A/N: Once again thank you to everyone who reviewed followed and favorited this story.
I'm sorry I took so long to update but I had some trouble coming up with this chapter.
I don't mind any constructive criticism so if anyone has any idea how I can make this story better plot wise and in my way of writing I'll be more than happy to hear.
Also big thanks to Gleek-Whovianfangirl for taking the time to beta read this.
The morning after the mission Coulson called the team to the conference room so he could tell them about the weekend off. They all gathered in the room still in their pyjamas and half asleep from being woken up so early in the morning (May had chastised Coulson for it, but he didn't cared. He was too excited to share the news with the team and couldn't wait.)
"Sir, what's going on? Is this an emergency meeting or something? Do we have a mission?" Ward asked in his fully awake state, unlike the others.
"Uh? Emergency meeting? Oh, no. I called you here to give you guys some good news." Coulson said, not being able to hide his excitement.
"What good news?" Skye asked less sleepily and more excitedly.
"I'm giving you guys the weekend off." Coulson announced looking around to take in everyone's expressions.
Everybody gave him looks of disbelief not saying anything until Ward spoke up with an incredulous look on his face.
"You woke us up at eight thirty in the morning just to say that?" He asked. He had been awake when they were called to the conference room but he knew that unlike him, the others like to sleep, especially Skye who would be insufferable in training if she was in a bad mood.
"I thought you would be excited about it." Coulson said tried to justify himself.
"And you couldn't have waited until later?" Skye asked annoyed by having her sleep interrupted.
"Told you so." May told him under her breath.
"Sorry." Coulson smiled apologetically "We don't have any missions today so you guys can pack and leave whenever you want. Just make sure to be here on Sunday by six pm."
"Can we go now?" Skye asked hoping that she could still get some sleep before Ward started annoying her with training.
"Sure." Coulson said before leaving to his office with May right behind him.
FitzSimmons left after them probably heading to the lab already which left Skye and Ward alone standing awkwardly next to each other.
"I think I'm gonna try to get some sleep for another hour." Skye said after a moment already walking to the door.
"No, you're not." Ward said grabbing her arm to stop her from walking out the door.
"Excuse me?"
Realizing the way he must have sounded, Ward tried to backtrack it. "I just thought we could start training earlier today" he said in a softer tone.
"Yeah, I don't think so. I plan on sleeping for at least another hour. Plus, you heard what Coulson said, we have the day off. That means no training."
"No. Coulson said that we don't have any missions today. That doesn't mean training is cancelled." He argued.
"At least let me get one more hour of sleep" she pleaded with him pouting, making Ward want nothing more than to kiss those lips again.
"Fine." He sighed in defeat deciding it was better to get away from her for at least another hour before having to train with her. "One more hour and then we train."
"Thank you." she said before walking out of the room.
"I mean it, Skye." He said after her retreating form.
"Got it." she said and then she was gone, leaving Ward all to himself.
Knowing that he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep again, Ward decided to go down to the cargo bay to work out. When he got there he wrapped his hands and started to punch the bag in the middle of the cargo bay.
He didn't know why he had insisted on working out with Skye so early, when there was no chance to be interrupted or walked in on. Or maybe he did. Which was why he was glad that Skye had insisted in sleeping for another hour or he would probably do something that he wouldn't really regret but that would make him look like a complete idiot since Skye didn't like him the way he liked her and was apparently in love with Fitz. Maybe he should have cancelled training, that way he wouldn't have to be so close to her and could successfully avoid her by leaving the bus earlier.
He was actually glad to have the weekend off. That way he could clear his head and hopefully get over Skye which would be harder to do after last night, more specifically, after finding out what it was like to kiss Skye.
He tried to push the thoughts of Skye out of his mind, which had been proving hard to do since the night before, and tried to focus on the bag in front of him, punching it with everything he got.
An hour later he ended his training and waited for Skye to come down. After he waited fifteen minutes without her showing up he started to get impatient and went in search for her.
He started by going to the kitchen to see if she was still having breakfast but he only found Fitz and Simmons there eating and talking about some new invention he understood nothing about.
"Hey guys," He interrupted them making them both turn to look at him "Have any of you seen Skye? She was supposed to meet me for training but she never came down."
"I haven't seen her since we were in the conference room." Fitz said.
"She's probably still asleep." Simmons added before Fitz and herself went back to their conversation turning away from him.
Ward then left the kitchen and went straight to Skye's bunk knocking on her door and saying "Skye, you said we would train in an hour. It already passed more than one hour. We have to train."
He waited for her to answer for a minute and he got no response he knocked on her door again, more insistently this time and shouting exasperatedly "Skye! Come on, we have to start training!"
This time he didn't have to wait long. A second after he finished shouting and banging on her door she opened it with an angry look on her face.
"Is that your version of wakeup call?" she asked him, the look on her face matching her tone "Because let me tell you, it sucks."
'Damn it. Why did she had to look so cute when she was angry' he thought before saying "We have training. Get dressed and meet me in the cargo hold in five." He told her before turning to leave.
Before he could leave though, she said "Oh, come on Ward. Can't we at least have one day off training?"
"Isn't the weekend enough?"
"Just this once?" she pleaded in a childish tone.
He thought about it and realized that this was the perfect opportunity to get out of it, so he sighed and said "This is a one-time thing. Don't think that because of this I'm letting you get out of training whenever you want."
"Thank you, Ward. You're the best S.O. ever." she said lunging forward and almost hugging him. She manages to stop herself, realizing the mistake she almost made. The reason she was avoiding training like the plague was to avoid being in such close proximity with him and now she had almost ruined it. Thankfully Ward hadn't noticed.
"Don't mention it." He said before leaving.
When Ward was out of sight Skye left out a breath she didn't knew she'd been holding. She was glad he hadn't insisted on more training- which come to think of it was weird coming from him. She was just glad that she wouldn't have to train with him today. If she had to, she didn't knew what she would do. She had barely been able to keep it together five minutes ago when he was a standing in front of her a few feet away. She didn't knew what she would do if she had to spend an hour in such close proximity with him.
Realizing that she wouldn't be able to get more sleep, Skye went to the kitchen to get some breakfast.
"Good morning, Skye." Jemma said when Skye entered the kitchen going straight for the coffee.
"Good morning." Skye answered.
"Aren't you supposed to be training with Ward right now?" Fitz asked curiously.
"I convinced him to not train today." Skye said moving to seat beside him, coffee in hand.
"How did you manage that?" Fitz asked in disbelief.
"As weird as it sounds he didn't even insist we train after a few minutes." she said.
"That's weird. Do you guys think there's something wrong with him?" Simmons asked seeming genuinely concerned.
"I don't know." Skye said trying to not show how that affected her, before changing the topic of conversation. "So, what are you guys going to do for the weekend?"
"I have an apartment in D.C. so I guess I'll just stay there for the weekend." Simmons said.
"That's it? You're just going to stay in your apartment the whole weekend? Not gonna go out and have fun?" Skye asked.
Jemma just shrugged. "I just prefer to stay in and relax than go to noisy places or something like that." She defended herself before turning to Skye and asking "What about you? What are you gonna do this weekend?"
"I don't know," Skye shrugged "I guess I'll go stay in a hotel since S.H.I.E.L.D. pays well enough for that. I'll probably go out to some clubs or something."
"Hotel? You don't have anywhere to stay?" Fitz asked.
"I used to live in a van, in case you don't remember. So no, I don't have anywhere to stay." Skye answered like it was no big deal.
"Why don't you stay with me?" Simmons suggested "I have a spare bedroom so you can stay there."
"It's cool Jemma. I really don't mind staying in a hotel for two days. And I don't want to bother you in your own place."
"That's nonsense. You won't bother me at all. Plus, we can have some girl time. We never get to do it on the bus." Simmons insisted.
"You really don't mind?" Skye asked.
"Not at all. It'll be fun."
"Okay, then. If you really don't mind."
"Like I said before, I don't mind at all."
"Thanks Jemma." Skye said smiling before turning to Fitz and asking "What about you? What are you going to do this weekend?"
"I don't know." Fitz said "I'll probably just stay at my own apartment, watch some TV.. Jemma and I usually hang out together on the weekends we have off but you have your girl's weekend."
"Why don't you hang out with us?" Skye suggested.
"It's cool. I don't want to ruin your girl's weekend."
"You're sure?" Skye asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay then. I'm gonna get dressed and pack." she said then turning to Simmons and asking "When do you want to leave?"
"I already have everything ready so we can leave whenever you want."
"Okay. I just need to get dressed and then we can go." Skye said before leaving to her bunk without realizing that Fitz had come after her.
"So.." He started when he caught up to her walking by her side "Finally gonna tell me about last night?"
"There's not really much to tell." Skye said stopping in front of her bunk and shrugging "We went in, shared a dance, went upstairs while everyone was distracted and then left."
"So there's nothing embarrassing to tell? Ward actually managed to play the boyfriend part, huh?"
"I guess he's really good at what he does." Skye said trying not to let show how affected she actually was about it. "Now if you excuse me, I have to go change." And then she entered her bunk and closed the door after her, leaving Fitz standing there on his own.
'What's wrong with her all of the sudden?' Fitz asked to himself staring at the closed door before going back to the kitchen next to Simmons.
"What did you want to talk to Skye that was so urgent?" Simmons asked in a supposed conversational tone.
"Nothing important." he said dismissively.
"Oh, okay." she said trying to make it look like the fact that Skye and Fitz keeping some sort of secret didn't affect her. "Are you sure you're okay with us not spending the weekend together?" She asked changing the subject.
"It's cool, Jemma. I really don't mind." He said. To be honest he was relieved he wouldn't have to spend time with her over the weekend. If he spent any alone time with her, he was afraid he would do something stupid and that he would ruin their friendship.
Having the weekend all to himself was actually a good thing. That way he would be able to clear his mind and forget about Jemma in that way and only see her as his best friend. Furthermore, he would look at her and Ward and feel no jealousy at all.
"Fitz, are you listening to me?" Simmons asked bringing out of his thoughts.
"Sorry, I wasn't listening. Could you repeat, please?"
"Are you okay?" She asked instead.
"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be okay?"
"You've just been acting strange lately?"
"Strange how?"
"You've just been distant. And you act all weird and nervous around me like when we first met at the academy. You know you can tell me anything, right?"
'I could say the same thing about you.' he thought to himself before answering her. "I know Jemma. And if there were something wrong with me I would tell you."
Jemma didn't look convinced but before she could ask for more answers Ward entered the kitchen, much to Fitz's relief.
"Good morning." He said heading to the fridge and taking out a bottle of water.
"Good morning." Simmons said before asking him "So Ward, what are you going to do this weekend?"
"I don't know." He shrugged "I always prefer to stay home and relax when I have down time because it rarely happens."
"Finally, someone gets me." Simmons said "Skye is gonna stay with me but I'm pretty sure she's gonna be out all the time, I don't get what's wrong with just staying home and relaxing."
"Skye is gonna stay with you?" Ward asked.
"Yeah. She said she was gonna stay at some hotel so I offered her my spare bedroom. Thought it would be better."
"Hmm." he hummed looking uninterested. "Well, I'll be going now. I'll see you guys Sunday."
"You're leaving already?" Fitz asked him.
"Yeah. We don't have any missions and I don't have to train Skye so I have nothing left to do."
"Okay. I guess I'll see you Sunday." Fitz said and then Ward was gone leaving Fitz and Simmons alone again.
"I almost forgot, I have to go pack." Fitz said, not giving Simmons time to reply and he left right away.
Simmons only sighed in defeat at her best friend shutting her out and keeping secrets, before pushing it back to the back of her mind and leaving the kitchen to go in search of Skye and see if she was ready to leave. The sooner she could leave the better.
She found Skye in her bunk still packing with the door open. She knocked on the opened door softly and asked "Are you ready to go?"
"Just finishing packing." Skye said moving around her bunk and putting some things in her duffle bag and zipping it closed before picking it up and turning to face Simmons "All ready. Do you want to leave now?"
"I guess. We have to do here, Ward already left and Fitz is going soon so..." She trailed off.
"Ward left already?" Skye asked.
"Yeah. He left a while ago."
"Oh, OK. Let's go then."
Without saying another word they both went down to the cargo hold after Simmons picked her bag up from her bunk.
"How are we getting to your apartment by the way?" Skye asked.
"I asked Coulson and he said it was ok to take one of the SUV's." Simmons said picking up the keys and moving to drivers side of the car to get in.
"OK. Can I drive?" Skye asked before she could get in.
"I think it's better if I drive." Simmons said getting in the car before Skye could protest.
"What's that supposed to mean? I'm great driver." Skye said after getting in the passenger seat of the car.
"I never said you weren't but you don't know the way to my place."
"Oh, right. That makes sense."
The drive to Jemma's apartment wasn't long and ten minutes later they were entering her place both excited for the weekend ahead of them.
"It's not that big but it's mine and I can have privacy and be alone so I like it." Jemma said showing Skye around.
"It's nice." Skye said, following Jemma around.
Jemma then stopped in front of a door, opening it and turning to face Skye "This is where you'll be staying. It's not much but..."
"It's great Jemma." Skye said interrupting her "It's better than staying at some random hotel so thank you."
"Alright, I'll just leave you be now, if you want to unpack and all." Jemma said moving aside to let Skye in "If you need anything I'll just be next door." and then she was gone closing the door behind her.
Skye sighed happily moving to the bed in the middle of the room and setting the bag down. She was finally away from the bus, or more specifically, away from Ward. Now she could clear her head and think things through and with luck she would realize that she didn't have any real feelings for Ward and that it had all been some silly temporary crush. If not she would just have to forget him this weekend. All she had to do was convince Jemma to go clubbing.
But she was sure of one thing, by the end of the weekend she would be over Grant Ward.
After everyone was gone May closed the hangar door and went to Coulson's office where he was holed up once again.
She didn't bothered knocking, just went in and waited for him to look up from his work and acknowledge her, which he did not long after by looking up at her.
"What's going on?" He asked before looking back at his work.
"Well, everybody is finally gone so I thought we should enjoy our alone time while we have it."
"I'm kind of busy right now."
"I thought you said we had the weekend off. That means no work what so ever. That includes desk work."
"No. The weekend off was for them. I still have to work. I really can't get behind on these reports."
"You're joking right?"
"Couldn't be more serious."
"Come on, Coulson." Melinda said rounding the desk. She made him pull his chair back and sat on his lap. "You can finish those tomorrow. And if I recall correctly you have a promise to keep."
"Can't it wait until I'm done with the reports?"
"It sounds to me, like you're just making excuses to not do what I want."
Coulson scoffed at that. "I would never do that."
May only gave him a look that showed she wasn't convinced and said "Says the guy who spied on his team members and plotted ways to get them together."
"Speaking of that, do you think my plan will work? I really hope it does."
"Stop changing the subject." She told him, seeing right through him.
Coulson sighed in defeat and said "Fine. What do you have in mind for us?"
"Well, for starters..." May trailed off and leaned down to kiss him.
"I don't know why I almost said no to this." Coulson said when they broke apart for air before moving in again.
He ended up not doing any work during the weekend.