"What?"

His hands were on the sides of her face. He noticed she was confused, surprised even. But this was right.

"Will you marry me?"

She was still a little caught off guard.

"Phil-", she couldn't find her words.

"Melinda we have done some crazy, life threatening, sometimes life taking, things in the past 30 years and we're about to do another one. What do you say, when you're done kicking ass over there… we do something even more kick ass.", he stood back, and down on one knee. "Melinda, I can't pronounce your middle name, May. Will you marry me?"

She sighed and a smile fell over her face. May was never one with words. But to Coulson her actions spoke volumes. With that in mind, she pulled him up by the straps of his bulletproof vest and kissed him. She did pretty well in making sure he knew exactly what she was feeling.

By the time she pulled away, he was the one without words. He was out of breath and totally disoriented. That's how she knew she had done her job.

"So… that's a yes?"

"Yes!"

At this point they were smiling uncontrollably. Unable to take their eyes off of eachother. They leant in for another kiss when…

"Yo Coulson! I got a spot. Where you at?"

They jumped at the interruption.

"Dammit Trip.", Coulson said under his breath.

"What was that, Sir? I didn't catch that."

"Nothing. Send me your location. I'll be there ASAP."

"You got it."

He turned off the coms and looked back his now fiance and sighed.

"Let's finish this so we can get married. What do you say?"

"Let's do it."

Skye stood over the man she attached a bomb to. Doing her best to intimidate him. Which wasn't hard considering she was the one who put the bomb on his chest. But all of a sudden, a familiar voice filled her ears.

"She's not going to kill you. She had a chance to kill me before and couldn't do it. Ad she hates me… a lot."

She turned and saw Ward walking down the aisle with his gun pointed at her. But she wasn't scared. He wasn't going to shoot her.

"I feel sorry for you, betraying the only people who gave you the chance at being a decent human being. Betraying me…", she remembered the words Coulson told her before about having compassion. "Fitz was a hero because he still wanted to give you a that chance after everything. But some people are just born evil I guess."

"Yeah, maybe they are. But that doesn't mean I can't still love you."

"Oh, you're not the evil I was referring to. Garrett is evil. You're just- weak- doing anything you're told. I hope Garrett orders you to walk into traffic."

"You're right, Skye. You woke up a weakness inside me. And for the first time in awhile, I wanted something for myself.", we was now holding the gun an inch away from her face. "Maybe I'll just take what I want. Wake up something inside of you."

"I'm not afraid of you Ward."

He caught that she called him Ward instead of his first name like she normally did.

"Wow. Now that hurts. Calling me what everyone else calls me to show that you don't have any feelings for me anymore? That's not gonna kill me. We'll be together again someday, I know it. But that bomb you're in control of right now? You wouldn't set it off. You'd go too."

"No, I have a weapon much better than a bomb that will absolutely destroy you."

"And why's that?"

"Because it's my mom. And she's really pissed off."

May came out of nowhere and punched Ward right in the face immediately bringing the fight into the other room.

The fight got pretty interesting. Both of them were trained at SHIELD; cut from the same clothe. Only May had some tricks up her sleeves.

May was a complicated woman. Not many people understood where she was coming from. Fighting is her passion. It's what makes her feel good. It's therapeutic. Whenever she was feeling sad, angry, or even happy, she found herself on the matts, forcing someone to spar with her. At this particular moment she was feeling all sorts of things: hate, betrayal, immense love. All of those contributed to the amount of effort she put into stopping Ward.

"You know one day, you'll look back at this and realize that it was a mistake.", Ward said as they continued to fight. "After Skye realizes she never stopped loving me."

"You're delusional."

He had May pinned down on the floor.

"Am I? Skye didn't let me die."

He continued to talk, giving her more time to look at her options.

"She's not that kind of person…", May reached out, grabbed a hammer and whacked Ward's head. He was a little disoriented, but he could still she her standing over him. She took a nail gun and pinned his foot to the ground. "But I am."

"May… May stop I-", he couldn't finish his sentence because she punched him in the throat.

"I've been waiting long enough for this.", she then dropped the nail gun and did a roundhouse kick, knocking him out.

"Sir?"

"You don't have to call me 'Sir' Coulson. Look at me, I'm dressed like I live under a bridge."

Coulson remained on the floor looking up at his old friend. He had just been thrown by a newly enhanced version of John Garrett.

"What are you doing here?"

"Simmons turned me onto that old-timey tracker that Fitz left on your bus.", Garrett's men were shooting at them. But they were only able to hit the tanks in front of them. "I went to great pains to make sure you didn't die the first time."

Coulson scrambled to his feet.

"Well now's probably not the best time but… I'd like to have a lengthy conversation with you about that.", shots continued to fire. "It might get loud."

"And I owe you that. But right now, we owe Garrett a punch in the teeth, wouldn't you say?"

Once Fury got there Coulson knew there wasn't a chance Garrett was getting past them. Which he didn't. Eventually they were able to defeat Hydra for the time being.

But best of all, Ward was in their custody. He was brought in handcuffs in front of Coulson and May before he was locked up.

"You got a chance to express all your feelings?", Coulson said to May while staring at Ward with a big smile on his face. He couldn't hide how happy he was to see the man who broke his daughter's heart at a low.

"Is he still breathing?"

"Guess she kept some of it to herself."

"He's having trouble speaking. I think I fractured his larynx."

Coulson turned away from Ward to see that May was also enjoying this.

"Oh good.", he turned back to Ward and stood right in front of him. Your attempt to cross off Fitz and Simmons failed. But Fitz may never be the same again. So, I'm going to invent new ways to ruin the rest of your life. And we'll do whatever's necessary to get HYDRA intel from you, but your torture – it's going to be internal."

"And a little bit external.", May added.

"Sure. Some of that. But you gave up your chance at being a decent human being by betraying the team; by betraying Skye. Instead you chose to devote your life to a deranged narcissist who never gave a damn about anyone. You've got your entire life to wrestle with the question- who are you without him?"

Ward couldn't look Coulson in the eye.

Coulson started to walk away, but he stopped and turned around when he remembered something else.

"And Ward? Never underestimate a father threatens to hurt you if you do anything to hurt his daughter. Especially if that daughter's mother is Melinda May."

The guards took Ward and put him in the cage.

"You always had a way with word, Phil."

"I hope so. I'm about to have a talk with Fury. Please come."

"Are you kidding?", asked Fury

"No? I'm totally ok with the fact that you used alien blood to bring me back to life when I warned you several times that it drives people insane."

Fury looked over at May confused; an emotion he did not show often.

"Really?"

"Well at first I was a little mad, but then I realized if you never did what you did, then I would have never met my daughter again. And I never would have known how to save her when she was shot by Quinn. So really I should be thanking you"

Fury leaned back in his chair and looked at Coulson with amazement.

"Well, I guess my work here is done. Now where is that goddaughter of mine?"

"I'll go get her.", May offered.

Coulson watched and waited for May to leave the room completely. Once he saw she turned the corner and couldn't hear them anymore, he jumped off of his seat and ran to open his bottom desk drawer.

"Ok I only have a few minutes, so try to keep up ok?", he kept on digging through the drawer. "Now that everything is back to the way it was before- you know, besides the hole SHIELD falling thing- May and I decided we want to get married."

"Finally. Go on."

"And yesterday, I ran to the mall down the street and bought these.", he pulled out a box from the drawer and opened it to reveal two rings. They were identical but one was on a necklace.

"What's with the necklace?"

"Melinda's never been one for bling. And every time we go undercover she says the ring on her finger messes up her fighting."

Fury took the box and held it up to his one good eye. He found an inscription on the inside of the rings.

Never giving this up again.

It was a simple phrase. Almost everyone in the world has said it before, but for Coulson and May it meant the world.

They gave up on their relationship and finding their daughter because there was no where else to turn. But now they are all back together. They'd never have another reason to give it up.

"That's cute. Very suitable for you two."

"Thanks sir."

"Anything else?", Fury asked.

"Yes. I was wondering if you would perform the ceremony for us."

"What?"

"I know your certified. You did Clint's wedding."

"That was only because no one could know."

"And technically no one could know about this. Since everyone thinks I'm dead. Also? Why can't I tell anyone again?"

"One question at a time, Phil."

"Fine. Will you do the ceremony? Please?"

"Fine."

Right after that, May walked in with Skye behind her. Fury quickly put the rings under his seat cushion.

"Here she is."

Skye walked in front of Fury and extended her hand.

"Nice to meet you ,sir."

Fury smiled and stood up, leaving her hand there.

"Hell with the 'sir' girl. I'm Uncle Nick."

She put her hand down and loosened up.

"Well Uncle Nick, it's nice to meet you. I'm Skye."

"Skye?", he looked over at her parents.

"Yeah I uh, I didn't grow up being called Daisy. Although I am looking at my options."

"Well… Skye… I'm glad you found your way back home."

"Me too.", she looked over at her parents who were enjoying the view of their daughter reuniting with Fury.

"Now Coulson.", Fury said walking over to him. "I know you have a lot planned in the near future. But there's something that I need you to do."

"Anything. What is it."

"You've always been the ideal SHIELD agent. You've always lived out the principle in which SHIELD was built upon."

"Thanks."

"I'm not done."

"Ok."

"Before it was torn apart SHIELD was a lot of moving parts. Guys like you were the heart. Now…", he reached into his pocket and pulled out a tiny black box. "You'll be the head."

Coulson took the cube.

"What is it?"

"A toolbox. To help you build it back up."

Coulson looked over at May and Skye. Skye's amazement was all over her face.

"You want me to start over, rebuild SHIELD."

"From scratch. Take your time, but do it right."

"You two will have his back right?"

"Of course."

"Thank you. How do you- how should I proceed?"

"That's up to you… Director."

"Wait, Fury.. What about you? Where are you going.", May asked.

"Well, I'm trading in my bird's eye view for two solid feet on the ground."

"So I guess this is goodbye.", May assumed.

"Not yet May. We got a wedding to go to."

The three adults in the room smiled. While Skye sat there confused as all hell.

"Wait who's getting married?"

That's the end of the first season! The next few chapters will be what happens between season 1 and season 2. Keep sending requests!

Questions, comments and suggestions are encouraged! Thanks for reading:)