AN- This is the reupload of the second part of the souls saga Desperation. I had lost this story but I managed to find where I had the paper copy and so I've typed it up and fixed some of the problems I had with it. I hope you enjoy!
DESPERATION
CHAPTER 1
"Undercover?" Skye questioned. "As a couple?"
"As long as you two maintain your relationship when others are around." Coulson confirmed. "You should also know that he's been sleeping with May for the past few months. I wouldn't ask him about it, she was the one who told me back in Mexico."
Skye felt her world crashing down around her. Ward was with May, the robot and the robot. It made sense but that didn't mean that she had to like it. But she had slept with Miles while they were trying to catch him. And she had been a little more than unkind towards him at first. But she thought that she had a chance, she thought that she could have been with him. She'd heard about Clint and Natasha, Black Widow and Hawkeye. The heroes of New York in an intimate relationship. But after what happened to him before the battle, she could understand that. They hadn't had that; she and Ward wouldn't be able to. They couldn't...
Coulson watched as Skye fell to the ground. Her heartbeat was frantic. That was when Ward opened the door and hit Skye's immobile body with it. They wouldn't tell her about that part.
"What happened to her?" Ward asked frantically.
"I told her about your upcoming mission. I don't think that she took it well. Or that I told her about the nature of yours and May's relationship."
Ward's face turned from worry, to shock, to devastation. "We broke it off a few days ago." He whispered to her. "She knows how I felt about you. There's nothing between Melinda and I Skye, I promise you that." He picked up her as gently as he could, holding her body as if it were about to break. "I'll take her to her bunk and go get Simmons." He explained before leaving Coulson's office.
Luckily for him, Simmons saw him carrying Skye the second he got down the stairs. "Take her to her bunk; I'll be up in a minute." He did as he was asked, laying her lovingly on her bed. He placed a lingering kiss on her forehead before taking a seat at her side. He should have been honest with himself; his relationship with May hadn't been real. Skye was real to him; she had broken his walls within minutes. Walls that he'd spent so long building up.
"How is she?" Ward asked as Simmons walked in with a piece of high tech looking equipment. She pressed it in a few different places and soon it was scanning Skye and showing Simmons a live feed of what was happening inside of Skye.
"This is the strange thing, it's her heart." Simmons quickly went on to explain what she meant. "When someone experiences deep emotional pain, it can put pressure on the heart. If untreated, some of the heart strings can break causing it to stop pumping blood. She could literally die of a broken heart. Do you have any idea what caused this?"
"Me. I think I did this to her." Ward held his head in his hands. "May and I had been sleeping together for a while. Coulson told Skye, she seemed like she couldn't hear him and then collapsed. Or at least that's what he said." He looked up at Simmons 'shocked face. "I'd gone up to Coulson's office to tell him about myself and Agent May and to tell him that we had ended our relationship. That was when I hit a passed out Skye with the door."
Simmons got curious. "Did you love May?"
"No, we both knew that. But she figured out why before I did." Ward explained slightly ashamed. "It was Skye. I'd been hiding from how I felt about her, putting it down to her being a close friend. It wasn't that. I love Skye and there's no way that she can love me now."
"I wouldn't be too sure." Simmons muttered under hear breath, making sure that he wouldn't hear. "I'm going to get a sedative to calm her down, stay here and look after her. Try talking to her, it might help calm her down too."
Ward nodded and with that Simmons left the two in silence. "Skye, pull through this and prove to me that you're strong. Everything rolls off your back. Please, let this." He begged with her, saying many things that were the same. "Come on, Rookie." Simmons heard him say as she neared Skye's bunk. "I'm not about to let you go down that easily. I love you too much. And there's no way you're skipping out on training."
Simmons saw Fitz's worried look and smiled in an attempt to reassure him. He walked over to her and said "I heard it all, there's no way he's giving up."
"Can you give Skye the sedative? I need to speak to Agent May." Simmons walked away after giving Fitz the sedative. He knew what to do and she knew that he wouldn't say no.
She entered the cockpit and took a seat down next to May. "We're going to need a slight change of plans." She told the older woman sitting to her left. "Skye's in pretty rough shape and we need to get her to the hub. I don't have the equipment I need here."
Wordlessly, May turned the bus around, heading toward the one place Skye wasn't really allowed to go. "We'll be there in 20."
