Skye was bored. She had just filled out a ton of paper work. Apparently being sent to the academy was a big deal. Coulson had said that she was a special case, that you had to have some experience already just to send in an application. But Skye had never had training. The only reason she was allowed to go was her hacking skills, and she was already good at that, so she was going to the Operations division, not communications.

Skye stood up, and went to find someone. She didn't really know many people here, there was Coulson, who was off doing super secret agent stuff that she didn't 'have the clearance level for', typical. Then there was Agent May, whom she met when giving in her application forms. She wasn't going to hang out with her, she was scary, and sat in a cubicle all day.

So that meant there was Trip and Simmons. Whenever Trip saw Skye with nothing to do, he would drag her to the gym, train her up for what was coming at the academy. Simmons, Skye thought, she would defiantly choose random science stuff she didn't understand over exercise any day, even if the whole telepathic thing Simmons did with Fitz was weird.

Fitz, who Skye had met two days ago, was short, with tight curly hair and a very distinct Scottish accent. He was incredibly smart, and was an engineer. He was also Simmons' best friend, and Skye couldn't shake the idea he disliked her. In fact, it was his voice she heard as she strolled over to the lab.

'But we have a perfectly good lab here, and it doesn't come with lots of children!'

'Oh come on Fitz, you know you would love it there, the labs get to test all the new equipment, and they are hardly children, they are only 3 years our junior. You were going to follow me into the field, for goodness sake, and if we hadn't failed our field test we most likely would have died together. I don't understand why you won't come teach with me at the academy!'

'Because, Jemma, you only want to go because you will be near Skye! Come on, Simmons, everyone can tell you have a crush on her.'

Skye froze. Okay... Maybe Trip is the better option right now, Skye thought. She quickly hurried of the gym, where she found Trip, and started attacking a punching bag with a new determination.


To no ones great surprise, Fitz agreed to teach at the academy with Simmons. They had to leave straight away, to meet the other teachers, and start teaching, so for the remaining 3 weeks before she started, Skye was put through countless hours of muscle memory and bruises with Trip. She had started to like him, despite all the bruises... Although maybe she had just been hit to hard on the head, Skye thought.

Trip was hilarious, and soon became what felt like her older brother. Two days before she was leaving for the academy, she plucked up the courage to ask Trip about what she had overheard.

'So, I kinda overheard something, and I wanna know what you think...'

Trip nodded, sensing a serious tone.

'So Fitz seems to think Simmons has a crush on me... In fact, Fitz has been weird around me for ages.'

Trip burst out laughing, and Skye shoved him playfully.

'Girl, you got it bad. I'm not gunna say anything about a crush, you two figure it out yourselves, but I will say, Fitz is just overprotective, we've all had the blunt end of Fitz scrutiny, whatever happens, Simmons likes you a lot as a friend, and as her best friend, Fitz wants to make sure you don't hurt her, prove you care and he'll back off.'

Skye nodded, before asking,

'what did you do?'

'I took a bullet for her,' he deadpanned, completely serious.

Skye paled a little, before nodding, if that's what it takes.


Skye sat in Lola, Coulson's red corvette, and looked around her. Coulson had offered to drive her in, seeing as he wanted to talk to FitzSimmons, and she had to say, Lola was quite an exciting ride, with the flying and all.

The operations and the SciTech divisions were both smaller than Communications, so they shared a campus, this was a plus, as it meant she could talk to FitzSimmons all the time. Skye followed Coulson as he showed her the campus, the wall of Valor, and finally, the administrations offices. They talked her through her schedule, and gave her a map of the campus.

Coulson helped her with her bags, till they reached the entrances of the female dorm building. Skye hugged Coulson, before thanking him. He smiled, before saying,

'Hey, no problem, it was all you, you're the one who hacked into shield, undetected. That was awesome, you deserve to be here.'

Skye scoffed before countering,

'Yeah, and it's totally protocol to let complete strangers hack into a secret government organisation.'

Coulson only smiled at her, and said,

'I'll see you in a few months, try to keep to the law,' teasingly.

Skye shouted to a retreating Coulson as he walked to his car,

'You too, AC, you too.'

Ignoring the few stares her interaction with Coulson (who was practically a legend) had caused, she picked up her bag and walked into the dorm building.


'Oh look, Fitz, there she is!'

Simmons stood up from the dinner hall, and half ran to where Skye had just walked in.

'Skye!'

Skye let out an 'oof' as a petit brunette slammed into her with a hug.

'Jemma,' Skye grinned.

Whispers surfaced around the room as people watched the famous new teacher Jemma Simmons hug the new girl. They sat in even more shock as they saw the grumpy Fitz stand up and awkwardly hug her. Who was she? How did she know them? Suddenly rumours went flying round.

'I saw her arrive with Agent Coulson, he even let him in Lola!'

'Maybe she's his daughter.'

'Why would he only now show her?'

'He's a spy, what do you think?'

Similar conversations coursed throughout the room. Simmons, oblivious to the whispers, chatted on.

'Hows Trip? Has he been getting you into shape? I hope this isn't too hard on you. You've never had training. Fitz, do you think Skye will be okay?'

Before Fitz could answer, Skye interrupted,

'Guys! Can I maybe get some food, how bout sit down? Give me a moment to settle in.'

'Oh, of course! Silly me.'

Simmons promptly dragged Skye of to serve her food, everyone's eyes snapping after them, as they tried to figure out who Skye was. Fitz finally seemed to notice the onlookers.

'Okay everyone, back to your meals, really!'

And he then followed to where Simmons had sat with Skye.


Skye hadn't had any time to meet any of the other students that night, as she was being shown around by Simmons. So when she went to her class, first thing after breakfast, she was surprised when no one even asked her name.

She walked in, and started stretching, just like Trip had showed her. Trip had told her the basic structure of the training, stretches, exercise, sparing, weapons training.

Everyone here had been following the same routine for the past 4 months, they had done 4 hours a day, for all that time. But Skye had only been doing it for 4 weeks. Only 4 weeks, but she was a fast learner, and Trip had her training for closer to 12 hours a day. So when they started with running, she kept pace. When they started on the punching bags, she had perfect form. But when they started sparing, that's when the fun started.

Agent O'Conners, the staff overseeing the majority of their training, paired everyone up, randomly. Skye was paired with a large man, who cracked his knuckles menacingly, a sneer on his face. Good, Skye thought. She was used to fighting someone of his build, Trip was his size.

When they started, Skye was nimble on her feet, ducking and parrying every blow. After a few minutes, she started advancing. She struck his side once, but her opponent blocked each hit. Skye retreated, coming up with a plan.

She began to analyse her enemy, noticing he was right handed, but held most of his weight on his left foot. When he punched, his other hand dropped, and he often left his side open. Coming up with a plan, she treated it like a hack, attacking the front, whilst finding a back channel in.

Skye suddenly attacked, slashing at his front, whilst shifting to his side. Skye sent a fake jab to his face and as he rose his guard to defend himself, she sent a hard kick to his gut. The man grunted, but didn't double over, as she expected.

Her opponent was more cautious now. Out of the corner of her eye, Skye saw a sturdy table. Perfect. She circled the enemy, and as he pressed forward, Skye complied, doing exactly what she wanted. Once she was cornered, her opponent grinned, thinking he had her. Suddenly, Skye sprung up, using the table to add height, she kicked off, flipping over him, and kicking him in the back of the head as she passed him, landing gracefully on the ground. The man lay on the floor, and groaned.

'I yield,' he groaned.

Skye grinned, and turned, to see the whole class staring at her in shock.

'What?'

'How long have you been training?' Agent O'Conners asked her.

'About four weeks or so, was I bad?'

She was only given an incredulous look in response.


'Skye! We heard about your first lesson, Agent O'Conners came straight to us, raving about it, asked who trained you, I think she wants to have Trip here too, how amazing would that be? I didn't realize you were so good!'

Skye grinned, before looking behind her, a group of students were staring daggers at her. She frowned, and turned to Simmons,

'I think others don't agree with the sentiment. Everyone seems to hate me. Especially since I beat that guy.'

Simmons frowned.

'Yes, I did here some whispers... I'm sure it's nothing, they have no reason to dislike you, don't worry.'

Skye smiled, but couldn't shake the feeling things were going to go down hill. She hid her concern though, not wanting to worry Simmons over nothing...

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