"Hey there Rookie." Ward greeted Skye as he entered the honeycomb cell. Skye looked defeated as she lay on her side on the small mattress in the cell. She acknowledged him by sitting up but didn't look him in the eye.
"Don't call me that." She said softly. It upset Ward that Skye wasn't present in her own eyes any more.
After leaving the cafe Ward had searched the park for an hour before retiring to the bus, where he had run into Jemma after she shot Skye. Skye's mental state had only seemed to get worse the more time she spent here.
When Ward had first seen her in the cafe, it had still been Skye. An angry Skye, but still with the same personality. Now she seemed sad and childlike.
Ward sat down on the mattress next to her.
"I know this is probably worth nothing now, but I'm sorry." Ward told her. Ward was surprised. It was like the words 'I'm sorry' were a key to unlocking her story the entire time. Skye started sobbing and Ward pulled her close.
"We didn't know, but we should have." Ward whispered into her hair as he pushed it out of her face.
When Skye finally calmed down the two of them were silent, Skye leaning into Ward's side and Ward never loosening his grip around Skye. He hadn't realized how much he had missed her.
"Miles, I told him I wanted to stay with you guys. He didn't like that. He didn't get off the plane when he was told, he hid until we touched the ground and he took me with him." Skye told Ward. He didn't want to open his mouth and accidentally stop Skye, so instead he just comforted her and continued rubbing small circles into her back. Skye continued, finally ready to pour out her heart to someone.
"When I refused to work with them they said they didn't want to lose me to shield, so they sold me to centipede, who knew about my hacking. They gave the excuse that they had the same enemy.
"They implanted this stupid thing on my neck. They wanted me to hack into everything shield had, take it, and then wipe everything."
"But you didn't did you?" Ward asked, already knowing the answer.
"I wouldn't do anything. They tried to torture me into it, they..." Skye tried to lift her sleeve, but Ward placed his hand over hers. He shook his head gently and let her continue his story.
"They even offered me the file on my parents. They told me they would let me look." Skye said. Now she was really choked up. Ward was impressed. On multiple occasions Skye had almost compromised a mission because of that file.
"I'm so sorry Skye." Ward told her. His voice shook; tears were now brimming in his eyes, and he hardly ever let that happen. He usually had to keep his emotions in check, but he couldn't always do that with Skye.
Quite honestly, Jemma was quite jealous. When she saw Ward on his way to visit Skye, she went to a separate room nearby to watch what happened Through the cameras. When Skye began opening up, Jemma felt guilty that sorrow wasn't her first emotion. She was jealous that Skye would talk to Ward, the hard ass, before her, Skye's best friend. But how could she have expected Skye to talk to her? She'd just shot her less than three hours ago. But Ward shot her too, and he did it in a crueler fashion, Jemma thought to herself. She couldn't understand why Skye felt more open with him.
When she saw Ward gently kiss the top of Skye's head, her cheeks turned pink, but not out of embarrassment. Jemma couldn't gain control of herself, her jealousy was beginning to drive her crazy and she couldn't understand why. She had never liked a girl before, why now? And how? Jemma was a scientist, she always thought that she was just like most normal people, a female attracted to males. But the way she felt when she saw someone else with Skye was unbearable.
"I don't mean to pry, but how did you end up on the streets?" Ward asked. Jemma suddenly went from jealous of Ward to pissed at him. Of course he was prying! Couldn't he see that Skye was upset! Why wasn't he letting her reveal what she wanted to?
"I escaped." Jemma heard Skye's voice crackle through the monitoring. She was shocked that Skye answered him.
She heard a tiny noise from the other side of the plane, but paid no bother and went back to watching through the camera. Her eyes caught movement on another camera and she saw many people with big guns entering through the cargo hold, they had somehow managed to get it to open from the outside. Jemma flew out of her chair so fast it was left spinning in her dust.
Jemma sprinted as fast as her legs would take her to the cell, where she burst into the door with little concern about startling them. Skye jumped to her feet and Ward stood up calmly.
"People... Cargo hold... Probably Centipede." Jemma panted.