Chapter 6

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 1x04

It has been over a week since the mission in Malta and ever since then Bobbi has noticed a real change in Skye's trying, she's clearly trying a lot harder, and is making progress.

As the team is on their way to Sweden Bobbi is in the lab with Fitz and Simmons who are explaining a new weapon to her.

"I only get one shot." Bobbi says, as she looks at the dendrotoxin round, "And it has to knock a person back, as well as out." Bobbi tells the scientists.

"Which is why we're perfecting this little beauty." Fitz says, showing Bobbi a blue and silver gun, ".45-caliber cartridges, semi-automatic. Each mag contains eight therapeutic rounds of dendrotoxin." Fitz explains.

"In case you miss." Simmons says, and Bobbi turns to look at her, giving her a look, "Or have multiple assailants." Simmons corrects.

"Can I have a look?" Bobbi asks, referring to the gun.

"Not yet. It's still going to be a little while before we have this night-night pistol working in no time." Fitz explains.

"That's great, but Fitz, you so need to come up with a better name." Bobbi informs him, before heading out of the lab, hearing Simmons saying,

"Told you." As she goes.

"Have you seen, Skye?" Phil asks, walking down the stairs as Bobbi walks off the lab.

"Not since weapons training." Bobbi says, but she shoots a look towards the SUV, giving Phil a clue as while she hasn't seen Skye she does know that that's where she is.

"Has she stopped saying 'bang' when she pulls the trigger?" Phil asks curious.

"Mostly." Bobbi says, heading upstairs, "She's making progress, but she keeps confusing the safety and magazine releases." She says, climbing up the rest of the stairs.

Once upstairs Bobbi heads straight to the cock-pit where she sits down in the co-pilots seat.

"Fitz and Simmons are designing a new weapon." Bobbi reveals, "It's based on the same concept as the weapon I used on Mike, except they're pistols." Bobbi explains, "Potentially we're going to have an effective no lethal way to deal with threats."

"That will be handy." Melinda admits.

"I thought you'd like it." Bobbi says, making herself comfortable, "So, Sweden." Bobbi says, "Do you remember the last time we were in Sweden together?"

"You mean the mission that ended with us being told, in the politest way possible, to get the hell out of the country and not return?" Melinda asks curious.

"That the one." Bobbi says, looking amused, "Are we even allowed to be back in Sweden yet?"

"No idea." Melinda answers, telling the complete truth.

"This is going to be fun." Bobbi comments, with a grin, causing Melinda to roll her eyes.

A few hours later the Bus has landed in Sweden and Melinda, Phil, and Skye have gone to investigate the sight of an incredible diamond robbery. From what Phil has said, and the way he was acting Melinda is pretty sure that there was something Phil isn't saying, she's just not sure what.

As they are back on the Bus, Melinda, Phil, and Skye are up in Phil's office going though Instagram posts from the time of the incident.

"It's amazing. Every year, this part of our job gets easier. Between Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr, people are surveilling themselves." Phil comments.

"With many filters to choose from." Skye comments, "I could do this pretty well when I was hacking for the Rising Tide, but you guys tag and search in ways the rest of us never dreamed off." Skye admits.

"I can run facial-recognition software on the photos, cross-reference them with our criminal database." Melinda comments.

"You don't have to." Phil suddenly says, stopping the image, "That's the thief. Her name's Akela Amador." He says, and as he does Melinda recognizes her too.

"You're certain?" Skye asks.

"I should be, I trained her. Akela Amador was a S.H.I.E.L.D agent." Phil reveals, and he sends everything down to Bobbi in the Command Centre.

"What happened to her?" Skye asks curious.

"Seven years ago she led a raid on one of Vanchat's gulags." Phil reveals, as he, Melinda, and Skye head back downstairs, "Everyone believed that she and the two other agents on the mission were killed. I had my doubts." Phil reveals, "So I sent in a second team, just in case." Phil says, as they get down the stairs, "They found a lot of carnage, but couldn't confirm that any of it was Amador, left the possibility open." Phil explains, and as he does everything falls into place for Melinda.

"That's why you chose this op, when you heard about the heists." Melinda says, giving Phil a less than impressed look.

"There are only a few women in the world who could pull of something so impossible." Phil says, "Since you and Bobbi are on the bus, I thought it had to be her." Phil explains, before heading into the conference room, Melinda nods, then follows, as Skye looks at them in shock.

"Swedish customs confirmed that Amador left the country using an alias on a Swedish passport." Bobbi explains, "She flew into Belarus, brought a train ticket to a town called Zloda." Bobbi explains, "I've also put together a list of individuals who could fence that many diamonds." Bobbi explains, "Unfortunately none of them have been contacted, in fact there has been no activity whatsoever." Bobbi explains.

"Maybe she's saving them for rainy day, buying something special." Phil comments, "Let's focus on finding Amador." Phil instructs.

"I'll let H.Q. know she's alive so they can assist with the manhunt." Melinda says.

"I'd like to hold off on that." Phil says, looking at Melinda, "Until we know more." He instructs, "Contact Belarus authorities. Find us a place to park the bus." He says, to Melinda.

"Put together a list of inns, hotels, and pensions near Zloda." He says, to Bobbi, "There can't be many of them. We'll find her." He says, and having gotten their instructions Melinda and Bobbi head out of the Command Centre, allowing Phil and Skye to talk.

"You don't agree with what Phil's doing, do you?" Bobbi asks, as the two of them head to towards the cockpit.

"No, I don't."

"Which means before long you and Phil are going to start fighting about your difference of opinions." Bobbi realises, "Finally." She comments, and Melinda gives her a look, "What? You and Phil always argue about your different opinions of how missions should be completed. I've been waiting for it to happen since we got on the Bus, now, things are finally starting to feel like the old days." Bobbi admits.

"That's not always a good thing. You know why Phil is doing this, don't you?" Melinda asks, looking at her friend.

"He believes about people he knows, people he cares about, he wants to give her a second chance." Bobbi realises.

"Exactly." Melinda says, "If memory serves Phil isn't the only one who knew Amador." She says, giving Bobbi a look.

"Yeah, I knew her at the Academy and with me being your Rookie and her being Phil's we did spend time together, but that doesn't change what I'm going to do. If she's hurting people, actually doing what we think she's doing, then we have to stop her. Even if Phil doesn't like it." Bobbi comments.

"Glad you agree." Melinda says, as she heads to the cockpit, and Bobbi heads to create the lists that she was instructed to create.

A while later Fitz, Simmons, Skye, Bobbi, and Phil have headed to the town where they suspect Amador is. While Fitz, Simmons, and Skye are in the van scanning for some clue to lead them to Amador, Bobbi and Phil are searching for answers in the town.

"I'm sorry, Phil. I can't imagine how painful this must be for you, betrayed by someone you trained, believed in." Bobbi says.

"We don't have all the facts yet." Phil points out, "You should know better than leaping to assumptions." Phil says.

"Maybe, but look at the facts we do have." Bobbi tells him.

"I am, and there isn't enough to conclude anything." Phil says, before starting to go look for a clue to find Amador.

"This is going to end well." Bobbi mutters to herself, sarcastically, before continuing to help try to locate Amador as that's her job.

For the next few minutes Bobbi and Phil continue to look for Amador and as they have finally found a lead they start to head to where they are when Bobbi's phone starts to ring.

"Did you locate Amador?" Bobbi asks.

"What? No, not yet." Skye answers, "But we've found a broadcast with some weird signal encrypted into it." she explains.

"You think Amador might be communicating on that signal?" Bobbi asks curious.

"Maybe, but I called with an equally pressing question for you, my S.O, what are we supposed to do if we need to pee?" Skye asks.

"Bathroom break, really Skye? That's why you broke protocol?" Bobbi asks not sure whether she is annoyed at Skye for breaking protocol or herself for not seeing it coming.

"It was a really, really long drive, and everyone's nervous." Skye explains.

"There's a package at the bottom of the blue chest." Bobbi informs Skye, and on the other end of the phone there is the sound of movement.

"A packet of adult diapers? Seriously?" Skye asks shocked.

"Use them or hold it, when on a stake out they're your choices." Bobbi tells Skye, "Did you need anything else?"

"Yeah, Fitz wants to know if you packed any snacks." Skye reveals.

"I'm feeling a little bit peckish." Fitz voice says, and in response Bobbi just hands up.

"Was I ever that bad?" Bobbi asks Phil curious, as they arrive at a building.

"That's the kind of question you should ask May." Phil advices.

"Right." Bobbi responds, as they walk up to the desk.

"Dobry den." The receptionists' greats.

"Dobry den." Bobbi responds.

"Good afternoon." Phil says, "I'm Agent Coulson, this is Agent Morse. We're looking for this young women." Phil says, showing the phone.

"Oh, she's my angel."

"Why do you say that?" Bobbi asks curious.

"She has a gift, knows things. She told me to go to the Doctor. He found a tumour. I'm having surgery next week. The girl saved me." The receptionist reveals, to Bobbi and Phil's surprise.

A little while later Phil, Bobbi, Simmons, Fitz, and Skye arrive back at the plane. Due to the fact that the van Skye, Simmons, and Fitz were in was pushed over by Amador, Melinda is less than happy.

While Phil heads upstairs Melinda and Bobbi head into the lab with Fitz, Simmons, and Skye.

"Are you three okay?" Bobbi asks, looking between Skye, Fitz, and Simmons.

"Yes." Fitz, Simmons, and Skye answer.

"Are any of you feeling any pain? Any blurred vision? Sick in anyway?" Melinda asks, wanting to make sure that all three of them are alright.

"No."

"Nope."

"I feel fine." Fitz, Skye and Simmons respectively say.

"That's good, but so you know it's okay to be rattled, to feel scared." Bobbi assures them, "But you've got to try to push through that right now. We're still on mission." She explains.

"If you start to feel any pain, or any other symptoms come and tell me or Bobbi right away." Melinda requests, looking between the three 'kids', giving each of them a stern look, "Don't try to push through that."

"Yes May." Fitz, Simmons, and Skye say together, and once they do Melinda and Bobbi leave.

While Fitz, Simmons, and Skye are unpacking the equipment, Melinda has headed to check in on things

"Come on, Phil, see reason! Amador attacked us, you and your people!" Bobbi says annoyed, "That makes it clear that she doesn't have the same regard for you as you have for her."

"How's the team?" Phil asks, curious.

"Ratted, it doesn't seem like any of them are hurt." Bobbi admits, "It seems like Amador just pushed the van over so she could get away." She reveals, "I think it might take a while for Skye, Fitz and Simmons to focus again."

"I think I can recover the data signature of that encrypted broadcast." Skye says, coming to the doors, "I don't understand it yet, but that's how she was watching us. Give me an hour. Maybe we can start watching back." Skye says, before leaving.

"Guess I was wrong." Bobbi realises, feeling proud of Skye, Fitz, and Simmons for pushing though.

An hour later everyone is down in the lab so that Skye can explain what she can find.

"Something's wrong. It's the same feed that was watching us in the van." Skye reveals "Put it on the big monitor." She requests.

"Maybe the lens broke when the van rammed us." Simmons says.

"I hope she broke more than that." Skye mutters.

"It's a mirror." Phil realises when they see what is on the screen, "Are we recording this?"

"We are now." Skye says, once she presses a button on the tablet.

"Whoa." Fitz says, surprised and impressed when he sees what is going on.

"How are we seeing this?" Phil asks confused, "Where's the camera?" he asks.

"It's her eye. She's the camera." Melinda says, as the image switches to backscatter.

"It switches to backscatter when she closes her eyes." Fitz realises.

"That's incredible." Bobbi says, as she has never heard about anything like that, "Who has tech like this?" Bobbi asks, looking at Fitz and Simmons as she has never heard of something like that, so she hopes that maybe one of them has.

"We don't." Fitz says, causing everyone to look at him, "Not like this, not this small an internal. That's at least a decade ahead of anything I've seen." Fitz admits, "Though, now I've seen it I could maybe approximate it, the backscatter x-ray, a micro-transceiver that somehow doesn't fry her brain, an internal power source…."

"All miniaturized." Simmons says, "Honestly, it's…."

"That's genius." Fitz, and Simmons say together.

"We have to bring her in." Phil says.

"We have to take her out, she's a weapon." Melinda corrects, and as she does Bobbi fights so that she doesn't get an amused look on her face, as she has enough experience to be able to guess what's about to happen, "I'll call H.Q., see if we can bring a task force in to help us." Melinda says, and she turns to leave.

"Our team can handle this." Phil says, and once he does Melinda walks straight to Phil, clearly annoyed, and as she moves Fitz, Simmons, and Skye are clearly extremely awkward about watching Melinda and Coulson about to fight, Bobbi on the other hand is amused, and is starting to feel that for the first time since Bahrain things are starting to get back to how they used to be.

"I get it. you feel responsible, maybe you pushed her too hard, but she tried to kill three members of our team." Melinda reminds Phil, wanting him to understand.

"If she wanted us dead, we'd be dead." Phil says.

"We got lucky. You want to risk our lives again?" Melinda asks.

"You told me you were ready for combat, that you had my back." Phil says, and Bobbi internally winches at that.

"Don't ever doubt it." Melinda tells Phil, Bobbi being able to tell that she is getting pissed, "but you are defending this girl at the expense of the team."

"Because we protect our own." Phil says, feeling like he shouldn't have to remind Melinda that.

"Phil with all due respect, she's not one of our own, not anymore." Bobbi says, feeling that it would be a good idea to end Melinda and Phil's bickering, as unlike Clint she doesn't make a habit of trying to prolong it.

"Guys." Skye suddenly says, causing all the fighting to end, and they all look to the screen where they see Amador asking, though a written message, whether she can sleep.

"Why does she have to ask permission?" Simmons asks, sounding completely confused.

"She's not being watched, she's being controlled." Phil realises, "We have to find her. We'll take shifts watching the feed. Sonner or later, she'll look at something that will cue us into her location." Phil says.

"I'll take the first watch." Melinda says, and as soon as she says that Bobbi knows exactly what Melinda is going to do, though she suspects that Phil hasn't realised that.

It has been a little while since it was decided that they would take terns watching Amador's feed, and Phil is up in his voice when he hears a knock on his office door and so he looks up and sees Skye.

"I just wanted to give you a quick update. She's still at the hotel, so…. And that's the update." Skye reveals, looking nervous, "It's a pretty weird day, huh? It's like we were trapped in a van-shaped piñata."

"That should never have happened." Phil says, meaning that.

"It's okay. It wasn't nearly as terrible as watching Mom and Dad fight downstairs." Skye says, and Phil can't help but look a little amused at that, as while he and Melinda have been called a lot of things over the years, Bobbi herself having a few names for them, it's never been Mom and Dad.

"That shouldn't have happened, either." Phil assures her, "You regret coming along?" Phil asks, trying to understand the young woman better.

"It was pretty impulsive, even for me, I still don't know that much about you, or anyone on this plane really." Skye says, looking at the glass cases around the room, "Except you seem to value really old stuff, and you value me. You and Bobbi are the first people to do that in a really long time." Skye admits, "So I happen to believe you're an excellent judge of character." Skye says, "If you think this woman deserves a second chance, we should give it to her, even though she tried to kill me and I kind of hate her guts." Skye says, and she starts to close the door.

"Skye." Phil says, stopping Skye before she can close the door, "I do value you, and so does Bobbi, but so does everyone else on this plane." He says, "If you need anything you can come to me, or Bobbi or May, we're all here for you. We're all willing to help, you just have to ask." Phil says, meaning that completely as he knows that both Melinda and Bobbi suspect that there is something Skye's not saying, so he hopes he can get her to open up about it before it is too late.

"Got it." Skye says, before leaving, closing the door behind her.

A couple of hours later almost everyone on the bus is asleep, and as she suspects that she knows exactly what Melinda is planning Bobbi heads down to the lab, having her batons on her.

As she walks into the lab Bobbi notices that Fitz is asleep, but Melinda is still awake watching the screen.

"Anything yet?" Bobbi asks curious, as she stands next to Melinda.

"No." Melinda answers.

"Once you figure out when where she is you're going to go handle her without telling Phil, aren't you?" Bobbi asks, and Melinda gives her a look, "Oh, come on. It wasn't hard to figure out, you'll always put yourself in danger to protect everyone else." Bobbi says, "I'm actually surprised Phil didn't realise."

"It's been a while; he probably didn't remember to think about my recklessness." Melinda comments.

"Would make sense." Bobbi realises, "I'm going with you."

"Bobbi…." Melinda starts to say.

"You're not going to talk me out of this, Melinda. Beside two against one gives us better odds." Bobbi reminds her friend, and as she does Melinda notices something on the screen.

"Fine, we don't have time to argue about this. If you're coming, we're going now." Bobbi says, and the two of them head out of the lab, sneaking past Fitz who is still asleep.

A little while later Phil has gone down the lab to see what is going on and when he finds Melinda gone he and Fitz re-wined the feed and realise exactly what is going on. As he has sent Fitz to wake up everyone else Phil is down in in the cargo bay when he sees Fitz, Simmons, and Skye.

"Fitz, where's Bobbi?" Phil asks.

"She wasn't in her bunk, or the cock-pit, or anywhere else." Fitz reveals, "I couldn't find her anywhere."

"She's gone with May, damn it." Phil says, annoyed, hurrying to the car.

A little while after Phil realised that Melinda and Bobbi arrive at Amador's hotel room and seconds after Melinda turns on the lamp Amador wakes up.

"Does whoever's monitoring you have audio?" Melinda asks.

"No, but they'll use facial recognition to determine that you're both S.H.I.E.L.D agents." Amador reveals.

"Good, no need for introductions, you remember us." Bobbi comments.

"Did Coulson send you two?" Amador asks.

"No." Melinda says, stepping forward, "He feels sorry for you, I don't." Melinda reveals, "We're bringing you into S.H.I.E.L.D where you'll get a fair trial, and no one else gets hurt." Melinda explains.

"You have no idea, do you?" Amador asks, as she stands up.

"We know that you receive orders." Bobbi says, taking a step forward, so she and Melinda are standing side by side, facing Amador, both knowing that there is going to a fight, the only question is when.

"Then you know that once the two of you we're not going to get out of here alive." Amador says, to Melinda and Bobbi's confusion, "They built in a fail-safe. Either I kill the two of you, or they kill me." Amador reveals.

"You should have stayed in bed." Melinda says, as Bobbi pulls her batons and she and Melinda start to fight Amador.

Within seconds it is more than clear to Amador that she is in well over her head, and it doesn't even take ten seconds for Melinda and Bobbi to take her down.

"See, it's always better when we work together." Bobbi tells Melinda, once Amador is on the ground unconscious, but before she can respond, the door is broken open, and Phil holding the gun Fitz and Simmons were working on runs in, "You're a bit late there Phil." Bobbi tells him.

"What on earth were you two thinking!" Phil asks, as he puts the night-night gun back in its holster.

"We were thinking that it would be better for us to handle this before someone was hurt, and we did." Melinda explains to Phil.

"Of course, M&M, I should have seen this coming." Phil says, as Bobbi secures Amador.

"Really? That old name?" Bobbi asks, a little amused. Honestly considering how long it has been since she and Melinda have been called that it was nice to hear.

"It seems pretty fitting right now." Phil says as this is exactly the kind of thing Melinda and Bobbi did frequently before Bahrain, "I said to watch the feed, not act." Phil says, looking directly at Melinda.

"You also didn't say we couldn't." Melinda points out, "We did what we had to do Phil."

"Even though I love watching you two bicker, we should get Amador out of here before someone shows up." Bobbi suggests.

"Bobbi's right. Let's go." Melinda says, as she walks over and helps Bobbi carry Amador out.

"They really are back." Phil mutters as he watches Bobbi and Melinda go, being pretty sure that they are going to cause him more than a few headaches.

A few hours later Phil is in the cage with Amador, getting the story about what is going on, while Bobbi is driving to the building where Amador was meant to go, with Skye in the back of the car fixing a pair of glasses so that they can act I the same way that Amador's prosthetic eye works.

"Where are we?" Skye asks, once Bobbi stops the car.

"Todorov building." Bobbi answers, "By the looks of it I'd say it's research, not military." She admits.

"It looks like a prison." Skye comments.

"A lot of these kind of buildings do." Bobbi reveals, "Remind me to work architecture of buildings into our lessons."

"Yeah, because that sounds so much fun." Skye says sarcastically.

"Are we wireless yet?" Bobbi asks curious.

"Yep. Ready to detach." Skye says, and she leans forward and detaches the wires that are on the glasses that Bobbi is wearing, "Whoever is watching is going to have to think you're her, do you think you can do that?"

"I'm a spy, Skye. it's what I do." Bobbi assures her, as she does Skye looks at the computer.

"It would suck to live like this." Skye comments, "Wondering if someone's watching."

"It would." Bobbi confirms, "Testing backscatter." Bobbi says, pressing the button on the side of the glasses, and it works perfectly.

"Good to go." Skye says, and she passes the transmitter that Bobbi needs to hold

"Look Skye, I can't even look at you at the moment, which means I can't help you either." Bobbi explains.

"I know, I've got it, don't count on you for help." Skye says, and Bobbi gets out of the car and heads into the building.

A few hours later everything has been handled, and for once the entire mission went off without a trouble. Bobbi was able to get into the building, get a picture of some strange writing on a wall, and out without a single problem.

While Bobbi was doing that, Fitz, and Simmons managed to perfectly removed Amador's prosthetic eye, having needed advice from Bobbi, and Phil tacked down Amador's handler who, as it turns out, is just as much of a prisoner as Amador.

As everything has been dealt with Phil, Melinda and Amador are in the cargo bay getting ready for Amador to be taken into S.H.I.E.L.D custody.

"He was a former M.I.6 officer who fell off the grid a few years ago." Phil explains.

"My handler was as trapped as I was." Amador realises.

"Which means the real threat's still out there." Melinda says,

"Big S.H.I.E.L.D's still trying to decipher what was written on the chalkboard. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. A couple of people think it might be alien, possibly an equation." Phil says, "Whatever it is must be important if it's worth $30 million. We'll figure it out." Phil assures his old student, "You'll get a fair trial. I plan on testifying." Phil reveals, "I know people. You deserve a second chance." He says.

"You already gave me one. Doesn't matter how it plays out from here. I'm free. Thank you." Amador says, and Melinda walks Amador down to a car.

"What happened to Agent Coulson?" Amador asks, "He's different."

"Well, he's loosened up a bit." Melinda says, "He nearly died before the Battle of New York." Melinda explains.

"But what did they do to him?" Amador asks.

"I'm sorry?" Melinda asks, confuse about what Amador could be asking as she's been watching Phil closely and has realised that there is nothing different about him.

"Never mind." Amador says, before heading to the car and as Melinda watches Amador go, planning on watching Phil even more carefully from now on.

It has been a few hours since Amador left and because she has remembered something Bobbi has headed to Skye's bunk, where her door is open, but Skye is sitting on her computer.

"Before you ever think about using them hand them over." Bobbi tells Skye.

"What are you talking about?" Skye asks, pretending to be confused.

"The glasses."

'What makes you think I'd use them?" Skye asks, wondering how Bobbi could have figured out that that was exactly what she planned on doing.

"I used to spend all my time with the two biggest pranksters in S.H.I.E.L.D history, I know the kind of thing those glasses could be used for." Bobbi says, honestly not being able to imagine all of the creative ways Melinda and Clint would have come up with using those glasses in the old days, "Hand them over."

"Fine, but I was just going to have a little fun." Skye admits, handing the glasses over, looking slightly disappointed.

"Thank you." Bobbi says, "You did good today."

"Thanks Bobbi." Skye says with a smile, and once she has the glasses Bobbi heads upstairs.

Once she gets upstairs Bobbi finds that Phil's office is open too, and he is sitting at his desk, and because she doesn't want to disturb Phil she pauses at the door.

"Yeah, Bobbi?" Phil asks.

"I think it's probably a good idea for you to hold on these." Bobbi explains, handing the glasses to Phil.

"Yeah, I think I agree with you there." Phil admits, taking the glasses.

"I'll let you get back to your paperwork." Bobbi says.

"Bobbi." Phil says, before she can leave, and Bobbi turns around to face him, "The other week, what was the conversation about Melinda that you wanted to have?" he asks curious, and hearing the question Bobbi closes the door and heads over to the desk and sits down.

"I'm worried about her." Bobbi admits, "You said it would be good for her to get out of that basement, but since we've been on this plane she been shutting herself away in the cockpit. She's still alone, it's like she's traded one place of solitary confinement for another." Bobbi says, clearly looking concerned.

"You may have a point, but you know what Melinda can be like." Phil comments, "We were talking when we were on our way to Sweden and she said that her favourite thing about flying is the solitude."

"When you were talking were you doing that annoying talk while Melinda's silent thing?" Bobbi asks curious.

"It's not annoying!" Phil objects.

"It kind of is. You remind me of Hunter when you do that." Bobbi comments.

"Ohh ouch, that hurts." Phil says, putting a hand to his chest.

"Doesn't make it any less true." Bobbi says, causing Phil to shake his head.

"You're wrong about Melinda being just as alone as she was in the admin basement." Phil comments, and Bobbi just gives him a look, "Bobbi, after Bahrain May pushed all of us away, but even though she did that you were still able to draw her out, at least more than the rest of us could." Phil says, "And since we've been on that plane you've kept her company, you've been making sure that she isn't alone and I don't even think you've realised." Phil comments.

"I hadn't, spending time with Melinda is just what I do." Bobbi admits.

"Exactly." Phil says, as his phone starts to ring, "It's Maria, I want to talk to her about Amador."

"Okay, I'll leave you to it." Bobbi says, before getting up and heading out of the room, leaving Phil to his phone call.

After leaving Phil's office Bobbi heads downstairs, and once she is on the ground she debates for a second, and then heads straight to cockpit.

As Bobbi heads to the cockpit she doesn't notice Skye sitting on the couch, alone.

"Of course." Skye mutters, feeling alone.

"Skye?" A voice asks and she turns to see Simmons.

"Yeah?"

"Are you okay?" Simmons asks, walking over to her.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Skye lies, and even though she doesn't have Bobbi's training Simmons realises that and so she sits down next to her.

"If you would like to talk, I'm here for you." Simmons says, "Whatever it is."

"It's nothing, it's pretty stupid actually." Skye admits.

"You know, my Mum used to say that if something's bothering you then it's never nothing." Simmons reveals.

"That's nice." Skye admits, "I never had that."

"I'm sorry." Simmons says, not sure what else to say, "Would you like to tell me what's bothering you?" she asks curious.

"I've been watching these past few week, and I've realised that you and Fitz have this connection, this history together, same with May, Bobbi, and Coulson, and then there's me, the odd one out." Skye admits, "It's like I don't fit."

"Of course you fit!" Simmons says, shocked that she thinks that, "I'm so glad you're here and I'm sorry if Fitz and I have been making you feel like you're not welcome. We get like that sometimes, caught up in each other." Simmons reveals, feeling bad that Skye has been feeling left out, "Fitz was going to try connecting a gaming console to the screen down in lab so that we could play, how about you join us." Simmons offers.

"I wouldn't want to get in the way." Skye admits, her old insecurities showing themselves.

"You won't." Simmons assures her, standing up, "Come on." She says, sticking out her hand for Skye to take.

For about ten seconds Skye hesitates, but then she takes Simmons's hand and heads downstairs with her.

Once Simmons and Skye are downstairs they find that Fitz has already managed to get the gaming console connected and so the three youngest residents of the bus spend the next few hours together, having fun, and bonding.