January
"A-alright," Jemma said, drawing out the word, her eyes trained on the screen of the tablet as she scrolled through Skye's labs. "Everything seems just great."
Skye smiled at her friend–it was nice, in a strange, mother hen kind of way, that even though their old team was all but disbanded, Jemma still considered it her duty to supervise all of their yearly physicals.
"Blood pressure's good, lung function check…" she went on, mostly speaking to herself, barely aware that she wasn't alone in the lab. "Yep, you're fit as the proverbial fiddle," she looked up from the screen at last, smiling widely at her friend. "But," she added before Skye could have said anything, "I see that you've missed your last contraceptive shot."
Skye froze; now that she hadn't thought of–they hadn't told anyone yet that they were trying for baby number two, and she had wanted it to stay this way for a little while longer–there was no point in getting their family excited just yet. Of course, now it seemed like this plan had just gone up in smoke.
"Have you forgotten your appointment?" Jemma asked, more concerned about this glitch than Skye's reaction to it. She put the tablet down and reached for her phone. "Do you want me to schedule you–?"
"Jemma, no," Skye put up her hand, standing up from Fitz's desk where she'd been sitting until then. "It's okay, I didn't forget it."
Simmons looked at her, confused, shaking her head slightly. "But I swear I saw it on your file that your last was in–"
"Jemma," Skye interrupted her again, looking straight into her eyes. "I didn't forget it," she said, putting extra emphasis on the word.
"What…" she started, and Skye could basically see the cogwheels turn in her head before everything clicked, and her excitement suddenly skyrocketed. "Oh!" She breathed, raising her hands to her mouth and rocking back and forth on her heels, unable to keep still. "Really? And since when?"
Skye grinned, not immune to the excitement of all of this. "We just decided it over Christmas." She bit into her lip to keep herself from grinning even more widely. "And currently this is kind of a secret, okay? Just until we have something certain."
"Of course," Jemma nodded, still grinning. "I won't tell anybody." (Somehow Skye had her doubts about it, but she didn't voice them.) "But still–a baby!" she said in a very loud whisper. "Haylie is getting a little brother or sister!"
"Yeah, I know," Skye sat back, her hand wandering to her belly as if there was already a baby in there. "It's pretty crazy. But," she knocked on the corner of the desk, "let's not jinx it yet."
"Of course," Jemma replied with a slight roll of her eyes, then clicked back to doctor mode in a fraction of a second. "You've started taking prenatal vitamins, right? You'll have to really pay attention to what you eat now. Oh, and do you want me to make you a chart, so you guys know when you should… you know?"
Skye shook her head, smiling to herself–really, she shouldn't have expected anything less from Jemma.
