The dead start to rise. Skye doesn't stick around to see what happens. / zombie au.

She uses her 0-8-4 powers in front of two dozen SHIELD agents to save them, and it just spirals from there. SHIELD requests she is turned in. For testing. The team is having none of it. / / In which Skye has to go on the run, and Ward isn't leaving her.

Death is quiet. It doesn't last. There's a tug - sharp and painful, and then he's back. Skye sits on a chair in the centre of the room. She's in a papery hospital gown, wires and drips trailing off her, monitors surrounding her. She's staring impassively ahead. / / skye is turned into hydra's pet. a recently deceased ward can't and won't leave her.

'I've discussed it with Coulson,' she says. 'You're going to be joining me on my assignment.' / / ward has another new visitor. she decides he would be more useful elsewhere.

Garrett grunts. He picks up a file and hands it to her. She leafs through it, looking disinterested. 'Easy,' she decides, and gives it up to Grant. It isn't exactly what he would call "easy". It's to assassinate a billionaire businessman who has been putting too much funding into SHIELD. / / skye and her new guard go on a roadtrip. of sorts.

He's gone by the morning. There's a note slipped under Skye's door when she wakes up. It has a set of coordinates, and: in case you need me - Ward. / / in which Skye visits Ward on her week off. He has a lot of dogs.

Raina presses a hand to the bullet hole in his chest, and hears him hiss through his teeth. He should be okay. This has happened before and she's fixed it. This has happened a lot, actually. He's good at getting hurt. He's good at making sure she doesn't get hurt. / / Ward gets shot. Raina tries to save him. because she always does, and this time shouldn't be any different. Right?

Ward has been gone four and a half weeks. It's six AM, and she runs to the bathroom and retches into toilet. / / in which Skye is left behind but not alone.

She visits him once. She means to go again, but it's never the right time. / / they don't end, just fade, lose each other, change.

She's a little surprised when she wakes up one morning to find a tiny present wrapped in starry tissue paper and tied with a bow, sitting right outside her bunk. / / in which the team gives Skye the birthday she never had.

So the bad news is that she's dead. Which is a bit of down on her day. But the good news is that she's no longer in pain. / / in which Ward can't let Skye go, so she stays around to haunt him.

He's been staring at the ceiling for two months straight when the door to his cell finally opens. There's no dramatic explosion, but he knows from the little hiss that it's been broken into. Raina steps through, delicately wiping her hands down on her flower dress, and smiles at him. / / raina rescues ward from prison. she aims to please, and so does he.

five members of the team that die, and one that keeps going (alone).

She was perfect. But she was just a mission. / / Grant Ward meets the love of his life in a bar. Unfortunately, it can never get that far.

The first time Grant sees her, he's barely past the rank of 'rookie'. In fact, this is his first real assignment. He's the newest guard Hydra's pet project: Operation Skye. / / Grant Ward's new job is probably going to kill him (but he might be okay with that).

When they first meet, they are both a little battered. / / au in which Skye and Ward met as screwed up teens and joined SHIELD then HYDRA together.

The baby is tugging at Skye's hair, and it grabs for the knife just inside the fold of her jacket twice. "Help," she says. "Take it." / / dark!skyeward fluff. in which they are forced to look after a baby for a week. after killing its parents.

She vomits. It's not a pretty sight. It's black and bloody, but Ward stands over her and holds her hair back. / dark!skyeward fluff. skye gets monster flu, and ward takes care of her.

Skye's standing on the doorstep, shivering in the pouring rain. She looks frightened and frightening all at the same time. Her hair and her clothes are sticking to her body, but there's dried blood under her nails, her eyes are black and her lips are red. / / they can be monsters together. (and get paid for it.)

There's not a job in town, so sometimes you've gotta find other ways to make your way in life. Now she's got dead men's blood on her dress and her skin, but she doesn't know when she last felt such a rush. / / bonnie&clyde au

He's not having a panic attack. Why would he be having a panic attack? It's not like he's planning on confessing his feelings to possibly the love of his life in a few short minutes. / / missing scene from 117 in which ward has an epiphany in an air duct.

twenty nine times the universe is cruel to Skye and Ward, and steals away their chance at a happy ending.

Skye flexes her fingers. She stretches towards him, brings her index finger and thumb closer together. Slowly. He tried to hurt her. He has to suffer for it. She is a deity compared to him. / / in which Skye and Ward burn worlds and each other.

When she's little she doesn't understand that not everyone grows up with two aunts, three uncles, an absent but fugitive father and no last name. She thinks everyone lives on planes and has visited more countries that most people can name by the time they are five. / / in which Skye has a child who grows up trying to deal with her parents' seriously messed up relationship.

She laughs, leaning into his chest. "I'm a proper Southern girl, you'll make me untidy." Ward feels like the only part of that statement that might be true is that she's Southern. / / southern gothic au

In her nightmare she sees a gun at her stomach, she feels the sharp, sudden jolt of the first shot, and then the duller ache of the second. She sees blood, covering everything, consuming her in red, and in her dreams the team never saves her. / / In which both Skye and Ward are trying to deal with the aftermath of trauma.

"So how long have you and May been doing it?" / in which Skye has a proposal and Ward has some minor issues with it.

Someone as miserable, intoxicated and lovesick as Francis shouldn't be left unsupervised. / / In which a lot of mistakes are made, and most of them end in disaster.