Chapter 24

Skye sat in the front seat while Roy was the one to drive. Every so often Skye would look back at Hunter and Ward, and they seemed to be in some sort of starring and looking away war. Skye can't help but laugh internally whenever she turns around. The two had a weird rivalry that Skye picked up on.

The car ride was mostly awkward silence, but luckily with the invention of radios they could listen to music the whole way. Roy even had the fancy satellite radio with no commercials. Not that any of the good songs were less than a year old.

They arrived later that day at around 5o'clock. Skye noticed that Kimberly Mountain was really in the middle of nowhere though; they'd only past a few cabins. But Skye did notice they had a small resort, and Roy explained how they had staff working to keep a chair lift running during the day. But it shut down usually around 10.

When they arrived at the cabin, Skye was happy to finally leave the car and stretch her legs. It felt weird to be walking on snow, Skye wasn't used to seeing snow in L.A, and the other tropical places she'd lived throughout the U.S.

Skye shivers in her t-shirt, having left her jacket in her duffel bag. Skye feels a sweater being thrown at her. Skye looks up at Ward who's already gone into the trunk of the car to get both their bags. He's gone to the trouble of actually taking a jacket out of her bag as well. Though Skye in some way actually wished that it had been Ward who'd taken off his jacket and given it to her instead.

Skye watches as Triplett begins to unpack some bags from the back of Bobbi's car. "Need help?" Skye offers.

"Skye, with so many men around it's their job to help us." Bobbi interrupts. She grabs Skye's hand. "Now let me show you the cabin."

Skye follows Bobbi inside.

The cabin wasn't really a cabin, it was more of a chalet than a cabin. As Skye entered she was met with a mansion like condo, with more art pieces than any of Skye's foster parents owned. There was a giant fire place with couches around it, and a kitchen overlooking a mountain. "Woah." Skye says in astonishment.

"Woah indeed." Mack says dropping a few bags on the floor.

"Eh." Roy says. "It's okay, I own a nicer one. But still didn't know your family had this kind of cash Morse."

"Oh shut up rich boy." Bobbi says. "And it's not mine, it's Shield." Bobbi explains. "It's one of their safe houses." Bobbi crosses her arms. "Okay so Skye and I will take the upstairs bedroom, Ward and Trip you can take the one next to us, and Fitz and Mack can take one of the rooms downstairs. And Quin can take the spare room."

"What about me love?" Hunter asks in his accent.

"You can take the couch tag along."

Hunter frowns but shrugs. "Guess I don't mind, better than sleeping with rich boy or second best."

"Then you're fine with, take my beg up to my room." Bobbi asks, throwing her suit case at him. Hunter catches it by surprise and frowns.

"As you wish." He says irritably. Skye can see why the two of them broke up, and has a trouble time picturing them together.

Skye follows Bobbi upstairs. She brings Skye into a room with two queen size beds. Skye's in shock, she's never seen such a nice bed before. Their room looked over the slope, and they even had their own private bathroom. Hunter drops Bobbi's bag down on a bed, and Ward puts Skye's down. He smiles at her, Skye surprised he brought it voluntarily.

"Now I fancy a drink, anyone care to join me." Hunter says. Skye smiles, surprised that she's actually experiencing a trip with friends.

Skye had never even been on vacation before, did this count?

The eight of them all start a fire going, and heat up some frozen pizza they'd brought— since ordering was out of the question. When the pizzas are done all eight of them sat around the fire and ate.

The group talked for a while about random things and high school life, and before they knew it the teenagers had started a game of 'I Never'. Instead of using shots the group passed around a bottle of beer.

"Never have I ever cheated on a test." Triplett says. The group moans, and Mack reaches for the bottle.

"What high schools stressful." He admits.

"Pass it over." Roy says.

Skye thinks about getting involved and after a few seconds decides to give it a go. "Pass it on."

"Whoa, you don't look like the type to cheat." Triplett says in shock.

"Yeah well the rest of you try the public school system instead of the privileged Shield Academy." Skye says taking a sip of the bottle.

"Hunter." Bobbi says.

"What, I've never cheated before." He says in amusement. "On a test anyway."

Awkward silence proceeds.

"Wow, I think it's time to move on." Mack states. "Fitz."

Fitz's head shoots up. He doesn't even seem to be paying attention to the game. "Ah." He says in a bit of a panic. Skye felt bad for him, he must have missed Simmons terribly. She was supposed to be here right now.

"We're playing 'I never' got a good one." Skye asks.

Fitz puts his hand to his head. "Nope, you can move on."

"Oh come on Fitz." Trip encourages. "Got to be something you've never done."

Fitz twiddles his thumbs. "Never ever…." Fitz stops and scowls. "Has a girl returned my feelings." He says in dismay. The tension in the room rises, and things get a little more awkward. "I'm sorry but I don't really feel like playing this game anymore." Fitz gets up and walks away to his room.

Mack stands up. "I'll go talk to him." He ensures. "You guys keep playing." Mack walks off after Fitz.

"Well if you insist." Roy says with a smirk. "Never have I ever shop lifted." Roy says.

"That's because your Dad's paid for every need you've ever wanted." Bobbi laughs. She's still looking in the direction Mack and Fitz walked off to.

Skye frowns, not sure if this is one she pretend isn't true, or to actually take the bottle. Ward reaches for the bottle for the first time since the game started. "What seriously, Mr. Perfect has shoplifted?" Triplett says in shock.

"Not something I'm proud of, but sometimes you do what you got to do." Ward says with confidence. Skye seeing on how Ward had taken the bottle takes the bottle from his grasp.

"Skye to, what is the world coming to?" Trip says with defeat and sarcasm. "Okay Bobbi, have any revealing secrets you want to find out."

Bobbi takes one last look at the area where Fitz and Mack walked off to. Bobbi sighs, but then smirks looking directly at Hunter. "Never have I ever …mhmm" Her eyes land on Skye, and she smirks. "Never have I ever felt the urge to kiss … Skye."

Skye blushes.

Had she really just asked that? For a second the room stays quiet, but then Hunter reaches for the bottle. "You are awfully attractive." Hunter says with a smile taking a sip. Ward tenses in his seat.

Roy reaches for the bottle from Hunter's hand. "Have to agree with the Scottish guy."

"I'm British." Hunter protests as Roy takes his sip. Skye focus on Ward, from the very beginning that's where her focus was. But he doesn't reach for the bottle, and somehow Skye is left with a bit of an empty feeling in her stomach.

Bobbi seems to be glaring at Ward, but he still doesn't take the bottle. No matter how much Skye wished he did.

"Well it's getting late." Bobbi says. "I'm going to go back to bed, care to join Skye?"

Skye nods, still a bit hurt from the indirect rejection from Ward. "Yeah sure" she says. Walking off, Skye is still looking at Ward behind her.

He doesn't look her in the eye.

Ah well there at the cabin, and they played a game of 'I Never', which of course stirs up awkward tension. Wonder how Skye's feeling after the interaction with Ward. Next chapter ends on a cliff hanger XD and will involve a Fitz and Mack conversation, and a SkyeWard conversation.