The thing about Skye

She's attached

Skye didn't know how attached she'd become to the team until Jemma jumps out of the plane to her death. Skye's heart stops, stalls, dies- and doesn't come back to life until Jemma is back onboard and Skye flings herself at the scientist (despite her reservations about touch of any kind).

She didn't realize how invested she'd become in this team until, later, she hastily locks herself in the bathroom. Her hands won't stop shaking and, suddenly, tears are streaming down her cheeks leaving hot, stinging, trails, and she can't stop it.

"Shit," she hisses at her glaring, teary, reflection. Because she's attached.

And they always leave once she grows attached.

The pattern almost proves true when, immediately after the alien virus, they go to the Hub and Fitz and Ward are sent on a suicide mission. She doesn't know for sure, at first, that it's a suicide mission, but experience tells her that something bad is bound to present itself, and this opportunity is really just too good for fate to ignore.

And Skye is right.

She's not just paranoid and traumatized- the world really is actively trying to rip everything good away from Skye as soon as cares enough to want it (maybe she shouldn't have let herself love people who are constantly putting themselves in the line of fire).

…

It's really her own fault, getting caught with Miles.

Miles, or her team. She wasn't really thinking about it as a choice when she decided to warn him- when she fell into bed with him.

But it was. She has a bad habit of ruining things. And this time, she loses both of them, all in one fell swoop.

It's not a bullet or bomb that takes her new team from her, or Skye outliving her usefulness. It's her actions. Trying to help an old friend (she honestly didn't think of it as a betrayal as she did it- it was loyalty that drove her actions).

And they turn on her so quick. She actually wasn't expecting it this time. That's probably why it hits her harder than normal- why she suddenly gets so very dizzy when they lock her up.

Even when they let her out, and they finish the mission, and she's still technically part of the team.

There is a literal shackle fastened to her wrist, and it burns.

She's still on the bus, but she thinks, maybe, it would hurt less if they just kicked her out like all her other placements had when she inevitably messed up (she has to constantly remind herself that this isn't a foster home). Instead, she wilts under the hurt expressions thrown at her by FitzSimmons, winces at the cool apathy from May, and flinches at the outright hostility coming off of Ward.

Coulson isn't angry, at least, but the disappointed silence is almost worse (none of the other adults in Skye's life have been able to make her insides rot with just a glance).

Skye doesn't let them see her meltdowns, locking herself in her room or the bathroom before she spirals.

By the end of the first week of the passive aggressive silences and icy glares, Skye kind of wants to die.

Skye hates, she hates, that she loves so easily, because it always comes back to bite her. She loves so effortlessly, but no one has ever loved her. Because she ruins it. She's 'difficult' (still not a foster home, Skye).

But now she's lost them- they left her- they're gone, gone, gone.

Just like everyone else.

(She eventually gets back into their good graces, but she doesn't trust it. It's almost expected when Hydra comes bursting out of the shadows to destroy SHIELD, and when Ward betrays them- betrays her. Because something bad is always bound to happen to take anyone she might care about away.)

A/N: So, I got a flood of suggestions, and the inspiration has come back to life! As of right now, I have at least 8 new chapters that I'm working on, so keep an eye out for those.

Thanks you so much to those who are reading and those who sent in some ideas. You will probably see some form of your suggestion in later chapters.

Please let me know what you guys think!

~Silver~