Their little star

Skye

Stepping out of the van, she walks around it to pull the side door open just as May leaves the passenger seat to place herself outside the door. Steeping into the familiar van, she quickly looks around herself, to make sure if anything that would make May realise who she is are placed in the small space. But she couldn’t see anything of the sort, which made her a bit sad.

Forcing the sadness away for now, Skye pulls out her laptop and starts it up. Activating the rest of her equipment, she sees how May is holding out a phone for her. Looking at it in surprise, she takes it.

“Hello?”

She asks, not sure why May have handed her a phone in this moment.

“Good, you have reached the location.”

She hears Fitz speak from the other end of the line and Skye rolls her eyes, happy she has turned her head towards the wall so May can see this.

“Yeah, I’m starting everything up now.”

She tells him, turning her attention back to her laptop to see she can enter her code, which she does. Turning her attention fully to her computer, she starts looking for the file, smiling when she finds it.

“Audio file should be coming through. It’s not compressed, so it might take a minute.”

She tells him, watching how the file slowly uploads.

“Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m getting it.”

Fitz responds and she can hear him move about on the other end of the call.

“So, uh, uh, when... when you get back, I’ll show you, my thing. A thing. It's not... I-it’s my hardware. My equipment. Let’s... hang up.”

Skye blinks a few times as she moves the phone from her ear and looks at it, shock going through her body. She had not expected to hear something like this from Fitz and she can’t help but feel slightly uncomfortable. Even if she deep down knows he meant the equipment he rolls with in the lab.

Holding out the phone to May once more, the older woman takes it and puts it away. Seeing how the older agent is distracted, Skye pulls out a memory card that has been hidden under her laptop and hides it away in her bra. If May or Coulson were to find it, it wouldn’t be a problem. But she doesn’t trust the rest of their team to keep silent. Her siblings and aunt have worked hard to keep her hidden after all.

“That should be it.”

She speaks up, closing her laptop and turns towards May once more.

“Let’s head back.”

She orders and Skye nods her head at this. But before either of them has a chance to move, something or someone drops down behind May. Mike had dropped down from the sky, grabbing hold of May and throws her into the wall behind them.

Fear strikes Skye and she can hear how she whispers out Melinda’s name. The only other person she has ever seen come close to take May down is Natasha. Turning her attention towards Mike, Skye moves further back into the van.

“Mike.”

She managed to get out, her voice trembling, and she tries to pull herself together. This wasn’t the time to fall apart, not for her and especially not for May. Seeing how Mike turns his attention towards her, she can see that he isn’t all to sure what he is doing.

“What are you doing?”

Her voice was a bit more stable this time, but she’s still shaking.

“Saving you. From the scary men in dark suits.”

He points out and Skye is tempted to point out that he just knocked out a woman, her mother in fact. But the words never reached further than to her mind, stopping at the fact that she wanted to call May her mother once more.