What will the team do when they must depend on the person that ruined their family in order to put that family back together? Skye has been taken and the new recruits are MIA. Can Ward and The Team stop bickering long enough to bring home the person that means the most to them? Slow Skyeward burn. First AoS fic. Rated M for later chapters. I own nothing.

The first time Skye used the word it was sarcastic. "Yes, Mom."

"He wants to bang his head against the wall until it's a bloody mess because there are a million reasons why he shouldn't do it, but all he can seem to focus on are the reasons why he should. He could protect Skye- she hates him. He could apologize for everything- for nothing. He could be given orders again- and never trusted with them."

When they first meet, they are both a little battered. / / au in which Skye and Ward met as screwed up teens and joined SHIELD then HYDRA together.