"You're kidding me, right?!" May yelled, following Coulson to his office. "You seriously trust Skye to watch after Ward?!"
Coulson shrugged. "And you don't? May, your her S.O. You should trust her. I do."
"She needs to watch herself before she watches anyone else. Her powers are still a bit shaky, no pun intended."
Coulson sighed. "May, I'm the director, and I trust Skye."

❃

Skye laughed as Ward put his arm around her. He laughed too. They were both sitting on the couch.
"I can not believe that just happened," Ward said. "I thought Coulson hated me."
"Well, apparently he forgave you," Skye replied. "I think he ships us."
Ward chuckled. "You can totally tell May is ticked at him. That was the best part."
Skye started laughing again until it faded into a smile. She sighed and leaned her head back.
"May's gonna kill me," she said.
"How?" Ward asked.
Skye sighed again. "She's my S.O."
"What?! But I want to be your S.O.!"
Skye laughed again. "Like that's gonna happen. Don't push your luck."
Ward chuckled. "Don't worry, I'll come with you and make sure May doesn't push you too hard."
Then Bobbi rushed in. "We have a problem," she said, breathing hard.

❃

"We just saw an explosion in the middle of a neighborhood in Texas," Coulson explained. "Nobody died, but they need our help. They don't know when or if another explosion is gonna go off."
Skye sighed, thinking about the families in the neighborhood. Those poor children.
"I'm gonna want to go in," Coulson continued.
"What?!" May yelled. "Are you kidding?! You're the director of Shield you can't go into a minefield!"
"May," Coulson said. "It's my decision. Now, I'm gonna need a team. I definitely want Bobbi and Skye. I'll need their personalities on this mission. Plus, Skye says she can feel movement. So that might be useful with explosions. I know Hunter is down right now so I want Ward."
Simmons shifted uneasily while May made a growling noise in her throat. She didn't say anything though because she knew she would be put down.
"I also want Simmons to be our nurse of the mission. There could be injuries and I need someone who can-"
"Actually sir I would like to sit this one out," Simmons interrupted. "I'd rather stay here and make sure Hunter's arm is healing right."
"Really?" Coulson asked.
"My arm is fine," Hunter said.
"I know," Simmons replied. "But you'll have policemen and firemen who can take care of them."
Skye looked at Simmons closely. Ok..........that was weird.
"Alright," Coulson finished. "That's everyone I want. You are dismissed."
May looked at him, shocked. He's not bringing me!
Ward looked at Skye in shock. He's bringing me on a mission!
Skye returned his look and squeezed his hand. She felt happy for Ward. He finally fit in.

❃

"Ok!" Coulson explained, once they got there. "We need to get everyone out of the area. Bobbi and me will go right, Skye and Ward will go left. We'll meet back here."
"Yes sir," everyone answered.
"And Skye," Coulson added. "Please tell us if you feel any movement."
Skye nodded. Then everyone rushed into the scene.
"Help me!"
"Did you hear that?" Skye asked.
"What?" Ward asked. "No I didn't hear anything."
"Help me!"
Skye stopped walking. "It's this way," she said and started walking down an alleyway. Ward quickly followed.
"Help me!" The cry got louder.
They ended up getting to a little girl, about ten years old. She was stuck up on her roof.
"How did she get up there?" Ward asked.
"Where are your parents?" Skye called.
"They went to get help!" She cried. "They put me up here to be safe!"
"How is that safe?" Ward asked.
"The point is we need to get her down," Skye ordered. "The house seemed like it fell through the ground, but we still can't reach it."
Ward looked at Skye, thinking. Hmmmmm.
He picked Skye up, wedding style.
"Uhhh Ward what are you doing?" She asked.
"What, you aren't enjoying this?" He asked grinning.
"Well, I-I never said that," Skye answered, surprised.
He then lifted Skye up on his shoulder, her legs dangling down his side.
"Can you reach her now?"
Skye reached her arms up, just out do reach of the girl.
"Hey sweetie, come her," Skye said to the girl.
The girl shook her head and backed up.
Skye sighed. You wanted our help!
"Come on sweetie it's not that far!"
"How can I trust you?" She asked nervously.
Skye stopped, thinking. "What do you mean?"
"There were men. Men in dark suites. They were the ones who exploded this neighborhood."
"Did their suites say or have anything on it?" Skye asked nervously.
"Yes," the girl replied. "It had a silver eagle."
Skye gasped and looked down at Ward. "Shield." But why would Shield do this? Then she turned back to the girl. "Come on sweetie. You can get trust us."
"You don't work for anyone?" She asked. "Because if you do I'm not coming down."
"No," Skye said. "We're just a down to Earth couple who heard a little girl cry." Skye looked down at Ward who grinned up at her.
The girl slowly crawled over to Skye as she held the girl in her arms. Ward slowly lifted Skye down off his shoulder and hugged her.
"Are you ok?" Skye asked the girl.
"There's my family!" She called, and pointed to a man and woman.
She ran to them as the father picked her up and held her in his arms. "Thank you," he said to Skye and Ward.
Skye smiled and was about to call Coulson when she felt something, something different. Something definitely Inhuman. She started backing up until she tripped over a rock and fell backward. Ward caught her and held her up.
"Skye! Skye are you ok?!" He asked, worried.
She started shaking as he pulled her closer to him. He brought her into a warm hug. "What's wrong Skye?" He asked.
"Something, something's coming," Skye explained. Then she looked up at Ward with big, beautiful eyes. "Another explosion. I can feel it."
"Ok," Ward replied. "We need to tell Coulson."
Skye felt it get closer. "Coulson!" She yelled into her comp. "We need to get everyone out of here! Another explosion is coming!"

❃

"Is everyone out?!" Ward asked into his comp.
"Yes," Coulson replied. "You can get out too."
"Ok," Ward said. Then he looked at Skye. "Come on Skye."
Skye stood there for a moment. Then she looked up at him, horrified. "We need to get out now!" Skye yelled.
Then there was a huge explosion. Ward shoved Skye down and landed on her. Skye couldn't hear for a couple seconds. Then her hearing came back. Ward slowly stood up and then helped Skye up. Skye had a cut above her right eyebrow.
"I think that was the last bomb," Skye said.
"Ugh, our comps are out," Ward stated.
Then Skye looked around them. "I think we have a bigger problem."
Ward looked up, there were rocks, everywhere. Big giant rocks from the explosion blocking their way out of the neighborhood.

❃

"May?" Simmons called through the Shield base. "May?"
"What?" She asked, as she appeared around the corner.
Simmons sighed. "I need to talk to you."
"What is it?" May asked worried.
"Ummm, I kind of need some privacy how about we go in Coulson's office."
"Ok what's wrong?" May asked as soon as they got into Coulson's office.
"I need to tell you something. I thought about telling Coulson but I don't know if I should now since he trusts Ward."
"You don't trust him?" May asked.
Simmons looked at her and sighed. "Oh come on May, everyone knows you don't either! Ever since Ward came in the scene this has been a nightmare!"
May sighed too. "I know. Well, you can trust me. I don't like Ward either. Or Coulson's decisions lately."
"Oh good," Simmons replied. "Because I need to tell you something extraordinary."
"What is it?" May asked.
"I was doing some testings and research and such and I realized something," Simmons explained. "You know how we have all these powered people running around?"
"Yes," May answered.
"Well," Simmons continued. "Well you know how I have been scared of them?"
"More or less," May said.
"Well I realized," Simmons replied. "I had been looking at it all wrong! What if.....we had one big powered person to rule over all the others?"
"Like Skye's mom?" May asked win a raised eyebrow.
"No no no!" Simmons exclaimed. "It would be a powered person, controlled by us."
"Hmmm," May thought. "Well what do I have in this?"
"You hate Ward right?" Simmons asked with raised eyebrows.
May looked at her sternly. "Yes."
"Well, I need someone to experiment on."
May sighed and thought. "Will it torture him?"
Simmons chuckled. "No no no! Not painfully. It won't even hurt........that much." Simmons said under her breath. "He'll have pain meds. But we will strap him down to the seat so he can't escape. I'll need to poke and prod needles a little bit but he'll barely feel them.....hopefully," Simmons said under her breath again.
May sighed. "What if the experiments go wrong? I don't want another Ultron."
Simmons started laughing and patted May on the shoulder. May's lips didn't move as she looked at Simmons ridiculously. "Don't worry May! I'll make sure they won't go wrong. But Ward will get the powers."
May looked at her. "Simmons we don't trust him, you want to give him dangerous powers?"
Simmons laughed again. "Oh May you just don't get it! If Ward has dangerous uncontrollable powers that nobody can fix like the Inhumans could fix Skye's, and half the team doesn't like him already, then won't Coulson have to put him down?"
May looked at her for a long time. Simmons thought she saw a tiny smirk of pleasure go across her face.
"Alright," May agreed, with that tiny smirk still on her face. "You can do it. I give you permission."
Simmons smiled and thanked her before walking off toward the lab.

❃

"Coulson we can't get out," Ward told him as Skye and him stood in the middle of the neighborhood. The wall of rocks towering over them.
Skye stood away from Ward, off on her own with her arms folded like she was hugging herself, like she was scared of something.
Coulson thought for a long time. "Can Skye move the rocks?" Coulson asked.
Was turned to Skye. She looked at him horrified, like he had found out her darkest secret. He started walking towards her.
"No, no, no!" Skye yelled. "I'm not using my powers to move the rocks! There has to be another way!"
"Oh come on Skye!" Ward said as he stood in front of her. "Why don't you want to use your powers?"
"Well, those are rocks! What if I hurt someone with them!"
"Skye I thought you were over this," Coulson said.
"Yeah," Skye replied. "I got over it when I moved a moutain! And moved a plane! But you know what?! There was nobody near those two things! But this is a neighborhood! And people could get hurt."
Ward looked at Skye. She needed a hug. He pulled her into a nice, comforting hug and looked down at her.
"Skye," he said. "You aren't gonna hurt anyone. Coulson and Bobbi cleared everyone out. Please, do it for me?"
Skye sighed and smiled up at him. "Fine."
She turned toward the rocks and slowly moved her hand. The rocks started shaking and started to slowly crumble down the other way. The eventually crumbled to the ground so Skye and Ward could walk over them.
Ward looked down at Skye and grinned. "I'm proud of you."
He gently put his hand on the back of her head and pulled her towards him. He was leaning in to kiss her. She was letting him.
"Ehem," Skye coughed and pulled away. Bobbi and Coulson were coming toward them.
"Good job Skye," Coulson said. "Let's go."

❃

Ward put his finger right above Skye's cut and peered down at her. She was sitting up on the medical table, her feet dangling off. Ward turned around and got the stitches. He started carefully stitching up her cut.
"You know I did that with May once," Coulson said as he walked in the room, looking at Skye and Ward. "She sat up on the counter too, her legs dangling off. I had to stitch up her wound."
Coulson sighed and looked at them. "I'm glad you're back Ward." Then Coulson left.
Ward sighed and put the stitches away. Then he helped Skye off the table by picking her up and setting her gently on the ground. She hugged him. He looked down at her. He gently put his hand on the back of her head.
"Ward wait," Skye ordered.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"What if someone sees us?" Skye asked.
Ward sighed. "Skye don't worry. Coulson ships us and he won't let May touch us. If anything, he's probably watching us right now and chanting "kiss kiss kiss!""
Skye giggled. "Fine."
Ward gently put his hand behind Skye's head, leaned in, and kissed her.
"You didn't pull away," he said.
Skye looked up at him with both eyes. "I trust you fully now." Then she hugged him.
Ward was right. Coulson had been watching them from his office. He had been spying on them from the cameras recording them.
"Yes!" He yelled. "My ship is sailing."