Hello there! I intended to update last night but got distracted by the new epi, I mean totally freaked out. It was fantastic and I LOVED it SO much!

Don't want to spoil anyone so I'll just shut up right here until it's too late hehe

Here's the next chappie for you, guys! Enjoy!

It was when he was in the ward alone with her that she started to finally wake up.

He's been sitting by her side for hours holding her hand and absentmindedly stroking the back of her hand with his thumb, waiting for her to open her beautiful brown eyes that he'd missed so much.

And then he felt her hand move slightly and looked at her face for any signs of waking up.

"Rookie?"

He saw her eyelids flatter and felt her hand grip his ever so slightly. She probably was still weak after all what had happened.

"Skye?" he called her waiting for some kind of reaction.

She gave out a light moan and frowned and he immediately put his hand on her cheek, wishing all her pain could just go away.

"Skye, are you in pain? Can you hear me?"

He saw her eyes finally open as her hand gripped his with more strength.

"God, Skye, thank god you're awake! How are you feeling? Does something hurt?" he looked at her with a worried expression that got her wondering what was wrong and why he looked so concerned.

"Grant?" she said in a weak hoarse voice. Speaking proved to be extremely hard, it felt like a scalpel that was currently in her throat.

"Yes, Rookie, I'm here" he answered, unable to take his eyes away from her face and thanking god she made it. His Rookie was really alive.

"Are you in pain?" he asked her and when she shook her head said: "Don't lie to me. I can see you're uncomfortable and something hurts"

She narrowed her eyes at him and frowned showing her discontent at his accusation. He wasn't having any of it.

The fact that she didn't say anything already meant she couldn't right now because if she could she would definitely give him a piece of her mind. Grant figured it was at least her throat that hurt like hell and prevented his Rookie from speaking.

"Is that your throat? I'm going to get your doctor"

He moved to leave but she wouldn't let him. She'd gathered all her strength to move her arm and grab him tightly by the shirt. She looked at him with such disapproval and at the same time her look was so pleading and determined that he couldn't refuse her. He sat down on her bed and took the hand that was gripping his shirt in a deadly grip in his, kissing her knuckles.

In that moment it took him everything not to say how much he loved her because she was far too weak and fragile for that kind of news. It even hurt her to speak. She was hurting and he was hurting whenever she was.

She surprised him when she managed to utter:

"Please… don't leave me alone"

Her voice sounded so desperate and so weak and it hurt him so much that she thought he was going to just leave her alone, which caused him to move closer to her. His hand started stroking her hair and it took him a lot not to put a kiss on her forehead or her cheeks.

"I'm not going anywhere, Rookie, but you do need the doctor to give you a check-up. I can see you're trying to hide it from me that you're pain but you can't fool me, Skye"

He pushed on the button and in a minute the nurse entered the room, which caused Skye to give him a glare.

After the doctor checked Skye was healing properly, the rest of the team crowding in the back worried about her, the nurse gave her more pain relievers and even though she kept staring at Ward as if she was scared that if she closed her eyes he would magically disappear and tried to stay awake, her eyes slowly closed and she fell asleep. The team stayed in the ward for a little while after she'd fallen asleep. They all missed her terribly and the thought of losing her and how close they'd come to that hurt too much for them to leave her room immediately. So they all took seats all around her ward and just sat there in peace simply watching her breathe.

She looked so beautiful when she slept, thought Ward. Though scratch that, she always looked beautiful. Sometimes unbearably beautiful and Ward could hardly control himself around her. For him she was the most amazing girl in the whole world, for him she was perfection. He was so happy to have her returned to him. He was overjoyed to be able to see his Skye breathing again. He also couldn't wait for her to completely recover and come back home on the bus where he was going to take a very good care of her and watch her properly, make sure she wasn't doing anything stupid. And knowing Skye that was exactly what was going to happen.

Ward spent the night in the ward with Skye, unable to leave her for longer than five minutes. He kept waking up every hour or so to check if she was still alive and breathing, kept gripping her small and now warm hand in his, which was a reminder of her being alive and right next to him.

He was more than sure that the team had noticed the way he was holding on to Skye for dear life and that he would never live it down but he couldn't care less. She was all that mattered.

He also knew too well and it was bothering him that he needed to talk to Skye about what had happened. Why she didn't fight for her life. Why did she do what she did. She needed to talk about it, it was necessary for her mental health because he was pretty sure she just gave up on her life back there, which was almost suicidal. Before the incident there was something that was bothering her a lot. Ward wasn't sure if it was the thing that made her give up but it was something that had changed her, made her less cheerful, less happy, less sarcastic, less Skye. He hoped he could talk some sense into her head, hoped he could make her go back to her usual self, his cheerful Rookie.

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS ONE? ;)

Chapters are short, I know, but this way I can update more often. I seriously need more time, 24 hours in a day is NOT enough