The Avenger's Soul

Ragtag (Part 2)

Skye's POV

I sat on my hotel bed looking at a picture of Ward – the picture I took in the diner to turn him in. There was a knock on the door, so I quickly cleared my screen as May entered, and held two sodas in her hand.

"You never came out to eat," she pointed out.

"Not much of an appetite," I told her as she handed me a soda before sitting on the other bed facing me.

"Look, Fitz can't process the truth about Ward, not yet. What he said...it's what he needs to believe," she said.

"Do you think Ward's being controlled?" I asked her.

"Absolutely not," May scoffed.

I looked over at her then moved to directly face her.

"Neither do I. You know, I never gave you enough credit for this whole Zen-warrior thing. But I got to admit, it'd be nice to feel nothing right now," I told her.

Once again May scoffed and smiled a bit.

"You think I don't feel anything?"

"Look at you, you're a statue. And you and Ward had a thing. So if anyone should be furious –"

"I am," May said through gritted teeth as I looked at her surprised.

"I am furious. But I'm sure as hell not going to waste it on a tantrum," she said. "I'm gonna mine it, save it...and when we find Ward, I'm gonna use every bit of it to take him down."

"Wish I knew how to us that Hate-Fu," I mumbled, giving her a smile that she doesn't return.

"I'm up most mornings at 5:00," she informed me. I decided not to tell her that I already knew that since I didn't need sleep I usually just sprawled out on my bed doing my best not to drown in my thoughts and could hear her when she started getting ready in the morning.

Suddenly there was another knock on the door, Coulson didn't wait for an answer though, he just walked in. Not that I minded.

"Trip ID'd a number of Cybertek shipments that ping ponged across the globe. Brazil, Cambodia, Syria, but they all ended up in Havana," he told us.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. used to have a base there," May said.

"I told you we'd find them. We're going to Cuba." Coulson said as he turned to exit the room.

*****

Ward's POV

"Everything okay?" I asked as I approached the lab after receiving a call from Raina.

"Everything's fine," she said as she walked out of the lab to join me.

"You have a problem with the drug?" I prompted.

"This isn't about the drug." She looked around, notices we are mostly alone, then looked back at me.

"I thought Agent Garrett shared my interest in special people, in transformation. But now I realize he was just afraid to die," she says sadly.

I just nodded.

"So I'm not sure how interested he'll be in what I found out about Skye."

"Skye?" I said leaning in as my interest increased.

"I probably shouldn't be talking to you about this. I should go straight to Garrett," Raina said. She started to walk away but I grabbed her arm stopping her.

"Garrett's got more important things to worry about," I told her, desperately wanting to hear her news about Skye. With her back to me I didn't notice the smirk on her face. "You can tell me instead."