Ok here is chapter 23, thanks for all the support so far I really appreciate it! The count down to the shows return it well on the way now :-D Hope you enjoy the chapter! No Copyright Intended!

Chapter 23

Skye's Point of View

When I woke up there was no better person to be beside my bed than May. Despite the argument we had before I got shot, I knew she would be there for me no matter what. The same goes for the rest of our little group, I loved my new found family. However it took a while before Coulson came to see me after I woke up. When he finally appeared he came when I was alone. He looked worried as he walked into my room.

"I'm glad to see you awake Skye how are you feeling?" he asked. I smiled at him and replied, "Well I'm alive thanks to you guys! Seriously AC I am so grateful at the extent you all went to, to save my life," Coulson gave me a weak smile and said, "Skye we couldn't just let you die. Your mom was a wreck the entire time, you really had her worried." I looked at him and asked, "Were you mad that I went in alone?" He thought for a moment before saying, "I'm not sure mad is the correct term to use, but I do wish you had of waited for us. What you did was brave Skye but you didn't have anything to protect yourself with."

After that he said, "That's not why I am here. I need to tell you something about the drug. The one that saved your life, I told your mom that I was worried about the side effects. You know the ones that I suffered from." I nodded in reply as he carried on, "Skye I didn't tell her everything. I wanted you to know first, I have been looking for answers a way to explain but I don't have any." I looked at him confused, "What do you mean Coulson?" I asked.

"The drug Skye, the one that saved us both. When we found it I discovered something else. Its source, it was Alien." He finished. I was shocked and a little lost for words as I mumbled, "Alien?" Coulson nodded looking very worried about my reaction. "As in unfamiliar?" I asked, dreading his response. "No" he replied. It was a lot to take in and I didn't really know what to think. "The minute I knew where it came from I tried to stop them injecting you, but I was too late. I'm so sorry Skye" he said sounding upset.

"Sorry? Coulson you were trying to save my life, you did save my life. " I replied trying to make him understand I didn't blame him for anything. "Skye we were desperate to save your life. But this drug I let them give you, we don't even know the dangers it could possess or the damage it can do." He cried. "Sir I'm sorry to say this, but so what? We are alive and you have had that stuff in you for some time now and your ok right?" I asked. He didn't reply so I tried to lighten his mood by adding, "plus you don't have a tail so that's a bonus right?"

It didn't work instead he got annoyed and replied, "I know nothing fazes you, but this should, we are completely in the dark on this!" I looked at him and said, 'that's were we live Sir, May wont tell me who my father is, I'm supposed to have some weird powers that she cant or wont tell me about! At least we are in the dark together on this one."

Coulson looked at me and replied, "Yes but not for long, to hell with any protocol or any code I used to be bound by. We have a long list of answers we need and we are going after them ourselves." I nodded and said, "Well if the teams up for it," Coulson cut me off, "No Skye we can't involve them, I trust them but we need to protect them. We can tell May if you want but that's it. Fury went to dangerous lengths to keep this under wraps, lied to me lied to S.H.I.E.L.D until we know why we can't share this with anyone, for their safety and ours!"

I nodded and said, "Got it. But we keep May out of this, she will only worry about me and I think she has done enough of that lately. So what do we go after first AC?" He smiled and replied, "For what its worth I think you should tell May, but that's your call. She will be mad if you don't she sees it as her duty to worry about you and protect you but like I said your call. As for who we go after, we go after the person responsible for this and make him pay!" I smiled and agreed but not about the May part, I didn't want her to know until it was necessary. Little did I know she would soon hear Coulson's conversation with me, but that comes later.

Melinda May's Point of View

Takes place where chapter 22 left off.

The next morning we were both awoke by Dr Simmons and she was not happy! "What is this?" she exclaimed. I rubbed my eyes as I looked at her and replied, "Um morning?" She glared at me, "Agent May when I said take care of yourself I meant for longer than a few hours. You need a proper nights sleep, in your own bed and a descent meal. So will you please leave, Skye will you tell her?" she asked Skye who seemed to be dozing off again. "Huh what?" she asked still half asleep. Jemma sighed and repeated herself. "Oh ok, mom go look after yourself!" Skye said trying to sound strict. "Fine" I sighed as I got up to leave. I hadn't realized how stiff my joints were as I got off the bed guess Jemma was right, I did need my own bed I thought. On my way out I heard Skye say, "More blood? Jemma I'm not going to have any left!" I made a mental point to ask Jemma what she was doing with the blood later. I didn't want her running any tests I didn't approve of.

Before going to bed I needed to make a quick stop to the cockpit. The entire time I was with Skye she hadn't mentioned what Coulson had said to her so I was curious. I went to the cockpit where I had rigged up a device that recorded conversations held in every room. The reason I had done it was so I could spy on Coulson, under orders of course. As I hit play on the recording I wanted, what I heard both shocked and angered me.

It was Coulson and Skye discussing the drug. Fury had told me limited information about it, in fact I knew as much as Coulson. Fury had told me to watch Coulson and report anything I deemed to be 'not normal behavior.' I was also told to report if and when Coulson mentioned knowing the source of the drug. This order confused me but I wasn't allowed to question anything.

However as I listened to Skye and Coulson discussing the source, and how it was alien I got mad. Coulson had deliberately not told me he knew the source of the drug that was in Skye's system. I couldn't believe he didn't tell me, he knew I wanted to know everything that concerned Skye especially health wise. I got even angrier when I heard them discussing going after the man responsible, all I could think was how could they be so stupid? Skye didn't even want me to know their plan!

As I made my phone call to inform Fury that Coulson knew more than he should, I tried to plan how I would punish Skye. She had kept something important from me, and although I couldn't tell her I knew (because that would involve mentioning the device I had set up) I needed a way to make her tell me out of guilt. I had thought of the perfect way and was about to put it into action when, Ward told me we had a mission something about an Asgardian…..

Ok so that is Chapter 23, I know the order is a bit out of sync with the show but I preferred it this way for some reason lol Please let me know what you think! Until next time ;-)