AN: Sorry it's so short! I felt the first scene was necessary, and it just came out short (hence my adding the second part. I will try to make the next chapter longer. ;)
"I thought I'd give you a little debriefing on the mission so you could do some research before I told the rest of the team," Phil Coulson said.
"How much time do I have?"
"Two hours. I need you to read up on Ian Quinn and his operations, and acquaint yourself with the work of Dr. Franklin Hall if you were unfamiliar with it before. We're flying here." Coulson handed May a paper with an address on it.
May nodded in understanding. "Sir, I'd like to teach Skye how to fly the Bus." At Coulson's questioning look, she continued. "It would help to integrate her into SHIELD and allow for an alternate pilot should anything happen to me. It would also grant her skills that would be useful in other scenarios, such as clearheadedness and structure."
"Structure?"
"Flying, unlike hacking, is not creative problem solving. You fly the plane the right way or you crash. Skye would be introduced to the strict format that SHIELD generally follows."
Coulson nodded in understanding. May was stopped in her tracks as she was about to leave. "Anything else?"
In that moment, May knew that Coulson knew. "Don't tell Skye that you know," May said before leaving.
Skye left a few minutes after May, attempting to "stagger" their exits. She headed straight back to her dorm, fortunately not running into anyone on the way, and waited for the blush to leave her cheeks. Skye had never considered the possibility that May reciprocated her feelings. Should she be worried about the age difference between her and May? How old was May?
There's so much I don't know, Skye thought.
Skye looked at her watch. Oh, crap, I'm late. Skye put May in the back of her mind as she headed downstairs for her afternoon training session with Ward.
AN2: If you can't tell, the first two chapters are immediately pre-ep3.