Based off of If This Was a Movie by Taylor Swift

Last night I heard my own heart beating sounded like footsteps on my stairs. Six months gone, I'm still reaching even though you're not there.

"Auntie Skye! Auntie Skye!"

Skye turned around and was met with the two small, bouncing figures in front of her. She smiled at the two children, "hey, kiddos, what's up?"

"Can you read us a story?"

She ruffled the young boy's hair, "of course! Go pick one out!"

She followed the energetic toddlers into the lounge of the Playground and sat herself down on the couch.

"Read us this one!" The little girl held out a big, dusty photo album to Skye.

"Oh sweetie, that's not a story, it's a photo album."

"What's a photo album?" The little boy said, scrunching up his nose.

"Here I'll show you," she took the book from the little girl and motioned for them to sit on either side of her, "a photo album holds a bunch of pictures. I'm not even sure why S.H.I.E.L.D has one," she laughed. She opened it up and all the breath left her lungs.

"Who's he?" the small girl asked innocently, "he's handsome..."

"He's," Skye managed to force out, "an old friend."

I was playing back a thousand memories, baby, thinking about everything we've been through. Maybe I've been going back too much lately, when time stood still and I had you.

After Skye had finished going through a few pages of the photo album, she handed the kids back to Fitz and Simmons and returned to her bunk. She locked the door behind her and she reopened the book, this time going through the whole thing, picture by picture.

She smiled at the first one, it was a picture that Simmons had taken. She was facing the camera and somehow managed to get the other five members of the old team to look up at the precise moment and smile. Or smirk, in Ward and May's case. Skye turned the page to look at the next set of pictures. The next one that met her eyes was a Polaroid, taken by Simmons again. She and Ward were playing battleship by the window and smiling at each other. Skye blushed at the inscription that Simmons had written, "just kiss already!" Simmons had never shown her this picture... she had probably hidden it. Skye slipped it out of the album and held it in her hands, gently caressing it. She and Ward both look truly 100% happy. Instead of putting it back in the book, she put it on her bedside table. She was keeping that one.

Come back, come back, come back to me like you would, you would if this was a movie. Stand in the rain outside till I came out. Come back, come back, come back to me like you could, you could if you just said you're sorry. I know that we could work it out somehow... But if this was a movie you'd be here by now.

Skye buried the side of her face in her pillow and continued to flip through the pages. There were a few pages of just FitzSimmons selfies. Skye smiled at the adorableness of her friends and turned the page, stumbling upon a section Simmons had marked "Skyeward."

Skye saw that Simmons had somehow been able to take pictures of her and Ward during their everyday lives. She had no idea that the scientist was so sneaky. She looked at all the pictures, there were a few where Ward was reading and Skye's feet were on his lap while she was on her tablet. There were a few where they were training, some of them were from where he was teaching her how to use a gun and she was pressed up against him and making jokes, others were from where he was was teaching her hand to hand and she had fallen on top of him. She longed for the simpler times, before everything changed and he betrayed them. She never moved on, not really. She would still gladly go with him if he ever showed his face here again, not that he would. Her friends had probably all chased him away for good.

I know, people change and these things happen. But I remember how it was back then, locked up in your arms and our friends are laughing, has nothing like this ever happened to them?

The next photo took Skye back. It was taken just a few weeks before she was shot. She and Ward were in the lounge and Simmons had walked in on Skye hugging Ward after a mission.

"Whoops!" Simmons laughed, "I'll just come back later."

Skye let go of Ward, but still stayed in close proximity to him, "no you're fine."

Simmons smiled at them in a knowing way and walked past them to the kitchen. Skye followed her, "why are you smiling like that?"

"Oh it's nothing really," Jemma said absentmindedly as she bustled around the kitchen, making herself a snack, "you two are just so adorable."

Skye scoffed, "we're not adorable."

"Honestly, I'm surprised you two haven't kissed yet," Jemma said as she left the room.

Skye walked back to Ward and he smiled at her, "has she figured us out yet?"

Skye smiled and looped her arms around his neck, "not yet," she said as she raised her lips to his.

Now, I'm pacing down the hall, chasing down your street. I flashback to the night when you said to me that nothing's gonna change, not for me and you. Not before I knew how much I had to lose.

Skye walked out of her bunk and made her way through the dark and into the lounge of the Playground. She curled up in a fetal position on the couch and hugged Ward's old sweatshirt closer to her, making her feel like he was still holding her. She sighed, "I was having such a nice day playing with Mikey and Julie," she thought, "and then they had to show me that stupid photo album."

She curled up tighter and hugged her knees. She buried her face in the baggy sweatshirt and inhaled the slowly fading scent of Ward's cologne, gun powder, and chalk from the gym. She smiled and sadly let a tear trickle down her cheek. Soon, one tear led to full-on sobbing. She grabbed a pillow and hugged it close.

A small head popped in the doorway, "Auntie Skye, are you okay?"

Skye looked up and sniffed, "I'm ok Julie, come here," she held her arms open and the small girl walked over to her and hugged her.

"Did I wake you up?"

She shook her head, "no. I was walking to the kitchen to get a snack. Why are you crying?"

Skye hugged the small girl and lifted her on to her lap, "I just miss a very old friend."

"The handsome one?"

Skye laughed, "yeah, the handsome one. We used to be very close but then he did some bad things and I was very mean to him. He's gone now."

"What happened to him?"

Skye froze, she didn't even know where he was. Ever since they got Jemma back from that planet, no one ever said a word to her about Ward ever again. She brought up a hand to cover her mouth. Was he dead? She brushed the hair out of the small girl's eyes, "he left us. He's somewhere far away now."

"I'm sorry."

If you're out there, if you're somewhere, if you're moving on, I've been waiting for you ever since you've been gone. I just want it back the way it was before. I just want you back at my front door.

"Do me one last favor, Robot," Skye said back in her bunk after returning Julie back to her bunk next to her parents. She stared out her window, looking at the stars, "just please don't be dead."

She smiled sadly, "I know you said you'd never lie to me, and you once said that you'd always come back to me. So I'm holding you to it, Robot, you need to come back. For me, please," she said, barely above a whisper. "You don't even have to come back to the base at all. Just knowing that you're alive is good enough for me. I can even-" her voice cracked and started again, "I can even live with you hating me or moving on with someone else or whatever! Just don't be dead," she sobbed quietly into her pillow.

And I'll say come back, come back, come back to me like you would before you said it's not that easy, before the fight, before I locked you out. But I take it all back now!

"He was possessed by Hive?!" Skye shouted at Coulson, "and you never told me!"

"Skye, I knew Ward was always a sore subject. Everyone thought it was best that you didn't know," he said, trying to calm her down.

"Oh you thought killing the man I love and not telling me that he was possessed would be fine? Then all of the sudden you tell me that you got Hive out of him and he's out there somewhere?"

Coulson nodded slowly, "how did you find out about the last part?"

"Simmons has a conscience and I'm a pretty darn good hacker," Skye folded her arms across her chest. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out her badge and flung it on Coulson's desk. He raised an eyebrow.

"This isn't what I signed up for anymore. S.H.I.E.L.D's different now and I don't like it," she turned towards the door and said softly, "tell FitzSimmons and their kids that I said goodbye."

She marched out of his office, her heels clattering loudly as she walked back to her bunk to grab the bag that she had packed.

She yelled behind her shoulder as she left the base, "and don't come looking for me!"

She ran out the door quickly and walked to the nearest town before stealing a car and going on the run. She smiled, "just like old times," she said as she parked the new car in an alley. She quickly typed up an encrypted message and put it on the web, using code words that only Ward would know if he was still out there. She knew he would be monitoring the web for any signs that someone was on to him, so she wasn't worried about him finding this. Now all she had to do was wait to see if he really cared, if he did then he'd be there soon. She was sure of it.

But if this was a movie you'd be here by now. It's not the kind of ending you wanna see now... But baby what about the ending? Oh, thought you'd be here by now.