A/N: Kara may seem like she knows what she's doing, but I assure you, she's made a bit of a mistake here. Hopefully my muse is starting to get back on track!

Thank you to annavale23, Maddison1803 and changingdestiny40 for your reviews :3

Kara internally winced as Skye got out of the car as soon as Grant pulled up outside the tiny house, slamming the door as she went. Grant sighed, sounding defeated, and slumped forward in his seat.

"You were rather insensitive towards her." she said before she followed Skye. At first she found it a little difficult to move normally, as the ground was shaking slightly, but she quickly got her bearings. She saw Skye disappear inside through the front door, and hurried after her, catching the door before it swung shut completely.

"Skye?" she called out, pausing just past the threshold. Glancing back, she glimpsed Grant locking the sedan. She turned back and followed the sound of soft crying, rounding the corner to the one bedroom in the building. Skye sat against the wall on the right side, her legs curled up and her arms wrapped tightly around them. Her head rested on her knees as her body shook with sobs.

"Skye, I'm sure your pain and recent trauma is making you overreact to what Grant said." she began softly, padding quietly over to where the girl was sitting.

Skye stopped her from saying anymore by raising her head and looking at her with a teary and hurt expression. "Overreact?" she said brokenly. "Grant doesn't want me here."

"Of course he wants you here, Skye." Kara stated more firmly. "After all the mess with S.H.I.E.L.D. like him betraying you, breaking your heart, you shooting him, breaking his heart, etcetera, he took you in when you turned up at our motel room. He got you clothes, and hygiene items and helped you heal. He stayed by your side when you were in the hospital." She took a breath and continued. "I think he just assumed that you coming to him after what happened last time you were together meant that you trusted him."

"Doesn't he get that I had nothing when I found you?" Skye sobbed.

"Yeah." Kara nodded, pulling the girl in for a hug. "After you screamed it in his face, he probably understood." She smiled when she heard Skye let out a little laugh. "Grant's coming in now. Do you want to talk to him, or have some more time to yourself?"

"I want some more time." she whispered. Kara nodded in understanding and helped her to her feet.

"I'll talk to him." Kara said, leaving the bedroom and pulling Grant down the hallway as she went.

"I'm trying to fix something here!" he protested, yanking his hand out of her grasp and trying to turn back the way they'd came.

"Then give her her space." Kara replied. She reached for his arm again and continued pulling him away. Behind him, she saw Skye slip out the bedroom and out the back door.

"What do you mean? I can't leave this to get worse!"

"If you say the wrong thing, you'll make it worse." she countered, pulling him into the kitchen and dining room. "I need to know that you really do understand what it was that made her upset."

"That's why you dragged me away?" he asked, dropping into a seat that Kara pulled out from the table.

"That, and that fact that neither of you had room to breathe after your little fight." She sat down next to him. "She thinks that you don't want her here."

"What? Of course I want her here! With me! I said as much!"

"I know that. But considering what S.H.I.E.L.D. put her through when she trusted them completely, it was a bit naïve of you to think that she would trust you right off the bat."

Grant winced. "You're being a bit harsh."

"I'm being a bit realistic. There can't be secrets and serious doubt between you, or your relationship just isn't going to work." She cocked her head to one side. "Or was I reading too much into the hand holding at the clearing?"

He chuckled lightly. "No, we'd just…started to see if we could make it work." He groaned and dragged a hand over his face. "But we had our first fight less than a day in."

"What that tells me is that you care. Both of you. You were both hurt, and you both want comforting. So knowing that, go and talk to her. Comfort her and let her comfort you." She shoved at his shoulder affectionately. "Go on."