Okay so first off this is my first fanfiction in this fandom so I hope you all like it. Second this is going to be AU where Skye got her powers when she was around 16. She stayed in Afterlife for about 2 years till she had a falling out with her mother and her mom tried to kill her. After that she went back and somehow, you'll find out later, got into Hydra. She was there for a good year or two till Skye realized how bad Hydra was and, well, spoilers… anyway in that aftermath somebody found her, (again you'll find out later who), and helped her and got her back to health. She then left again for certain reasons so she joined the Rising Tide when she was about twenty-two or twenty-three.

I know that's a lot to take in but I had to explain some things for the plot and her age, everyone else is the same in this fanfiction but I have switched around family history a little bit. Also since this is AU I might not use direct dialog from the show but bits and pieces I will. One last thing Skye will be very different attitude wise in this fic since she's seen and been through a lot more, but I will try to keep her humor as best as I can, also this will be Skyeward since I am Skyeward trash.

Of all the things that Skye has had to do making the Rising Tide videos was by far the most humiliating of them all. She was so much better than this and she could do so much more than make videos and do voice overs of the information that she was leaking.

That was another thing.

The whole reason she was in the Rising Tide was so she could keep herself hidden and, maybe also, look up the few of the gifted to make sure they were okay. She also wanted to make sure they were hidden as well so that they wouldn't have to go what she went through.

Skye balled her hands into fist closing her eyes for a brief second the hula girl on her dashboard shaking slightly. I will not go there she thought you are not that person anymore; you are not one of them she kept thinking to herself. Finally when she trusted herself enough she unclenched her fist and placed them back on keyboard going back to work.

Mike Peterson: The Super Man. The man who jumped out of a five story building while it was on fire carrying a woman. The man who wore a hood of all things to cover up his face, sometimes it was like they wanted to be found.

Skye took another deep breath and placed her finger over the button that uploaded, "I'm sorry." she breathed out and clicked it.

How she supposed to keep the gifted safe when she was the one exposing them?

Skye decided that for once in her life she would do some good and warn Mike Peterson about S.H.I.E.L.D or Hydra, really whoever got there first? After all it was her fault to begin with finding him then videotaping him and then uploading it for the entire world to see.

Why was she with the Rising Tide again?

To stay hidden so no one would find her, she really thought that she had gotten that down by now.

None the less when she found Mike in the diner she was very relieved, "Hi Mike isn't it?" she asked him as she corned him by the counter. He gave her an odd look and she just took it as a sign to continue, "I know you're the guy in the hood." His eyes widen then he tried for his escape but never made it when she put her hand on his chest and pushed him back into his seat, "I have no idea what you're talking about?" he lied.

"Look Mike you can't lie to me so don't even try and I'm here to warn you."

"What could you warn me about?"

"Secret government organizations that don't like people with powers," As he started to walk away she grabbed his arm again, "What about your son, huh, whose going to keep him safe when people are coming after you." He didn't say anything so she took it as a sign to keep talking, "Look," She said, "With great power comes a ton of weird crap that you are not prepared to deal with, trust me." She tried giving him her doe eyes to try and make him listen to her.

"Look," he said taking a deep breath, "thanks for the advice but I think that I'll take my chances."

As he got up and left the diner she would give one more push to make him take her help. She got up and ran towards him pulling him back. "I get that you don't want my help but… if you ever do, just, go to my van, it's the blue one two blocks from here." He looked her in the eyes and nodded as if he was trying to that he would.

With that she went back off to her van.

Someone was coming to her van no two someone's; she could feel the vibrations of their footsteps and rhythm of their hearts. The sound of the two people footsteps where light as if trying not to make noise and the heartrates was slow and calm, ready for something. She couldn't tell by the walk if the people were male or female but she did figure it out however when said person knocked on her van door.

She only got a glimpse of him but she knows that one of them was definitely a him. She also saw that he was wearing a suit a very nice one and there are only two people who had a job profession that makes you look like an accountant.

An accountant or S.H.I.E.L.D

By the bag that was now currently over her head she was 98.6% sure that it was an S.H.I.E.L.D agent, that or she pissed off a very skilled accountant.

Yeah, no scratch that, she was 100% positive that it was S.H.I.E.L.D.

That was the last thought she thought of before everything went black.

Surprise, they ended up taking her to an interrogation room at least she thought it was an interrogation room. It was grey and had honeycomb walls that were made out of some material she couldn't place then the second thing she noticed was that she was handcuffed.

Great so she was handcuffed in an unknown facility, at least she had her clothes on.

She felt the vibrations around to see what kind of facility it was but was interrupted when the door opened and in came the same agent that took her. Something was familiar about him and it wasn't because he kidnapped her he looked like someone she knew. He moved around like a cat waiting to pounce on his prey trying to intimidate her.

He was about to say something when she cut to the chase, "Look I'm going to make this real quick I'm going to tell you everything you want to know about the Rising Tide and not because I'm afraid of you but because someone has to stop them."

"What's your name?"

Of all things he could have asked, "Its Skye."

"What's your real name?"

"It's Skye with an E." She said giving him a look then opened her mouth to speak but stopped when she felt the weird vibration of something turn on. She turned around and looked at the walls trying to decipher what the hell this thing was, "Where the hell are we, I'm not you headquarters am I because if I am that would be pretty stupid of you."

"No were not in our headquarters now back to the questions."

"Right you mean the totally stupid and irrelevant ones that have no help in taking down the Rising Tide glad to see you know how to do your job."

His jaw tightened and his eyes narrowed at her, it reminded her of Tommy whenever he was getting pissed. "I bet you're one of those girls that wait out Stark's tower waiting to see him." He said and really she was so above those girls.

Skye scoffed, "No," another pause, "It was one time for a reason you could never even begin to understand." It took another minute or of staring until another man came in, this one she knew because he was supposed to be dead.

Because said man was Agent Phillip James Coulson, who she had thought, died in the battle of New York. Then again she had a fair share of experience with people who are supposed to be dead that aren't.

Hell she's one of them.

He also came in with a giant needle thing with green serum in it, "This," He said with a slight smirk, "Is a very highly concentrated truth serum." Okay truth serum she could beat that. Then he did something totally unexpected.

He injected the other agent with the serum not her, well, shit she was not planning on that to happen.

"What the hell!"

"Oh I'm sorry, did that hurt?"

"No." He stopped then gave him a look, "But you've lost your mind you should never do that to a member of your team...And, yes, it did hurt a little bit. But I always try to mask my pain in front of a beautiful woman because it makes me look more masculine. My god that stuff works fast!" He said finally letting out a frustrated sigh.

The whole time though he was letting out his little rant she had managed to get out of her cuffs by letting off small vibration so that the lock just breaks off. She smiled at the two and rested her chin on both her hands, "I'm guessing this your first mission together?" She said taking one of her hand and pointing at the two with a slight grin making its way onto her face. She then leaned back into her the chair and crossed her arms over her chest and let out a breathy laugh, "Well," She said, "I'm honored really that I could your first for both of you."

The dumb shocked looks on their faces brought her great joy and pride, "Was it something I said?" She questioned while throwing her arms in the air, "You know this might be just personal opinion here but you shouldn't handcuff someone's hands where you can't see them gives them too much opportunity," but she put up her hands in a surrender gesture, "but hey that's just me now back to this pathetic excuse for an interrogation."

Coulson gave a look to Ward whose jaw had tightened even more, "Good luck Agent Ward." With that Coulson left the room and the grin on her face left with him and her body tensed.

It's been almost two years since she heard that last name. She knew that this wasn't him this man looked to old and different, but, she could see the resemblance. Cheekbones that could cut glass, impossibly dark hair, and the shape of their eyes were the same even. Though Ward's were dark brown almost amber while Tommy's were blue she could tell they were the same. She knew without a doubt in her mind that this was Tommy's brother, shit her day just got a hell of a lot more complicated.

It wasn't Christian because last time she checked he was a senator, so this must have been Grant the other brother that went to jail. Apparently he had not gone to jail for a long as Tommy thought that or it he was very good at escaping.

He pulled out the chair and sat down in it giving her a questioning look. She smirked taking off her jacket as slowly as possible and leaning over the desk so he could see her cleavage. "So Agent Ward you look nervous," Skye cocked her head to the side, "care to elaborate why?"

"I'm calling to mind all my training." He looked nervous with big brown puppy dog eyes trying to make it look like he was nervous of what he might say. She closed her eyes for a brief ten seconds and tuned out everything thing except for his heartbeat; she listened to how steady it was, she opened her eyes and focused on just his heartbeat waiting to feel a difference and she asked a question, "What's your name?"

"Grant Douglas Ward."

Truth

"How old are you."

"Thirty-one."

Truth

"Did you ever have a dog?"

"No."

His heart sped up a little bit telling her that it was a lie and some point in his life he had owned a dog. It also proved to her that he was lying and wasn't really under the truth serum and he called her pretty.

She leaned back in her chair allowing her legs to stretch out, "Look you shouldn't take this the wrong way but I'm never going to trust you guys. It's not just you guys seriously, I mean, I have more thumbs than I do people I trust." He kept giving her this look as if trying to get her to break and it wasn't even that intimidating. "Look," She said sighing, "just ask me any question about the Rising Tide and I will gladly answer it for you."

"Why the Rising Tide?"

"It was a good place to disappear maybe lay low for a little bit… it's also a very good place to erase yourself from the world."

"If you wanted to erase yourself then why make yourself known to us?"

It took her a few seconds to think of an answer, "Look by know you're probably trying to unlock my laptop and have figured out that you can't. I am also guessing that you are trying to figure out what the hell the centipede project has to do with Mike Peterson."

This time he truly looked confused, "What's the centipede project?"

Oh for the love of all things holy, "Really, project centipede, the one that's taken regular guys and trying to turn them into a super solider." Skye looked at the camera with an annoyed look, "Seriously billions of dollars and I beat you guys with a laptop that I won in a bet."

Grant stood up from his chair and leaned his palms on the table, "Alright I think that this is over." He said irritated at her as he was making his way to the door she stopped him with a question, "Have you ever killed someone before?" It surprised her by how casual it sounded coming out of her mouth.

He had stopped in front of the door and turned around to look at her, "A few but only the bad guys, the ones that dissevered to die."

Skye focused on his heartbeat again and it was faster than the normal steady one but it could be because he was thrown off by the question. He was looking at her a little too closely trying to figure her out so she added some humor in, "And what does your grandmother think of that?"

"Gramsy?" He said in an innocent voice.

Skye smiled, she just might actually stay.

Alright I hope you guys like the first chapter I will probably slowly upload the rest because I already have eight chapters written and there all on Ao3 so if you want to read ahead go there, it's under the same name.

Comments are suggested and if your are going to give me critic please just be kind about it, I understand that there are mistakes that I miss since this is unbeta-ed.