Skye awoke later that night feeling hungry. Soon she remembered that hadn't eaten any of the food that the rest of the group had laid out for her to eat. As she shifted in her sleeping bag Skye took in the sight of everyone asleep and peaceful until her eyes meet Bobbi's. Inching closer to Bobbi so she wouldn't have to raise her voice Skye asked what she was doing up.

"Just watching over everything so that nothing goes wrong," was her answer. Skye knew that the reason she had stayed awake was because of Ward. They were all far enough away that the chances of being caught by Hydra were slim. Skye looked over towards Hunter and saw he had his eyes closed but at the sound of danger he could be wide awake and alert for fighting.

"I can look out of you would like, you need to get some sleep." Bobbi had a skeptical look on her face of what I was doing so I decided to humor her. "If Hydra comes I'll wake you up. Right now though you need to get rested. Hydra isn't going to stop itself you know." I put on a smile to try and get her to give in to me.

After some thinking she sighed while rubbing her eyes. "Fine," Bobbi scotched down into her sleeping bag to get comfy "you promise to make me if you need?" Skye looked into her eyes and gave her the answer that was required.

"I promise." Skye gave her a soft smile and Bobbi gave one in return. A growling noise echoed in the cave and they both knew that it was just Skye's stomach and nothing to alarm them. Leaning over Bobbi grabbed the protein bars and bread that was left over and threw them over the kindling embers of the fire to Skye. Then she settled comfily in her sleeping bag with her arm under her head as a pillow.

Soon everyone was asleep except Skye who had now finished her meal of just two protein bars and a couple bites of bread. With nothing else to do she just observed everything that was going on in the small space. Hunter made quiet snoring sounds, Bobbi shifted around from time to time under the covers, but Ward stayed still and didn't make a sound.

For a while Skye watched him sleep but he still stayed in the same spot. Skye thought to herself, was he dead? It was a joke in her mind until she actually started to think about how he was just lying so still. Scrambling to get out of her restraining sleeping bag she finally made her way over to him, crouching down beside him. His eyes were fluttering around under his lids and his breathing soft and continuous.

Hanging her head and sighing in relief she realized that her heart had been pounding harder than she usually allowed it to. In Skye's panic she forgot to do her exercises to slow her heart rate down like May had taught her to do in training. Skye focused all of her mind on slowing it down but she could feel the weight of someone else's eyes on her.

Peeking one eye open she could that Ward had woken up and was looking at her with alert eyes. Skye focused all of her mind on slowing it down but she could feel the weight of someone else's eyes on her.

Peeking one eye open she could that Ward had woken up and was looking at her with the same alert eyes he always had. "I know I'm handsome but that doesn't mean you have to drool all over me when I sleep." Ward whispered smiling.

"I wasn't drooling on you. My saliva is completely contained in my mouth thank you." Skye told him and pushed off her knees to stand up.

"For fun though let's say you were."

Skye laughed softly then looked him back in the eyes. "That would never happen." Ward smile faltered and his eyebrows came together.

"Why would that be?"

Skye didn't want to answer so she looked at her feet and mumbled, "You know why."

"Ahhh, I forgot. You're disgusted by me." Now when Skye looked at him in disbelief he looked down.

"No." Skye told him and he looked up at her. Maybe it was because she said it in such a strong voice or it was because he just couldn't believe it. "I'm angry with you not disgusted."

Skye didn't have to clarify what she was angry with him about. It was the most obvious thing in the world. "You know that I wanted to tell you."

"But you didn't!" Skye answered, her voice just breaking above a whisper. All that was going through Skye's mind was the word calm. She was giving herself instructions just like May had taught her to do. Slow your breathing and just think of something calming.

Skye had always wondered what it was that calmed May. Sometimes she thought it could be something that was totally normal like a meadow with a gentle breeze with the smell of flowers in the air. Other times she had the feeling that it was that May was ripping of Grant Wards head. Either way, whatever May pictured it seemed to work well for her.

Silence had dominated the space between them since neither knew what the proper thing to say was. Someone had to break it at some point so Skye spoke first. "I guess I thought that you just had more trust in me than you actually did."

Skye had thought these things before but she never said them out loud to anyone. Now though they were out in the open and they seemed so real. Once Ward stayed quiet, Skye knew it was time for her to go back to bed.

She left her legs under but was in a sitting position with her back leaning against the wall. "I can watch if you want me to." He told her but she wasn't in the mood to accept anything from him right now.

"No it's fine. I'm fully awake now anyways." At the time she did think she was fully awake but not long after Skye was snuggled under the covers of her bed. Meanwhile Ward actually was awake. For around half an hour he pretended to be sleeping until she actually was. Now he just watched her and how a small piece of her hair was in her face. Whenever she breathed out through her mouth the hair fluttered in the wind as if it was a bird trying to fly.

It was good Skye was getting sleep. Now she could be fully energized for the mission tomorrow. That made Ward excited for the next day, or rather a few hours from now seeing as it was already very early morning. He was going to see Skye do a mission after Melinda being her S.O for a while now. That was not something everyone got to see. This would be the time to see as well how well May taught her. It could go one of two ways. One Skye learned nothing or two she could be have learned a lot more then Ward taught her in the time they had together.

His money though was on the second option.

Sorry for such a long wait. I got distracted and didn't finish it for a while. I hope you liked it and leave me a review to tell me how I'm doing. Bye!