Skye almost cried in relief when Tasha said they would take a break. They had been going on for 3 hours and Skye was exhausted. She was pretty sure she could feel bruises on her bruises, in places she definitely didn't want to feel them at all. She had all but collapsed on one of the benches and chugged a bottle of water before opening another one, starting to take small sips.

Tasha chucked at Skye before taking a bottle of water for herself. She drank about half, before stopping.

'I'd say we've got another hour till you need to start work,' Tasha mentioned, before Skye groaned.

'I don't think I could throw a single punch right now. I'd probably let an attacker knock me out just so I could sleep.'

Tasha laughed, before tugging off her tank top, so she was just in a sports bra. Grabbing a towel, she wiped her face before doing the same with her arms and stomach, getting rid of any excess sweat.

Skye looked at her, confused.

'Hey, your cuts from yesterday are practically healed over. How is that even possible?'

Tasha looked at Skye in surprise.

'Oh, you don't know? Back when I was in the Red Room, they injected us with this stuff like the super soldier serum. It doesn't affect my strength, but is slows the ageing and means I heal quicker.'

Skye looked at her in shock. Tasha had spoken with such nonchalance, as if it was completely normal to be injected with experimental superpower drugs. 'Jesus Tasha, that's... I don't know if that's a blessing or a curse.'

Tasha frowned. 'With what they made me do, I always thought it was a curse, but now, I'm not so sure. With it, I can help people.'

Skye felt the heavy tension in the room and tried to alleviate it before things got too deep.

'Well, I guess it explains why you look more like a sister, you look barely 10 years older than me.'

Tasha laughed. 'Yes, well, Clint has taken to calling me his Milf.'

'Oh, ew!' Skye exclaimed before laughing.

Tasha grinned and shrugged her tank top back on, before flicking her towel at Skye.

'Come on, break times over.'

Just as Skye was about to groan again, Jarvis's voice rang out.

'Miss Skye, your presence has been requested on the Helicarrier, Deputy Directer Maria Hill is here to accompany you.'

Skye grinned at Tasha. 'Saved by the bell. Jarvis, what did I tell you about calling me Miss?'

'Not to do it. My apologies, Skye. I shall ask Mr Stark to change my settings.'

'Thank you, Jarvis. Could you tell Maria that I'll be up in twenty minutes, I need to shower and change.'

'Certainly, Ma'am.'

'Jarvis,' Skye said, pointedly.

'My apologies, Skye.'

Skye turned back to Tasha, who was staring at her incredulously.

'What? Is there something on my face?' Skye joked.

Tasha just shook her head in belief. 'No, I've just never seen anyone besides Stark try and befriend a computer.'

Skye laughed before shrugging. 'I gotta go, thanks for the session, even if you did almost work me to death.'

'Haha,' Tasha deadpanned. 'But seriously, it was no problem. Again tomorrow?'

Skye nodded with a grin. 'Sure. Well, work awaits. See ya.'

Skye picked up her water bottle and phone, before heading to the elevator. Pressing the button to her floor, she drank whilst she waited for the doors to open.

Once she had returned to her apartment, she went to the bathroom. Quickly taking her clothes off, she stepped into the shower and washed away the sweat and grime from her work out. Once she was feeling fresher, she wrapped herself in a towel, before looking around the bathroom.

'Hey, Jarvis, is there a laundry basket somewhere so I can wash my clothes later?'

'If you look towards your left, there is a laundry chute that will drop your clothes of at the laundry room. Your things will be washed and returned to your room by the time you finish at the Helicarrier.'

'Thanks, Jarvis.'

Skye swept up her clothes and dropped them down the laundry chute that Jarvis had indicated before exiting the bathroom, a towel wrapped around her wet hair.

Going to her closet, she chucked on a pair of black, skinny jeans, a navy tank top and a leather bomber jacket along side her favourite converse trainers.

Returning to the bathroom, she took of the towel from her head and tied her hair in a loose ponytail. Not bothering with any makeup, Skye looked at her appearance. Happy that she looked okay, Skye picked up her laptop bag and phone before leaving her apartment into the elevator.

'Jarvis, can you take me to where Maria is?'

'Of course, Skye.'

Checking her phone whilst she waited in the elevator, Skye laughed at a picture from Simmons, showing Ward frowning at a computer with the error page up. It was captioned, 'How will we survive without you?'

Skye took a cheesy selfie in response, saying, 'Try turning it off and on again ;).' Chuckling to herself, the doors opened and Skye stepped out into what she had dubbed the 'command centre.' It was where all business related to the avengers took place and was similar to the one on the bus, only larger. Around the holotable stood Tony, Steve and Maria.

They all looked up when Skye stepped into the room and nodded hello.

'I see Tasha didn't go to hard on you,' Tony grinned, much to Skye's indignation.

'Not hard?! I can barely lift my arms!'

Everyone laughed and Skye looked at what the Holotable with interest.

'Anything I can help with?' Skye asked, not really understanding what she could see.

'Nah,' Steve replied with a shrug. 'Its all just debriefing from a mission we did last week.' Skye nodded, and Maria turned to her.

'You ready to go?' She asked with a cocked brow.

'Yeah,' Skye answered and they both said goodbye before heading to the helicopter pad.

They were mostly silent on the elevator ride up, but when Maria went to the pilots door, Skye exclaimed, 'Wait, you can fly this thing?'

Maria nodded with a grin.

'Woah, that's awesome.'

'Maybe you'll learn one day,' Maria said, watching as the smile grew on Skye's face.

'Oh my god, can you imagine the look on my teams face if May got injured on a mission and we couldn't fly the bus and I'm all like, "It's okay, guys, I got this. Wheels up in 10."'

Maria laughed, before Skye concluded, 'That would be badass.'

'Definitely. Now get in, you got shotgun.'

Skye nodded and climbed into the helicopter, followed by Maria.

'Hey, in shield, does shotgun mean the same thing it does for normal people, because I feel like you actually could spend a lot of time around real shotguns.'

Maria just laughed and shook her head in disbelief. 'I see you got Barton's snark. I don't know how Shield is going to handle two of you.'

Skye grinned, but remained silent as Maria took off, remembering how May liked quiet when she flew...although that might have just been May in general.

Never the less, the sat in comfortable silence as the helicopter rose through the sky. In fact, it was only once the Helicarrier came into view and Maria had radioed in their decent that Skye spoke.

'So, to what do I owe the honour of being escorted to the carrier by the great Commander Hill?'

There was a slight hint of teasing in her tone and Maria returned it.

'Oh you know, I was in the neighbourhood.'

Skye laughed and shook her head.

'Seriously, I don't want you to waste your time, you have much more important things to be doing, being Deputy Directer and all.'

'Hey, it's no problem. I'm the Avengers handler. I have to stop by every now and then so it's no problem giving you a ride. Speaking of, I'm also technically your handler too now.'

Skye looked at her in disbelief.

'Seriously? What, am I like a sub-clause in the contract?'

Maria smiled wryly. 'Something like that. I'm one of the only people who know who you actually are, it made sense to volunteer.'

Skye just shook her head. 'That is insane. Two months ago, I was living in a van, stealing Starbucks wifi.'

'Yeah, Shield does that to you.'

Skye could only make a noise in agreement.

They began their decent into the helipad and Skye watched as Maria expertly landed. Once they were safely landed, they waited for the roof to close in before unbuckling.

'Thanks for the ride,' Skye spoke, as they climbed out of the helicopter.

'No problem. I'll pick you up at 7?'

Skye smiled. 'Sure.'

They made their way through the hallways towards the elevator and Skye watched as Maria arranged herself, slipping into the mask of Commander Hill. It was a shock to see the woman, who had only moments earlier been teasing and joking around, suddenly become hard and commanding. Agents steered clear as she strode down the path and Skye couldn't help but follow in awe at her dominating presence. Once they had parted ways, Skye shook her head in disbelief.

Pushing the thoughts aside, Skye made her way to the Tech floor where she was greeted by her new team and got to work.

Skye placed her food on her tray and payed for it. It had been an uneventful few hours as Skye had run through multiple projects, tweaking coding and updating security systems. Now, she was stopping for lunch in the cafeteria. Looking around the tables, she saw a few agents from the tech team that Skye remembered being nice. With a shrug to herself, she strode over to them, and took a seat.

'Hey,' Skye greeted with a smile. Everyone nodded their hello's and included her in their conversation.

'So I went down to the admin department today and guess what, Agent May doesn't work there anymore.'

Skye perked up from her food at the mention of May.

'What? Did she quit?' another agent asked.

'No, here's the kicker, the Calvary's gone back into the field!' the first agent exclaimed.

Before Skye could stop herself, she blurted out, 'Don't call her that.'

Everyone looked at her in surprise and Skye blushed. 'I mean.. May doesn't like people calling her the Calvary...'

They all shot her a confused look, before someone asked, 'You know Agent May?'

Skye nodded. 'Yeah, she was the pilot of the team I consulted for.'

'No way! She's a legend! What kinda stuff were you working on?'

Skye grinned, 'Sorry, that's classified.' Everyone rolled their eyes and Skye chuckled to herself. 'I've always wanted to say that.

The group around the table laughed, before someone huffed, 'Come on, you have to tell us something! You were in the field, on actual missions!'

Skye smiled, 'Yeah, its great and all, but I was terrified half the time. On my first mission, we blew a hole in the side of the plane at 30,000 feet! I thought I was gunna die in the first 24 hours of working with Shield.'

Everyone was giving her awed looks and Skye rambled on, 'I mean, it was still great. There were loads of routine missions, but some of them had some pretty close calls. We were dealing with 0-8-4's and gifted people half the time. I was with them for about a month and a half till...circumstances changed and I was transferred here.'

The awed looks didnt shift, so Skye cleared her throat and nudged the person next to her. 'So, how'd you all end up in Shield? I hear the academy is tough to get into.'

Skye felt her phone vibrate in her pocket just as she was finishing up her work.

Tasha: hey, we're having a movie night when you get back.

Skye laughed to herself. Who knew the avengers were so domestic? Skye quickly replied before packing up her things.

Skye: sounds good. What are we watching?

Tasha: don't know yet, we're picking from Steve's list. He has a lot to catch up on.

Skye grinned to herself before locking her phone. Looking back to her laptop, she weighed her options. With a shrug, Skye hacked her way into shields mainframe. After a minute or two she found Maria Hills schedule. Looking down at the large number of meetings, she winced. Skye pitied Maria's work day, she was a saint for getting through it without maiming someone. Finding the last meeting, she saw that it ended in 15 minutes. Logging off her computer, she was careful to erase any traces of her snooping, before getting up to grab a coffee from the break room.

15 minutes later, she received a text form Maria herself.

Maria: I'm done for the day, if you want a lift back to the tower.

Skye: Sure, I'm finished too.

Maria: great, meet me on the 5th floor, room 2.

Skye acknowledged the text and grabbed her things, heading for the elevator. 5 minutes later, she was knocking on the door of room 2.

'Come in, it's open,' Marias voice called and Skye opened the door, stepping into the room. Looking around, she realised that she must be in Maria's living quarters. The main room was like a living room, with a couch and Tv, in the corner of the room was a kitchenette and there was a door to the left. Maria, however, was nowhere to be seen.

'Nice diggs,' Skye called out teasingly, and Maria's voice responded from past the door on the left.

'Yeah, perks of being the Deputy Director. The other rooms are a lot more military style. Give me one sec, I'm just getting changed.'

'Sure,' Skye agreed before settling herself down on the sofa. Looking around, she noticed there weren't many photos or personal items. In fact, aside from the furniture, it was pretty bare. Maybe this was just Maria's temporary home, for when she stayed on the helicarrier, Skye mused to herself, although she didn't jump to any conclusions. After all, Skye's belonging all fit in one bag and a cardboard box. Skye had a feeling that by the end of her stay, Stark would have changed that, she had noticed he liked to express his feelings with shiny new things.

Just as Skye had chuckled at the thought, remembering the expensive necklace Tony had bought Pepper for whatever reason he had pissed her off, Maria came into the room. Skye was surprised to see her in jeans and a hoodie.

'Woah, who knew the Commander did Casual,' Skye grinned, causing Maria to roll her eyes.

'Shut up, not everyone can turn up to work in skinny jeans and a leather jacket.' she looked pointedly at what Skye was wearing, before continuing. 'Some of us are striving for professionalism.'

Skye laughed, 'Okay, you got me there,' skye brought her hands up in mock surrender.

Once again, Maria rolled her eyes at Skye's antics.'You really did inherited Clints humour, did t you?'

'I'm going to take that as a compliment.' Skye grinned. 'Wanna go?'

Maria and Skye idly chatted as they flew back to the tower. Maria asked how Skye was settling into the tech team, and how their days went, until they were suddenly at the tower. As Maria touched down on the helipad, Skye asked, 'Hey, we're having a movie night, wanna join?'

Maria frowned, 'I don't know, I should probably get back to the tower.'

Skye rolled her eyes, 'Come on, the carrier isn't going to fall into ruins without you for a few hours! When was the last time you took a night off!'

Maria looked tempted, so Skye went on, 'Please, t's just a few beers and a movie! You need it after the day you've had. What's the worst that could happen?!'

Finally, Maria relented. 'Oh fine! I'll stay. But one thing I've learnt in this business, never ask whats the worst that could happen, especially when beer is involved.'

Skye chuckled and unclipped her seatbelt, before climbing out of the helicopter, Maria following suit. What's the worst that could happen? Skye was going to regret saying those words by the end of the evening.

Hey, I finally finished my exams! Sorry it took a couple of days to upload this, my laptop decided that now would be a great time to die on me. Took me a while to figure out I could access all my writing on onedrive, and then editing took a while on my phone. Anyways, thanks for being so patient. :D chapters will probably be shorter till my laptop is fixed.

Thank you everyone who sent me lovely messages wishing me goodluck, I really appreciate it.

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