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Skye sat staring at her laptop waiting for Skype to bing at her letting her know that everyone was online. The flat was too quite and even playing music didn't make her feel any better. She was used to the noise of her teammates on the bus, there was always someone around. Or just the bus making noises as it flew them to their next destination. She used to be annoyed by the constant movements and the lack of privacy on the bus, but now living on her own, she realised how much she missed it. It was so easy to just pop over to see Simmons and just have a girly chat. Or just go and annoy her SO. But here in this one bedroomed flat she had all the privacy she could ever want and it was boring.

A bing from her computer alerted her that someone had come online. Checking the screen she smiled when she saw it was Jemma. Clicking she opened up a video chat with her best friend.

"Hey Skye. Are you bored again? I thought you were excited about living on your own again for a while?"

Skye smiled at her friend. It was amazing how easily she could read her. She had never really had friends like that before, unless you counted Miles, and Skye definitely didn't. She found she liked it and would miss this if it ever went back to the way it was before.

"You would be too if you were on your own. At least you have Fitz. I'm stuck here all on my own and its not like I can go out. Which is weird as who doesn't go out? People are going to start thinking I'm strange."

"But you are strange Rookie." Skye grimaced at Ward as he joined the conversation, obviously overhearing her conversation with Jemma.

"Robot made a funny. But seriously, people are going to start asking questions if I stay in all the time. Please can I go out? Even if it is just for a meal. I'm going out of my mind here."

"When Coulson comes on ask I'll ask him if we can go out. We can catch a movie as well if you like?" Ward offered.

Skye glanced at Jemma to ensure she had just heard right. Her SO had just agreed to take her out? She knew he had changed since she got shot, seeming to not mind spending more time with her, but she thought he would have enough of her as he was taking her to and from work and saw her at work as well.

Noticing the silence and the glances between the women, Ward stated defensively,

"He's more likely to let you go if someone is with you. Plus everyone knows that we know each other already so we won't compromise anything."

That was true. The entire team were currently undercover, pretending to only know each other slightly. They were all currently working at a school, where Shield had detected a threat. They couldn't just send it six new people though so they had all gone in gradually, with May and Coulson going in separately, Fitzsimmons together as they could hardly be separated and it reduced the lies Simmons had to tell. Then Skye and Ward had gone in, in their case they lived separately but in their cover they knew each other, with Ward taking Skye to the school each day. They lived fairly close together as well. It was decided that Skye needed someone close by in case anything went wrong and Ward was the best person for that job. She was still recovering from being shot and this was her first mission back with the team. As they didn't know the exact source of the threat they couldn't know all of the danger so they had decided it was better for Ward to be near, just in case anything happened.

Unfortunately they were still no closer to finding out what the threat was. Many of the kids had high profile parents, some including Shield agents, but there were also the teachers who were experts in their fields who could be target. Or it could be that the school was known for producing some of the greatest minds in the world. There were a lot of targets, which was why they were undercover. Fitzsimmons naturally were science assistants, having been told firmly not to blow anything up. Coulson was teaching politics, which he was good at, but then you would pick up tricks when you are part of a secret organisation that had to deal with various governments. May was teaching history and also ran a self-defence class for anyone who wanted to learn. Ward was teaching English, which he was extremely good at. Skye couldn't help be surprised even though she knew he liked to read and one of his favourite books was Pride and Prejudice. Skye's job was to help Ward as an assistant ensuring he didn't murder any children; she was also the IT assistant, which gave her access to other rooms. While the others could get close to the children and the staff in their departments she could see the school as a whole and go where she liked. So far though, they had come up with nothing.

As they weren't allowed to talk to each other more than saying hello, as they weren't supposed to know each other, they often had these Skype conversations to find out what each member had been up to and if they had found any knew information.

Seeing the rest of the team had come online, Skye turned her thoughts back to the mission and to the job at hand.

"Sir if it is ok Skye and I have a question to ask you at the end. Its not directly to do with the mission." Ward began.

"That's fine. I need to talk to the both of you anyway. Now May would you like to begin. Any knew information?

An hour later and the meeting were wrapping up with the team all feeling frustrated. They were no closer to understanding the threat and no one had any new information.

Sighing Coulson drew the meeting to an end, hoping the next time they spoke someone would have found something. Waiting till the rest of the team had signed off her turned to Ward and Skye.

"So what was it you wanted to ask me?"

"Skye is getting bored staying in her flat all the time. I was wondering if it would be all right for us to go out? We were thinking about going to see a movie and grab a meal. As everyone knows we know each other it shouldn't cause any problems."

Coulson smiled at Skye slightly. He knew she would have a problem staying in the flat all the time and didn't really object to her going out.

"Actually that fits extremely well with what I was going to talk to you about anyway. The gossip in the staff room is that you are secretly going out. It's now being bet on, with people saying they are going to look to see if they can catch you together. If it is ok with you two I suggest that you do pretend to be going out. It may provide us with new information, as it's a way for everyone to start new conversations. But its up to you two, its your decision. All you would need to do is go out together and spend a bit more time together."

"That's fine with me Sir. How about you Rookie?"

"If it gets me out of the house then yes. Its fine with me too AC."

"Well that is settled then. Enjoy your night out. Try not to go too mad in the mean time Skye."

The next morning Skye joined Ward in the car, handing him a coffee, which had become part of their morning ritual.

"Morning, Robot."

"Morning Rookie. You're in a good mood this morning."

"Yeah because I can finally escape that flat. So when are we going out. I don't think I can spend much longer all alone in that flat."

"Whenever you want. Skye… are you sure you ok with Coulson's plan? With us pretending to date, I mean?"

"Yeah. It's fine. Are you ok? Would you rather not pretend to go out with me?" Skye wasn't sure why but her heart sank at the thought. She wanted him to be ok with this. Secretly she was looking forward to it, not that she was going to let her SO know that.

"Yeah. I'm fine with it but I didn't want you to be uncomfortable or be forced into anything."

"I'm fine Grant. Seriously. But it was sweet that you are concerned."

Smiling slightly as she saw Ward blush, she grabbed her bag as he pulled the car into the car park. On a whim borne of mischief she reached over and placed a kiss on his cheek.

Grinning as she entered the school as realised how much fun she could have with this undercover. She was getting to pretend to be going out with Grant Ward. The man was so hot yet he didn't even know it. They only problem she could see were keeping him from finding out how she really felt about him.

* So I hope you like it. For anyone that is reading my other story I should hopefully have another chapter up by the end of the weekend. If anyone wants to give me suggestions or prompts please message me on here or find me on tumblr, its the same username. Please review :-) *