Okay, first chapter! :) I do not in any way, shape or form own any of the Marvel characters, I am not awesome enough to be Stan Lee.

Chapter One

The excitement was bubbling up inside of Skye to the point where she wasn't really sure if she could contain it.

The Avengers were coming to the secret base where they'd been setting up SHIELD again. Her brain hadn't really been able to grasp the concept of what that would mean until now. I'm meeting the Avengers! Her thoughts where singing.

FitzSimmons were dancing about the lab, Fitz excited about meeting Tony Stark and Simmons about meeting Dr. Banner. And Skye was sure that May was secretly looking forward to meeting up with Romanoff and Barton, whom she'd met before and gotten along with like, to quote Coulson, "a house on fire...literally". Coulson was a huge fan of Captain America so it was pretty much obvious who he was most excited to see again.

However there was a rather large problem. He still hadn't told them he was alive. And so Skye wasn't sure if she was excited about meeting the Avengers or excited about seeing their reactions to Coulson being very much alive. Both were going top be seriously entertaining though.

Skye found herself gazing at FitzSimmons longingly. They were together now. Finally. It taken Fitz coming back from his brain-dead state for them to finally get together but there it was. He was too shy and she too blind to see his obvious infatuation. Skye felt herself wondering whether, had he not been Hydra, she and Ward would've gotten together. She felt a pang of jealousy surge through her, and then a wave of anger.

She'd trusted Ward, they'd thought he was their friend but he hadn't been. He'd been lying to their faces and sleeping with May to gain her trust. Then he'd betrayed them like it was the easiest thing in the world. He'd tossed FitzSimmons out of a plane and into the ocean in a container. He'd nearly gotten Fitz permanently brain-dead.

Simmons had rarely left his side the whole time. She would not be moved.

"I have to be here when he wakes up. He'd do the same for me. I'm not leaving, you can't make me."

She wasn't there the exact moment he woke up, but she was there mere seconds later. Hers was the first face his eyes really saw.

Skye was there though, clutching his arm with one hand because seeing him in his vegetative state had unnerved her in ways she hadn't been expecting. Clutching his arms and willing him to be okay, willing him to wake up. And then he was muttering,

"Jemma, Jemma..." Skye had yelled as loudly as she could and several doctors had came running, all pushed out of the way by the tiny English scientist who had suddenly experienced a surge of strength, despite the fact that she hadn't slept in days and was underweight from having not eaten since they got Fitz into hospital.

Any doctor who came to see Fitz was amazed.

"It's a miracle, by all rights he should still be in that brain-dead state or even dead. But no, he's recovering at an excellent pace and his brain activity shot up in minutes." One of them said, shaking his head in amazement as he walked away.

"Skye!" Simmons' squealing brought Skye out of her memories and back to the real world. Simmons was jumping up and down like a giddy school girl, the grin on her face said it all.

"They're here?"

"They're here!" Fitz confirmed, looking pretty giddy himself.

The Avengers stood about in the hallway looking slightly awkward.

"So... who do you think is running this shindig?" Tony asked looking for any sign of people other than the guy who'd let them in.

"That would be me." Coulson stepped awkwardly through a door in the hallway and everything fell to shit.

Steve had to hold Natasha and Tony back and Thor, who had heard of Coulson being alive from Sif, held Clint back.

"It is alright Friend Clint. This is no sorcery, Coulson is very much himself." Thor's booming voice could be heard three corridors over.

Skye rounded the corner first, checking to make sure that the coast was clear and no-one had pulled a gun on Coulson, since May wasn't around to do it. She nodded to FitzSimmons and they followed her up the hall to Coulson who looked in need of rescuing.

"In my defense it took me a while to figure out that I hadn't been in Tahiti for two months." At this the Avengers looked extremely confused but no less angry.

"Give me a chance to explain?" Coulson asked pleadingly. They nodded hesitantly and Steve lowered his arms from in front of Natasha and Tony.

"I'm still not forgiving you." Tony said, childishly poking his tongue out at Coulson in a manner that said he didn't really mean it.

"This is Leo Fitz, our engineer, Jemma Simmons, our scientist and Skye, our hacker. May's around here somewhere." Coulson introduced them to try and take the attention off of himself. It worked.

"May's here?" Natasha asked excitedly. She hadn't seen her old friend in quite some time.

"She's the bus driver." They grinned at the old joke, whilst the Avengers just looked bemused.

Tony and Fitz got into a lengthy conversation as they headed for the lab with Simmons and Bruce, Natasha and Clint went in search of May and Coulson disappeared under the (false) pretense of having some errand to run, leaving Skye with Captain America and Thor.

"I am Thor, Lady Skye." Thor's voice echoed down the hallway. Skye grinned.

"It's just Skye. Do you by any chance know what an 'indoor voice' is?"

"No L-...Skye... um...is it...is it painful?" He asked cautiously with fear in his eyes.

"Er, no. No pain involved. Remind me to teach you about it later." Skye could tell that she was going to have to try to reach Thor the way you would try to reach a small child.

"Steve Rogers." Skye nearly went into cardiac arrest as she shook Steve's hand.

"So, you guys want the tour?"

"Sure." Steve said with a grin that made her weak at the knees. She headed towards the most interesting places first, hoping to tire out Thor so that they could work on his 'indoor voice' with a slight success rate later.

"Have you found her?"

"We're close sir."

"So you haven't, in fact found her?"

"Um, no sir, but like I said we're-"

"You are no closer to finding her than you were a month ago!" He roared angrily. He was tired of waiting, no matter what that fool had everyone else thinking he knew the truth. He wasn't dead, yet. But if they had the girl, why, that idiot would come running to protect her. Just as he always did. He would never let his precious daughter get hurt. She was his greatest weakness, and she didn't even know him.

"Look harder. Find her, before anyone else does!" He glowered at the cowering human that leapt to his feet and rushed to the door.

Soon.

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