Codename: Battleship

Spoilers: AU but can consider all Season One episodes. Read Battleship: SHIELD to understand or you WILL BE LOST.

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Skye woke to a hand lightly dusting against her back, she opened her eyes and shifted her head to see Ward looking down at her. She smiled and closed her eyes, inhaling the smell of his shirt as she snuggled deeper into his chest. It always was a mixture of SHIELD laundry detergent, his body wash and the cologne that she knew he'd deny owning if ever asked if he used any.

"We should get up and start tracking that 0-8-4."

"Already done, it's in the northern province of Chiang Rai in the middle of the Phu Chi Fa Forest Park." Skye rolled onto her back and stretched, aware of his gaze on her stomach as her shirt raised up. Opening her eyes, she put her hands behind her head and stared at the ceiling. "I ran a location algorithm last night through the SHIELD satellite using a tracer for any type of energy signature that isn't normally found in the region either naturally or manmade."

Ward chuckled and turned onto his side to look at her, "how could you know that if you ran it last night?"

"Because when I went to the bathroom around midnight it had finished and given me a location." She smirked and sat up, throwing the covers back as she stood. "You were dead to the world so I can't help it if I knew before you."

He watched her walk across the room and pull clothes from her bag, it made him smile at seeing her so carefree and happy. It reminded him of the small piece of jewelry he had packed away in his bag, one that he'd practically had to approve at all levels of the command chain, it was practically hilarious what he had to do.

A Week Before

Ward knocked on the door to the former Director of SHIELD's office, Nick Fury looked up at him and only seemed surprised at the sight of a lower agent even trying to meet with him outside of a schedule.

"What do you want?"

"Sorry to interrupt you sir but I have a bit of an issue I'm sure only you could help with." Ward looked between Fury and the door.

"Well come in and shut the damn door will you." Ward was inside and closed the door, standing at attention as if waiting for Fury to answer. "What kind of issue are we talking about because it's about Director Hill…"

Ward shrugged, "yes and no sir, I have a question for her and I'd like some back up if she can't come around to an idea." He sighed and dug through his pocket till a small box was produced. "I'm sure she's told you of Agent Zale…"

Fury leaned back in his chair, "yeah, our best asset as it is. You her SO?"

"Former sir, now I'm her partner and…" he opened the box and showed Fury the contents. "I'm going to have to climb the command chain because she's so important and I really need Hill to back me."

The former director chuckled and shook his head, "well let me ask you this Agent Ward," Ward looked at him with surprise, "yes I know who you are. If Agent Zale was to say yes and then some years down the road say no, what would you do?"

"I'd agree and let her go, she deserves to be happy no matter who she's with."

Fury pointed at him with a smile, "that tells me you're worthy of her. Alright, I'll give Director Hill a hint if she tells me an agent had the gall to ask her permission. Can't be as bad as trying to convince her to spend a year at the Central HUB, THAT made Chernobyl look like a small temper tantrum. The mouth on that woman, you'd think she'd been raised by animals and her throwing arm…I was lucky not to lose my good eye in that fight. Logged a glass pitcher at my head, told me I was insane and I'd be lucky not to get a divorce when it was all over with."

Ward refused to laugh, knowing a laugh could cause more issues than not doing so. "Thank you sir."

He found Hill on the Command Center deck looking at feeds, she said nothing as he walked up to stand beside her. She merely looked at him, "if you're here about what you told Agent Fury, just ask her and be done with asking permission."

Ward whipped his head to look at her, "how did you…"

"He told me over lunch, just be lucky you're not some lower level agent because I'd tell them they'd have to survive the Hulk first." She gave a small smile, "she deserves someone like you. Who will love her for who she is and not what she can do."

"Thank you ma'am." That was all he could say before leaving quickly.

Coulson turned out to be the most enthusiastic besides May, he found them going over plans for a mission and they merely stared at the box for what seemed like hours. They looked between him and the box several times before May spit out a threat.

"Hurt her and I will kill you."

"And after that, I'll drop you in a hole so deep not even SHIELD's satellite could pinpoint your rotting corpse." Coulson spoke after but then stood up and slapped him on the back. "Good luck and we wish you the best."

May smiled and took the box, "it's beautiful, I'm sure she'll love it."

"I was debating on whether to buy her a new hard drive instead." He said with a chuckle, "I'm sure she would have loved that more."

Ward looked at Skye as she dressed in a white tank top and blue jean shorts with sandals. She put hair up for the first time since they'd been at the HYDRA compound. She turned to see him still in bed and shook her head.

"I thought you wanted to go find this 0-8-4?"

He got out of bed and caught the clothes he threw at her, "I have an 0-8-4 in my sights already."

Skye shook her head and laughed as she put her normal bangles and bracelets on her hand. She slid on the one that Coulson had given her as a birthday present and touched the engraved flowers gently so they didn't set off the morse code.

"I think one of your rings got lost in my bag." She turned to collect her ring only to find him on one knee with a ring between his fingers. Skye's mouth dropped open in shock. "I know it's only been a few months but when I look at my life, I can't imagine you not being there beside me. So, Agent Skye Zale, Princess of Asgard will you marry me?"

She nodded and covered her mouth with one hand as he slid the ring on her other ring finger not occupied by their mission rings. "It's beautiful." She admired the gold ring with a single diamond flanked by two sapphires before hugging him when he stood up, "I love you."

"I love you too." He took her hand and looked at the ring. "Is it better than a new hard drive, I was stuck between which one to get?"

Skye laughed and pulled him down for a kiss, "it's perfect, much better than a new hard drive." She smiled at him and shook her head, "AC knew didn't he?"

"I went all the way up the chain of command, all the way to Fury. I needed him to get Hill to agree if she was in one of her moods. May threatened to kill me and Coulson offered to throw my rotting corpse in a hole so deep the SHIELD satellite couldn't find me."

"Aww…Agent Grant Ward now knows how much of a favorite I am." She wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned in for a kiss. "We're going to be like Natasha and Clint, happy together on and off the job. We're going to be strong and fight for each other no matter what people throw at us."

"Yes we will," he pulled away and grabbed his clothes to change as she leaned against the wall watching him. "First we need to find that 0-8-4, however we need to blend in with tourists so do you have any requests for our honeymoon?"

She laughed and her brown eyes shown at him, "you mean the one before our marriage?"

"Absolutely, I figure that we'll be those agents that get married during a mission or between missions." Ward pulled off his shirt and grabbed the one he gave her, "didn't you ever hear about Budapest? Famous stunt by Romanoff and Barton, they were stuck protecting a group of nuns and priests," Ward waved off her look of confusion, "that mission made sense to only Fury who knew the specifics. Anyways, they're in the middle of this huge fire fight, guns blazing situation and they practically demand the priest nearest to them perform a marriage ceremony."

Skye's mouth fell open, "did he?"

"Oh yeah, right there in the middle of guns and arrows flying he married them. They returned back and despite four broken ribs, Romanoff said it was the mission of SHIELD's history. Of course when Fury asked why, they got his glare of doom." With that Skye busted out laughing and he could only smile at the beautiful angel that agreed to marry him.

A/N: Skyeward fans I give you permission to melt...

Next they head out on their trip to find the 0-8-4 but receive intel on the way that makes it a whole different ballgame plus we see them acting like tourists much to Ward's dismay.

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