This is towards the end of Season 1! Please no Season 2 spoilers! Hope you enjoy!
Coulson, May, Fitz, Simmons and Skye were gathered around the table-screen in the conference room on the Bus. Coulson was, as always in his suit, and May in her leather jacket and black trousers, but the others were in a mix of gear and pyjamas. Simmons was wearing pink checked pyjama trousers and a full length pyjama shirt, her hair hastily tied back and a lab coat thrown over it all, her eyes bleary from tiredness. Fitz was wearing plain grey pyjama bottoms, and, ironically, an Iron Man T-Shirt, and Skye was wearing a black silk nightdress, her hair a mess around her shoulders. This was because it was two in the morning, and Coulson had just woken them up by knocking violently at the doors of their bunks, demanding that they should all get to the conference room immediately.
"Whats up AC?" asked Skye, "It's two in the morning!"
"I wouldn't have woken you up unless it was an emergency, and this really is." He replied, sombre.
"What is it sir?" timidly asked Simmons.
"It's Ward. He's been sighted 20 miles away from us in a Warehouse near the canal. We're the closest team, so we've been ordered to intervene, even though we have a past with him."
"Oh, bloody hell!" exclaimed Fitz, running his hand through his curly hair.
They all looked shocked. May looked furious, Simmons looked scared and Skye looked, well, almost regretful.
"I'm going." Demanded May, "And just me. He betrayed me more than the rest of you, I want to get him. I'm the only one able to, you guys will just be a distraction, try to stop me hurting him. You guys still have feelings for him, I have none."
For a minute, everyone was silent until…
"No." Skye whispered, and then louder, "No. I'll go, just me. May, tell me the truth, if it was just you and him in a room, and you were the only one with a gun, would you shoot him? Could you bring yourself to shoot the man you once loved?"
"Could you?" demanded May, furiously.
"Yes. Yes. He betrayed me. He told me he loved me minutes before he left, minutes before he killed a friend. I thought he was real, was true, but he isn't. So yes, if it came to it, I could kill him."
For a few moments, everyone was silent, and then, uncomfortably, Coulson said:
"Okay, Skye, you're up. Everyone, you have ten minutes to get ready and then I want FitzSimmons on comms, May you and me on standby as back up and Skye," he paused, "if you can, I want Ward back alive."
What do you think? I'm definitely going to do a couple more chapters, but I don't know if I'll do any more than that!
