Romanov was playing five fingers with Kain. He had asked her for some training, so she sat him in a chair, spread his hands out on a chopping board and started stamping a knife in between his fingers (God forbid Coulson's temper if she damaged the 'bus again). She told him this was teaching him to remain calm under pressure. She started off slowly to get her rhythm. The faster she got the less she looked at what she was doing. When she saw Kain flinch she slammed the knife into the board.

"If you can't handle that you're likely to pee yourself when confronted" She told him. Kain got up from the table and went to sit with Amber. He wasn't going to ask her for training again.

Ward took Kain's seat. Romanov started her rhythm again, slowly and carefully, building up to fast and frenzied.

"You seem different?" She told him, looking into his face.

"Do I?" He said. She caught the faintest hint of a blush on the top of his ears.

"What did you do?"

"What makes you think I've done anything?"

"You seem calm, peaceful, hell, you seem like you have compartmentalized every feeling you have, including the ones you struggle with."

"Maybe I learned how!"

"Bull!" Skye came into the room and its occupants felt that overwhelming sense of power again. Romanov stopped her knife game and looked at Skye. She also seemed calm and collected.

"They are still the same people, but something is different" She thought to herself.

Ward was sat in the Lab, having his most recent injury stitched (Romanov had landed a kick to his face and split his cheek). He was staring at the board. He suddenly realised why there were no patterns to the crater attacks. Maybe it was because there was no pattern to find.

He jumped off the table, making Simmons who was halfway through stitching his cheek up jump. Leaving her and Romanov in the Lab he ran off to find Skye to run his theory by her, thread still dangling from his cheek. He found her and pulled her back to the Lab. He settled back on the table and Simmons resumed stitching up his cheek.

"What if these attacks aren't in a pattern?" Ward pointed out

"Well that's evident Captain Obvious" Simmons retorted. If there was a pattern to the craters she and Fitz would have found it.

"What if they aren't random either?" He said, completely confusing Simmons. Skye looked at the board. She saw it.

"Convergence points" She said, almost under her breath.

"Exactly"

"What are convergence points?" Simmons asked. She still wasn't following. She looked at Romanov, who clearly wasn't either.

"Convergence points. The weakest point where two worlds meet." Skye told them.

"The device the Covenant have been using isn't making the craters as such. They are trying to open a portal." Ward continued.

"It makes sense. It could be how we found that one and ended up in Asgard."

"So how are the craters formed?" Simmons asked, not quite keeping up.

"Maybe their calculations are off" Romanov suggested, starting to understand.

"They aren't hitting the door spot on, so the beams they are firing are being returned"

"And that much of electromagnetic energy being focussed on one spot would cause massive destruction." Simmons added, finally getting there.

"So how did that portal you two went through open?"

"What if they only half hit the door? It could be how we found that baby bilgesnipe. It came through a portal."

"So if I win, you tell him how you feel, and if you win I tell you what happened in Asgard?" Ward asked Romanov

"Deal."

They were sat on opposite sides of the table. One gun and a bullet between them.

"Hey, May. Please could you load the gun and spin the barrel?"

"Sure." She did as she was asked, wondering what crazy stunt they were planning. She handed the gun to Romanov. She pointed it at Ward's head and pulled the trigger. Click. She put the gun down on the table, he picked it up and held it to her head. He pulled the trigger. Click. Distracted from their game of battleship Kain and Amber started watching. May, knowing what was going to inevitably happen went to the cockpit. She didn't want to see it. Romanov pulled the trigger on Ward again. Click. Neither of them made any reaction to the trigger being pulled.

Coulson walked by as Romanov put the gun on the table for Ward to pick up.

"What are you two doing?"

"I'm playing roulette with a Russian." Ward told him, picking up the gun and pointing it at Romanov.

"So why is it now ok to call her Russian?" Coulson heard Amber ask Kain as he started to climb the stairs to his office.

Roulette, Russian. Coulson paused on the steps.

"Russian Roulette" he suddenly realised and turned around just in time to see Ward pull the trigger.

*BANG*

The gun went off and Amber screamed.