Chapter 1
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AN2 IMPORTANT PLEASE READ VERY IMPORTANT: So due to the fact that I am going away on Wednesday because I'm going to JIBCON (A convention for the show Supernatural in Rome) and will not be updating for about a week. I decided to update earlier than I planed even though I don't have as many chapters written as I would like.
It has been a week since Skye was at Miles grave and Coulson, Clint, Garrett, Tripp, Fitz and Simmons arrived at Stark tower.
While her family are trying to find her Skye herself is in Spain working at a small café in a small village. Skye got to Spain after driving to Mexico and using some of the money that she took from Ward she bribed a pilot to take her to Europe and after making sure that the pilot wouldn't be caught and get in trouble she gave him a bit of extra money to sneak her into the country instead of going through customs and from England where they landed Skye drove and snuck into Spain, where she has been working ever since.
As the café is currently not that busy Skye does what she does every few hours and uses her powers to see if anyone has found her, and for the first time she since she arrived she learns that she is about to be found. If she stays where she is she will be found in two hours by several intelligences officers, who are doing something else in the area, and that won't end well for her, so she does the only thing she can do she walks up to her boss who actually speaks English,
"Um Hey, Dia, I'm not feeling well do you mind if I go?" Skye asks.
"Of course Matilda, I'll see you tomorrow." Dia responds.
"Thanks." Skye says and she takes of her apron and leaves, feeling bad about the fact that she will never come back to work not just because she will be leaving them shorthanded but because she really could use the money as she spent most of the money she took from Ward to get here.
Watching what is going on around her carefully Skye makes her way back to the room she has been renting. Due to the fact that she hasn't even un packed because she knew there was a chance that she would have to leave in a hurry Skye just takes off her work shirt and puts on another shirt over the top of her mission tank top which, along with the mission pants, she has taken to wearing at all times just to be on the safe side because she could use the protection.
"Why are they coming here now?" Skye wonders to herself, "I better find out." Skye mutters to herself, "Great." She says to herself when she finds out what they are doing, "I've got to get their first." Skye says to herself grabbing her backpack and leaving the room, dropping the key to the room in the letter box as she walks past.
At Stark Tower, everyone who is staying there are just waking up. Tripp who is doing his best to make himself useful is helping Coulson, Pepper and Simmons bring the breakfast out.
"Morning." Clint greats, "Have we heard from Maria and Garrett?" He asks curious.
"Not since yesterday morning." Coulson answers, "Last I heard they are trying to track down Ward." He explains.
"It's a good thing that Maria went with him, John didn't seem to be doing too good when he left." Pepper comments.
"He's taking Ward's betrayal hard, not surprising." Natasha comments as she sits down, "He thought he saved him, helped him."
"I just got a call from my head lawyer." Tony says walking in the room with Fitz, the two of them having spent a lot of time together in his lab, "One of you have to go to the FBI."
"Not it." Melinda, Natasha and Clint say together.
"Does it have to be right away?" Coulson asks, "Maria will be back in a couple of days." He comments.
"Sorry Phil, it has to be today." Tony tells him.
"Great, I'll go." Coulson comments.
"When is Doctor Banner getting back?" Simmons asks curious as for the two days that Bruce was around the two of them worked on some things and she is really looking forward to working with him again.
"Not for about a month." Tony answers, "And he said for you to call him Bruce." Tony tells her.
"I know." Simmons responds.
"If we want to get to that meeting we should leave." Melinda says to Natasha.
"What are you two up to?" Clint asks as they have been very secretive lately, even more so than usual.
"You don't want to know." Natasha answers, and Coulson and Clint exchange looks,
"Just be careful with whatever it is that you are doing." Coulson tells them having learnt long ago that if Melinda or Natasha say you don't want to know about something they are doing together then, you really don't want to know.
"Don't get arrested, my lawyers have enough to deal with at the moment." Tony says as Melinda and Natasha get up.
"We'll do our best." Melina says with an eye roll as they get up.
"Has either of them saying you don't want to know, ever ended well?" Tony asks curious.
"No." Coulson and Clint answer.
Even though the last thing she wants is to be caught Skye heads too exactly where the Intelligence agents are going to be because there is something that she needs to do before they get there. Once she arrives at the destination she cuts the power so that she can get inside without being seen. Once she is sure that the power has been cut an there are no active security feeds Skye enters the building.
She heads to the top floor where she picks the lock to the office that belongs to the most important person at the company and she heads over to the computer, uses her power to power it and gets into it.
"Okay, new email." Skye says going onto the internet, "To Anthony Stark at Stark Industries, actually no, his private email would work better." Skye says creating the email and in the subject she puts 'You could use this' and the only message she puts is 'this should help.' And then she spends next five minutes putting all the files she needs into the email and she starts to encrypt it knowing that when Tony realises it is from her he will know how to get into it.
"Step away from the computer." A voice says and Skye looks up to see two men who Skye knows that one is Germany intelligence and the other unknown to the other guy is Hydra.
"Trust me I'm doing you a favour." Skye says looking at the German intelligence agent.
"Step away from the computer or we will shot." The Hydra agent says.
"Please, try." Skye says using her power to put her force field around her, strong enough to stop all bullets, as the email finishes encrypting and she presses send. She did that because she knows that Tony wont trust an email like the one she just sent so he won't open it, but because she knows her family are monitoring the energy that her power is he will be able to tell that her power was used at the same place that the email was sent from so he will know that it is from her.
"You're her." The Hydra agent says shocked.
"Yeah, I am." Skye says as she starts to permanently erase everything from the computer, "Do me a favour when you tell your boss that you failed tell Grant Ward that he has too. He will never find Quinn and Hand's research, I've made sure of that." She tells them, and once she is sure she's deleted everything from the computer, "So it's been fun, but he's Hydra so I'm going to have to knock you both out." Skye tells the two men, pointing to the Hydra agent "I'm sorry I know you're a good guy." Skye says looking at the German Intelligence agent, "But he's not and I have to knock both of you out otherwise you will be in serious trouble." Skye says before lowering her force field and sending a stunning blast at both of them, "Sorry." She tells the German agent before leaving the building.
When Skye gets downstairs she hops on the motorbike she has been using since she has been in Europe and she drives away.
Back at the tower Tony is on his computer trying to find Skye when Coulson and Clint who both went to the FBI arrive back.
"I am never doing that again." Clint comments and he and Coulson walk back in.
"That bad?" Tony asks turning around to face them as Clint pulls the tie he has on off and undoes several buttons on is shirt.
"Oh yeah." Coulson answers, "Maria is going to these things in the future, she's the only one who has the patients." Coulson tells Tony.
"I'll let her know." Tony says slightly amused.
"Where is everyone?" Clint asks.
"Natasha and Melinda aren't back yet. Fitz and Simmons are down in the Labs, Pepper went to the office and Tripp is in the gym." Tony answers.
"Sir an email from an unknown source has just arrived to you private email." JARVIS informs Tony.
"What?" Tony asks surprised, "That's not possible." He comments.
"We've found Skye." Melinda says as her and Natasha walk into the room, sounding happier than they have in days,
"She's living in Spain under the Allies Matilda Bennet." Natasha explains.
"Not for long she's not." Tony comments and everyone turns to look at him, "Huge spike of her power energy in Spain at a location that my personal addressed just got an encrypted email from." He explains.
"Open it." Coulson tells him.
"Hang on, this will take a minute to decrypt." He comments, "She would have used her powers for a reason, even she was found or she wanted us to know something." Tony comments, "My bet is that she won't be in Spain for much longer."
"He's probably right, but at least we know she's in Europe." Clint comments.
"It's a start. We're closer than we were." Natasha comments.
"We used our last favour with him." Melinda points out.
"We both have other connections and you know it." Natasha comments then realises something, "So does Phil, Maria, Clint and Garrett, I don't doubt that we find her, I doubt that she will still be there when we do." Natasha tells her friend, "She's got her power after all."
"Guys the email's decrypted." Tony comments and everyone looks to the computer screen.
"This should help?" Coulson asks, "What's in it?"
"Files, in several different languages, Jarvis translate." Tony requests.
"It's information Sir, on it seems Hydra sleeper agents in foreign governments and agencies, information that wasn't apart of shield. There also seems to be plans for missions.' Jarvis tells everyone.
"Is she hunting down Hydra?" Coulson asks surprised.
"In Europe, alone, with no backup." Melinda adds and both her and Coulson exchange worried looks.
"She could be with Fury." Clint suggests
"He didn't mention that she was." Melinda points out, "And if he kept that from us…" Melinda says trailing off at the end.
"Fury's on the other side of the continent. He's not with Skye." Tony comments, "Plus Skye left to protect us, I doubt she would have gone to Fury." He tells the others.
"That doesn't change the fact that she is in Europe hunting down Hydra, alone and won't let us find her." Melinda says walking out the room.
"She's not okay, is she?" Tony asks.
"No." Coulson, Natasha and Clint respond and Coulson follows Melinda out of the room.
"Please tell me some of this Intel is actionable right now, I need to do something." Natasha says to Tony.
"I'll see what I can find." Tony tells her.
"I'll be downstairs." Natasha responds and she leaves the room and Clint sits down next to Tony.
"Can we help them?" Tony asks.
"No." Clint answers, "Mels and Phil are going through the one thing they never wanted to have to go through again, their daughter's gone." Clint tells Tony, "The one thing that Nat wants to do at the moment is help them so that they don't hurt that much, but she can't to do that." Clint explains.
"And you, what do you want?" Tony asks
"For the people I care about to be safe, together and happy." Clint says, "And for my niece to stop being so self-sacrificing."
"She gets that from her parents, I don't think that's it possible for her not to be like that." Tony comments.
"I know, I just wish it was." He responds
As Skye drives on the motorbike she tries to come up with her next move. She knows that she can't stay in Spain but she she's not sure how long she can go before she crashes from exhaustion and she really doesn't want that crash to happen when she is ridding and end with her crashing the motorbike as well.
"Come on Skye, hold on." Skye says to herself as she knows that she has a few hours to she is in France and she is pretty sure that she will be okay until then, she just hopes that she isn't wrong.
At the tower Coulson has gone in search for his wife and he finds her in what is their room at the tower sitting on the window sill and staring out of the window. Without a word Coulson walks over and sits down next to her, thankful that because the windows are so big so are the window sills. When Coulson sits down Melinda allows him to put his arms around her and the pair continue to sit in silence.
Skye rides her motorbike for several hours and once she reaches the border she sneaks into France, and once she is in France she uses her powers to tell her where she can go where she will be safe, once she determines the location she spends another hour and a half getting there.
The Location that she has gotten to is a little Bed and Breakfast in the French country side. After parking her Bike Skye heads inside, knowing that she will be safe there for the next few days. When she enters the bed and breakfast she walks up to the front desk,
"Um hi, do you speak English?" Skye asks and the woman doesn't look up from what she is doing, "Guess not." Skye mutters to herself and then uses her power to know how to say what she wants to say in French, "Euh salut, désolé de vous déranger, mais je me demandais si vous avez une chambre de libre?" Skye asks in completely horrible French pronunciation.
"Please speak English, I never want to hear you butcher the French language again." The woman says looking up, "But I appreciate the effort, I'm tired of people coming to my country and assuming everyone else will speak English, or other languages just because they do." The woman says, "How long would you like to stay?"
"Um two nights." Skye requests, as she knows that staying that long will give her enough time to get her energy levels up but because she knows that she can't stay somewhere so close to the border for too long she has to go after two days even if she isn't feeling the best.
"And your name?" The woman asks.
"Toni." Skye says coming up with the first name that comes to mind because she hasn't really thought of a new allies yet, "Antonia, Pepper." She lies knowing that because she has decided on such an obvious allies that even staying two days is risking it,
"Room 7 is free." The woman responds, "That will be 100 euros." The woman tells Skye and she hands over the money, takes her key and heads up to her room. Once she enters the room after making sure that the room is empty Skye puts her bag down on the chair and goes around the room and makes sure that every way in is locked. Once she is sure that they are Skye take off her boots and jacket and grabs her bow and several arrows out of her bag. She makes the bow the regular size and puts both it and the arrows underneath the pillow before laying down on the bed underneath the blanket, as she lays down she reaches into her back pocket and pulls out the family photo. Doing her best not to look at Ward she looks at her Parents, Clint and Natasha and tries not to think about how much she misses not just but everyone. Within the next half an hour Skye falls asleep as she does she is still clutching the photo of her family in her hands.
At the tower Coulson and Melinda have been sitting in silence for more than half an hour both of them are thinking about their daughter,
"How about we get away for a night." Coulson says to Melinda feeling like they could both use it.
"What are you thinking?" Melinda asks looking at Coulson.
"Let's go home." Coulson suggests, "Lola is in the garage let's take her and go home, spend a night there." He suggests as while Tony has arranged for the Bus to be kept at a private airport where it is safe Lola is in the garage, "Tomorrow we can go to Europe and not stop until we find her but right now you need rest, we both do, neither of us have slept much all week."
"She's out their Phil, alone and who knows how scared she is, or if she's hurt." Melinda tells her husband.
"I know, I'm worried too." Coulson responds, "And I want to find her just as badly as you do, but we can't do that if we collapse from exhaustion." Coulson points out, "One night, that's all I'm suggesting, Clint, Tony and Natasha will keep us updated. We need this Mel."
"Have I ever told you that being right all the time is incredibly annoying?" Melinda asks with half a smile.
"All the time." Coulson responds and the pair kiss.
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