This one shot came to me as soon as I saw a picture comparing two scenes of him saying her name. One was when he was in cardiac arrest and the other from last week with Fitz. I hope you guys like it. It is pretty short.
The Name
Her name always seemed to be the first on his lips as soon as there was a threat to his life ending prematurely. As he thought about it the more he realized it was because of all the things he still had to tell her, all the things she had to know about him, about her, about how he felt. It always came back to her, why wouldn't it? Every thought began with guilt, remorse, or anger and ended with Skye. She was his bridge. The person that had bridged the gap he had purposely made, the one Garrett had told him to maintain; and she was the one who made him begin to genuinely care about the people on the team. That woman had completely transformed him since first meeting her and the team. He saw pieces of himself and May in her whenever she came to visit and he wasn't sure whether to be proud of the agent she was becoming or disappointed for taking away the lightness and ease she used to walk around with. Everything was such a mess and he wished he could just go back sometimes, back to the days of teasing and battleship, of happiness and flirtation, laughter and bonding. Now a days he wondered if he'd ever even be able to put a smile on her face again. He used to be able to do it easily and now…he saw the hurt and anger in her eyes. He saw the distrust and the bitterness. It was looking at a mirror image of himself when Garrett had first found him. Now he was just a broken record hoping to finally have some semblance of a non-abusive relationship. One where he wasn't in danger of dying. He couldn't die and yet he just might by the hands of one of them. Fitz had almost done it and he didn't blame him either. He deserved it, deserved their anger. He just didn't want to die. He couldn't, not before Skye believed that he loved her. And so her name would always be the last name on his lips because she was always the constant presence in his head.
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