Chapter Twenty (Finally)

The team rushed into the room, only to see Skye still asleep in the bed. The steady beeping of the heart monitor told them that she was still alive and holding steady. But they didn't notice that Skye's skin had a little bit of color in it.

Coulson breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank God, she's still alive. She just hasn't woken up yet."

You could see the worry wash itself off of the agent's face. Ward seemed to be the most relieved. Fitzsimmons smiled at each other and May sighed in relief as well.

They watched the slow rise and fall of Skye's chest. She was alive and they were very much relieved. They had almost lost her and they were thankful that they hadn't.

"Excuse me." They turned to see the doctor make his way into the room. "I know that you're all relieved, but we do have our limits on the number of people allowed in the rooms."

Coulson looked around the room, including him and the doctor there were six people in the room excluding Skye. "Sorry." Coulson apologized. "As soon as we heard the news, we were rushed. We didn't hear you say only one person."

The doctor nodded in acknowledgement, "I understand. I would allow you all to be in here since this is a pretty big room. But if one of the higher ups knew this, I would get into some serious trouble."

"I see." Coulson said. He turned back to his team, "Sorry guys, we can't all be in here. Only one other person can be in here."

"That sucks." Fitz said, immediately being nudged in the shoulder by Simmons to tell him to stop.

"Coulson," May started to say. "I think you need to be the one in here. You're in charge of us."

Coulson sighed, "I don't know. I know we all want to be in here, but rules are most definitely rules. I know I need to be in here, but I think Ward deserves to be in here."

Ward's head perked up, "I do?" he asked. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am." Coulson replied. "And I think that Skye would love it if you were the first face that she saw after being in a coma for over a week."

"You think?"

"Yes."

But before they could go any further, the sound of raspy, violent coughing came to their attention. Their heads whipped around to see Skye's body jerking from the violent coughing. Ward and the doctor rushed over.

After the coughing subsided, Skye's eyes weakly fluttered open, "Grant?" she rasped. "Is that you?"

A big, ridiculous smile filled the specialist's face, "Yes, Skye. It is me." he replied.

The doctor turned to face the team, "I know you want to say your greetings, but out, out, out! I need to check her vitals. You can come back in after a while." he exclaimed, shooing away the team.

They all went out grumbling. At least Skye was awake.

After about thirty minutes, the doctor let the team back inside the room. "She's completely fine." he said before coming into the room. "She's healing fine. She will need some physical therapy to help her recover from the wounds and from being in a coma for over a week. But she's completely fine."

They smiled and went inside the room. The doctor had Skye propped up in the bed and an IV hooked to her that was feeding her nutrients. Even though she was awake and alive, she did look very weak.

She smiled at her teammates, "Hey guys." she rasped.

Coulson smiled at the young agent, "Don't ever scare us like that again." he joked.

"I second that." Fitz piped up.

"Third." That was Simmons.

"Fourth." That was May.

Skye weakly laughed, "I promise I won't. What exactly happened again?" she asked.

"You don't remember?" Ward asked.

"Not really."

Coulson sighed and explained what had happened to her, leaving out the past week's ordeal.

Skye frowned, "Where is Quinn now?" she asked.

"Rotting in a SHIELD cell." Fitz said. "Where he should be."

"Good." Skye said. "You stayed here the whole time?"

"Yes, we all did." May replied. "We were all worried. But I think Coulson and Ward were the worst."

Skye blinked, "You were?"

Coulson sighed, "Yes. But I think Ward was the worst."

"Grant?" she asked, looking to the tall agent standing beside her. "Is that true?"

"Yes. There were some, uh, problems. But everything is completely fine now." Ward replied.

"Problems?"

"He punched me in the face." Fitz added. "And went into a rage."

"Grant, really?" Skye asked. "You did all of that?"

Ward was embarrassed, "I-I, yes. I let my anger get the best of me. It wasn't pretty."

"You've got to control that anger." Skye smiled. "But that shows that you cared about me."

"Skye, not just me. We all care about you." Ward responded. "You had us all worried to death."

Skye smiled at her friends, "That's great to hear. And I promise that I won't ever do that again."

Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. I know this should've been longer but I couldn't think of anything else to write. Only one chapter left. Skye finally wakes up. That's all I have to say and I don't know what else to say. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD will return in a chapter. Keep reading and please review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.