Through Time and Space

Chapter 8

"Skye are you almost ready?" Grant said as he knocked on the bathroom door, "we have to leave for the party soon."

"I'm coming, just hang on a second."

Grant went to go sit on his bed and go over the mission file while he waited for Skye.

"I'm ready! How do I look?" Asked Skye as she opened the door. She was wearing her white dress, with golden flats and bracelets, and she curled her hair at the bottom and added a white flower clip that collected her hair in a loose, elegant ponytail.

Grant's throat turned dry, but he remained cool and collected on the outside, "you look great."

Skye blushed, "thank you."

Grant cleared his throat and extended his arm out to her, "ready to go Katarina?"

She took his arm, "absolutely, Hale. Why do you think you got the name Hale? What kind of name is that?"

"Agents back at HQ assemble the missions," he shrugged, "I just follow instructions."

They walked arm in arm out of the hotel and into the parking lot where they found a red corvette waiting for them.

"Coulson gave us Lola?" Skye asked disbelievingly as she stared at the car.

"Guess so," Grant shrugged as he opened the door for Skye.

"Why thank you, kind sir," she said in a fake British accent.

"Yeah, Jemma was right, we need to work on your accents."

Skye rolled her eyes, "oh, whatever."

As they started driving, Grant noticed Skye looking more and more nervous. He took her hand in his, "hey, what's wrong?"

"Well, it's my first undercover mission since Quinn in Malta, and we both know how well that turned out."

"Skye you'll be fine this time, you have me with you this whole time instead of just at the last minute."

"Yeah I know, and that's calming me down more," she assured him, "but I'm still nervous."

"Let's go over the story of how we met again then, that seemed to cheer you up last night."

She laughed, "yeah that was fun. Ok so let's see, we knew each other since we were 12 and 14, and at first we couldn't stand each other, but over time we slowly started to like each other, we started dating when I was 18 and you were 20, we got engaged two years later, and 5 years after we got engaged, we got married."

"Ok, why did we wait five years?"

"Um... I wanted to go to college first maybe?"

"Ok, that's pretty good. We don't need to go in full detail, we probably won't be asked about it much."

"I know, but it's still kind of fun."

He smiled at her, "we're here."

"Show time," she took a deep breath.

He gave the keys to the valet, opened the door for Skye, and extended his arm to her. She took his arm as she got out of the car and they walked in. There was a full orchestra on one side of the building, finger food on another side, a ballroom dance floor, and many socialites mingling.

"Wow, classy. It's nice, Hale, but this isn't really my thing."

"Me neither."

"So what do we do? We're being picked up in two hours and it shouldn't take long to get to the computers," she asked, asking her SO for guidance.

"We mingle. Maybe dance," he shrugged as if it was obvious.

"Dance?"

"Well there is music," he dead panned.

"I've never danced before," she said shyly.

"Well then," Grant said as he grabbed her hand and led her to the dance floor, "all the more reason. I'll lead."

"You can dance?"

"There are many things that I can do that you would be surprised about."

"Oh yeah?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yep," he smirked devilishly at her and it took all of her will power not to blush. "Now, put both of your arms around my neck. Good, then I put my arms around your waist, and we sway back and forth. Then, when the music changes, we waltz. I put one of my hands on your waist and I take your other hand in mine while you put one of your hands around my neck and the other grabs my hand. There you go."

She smiled, "thanks."

They stayed dancing for a while, mingled with other guests, drank champagne, and after a while they decided to dance again. After all, dancing is the best way to see all of your surroundings. They danced for three songs before Skye finally took her head off of Grant's shoulder. "The guards just left their posts."

"Yeah I see that."

"Let's go!" They left the dance floor and headed towards the hallway. They found a door with a padlock on it.

"This must be where the computers are. Can you hack it?" Ward asked her, looking at the door for any way in.

"I'm insulted that you even had to ask that. Just gimme a sec," she rolled her eyes. Skye managed to hack the keypad with her phone and the door opened automatically. Inside were hundreds of computers. "Sweet glory, it's like I'm in heaven."

"We don't have time to look around, Skye, just find the place that you need to plug the hard drive into."

"Ok ok, I found it, chill," said Skye, "now I just plug it in, type in the password, and activate it. Done!"

"That's all we need to do?"

"That's all, turbo."

"Good, let's go."

They exited the room quietly and closed the door behind them. They almost made it back to the ballroom when they heard footsteps coming towards them. In a moment of panic and not being able to think of anything else, Skye grabbed Grant by the collar of his suit and crashed her lips into his just as the guard turned the corner.