Hi! I was meaning to update last night but didn't have the time! So here it is!

ENJOOOY!

Skye started shivering and whimpering and Grant could take the distance between them no longer. He reached for her and pulled her to herself hugging her small body tight.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Rookie. I didn't want to scream at you" he said, putting kisses in my hair, which I found very soothing, as well as simply his touch, and wrapped my arms around his torso as tight as I could, soaking his shirt in tears that were still coming like waterfalls.

"I was just scared that you were gonna die and leave me alone and that you didn't want to live" he said in almost a whisper.

I pulled away so that I could look at him and said in a weak voice full of guilt and regret:

"I didn't want to die. I fought, I fought really hard and managed to get out to the surface. It was so hard but I did it. But then when I was there something came over me and I wasn't thinking straight, I felt weak and next thing that happened I went down into the ocean… Nothing seemed to matter at that moment"

In the way he looked at me I could say I hurt him with what I'd said and what I had done. Almost broke him. How could I do that to the man I love?

I looked down not to see the hurt on his beautiful face, more tears falling down and onto the floor.

I felt his palm on my chin, lifting it so that I look at him.

"Skye. Look at me. Please" he almost begged.

"I'm sorry I was too late and you almost died. I shouldn't have let you be on your own back there. I screwed up and almost lost you. I'd never be able to live without you. You know that?"

I looked him in the eyes and I saw pain but I also could see love and hope, so much love. He didn't let me see this before. Before I almost died. Maybe there was this one advantage of me almost dying. I got him to open up and let himself feel.

"You should know it very well that it wasn't your fault at all, Grant. It wasn't your fault. I know you'd never let anything bad happen to me. I hate it that you blame yourself"

He brought me close for another hug and said:

"I just wish you hadn't got hurt like that. I wish I could have protected you"

"I know that" I said, breathing in his scent and raising my head to look him in the eyes and for him to see that I really meant it.

They stayed like that wrapped around each other for minutes or maybe hours, they couldn't quite tell.

Ward couldn't let go of her, scared that if he did then he would wake up and she would be dead, torn away from him, and he would feel that unbearable pain just like days before but it would only be worse.

But this wasn't a dream. It was reality. Reality where his precious little minx was alive and in his arms. The question that Ward asked himself right there and then was why in hell she still didn't know that he loved her more than life.

He shifted so that he could look her in the eyes. He had to tell her. He had to let her know just what she means to him. After almost losing her he felt the urge to tell her he loved her. So much that it was getting hard to breathe. He just hoped his feelings were reciprocated.

"What is it, Robot? Why are you staring at me as if I'm made of rainbows?"

I heard him give out a soft chuckle as he kept looking at me with that look in his eyes that made my heart pick up the pace.

"It's just something I've come to realize lately" he finally said, holding both of my hands in his tightly, his eyes warm and soft.

"What would that be?" I asked, curious.

"I've been a bloody idiot"

I couldn't help but break out laughing. That wasn't something I'd expected to hear from him. He was adorable.

"Skye" he sighed and closed his eyes for a few seconds.

"You're not gonna make this any easier, are you?" he said to himself, thinking she didn't hear.

"You think it's funny?" he said a little bit louder because she was giggling. He didn't mind hearing his beautiful Rookie laugh but now really wasn't the time. He was finally about to say the three important words to her.

"Skye, I LOVE YOU!" Ward almost screamed.

Her giggling abruptly stopped.

One moment my Robot admitted of being stupid and got me laughing and the next I heard "I love you" from him.

Needless to say, I stopped laughing right away. This was huge. It didn't matter that I had heard him say that before so I already knew that. Finally I heard him say that to me in person. Truth be told, I didn't expect to hear his declaration of love so fast, I thought he wasn't ready, I thought he needed more time. That's Ward we're talking about. But he managed to surprise me once again. It seems my Ward isn't some kind of a robot after all. Not at all, actually. Way far from it. The man standing in front of me isn't the man I met almost a year ago. That one was a robot, this one is not… He's visibly changed. I loved him before but right now I love him so much more.

So here. He finally did it properly ^_^

Hope you enjoyed and sorry that the chapters are so short. I can't even get used to it myself but I cannot write more right now soo :(