"Hey"

"Hey Skye. What's up?" Ward asked looking up from his book to see Skye standing in front of him with her laptop.

"I've been researching, 'stuff', online and I may have found something useful" she said in a hushed voice and using stuff to mean telekinesis as she was aware Simmons was making a sandwich in the kitchen.

"Go on" Ward prompted lowering his own voice as well. Skye sat down next to him and showed him some of the research she had found.

"Is this?"

"A detailed way that special people can manage their emotions?" Sky hinted. "I don't know if it is any good but if you're up for it I would like to give it a go?"

"Give what a go?" Simmons asked joining them.

"Wall hopping" Ward replied while Skye tried to look like this wasn't news to her.

"Wall hopping?"

"Yeah. The way agents can scale walls without the need for ropes and pulleys. It's not easy. I once made it to the top of a five storey building before I lost my footing and fell the entire way down. Landed on my face. I was in hospital for months."

"Sounds painful!" Simmons replied not quite believing him.

"Oh, It was!"

"So all I do is look at the feather and it should move?"

"That's what it says, well it says concentrate on the feather and imagine where you want it to move to."

Ward looked at her not sure whether this was going to work or not. They sat opposite each other with a bird feather between them. Ward looked at it and he tried to zone out everything else. All his focus was on lifting the feather off the floor and have it float there before lowering it back to the floor. That was Skye's idea. Levitate before movement. A noise in the lab broke his concentration. It was a good job too. They had forgotten to close the blinds. It wouldn't have been a good thing if Ward had managed to float it and someone had walked by. Skye also realised this and got up to close the blinds. For good measure she locked the door too. An hour later Ward still had not managed to float the feather.

"Are you taking me up a creek with this?"

"Not intentionally" she replied "try again tomorrow? It does say it could take time for genuine people to master it"

"Genuine people?"

"Yeah. 99.9% of all people who claim to be telekinetic are fakes. They use trick feathers and wire systems. Not that I'm calling you a fake or anything"

"Skye"

"Yeah?"

"Stop talking. So tomorrow. Same time?"

"Same place?"

A week later Ward and Skye were locked in the workout room when he managed to finally float the feather. To Skye's surprise his eyes turned blue. It wasn't a flicker. They stayed that pure, clear shade of blue that was in the photo the entire time the feather was in the air. The second Ward broke concentration, the blue started to fade back to their original brown. Ward was shocked it had finally worked. He tried it again and again and again. With each attempt he managed to hold the feather in the air a fraction longer than before. Someone tried the door, breaking Ward's concentration. Having been caught with the door locked twice in that week Skye had taken to working out her body and creating a sweat while Ward worked out his mind. The theory was that they could say it was for an uninterrupted training session. The door handle shook again. Ward got up to open it but Skye stopped him.

"I'll open it. You start punching and don't look at anyone!" She had noticed that the blue was taking longer to fade each time and was still obvious in his eyes.

She opened the door to Coulson. He was suspicious of the two of them. They had been seen off to one side with a laptop, talking in hushed voices and locking the workout room door. He really hoped they weren't having sex. "

The door was locked?"

"We wanted to work out without being disturbed."

Ward had put his earphones in before he started punching the bag, but hadn't turned the music on. He knew that he could get away with ignoring Coulson for a minute or two. He still didn't know why Skye had told him to do it, but they were in this together so he had to trust her. He just kept punching and punching, not altering his rhythm as Coulson would pick up on pauses. Skye appeared in his line of sight and looked at him. She started talking to him. He pretended not to hear.

"What?" he nearly yelled

"I said Coulson wants to talk to you" she nearly yelled back

"What? I can't hear you!" Skye walked forward and pulled his earphone out of his ear, checking that his eyes were back to normal in the process.

"She said I want to talk to you both" Coulson said from behind him.

Ward pretended to jump a little and turned around.

"Hey!"

"Hey. So what are you two doing in a locked room for four hours every night?"

"Working out"

"With the door locked?"

"Didn't want to be distracted"

"Ward. You don't get distracted?"

"I do" Sky volunteered, looking sideways at Ward.

"Are you and Skye having sex in here?"

"No!" They said together.

"So what are you doing in here?"

"I've been teaching her to throw knives. People kept walking in and getting a trim they didn't ask for" Skye smiled in agreement

"Alright then, get back to it" Coulson said as he left the room, more suspicious of them now than ever. He was certain that they weren't having sex, the cock and bull story was suspicious.

"Now that Coulson has gone do you want to keep training? Maybe you could teach me how to throw a knife." Skye asked Ward

"No."

"What do you want to do?"

"I want to kiss you." He replied. Skye closed the gap between them and kissed him.