Over the course of the next few weeks Skye had gone down to the basement to meet up with Agent Ward. He taught her things, like more self-defense and how to hold up under constant questions. It was really working out especially when the team asked her why she looked like she hadn't slept in days. She just said that she hasn't been using enough make-up. That excuse seemed to work.

An hour before Skye was supposed to go visit Ward, the team came down to the tech lab.

"Hello Skye." Simmons stated.

"Hey Simmons. What's up?"

"Oh the team and I were bored so we figured we were going to come down and visit you! We brought snacks."

Skye looked at the clock. She had an hour before she had to go down to the basement, but she couldn't give away the fact that she snuck down there every night, "Oh. Okay sure. Whatcha got?" Skye asked, looking for the snacks. Trip dropped a box on the table next to her and handed her a water bottle. She looked through the box and decided on pretzels.

"Did you finish your reports for last night's mission?" Coulson asked.

"Oh, Yeah!" Skye looked around her desk for the files, " Here you go." She said handing them to him.

"Listen that was a tough mission. HYDRA is really stepping up their game." Trip stated.

"Yeah it's rough out there. They have highly trained people along with inhumans. It's just great." Hunter said.

Trip scoffed at his sarcasm.

"I wonder what that's like?" Hunter said.

"Shut up Hunter." Trip stated stepping up to Hunter.

"Hey! No fighting in the tech lab. If you guys want to go at each other then take it to the training rooms." Skye exclaimed.

Trip and Hunter stared at each a little more before backing down. They each went to separate sides of the lounge area. In the tech lab there was a lounge area, there were couches and chairs and a coffee table. The team comes down there after a long mission, just to hang out and recuperate.

Skye stared at the clock wishing that it would move slower. She was supposed to be downstairs soon. If she didn't get down there Ward would have her head on a stick. Maybe he'd understand though. She was trapped upstairs afterall.

"What do you think Skye?" She heard Simmons ask her.

"Oh. Huh?" Skye asked.

"We were talking about getting a smoothie bar down here. " Simmons stated.

"Oh! That would be great." Skye tried stop save herself.

"You okay girl?" Trip asked, touching her shoulder. She winced.

Two days ago Ward was teaching her how to do a sideways kick. It's hard when he isn't out of his cell, so when she tried to mimic what he was doing she fell on her side and hit her shoulder.

"Yeah, I'm fine. That mission just took a lot out of me." She made up an excuse.

"Is your shoulder okay?" Simmons asked getting up.

Skye got up, "I'm fine."

"Simmons stopped for a minute, "You winced when Trip put his hand on your shoulder.

"Oh. I didn't realize. I'm fine really."

Simmons started moving towards her again. Simmons flashed a look at Mac.

Mac grabbed Skye from behind and moved over her sleeve. HE saw the big bruise on her shoulder.

"It was from the mission last night, geez guys. Everyone gets hurt on a mission."
"Skye," Coulson stated, "You were running back end. You weren't in combat."

"Yeah, I fell in the van." Skye again, made up an excuse. A terrible one at that. I think her and Ward needed to work on questioning more.

The team just stared at her, "Guys, seriously I am fine."

"Fine." Simmons stated, dropping onto the couch.

"Alright. I have some work to do. I am still trying to decrypt this hard drive that Mac retrieved last night. It's pretty tough."

"Oh then we will leave you to it then." Coulson stated.

"Thanks guys." She smiled.

Once everyone left she waited about five minutes, then put a hold on the camera footage so it wouldn't see her going downstairs at all. After she put the hold on, she moved downstairs.

She saw Ward pacing, "Uh, are you okay?"

"Hmm? Oh yeah." He stopped pacing.

"No you're not. What's wrong?" Skye insisted.

"I think that they are going to be moving me." He stated.

"No. They can't do that. Ward what did you do that was so bad?"

"Remember how we agreed to not know that?"

Skye nodded, "Yes."

Ward nodded, "Keep it that way."

Skye just stared at him.

Ward broke the silence by saying, "Are you ready?"

"No. I'm not up for training today. We had a hard mission and I'm pretty sure that I dislocated my shoulder when I fell the other night."

"You went on a mission last night? You didn't tell me that."

"I was just running backend. They didn't put me in the field."

"I thought you were a specialist?" Ward asked.

"I am, but I am a hacker first."

Ward nodded.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"No I'm not, but I will deal with it."

"Ward." Skye moved up to the wall and put her hand on it.

Ward just stared at her. It had only been a few weeks since they met, but Ward just couldn't stop staring at her.

"Look it's going to be okay. I have no idea what you did or why, but I know that it is going to be okay."

Skye heard the door open at the top of the stairs. Her eyes got wide. She hurriedly hit the button to make the wall go back to black and she hid in the shadows.

The person that came down the stairs was not who Skye had expected. It was Fitz.

He came in front of the wall and stared at it. Then he hit the button to see Ward standing right where Skye had left him, "Fitz?"

"You ruined me." Fitz stated.

"I know. I am sorry. And I hav-" Ward couldn't breathe. Fitz had dropped the oxygen levels in the room.

"I want you to feel what it feels like to have all the oxygen deprived from you."

Ward was starting to turn blue, "FITZ!" Coulson yelled running down the stairs. He grabbed the pad from Fitz's hands and turned up the oxygen levels, Ward dropped to the ground and started breathing deeply. Coulson made the wall go black again.

"Fitz what were you thinking?"

"You have no idea what it's like Coulson. To have everything taken from you. It's all because of him. And you keep him in our basement. Why don't you just let him be taken by the government. Let them deal with him!"

"We need him, Fitz. He is giving up all the information he knows about HYDRA."

Skye let out a gasp. She quickly put her hand over her mouth to silence herself. Fitz and Coulson didn't hear her.

"FItz just go upstairs I will deal with you later."

Fitz ran up the stairs. Once he was gone and Coulson heard the door slam shut, he turned the wall back.

Ward was still on the ground, but he seemed to be breathing normally now.

"You see what you've done?"

"Coulson I have no idea how many times I have told you I am sorry and that you can ask me anything. I have proved on more than one occasion that the information I gave you is right and true."

"Doesn't change the fact that you are half the reason that HYDRA took over SHIELD. You are a traitor Ward, and you always will be." Coulson turned the wall black and he walked up the stairs. Once he was gone, Skye hit the button on the wall. He was standing now. He just stared at her.

"Skye." He said.

She held up her hand, "Don't. Nothing you can say will change anything about this."

"I know." He stated.

"I will not be coming down anymore."

"Sk-" He was cut off by the wall turning black.