Skye looked up from the floor to see May looking at her, stood at the end of her bed, arms crossed over her chest.

"I, well, I..." Skye stuttered, trying to think of what to say "I couldn't sleep so I, er, went for a walk!"

"That's why a pregnancy test just fell out of your pocket."

Skye looked at it and quickly formulated a lie.

"I found it, on my walk and I meant to put it in the bin." Skye told her.

"Cut the crap Skye." May told her, proud of how well Skye was actually lying to her.

"What crap?"

"I know exactly where you've been, who with and why. I know that test is yours and I want you to tell me everything that happened from the moment he took you off the bus."

"You know?" Skye asked.

"I know. I'm not happy with any of it and I would rather not hear any of it, but I think you need to talk to someone about it, and as he never tried to actually kill me and that I already know I guess that means I'm that someone."

"Where do you want me to start?"

"What happened when he got you onto the jet?"

"Well he tied me up and flew off. I don't know how Whitehall knew, but he did."

"Knew what?"

"That Ward ordered the 'bus NOT to be shot down. So Whitehall ordered it himself and put a hit out on Ward at the same time. Ward wasn't worried about it. Before we left he put this weird device on the 'bus that diverted missiles. We flew to, well, I have no idea where and we stopped in a Motel room for the night. He spent the night in the chair. I doubt if he slept, but I shared with Raina. Next morning we ended up on a train to Alaska."

"What happened in Alaska?"

"Hydra caught up to us on the platform and Raina ran off. Ward got the better of them and we took a car and went to get one of his supply bags. We changed cars and headed back towards Canada. We stopped in Fairbanks."

"What happened there?"

"I saw the most amazing Aurora Borealis"

"And then what?"

"We went shopping because we had no food or clean clothes. I saw him watching the report of his brother's death and I accused him of having something to do with it. Anyway, we got back in the car and drove. He realised Hydra were following us, so we evaded them and headed to Seattle without stopping. I managed to steal a laptop after I saw Ward had a USB keychain on his keys. I was going to transfer whatever I found and email it to Coulson."

"Let me guess, there was nothing on it?"

"There was something on it, just something I didn't expect."

"What was it?"

"Christian Ward's suicide video from Ward's perspective. He was there but he didn't kill any of them. Anyway, I realised a few things about him, and maybe myself, but on instinct I took him to the funeral. So we took it in turns to drive cross country and Hydra caught up with us at the funeral, so it's a good job we were only watching from afar. We thought he had a tracker, so we drove a while and found a vet."

"Skye, I know I asked for everything, but can you speed it up a little?"

"We broke into it, found the tracker, cut it out of him and carried on towards his safe house before contacting my father. We met him in providence a week later and he sold Ward out to Hydra because he planned to take me with him, but we had already planned escape routes, so when they attacked he dealt with them while I got to the jet we were going to use. I looked out of the door and saw my father about to kill him, so I shot at him and told him to let Ward go. Without him I wouldn't have got out of there. We made it to a Motel where I patched him up and that's when we, well, you know. That's when we also hatched the plan for you guys to come and get me. The cuffs, gag and tazer were all staged."

"I cannot BELIEVE you kept this from me! What the hell were you thinking? How could you succumb to him like that?" May nearly yelled at her.

"Clearly I wasn't thinking. I didn't tell you because I knew you wouldn't understand. How could you? And I didn't succumb. I initiated it! What do you want me to say? I fell for a guy, then found out he was a nasty piece of work, but I still loved him anyway? That even after I found out WHAT and WHO he was I still couldn't help my feelings. That even when he tried to kill all of my friends I wanted to believe that there was still good in him?" Skye spat, tears pouring from her eyes.

Skye got off the floor and stood in front of May, trying to calm herself down, edging her hand towards the door. She wanted top make sure she still had the opportunity to run.

"I had no idea you felt that way about him." May said, softening a little.

"No one did. Not even he did until I told him the morning after. He, like everyone else, thought I hated him. I wanted to believe it myself, but when I found out the truth about all of it I just wanted to hold him."

May said nothing. She just watched as Skye picked up the teddy off the floor, made her way over to her bed and put it on her pillows. She pulled the throwing star out of her bag and placed it back around its neck. She pulled the tape recorder out and placed it on her nightstand.

"I'm scared." Skye finally admitted in a small voice, not able to look May in the eye.

May picked up the test off the floor and handed it to her.

"I heard everything he said to you last night. I was listening through a parabolic mic. I know I'm not him, but will I do to help you through this?" May asked, making a decision to help, even though it went against her better judgement.

Skye sat on the edge of the bed and started crying again.

May sat down next to her and pulled her towards her.

"Coulson needs to know."

"I can't tell him."

"I can tell him if you want me to."

Skye said nothing but continued to cry into May's shoulder.

"He was right by the way. You need to sleep. Why don't you get your head down and I'll come and get you if I need you." May told her, stroking her hair.

She waited for Skye to fall asleep before softly padding to the door.