The next morning, on the 11th of September, the day Fitz-Simmons returned, Skye woke up thinking about the night before. Her date with Trip had been rather unsuccessful in many ways, for example Ward had taken little to zero notice of her and as a romantic date, not great, but after a small pep talk by Trip they started chatting normally and had a really nice evening. In fact they were talking so late that they only ended the night when they got kicked out the restaurant. On the drive home Trip had made Skye promise that she would take her chance and ask Ward out the following morning.
Still feeling very tired she looked round at the clock. Seeing the time she sat up quickly, Ward was going to leave in half an hour, she had better get down there quick so she got dressed and rushed down to Ward's apartment. Breathing a steadying breath, she knocked three times hard on Ward's door. A few seconds later he answered, dressed for the gym.
"Hey," Skye asked, panicking as she realised she had not prepared a way to do this.
"Hey?" Ward asked, clearly wanting her to get on with it.
"I was just wondering if you were free Saturday night."
"Look, it's like I told Coulson, if I want to hang out I'll go to Coulson or Fitz-Simmons' apartment where everyone always is and-"
"That's not what I meant." Skye asked.
"Then what?"
"I thought you and I could eat out, somewhere else, somewhere nice…."
"Like a date?" Ward asked, still trying to understand.
"Exactly like that."
Something clicked inside Ward's head and suddenly, SKye's over the top performance in the coffee house made sense. He only wished he could say yes. "I can't, I'm sorry. I have to go to work." And then he pushed past Skye and headed for the stairs.
"At least tell me why." Skye shouted after him.
Ward stopped, turned around, mumbled, "I'm seeing someone," and before Skye could ask any questions, he was off.
Bobbi hurried down the stairs, late for work, having slept through her alarm. She had a large bag of books that she hadn't managed to mark which was really weighing her down.
She passed Coulson's floor and, spotting Skye, turned her head to smile at her but kept running. She missed the first step down and fell, dropping her bag and then tripping over that too.
Skye, watching, saw her disappear round the corner and heard a bang as Bobbi hit the wall. Skye shouted loud but froze in terror, petrified of looking round the corner but even more petrified about the fact that she wasn't.
Before Skye had really processed what had happened, Coulson's front door opened but it wasn't Coulson that exited the apartment, it was May.
May looked at Skye and then, understanding the situation instantly, walked quickly over to the stairs before disappearing round the corner. A few seconds later she yelled, "Skye!" And Skye reluctantly headed round the corner to where the stairs were.
Bobbi was lying against the wall but Skye couldn't see much of her as May was in the way. May, seemingly knowing exactly what need to happen, was adjusting an unconscious Bobbi as Skye stood still at the top of the flight of stairs. "Are you going to help?" May snapped. Skye didn't answer because, truthfully she didn't know, "Well at least call 911 and get an ambulance. I'm not a miracle worker I can't do everything on my own." Skye, very faded by what she was seeing, just nodded, turned around and pulled out her mobile and, as she dialled, made a new conclusion about May that maybe she wasn't that intimidating and that she really was a very loyal, kind person.
On the inside.
I was rather proud of the title of this episode because it refers to three things, the trip Fitz-Simmons take, Skye asking Trip out and when Bobbi trips at the end. Just thought it was intereesting. Get the next episode up ASAP.