Chapter 33 – A Night Out

The restaurant was crowded and Skye immediately felt the world closing in again. She tried her best to hide it, no reason to give Coulson any ideas that there was something besides dehydration going on.

Unfortunately Simmons did notice something was up and grabbed the hacker's arm as the team made their way to a table in the corner of the room, "Are you alright? You're looking a little pale, do you want to go back to the bus?"

Skye pulled her arm away, hoping the team didn't notice Simmons' concern, "I'm fine, just drop it okay."

Simmons glared but nodded, "Fine, I'll drop it. For now."

Skye returned the glare but said nothing as the team took their seats.

Both girls quickly buried their faces in their menus, now even the clueless Fitz could tell something was up between them but the team wisely decided not to point out the conflict between the hacker and the biochemist.

The tension between the two girls defused slightly once food began to arrive. Although Coulson noticed that every so often a look would pass between the girls, Simmons' was one of concern while Skye's screamed 'drop it'. Obviously there was more to what had happened this morning the either girl was willing to admit and from Simmons' glare she didn't want Skye to go out again after her little adventure with Trip but had been unable to convince the hacker that staying in was a good idea. In fact Simmons' concern just added to Coulson's but he kept it to himself. He'd learned from experience that if either girl wanted to talk to him then they would and pushing them would mean those glares would turn on him. So Coulson wasn't going to push it, not today anyway. No, today he was going to enjoy a good meal with friends.

Skye could feel Coulson's stare join Simmons' as the waiters cleared away the remains of dinner, no doubt noticing her barely touched food. As they waited for dessert a silence settled over the team, one that Skye found strangely unnerving. She wondered if the silence was Simmons and Coulson's way of giving her an opening to tell them what was wrong but Skye didn't take it, today wasn't the day to tell them. Skye wondered if any day would be. She didn't want to lie to them but Skye wasn't entirely sure she wanted to tell them the whole truth either, because the whole truth meant telling them about Ward and they weren't ready for that. Not yet.

It was Fitz who took the silence as a sign to start talking. No one was surprised when his topic of choice was monkeys. However the second the word monkey was mentioned Skye stopped listening.

Despite having eaten very little Skye felt horrible. She wondered if she should have stayed on the bus after all, her head still hurt and she now had the urge to throw up. Standing carefully Skye hid her unease from the team, excusing herself she headed for the bathroom, barely making it inside before she emptied her stomach into the toilet. Skye heard someone follow her into the bathroom and lock the door behind them. She felt them pull her hair back and she continued to empty what was left in her stomach into the toilet.

Finally finishing, Skye sighed and stoop up, turning to face the person who had followed her into the bathroom. Expecting Simmons Skye was shocked to see it was Ward that had joined her.

He passed her some paper towel to clean her face with and gave a small smile, "I'd ask how you've been but from the looks of things…"

Skye slapped Ward. Hard, "Where have you been? Three freakin' months Ward. It's been three freakin' months and not a word."

Ward's small smile disappeared, "I told you what happened that night couldn't happen again."

"Just because I wanted to see you again doesn't mean I wanted to sleep with you," Skye hissed, not wanting to raise her voice in case someone outside the bathroom heard her, "I just needed to know you were okay." She paused, then continued, "And maybe talk some more."

Ward sighed, "If it's worth anything I wanted to see you too." His small smile returned, "But you kept moving. Sometimes you were long gone by the time I got to where you'd been and even when I did catch up and you hadn't moved on you weren't allowed off the Bus. And just so you know it's only been two and a half months, believe me I've been counting."

Wiping her face, Skye threw the paper towel in the bin next to the sink, "So why make contact now? You could have moved on. Why check on my now?"

Ward took a step forward, placing a hand on Skye's cheek, "I was worried about you. I needed to know you were okay."

Skye tilted her head, feeling Ward's hand against her cheek and sighed, "You followed me today, didn't you?"

Ward smiled, "I always follow you."

Skye smiled warmly, "What about May and Coulson? Don't you need to follow them?"

Ward lent forward, resting his forehead against Skye's, "May and Coulson aren't the target. We both know that."

Skye pulled Ward closer, "You worry about me too much." Without a second thought she kissed him, this one didn't start off slow, it was passionate from the start. Skye poured two and half months of pent up anger and passion into the kiss. She felt Ward's hands tangled in her hair as she pushed him against the bathroom wall. However when her hands began to wonder under his shirt Ward pulled away.

"Skye…" Ward warned, "We shouldn't…We can't."

"Why not?" Skye wined, "I want to. You want to. What's the problem?"

"Skye…" Ward warned again.

"I'm sorry," Skye said, pulling away and sliding down the wall to sit on the floor, "It's these stupid hormones that keep messing with me."

"Hormones?" Ward asked, squatting down to Skye's level, "Skye are you…?"

"Yes," Skye snapped, looking at Ward, anger now lined her face, "Yes I'm pregnant. Yes it's yours and no, I don't know what I'm going to do."

Author's Note: Defiantly not how season 2 will go, deal with it.

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