Title: Accidentally In Love
Pairing: Skye and Jemma Simmons | Skimmons
Summary: After a hard day at work, Skye received a text from an unknown number.
Preview: Unknown Number (7:15pm): Skye. My name is Skye and you're very much welcome Jemma. Goodnight.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but this story.

"We all begin as strangers."

Chapter 1: The Text Message

Skye is a computer prodigy, she excelled in her computer and programming classes since she was a kid. Her first foster parents didn't actually notice it until Skye has accidentally got through NASA's website. Skye and his foster father was in his study and the latter let her use his laptop thinking that she wanted to just play games like solitaire or minesweeper and figured what could go wrong, right? But he was utterly shocked when Skye cheerfully brought and showed him something on the laptop's screen. At first, he smiled thinking Skye was looking at some Science stuff but when she typed in and clicked something and a series of asterisks began to transform into a sequence of numbers, alphabets and special characters and followed by what seemingly as IP addresses appeared into a small black dialog box at the bottom corner of his laptop. He curved his lips downward as he became nervous at the slow revelation. He then frowned and feared for his life when the logo of NASA appeared on the screen. He immediately shut down his laptop, told Skye to go to her room and when she was out of sight, he hid the laptop inside a hidden compartment below his desk. Fearing to be taken by the authority because he can't reason out that a young girl hacked into NASA by accident because it's his laptop so his last resort was to call services.

After which of what happened, Skye had been transferring from foster homes to foster homes and as a child, Skye was confused of what really was happening but she grew more and more distant through those years, she just held on to those foster families so she can finish high school. After she graduated from high school, she told her current family that she wanted to be independent, her family refused at first but she said that "Time has come, my journey with foster homes needed to end and it ends here," she intended to make it sound like a movie quote to add a dramatic effect and she's relieved that it worked.

After some random jobs, she was able to save up and bought her own van. Her van served as her little home and office. She did some programming and hacking as her means of making money and eventually got recruited in the largest network of hackers - The Rising Tide.

During her stay at The Rising Tide, she was able to hone and master her computer skills, she became the best at the organization in a short span of time. She became their biggest asset until one of her trusted mentors, Miles, betrayed her. She left the group and continued her life and worked back in her van. Then after a few months, a company discovered her and hired her.

Skye is now currently working as a full-time network security administrator in a well-known IT company. She has been there for just a couple of months. Working with a computer has always been like a natural thing for Skye so her skills effortlessly landed her this job.

And because of this, she's usually bored at sitting all day at her workstation. Not that she doesn't like her job, she actually likes it too much, she can get to do what she do best, she's having too much fun when she's given a task and the best part of her job – high amount of salary. The only problem is, she usually gets the task done in a short period of time, unusually short for an average network admin thus getting bored after she's finished with all of her tasks. She got tired of Youtube and Facebook, her ears were sore from listening to music during her shift.

Today was a great but a very exhausting day at her work. She was given a task to set-up, configure and troubleshoot the new network hubs and routers for the new building of their company, her co-admin was absent and she had to do that all by herself.

After her shift, she drove by a café to get a coffee for take-out and went straight to her apartment. She placed her jacket on the arm of her sofa and placed her bag on the table.

She was flopped down on her sofa when she felt her phone vibrated in her pocket. She got her phone out to check it and her face scrunched as the number is not registered in her contacts but she still opened it.

Unknown Number (7:12pm): Hi Fitz, I will be staying at my office a bit longer to finish some paperworks. I won't be coming home til 2am so don't wait for me. Goodnight Fitz - Jemma

Skye stared at it for a couple of minutes before she decided to reply.

Unknown Number (7:14pm): Hi there Jemma, you apparently sent your message to me instead of someone named Fitz, I thought of ignoring it at first but I figured that you didn't notice it and Fitz might stay up late waiting for you cause you got the wrong number.

Skye didn't sign it with her name because she thought it didn't matter.

Jemma's phone buzzed on her table and guessing it might be Fitz, she picked it up to check his message but she frowned when she saw an unregistered number. Being a doctor, she opened it thinking that it might be one of her patients trying to contact her.

"Oh my…" She whispered after reading the text. She checked the number and figured out that she had jumbled the last two digits. She forwarded her previous message to Fitz then went on to reply to the unknown person.

Skye wasn't expecting a reply or even any texts so she became curious again when she heard her phone beep. She picked it up and opened it and she figured it was Jemma.

Unknown Number (7:15pm): Hello. I'm sorry for sending you that text message, I had to manually input Fitz's number and I didn't notice that I jumbled the last two digits from his number. I also want to thank you for notifying me about that mistake. Have a goodnight umm…ahh, I didn't get your name though but good night. Thanks again – Jemma

Skye smiled after reading the text, she didn't know why though. She's not really that fond of texting especially when she doesn't know the person but she felt something like a sense of lightness about Jemma. She didn't even notice that she went on to reply to her text.

Unknown Number (7:15pm): Skye. My name is Skye and you're very much welcome Jemma. Goodnight.

After sending her reply, Skye placed her phone down on her desk before she proceeded to take a shower.

Jemma smiled when she read the text. It was a long time since someone used her first name again aside from Fitz. It was always Dr. Simmons, ma'am, madame and other formal honorifics and it somewhat made her feel refreshed. She decided not to reply so she placed her phone down and continued with her papers.

After showering, Skye checked her phone if ever Jemma replied to her last text. She frowned when she didn't get a reply. Normally she wouldn't care and just ignore it, she won't even bother to reply in some instances. It made her think but she put her phone back on her desk and prepared something to eat.

While Skye's eating, she noticed that she's still thinking about this Jemma person.

"What the fuck? Am I really that alone and lonely to even think about a person who sent her message to a wrong number?" She slapped her forehead at the realization.

After Skye was finished with the dishes, she flopped down to her bed to rest. When she was already comfortably lying on her bed, she picked her phone up and opened Jemma's previous messages, she haven't deleted it yet and decided to read it again. She always finds it funny when someone sends a text to the wrong person or number.

While she was reading Jemma's first text, Skye smiled as she found a little reason to text her again without sounding like a creep. She just felt very intrigued with this person and she doesn't know why. Skye is always curious about things but surely, not to a person who she haven't even met yet. She checked the time on her phone and tapped something on her phone screen to compose a new text.

Unknown Number (11:17pm): Hi there. I noticed that I haven't deleted your texts yet and I happen to read it again and I just noticed that you'll be going home at two in the morning, I don't know where you live but knowing that wherever you may be staying but before I delete your texts, I wanna tell you that going home at 2am is really not that safe especially for a woman (I assume you're a woman since your name sounds like one) and I just wanted to say take care when you leave for home - Skye

Skye sent it to Jemma's number with a grin emoticon at the end of the text and she suddenly felt nervous. She didn't know why she's being like that so she opened her own text and read it again.

"Way to go at being not a total creep Skye, good job…good job," She mentally smacked her head and closed her eyes in embarrassment.

Jemma is in the middle of doing her papers when she felt her phone vibrate so she picked it up and opened the message without checking who the sender is.

She felt her lips curve to a smile after reading the text and chuckled softly at the emoticon. She felt warm at the thought that someone is somewhat concerned about that little detail. Fitz didn't even remind her to be careful about going home at two in the morning or he's just used to it. She stared at the text while taking a break from her papers.

Skye keeps on checking her phone every five seconds to see if Jemma will reply.

"Why am I checking my phone every damn 5 seconds? It will surely beep if I will receive a new text!" Skye groaned in frustration "I don't know why I'm frustrated or why I'm nervous or why the hell am I rolling on my bed like an idiot," she added, much more to her growing embarrassment "I shouldn't have sent her that!"

Skye's eyes were closed while contemplating when she heard her phone beep. She lifted up her phone quickly to check who it was but her phone fell to her face because of her nervousness and excitement.

"Ouch! What the hell," She cursed and quickly picked her phone up and steadied it in her hands. She tapped on to it but didn't see who the sender was.

Ward (11:38pm): Hi Skye! Do you wanna hang out and have some drinks, my treat!

Skye frowned and sighed when she read the text. She didn't bother to reply and just closed her eyes again but then her phone beeped once again. She opened it figuring Ward will send her another text just because he knows that Skye will not reply to his first text, as always.

Unknown Number (11:39pm): Hi there Skye. Thank you for sending me a take care message, that's sweet of you. I usually drive home during wee hours of the night most of the time so I'm definitely used to it, but thank you. And oh, yes I'm a woman and I live in Boston – Jemma

Skye's eyes grew wide in a very comical way and her heart thumped faster than before. She didn't expect that Jemma will actually reply to her text though she's really hoping for it. She mentally praised herself that Jemma thought that her text was sweet. Her smile grew to a grin when she found out that Jemma is also living within Boston, same place as where she is currently staying.

That's it for now readers! I planned this story as a one-shot but apparently it didn't go as planned so I'm guessing I'll be adding a chapter or chapters depending on how the story will progress.

Thank you for taking your time to read this fic about Skimmons. I hope you like it and maybe add some feedbacks on your way out :) It will very much be appreciated.