A/N: Here we go! Third chapter up before I go to sleep because what better way to wake up than to wake up to favourites and comments? (One of us has to be confident that this fic is good and if its not going to be you guys then I guess it needs to be me!) But in all seriousness, any comments would be greatly appreciated and I understand that many of you may not have the time to do so or just plain don't want to but I would love to know if people are actually enjoying the changes that have been made so far!

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January 24th 2004

MARIA

Maria was currently occupying a large, king bed in Natasha's room as she slept through her recovery. After the first injection and dosage of Natasha's blood, she was on the fast track for recovery and after the first 24 hours her jaw was practically healed. It has been three days now and Maria drifts in and out of consciousness, automatically trying to hear the conversation around her, but it made no sense, it sounded like it was another language even though she knew it was English. It hurt her head too much to dwell on it and would try to go back into the blissful, painless sleep that she has been experience. Sometimes she woke up in the middle of the night, two bodies wrapped around her tightly, holding onto her as they slept and it did nothing to deter her from going back to sleep.

When she was awake, she was aware of the constant, dull ache of pain under her skin. As each day ended, a part of the ache would leave her. As each day ended, there was encouraging whispers in her ear to get better, to wake up, to show some sign of life other than her steady heartbeat.

On the fourth day, she finally woke up with a coherent thought in her head and the ability to understand what was going on around her.

Which meant she was well aware that there was five sets of eyes staring at her as she sat up in the bed. Blinking several times at them, she open and closed her mouth, just trying to think of something to say or just trying to come up with a reason as to why they were all watching her sleep.

"Uh?" Was all she ended up coming out with, she tilted her head in confusion. Everything felt confusing, things weren't making sense nor were her thoughts. It was frustrating. Nothing was going in order like she wanted to. She just woke up and now she was feeling this intense rage. Why?

She went to move but was stopped by one simple command.

"Don't move." Peggy said firmly and surprise took over Maria as her body froze of it's own accord.

Maria looked up fearfully at Peggy and the other four alphas. It was nothing like she ever experienced before. It was as if everything in her body was telling her to bow down, to listen to them, to submit to them. That they knew what was best and should follow their every order. Praise them. Worship them. Respect them. Fear them. It was a blur of emotions, each one making the situation a little clearer and making Maria more and more horrified.

"What did you do to me?!" Maria rasped out, her heart was racing and it felt like she couldn't breath. She already knew the answer, she just did not want to acknowledge it or even hear about it. She wanted to move, she wanted to run, she wanted to hide, she wanted to scream.

None of that was possible, all because Peggy told her not to move.

She was one of them.

Shit.

"I think you already know the answer dear." Peggy said softly, moving to seat on the edge of the bed, looking at her with concern.

Maria nodded slowly, a wave of calm washing over her preventing an outburst. She knew it was one of them and she knew that she couldn't fight it. After all, she had been studying the effects of the alpha command for the last few years. Although, their descriptions of what the alpha command felt like fell short. In fairness to them, they did tell her it was very hard to describe, it was like your entire body, you wants and needs were suddenly the wants and needs of your alpha and instead of being upset or angry, you were more than happy to go along, even if it meant going against something you believe in.

A part of her was happy to just go along with this, to go with the flow and follow the commands but another part of her realised that she wasn't an alpha but she outranked everyone in the room in the actual work place. It could cause conflicts, would they force her to make a different decision in regards to a mission, just because they don't agree with it? Or would she be allowed to make whatever decision she could in the work place? It still undermined her authority in S.H.I.E.L.D and no doubt Fury of her turning, does that mean he know thinks she is unacceptable to be deputy director? To be in charge of anything? Would she be still allowed to run Operation : Shadows?

It was all overwhelming, none of this was her fault, at least not directly, she covered her ass, she made sure everyone knew what they were getting into and yet people still decided to get revenge for something that they were explicitly told might happen.

Life sucks.

"Who would have thought, the deputy director pouts like a child." Tobias snickered, looking at the other alphas who mirrored his amusement.

Can she move yet? She really wants to punch Tobias.

Peggy regarded her carefully, looking for any signs that she might lash out or go into a sudden fit of rage, but the silent command that Natasha gave her to be calm seems to be working. Maria appeared calm, if not a little agitated by Tobias's comment. That was good, the next step was to tell Maria who her alpha was.

"You can move now, just try not to over do it. You were inches away from dying, after all." Peggy said, moving closer to the younger women to help her up with a soft smile.

Maria frowned at the remark, it wasn't her fault that she almost died. Plus she had a job to do, she couldn't exactly just lie in bed all day when she was clearly capable of moving. She opened her mouth to reply but was cut off by Natasha.

"Cut the crap Hill, we're inside your head now, I hope you know that. You're are going to be taking easy for the next week and no work. Even Fury agreed to it when he saw the state you were in." Natasha said, slinking down into the chair next to her bed.

'Well that sucks.' Maria thought, the frown permanently on her face. 'How come they get to be in her head but she can't be in theirs?' She was well aware that she was no doubt pouting and acting like a child but right now her emotions were all over the place and if Natasha could just reach a little bit over and touch her, then everything would be fine.

Oh shit.

Natasha was her alpha.

Well, that sorts out the problem of Natasha not having a beta.

Still leaves her in the shitty situation of yearning for Natasha to touch her.

Natasha smirked smugly as she moved closer to Maria, sitting on the bed and pressing against her side, causing her to sag and sigh with relief. 'Much better.' Maria thought, closing her eyes and resting her head on Natasha shoulders.

"This sucks." Maria said aloud, her eyes still closed in content. A lot of emotions were going through her head but she decided it was better to leave them for now and deal with them when she had some privacy in her own head.

"This is no walk in the park for me either, Hill. Think I want to be stuck with you as a beta?" Natasha teased, causing Maria to frown and roll her eyes before jabbing her elbow into the alpha's ribs.

"Jerk." She mumbled, not really having the motivation to be even slightly insulting towards the alpha. Great.

"How about you get some more sleep? Everything will be fine once you wake up." Natasha cooed, running her hand through the women's hair. Her protective and soft side coming out with the addition to her pack.

"Is that a suggestion or a command?" Maria mumbled, her eyes heavy.

"It can be a command if you don't go to sleep." Natasha threatened lightly.

Maria nodded, forcing her body to relax enough to fall asleep but still felt the need to rebel "I just woke up..."

"Sleep." Natasha said forcibly.

Maria let the command wash over her tired body as she easily fell into a deep sleep.

Despite Natasha saying that everything would be fine once she woke, Maria found everything not to be fine. In fact, it was going pretty terrible. Life as a wolf is not what she imagined, it involved become comfortable with being naked around other people very quickly and being vulnerable around them as well whilst maintaining an appropriate work relationship.

Maria often found herself flinching from Natasha's touch at work, especially when she had made the women do something she was not happy with, like making her go on a two week mission just a few weeks after Maria was given the all clear. Natasha protective, inner alpha protested at leaving Maria at such a vulnerable stage in their relationship, especially since Maria was still adjusting to life as a wolf. Natasha only going on the mission after both Peggy and Fury forced her to go.

Which led to another problem Maria was having. Maria was the one in control at work, but when it came to the wolves, Natasha, Victoria, Tobias and Jayden had more control and authority. It was causing problems in work with her telling them that they needed to do something, or do something a certain way; they would just smile at her and shake their heads as if she were a child playing a pretend game, or, they would roll their eyes and do it their own way. Maria honestly couldn't tell which one infuriated her more, only that it was stressing her out. How can Fury expect her to be a good commander if four of their high level agents refuse to listen to her and reject her command.

It really wasn't fair.

Maria felt like she had been saying that a lot, but it honestly wasn't. She never asked to become a wolf, yet she did because she almost died. She was extremely grateful that she lived but was not sure if the price of living was really worth it. Her whole life was turned upside down and everything she strived hard to achieve was just falling into pieces around her.

However, despite all of this, Natasha was really trying to make this all work. She would apologise after not following orders, often bringing coffee as a peace offering between the two. Natasha made sure that she ate three square meals a day after finding out that she often forgot to eat whilst doing work, she would get too caught up in it or would pull triple shifts to make sure a mission went according to plan, which that also started the 'Make Sure Maria Sleeps Enough' plan that involved all the alphas, including Peggy. Sometimes even going as far as to include the other betas.

It was lovely as it was frustrating. She was used to spending all of time alone, not having anyone really care about her wellbeing. May and Coulson used to before they got busy with work and rarely came around until they were all transferred to different S.H.I.E.L.D stations.

It was taking a bit to get used to again.

She was on her way back down to the wolf pack, eager to nestle in at Natasha's side and watch whatever movie was on tonight. She was only a few hours late, and they usually did a marathon so hopefully she hasn't missed much. Fury had kept her behind to talk more about the project, asking her views on it now that she was fully apart of it. Maria told him to ask her in a few months time. He accepted her answer with a short nod and then started talking about the next phase of their plan, the rest of the pack, omegas, if you will. They had a list of candidates that they each thought would be good and were matching them up to who they thought they would be good with. Fury asked her to tell the alphas that over the next couple of days they would all be in his office discussing which agent goes where. Fury had high hopes that he could start on the omegas next week – Maria just wanted more time to spend with Natasha. It was complicated enough without bringing anyone else into this. She'll be discussing this with Fury at some point, but not right now, right now she saw her alpha lying across the couch and she wasn't there with her. Maria had to fix that.

With a grin, the beta moved swiftly before launching herself on top of Natasha, nestling herself in between the women's leg, looking up at her with a smile full of teeth. Ignore the chuffs of laughter surrounding her.

"Hey." Maria said cheerfully, prompting herself up on her elbows.

"Aren't you in a good mood today?" Natasha replied, amused at the women's way of showing affection.

"Mhm, don't ruin it." Maria replied, climbing off Natasha and shoving her legs off the couch so that she could sit down comfortably. "Fury wants to talk with all of you over the next couple of days on your thoughts of going ahead and getting the next wolf up and running." Maria added, leaning against the arm of the couch as her eyes wandered over the wolves in the room.

"So quickly? You guys are barely hitting the three week mark." Tobias said, frowning. "We had a good year before we got you guys. What's changed?"

"He wants to see how quickly he can get us up and running and see how the decreased time of being in the pack before a new wolf comes will affect us." Maria replied, shrugging a little. She was not overly fond of Fury's plan, wishing that he would wait until the next wolf to do that, but she could understand the urgency, they couldn't wait a year between each wolf.

"He might mess it up and lose several of his best agents." Jayden warned, leaning forward, his teeth slightly barred, his Beta James tensed up beside him.

The action caused a rippling effect across the room and Maria found herself in a half crouch in front of Natasha, snarling at the other wolves, her mind and body telling her to protect her alpha.

"Everyone calm down, now." Peggy's voice carried, strong and firm in her command. The effect was instantaneous as she felt herself relax but not before quickly snapping her teeth at the other Beta's. 'Just a warning', she told herself, 'they do not need to come anywhere near Natasha'. Peggy glared at her from across the room and she back down, sitting down slowly in front of Natasha.

"Now that is sorted, thank you very much for that Tobias, read these files and chose the next person to join your pack. I'll speak to Nick about delaying it for a bit longer." Peggy said, dropping files onto the table in the middle.

Maria did not need to read them to know who would be a best fit for her pack. "Melinda May." Maria said, turning to look up at Natasha "You want Melinda May."

Natasha raised an eyebrow, and looked back at Peggy. It was a no brainer, if the deputy director was telling her to go for Melinda May, she was going for Melinda May. She had briefly heard about her from Barton and Coulson, but had never actually met the women. "Well Peg's, if Barton's not in that file, I'll have Melinda May." She drawled, trust Maria's judgement and did her best to not full on grin at the way Maria's face lit up when she went with her suggestion.

Peggy nodded and tossed Melinda May's file to her, "Okay, you've got May. The rest of you decided, and no, I don't want any of you complaining about Maria knowing the candidates. You had the chance to offer the girl into your own pack but you didn't, Natasha did. End of discussion." Peggy said with finality and moved to sit in her chair to watch over the pack.

Maria grinned at Natasha "May was my S.O, you're going to love her, I know it"

October 2nd 2014

SKYE

Skye woke up in a cold sweat, her hair sticking to her head, sweat dripping down her face, she clutched at the bed sheets desperately as she tried to remove the images from her mind. She tried to take deep breaths, only to find herself chocking on her own sobs. She pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her head on her knees, desperately trying to calm herself down. Panic continued to seize her body as the door quietly opened, a soft sigh was heard along with a quiet murmuring of "I'll go get May"

Skye flung her head back, opening her eyes wide as she once again tried to take deep breaths. This was ridiculous.

She could not even remember what she was dreaming about...not exactly anyways. All she knew was that in her dream, she was in trouble, a life or death situation and it seemed like it was leaning more towards the death outcome than the life outcome...and then there was the blurry faces. A blonde women, a couple of years older than her, desperately reaching out for her, screaming for her to wake up.

She wish she knew who it was and how they knew she was dreaming, or was it her unconsciousness? She wasn't too sure. The bed dipped down beside her and she felt a wet cloth being pressed to her forehead, along with a soft hand on her bare skin of her back. Her body hummed in joy, like this was exactly what she was looking for.

"Deep, even breaths, Skye" the women next to her mumbled, May, and began to move the cloth over her face. "With me" She instructed and began to take deep, even and calming breaths. Skye tried to mimic it exactly, taking a few extra seconds before she got the right rhythm.

"There we go, that's it...better?" May asked, after a while, her hand rubbing soothing circles on her bed. Skye turned to her tiredly and nodded, resting her head against May's shoulder, her eyes closing. May looked at the young adult in front of her, her clothes soaked from sweat, her face pale with a red tinge, looking vastly ill. She sighed and pulled her closer, adjusted their positions so that Skye's head was tucked in at the crook of her neck. She looked at Fitzsimmons.

"Thank you for alerting me, go back to sleep, no doubt Coulson will want to start doing missions tomorrow" May instructed the two young wolves, they nodded, quickly looking at Skye before darting to their beds for a good nights sleep.

May sighed once more, before settling herself in the bed and held Skye close to her. Just as FitzSimmons woke her up, she had received frantic texts from Bobbi, some of the texts were wondering who the new pack member was and others were to go wake her up as she was having a rather horrible nightmare. May doubted that Skye would remember her nightmare at all or even this night, she was completely out of it. Her young wolf whimpered in her sleep and May automatically reacted by running a hand through the girl's hair, reminding her of the endless night's spent with her mate, Natasha, holding one of their wolves whenever they had a nightmare. At the start, it had been Maria, still emotionally recovering from the attack that caused her to turn. May had only just joined the pack but did not hesitate to offer the young women comfort.

Bobbi had been the next one to suffer through nightmares and questioning her morality. She had recently discovered her hidden talent for interrogations and was soon renowned for it throughout S.H.I.E.L.D, some had claimed that she was better than Natasha. It came at a high cost until they were able to help her out. Bobbi and Maria had been the mains ones to suffer, Barton would sulk silently in his nest somewhere and Natasha would join him until the two of them felt better. Izzy had Victoria and Fitz didn't have much to fear in his dreams.

Maria started off by pushing both her and Natasha away, acting like the nightmares were nothing, until eventually one day she came into their running, tears streaming down her face, claiming she could not longer handle it. She would cry out and cling to Natasha desperately every night since that, only occasionally seeking comfort from Melinda. After a few weeks, the nightmares eventually disappeared and Maria was able to get a goods night rest.

With Bobbi, they had been wary, fully prepared to fight tooth and nail to get her to let them help her, but much to their surprise Bobbi willingly came to them for help after the first series of nightmares refused to stop. She never cried out in her sleep, only clutching to Melinda tightly. Bobbi preferred to be close to May when the nightmares happened, almost completely ignoring Natasha, which is now hilarious since the two of them are so close. Both Natasha and May joked that for their next nightmare filled pup would be clinging to Natasha as it seemed like they were taking turns but Natasha wasn't here and the only one to comfort the young wolf was May.

It was so Natasha's turn next time. Not that she did not mind helping their pack mates out, it was just that Melinda never really saw herself as the comforting type for adults. Although every time she looked at Fitz (and Simmons now, she guessed) and they way they acted she was only reminded painfully how young they were, and add Skye to the mix who was a few years younger than FitzSimmons, it was only more painfully obvious. It never seemed like they were adults, not compared to Natasha and herself. FitzSimmons and Skye were easily 20 years younger than the two of them, themselves only just hitting their 20's and every time she saw their teary eyes or quivering lips, her maternal instincts (which were ten times more instinctual thanks to the wolf serum) kicked in and she automatically went and comforted her little pups. That was also another drawback of the wolf serum in her mind. The constant, overly sweet nickname that she unconsciously refers to the younger wolves as, "pups", Natasha thought it was hilarious when Melinda first told her. Melinda found it hilarious when she made Nat sleep on the couch.

She held Skye tighter and repositioned herself into something more comfortable so that she could get some sleep tonight, tomorrow was going to be a long and complicated day, she could just feel it.

Skye woke up next to a warm body in a very comforting position, she curled closer to the body and sighed in content. She could practically feel the developing wolf inside her humming in content. Last night had been a nightmare, literally, not that she could remember it but she is very familiar with the feeling of tiredness that she currently has, which she never gets unless her sleep has been disrupted by a nightmare.

The only thing she could remember was a blonde women screaming at her to wake up. How confusing is that?

"Don't get too comfortable, you need to get up soon and get ready for your training session with Ward." Melinda said, looking amused at the young women who was clutching at her tightly with a small smile on her face.

"Do I have too?" Skye whined, very much sounding like a wolf, "I'm tiiiired" she dragged out, looking up at May with big puppy eyes, her brown eyes showing so much trust and hope that May would save her from whatever Ward had in mind for her this morning.

"Yes, I'm not having anyone in my pack be defenceless" May replied sternly

"Yeah okay I get that but why does it have to be Ward?" Skye whined again, tugging lightly on May's arm as she started to move off the bed. Skye did not want to let her go, she wanted the older women to stay in bed with her and hold her and watch disney movies with her until she felt better.

May sighed "because Coulson wants Ward to train you, he thinks it will help Ward become more used to working in a team and socialise him or something" she stood up, shaking off Skye's arm and turning round to look at the brunette.

"So basically I'm being used" Skye huffed, letting go of May's arm reluctantly, flinging herself back onto the bed. Her emotions have been all over the place yesterday and apparently today as well. Sometimes she outgoing and confident, her usual self, other times she is shy and wants nothing more than to be round her pack mates and then other times she just wants to lock herself away from everyone and cry.

This whole wolf thing was a pain in the ass, according to Skye. Stupid senses were increasing and she knew she was going to have intense mood swings which no doubt would FitzSimmons to avoid her and May seemed like the type of person to just roll their eyes at the behaviour. She wasn't even sure what Ward and Coulson were going to think, how would they handle what was essentially a hormonal teenager who would no doubt just yell at the simplest things or go off in a mood? Well, whatever lie they had to come up with, she was going to leave it to May to deal with.

"Basically, now come one, none of my pups are allowed to be slackers" May said, leaving the room and closing the door quietly.

"Pups?" Skye echoed, looking confused.

Skye stepped under the shower with a sigh, the warm water hitting her back soothingly as she rested her head against the cold ceramic wall. She used one hand to prop herself up against the wall as the other reached for a bottle of shampoo.

Training was so not what she imagined.

This was her fourth training session in two days and she was told to run laps around their very, very small training area, then push ups and some other warm ups before getting to the actual training. All of that took an hour and a half and the last half hour was spent learning how to make, what she thought was wrong, a fist and a stance that was far more suited for someone with Ward's built. Not hers. It seemed like Ward was stalling their training. She wondered if she should tell May this...she did say to come to her with any concerns but Skye did not want to be a bother. She'll leave it for now.

Turning the shower off and wrapping a robe around herself, she made her way to her room quickly, not wanting to encounter anyone whilst in minimal clothing. Dressing herself quickly, she stared at her wet hair in the mirror and rolled her eyes. She so could not be bothered. It wasn't even 9am and she has never been this active before in her life (okay, that was a slight lie, just not before 9am).

Coulson finally had a mission for them today and she was not allowed to wallow in self pity, like she wanted to do, now more than ever she was wondering why she just didn't choose jail...there was no imminent threat to her, after all she was a mere simple hacker to the others and there was no need to extensive exercise or to put her life in danger or the need to take the wolf serum. Which reminded her, she wanted to know how the wolf serum came about, it doesn't seem like something you just stumble upon whilst trying to find a cure for cancer or something. She wondered in Simmons knew, she'll have to ask, but for now she has to finish getting ready and present herself for debriefing of the mission.

That was a disaster. The mission was terrifying and her heart was still racing despite her calm exterior, she smiled at her team mates and joke along with them as they sat in a small S.H.I.E.L.D base waiting for the damage of the plane to be repaired, possibly having to stay in the base overnight, possibly stretching to two days according to Coulson. 'Fantastic' Skye had thought, ' A little rest period after that hell of a mission'

There weren't many agents at this shield base, maybe 20 other agents or so, it was a passing through base, Ward had said, somewhere where agents can relax for a day or two before continuing on with a mission or back to travelling. It certainly made for an interesting place, she had expected offices and training places left right and centre along with tons of weapons and tech, but in reality, it was very cosy looking, there was a few offices, weapons and such, but mainly it was rooms with soft looking beds that Skye could sink right into, fridges filled with delicious food and fully stocked bars littered all over the base. It was basically the opposite of what she thought Shield to be.

"Some agents view and/or do some pretty horrific things on their missions so bases like these provide them with an escape-" Simmons stated,with pity in her eyes

"Yeah and drink away their sorrows and demons with the amount of alcohol in here" Fitz interrupted, gesturing to one of the mini bars.

"Fitz! You're implying that every shield agent is basically an alcoholic"

"Well, at least once in every agents career they will do it, like out of anger or something and just try to kill their liver" Fitz argued back

"Or kill themselves" Skye mumbled, flicking through images of cats on her phone, sometimes when Fitz and Simmons argue she just automatically tunes them out or appears uninterested so that when they turn to her for her to pick a side she can just raise an eyebrow at them and they will leave her alone.

"Skye!" The two of them whispered in a horrific tone, looking outraged that she would dare even say that.

"What?" She asked, looking confused at the two of them "It's true."

"Just because it's true Skye, does not mean we speak of it. Unwritten rule number one, never speak of the amount of alcohol that agents consume" May said, sitting down with Coulson trailing behind them, casting May a weird, yet happy look as he carried bottles of beer. May took a sip of her own as she looked at her small team.

"Thought you guys deserved these after that mission" Coulson said, looking apologetic at them all as they took the drink off of him.

"We deserve something a little bit stronger" Skye mumbled, opening her bottle up and taking a swing.

"Tequila?" Fitz offered

"No tequila" May and Coulson said simultaneously, causing them to chuckle whilst Fitz pouted, muttering about how he could drink ten bottles the now and still be fine.

"So Skye, how are you finding Shield? I know your introductions to it hasn't been...the best, but it could have been worse" Coulson asks, Skye looks at him incredulously.

"How could it be worse?" She asks, stunned, does he not know that she was offered either jail (read as hell) or join them and be turned into a wolf...okay so he doesn't know about the wolf thing but still she was basically forced to join them.

"You could have been brought in after shield told an agent to kill you" May said, sipping her drink, looking uninterested as she fiddled with her phone.

"Who was introduced to shield like that and still joined?" Skye asked

"Agent Natasha Romanoff, or more commonly known now as the Black Widow" Simmons supplied casually.

Skye almost spat out her drink "Wait what? The Black Widow? You mean the one that helped save New York from invading aliens? She had a bounty on her head?"

Fitz and Simmons shared a look of mischief whilst May raised her eyebrows in slight surprise. Ward groaned

"Please don't tell me your a fangirl, please tell me we have not picked up a fangirl." Ward bemoaned

Skye blushed a little "I'm not a fangirl, it's just that the Black Widow is totally hot and awesome, like did you see they way she kicked those aliens asses and she doesn't have a fancy super suit like Iron Man or that indestructible shield that Captain America has. Oh and Hawkeye is totally cool like his ability to shoot arrows correctly at a target without even looking, like that the heck is that all about, ohmygod I am fangirling." Skye rambled, covering her face in embarrassment at the end.

Fitz and Simmons burst out laughing and Ward shook his face, clearly annoyed that his new trainee was a total fangirl.

"It's not that funny" Skye protest, pouting

"Trust me, one day, you'll realise why we are laughing so much" Fitz said, his face slightly red from laughing, a small grin settling on his face as Simmons gives her a small wink.

"I think Skye has a crush on Agent Romanoff, wouldn't they make a great couple, Agent May?" Simmons asked, grinning, clearly knowing something that only Fitz and May were privy to.

May raised an eyebrow at Simmons, a shimmer of anger and possessiveness in her eyes as she forced out "of course"

Simmons tried not to flinch at the look in May's eyes, she was going to regret the jibe later.

Skye groaned and tried to hide herself from the teasing by curling up into a ball, which resulted in her stomach protesting at the weird position she was putting herself in. Her stomach had been acting up weirdly all day, she had made May aware of it at the start of the day and she nodded, simply rubbing Skye's shoulders and told her it was part of the serum and that if it got any worse, she was to let her know. Well, it just got worse in front of everyone so she assumes May knows know.

She lurched back into a normal position, whatever she just done seems to have set whatever was wrong with her off. It felt like something was wanting to burst free from within herself. A strange voice echoed around her, telling her to let the feeling take over, but three panic filled voices were telling her to hold on, keep in control and whatever she does, do not give into the feeling. Bile rose in her throat as she forced the feeling back and pain filled her body.

"I think I'm going to be sick" Skye struggled to her feet and lurched towards where she thought the bathroom was. Simmons jumped up and began pulling Skye towards the closest bathroom, which thankfully was one of their bunks, hopefully Skye could last till they got her to her own bunk. She ignored the looks of concern from passing agents and ushered Skye into her temporary bunk and into the bathroom. 'Just in time' she thought, as she watched Skye throw up into the toilet. She rubbed her fellow agents back soothingly, pulling her hair gently behind her back, pulling it out of her face.

"Fitz get me a cold cloth" She instructed, not even turning to see if he was even there. She knew he was. She felt the air move slightly at Fitz departure and the presence of others take his spot.

Looking up she saw the rest of the time "She will be fine" she assured them "probably just ate something that didn't agree with her stomach"

Seeing their doubtful looks, she reassured them "honestly, she will be fine. Who is the doctor here?" she asked teasingly, and made shooing motions with her hands. As much as she would have liked to just leave May to it and stay here with Skye (and no doubt so would Skye), she couldn't in case it raised suspicion with Coulson, or more so rather.

They, herself, Fitz and May, all agreed not to tell Skye the real reason that Ward was her S.O instead of May, who was clearly more qualified to teach a slightly rebellious young adult. Coulson was using Ward to spy on Skye and find out more information on the condition that Skye agreed to upon joining shield. Coulson had approached both herself and Fitz about keeping a look out for Skye, he was subtle about it and was gauging their reactions in his decision to ask whether or not they would blatantly spy on Skye and report back to him. He only asked Simmons to look out for Skye and go to him with any concerns that she may have whereas Fitz agreed to spy on her. Both of them automatically reported back to May who thanked them but said she already knew. May always knew everything before they did, it always stumped them.

"Alright Simmons, we'll leave you to it, if she gets worse, let me know, okay?" Coulson says, concerned.

"Of course, sir" She replied, grabbing the cloth of off Fitz as he returned. She pressed it around Skye's neck, whispering soothing words in her ears as she continued to be sick.

"This is horrible" she groaned, resting her head on her arms.

"I know" Simmons mumbled sympathetically, glancing in annoyance at the others due to the fact that they haven't left yet.

"Right, well, we'll be off" Coulson finished awkwardly, leaving with Ward.

May gave Simmons a stern, yet concerned, look. Simmons nodded, clearly getting the message. Happy that Simmons understood, May left happy to put her faith in Simmons that she can take care of Skye and that if it got to much, Simmons would get help.

Simmons sighed and placed a soft kiss at the back of Skye's head. "It's okay, you're going to be fine. We've all been through this at one point. The damn serum makes us ill, it's either going to get worse tonight or another tonight, but after that one really bad night it will be easy sailing form there, I promise. Well minus the nightmares but we think that's a trick our link it doing to help build trust between the pack's alpha and mate and those pack members who have had a hard life and find it hard to trust people or work with them, or at least that is what it is starting to seem like. From your pack, from what Fitz and Clint have told me, Maria, that the beta of your pack, and Bobbi totally clung to May and Natasha during their first year of joining the pack. Fitz joined your pack two years after they did which and I was assigned to another pack, but more about that later. Now that you've joined you're technically the youngest of the pack, as a whole. Just thought you should know, everyone will totally be protective of you, no doubt. Oh god Skye, you're getting worse. I can literally feel your temperature in the air" Simmons rambled, looking concerned. She placed her hand on Skye's forehead and flinched at the heat. She moved the cloth to Skye's face in an attempt to cool her down.

Skye whimpered and leaned back against Simmons. She no longer felt like she was going to vomit, but instead her muscles felt sore and it was freezing.

"Simmons" She whimpered, cuddling closer to the older girl "it's freezing"

"Skye, you have a temperature, we're just going to put you in your bed and let you rest for the night and hopefully you'll sleep through the worst of it" Simmons said in a soothing voice, pulling Skye to her feet and leading her back into her room.

"Pj's" Skye mumbled, reaching for her bag.

"Of course Skye" Simmons mumbled, and proceeded to help Skye get ready for bed.

Simmons lay in bed with Skye, who was now sound asleep, running a hand through the girls hair as she clung tightly to her. She was absently watching TV, too cautious to fall asleep. She didn't want to sleep and then have Skye be in more pain than she is, or worse, and she's sleeping through it, not that she is a light sleeper but she hasn't sleep in over 40 hours, due to one thing or another and if she were to fall asleep now, she wouldn't even wake up for an earthquake. Sighing, she moved closer to Skye. It was harder for her to provide the comfort that Skye was looking for, Simmons had sent a message to May saying that Skye's illness was under control and it did not look like she would change anytime soon, so it was safe for her to come watch Skye. May said that she would be there shortly, two hours ago.

"Simmons" Simmons jumped up, careful not to disturb Skye and turned to face May, who had finally arrived without her knowing, she must have been really deep within her thoughts.

"Oh Agent May! You startled me!" Simmons smiled, looking happily at May

"How is she doing?" May asked, straight to the point.

"Better than when I texted you earlier. I think she is going through the worst of it in her sleep, she was pretty out of it before she fell asleep." Simmons replied.

May nodded and slowly moved over to where the two wolves were lying. She sat on the edge of the bed as she watched as Simmons awkwardly climbed away from Skye, allowing for May to rest with the girl.

"How are you doing Simmons? Victoria was asking" May asked in a slightly more caring voice, falling into her new natural role, she had orders after all to look after the young wolf.

Simmons smiled tiredly at May, thankful that the women was here to check up on her and Fitz, she was not sure how the two of them would handle being out in the field themselves without another wolf with them, especially when they had to keep up the personas that they did. It was tiring and they've never really had to use the spy skills that they were taught, only the combat for some missions that they did, and well, being a giant wolf was about as inconspicuous as it got. No one would be expecting it.

"I'm alright May" She replied, forcing a smile on her face. She was knackered.

May leaned forward and pressed a kiss against Simmons forehead, pulling Simmons into a small hug. Whilst they may not be of the same pack, the two packs were very close and she might as well try and provide some comfort to the women when she could.

"Wish I was Tori?" May joked, knowing exactly who Simmons would want right now. Simmons blushed and attempted to hide her face.

"It's fine, kid." she whispered, resting her head against Simmons "I wish I could let you know that Tori's on her way here, but we don't know. Maria is coming up with some formal excuse for her to come check on you along with Natasha.

"Really?" Simmons asked,not lifting her head from May's neck.

"Mhm."

"How long till they get here?" She asked hopefully, pulling away from May.

"If everything goes to plan, in about three hours." May replied.

Simmons grinned "That's fantastic to hear" she said happily.

"Go to your bunk and get a nap, I'll wake you up when they arrive, okay?" May ordered.

"Yes Agent May." Simmons said, flinging Skye one last look as she left the room.

May sighed and moved closer to Skye, pulling the young women closer to her side, burying her nose in her hair. Letting the wolf instinct run wild. It was happy that they had a new pack member, but she needed to be formally claimed as theirs. She didn't smell like their pack, yet she did. The wolf in her ached to claim her, it would be so simple. Just shift and a little bite on the neck with some scenting and she would be all theirs, but she knew better than to do that. That was Natasha's job. Hopefully her mate can fix this problem when she arrives in a few hours.

May pulled out her phone, deciding to look at potential missions for the team. She was need to choose some long missions, to stop Coulson from looking further into the issue of Skye. It was becoming an annoyance that he just wouldn't drop the topic of the past few days.

Nat: Hey, how is the new pup? 3

May smiled down happily at her phone, the only good thing on it at the moment. She couldn't wait to see Natasha in a few hours.

May: Fine now, she's cuddled up me at the moment, so cute and innocent. She doesn't smell like us. You need to fix it.

Nat: Don't worry, that is the first thing on my mind. Gotta make her mine. ;) Have the nightmares been alright for the past few days? Bobbi was pretty freaked out over the first one. They will totally be mates, no one else in the pack saw the nightmares except her. They will make such a cute couple! 3

May: Don't mess with that Nat,or rush it. You could make things worse let them realise in their own time. Nightmares are down to a minimum, but most likely because she has been sleeping with me the past few nights.

Nat: Alright see you babe, I wont mess with my packs love life. For once. Also, Hand and Fury are coming with me. Skye wont be on your team until the transformation has happened.

May: Really? What's the excuse that they are going to come up with? Coulson's not going to like it.

Nat: I think Fury is going to pander to the whole 'my one good eye' and needing to make sure everyone on his team is verified and okay to be on the field because he doesn't want to lose him again.

May: I don't Fury would be pandering Nat, more like genuinely wanting to make sure Coulson doesn't get hurt again, he's probably being 100% serious about making sure Skye wont cause any stupid mistakes.

Nat: Probably, also this would have been much easier in a phone call, but it means that Maria and I can watch out for her and make sure everything goes okay. Well whatever, I'll see you in 2 hours, 27 minutes and 14 seconds. Love you! :)

May: True, but might have woken the sleeping pup. You're a dork, I hope you know that. Love you.

Nat: ;)))))))))))))) 3

May: Nat. Really?

Nat: :*

May: …. 3

May: … :*

Nat: :D

May sighed and put down her phone with a stupid smile on her face, there was a reason she loved this women, well beside the soul mate thing. It would be nice to see her again, she missed her like crazy and couldn't wait to hold her. It was also good that Skye was going to get the same experience that all the other pack members got when they went through the transformation.

"May"

She was drawn from her thoughts and looked down at the young wolf, Skye was looking at her with tired eyes. "You look so nice when you're happy" she mumbled, pushing her body half onto May's, dragging her legs across May's waist.

May chuckled lightly, wrapping an arm firmly around Skye, holding her in place and leaned back against the pillows, closing her eyes for a small rest. In 2 hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds, her mate would arrive.

She couldn't wait.