A/N: Why hello there! If you still read these author notes, then good for you! If you don't then I really don't know what to say because you'll never get the message anyways. I apologize if these chapters take a little longer than wanted to update, but I have four of these fanfics to write, and I love every one of them, so I'm not gonna stop any of them, but I'll try my very hardest to update as frequently as possible. Of course, having three months of nothing planned means I have lots of time too! I would appreciate RxRs like nothing else, but I won't beg...yet. I hope you enjoy this installment!

Skye woke up the next day to an alarm set for 5:45. She sighed, and got up, getting ready for meeting May. She got dressed in her workout clothes, put her hair up in a ponytail, laced up her sneakers, and slapped herself a few times to wake up a little more. She left her room with her duffle bag, containing an extra change of clothes, a towel, a granola bar, and lots of water.

She walked into the training room at 6:15 to see May already there. She was standing, talking to Coulson. She walked up to them, and smiled. "Hey AC. May, ready to start?"

"Not today Skye," Coulson said, "there's something else you two are going to do, but I want this done before Fitzsimmons wakes up as well."

Skye was a bit confused. "O...kay. What's up?"

This time it was May who spoke. "There's something you need to know, Skye. It been happening since about a week after we got here after the Hydra fall."

"We wanted to know," Coulson interjected, "that he wouldn't be a liability again, and that he could be contained if he couldn't control himself, but most importantly, we needed to make sure that if anyone on this team saw him, they wouldn't kill him."

Skye wasn't any less confused, if not more. "That kind of raises more questions than answers." Coulson and May were silent, waiting for a reaction. "Who is 'he' exactly?"

"Ward." May said bluntly, with a stone hard expression.

Skye was speechless. She opened her mouth, to try to speak, but nothing came out. Coulson grabbed a chair near him and put it next to her, gently grabbing her arm to sit her down.

Skye gratefully sat down, putting her head in her hands, resting her elbows on her knees. She stared at the ground trying to process the information in front of her. Ward was alive, they knew where he was, and he was here. Coulson knew where he was. He withheld if from her for months. "You knew this was happening," Skye said, barely a whisper, "you knew that he wasn't out there but you had me search." She raised her head to look up at him. "You knew what I was going through, I confided in you about all of this," her voice was growing louder with every word. She stood up to look Coulson directly in the eye. "You knew, everything, and you didn't tell me any of it." Her eyes started to well up, and she turned away from him.

Coulson kept a straight face, but there was hurt in his eyes. "Skye, I wanted you to cool down a little bit about everything with Ward before this. You searching for him was to help you with it all, to distract you, even for five minutes, just like the training. Everything you've told me over the past months, I've kept, and helped you with it." He stepped towards her, placing a hand on her shoulder.

Skye turned around to look at Coulson, tears seconds from pooling out. Coulson wrapped his arms around her in a hug. She hugged him back, and was glad he was there for comfort. Then the tears overflowed.

May, deciding this was private, stepped out of the room to two confused scientists staring at her.

"What's going on? Why does it sound like Skye's yelling?" Simmons asked, worried for her friend.

"Because she is." May responded as she walked through them.

"Wait," Fitz said, turning to May, "what's going on?"

"Come with me, and I'll tell you." May said over her shoulder. The scientists quickened their steps to catch up with May.

All of the team was in one room, all wanting answers from Coulson.

"When did he get here?" Fitz asked.

"Don't you think it's a bit unsafe to put a former Hydra agent in one of the most classified bases in the world?" Simmons questioned.

"Can we trust him? How can we be sure he's truthful?" Fitz.

"Where is he in the base? We haven't seen him anywhere and I'd assume he'd be hard to contain." Simmons.

"Are you only one watching him?" Fitzsimmons together.

While they were firing questions away like May at a shooting range, Skye stayed dead still and quiet. Fitzsimmons kept firing questions, never actually giving Coulson a chance to answer, until Skye spoke for the first time since since four hours ago when she yelled at the only father figure she had. "Can I see him?"

Everyone stopped moving and making noise to look at Skye, Fitzsimmons wide eyed, and slightly dropped jaws, May with the same stone face, Coulson with furrowed eyebrows. "Well?" Skye said, slightly annoyed that no one had answered.

"I don't think that would be wise." May said in a distant and cold tone.

"I don't care if it's wise. I want to know if I can." She looked directly at Coulson. "Can I see him?"

Coulson caved easily to her. "Sure. I think you all would benefit something from seeing him, however small."

Coulson rose from the chair he was sitting in, followed by Skye who stood almost simultaneously with him. Fitzsimmons stood together, holding hands. May rose last, and reluctantly at that. Coulson started walking and they all followed like ducklings with their mother...or father duck.

They came to the sealed door with the SHIELD seal, and big red letters reading, "AREA 10". Coulson pressed his badge into the sensor by the door, and then pressed his thumb on the finger pad.

The door opened, revealing a steel room with an elevator door, another badge censor and fingerprint scanner. In front of the door, was a girl, maybe 18 at most, with a few deep purple streaks in her jet black straight hair reaching a bit below her shoulders, and a black outfit, with the SHIELD seal on the shirt. She was about the same height as Coulson, if not a bit taller. She was smirking, but quickly frowned when she saw the entourage Coulson had.

"Coulson..." She sounded worried and confused. "Do you know what you're doing?"

"Yes." Coulson said, smiling. "Do you know what you're doing, Gwyneth?"

"Let's hope so." And with that, Coulson turned to the team and gestured to Gwyneth. "Everyone, this is Gwyneth Stark. She's been overseeing Ward's progress during the last few months."

"Stark," Fitz said slowly, "like..."

"Yes," Gwyneth said smirking at Fitz, "Stark. As in Tony Stark. He's my father."

And all the jaws, including May's, hit the floor.

Gwyneth looked at Coulson. "Well. That went better than expected. Level five, I assume?"

"Right, as always." Coulson said casually. They both turned towards the elevator, and entered the information to raise a panel to access the down button. Gwyneth pressed it, and looked at the shocked agents behind her. "If I'm surprising to you, get ready for worse."

And then the elevator doors opened.