Chapter 16

Skye's POV

It had been over an hour since everyone had gone to get some much needed sleep with the exception of Simmons who, is refusing to leave Fitz. After visiting Fitz and having a few cry sessions Coulson gave everyone a job to do while he went up to his new office to do who knows what. Eventually once everyone was back with Fitz hours later and had completed their assigned jobs before Coulson came down to tell us to get some sleep.

Although I can't sleep, even though I have been up for over 48 hours. Rolling over I cocoon myself in the blankets, but as I start to fall asleep I begin to feel panicked and trapped in the dark. I begin to do the breathing exercise M taught me but, they don't help. Unraveling myself from the blankets I jump out of the bed and run out of the room slamming the door shut behind me, forgetting about everyone else near me that is trying to sleep. I begun to do the breathing exercises again and they seem to work better outside in the well light hall. Eventually my breathing returns to normal and I wipe away the tears that had been running down my face. Walking down the hall I don't even realize where I'm going until I'm stood outside M's door. I raise my hand to knock but quickly change my mind and start to back away.

"What's wrong?" M asks as she rips open the door and I jump not knowing how she knew I was there.

"Nothing I was just um..I ah didn't" I sigh shaking my head as I notice that I'm still crying. "Sorry" I begin to turn around but M is already in front of me.

"Trouble sleeping" She says grabbing my shoulders and brining me into a hug. I can only nod as I let out an embarrassingly loud sob. I bury my head into her shoulder embarrassed that I'm breaking down in front go her, again. "Come on" she says pulling away and dragging me in to her room. I stand in the middle of her room not knowing what to do and just stare at the floor embarrassed.

May's POV

I sigh mad at myself for not remembering that she would have trouble sleeping, especially after everything that happened this week. She had trouble sleeping when she moved from the Med Pod back to her Bunk, a new bunk in a new base would be even worse for her. Skye was now stood in the middle of the room staring at the floor and every few minutes she would realize a sob. "Do you want to talk about it?" I ask moving over to the bed and adjusting the covers waiting for her to decide if she wanted to talk.

"I had a panic attack" she whispers eyes not moving from the floor as she brings a hand up to wipe away some of the tears. "I'm 25 I should be able to sleep without having a panic attack" she mumbles as more tears replace the ones she had just wiped away.

"It's alright Skye" I say coming over to give her a tissue. "What were you thinking about?" I ask hoping that talking about it would help her.

"Fitz mostly, and what will happen to Simmons if Fitz isn't… if he" she stops getting her breathing back under control. "I was also thinking about Garrett and Ward. Which lead to me panicking about the whole not being able to wake up thing. Then I felt trapped in the dark.
I'm just so tired, I can't remember the last time I slept and I can't sleep, I really want to but I can't which makes me feel like an idiot because I'm 25 years old and can't sleep" She starts rambling, and her breathing gets shallow.

"Okay, just take deep breathes" I tell her. "Garrett and Ward are gone, and the doctors say that Fitz is going to wake up in the next few days" I tell her while giving her a hug. "It doesn't matter if you are 25. I'm 30 and I have trouble sleeping most nights" I say and she pulls away.

"You are not 30. If you were 30 you would have had me when you were 5" She smirks and I'm glad I was able to calm her enough to get a smirk out of her.

"Yes, I was very young" I say shaking my head dramatically which gets a breathless laugh. "Do you think you can sleep now?" I ask her and see her tense up a little. "I will shake you awake if I have to" I tell her demonstrating by giving her shoulders a shake and I can feel her relax.

"Okay, thank you" she says and looks like she is backing up to the door but I just drag her over to the bed. "Are you sure?" she asks in a small voice biting her lip I just give her a little push and tell her to get in.

Skye had just fallen asleep after I telling her about the time Coulson and I were in the academy. When I hear a knock on the door internally groaning get up to answer it. I opened to door at an awkward angle to stop who ever was there from seeing Skye. Which I'm glad I did because I don't think I would have been able to come up with a lie to why she was in there that Coulson would believe.

"I need to show you something" Coulson said and he looked panicked which is a word I never thought I would use to describe him.

Carving patterns on a wall was not on my list of possible side affects I think as I make my way back to my bunk from my talk with Coulson. Has Skye started doing that? I wonder, no she would have told. I get my phone ready to call Fury but, change my mind needing to get some sleep before having this conversation. Walking back into my room I silently laugh seeing that after all these years Skye still kicks the blankets off in her sleep, getting in to bed I pull the blankets up. A few minutes later I'm almost asleep even with all my worrying because I haven't slept in days, Skye rolls over and curls up next to me wrapping an arm around me tightly.

"I love you, Daisy" I say moving the hair out of her face, feeling myself calm down a little knowing that she is currently alright and safe.

"Love you, Mum" she mumbles out in her sleep moving her head on to my shoulder to use as a pillow.