Who's the Daddy?!
Chapter 1 Who’s the Daddy!?
Summary: What if one the agents on the bus was much more interested in who Skye’s parents were? What if finding out who her father is makes him more obsessed with Skye instead of less?
It was a puzzle, and for a man like Grant Ward who considers the information need to know the puzzle was as frustrating as the girl her-self. After all what Skye’s true name is and the name of her parents could be important not only to S.H.I. but to Hydra as well, neither group appreciating the hidden anymore than he did, unless they were the ones doing the hiding of course, so why wasn’t Coulson trying to find anything?
In fact Coulson and May both had hindered efforts to try find out and were actively blocking FitzSimmon’s who wanted to run a DNA test to find out if there were any potential matches in the system. S.H.I. had long maintained a databank of DNA, everyone, everywhere who had their blood taken was in the system, a system Hydra also monitored.
With billions of samples in the system solving who Skye is could take only a matter of hours, a day at the most, yet only Simmons suggested using it.
It was frustrating and inefficient to say nothing of dangerous to have an unknown on the bus, where everything from the work to the plane itself was classified, however he had a job to do and needed to move.
His jaw nearly dropped when he is told the object of his frustration (in more ways than one) is going to be going into hostile territory with him. “Coulson! She has no training, no discipline and her behavior is more likely to get us noticed not less” Ward argues.
“Thanks Robot” Skye replies as she rolls her eyes.
“She’ll be fine” Coulson replies, “besides this mission is right up her alley since we need the computers stripped of all information, since it involves computer work I expect she will remain interested long enough to get in and out with out a problem” Coulson explains.
Ward heaves a heavy sigh and gives Skye a dark look, “you do what I say when I say is that understood?”
“I get to go through someone’s computer who won’t want me too, I promise I’ll be a good girl the entire time…other than stealing someone’s files of course” Skye replies with a saucy grin.
Ward sighs sure this is a bad idea but heads off to gear up anyway as Coulson tells Skye to get what she needs to copy the targets hard drive.
After being dropped off by May, Ward and Skye make their way through a forest, heading to the building they need on foot under the cover of darkness. Ward being perpetually annoyed with all the noise Skye is making while he himself makes no sound, even his clothing doesn’t rustle. If Coulson is determined to keep the girl Ward muses to himself she will need to be trained on how to move.
They make it into the building easily with Ward’s skill; you don’t get to be level 6 after all without knowing the ends and outs of breaking and entering. Ward guided Skye through the building to the directors’ office since the highest ranked person’s computer would likely have the most files to data mine on it.
They were nearly done with the job when Ward hears multiple foot steps coming down the hall, as it is late at night and he and Skye had waited till only the nighttime flood lighting was on he should not be hearing what sounded like as many as six individuals approaching. “Skye we have company coming finish it up!” Ward urgently whispers, the amount of time they have to get out of the office and hidden shortening by the moment.
“I still need four minutes Robot” Skye replies, the nervousness she’s feeling showing in her tone.
“We don’t have four minutes, we don’t even have two, finish what you’re doing and get unplugged now” Ward sends back before drawing his weapon and moving into position so that the door and part of the wall will give him some cover.
Skye decides that since she doesn’t have time to get everything she will put a subtle line of code into the computer that will copy any new information and send it to a secure server she maintains for just such a purpose and shuts down her operation moving quickly to join Ward at the door.
They almost made it out unscathed, however at the last minute gun shots sound behind them and Skye cries out clutching her arm as Ward turns to return fire and push Skye behind him in one move.
Ward keeps the gunman pinned down while quietly urging Skye into the tree line as they will be able to move quicker once undercover. After getting a couple of miles away with Skye getting progressively slower Ward decides to take a few moments to stop and check her injures and pulls out his first aid field kit. “My medical skills aren’t the greatest” Ward says “but I will be able to keep you moving till we get to Simmons”.
Skye looks up at him with wet, pained yet trusting eyes twisting something in his heart that he immediately tries to harden again. Ward gently turns her pushing at the shirt she is wearing to find where she is injured. He discovers she has a bullet hole in her arm but no exit wound and a deep graze along the same side indicating she was hit twice. Thankfully he finds no other injury and quickly begins wrapping both wounds before getting her moving again as Ward worriedly casts looks at her along the way not use to a quiet Skye who other than briefly crying out when first hit has made no other sound, he thought he would appreciate her being silent but only found something wrong with it.
After making it to the other side of the shallow forest they find May waiting for pickup as she casts concerned looks at both of them her senses set off as she notes Ward’s behavior and realizes something’s wrong. Ward understanding the other senior agent’s unasked question merely states “She’s been hit twice, get us to the bus”. May nods in understand as Ward gets a still shocked Skye into the back seat.
When they get into the lab areas Simmons immediately takes over having already been informed of the injures and Skye’s state over the radio and Ward gets Skye on a table as Simmons gets to work. After Simmons gets Skye patched up, she gives her a tetanus shot since they don’t know if she’s had one before and a pain killer, after this is done Simmons gets Skye cleaned up and puts her to bed for the night before heading to Coulson’s office to give her report.
Ward looks worried at the girl for a moment before the opportunistic part of him kicks in and he quickly slides a bloody bandage into his pocket looking around for the other agents as he does so.
Ward sighs, a long day still not over as he waits for the rest of the bus to settle down for the night. After Coulson and the other agents except for May who is in the cockpit are in bed and have had time to get to sleep he slips into the lab pulling out the bloody cloth and entering a sample into a machine, after a quick look around he starts running the DNA search.
With billions of samples in the data bank Ward did not expect quick results, after all for the last 30 years every blood donation, blood drawn for medical reasons or blood that agents took from unknowing targets just as he had done was entered into the system. As Ward settles in to wait for what could be several hours he pulls out a book from his S.O. John Garrett’s list and hopes the test finishes before his team starts moving around.
To Ward’s surprise the machine begins to beep less than 30 minutes in, as these machines always test agent blood samples first that means it wasn’t even out of the S.H.I database before finding a match. Skye is related to an agent. He hurries to the machine hoping to silence it before it disturbs FitzSimmons whose bunks out of necessity are not far from the labs.
Ward quickly prints out the results and without looking them over shoves them in the back of his pants pulling his shirt down over them before quickly erasing his actions from the computer system and disposing of the bloody cloth left over and the sample in the machine. Quickly and efficiently cleaning up after himself Ward hurries down the bus to his own quarters and shuts himself in making sure to lock the door as he pulls out the printout.
What Ward sees as he looks at the paper in his hand has his jaw nearly hitting the floor and his butt hitting the bed before he could hit the floor as he had to sit down heavily from the shock. Looking back at him from the printout is a face he knows all too well. Though Ward has not seen his mentor for over a year there is no mistaking John Garrett’s face on the page or the fact that the test which could have pulled up any level of biological relation stated quite clearly 99% Parental Match.
A.N. Author’s Challenge
Take this as an intro chapter and run with it. What effect does this result have on Ward who is already starting to become obsessed with Skye to find out she is the daughter of the man Ward looks up to so much? Will Ward tell Skye who is desperate for information on her parents? Will Ward tell Garrett he’s a father? What will Garrett think, say, do? How much and in what ways will this change Ward’s treatment of Skye? And any other way you can think to make this story your own. If you decide to adopt this please leave a link in the reviews or PM me as the whole point of this is to get me more stories I want to read.
A.N. 2 length
Please try to make your story at least 30k length at a minimum, longer is of course always welcome.