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Nobody was expecting her to run away. She had recently become emotionally and to a small extent physically removed from the team but that was to be expected. The traumatic events in the alien city had taken a toll on everyone. Coulson knew she blamed herself for Trips death even if no one else did, and he knew what that kind of guilt could do to a person. So he made sure that she had some space, told Simmons to give her some time before trying to force girl time on her. Now he thinks that giving her space was the last thing she needed. Her room in the playground was cleaned out, almost as if there was never anyone there. His hand formed a tight fist that he slammed into the door frame. "Damn it Skye."
Why didn't she come to him, she always said that they were in the dark together and now she has abandoned him. No that's not right, he knows its not. Skye wouldn't abandon the team, she wouldn't abandon him. He knew that somehow she had gotten the idea that she was dangerous, a danger to her new family. He remembers the conversation they had, her telling him that her father (even in his mind the name is said with anger) had told her that she would end up alone. A self fulfilling prophecy if there ever was one. He feels a hand on his shoulder and for a brief moment mentally chides himself for letting someone sneak up on him even in the relative safety of the playground. "We will find her." Mays voice is soft just barely a whisper. Coulson nods he knows May is concerned, her and Skye had gotten so much closer since Ward turned on them. "She couldn't have gotten to far, Simmons said she saw her last night around 8pm." Coulson did a quick calculation "Skye has been gone for 13 hours, she might still be near by. Lets go."
"Son of a bitch!" Coulson growls upon reaching the garage they discover that one of the SUV s is missing. Simmons jumps not use to hearing Coulson swear. "Ill check the gps maybe she forgot to disable it before she left." Simmons blurts out only to stop in her tracks as Coulson spins around to glare at her. "Good idea Simmons let us know what you find." May steps in front of Coulson "Its not her fault Coulson, don't take your frustration out on the team. We want to find Skye as much as you do."
Growling he runs his hand though his hair. "I know, but this is Skye. May you know as well as I do that in 13 hours she probably has a new identity. Hell she probably had one before she even left the playground."
Simmons creeps back a worried look on her face looking anywhere but at Coulson's face. Quietly she says "She disabled the gps." Coulson sighs "Im sorry Jemma, Im not mad at you. Im just..."
"It's ok sir, I know. We all want Skye back." "Well standing the garage moping isn't going to do a damn thing to get little miss shakes alot back...Ow jeez Bobbi what was that for." Hunter whines rubbing the back of his head. "Because your an insensitive jack ass, that's why."
Coulson rolls his eyes but nods his head "Your right Hunter, the only way we are gonna find Skye is by looking. Fitz can you get us the traffic camera footage from the local towns maybe we can find out which way she went." Fitz nods and scurries off to the lab. "In the mean time May and I will head out in the Quinjet. See if we can't spot her from the air."
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13 hours prior
Skye looked around her room, she had everything she owned stuffed into her backpack. Sighing she made her bed, she refused to leave any sort of mess for the others to clean up. Grabbing her plate and soda off the night stand she headed towards the kitchen, barely stopping the wince when she notices that Jemma is looking in the fridge. Placing a fake smile on her face she walks to sink and starts washing her plate. "Oh, Skye! I was just about to come find you. We are getting ready to start game night." Simmons exclaims while bouncing on her feet "I even got Coulson and Koeing to agree to play!"
Skye smiles. She is really going to miss Jemma she was like the sister she always dreamed of having when she was at the orphanage. "I'm sorry Jemma. I'm really tired, I think I'm gonna turn in early. Make sure you take some video of the games so I can see later ok." Jemma's smile fade a bit "Oh well if your sure, Skye....never mind you get some rest and ill see you in the morning at training. Night" She turns and leaves the kitchen. She doesn't hear Skyes quiet voice "Goodbye."
Heading back to her room Skye sighs, She has never had much luck but it seems that something agrees with her that leaving the playground before she kills again is the best option. Coulson never agrees to game night anymore and as such Koeing would refuse to play too. Originally she had planned on making a run for it on foot, but with as much noise as the xbox makes on game night she might be able to take one of the cars. Opening her laptop she accesses the camera system for the playground and places a 10 min loop along the path she plans on taking. The garage she loops for 20 minutes to make sure she has enough time to find the keys. Closing her laptop she Grabs her backpack, glancing one last time to make sure she hasn't forgotten anything. She quickly heads down the hallway, once in the garage she is happy to find that someone for once put the keys back on the wall. Heading for the SUV she stops in front of Lola. She had briefly considered taking the newly restored car but decided that she couldn't be that selfish. Coulson loved Lola and as much as she wanted to take a part of Coulson with her she couldn't bring herself to take Lola, instead she makes a last minute decision. If she can't have something to take with her maybe she could leave a part of her here. Taking her hula girl out of her bag she carefully places her on Lola's dashboard. She smiles as she sees just how out of place her little hula girl looks, just like her she doesn't fit in with Coulson's class. She hopes that finding the little piece of her she is leaving behind will make him smile, but at least if he throws her away she will never know. She climbs into the SUV, reaching down she disables the gps and opens the garage door. Its easy, she thinks, as she drives down the road, to leave. It will be much easier on the team not to have to worry about setting off her powers, or being crushed at night when she accidentally brings down the building during a nightmare. They have never said anything but she knows it was just a matter of time. She has never had much luck with permanent residences, seems only fitting that the one time she finally feels like she belongs is ruined by her. Its not shield this time trying to protect a little girl by moving her around making her feel unwanted. No this time she will remove herself. A tear escapes as passes though a small town about 2 hours from the play ground. Shes making good time if she keeps this up she should be long gone before any one notices.
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Coulson snarls to himself as he paces in the garage. Fitz had been able to find traffic cameras in a town about 2 hours north of the playground that had picked up the SUV, but then its like she just dropped off the face of the planet. It had been 3 days since and they couldn't find any trace of her. She didn't show up in any of the surrounding towns. They had found the car in the middle of a field a day ago when the gps suddenly came on, Skye had apparently switched cars and made sure they would find the SUV in a field big enough for the Bus to land in. One girl should not be this hard to find especially one that can create earth quakes.... wait that's it! Coulson sprints into the lab. "EARTHQUAKES!" he shouts Fitzsimmons just stare at him "um ok. what about earthquakes?" "Skye creates earthquakes." Fitz nods his head "ok..." "No wait thats brilliant sir!" Jemma jumps up and runs to the holotable "Why didn't I think of this! If we search for unusually seismic activity then we may be able to find out where she went!"
"Ill start with the town she passed though and then widen the search from there." Coulson nods and heads for his office as much as he wants to stay and watch Simmons work he know he would just be in the way. He's surprised to see May waiting for him. "Coulson, I don't want to be the one to say this but we can't keep spending all our man power on finding Skye. We are suppose to be rebuilding Shield, we don't have enough man power to look for Skye and take out Hydra bases."
"I know and I've been trying to come up with a solution, I can't....I mean we can't just give up on Skye." Mays face turns soft for just a moment. "I know, I miss her too but if she doesn't want to be found we are not going to be able to find her. She was good at hiding before we trained her as a Shield agent."
"Your right May. There are only a few people I would trust to find Skye with out them wanting to sandbox her the second they find her. The problem is they all think I'm dead."