Amber walked out into the middle of the Hub and removed her clothes. She stood up tall and plucked up all of her courage before starting:
"Half a pound of tupenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle,
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel."
The entire hub was now watching this crazy intern. They had no idea what on earth she was doing. Well, Ward, Fitz and Coulson knew. Amber continued:
"Every night when I get home,
The monkey's on the table,
Take a stick and knock it off,
Pop! Goes the weasel." She finished before scooping up her clothes and sprinting back to the others.
They quickly headed back to Ward's room before Fury caught them.
"Well done. You are now officially one of us!" Skye told her, plonking herself down on the bed.
"Will that stop the hazing and the pranks?"
"No. Those will happen until you graduate."
"Ok. So what's the deal here then?"
"You can talk about anything, ask anyone anything, but the answers must be truthful and honest and under no circumstances will anything said in this room leave it."
"May I go first?" Amber asked
"Sure"
"What happens if you do say something to someone?"
"If you think Pop! goes the weasel was bad."
"So May, this has been bugging me for a while. How do you know anything about Ward's, you know, if he's was seeing and is now married to Skye?"
"We don't talk about that."
"I thought nothing was off the cards?"
May shot a glance at Skye.
"Fine. We got drunk one night and we ended up in bed. It happened a few times. The sex, not the drinking."
"Friends with benefits."
"Then we got a visit from an Asgardian Sorcerer" Simmons chipped in.
"Wait, is that the one who could alter the will of men with her touch."
"That's the one. She said some things to me that were kinda of like a slap in the face, and I realised that he was in love with someone. Took me a few days to work out who though." May finished, looking at Skye.
"Weren't you mad at him?"
"Yes and no. It was just the physical act, but it hurt a little that he couldn't talk to me about it and I had to hear it from her. It took us a while to go back to being just friends."
"A while? It took the two of you to get locked inside a pyramid for nine hours, which nearly killed you both, to work it out."
"Thankyou, Skye."
"As we said. We don't talk about it."
"I'm understanding that now!"
"So you still havn't told Hawkeye you love him?" May rounded on Romanov.
"We, but. I did!" She protested.
"Natasha Romanov, all you have done to him is kiss him, which, by the fact that he is kissing you too is a pretty good indicator that he at least likes you too."
"Do you actually understand how difficult this is for me?"
"Hey, give her time. When you're Kevlar it takes time to process."
"Skye, what aren't you telling us about you and Ward?"
"When all of you guys thought we were having sex,"
"Which you assured us you weren't, did you lie?"
"No, we didn't lie. We weren't having sex at that point, we were just having the occasional..."
"Tonsil tennis session?" May finished for her, raising her eyebrows.
"Yeah. Anyway, enough about me. Simmons, same question as last year?"
"There is nothing going on between me and Fitz."
"So what about you Amber? Any special guy in your life?"
"No. Yes. I don't know. It's complicated."
"We've had co-workers, traitors and professors, how complicated is it?"
"I was so stupid. I had a really good thing going with a guy at Phys Acc, but when we found out I would be here instead of him he went a little crazy and I left him. I don't think that he'd got over his ex either."
"Let me stop you right there. If this guy is still mooning over his ex leave him be. There is nothing worse than unrequited love." May told her.
Skye and Romanov looked at her.
"You speaking from experience there May?" Romanov asked her. May blushed a little.
"How the hell does she know?" She thought
"Come on. I've seen the way you look at him." Skye pushed.
"What Skye too? How did they find out?" May continued to think.
"Oh my God! Who?" Simmons asked.
"There's no one" May protested, but the blush gave her away.
"Come on. Who is it?" Amber asked looking to Romanov and Skye for the answer, clearly they had picked up on something that she hadn't.
"Whatever" May said, finally having got a handle on her emotions.
"Seriously, May who... Oh my God!"
Simmons finally realised she knew who it was.
"May, exactly how long have you had a thing for Coulson?"
Amber spat her drink out all over Skye.
"Busted." Romanov told her.
"I don't know. It just kinda crept up on me. He was stitching my shoulder up after Morocco and I don't know, I guess I felt something." May told them, finally giving in.
There was a knock on the door. Skye went to answer it.
"Hey!" She brightened a little when she saw Ward. She stepped out of the room to kiss him.
"Hey yourself!" He replied to her when she pulled away from him.
"You know May gave you her room key for a reason."
"I know, but I need to talk to Nat. There's a problem with baby sis at Phys Acc."