stargazerdaisy gave me the prompt "things you said that i wasn't meant to hear"
Skye was swimming in and out of consciousness. She still couldn't open her eyes, but she could hear, occasionally. Someone moving around - could feel someone - Simmons? - putting a needle in her arm and taking her blood. Maybe. Skye could barely tell. It all felt… like a dream.
As she lay there, listening to beeping machines and long silence, Skye heard a familiar voice, coming in unusually clearly.
"Simmons, can I have a minute?"
"Just a minute, Agent Ward." Simmons replied firmly.
"Are you going to time me?"
"I'm considering it. We're all on inactive duty until Skye's recovery finishes, and that means you can take a break and actually rest a little."
"I'll rest when I know Skye's okay."
"Ward, it's not your fault."
"I'm her S.O. I should have trained her better. I shouldn't have let her go in there alone. I should have…" Ward trailed off, "There's a lot of things I should have done different."
SImmons voice went soft: "Well, it's not too late now, you know. Not now."
Ward said nothing for a moment, and Skye thought she heard footsteps. Then Ward spoke again.
"She's right, I suppose." Ward told her, his voice barely above a whisper, and yet Skye had no difficulty hearing it. "But it almost was too late. I didn't see it until…"
"I suppose it figures, with everything else, that I didn't realize that I love you until you nearly died. Until you were lying there, in that pod, barely holding onto life."
"I love you, Skye." Ward told her, "and maybe… maybe when you're up and moving again, you and I… we can… we can grab that drink? Talk, like you offered? There's… there's a lot to talk about…"