.
Lilith jumped as the door banged open, revealing an angry looking Marco.
"Well, you're a little liar, huh, Lilith Rose Barton?"
Crap.
Cover blown.
"I don't know what you're talkin' about." She said, her heart leaping into her throat.
"The blood test showed more than just your health records! You're Lilith Rose Barton and you lived in an orphanage until last year, when the orphanage burned down. You live with the Avengers and your parents are two Agents that work for SHIELD. I want to know the truth. No more lies!"
Lilith scoffed and rolled her eyes.
Wrong move.
The young man grabbed her by her arms and roughly shook her.
"Tell me you little brat! Where is Skye!? What the hell do you know!?"
"You're mean. No wonder why Skye left you." She said, earning a stifled laugh from Thomas, who received a look from Marco, which said, 'you're next' as he forced Lili to lie down on the table, tying the belts around her so she couldn't move.
Shawn held her down while Marco reached towards her head, ripping the comm. Link out of her ear and smashing it in his hand and throwing it to the ground as he took out another syringe filled with a clear liquid, jamming it not so gently into her arm.
Lilith's whole body slowly went numb, her vision growing blurry, briefly making eye contact with Thomas, who looked at her sympathetically, and everything went black..
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