The Scrapbook

Rating: Varies from K to T

Spoilers: It would be best if you watched the whole season.

A/N: Most of these won't be that long, so I can most likely guarantee quick updates. I hope you enjoy and give me your thoughts on this. Also, this is an AU where Ward wasn't part of Hydra.

Summary: AU. When Melinda May left, Agent Coulson decided to pack her bags. That was, until he came across a scrapbook of hers. The team quickly joined the fun, learning things about May they never knew before. Drabbles.

Agent Phil Coulson didn't understand why May left. Yes, he was mad at her, but for her to leave? That was a different story.

The team made a compromise, even with everyone feeling sad about it, but to box her stuff, and sent it to wherever she was now living. The team didn't even think about their plan too much, leaving out all the cost, locations, and boxes for later.

Phil and his team went to May's cherished room. It wasn't that big, since she was the pilot and needed to steer the plane most days. There were some books and magazines in the room along with a deck of worn-out cards.

Ward and Phil were the ones gathering what she had, and piling them on the bed. "I wished she would have stayed," Ward said. Everyone did, but there was a different connection between her and Ward. One that Coulson wasn't thrilled of.

"We all do Ward. But the world needs us out there right now," the leader explained.

Ward nodded. "I know." Grant moved a pile of magazines from her bedside table to the bed. Coulson got on his hands and knees, and looked underneath the bed.

"That's strange," said Phil as he grabbed on to an object from underneath the bed. "What exactly is this." He cut himself off when he saw the giant book that said "Melinda Q May" on it. He got off the ground before opening the book, and sat on the bed beside the pile. He opened the book and there was pictures. Lots of them. The first picture started off when May was first-born. The cute little baby with hair was asleep in her mother's arms.

Coulson scanned the pages quickly, not giving much thought on the pictures until he reached the end where he noticed there was one team picture of them. The book wasn't close to being full. Her journey has only begun. "What is it?"

"It looks like a scrapbook." And that was exactly what it was.

"Can we look through it? May never has to know."

Phil hesitated. "She'll know if we send it to her."

"Send what to her?" Skye said as she entered the small room. It was already tight with two, but three was pushing the capacity.

"A scrapbook," Grant answered. Skye giggled as she went to see the scrapbook that Coulson was holding. The book was flipped on the last page.

"It's no fun to start at the back where we know everything," she said as she stole the book from Coulson. "Besides, I'm sure Fitz and Simmons would like to join our finding." Skye ran out the door with the book.

"Skye," Phil said. He could already hear her calling Fitz and Simmons to the couch. She heard something about story time. He knew this was invading May's privacy, but she left. If she really wanted it, she would have taken the book.

Phil sighed in defeat as he headed out of the cramped room and toward the couch in the centre of the room. Skye was already sitting in the middle with the book in her hands. She looked up and saw Coulson. "You probably want to take a seat before they're both stolen," Skye said. Coulson, who agreed with Skye, walked quickly to the couch and sat to the left of Skye.

Fitz and Simmons rushed behind them, and noticed the thick book. "It's May's?" Fitz said in his Scotish accent.

Skye nodded. "Yep." She popped the p. Ward walked out of the room, and noticed everyone gathered around the book. There was still one empty seat left. He made eye contact with the pair that we standing up behind the couch. Ward was pretty sure they could see what he wanted in his eyes, making a dash towards the other seat beside Skye. Grant somehow managed to get there before the pair, probably because of the pulling and pushing.

"Okay, now that everyone has had their energy released. Is everyone ready?" she asked. They all nodded in unison.

"Great," Skye said. "Now let's start at the beginning of May's life."

As I said, the chapters are going to be short, aiming at a thousand or so words per chapter (this wasn't at that goal, but there wasn't that much I could have added to it without starting at one of the pictures). I hope you review, and enjoy.