Okay I'm totally biased but I do love me some Coulskye and they are so adorable together.
I don't care if it never happens.
Coulson is my favorite but I do think he's the most damaged of them...which is why he needs Skye.
Haunted - Phil Coulson (Coulskye)
They all have had Opps that have gone wrong, been part of ones that got people killed.
But it's not the seemingly endless death toll that breaks down a person, it helps but it's not the main factor. It's the lies, the countless families and loved ones that have been lied to. The parents and children, the husbands and wives, the civilians, the ones without the high enough clearance and all the ones who can't find out about their shadow world.
The careers that never came to be, the relatives that are hidden for their safety, not theirs of course but for the good of the whole big picture.
Which is why this is a bad idea. She thinks he's dead, he can't tell her he's not. He can't give her answers only more questions. She seems happy and in reality he is too but he's also scared that what he created after her will shatter if he goes through with this.
Phil Coulson has never been afraid to say he was afraid. He's a big enough man to know when he's reached his limits but doubt weighs on him and Skye is nothing if not supportive.
What if he's not over the musician, he tells her. What if he ends up just hurting them all?
You won't, you're not that type of man, she replies.
He's sure that as soon as hears her play it will hit him like a sledgehammer, its why he doesn't really play classical at home, but it doesn't, it shouldn't have surprised him. Skye had told him it wouldn't but he didn't believe her, which was why she forced him to make this stupid trip in the first place and give him back the peace that's been missing since he saw the flyer.
She's still beautiful and plays with such emotion that it makes him cry but now its for a different reason and he breathes a sigh of relief. He'd gotten scared and it had all come down to his perceived shortcomings. He should have known that he'd be okay.
He has whom he needs, the woman at his side, the one who holds his hand, the one with the matching ring on her finger. The one who also holds the hand of a dark haired beauty that has his eyes and her smile.
She's the one who drove the haunted memory out, she is the one who inhabits his soul now and when he's done walking down memory lane, she's the one he'll been heading towards.
His Skye.