Out Of Time

seventy-five

Y/N stayed in her room on the way to Cleveland. Hiding away from the team and ignoring Tony's text messages and phone calls. She knew that he was mad and, because of his feelings, eventually stop trying to get a hold of her or he would track her down. She stayed in there until she was called out by Skye, and it seemed that May was as well.

"Hey," Skye greeted the two women. "Coulson told me you were helping to, you know, find my long-lost folks, so thanks. I'm glad you're both in on this with me. It means a lot." Both women gave stoic looks back at Skye. "Right, I can tell you're both really into this. Um, I've done a lot of the heavy lifting already, came up with a short list." Skye held up a flash drive. "Thought you might-"

"We're on a mission, Skye," May stated, quite harshly. "Is this why you called us here?"

"No." She retracted her hand that was holding out the flash drive. "I was just working on this while I waited for you guys. Uh, I called because I found something about Po."

"Show us," Y/N ordered.

The three women went to the command center, where Skye quickly pulled up the information she found.

"Po only had on visitor during his prison stint- her," Skye explained. "You notice the outfit? Miles said a girl in a flower dress asked him to hack SHIELD. This could be the same girl."

"Can we hear the conversation?" May asked.

"That's the bummer, there's no audio. But it's not a total loss I was able to use SHIELD's lip-reading program, because we have one of those!" Skye chuckled, looking excitedly at May and Y/N, who both looked unimpressed. "It didn't work on the girl because she never looks up at the camera, but Po did once and it caught this."

Skye pressed on the holotable, playing the audio the computer generated.

"The Clairvoyant does not like to be touched," the computer said, reading Po's lips.

"I wrote that down, so we don't have to hear that again," Skye said. "Ever."

"The Clairvoyant," Y/N repeated.

"Yeah. Does that mean anything to you?"

Y/N shook her head. "It's just weird... It means something to them though. To Po and whoever that woman is."

"Her name's Raina," Mike stated, at the entrance of the room.

"Who know her?" Skye asked.

"Yeah," Mike quickly came further into the room. "She recruited me for Centipede. Came up to me at the hospital where I did my back therapy out of the blue. Told me she could change my life."

"They always say that, don't they?" Y/N sighed. "Call Coulson."

"On it," Skye responded, pressing things on the table.

"What'd you find?" Coulson responded, answering the phone.

"I have a picture coming up on your tablet."

"Seeing it."

"Her name is Raina," Y/N stated. "She's the one who recruited Mike at the hospital."

"We're running her through our systems," Skye said. "Maybe we can get an ID, but we're guessing she's Centipede's recruiter and Po's her latest recruit."

"Three super soldiers dive-bomb a prison, pluck him out?" Coulson said. "He's her number one draft pick."

"But why him?"

"Centipede's making more soldiers. Maybe they want Po to coordinate them, lead them."

"His background's tactical strategy," May stated. "He fits the bill."