Skye had been in LA for five weeks, on her way there Victoria had called her to chew her out for not telling her she was struggling. Skye had cursed Sharon's name after her conversation had ended, or rather the mostly one-sided conversation Victoria had since she wouldn't let Skye speak much.

But Skye understood, and Victoria had promised not to tell her mates on the condition that she would tell them herself, she just hadn't gotten the chance, or more like she hadn't gotten the courage to tell them.

Skye was working on her next upload about a lab working on creating super soldiers in a building in LA, and the people behind it, Centipede, stupid name if you asked Skye. When her phone rang, looking at it she saw it was Victoria, frowning since they had just talked the day before, and answered.

"Hey Vic, is something wrong?" she asked.

"Hey Skye, no, not really but I just talked to Fury and he said that S.H.I.E.L.D. has gotten a tip about a Rising Tide operative in LA." Victoria said.

"Okay, do you want me to move location?" Skye asked, getting ready to move.

"No, we want you to stay put. He has gotten a team ready, and when they catch you, play along with your cover until either me, Maria, or Fury says otherwise," Victoria answered.

"Okay?" Skye said confused but shrugged it off.


May was on the Bus getting things ready to fly out to LA since they had gotten a lead on a hacker from the Rising Tide. She was worried since she knew Skye was still undercover with them. She had hated that Skye agreed to go, but she was right, she was their best option since she was a member and still knew people in there that know, or rather knew, how she felt about government agencies and especially S.H.I.E.L.D.

Too bad for them that Skye didn't think like that anymore, or not to that extreme anyway. But all that didn't mean May was happy about it, she missed her little omega, and she could feel Natasha felt the same. She was sure Maria and Bobbi missed her too.

It didn't make it better when Kara had teased Bobbi in the Gym that she had seen Skye, and now that Sharon had come back from a mission and had stopped by Skye, and even spent the night with her. May was jealous and mad that it hadn't been her or Nat, or at least Bobbi or Maria if not her or Nat.

Yes, they were still competing against each other. It was still very mild, since they had agreed to not fight in front of Skye, or for the right of her, as in the beginning when Skye had been fearful of them all.

May smiled to herself remembering when she and Bobbi were making homemade buns, since Skye mentioned that one of her better foster homes the mom loved baking, and one of Skye's favorite baked goods were her buns. So, obviously they wanted to provide Skye with homemade buns.

Skye had been with Natasha and Maria, that day May had made a deal with Nat, that she would bake while they were gone. They didn't know that Bobbi and Maria had made the same deal, so when May had gone to the kitchen, she didn't expect to see Bobbi preparing to do the same. They had glared at each other and argued, telling the other to get lost, until they made a competition of it.

When the others had come back, Skye was very excited after May and Bobbi had presented their creations, and they all insisted for her to tell them which one was the best. Both May and Bobbi had agreed that neither Skye, nor Nat and Maria, would be told which buns were made by who, so Skye wasn't influenced by anything.

They had waited in silence while Skye tasted the buns, Skye had tried to get out of saying which one was the best, trying to say they both were very good. However, they convinced her, and she pointed to the ones on the left, which were May's, and she became very smug about it.

Shaking herself out of the memory when she heard footsteps, looking up she saw Jemma Simmons, one half of the pair called Fitzsimmons, the other is Leopold Fitz. Most people who hadn't met them but only heard of them, thought they were one person, but they were two people. Sometimes May was unsure, they were so in sync, more so than herself and Natasha, when they would fight, which was scary to think about. They had both gone to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy of Science and Technology, so the things they could create were unlimited, she knew how many wanted the pair to work for them, but luckily Coulson had gotten to them first.

"Hi Agent May, Fitz will be up in a moment," Jemma politely informed her, May rolled her eyes gently.

"Jemma, how many times shall I tell you, you can call me Melinda, Mel, or just May," May told her pack omega. She was so happy to have her own little pack, after so many years without one, she had also found her beta, which funny enough actually was the other half of the pair Fitz. Both the omega and beta were ecstatic when they learned they had the same pack Alpha, and one as cool as Agent May. Fitz fainted when she told them Natasha Romanoff was her mate, though she didn't tell them of Skye yet. She wanted to wait, even though she had become very close to both in the past two months since they had been on the Bus.

"Right, the lab is ready, and I met Ward on the way up, he says the weaponry and cargo hold are ready too." Jemma said, May nodded her thanks at the omega.

Jemma was so different from Skye; Jemma was a follower of the rules, and she had no problem with being an omega. She also looked forward to finding her mate.

Fitz came into the room at that moment, followed by Ward. Ward was an alpha, but May didn't really like him, he acted like this team was a waste of time for him. May had wanted to tell him that he didn't need to be here if he didn't want to, since this team was voluntary, and honestly, she didn't know why he had said yes to come along.

She knew he was good at what he did, which was why she had recommended him to Fury, to give to Coulson. She had only picked him because of his score from the academy.

Then she heard Coulson coming down the stairs, when she had heard he had died in New York, just before the battle, she had cried. She, Natasha, and Clint had taken a trip after the battle to work on their grief, and guilt in Clint's case.

But when Fury had come to her four months ago and told her Coulson was alive she had punched him in the face, and after he had explained what he had done to Coulson, she punched him again and demanded he tell Natasha and Clint, or she would. He had agreed, and when she found out Maria knew she had punched her too and asked if Bobbi knew. When told the answer was no, she just nodded, but Fury agreed that Bobbi could know, since Maria was having a hard time with what they had done to Coulson, and knew she couldn't talk to May, Nat, or Clint without fear of bodily harm, and Fury wasn't one she wanted to open up to like that.

They had talked about including Skye, but they wanted to wait until they figured out the when and how they should do it, since Skye didn't know Coulson personally, she only knew a little of him from them. So that was why they wanted to wait, for when they were all together with Victoria, since she was level 8. Only agents' level 8 and above could know that Coulson was still alive, unless you got special clearance, like everyone on this plane beside herself. And technically Coulson since he did know the whole truth of his survival, no one beside Fury, Maria, and herself, because Fury only allowed her and Maria to say Coulson was alive. May hated it, she knew Maria did too, but they knew the job and knew that sometimes they needed to keep secrets, even from your mates, and pack members now that May had found her beta and omega.

"Okay everyone, when we arrive in LA, May and Fitzsimmons will go to the explosion site, and Ward and I will go after the hacker." Coulson, her best friend for many years, said, everyone nodded their heads and May went to the cockpit to set them off towards LA.


Thanks to Fun_size_Tasha for betaing.