Summary:
Skye and Ward explore a little the island.
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Chapter:
A fresh breeze scented with the perfume of night flowers the top of the mountain where Skye and Ward were sleeping.
The night passed by silent and quiet.
They were so tired, and slept all night.
But in the morning, at 5.30 like always, hearing his internal clock alerting him, Ward woke up to find Skye hugged to him, her right cheek on his bare chest, right on his heart, with her hair all spread on him like a curtain and their legs entangled.
He recalled that she moved a lot in the night… that she had been restless… at least until she could embrace him.
In that moment her agitation was placated and she was pacified.
It seemed that his own heartbeat had a soothing effect on her…
Oh, having her so close was wonderful!
She was so soft and he could feel her body, all of it, relaxed on him, warm and smooth… her breath so calm and regular…
His fingers where itching from the desire to caress her hair, her arms, her back, and further down…
He was dying from the longing to explore every inch of her smooth warm bare skin with both his hands…
The memories of the night of their first encounter after Hive were rushing potently back in his mind, as so many other times before, during those long lonely months without her… the memories of all those breathtaking kisses in the patio… the memories of their hands entangled and then all over each other's bodies in the car, daring, bold, audacious… the memories of what happened and especially of what could have happened at his home…
Suddenly he couldn't withhold his thoughts, and his body reacted immediately, potently, making him extremely uneasy.
If she woke up in that moment, it would be awfully embarrassing… and actually she was giving signs of awakening, probably due to the acceleration of his heartbeat that she could hear so well, being pressed against it with her right hear.
He had absolutely to free himself before it was too late!
Again, what was the matter with him?
Was he embarrassed?
Was he ashamed?
Wasn't he a healthy, strong, and grown up man?
His reaction was perfectly normal, perfectly natural!
Yes, of course.
But he had always had some kind of modesty, of decency about sex, like when Coulson and him were on the Bus, in Italy, waiting for May, while the both of them were trying to make the holotable work: that time, talking about his relationship with May, he couldn't even pronounce the word "sex"!
So, at the end, he managed to disentangle himself without waking her up and to exit the sleeping bag to cool down his hot spirits.
He started his morning routine with the most tiring and exhausting exercises he knew, and was so concentrated not to notice that, after a while, shewas awake and observing him intently.
"I'm pleased to see that you took good care of your body, during this two years we didn't rub shoulders…" she said, her voice husky.
No surprise!
Seeing such a large flexing amount of harmonious muscles in motion would send in overdrive any woman!
"Oh, you are awake!
Good morning!" he smiled, aware of the lust in her gaze.
She continued:
"Do you really feel the need to work out after a day like yesterday?
And after you swam for miles dragging a fainted me along with you the day before yesterday?"
"Oh… hum… I needed to… cool down."
"Ok…
If you say so…" she said raising an eyebrow.
"What is the plan, for today?"
"First of all we will have breakfast!" he answered.
That made Skye's eyes glitter:
"I completely agree!" she smiled broadly.
"I would like scrambled eggs with bacon, pancakes with maple syrup, waffle with whipped cream… and COFFEE!" she enumerated on her fingers.
Ward smiled, but had to contradict her:
"Uhm… I'm afraid that the kitchen is left devoid of everything…
On the other hand, we have some fantastic coconuts, just picked up!"
Skye faked disappointment:
"Oh, what a pity!
This means that I'll have some fantastic just picked up coconuts…"
"Good choice!" Ward approved.
After breakfast they descended from the mountain and went in search of fresh water.
They needed to find a spring, or a stream of fresh water soon, before they ran out of their coconut reserve.
After a little bit of exploration they were lucky enough and found a little lake in a clearing among the tropical trees.
Skye put a hand in it and…
"Waaard!
This water is waaarm!"
"What?"
"Yes, this water is warm like in a bathtub! Oh, it's fantastic!"
And she started stripping, leaving on only her underwear.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm taking a bath, don't you see? And I strongly recommend you to do the same!"
And, immersing in the water:
"Oh, this is like a dream come true!
I can't recall the last time I had a bath!
Ward, come in here, immediately!
And that's an order!"
Skye was overexcited.
"If you put it in those terms… I can do nothing less than obey!" Ward answered, amused.
He too stripped down, leaving only his slips, and immersed in the water.
He had to agree with her:
"You were absolutely right! This is fantastic!"
But he had only the time to say that, because she was already spurting water on him, laughing and escaping immediately after to avoid the same treatment.
They spent a good hour of games and pranks in the water, during which they laughed hard like none of them did for an eternity, the both of them enjoying enormously the other's company.
Seeing her so happy, laughing and careless, was a balm for him: only a few months ago she was poisoned by remorse and drugs, only a few months ago she hated him ferociously, only a few months ago she put a barrel of a gun on her temple to end her life and he managed to save her by a hair!
And now?
Now she was laughing wholeheartedly at the top of her voice, she was smiling at him, she was playing with him, she took every excuse to touchhim…
Things were changing fast and this made his hope grow.
Seeing him so playful and so young made her wonder how he could have been in his early years, how could he had been when he was little, playing with his siblings, with his schoolmates… She was discovering a side of him she had tried to uncover for so long, on the Bus… his kid side. And now that it was emerging, finally, she discovered herself irresistibly attracted to him.
Moreover, he was intelligent; he toyed with words, made pranks, invented new ways to surprise her…
She was really enjoying this time with him and… she was feeling in herself a strange warmth every time she looked at him, every time he looked at her, that made her tremble, that made her desire to touch him… and of being touched by him…
But then Ward had to become once more the steel version of himself and emerged from the lake…
Seeing his intentions, she started immediately to protest, but then the sight of him emerging from the water, with all that flushing of silvery water running down his muscular body, his wet hair spiking in every direction and his skin shining with millions of droplets… well… all of that altogether simply choked in the bud of all her complaints.
It was really a spectacular sight!
And she missed it… a lot.
She followed him, wringing her hair with her hands, walking on the shore that was covered in grass. The sensation of the grass under her feet was both ticklish and soft…
Ward reached for the backpack and grabbed some condoms.
"Now it is the time to use these."
Skye remained petrified and stone facedly stared at him.
Ward noticed that and burst in a long fat laugh!
"We are not using them in the… conventional way!" he said looking at her, and added, with a low voice:
"Even if I wouldn't complain with that…" and he took a look at her that made her feel completely naked.
But then he averted his eyes and continued:
"They are extremely resilient and elastic and they can be used as excellent containers for water.
It will only be a little difficult to add the water purifiers…"
So he went to the lake and started filling them with water.
She reached him and helped, commenting:
"This is the weirdest thing I've ever done: unwrapping and unrolling condoms with a hot guy instead than on him."
"So you think I'm hot?"
At that she blushed and looked fiercely at him.
"I think you are a filthy bastard, ok?" she yelled.
And with that she went away, fuming and cursing her own big mouth, his laughs making her even more furious.
After a while the backpack was full of several condoms altogether containing gallons of fresh purified water.
Now they could finally return to the shore: there they would be near the sea and probably they would be able to catch some fish.
When they arrived there they put all the condoms in a hole in the rocks full of fresh ocean water, to make them cool down. Warm water was good for a bath, but not for drinking!
She, in the meantime, managed to cool down some steam, too.
"Ward, aren't you tired of eating only coconuts?
How about if we organize ourselves to catch some fish?"
"I totally agree with you.
Do you think a little shockwave can help us?"
"I can try."
So she took away her trousers, approached the ocean, went on till she was half covered in limpid salty water, immersed one hand in it and pushed.
After a while about twenty rather big fishes appeared on the surface of the ocean, dead.
She did a victory dance.
At that point it was just a matter of collecting them.
Skye screamed towards Ward:
"Ward, come and help me!"
He arrived shortly after and said:
"You're great!" and together they began to collect all the fishes.
Once brought every one of them on the beach, Ward told Skye to find large leaves on which they could clean the fishes without soiling them with the sand.
As she left to procure them, he had the time to light the fire (with his bare hands, but she didn't need to know that).
Then, when Skye returned with several big leaves, he began to clean up all the fish with the knife, with an uncommon dexterity.
Skye asked him:
"By chance, in one of your missions, you worked in a seafood restaurant?"
"No. But, when I was in the woods, it just happened that one of the sources of livelihood was the fish that was in the lake near there. So I had to endeavor alone in learning how to clean it."
Skye looked impressed:
"You are resourceful!"
He raised one eyebrow, mustered all his cockiness and confirmed:
"You can bet on that!"
She slapped him on his shoulder giggling.
Eating fish was a good change in the diet and they ate until they burst.
Then they had finally the chance to relax and admire the surroundings.
That place was of astonishing beauty!