25 weeks
Simmons looked up from the lab table she was working at. It was far too quiet.
Coulson, May, Bobbi, Hunter and Mack had all gone out on a mission, leaving Ward, Skye, Fitz, Hayley and herself at the Playground. She had expected Fitz to join her in the lab, but he was nowhere to be seen so she went to look for him.
She couldn't find him anywhere and her mind was starting to race but then she caught the sound of laughter coming from a room. Curious, as the room wasn't meant to be in use she went to investigate. She put her ear up to the door and heard a low hum followed by another low hum and something that was slightly higher. She could hear one of the low hums chuckle. Her curiosity got the better of her and she pushed the door open. She was stunned to find herself in a beautifully decorated bedroom. She was even more shocked to see Skye making herself comfy on the double bed, Fitz wriggling himself into a comfy looking chair and Ward pressing buttons on what looked like a cupboard door. Hayley was sat at the end of the bed using it as a backrest, a blanket covering the legs that were stretched out before her.
"Simmons! We're having a movie night. Why don't you join us?" Fitz called from his chair.
Simmons was hesitant. She had barely looked at Ward or even Skye since she found out about the baby, so she wasn't sure if she would be welcome to join them.
"We don't bite." Ward promised, nodding at her to enter the room and make herself comfy while exposing the impressive TV the cupboard concealed.
Simmons chose to sit by Hayley on the floor and was offered some of the blanket that she was using. Simmons gratefully took it.
"Know what we're missing?" Skye asked.
"No. What?" Ward asked, putting the movie disk into the player.
"Popcorn. Lathered in hot, melted butter."
"Popcorn yes, butter no." Hayley said from the floor.
"Popcorn Nazi!" Skye said, throwing a pillow at her, which she caught and put behind her back.
"What about sweet popcorn with chocolate chips?" Fitz asked.
"That's fine." Hayley told him.
"Wait! I'm allowed chocolate but not butter?"
"Butter is on that list I gave you."
"I'll go make some popcorn." Fitz said, trying to get out of the chair and failing. Ward pushed the disk tray closed and went to help Fitz up, before climbing onto the bed.
"What are we watching anyway?" Simmons asked.
"22 Jump Street." Skye said excitedly.
"Why?"
"Because Skye's using the hormonal excuse to guilt trip us all into it." Ward said, winking at Skye and getting attacked by her remaining pillow in return.
"AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!" Ward cried while pretending to bat Skye off him. Simmons turned to watch Skye beat Ward up with a pillow and laughed a little as she got him square in the nose.
"I. Did. Not. Guilt. Trip. You. Into. Watching. This!" she told him as she continued her assault.
"I take it back, I take it back!" Ward conceded, holding his hands up in front of him.
"Good." She told him, putting the pillow back behind her and snuggling into his side again.
A few minutes later Fitz returned with three bowls of popcorn. One for Ward and Skye, one for Simmons and Hayley and a smaller one for himself.
"You mean you didn't start it to get past the commercials?" Fitz asked, settling back into the chair.
"I was about to but I got attacked!" Ward told him defensively.
Fitz gave Simmons a very pointed look.
"It wasn't me." She told him.
"Just play the movie already!" Hayley said.
Ward pressed play and the screen shifted and changed as the movie played.
Ward was impressed at the sound quality. Fitz had really done a good job with the speakers.
They laughed their way through the movie until Schmitt tried to climb onto the roof after Jenko.
"Oh my God!" Skye exclaimed.
"What?" Fitz asked.
"It's Ward and Fitz!" Skye giggled.
"It's nothing like me and Fitz." Ward told her.
"It so is. You, the athletic one who can do what he did, then Fitz, the brainy one who tries to do the physical stuff and fails in a really funny way but manages to succeed in the end!" she said, pointing to each of the characters.
"Skye has a point." Simmons unexpectedly said from the floor.
"Thankyou!"
They made it to the end of the movie and were all still chattering so Fitz suggested putting another one on.
"Before we do I want some more popcorn!" Skye announced.
"So go make some!" Ward told her.
"But the way Fitz made it was so nice!" Skye complained.
"Come on, I'll show you how to make it." Fitz told her, hauling her off the bed.
"I'm going to use the bathroom." Hayley said, scrambling to her feet and heading to the rooms ensuite.
"I'm sorry." Simmons said, so low Ward nearly missed it.
"For what?" he asked her.
"I've behaved like an idiot. I can see you are devoted to Skye and the baby, and Fitz told me you saved my life in Hawaii. I guess I may have over reacted a little to you being here and the whole baby thing. It was a bit of a shock. I have been a horrible friend, especially when this should be the happiest time of Skye's life."
"You have every right to be mad at me Simmons, especially after what I did to you, so maybe I'm not the one you have to say sorry to."
Ward got off the bed and moved over to the TV to change the disk.
"What do you fancy?" he asked Simmons. She got over the floor and joined him at the TV before flicking through all of the movies that were there.
"I wanted to watch this one when it came out but I never got the chance." She said, pulling one out of the pile and passing it to him.
"I never meant to hurt you or Fitz. I did care about you, still do, and if I hadn't have done what I did we would have all been killed. Garrett expected me to put a bullet in your skull, but I couldn't. And if I didn't, it would have been seen as disobeying orders, meaning I would have been killed too. Sending you out in that box at least gave you both a chance of survival. I had no idea it would sink."
"I don't trust you and if you hurt her, I will kill you."
"Fair enough, but I'm not going to hurt her. Besides, well, you know, the whole childbirth thing." Ward jested, making Simmons chuckle.
Ward put the new disk in the player and headed back to the bed. Simmons sat back on the floor. Ward forwarded through the credits.
Hayley came back into the room and joined Simmons. Skye and Fitz returned with the new batch of popcorn and settled into their respective places.
"What are we watching this time?" Fitz asked.
"The Perfect Storm." Ward told him.
"I wanted to see this!" Hayley voiced.
"Me too." Skye admitted.
They sat in silence eating popcorn while they watched the movie while a raging storm picked up around the building, wind rattling all of the windows.
"So who's bright idea was it to watch a movie about a raging storm while there's a gale blowing driving rain into the widows outside?" Fitz asked as one gust of wind rattled the window so loud that it made him jump.
"Simmons."
"Hey! I didn't know we were expecting a storm!" she protested shrinking into the end of the bed.
They continued to watch the movie, trying to ignore the weather outside.
"I vote we watch a comedy after this to calm our nerves." Fitz said as he jumped when a tanker smashed into a storm drain on the TV at the same time a growl of thunder echoed around the room.
"I concur." Skye told him, white as a sheet, but enthralled in the movie all the same.
"Me too!"
"That's four of us then."
When the movie finished ten minutes later Fitz jumped out of the chair and raced to the TV to flick through the movies to change the disk as quickly as possible. He found one and put it on.
"What is it?" Skye asked him.
"Wait and see!" Fitz teased.
Ward started the movie and they quickly realised Fitz had chosen another police movie.
"Let's be cops?" he asked skeptically.
"It was the one I thought would be the most light hearted after the last one."
As the movie wore on Ward noticed the noise level in the room had dropped. One quick glance around the room told him why.
Coulson and the rest of the team arrived back to the Playground. He was concerned. All of the rooms seemed dark and there was a silence that was made worse by the storm still raging around outside. Wondering where they all were and concerned that they may have killed each other he went to investigate.
He checked all of the places he knew Fitz, Simmons, Skye and Ward enjoyed spending their time, but it was all empty. Realising it was getting kid of late he thought they could all be in their rooms, so he went to check.
He tapped softly on the door to the room Fitz had claimed. Getting no reply Coulson opened it, saw an empty bed and closed it again. He tried Simmons next and got the same result. He was starting to get worried.
Finally he reached the Ward and Skye's room. He could hear slight movements on the other side of the door and opened it.
The room was dark, lit only by a bright blue light from the TV. He could see Ward placing a blanket over Fitz who was fast asleep in the chair before moving to the end of the bed and looking down. He saw Ward slowly and carefully lift someone up off the floor and carry them to the bed. Realising Ward's intention Coulson stepped forward and pulled the covers back. That's when he saw Simmons.
Ward placed her in the centre of the bed and moved back to the foot of it, picked Hayley off the floor and placed her in the empty space he had left. He pulled the covers over them and tucked a blanket around Skye to keep her warm.
"What were you guys doing?" Coulson whispered to him.
"Movie marathon." Ward explained.
"Where are you planning on sleeping?"
Ward nodded to a space on the floor in front of the TV.
"There are beds available you know."
"I know, but I'm happy on the floor."