Little bit of Coulson and Skye as well.

Phil Coulson is sitting on his chair, resting his elbows on the table leaning forward, holding his forehead with both hands. He can feel a headache coming from reading all these files in front of him. He couldn't shake the feeling he was responsible for all those people who were injected with that same alien stuff he was injected with. They killed each other, because all they wanted was to find answers for those symbols.

He sighs and leans his head to his left hand and takes a pen with his free hand. That's when he remembers the earlier conversation with May. If he was honest it became more like interrogation than a-concerned-friend-trying-to-help conversation he had planned.

"Do I know this person you are trying to protect?"

"You do."

The almost silent whisper and slight emotion in her eyes told more than the actual words. Coulson closes his eyes as he exhales. That could have gone better if he hadn't pushed. She might have told him herself in time or when she was allowed to.

This agony of not talking to her is getting to him. She's the person he always listens to. She's his person. She listens and is there, when he needs- Suddenly he stands up, unreadable look on his face.

Skye knocks on the open door and looks at him with a funny expression on her face. "You okay?" she asks and he clears his throat. "Yeah. Yeah.." He says still deep in thought. Skye walks in. "I was in the cockpit, hanging out with May." She points into the corridor with her thumb.

"Uh-huh." Coulson says as he takes his jacket from the backrest of a chair. "I don't know if I should say this, but-" She stops talking and it gets his attention.

"But?" He asks as he pulls the jacket on. Skye's iPhone buzzes and she quickly glances at it.

"I don't think I should, I mean it's really not my place to talk about it." She says thoughtfully, thinking what May would do if she actually told the Director that she seemed exhausted.

"Skye."

She hears the threat in his voice. "She won't like it." Words come out before she completely thought them through. She winces. Now he knows.

"You are talking about May." He says out loud and May stops in her tracks few steps away from the doorway of his office. Her eyes rapidly searching, trying to think a way out of this situation. That babble Skye's gonna hear it the next time she sees her.

Skye nods to him and puts iPhone back to her pocket. "Don't tell me." Coulson scrubbed a hand down his face. He doesn't know what to do.

May's shocked by his reply and Skye doesn't find the words to say something back. "Anything else?" He looks slowly down to the floor and up to her eyes.

Skye tries to hold in what she's about to say to him. Telling him that he was outrageous, May is the only person who has truly supported him and now he didn't want to do the same for her. Unbelievable. Looking down she bites her lower lip and looks up to meet his eyes.

Skye raises her eyebrows as she finally decides to answer. "No."

"Okay." He turns back to his desk.

Phil Coulson is acting weird and being a douchebag in a same chapter. What?! Well. It's not what you think.