May had set the plane on full speed to Denmark and they were there within a few hours. The object was reported to be somewhere in the Danish woods near Kolding. Coulson had told them that the best thing to do was to not draw too much attention to themselves. He'd decided that Ward was going to go along with FitzSimmons. The rest of them were going to stay at the plane.

"Ah" Jemma said cheerily when they were walking back to the plane. "This is really exciting, isn't it?"

She took a deep breath and breathed in the air. It smelled of wood and fir needle. It was fresh and a nice change to the cold air in the lab.

"No, I don't think so. At least not if Ward decides to wear this thing around his neck" Fitz said, sounding grumpy.

"As I said" Ward said with a sigh. "We didn't have a choice last time and besides, nothing happened."

"Yeah, but…" Fitz began but Ward put up his hand to silent him. "What is it?" Fitz asked nervously.

"I heard you" Ward said with a loud voice, peeking in between the trees to their left side. "I heard you, so there's no point in hiding."

Two men slowly appeared from behind the trees. They were big and bulky and wearing dark suits, not your ideal camper. They sent shivers down Jemma's spine. She could feel where this was going and she didn't like it. Mostly because there was nothing she could do in situations like these.

"Nothing will happen if you leave willingly" one of the men said. "No one will get hurt if you just leave the necklace to us."

"No, we don't want to leave it so I suggest you follow your own advice" Ward said to the men.

That was apparently the wrong thing to say because one of them took a gun from his belt and pointed it towards Ward. Ward took a step towards him. He ducked just as the man threw a punch at him. He manage to knock the gun out of the man's hand and it flew to where Jemma and Fitz stood, a few meters away, looking terrified.

"Run" Ward shouted at them when the other man launched himself and him and the ended up in a pile at the ground.

But Jemma and Fitz just stood there, unable to move. They saw how the two men overpowered Ward. Ward managed to kick one of them in the face so bad that he passed out while the other one was holding him. The other man took a firm grip around Ward's neck, trying to choke him. Ward turned red in his face and then slowly, a nasty shade of purple. Ward managed to kick himself free and gasped for air. But the man got up from the ground and got a hold of Wards arm. He had a firm grip and there was a loud, cracking noise and there was Ward screaming in pain as they'd never heard him scream before. Ward tried to get up but he was in so much pain that it took all his strength to get up on his knees. When the man turned to her and Fitz, she already had the gun in her hand, not sure of how it had ended up there. He had blood on his clothes, Ward's blood she realized. He took a few steps towards here before there was two loud bangs, as if from a fired gun. The man collapsed in front of them.

"Oh dear lord" Fitz mumbled in her ear before running towards Ward.

She'd shot him. She'd shot that man. Twice. When did I pick up the gun? She asked herself. But then she heard Fitz shout her name and she looked at his way. He was hosting Ward up from the ground. The left side of him was demolished and he screamed when Fitz pulled him up. His collarbone was off and sticking out. The sight made Jemma sick to her stomach but she took Fitz's bags and they slowly walked to the plane.

"Simmons, can you tell dr Mason that he has work to do?" Fitz said, a bit out of breath under Ward's weight.

Ward was gasping for air and was trying to breathe through the pain. Blood was still gushing out through the wound and was soaking both Ward's and Fitz's shirts. Jemma turned on the piece in her ear that would allow her to contact the plane.

"It's Simmons here, do you copy? There's been an…incident. Agent Ward requires serious medical help" she said.

"Agent Coulson here, what kind of injuries are we talking about? When should dr Mason expect you?" Coulson replied.

"Um, we're about five minutes from the plane" Jemma answered. "And uh, the collarbone is sticking out."

She heard Coulson gasp for air before replying with a "Copy that." She could hear him giving orders in the background with the line still open.

Dr Mason was standing at the platform ready with a gurney. Skye and Coulson were with him and Skye whimpered when she saw the bone sticking out of Ward. Even Coulson had to look away. Fitz helped Ward onto the gurney and dr Mason rolled him over to the trauma/exam room.

"Skye" Coulson said. "You should be in there with agent Ward."

Skye nodded and followed them. When she got into the room, dr Mason was busy checking Ward's pupil response.

"So, if I say that the pain is a 9, am I right then?" he asked.

"Yes" Ward managed to say.

"Hmm…" dr Mason said while moving on to check out the bone that was sticking out.

"Oh my God, that's disgusting" Skye said when she got a clearer view.

"There's only one thing to do" dr Mason said. "And that's to push back in again. It'll hurt a great deal while healing but there's nothing to do about it."

Skye got a lump in her throat, she couldn't imagine going around with that pain. She was that kind of person that cried while hitting her toe on the threshold while Ward was the kind of guy who could take ten punches to the face and still walk away somewhat okay. If this pain was so bad that Ward was almost crying…she didn't even want to begin to imagine how much it hurt.

"I'll prepare the anesthesia" dr Mason said and he went into the O.R.

Ward was getting paler by the second and Skye wondered why dr Mason hadn't given him anything for the pain. Ward slowly put his right hand on her arm.

"No anesthesia" he said.

"What? Are you sure?" Skye said.

"No anesthesia" he repeated just as Mason entered the room again.

She looked up at Mason to see if he'd heard. He hadn't apparently; he was busy putting on the navy blue scrub cap that matched the scrubs he'd changed into. Skye realized that Ward was going to need surgery.

"He says he doesn't want anesthesia" Skye said, looking at Mason.

Mason frowned.

"Well, he needs surgery. If I'm going to fix the exit wound where the bone is piercing out I'll have to sedate him" he said.

"No, no anesthesia. No surgery" Ward said.

"Okay, I'll push the bone in now and I'll come up with a different solution later. How does that sound?" Mason said.

"Yes" Ward gasped.

"Do you want morphine for the pain?" Mason asked.

Ward shook his head. Mason nodded and took another quick look at the bone. Skye hoped that he knew what he was doing but on the other hand, this was his specialty she told herself, of course he knows what he's doing.

"You might want to hold his hand" Mason said sincerely.

When Skye stretched out her hand, Ward took a firm grip around it. Mason turned around and grabbed a pair of gloves. He looked ridiculously hot in his scrubs and the cap and Skye felt embarrassed for thinking about it now, while Ward was lying there on the gurney. But he was really hot.

"Okay agent Ward, this is going to hurt very much, you know that, right?" Mason said. "I'm asking you one last time, are you sure you don't want anesthesia?"

"No" Ward said as firmly as he could.

"Okay, I'm going to push the bone back in. And I'm going to do it on three, okay?" Mason said.

He placed his right hand right on the bone, which made Ward scream out in pain. Mason started counting but pushed the bone in on one. Ward screamed so loud that Skye's ears were ringing. When it'd stopped, she realized that Ward had passed out.

"Skye, get agent Simmons here urgently" Mason said. "I need her as a scrub nurse and that's quick."

"Skye said it was urgently" Jemma said.

"Yes" Mason answered. "Ward refused anesthesia so I had to push in his bone while he was awake which made him pass out because of the pain and now I have to sedate him properly before he wakes up so I can fix the exit wound."

"Oh" Jemma answered. "But what do you need me for?"

"You're specialized in life science, right? You're going to be my scrub nurse" Mason said. "There are scrubs and a cap for you in the storage room to the left of Coulson's office. Hurry, he's lost a lot of blood."