Chapter Ten (Believe)

Coulson and May led Skye and Ward back to the Bus. It was a slow trip mostly because Ward was on crutches and because Coulson had forgotten slightly where the Bus was at. But eventually they arrived back at the plane.

"I can't believe that you didn't remember where the Bus was parked at, Coulson." Ward retorted. "That doesn't seem like you."

Coulson shot a glare at the injured agent, "Don't go complaining about me. I mostly forgot where the Bus was at because we went in circles trying to find you two."

They went up the cargo ramp into the hold where a surprised Fitzsimmons met them.

Simmons took Skye in a hug, "You're alive!" she exclaimed. "Thank goodness!"

Skye brushed Simmons off, "Yeah, nice to see you too" She then smiled at Fitz, who couldn't believe what was going on.

Simmons turned her attention to Ward, "You're hurt!" she exclaimed. "And who did this splint?"

Ward motioned over to Skye, "Skye did."

"It's not that bad!" Skye yelled. "I don't know first aid!"

Simmons smiled, "It's not bad, but it's not great." she said. She motioned towards the lab, "Let's get a proper splint and crutches on that."

"Of course she wants to perform some medical task." Fitz said, coming over to Skye. "Nice to see you."

"Nice to see you too, Leopold." Skye said with a smile.

"Don't call me that."

"Fitz, your name is Leopold?" Ward called from the lab.

"No, no it's not." Fitz said, shaking his head. "It's certainly not that."

"Alright Leopold."

Skye and Coulson laughed.

Coulson turned to Skye, "Let's go upstairs. You can get cleaned up while you wait for Ward."

(An Hour Later)

Coulson stopped Ward in the hallway, "Grant, we found this. I thought you might want it back." He handed Ward the small, velvet, ring box that they found a while back.

Ward became flustered, "T-Thanks." he stammered.

Coulson smiled, "Don't be embarrassed about it. Go ahead, ask her. I think that it's a good time to."

Ward faintly smiled, "And this is coming from you."

"But you're the robot."

"No I'm not."

"Go ahead, Grant. She's in there with Fitzsimmons and May. You don't have to be afraid."

"But," Ward began.

"But nothing. Suck it up and be a man." Coulson cut in.

Ward blinked at Coulson's statement and sighed. He gripped the box in his hand, took a deep breath, and walked out into the lounge and over to Skye who was sitting on the couch.

Skye looked up at Ward and smiled, "At least you're in a proper splint this time." she said. "Cuz' mine wasn't good enough."

"I said it wasn't that bad." Simmons said. "It was decent."

"Yeah, that."

"I- I have something to give you." Ward said, trying not to seem extremely embarrassed.

"What is it?"

Ward slowly handed the ring box over to Skye.

Skye took it in her hands and opened it to see the ring. Her heart skipped a couple of beats. She slowly took the ring out and looked at it. On the inside of the ring was engraved 'To Skye, Love Grant.'

She blinked at it, blushing. "Grant is this? Are you?" she asked, extremely flustered. "Is this a proposal?"

Ward's face turned fifty shades of red, "Yes, it is."

"Well in that case," Skye jumped up from the couch and flung her arms around Ward. "Yes." She planted a passionate kiss onto Ward's lips and he fell in line with it.

Coulson coughed quietly after a while to calm things down.

Skye looked at Coulson, "Oh," She blushed. "Sorry."

"That's ok." Coulson replied. "You kind of took it a little far."

Ward stood there blushing and still clearly completely flustered.

"The robot does have feelings." Fitz commented.

Ward's blush quickly turned into a glare and Fitz hid behind Simmons.

Coulson strided towards the small kitchen, "C'mon, let's celebrate!" he exclaimed, pulling out a bottle of what seemed to be wine.

Fitzsimmons quickly went over and May started to but stopped by Ward and Skye.

"Congratulations you two." she said and continued over to the kitchen.

Ward and Skye stayed in place for a while.

Ward slipped the ring onto Skye's ring finger, "Yeah, Skye Ward. That does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, it does." Skye smiled.

Coulson called over, "Hey you two lovebirds, are you coming or not?"

"Yeah." Ward replied. "C'mon before Coulson yells again."

Skye smiled and the two went over to the Bus' kitchen to start their new life, together.

END

Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. I admit I really didn't know how to do this chapter. I'm not all for the romantic stuff but I tried as hard as I could. I hoped you enjoyed this short story (it's hard for me to write long ones). Please review!~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.