"Robin I am so glad you're okay" Nick smiles after everyone is done giving their hugs out. Melinda wouldn't let a lot of people go even near her. She was in protective mama mode.

"Uncle Nick!" Robin smiles back. Nick approaches and like he did when she was small he picked her up and spun her around.

"Fury careful, she was just kidnapped" Melinda calls out, "Simmons says she needs to rest"

Skye retreated to her bunk after she met with Nick.

"So" Phil started walking in with some water, "let's talk, should I get Skye?"

"Yes" Nick responds so Jemma speaks up,

"I'll go get her"

Melinda and Robin are on a love seat and Brooke, Zach and Kora are all together with Phil on one coach while Jemma, Leo, Clint, and Natasha are on the other. Nick is in a separate seat next to a spare chair. Maria had to get back to the meeting and update everyone on the top priority girl.

Jemma walks in with Skye who doesn't look much better from when she got back on the plane.

"So who were those people?" Zach asks, starting off the conversation.

Everyone looks to Skye, since she and that guy Lincoln seemed to know them. Skye takes a deep breath. She hasn't talked about any of this in a good while, and really hasn't gone into that much detail. She stares at the ground not really feeling great about where this might lead.

"Jiaying, and Cal Johnson, also known as Mr. Hyde"

"What were they talking about with the organization and Shield finding them?" Brooke asks, wanting to know how any of this pertained to her little sister.

"They started an organization. They would steal children, orphans or babies. They would replace them with fake dead kids and take them to this facility. Cal and Jiaying were experimenting with serums. Different kinds. Cal had hired all sorts of doctors and scientists to run diagnostics and test the serums…They uh…wanted to make super serums."

"Like ones to enhance abilities?" Natasha asks curiously. She had been given ones similar so she figures maybe she could understand.

"Sort of…The main one they were concerned about was a way to alter people in order to create a gene mutation. This with the right serum can give normal people superhuman abilities. If they were able to do that they could then give superhuman abilities to all people. So the kids would be experimented on, and given the serum, before going through what they called transformation"

"How do you know all this?" Kora asks, worried about Skye's answer.

"Uh…Lin- we were together at the facility."

"Is that how you got your abilities?" Jemma wonders.

"Yeah, uh we were the only ones who passed the 2nd phase of the … the experiment. Then we went through the transformation?"

"What did that entail?" Clint asks.

"Well, they got their h-hands on Terrigen crystals, uh and they are for the sole purpose of activating the mutation with the serum. When dropped on the ground they shatter and create a mist."

"How many serums did they give you?"

"I-I think a total of 5 or 6, but I'm not sure what they all did. O-one makes me age slower than others. I'm supposed to be 19? I think 19, but uh I think I'm around 15 right now."

"I got a serum like that too" Natasha comments.

"So what's your story, because I'm guessing you weren't the Rising Tide Hacker you told us." Phil tries to joke.

"I was kidnapped from my family when I was a baby, they said I was around 1 year old. I was raised in the facility. It was like an orphanage but way worse. We were trained and taught everything you would need to know to be a well rounded agent in all aspects by the time you were a teen. I met Lin-coln when I was 5, and we helped each other out. We trained together, shared rations, and laughed together. We helped each other become the best. We would have long nights of sparring and talks. At 11 we were the last two of the original group left. All the others had passed before us. We went through terrigenesis and discovered our powers together. I have vibration manipulation and he had electricity manipulation. We learned to control it in all different scenarios and we…we… We were just best friends. He told me his dream one day was to get out and become a doctor, and use all the information he learned to help people. He would do anything to shut the organization down."

"So how did you get to us?" Jemma wonders. She can't help but be confused on how Skye was able to be in a van and get picked up by them, when she was in the facility.

"Nick" Skye starts, looking over to Fury,"His team was looking for the terrigen crystals that were being smuggled through. He and a small group were trying to keep the mission low, and didn't want many people to find out what they were doing. He approached and we used our powers and our skills to take them down. He was impressed but said there was a way he could help. Lincoln wanted to go with Nick so badly, so I agreed to go with in case. Nick helped us with a lot of things. He got us help. He took us under his wing, gave us food, clothing, someone to talk to and more"

"How old were you?" Robin asks, curiously.

"Technically 14, but I was probably around 10 still. We both were put into a normal high school once they thought we were okay enough for it."

"I thought you dropped out of high school" Fitz says.

Skye responds, "I did, because they found me. I was at lunch during my sophomore year and I saw one of their men looking around the school. I grabbed Lincoln and called Nick, so he had agents pose as our parents to pick us up. I decided to drop out and do online studies in the Academy, but Lincoln decided to go back to school. We kinda drifted off for a little, and then I was spotted again, this time, they almost got me, if it wasn't for Lincoln coming back for me. That was a couple months ago, Fury came up to me, and suggested I join this team. What did you say? This will be the best thing for you. He told me I would be moving around constantly and wouldn't have to worry about them finding me. Lincoln went to Med School, and I would check up on him every once and a while."

"Wow" Jemma breathed out.

That is what everyone else was thinking. There was so much they never knew about Skye, and couldn't believe her past.

"So what did this have to do with Robin?" Melinda questions, pulling her daughter closer.

"They probably spotted me somehow, and figured what better way to lure us out. They knew I would grab Lincoln for something like this. Robin, I'm sorry you got targeted because of us."

"It's okay, I am okay" she says, giving Skye a warm smile.

"I'm glad" Skye grins softly.

"I'm sorry about your friend" Melinda speaks up,"But I want to thank you for disobeying my orders to stay put. And I'm sorry that I stopped you and Brooke from helping" she continued locking eyes with her son, "I just didn't want to lose any of you" And with that she pressed kisses to each of her kids' heads.

"It's okay Mom, I get it"

"There's one thing I still don't get?" Clint mutters.

"What is it?" Natasha inquires.

"You must have gotten in contact with Lincoln, but all that planning and secret work. How'd you pull it off?"

"Well I-I noticed the email address JohnSonwedding107 (fake address). Johnson is their last name. 107 can be rearranged to be 017 which was the name I was given. Lincoln Boulevard is props to Lincoln. Once that happened, I told him where to meet me."

"Wait, your name was 017?" Jemma gasps. The cruel reality was biting hard.

"Yep my name was Seventeen and Lincoln's name was Nineteen. I don't remember where we came up with Lincoln but I remember one night we snuck out of the facility. We went exploring. Lincoln found a rooftop and we had so much fun looking up at the stars. Each one unique, each one mattered. He picked out the name Skye. He said that just like the stars, one day I would shine bright, to my full potential."

Reminiscing on that day made Skye feel worse. Thinking about Lincoln made her feel guilty that she essentially got him killed. She could feel the tears rolling down her face but she couldn't help it.

Brooke, who was oddly quiet, spoke up, "Skye, I'm sorry for the way I treated you. It was wrong."

"What happened?" Robin asks, wondering what her sister was talking about.

"When Skye was going to go in and help, I yelled at her"

"N-one taken. I w-would've done the same in your shoes" Skye admits, wiping the tears falling.

Melinda knows there is more to the story and so does everyone else, but they figured they learned more than enough for today.

"So" Skye says, breaking the silence, her tears stained on her cheeks, "Where are we going now?"

Clint replies to that smiling, "We are taking a small detour to recover at my house."