Chapter 5

Skye stood in the lab watching Ward carefully as she tried to crypt the files onto the backup. Ward was currently painting over the S.H.I.E.L.D logo on the SUV since it didn't technically exist anymore. He also kept looking back at her and smiling. Skye felt disgusted with herself that she even went with him. Ward was HYDRA. He was a part of a known enemy to S.H.I.E.L.D.

The hacker waited till Ward wasn't looking to try and find what she needed in one of Fitz' cabinets. She wanted to call the team and tell them she was okay but currently nothing could be found.

"You know if your looking for candy, Fitz keeps it in his bunk." Ward tells her sneaking up behind.

"Oh no, that wasn't what I was looking for."

"It's not?"

"Don't you think we should make contact with the team?" Skye asks changing the subject.

"They called a little bit ago."

"They did?" Skye acts surprised by Ward's answer.

"Yeah. Should told you. They are doing all right." He tells her.

Skye walks over to the computer with Ward following her. The hacker is a little scared but she knows she can tough it out. Just go with what you know, what Andrew showed you, she thinks. Skye turns around to see Ward standing close to her.

"You know we have to trust each other." Ward says as he looks like he's going to engulf her into a hug.

But instead he pulls out the gun Skye has hidden and spins in around in his fingers. Of course he thinks he needs to be cool about it.

"I just thought, you never know when your going to need it." She tells him.

"Everything is going to be fine, Skye."

This time he engulfs her in a hug and all the hacker must do is pretend to care and hug him back. Hopefully, she doesn't take it too far.

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Simmons stood over the body of Agent Koenig examining him. It took Trip and Parker a bit to get him down from the rafters and bring him to the kitchen to lay him on the counter.

Koenig was covered in a lot of blood and looked to be strangled before he was put up in the rafters. Simmons was trying to work but she kept being hovered over by Fitz who kept mumbling things every so often.

"Fitz, will you stop. I'm trying to work." Simmons told him off angrily.

Parker leaned off the table he was on. "Leo, let Jemma work. She can't do anything with you hovering."

"This doesn't make any sense. Ward can't be Hydra. He was our friend." Fitz yells.

"Simmons do you have the time of death yet?" Coulson finally asks.

Parker looks up at Simmons waiting her theory.

"Yes, sir." She says. "Agent Koenig has been for dead for at least ten hours. After Agent May left the base. He was killed by asphyxiation and a thin wire was used to strangle him in a hurry, which explains his partially sliced trachea. The killer came from behind and had to be at least six foot."

"Ward is the only one over six foot, correct?" Parker asks.

"Yes." Coulson answers. "That means Ward was the killer. And he has Skye and she knows it."

Skye, Parker thinks. That bastard has Skye.

Just after Coulson tells the team, Fitz picks up a tray and throws it to the ground.

"Fitz." "Leo." Simmons and Parker say at the same time.

He's upset and mad. The engineer really thought Ward was their friend. All the laughs they shared, even keeping Fitz safe on the mission they went on together. Simmons and Parker both held onto him, holding on to him for safety.

"Skye has a plan." Coulson says again. "And she is going to lead us to her. I just know it."

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Ward has been sitting in a booth for too long in his opinion. He watches as Skye clicks away at the keyboard on her laptop as she is decrypting the files. The specialist feels like it should of been done by now.

"How much longer?" He asks.

"About a half hour." She replies back.

"You said that a half hour ago."

"Ward, it's going to be a bit. It's not that simple."

"What am I supposed to do then?"

"Order something? Act like a boyfriend."

Skye feels disgusted saying that to him. She hasn't had to use the term in a long time. Really though not since seeing Miles, but that was a lie. She had him pretending to be her fake boyfriend at the time. The hacker had someone better then both of them.

"You would like that." Ward tells her with a huge grin on his face.

Play it cool. You're trying to trick him, remember.

"Yeah, of course." She replies with a smile on her face too.

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Parker and Simmons are sitting up against the wall waiting for Coulson's next orders. He sent Fitz to try and track the bus with Trip helping. There wasn't much for the biochemist and agent to do now.

Currently Simmons was resting her head against Parker's shoulder as he had an arm wrapped around her. It wasn't the first time they had both ended up like this. Their friendship with each other was much different then what they both shared with Fitz. Possibly because of everything that had happen between both of them at the academy.

"Jem, do you really think Ward is Hydra?" Parker finally asks.

"I'm not even sure anymore." She replies.

"I don't know either."

"You never can really expect it. I don't think it ever crossed mine or Fitz's mind when we got on the bus."

"It probably didn't cross anyone's mind."

Simmons pulls herself off of Parker's shoulder positioning herself to look right at him. She smiles at the sight of Andrew's deep blue eyes. The biochemist also notices he as a scar right under his left eye. It's small and barely noticeable at first sight. She really did miss him and she knew Fitz missed his former roommate too.

"I'm really happy you came back with us." She finally tells him.

"I am too."

Parker didn't know how it happened when he realized him and Jemma were both kissing. It felt like the last time it happened when they were at the academy. Both vulnerable by what was happening. He knew it shouldn't of started and he was in the wrong, but as soon as it was stopped they both heard Coulson yelling.

"Someone is trying to break in to the base!"

He and Trip had both ran towards them carrying guns with Fitz behind them. Simmons and Parker both got up off the ground before Fitz could see them and possibly prove his point once again.

"Here, take this." Fitz tells Parker handing him a weapon.

"What's this?"

"An ICER. You're smart enough to figure it out."

They all stood waiting for the potential enemy coming for them.

"How are they here?" Simmons asks Coulson.

"I'm not sure. Not many people know about Fury's secret bases."

They waited for the door to open all the way before getting ready to shoot whoever was behind it. The agents were prepared for the worst.

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