The plane was flying to the most recent incident. It was in Papua New Guinea. This meant a long flight. They were told to have some downtime on the trip so they chose to put a movie on. Between all of them they chose a horror movie. Saw IV was what they had access to so they put it on and settled into the sofa watching the movie being played up against one of the partitioning windows.

Coulson looked up from the data he was analysing to see all of them asleep. Skye had her head on May's shoulder, Simmons and Fitz were curled up together and Amber had her head back, snoring. Kain had his legs over the end.

They had dimmed the light for the movie, but Coulson suddenly saw movement.

Skye had woken with a start. She was shaky and covered in cold sweat. She looked around her, saw everyone asleep and got up to get a drink. After narrowing it down she chose a scotch, neat. Ward had given her some last year to help her get over the shock of his death. She knew, even though she didn't really like the taste of it, it would help stop the shaking.

"Skye?" Simmons asked softly from behind her. She had sensed Skye getting up and knew something was wrong. She had noticed Skye hadn't being sleeping. There were bags appearing under her eyes.

"Hey Simmons! What's up?" Skye asked keeping her voice low so she wouldn't wake the others.

"You ok? You look like hell?"

"I'm fine."

"That's why you're drinking a neat scotch." Simmons pointed out, raising her eyebrows at Skye "And we know you haven't been sleeping, even wearing one of Ward's shirts."

Skye, feeling so worn down by how she was feeling let a single, solitary tear fall down her face. She hadn't told anyone, not even Ward.

"Everytime I close my eyes I go back to that night." She admitted.

"You keep seeing him die?"

Skye nodded, more tears threatening to escape. She took a large sip of her scotch. Instead of laughing at her Simmons told her:

"I have the same issue. Not to the same extent, or for the same reasons but after a hard day I see him and Nat die."

Skye poured Simmons a scotch and the two girls sat drinking, holding each other's hands for comfort.

"I don't think you understand Director" Coulson said to Fury over the video link

"I do understand. You want me to send you Ward so you can put him back in the hospital."

"Sir, Ward, if you believe it or not, is an integral part of this team. His absence for so long is affecting morale, especially with those interns you sent me."

"Grant Ward is not fit for active service. End of discussion Coulson. The answer is no."

"Sir, what about plane arrest?"

They landed in Papua New Guinea. There was more devastation than the other sites they had visited. They were stood in the smouldering wreckage of a burning village. Fitz let the Dwarves out of their case to do their thing while the others were looking for signs of life. They found nothing.

"Coulson, by your left hand. What is that? Nosey is picking something up!" Fitz told him excitedly.

Coulson snapped on a pair of latex gloves and sifted through the debris where Fitz had indicated. He found what looked like a small baby, except it wasn't human. It was severely deformed and had a three foot tail. He put it in a bag for Fitz-Simmons to assess later. Other than that they found nothing, like usual.

Back in the Lab Fitz-Simmons started to process the thing that Coulson had found. They could see Skye working out in the workout room. She was getting quite good. Especially seen as though she had temporarily lost her SO. The more they dug into the object the more convinced it wasn't human. As it was burned beyond recognition they couldn't tell what colour it was, but they did manage to see that it had thick, bright pink blood.

Kain came into the Lab and headed for the workout room. As he passed the table he managed to knock a small pointed weapon off the table. It landed in the floor with a thwack and a small, spinning blue object floated into the air. Fitz-Simmons saw it and ducked, screaming at Skye to do the same. By the time Skye realised what had happened the device had detonated, blowing her into the side of the workout room, knocking her unconscious. Kain was blasted into the punchbag and escaped relatively unhurt.

Hearing the cries and the bang Coulson and May burst into the Lab. They saw the shattered glass, Kain getting to his feet like he had drunk too much and Skye laying face down on the floor, not moving. Coulson picked her up and carried her to the medical suite. Over the last few months Fury had developed and redeveloped the medical suite from a single bed to multiple beds and state of the art equipment. He reasoned that the room he gave them after the crash still wouldn't cope with the number of injuries this team acquired.

Coulson went back into the Lab to find out what happened.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault. I knocked that thing off." Kain admitted. He had never seen the weapon he had detonated and only had a vague recollection of knocking it off. He was more concerned in getting to know Skye.

"It's an air compression device." Fitz told him. "It sucks the air in and then sends it back out in a powerful wave, blasting anything like people out of the way.

"Shatters glass too" Amber said impressed.

It was then that Coulson and Simmons noticed the purple ooze covering the walls of the lab

"ORSINO" they said together, looking at each other.