Their little star

Skye

Seeing how her phone screen light up, Skye looks down at it in surprise. Seeing that a number she hasn’t saved as a contact, she is a bit hesitant to answer the call. Thinking that it could be Clint and Natasha calling her from another phone, she grabs it. It wouldn’t be the first time something like that has happened when they are out on a mission.

“This is Skye.”

She answer the call, leaning back agents the wall.

“Hello Skye, I know we haven’t spoken before but my name is Pepper Pots, I got your number from Tony. I hope it’s alright if I call you like this.”

The female voice says on the other end of the line and Skye sits up properly once more. Having Pepper Pots calling her is the last thing she would expect to happen. Blinking a few times, Skye glance to her phone to make sure all of this is real.

“H…Hi.”

She somehow managed to get out, it was her own idea to let Stark tell Pepper everything he learned, this was a while back now and Skye hasn’t even heard anything from Stark himself.

“I’m sorry, am I call in a bad time?”

Pepper ask and Skye can hear that the other woman sounds worried. Taking in a deep breath, Skye pulls herself together. She can freak out over the fact that Pepper is calling her later.

“No, no. It’s alright. I’m just a bit surprised over the fact that you are calling me. So, what can I do for you?”

“Well, I want to talk to you about something I just found out, but I’m not fully sure how to start.”

And right there Skye get’s a bad feeling about this call.

“Just hang on, I’m going to move to a more, secure location.”

Skye informs Pepper as she rises from her bed. Unlocking the door, she heads directly for one of the bathrooms. Making sure the door is locked properly, she sits down on the toilet.

“Alright, what is going on? Is Tasha and Clint alright?”

She asks, her thoughts going directly to her siblings. But something tells her that if they have ended up in a bad situation, it would be Maria or Victoria calling her and not Tony Starks girl.

“What I know they are alright, no, I’m calling about something I found when going over a few files.”

Pepper explains and Skye starts to grow worry once more.

“Look, I only hacked into the system because Gwen dared me to do it when we realised how good of a hacker I am. We didn’t touch anything.”

Skye starts to defend herself, not with the truth however. When Natasha found out what she and Gwen was up to, she asked Skye to create a backdoor into Starks system. Saying it would probably come in handy one day. And it did.

“No, this isn’t... you hacked into our system?”

The complete surprise in Pepper’s voice makes Skye relax slightly, but only slightly since she now knows she will be in trouble for that.

“Yeah... sorry about that. So if its not about my siblings or my hacking, then why did you call?”

She asks, turning the conversation back to why Pepper made the call.

“Coulson is alive.”

Skye freezes up at this, she knows Phil is alive, it would be weird since she is on the same plane as him after all. The fact that Pepper is telling her that he is alive, when Maria told her specific that only level 7 agents knows this fact.