21 weeks
"Hey! Come with me, there's something I want to show you." Skye whispered into Ward's ear.
She took his hand and guided him down the corridors, looking to see if anyone would see them.
"Skye, where are we going?"
"Somewhere a little more private."
She guided him down some familiar looking corridors.
"You better not be leading back to interrogation!"
"I am. I figured it would be the last place anyone would look for us. Don't worry, you're safe."
"Safe varies by the context."
"We'll be alone. You aren't scared of little old me are you?" She asked him with a gleam in her eye.
"Always!" he laughed back.
Skye led him down the corridor that led to the room. They reached the door and she looked both ways before opening it and walking in. She held the door until Ward had entered and closed it behind him.
She turned back to face him, walked up to him and pulled him into a deep and passionate kiss, walking them both backwards to the wall in the process.
"This is not what you want to show me is it?" Ward asked pulling away from her lips slightly.
"No."
Skye leaned back against the wall, lifted the hem of her top and guided Ward's hand from her cheek to her stomach where she moved it around a little.
"Skye?" Ward asked curiously.
Then he felt it.
A tiny beat against his hand.
"Was that?" he asked, eyes wide and using his free arm to prop himself up against the wall and Skye.
"Yeah. Started this morning. Thought you might want a feel."
"That is incredible!"
Ward moved his hand over her bump trying to feel the kick again.
"Must have got comfy." She told him.
Ward moved his hand back to Skye's face and kissed her again.
"I have something I need to show you too." He said, taking her hand and leading her from the room.
Simmons was stood in the viewing room looking out over the lie detector test.
"How strange that it could change my entire outlook!" she thought as she stared at it.
She had been feeling guilty over May and had found herself frequently visiting here. She reasoned it was part penance for what she did and part reminder that not everything is as it seems.
Just as she was about to leave she saw the door open and Skye sidle through it before pulling Ward in with her.
She watched as Skye pulled him into a kiss and backed against the wall.
White hot anger burned through her that Skye could forgive him enough to kiss him.
She watched further as Skye lifted her top and move Ward's hand.
That's when she saw Skye had put on weight.
A lot of weight.
So much that she was wearing elasticated pants.
It wasn't until she saw Ward's reaction and heard him ask "Was that?" that she realised Skye's weight gain might be a pregnancy bump.
That's when she also realised Skye had been practically glowing for the past few weeks as well as being happy and cheerful since Ward arrived in the building.
The anger burned through her again and she stormed from the room.
"How could she? How I could I have not seen it?" Simmons thought as she entered the lab.
"Don't peek!" Ward told Skye as he covered her eyes.
"I'm not peeking, but will you hurry up! I need to pee!"
Ward guided her forwards and opened the door. He moved her inside and flicked on the light.
"You can open them now."
Skye opened her eyes to find a beautifully decorated bedroom, fully furnished with everything they would need, including a double bed and a dresser each.
"Coulson thought it might be easier for us to share." Ward explained as Skye walked around the room touching the furniture.
"This is our room?"
"Someone told him you'd spent most nights in medical slept in awkward positions, so he gave us this room."
"We have a double bed."
"Yeah, saves one of us falling out of it. Do you like it?"
"I love it!" Skye cried, tears streaming down her face and running to him, pulling him into a hug.
"You haven't even seen the best bit yet." He told her, pulling her to a door on the other side of the room.
Opening it he revealed a small, yet fully functioning bathroom.
"I am going to christen that right now!" she said, pushing past him and closing the door in his face.
"Earth to Simmons, Earth to Simmons, do you read me Simmons?" Hunter asked waving his hand in front of her face bringing her out of her own world.
"What's up?"
"Never mind me, what's up with you?"
"Is Skye pregnant?"
"Not that I know, and even if she was, who the hell would the father be?"
"Ward."
"She wouldn't. Would she? What makes you ask anyway?"
"I saw her and Ward together earlier and she looks like she's put on weight."
"How did you go from that to her being pregnant?"
"They were alone in a room; they didn't know I was there. She kissed him, then put his hands on her stomach, then there was weirdness."
"Like what?"
"She was wearing elasticated pants. He said 'was that' and Skye said it started this morning."
"Nooo. Was probably just gas. Skye is sensible enough not to. I think you're imagining things."
"Maybe. Let's go ask her."
"Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!" Skye repeated as she hugged Coulson.
"I take it she likes the room?" Coulson asked Ward as Skye buried her head in his shoulder.
"Loved it."
"Good. It wasn't an easy decision to make, after all, everyone is still not convinced that Ward isn't going to kill everyone in their sleep. The only reason I'm allowing it is that it's a little too late to ban you from being together really, isn't it?"
"May I take a jet to the safe house to pick up some clothes and things?" Ward asked Coulson.
"Take May with you. She's been itching to get out of here."
Simmons ran up to Bobbi in the gym.
"Woah! What's with the whirlwind?" She asked, putting her batons down.
"I was looking for Skye. Have you seen her?"
"I saw her getting onto a jet with May and Ward."
"Coulson trusts him on a mission?" Simmons asked in disbelief.
"It didn't seem like a mission. It seemed personal."
"I better clean the fridge out while I'm here." Ward said as they walked the halls of Paradise.
"Why?"
"I haven't been here in six weeks; everything will have gone bad by now."
They all went into the kitchen where Ward opened the fridge and a foul smell spread around the room like a poisonous mist, making Skye gag and run from the room.
Ward stomached the smell and removed everything into a bin bag.
"I better go dump this in the trash. I'll be about an hour. Help yourself to books that you want to take to read."
"Why so long?"
"Have to dump it in town. It's a half hour walk either way." Ward explained.
"I'll come too."
"Skye'll have to come."
"That's no problem, she needs to exercise."
"The smell might be a problem seen as thought it's already sent her running."
"Fair point, I'll raid your library."
"Find Skye yet?" Hunter asked Simmons.
"She's out with Ward and May."
"Really? Coulson let him out?"
"Yeah. I'm worried he's gonna hurt her, or May."
"I'm sure May will kick his ass if he steps out of place."
"Will she have the strength? She only got out of the hospital last week."
"You thought he was going to shoot Fitz remember."
"He was!"
"Yeah, but in the name of science."
"So do you know what you're having yet?" May asked as the flew back to the Playground.
"Yeah. We're having a boy." Ward told her while watching Skye out of the corner of his eye.
"A boy! Thought of any names yet?"
"I want to give him Ward's first name as a middle one." Skye announced.
Ward stared at her.
"You have got to be kidding me?"
"Why not?"
"Erm... everyone hates me." Ward told her.
"It would also confirm Ward's the father." May pointed out.
"I don't care." Skye said, tears welling up in her eyes.
"How about we talk about it later?" Ward suggested.
Skye nodded as tears fell silently from her eyes. Ward pulled her into him.
Before long they landed back in the hangar to find Simmons waiting for them.
"Simmons, to what do we owe the pleasure?" Ward asked as they walked down the cargo ramp.
"I want information." She said, looking at Skye and the red rims of her eyes.
"What sort on information."
"Not from you, from Skye."
Ward looked at Skye, then May before looking back at Simmons.
"What's up, Buttercup?" Skye asked before laughing hysterically at the rhyme and bursting into tears again. "I'm sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me!"
"It must be all of those pregnancy hormones running through your body." Simmons said in a cool emotionless voice.
Ward's eyes went wide, May excused herself and ran from the room and Skye finally managed to stop crying.
"You, you know?" Skye asked her, the blood draining from her face.
"I saw the two of you this morning in the lie detector room." Simmons admitted.
Skye shot a look towards Ward.
"I take it he's the father?" Simmons asked, nodding towards Ward.
All Skye could do was nod.
"How could you? We're supposed to be friends and you go and sleep with him! I'm assuming this is why he's been given the roam of the building."
"I didn't know how to tell you." Skye said in a small voice.
"You could have just come out with it and told me!" Simmons shrieked before calming down long enough to add "I can't even look at you right now!" and leaving.
Skye burst into tears once more and sunk to the floor. Ward watched Simmons disappear from view before sitting next to Skye and pulling her into his lap.
"I take it the conversation didn't go too well?" May asked as she re-entered the room.
A/N: All better now - but I still have catching up to do so updates may not be daily!