Their little star

Skye

By now, Skye has lost count on how many times she's read the email. As she reads it through once more, she still can't believe what it's saying. Rising from her bed, she unlocks the bunk door and steps into the semi hallway. Hearing voices coming from the kitchen, she turns her head in that direction.

With a lift eyebrow, she looks down on her phone, ignoring the open email and looks at the clock. Seeing as it’s lunch time, Skye can’t help but to wonder for how long she's been staring at her phone.

Knowing that the only person to help her understand what is going on is probably in the kitchen, she starts walking towards the voices. Her eyes travel down to her phone, in a desperate try to understand them.

“Skye, your up! Is everything alright?”

At the sound of Simmons first happy voice and then the worry in her tone, Skye looks up, seeing that the whole team is looking at her. At this, she shrinks down, she should just have waited for Melinda to leave, this should have been a conversation in the cockpit. But she’s already there, its to late to turn around and leave.

“Yeah, it’s just... May, could you take a look at this. I’m not sure I’m reading this correctly.”

She asks, making sure to keep her attention on her mother. Seeing Melinda lift one eyebrow, she hands over her phone. Feeling that Coulson and Ward is still looking at her, she feels the urge to leave, to return back to her bunk and hide.

“Well, this is a surprise. You should accept it.”

Melinda informs her, which makes Skye lift her head, eyes growing in surprise. This was the last thing she would expect her mother to tell her.

“Wait, what?”

She asks, just to make sure she heard the other woman correctly. By now, the rest of the team is interested in what is going on but seeing how Melinda locks her phone when handing it over, indicates she wouldn’t be surprised if someone else tried to take her phone to read what was on it. Taking back her phone, Skye makes sure to hold on to it tightly.

“I mean, he did take a liking of you. If he wants you to join one of his parties, then I say it would be a good idea. Who knows, one day we will need his or the others help, and seeing as someone else here can’t call them, then it will be good if you can.”

Melinda explains, keeping her explanation as vague as possible and Skye can see that it angers at least to people, making her shrink even more.

“What are you two talking about?”

Coulson demands to know; the tone makes Skye want to either run or hide behind Melinda. Seeing that Melinda turns around in her seat, to look at her long-time partner with narrowed eyes, she has read the fear in Skye, like always.

“Skye was sent an invitation to a Stark party. And I say it will be a good idea for her to go.”

Melinda explains, at the mention of a Stark party, the atmosphere splits in two. FitzSimmons looks overly happy about this, talking amongst themselves on which people would be going. Ward and Coulson don’t look all to happy.

“Skye, why don’t you go and answer that email. Simmons, go with her.”

Melinda orders, her eyes kept on Coulson and Ward. If it had been during any other situation, Skye would stay with her. But the tone in Melinda's voice, makes Skye take a step back. She knows Melinda isn’t mad at her, but it did scare her slightly.

She also knows Melinda is aware of this, seeing as she orders Simmons to go with her. But Skye can’t help but to wonder if her mother is doing this to force Skye to have a conversation with Simmons.