Skye opened the bag of Doritos and ate a few chips. She took another bite of the PB&J sandwich that Fitz had made for her. He'd brought up the bag of food and knocked on the door yelling for her to eat. After he'd gone, she'd opened the door and grabbed it. She was pretty hungry. It had been a while since she had eaten anything. He'd included PB&J sandwiches, a bag of Doritos, a couple pieces of cheese, pudding cups, along with some baby carrots, and two apples, a pear and a banana. He also had included a couple bottles of water and cans of soda.

It had been around three hours since she had woken up and had walked to the kitchen looking for May or Coulson. Instead, she'd overheard her teammates arguing about what to do with her. After they'd seen her standing there, and they knew she'd heard them, she left to gather a bag from her room and go stay on the bus in the containment unit. The only one who'd bothered to try to find her had been Fitz and she'd shut him down. She was a bundle of nerves and didn't trust herself to not accidently hurt him with her powers. She knew he meant well, and eventually wanted to thank him for sticking up for her, and for bringing her the food.

Skye heard a noise at the door. She yelled out. "Fitz I'm eating a sandwich. Thanks for the food. But I need to be alone, okay."

The door opened. Skye was about to yell at Fitz again when she saw it wasn't him. Melinda entered the room and closed the door behind her. She leaned back on the door and just gazed at Skye. Skye put the bag of Doritos in the large bag of food and dropped the bag on the floor next to the bunk. She grabbed a water and sat back on the bunk taking a long swig of the water. Since all the time training with May after she became her S.O., Skye had begun to be able to read May with her facial expressions and her body language. She was still a woman of few words but would talk when necessary and would always be honest with her. They had many comfortable silences during Tai Chi but this quiet was not in the least bit comfortable. The minutes dragged on and Skye started squirming and continued to take sips of water, not daring to look at her teacher.

Five more minutes in May broke the silence. "You don't trust me."

That threw off Skye, since she was expecting anger and chastisement. The simple statement from May had Skye stuttering. "What? No-no. That's – that's just - not – not true. I do trust – I trust you. It's me. I didn't..."

"When I started training you, I made you two promises Skye. One, that I would never lie to you. I told you I might keep information from you for your sake or to compartmentalize what you didn't need to know but that I wouldn't outright lie to you."

"I didn't lie May – I just..."

Melinda held her hand up for silence. "The other was that you could always trust me. Even if you didn't understand what I was doing, that it would always be to protect you and that my intentions would always be clear – that I was always on your side."

Skye looked at her sneakers and fidgeted. She waited. Obviously May didn't want to hear any excuses.

"Did I misunderstand you or didn't you also promise the same to me?"

It was the bunk she was sitting on that started shaking first. Then Melinda clearly felt the floor start to shake as she looked down and then quickly looked back to see Skye's shoulders shaking as she brought her knees up, wrapped her arms around them and buried her face. The shaking coincided with Skye's shaking body and for a few seconds what was happening froze her. It was Skye's sobs that has her taking several long steps to reach the bunk. She sat on the edge of it and put her hand on Skye's shoulder. "Hey, hey – stop Skye. Look at me. You need to stop. You need to control this."

Skye slapped her hand away, scrambling away from her, and looked up screaming, "Get out! I could hurt you. Get out!" Tears rolled down her face and her body shook even harder as did the bunk they were sitting on. The vibrations moved around the room shaking the small desk and chair as well. In her haste to get away from Melinda, Skye slipped off the bunk to the side and she crawled to the corner of the room, curling into a tight ball, still sobbing and shaking.

Melinda followed and knelt down next the Skye. She talked to her in a slow soft voice." Just take a breath Skye. Focus on that. Just one breath"

Skye shook her head. "Please just go. I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't. Look at me Skye. Take a long breath and let it out slowly. With me on one. Come on. "One, breathe in. Two hold it to three, and four let it out. And again. Just listen to my voice. One, two, three, four." Melinda kept repeating that until she saw Skye's body stop shaking. She reached over and touched Skye's arm and rubbed up and down, reassuring her she was there and not going anywhere.

Skye felt the shaking subside and feeling May touching her arms, comforting her, she looked up at her. Melinda was calm and had a passive look mixed with concern as their eyes met.

"How are you not terrified?"

Melinda smiled and patted Skye on the arm. "You're hardly terrifying Skye." Skye's incredulous look made Melinda laugh. "Okay, maybe a little terrifying. But look, the room isn't shaking anymore. You stopped it."

"Well I'm terrified. I could have hurt you. Why didn't you just go?"

Melinda raised her eyebrows at her and frowned.

"What? No, I mean it. You shouldn't put yourself in danger for me. I could really hurt you."

"You won't."

"I can't control it Melinda. I can't stop it. Promise me that you won't let it get that bad like it did."

"You mean when you shot yourself?"

"I knew it you carried an icer on base. I just didn't want you to get hurt. She would have hurt you getting to me."

"So you want me to shoot you?"

"If you have to. You have to promise that, okay?"

"You want to talk about terrified Skye? I was terrified when I saw you do that and slump over. For a few seconds I wasn't sure if I had an icer or a gun. I can't shoot you Skye. I won't shoot you. Icer or not. We'll find a better way."

"How? You have to see this my way. I can't make it stop. Every time I get upset or scared it just starts."

"You stopped it just now Skye. We'll find a way to help you control this. To channel it and keep it in. I'll help you."

"You guys aren't sending me away?"

Melinda sighed and gave Skye a frustrated look. "At some point Skye you need to fully trust us, trust me. No, we aren't sending you away. We are going to help you with this. You are an important part of this team."

"Yeah?"

"Honestly I don't know what we'd do without you."

Skye gave her a small grin. "You'd probably have less stress."

Melinda grinned back. "Probably, but how boring would that be? I'm going to text Phil to make you dinner. How's Mac and Cheese sound?"