AN: Hey guys! As always, many thanks to the awesome MegaDiary123. To be honest, I haven't really written anything. I just forgot I had two more chapters ready and stumbled upon them today, so I'm posting them for you to have. I will post the other one at some point during the weekend. Until then, I hope you enjoy :)

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Skye's POV

May told me the origin story of the nickname she absolutely hates. I was so not expecting that to be what would follow my confession of all the events during the Battle of New York. And after that intimate moment, I could feel the relationship that we had before I left from the Academy come back to the surface.

I had a contentment-filled smile plastered on my face as I led May to Nick's office, or more like floor, where I knew he and Maria were waiting for us. I didn't let it disappear from my face as I opened the double doors, nor did it disappear when we walked and stood close to the two already mentioned people. Maria came close to me, not too close, and nodded her head. Had it been before the whole Phil situation she would have hugged me but she was still keeping her distance. I returned the nod and turned to look at the Pirate.

He simply turned to look at me, from where he was standing in front of some huge screens on the wall, and then his gaze went to May. As he was standing on the other side of the room, he made a move to go towards the senior agent, only for May to get to him before he even made a second step. "I apologise in advance, sir" she said and without waiting for a reply from the Director she punched him straight in the jaw.

The moment May's first made contact with Fury's face, my jaw hung open. Even though I wasn't facing her, I was almost certain that Maria's reaction to what just happened was similar, if not the same, to mine.

By the time I managed to shake myself from the trance that I was in, May had returned to her spot next to me as Fury was still rubbing the sensitive spot, which no doubt would soon be soon graced with a bruise. His eyes never left May's form as she moved in the room. "Can't say I didn't deserve that" he confessed. "Which is why I'm gonna let it slide, but let's not make a habit out of it" he finished and returned back to his desk, his hand moving to take a panel at the side of it.

He pressed a button and the windows of the room turned black, hindering the light and anyone who would dare try to spy on our conversation, and the door was shut closed if the click that I heard was any indication. Soft light was turned on to illuminate the various screens on one end of the room. All the information that we had regarding the holes in the firewalls, as well as all the intel that the team gathered in the latest mission were being displayed.

I walked up to the main screen and looked at Alexander Pierce's, a.k.a. the Secretary's, photograph.

He was actually one of the first people added into the suspect list as he had both the access and the money to back what was happening. What we still lacked was the motivation behind his actions. Which was why Fury was keeping a close eye on him and his moves, and especially the S.T.R.I.K.E. team which he founded.

That was also the reason why despite his Level he didn't have access into Phil's resurrection files, anything to do with T.A.H.I.T.I. project or the Avengers.

"Buckle in guys" I said as I was handed a table from Maria, my fingers already starting working without looking at what I was typing. "We are in for a really long ride"

Ward's POV

Ever since I joined Coulson's team there have been way too many changes in the variables, a major one being the newly addition of Skye. A person who I hadn't thought about or seen in years, appeared out of thin air and I was back at square one. Having no idea who she was, why she left the Academy or when she got back, I didn't know what to expect. I even asked Garrett but he was just as clueless. And so I was left to slowly learn more about her.

She still had the hand-on-hand combat skills that I remembered from our days at Operations. And she was still similarly secretive.

Despite me having studied about everyone in the team before Coulson even suggested I tagged along, the girl's case was not the same. On top of that, she seemed to have gained way more trust from the other agents than I had, in way less time. True, this wasn't hard when it came to FitzSimmons, I could still recall how tight her and Simmons were back in the day and if my memory didn't fail me they used to be roommates as well.

Coulson still had his reservations about her and it was clear. Probably because of how abruptly she showed up. But after the Amador case, even he had started warming up to her. But Coulson wasn't my main concern, after all he trusted me enough.

No, my main concern was Melinda May. The Calvary.

Despite her and Coulson bumping heads at a few missions, the history they shared was clear as day to someone who knew about it. And no matter what facade May put up, she cared for the team as well. But the most surprising thing was neither of the above. It was how easily she had come to accept Skye and how they spent much of their time in the cockpit. A 'don't enter' area when it case came to anyone but Skye and sometimes Coulson. This was one of the things that, when Skye showed up, went against the research that I had made and it had completely not been accounted for. Because every evidence showed how closed off and alone May was, but this was not the case with the younger agent.

It's been more than a week since the mission that started in Sweden and finished in Belarus, and Skye seemed more on edge than she usually was. I just couldn't put my finger on it. It felt as if the slightest wrong move from my part would alert her and my cover would be blown.

The girl was a wild card. One that I would have to keep a close eye on. As the saying goes… 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer'.

I didn't have any friends really, for one of the first lessons Garrett taught me was not to trust anyone, especially him. And I feared that if I got close enough to her, I wouldn't be able to help it and I would get attached. And attachment was forbidden.