Here is chapter 1 of "Not Such a Fairy Tale Love Story"! I hope you enjoy!
Grant Ward has feelings for someone. Grant Ward has never had feelings this strong towards someone. Grant Ward hardly ever has feelings at all about anyone. So why is he sitting in the lounge area smiling like a fool as Skye tells him a story about what her and Simmons did one day when he was on a mission.
"-and then we had to clean up all the evidence before Coulson came back and saw what we had….Ward? Are you even listening anymore?" Skye asked looking at him funny as his smile wavered and he shifted uncomfortably on the couch across from Skye.
"W-What Yeah I'm…uh I'm fine yeah." Ward stumbled for words as his heart did a couple flip flops in his chest.
"Uh you sure? You've been acting all weird around me since you got put under that love spell." Skye smiled as she said the last two words mockingly.
"No I swear I'm fine." Ward lied unconvincingly.
"Okay….Do you want to play trouble or something then?" Skye asked getting up to go to her bunk and grab the games
"Yeah troubles good." Grant said shifting so that he turned and watched her go to get the game and come back, sitting it on the table.
"So what are the stakes?" Skye asked sitting down in front of the table, on the other side Ward just scoot to the edge of the couch, not having enough room to sit on the floor like Skye.
"How about…" Ward paused thinking for a second as Skye smiled at him "The winner gets to do anything to the loser."
"Anything?" Skye questioned. "We're on a plane full of SHIELD stuff and if I win I can do anything to you?"
"Now that I think about it that may not have been the best idea….but yeah. Anything."
"Oooh this is going to be fun!" Skye said as she clapped her hands together and took out the game pieces.
An hour later and a lot of arguing between the pair….Ward had won the trouble game. Going by his own rules he could now do whatever he wanted to the rookie.
'I can do anything to her.' Ward thought before shaking it out of his head because that just made it seem too dirty.
"Oh god you're spending time thinking about this. This won't be fun for me will it?" Skye groaned as she sat in the chair next to him.
"I know exactly what I'm going to do." Ward smirked as stood up and walked right over to Skye.
"Woah there robot…ever heard of personal spACE" Skye tried to finish her sentence but not until Ward leaned over her and started tickling her to death.
"W-Ward s-s-s-top!" Skye breathed in between laughter
"Never!" Ward laughed at her as he picked her up and threw her on the couch continuing to tickle her.
"GRANT! S-STOP IT PLEASE!" Skye begged but Ward was having none of it
He quickly got on the couch and straddled her legs and kept tickling her stomach and neck.
Soon, fitzsimmons came up the stairs wondering what all the commotion was about. They too started laughing at the scene in front of them.
"How long do you think until they kiss?" Fitz leaned over and whispered to Simmons
"I don't know a week?" Simmons replied smiling at her best friend, who was now slapping Ward in between laughs trying to get him to stop.
"I bet you twenty bucks it will happen before then." Fitz whispered again.
"Deal." Simmons turned and shook Fitz's hand before looking back at Skye and Ward and making their way back to the Lab.
"G-G-G-G-G-GRANT!" Skye laughed out again as he smiled down at her, still tickling away.
Ward and Skye were too busy laughing at each other that they didn't see May and Coulson peek in from the corridor.
"Those two need to kiss already, because I will not watch a love struck Ward trail around the plane forever." May said smiling towards the two who were now starting to calm down a little.
"Maybe not too soon…I don't want her getting hurt or anything." Coulson said with a small smile on his face.
"Oh don't go all fatherly on her. Have you seen the way Ward acts around her? He wouldn't hurt her. Ever." May said smiling back to Skye and Ward, now laying down on the floor next to each other trying to catch their breaths.
"Dear god we're shipping our agents again aren't we." Coulson said with a sigh.
"How on earth do you know what that means?" May turned and started walking back to Coulsons office with him.
"Skye tried explaining it to me after one of her shows…and we're shipping our agents." Coulson sighed again as he sat down in his desk chair.
"Well never mind them, lets get back to that paper work." May smiled a little before sitting across from him and gathering folders.
"I- I can't believe…you….tickled….me." Skye said as she lay on the floor next to Ward trying to catch her breath after that ten minute tickle fight.
"Hey. The rules were that I could do anything. So I chose tickling." Ward explained as he sat up and walked over to the game board to pick up the pieces that had fallen over.
"Yeah but that….that was a lot of tickles." Skye said as she stood up laughing. "We sound like five year olds."
"We kind of do…" Ward smiled as he handed her the box "I'm going to go find Fitzsimmons and see what they want for dinner."
"Hey! We're still in the airport! How about you ask mom and dad if we can go out tonight?" Skye asked smiling "We could get pizza that isn't frozen for once!"
"Fine I'll ask them. Pizza does sound nice." Ward said the last part to himself as he walked down the hallway to Coulsons office.
A little while later they all sat in a pizza arcade outside of Minneapolis, waiting for their pizza to come.
"Skye when you said we should go out for pizza, I thought you meant an actual pizza parlor. Not a grown up chuck E Cheese." Ward grumbled as he looked around the building.
"Lighten up Mr. fun machine." Skye smiled as she patted him on the arm.
Skye and Ward had to sit next to each other in the booth, because both Fitz and Simmons wanted to sit next to each other, instead of the girls on one side and the boys on another.
Ward kept blushing because the booths there were not that big, and Skyes leg was constantly right up against his. The worst part was she was wearing really short shorts, so that didn't help things.
"This should be fun! After pizza how about we go play some games!" Simmons suggested as everyone except Ward nodded.
"Oh come on Ward!" Skye sighed. "Lighten up. Win a stuffed panda. Play some ski ball. Do something fun for a change will you!"
Ward took a minute to reply, shocked at her sudden outburst. He wasn't boring…right? I mean after all he had tickled her for a good fifteen minutes earlier. "Fine." Was all he said.
Soon enough the pizza was there and everyone was digging in. Skye had her cheese and pepperoni, Fitzsimmons with plain cheese, and Ward with cheese pepperoni and olives. They all ate quickly before they hurriedly got up to go play the games in the arcade.
Fitzsimmons decided to play that stacking block game, Skye went to go earn tickets to win that stuffed dog at the ticket counter, and Ward just walked around playing whatever he thought looked interesting.
"So…you finally found a game for you to play!" Skye smiled as she came over to Ward thirty minutes after they had started, to see him playing a hunting game.
"Yup. And if I do say so myself, I'm doing pretty damn good." Ward nodded to the pile of tickets under the machine, which was still rapidly growing.
"Wow!" Skye said as she looked from his ticket pile to her own. "That's a lot…What are you planning to buy?"
"I'm not sure yet, I'd have to look." Ward said as he continued shooting the fake gun. "What a 'bout you?" He looked down at her tickets
"That big stuffed animal dog thing. I hope I have enough though." Skye smiled as she watched him play. "I'm going to go play a couple more games, earn some more tickets. See you in an hour?"
"See you in an hour." Ward smiled as Skye practically hopped over to the next game.
About 45 minutes later Skye bounced up to the prize counter with a huge smile on her face.
"What can I get you miss." The teenager working the counter asked with about no enthusiasm at all.
"I would like that big dog!" Skye smiled as she spread out her tickets on the counter.
"Sorry miss but someone just bought that." The counter guy spoke once more.
"What?! Really. Come on. And you don't have anymore?" Skye asked with her smile now gone.
"No sorry." The guy replied back.
"Fine…I'll just buy something else." Skye muttered as she looked through the display cases and shelves. "I'll take that." She smiled a little pointing at an item on the bottom or the display case.
The man handed her the item and she walked out of the arcade to see Ward sitting on the bench outside looking at the sun setting off in the distance.
"Hey…" Skye said as she came to sit down on the empty seat next to him.
"Hey…" He replied back using the same tone he did. "Did you get your dog?" He asked slightly turning.
"No. Some jerk had already bought it." Skye puffed as she continued staring off in the distance
"Now Skye…" Ward paused for a moment before grabbing something off to his other side. "Why would you call me a jerk?" He smiled for a second before showing her the dog that she ever so desperately wanted for her stuffed animal collection.
"No! Grant Ward you didn't!" Skye smiled widely as she grabbed the dog away from him. "Thank you." She smiled again, this time looking up at him.
"It was nothing…I couldn't find anything I really liked and I had enough tickets so there you go." Ward smiled back at her, it was terrific to see her smile after he almost lost her a couple weeks ago.
"I may have gotten something for you too…" Skye smiled as she pulled the object out from her lap and handed it to him.
"100 ways to be more sociable." Ward read off the cover of a little book Skye had handed him. "Geez, thanks." Ward laughed a little as he flipped through a couple pages.
"I'm glad you like it." Skye smiled down at her hands before speaking again "Where are fitzsimmons? We were supposed to meet here ten minutes ago."
"They're in there somewhere. Just give them a minute to quit playing all those-" Ward didn't get to finish his sentence because out of the doors came a bouncing simmons, and a smiling Fitz.
"SKYE! I GOT A CHEMISTRY SET!" Simmons practically yelled trying to show Skye her new toy.
"AND I GOT A MONKEY!" Fitz exclaimed showing a little stuffed animal monkey to them.
"Um Simmons, why did you get a chemistry set? You have millions of dollars of Shield stuff at your hands and you get a kids science toy." Ward pointed out killing Simmons excitement.
"In the name of science Ward!" Simmons sighed as she marched off towards the car with Fitz following right behind.
"I guess we should get going then…May won't like it if we're out late." Skye sighed as she slowly got up and turned to Ward. "Thank you for the dog, again." She smiled before walking back to the car.
"You're welcome Skye…" Ward whispered under his breath before he got up and decided to follow.
I hope you liked it! Please review! Chapter two should be up within the next three days! Maybe even tomorrow if I finish it all tonight!
Chapter 2 preview:
"Uh…Um Sorry." Skye stuttered as she looked right into Wards eyes, just a couple inches away from hers.
"It's….uh fine." Ward mumbled back at a loss of words with Skye being on top of him like that.