A/N: Thanks to Babylove03 and Lazerhawk who helped with the gifts, they were challenging! What do you get a spy who keeps his birthday secret?
Simmons kept Ward in the medical bay far longer than was necessary. By the time she let him out his rash had nearly cleared.
"I don't know why you and Fury insist on overprotecting me like this" He was complaining to Simmons as they headed upstairs to the lounge.
"Like what?" Simmons asked innocently.
"Keeping me on the inactive list for longer than you need to."
"Oh. That."
Fortunately for her they reached the door to the lounge at that point.
"Surprise!" The entire team yelled as he walked through the door. The reason behind Simmons keeping him in the medical bay for so long now becoming apparent.
"Who was it?" he asked, even though he already knew the answer and pulled his phone out, dialling a number.
"Matilda Grace Ward, you're dead" He said into it before hanging up.
He turned to the rest of the team. When he saw the effort they had made for his birthday he smiled. There was a buffet of food, an amazing cake and a small pile of gifts, none of which he was expecting.
"Thanks guys. But it's too much."
Skye crept up beside him, took his hand and whispered into his ear:
"Stop complaining and enjoy yourself robot." Before she stuck a party hat on his head.
She led him to the bar and handed him a gift. He opened it. A flick knife.
"Tilly by any chance?" he asked with a chuckle.
He slowly made their way through the gifts. They all had a sense of humour to them.
An emergency medical kit from Simmons; May got him some boxing pads. She had heard his reports on the interns being sloppy and got him pads to train them with seen as though they were pestering him to train them. Coulson had got him a tracking device, so then he could let Coulson know if he got lost again. Amber got him a carton of blank bullets. Romanov had left him a copy of War and Peace, so that she could have hers back. Fitz had made him a small, thin silver coloured band with Asgardian type inscriptions on it. Knowing instantly what it was Ward slipped it onto his ring finger of his left hand. Fitz also handed him a watch. It had three knobs around the outside. One for adjusting the time, one worked a light and the other just seemed to be there.
"Pull this knob only when you're in trouble." Was all he told him, pointing to the useless knob.
Kain had got him a new poker set.
"Didn't know what else to get you." He said with a straight face.
"Wow. Thank you all"
"You better blow the candles out before we set fire to the bus."
Tilly had told them that Ward had never had a birthday party before, so they decided to play some children's party games and had prepared pass the parcel, blinds man bluff, pin the tail on the donkey, and musical statues. But being slightly mischievous they added an adult touch to them. Coulson could hear the buzzer of the video feed from his office so he went to answer it.
"Coulson. How's Ward?"
"He's fine. Simmons released him from the med suite earlier. He's downstairs with the guys celebrating his birthday."
BANG
"Coulson?"
"I know, Sir. Transfer you to the lounge." Coulson said pressing the transfer button.
As he walked back into the Lounge he thought "Why do they only ever seem to do it when Fury calls?"
He made it to the Lounge to find the team , wearing brightly coloured party hats, playing pass the parcel. To make it more interesting they were all wearing blindfolds. May was in charge of the music and was stopping it on random players. She stopped it on Kain and Coulson saw a flash bang fall out of the wrapping as he opened it. At least he now knew what made the noise. It went off just as Fury came onto the screen.
When the smoke had cleared he could see the young intern had lost his eyebrows.
Being a double celebration for Ward (being released from medical and his birthday) Fury let them have some fun, so he hung up. Coulson breathed a sigh of relief, before rounding on May, who clearly had prepared the game.
"How many more flash bangs are there in that package?"
"That was the last one."
"One for each intern?"
"Something like that."
May, with the help of Coulson, continued to manipulate the game until Ward was sat with a bottle of bubbles in his hand.
"The first person who says anything will end up wearing these" He threatened as they all took off their blindfolds.
"What's next?" Simmons asked.
"Pin the tail on the donkey." May told them. She handed Amber a blindfold and explained the rules "You wear the blindfold, we spin you around three times and you throw the dart and try to hit the donkey on the ass."
They took it in turns to throw the darts. While they were watching the thrower the others were eating the food and having a few drinks. Skye was feeding Ward a sausage roll when May called him forward for his turn. She tied the blindfold looser than she did with everyone else, turned him round and pointed him in the right direction of the donkey. He managed to hit the donkey, which no one else had managed to do until that point, but he hit the back leg, not the tail.
Once everyone had had a go, it transpired Coulson was the most accurate, so he won the small teddy bear May had got as a gimmicky gift for the winner.
Ward elected to sit out of musical statues and control the music. Before he did he went into his bunk and retrieved a small, white feather.
He started the game and paused the music. The first round was easy, Simmons was laughing at Fitz, who had frozen in the most ridiculous position. She went to sit with Ward and referee the game.
As it wore on, it got more and more difficult to tell who was moving and who wasn't. Simmons had taken over the music while Ward moved around to the back of the group. When the music stopped he used his 'special skill' to tickle each member of the team in turn to try and get them to move.
As it turns out, the only one who wasn't remotely ticklish was Amber. She also got a teddy bear.
"I'm going to bed" Skye announced. They all looked at their watches, it was pushing on for time. They played a couple more games and slowly made their way to their bunks.
Ward opened his bunk, expecting Skye to be asleep, so without turning on the light he started removing his clothes. He was looking forward to sleeping in his own bunk for the first time that week. He sat on the bed and realised Skye wasn't in it. He turned the bedside lamp on to find she had written him a note.
Shower Room.
Feeling confused Ward dressed and headed to the shower room. He opened the door to find Skye stood before him, wearing the sexiest lingerie he had ever seen on a woman.
"So, are you going to come and unwrap your present?" She asked while biting her lip.
He let out a guttural moan, closed the gap between them, kissed Skye and turned the shower on while she started to remove his clothes.