39. Arc Shot

After the long kiss for few minutes when their breathing became ragged Grant said "See... it's more than a kiss. It's kisses now"

Skye couldn't help but laugh at his comment and said "That's a really bad one"

"Hey, I can't be good at everything you know," said Grant with a smirk

"That I know, after all, I did beat you in Battleship," said Skye while still in Grant's arms.

"Yeah sure," Grant said while nuzzling his face around Skye's neck making her shudder.

"D-Don't forget ok, you have never beaten me in Battleship," said Skye as she pushed Grant to make him look at her instead of burying his face on her neck.

"That's because I let you win, you weren't showing much improvement so I thought if you win in something against me it will boost your morale" stated Grant

"Are you kidding me?" asked Skye as she pushed Grant away from her making him break the hug as he took two steps back.

"Hey, don't look me like that. I promised to not lie to you so I didn't and told you the truth." Grant said

"Oh really, then how did you shoot him," asked Skye as she pointed towards Donnie, "No matter how I think, there was no way you could have hit him from where you were standing, I don't think there was enough gap in their wall that you could have shot him"

"I did tell you that it was an Arc shot but you won't believe me," said Grant

"See you are lying again," Skye said with her arms crossing around her chest.

"Just check his head there would be a bruise on the right side of his head where my ICER hit him," said Grant

Skye walked towards Donnie as she continued to stare at Ward, then looked at his head to find a blue-colored bruise on the right his head shocking Skye.

"H-how is this possible?" asked Skye in surprise.

"You would have known I wasn't lying if you had just watched me practicing in the shooting range then you would have known that I was practicing for this shot in there," Grant said

"You are saying it's possible to make the bullet curve," asked Skye still in shock

"Well not everyone can do that but yes it's possible for me," said Grant nodding his head.

For the rest of the trip, Skye continued to ask Grant questions about the arc shot and he replied to everyone as much as he could.

After returning to the playground, Skye dragged Grant to play a game of battleship with him to seriously beat him in it. Unfortunately for Skye things didn't go as planned as even though she could easily beat Grant when they were on the Bus but right now even after an hour of playing there was no clear winner.

"Okay, I believe you," Skye said seeing that she won't be beating him so easily now.

"Thank you but it looks like I still am not good enough to beat you," said Grant

"That's for sure," Skye said with a grin.

The game had to end abruptly as Coulson called for a meeting to inform the team of the reason for him not telling them why Jemma's infiltration was kept hidden from them.

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With Hydra, Whitehall tells Bakshi that SHIELD is becoming a problem and he wants to know who is in charge. Agent 33 walks in with a file for Whitehall and says she is happy to comply. Bakshi asks for authorization to bring Simmons from the lab. He says he trusts her but if he is wrong they will make her comply.

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At the Playground, things were going great for Grant as he was getting closer to Skye. Even though she was just a means to get out of his prison in the beginning, right now Grant loves her bubbly personality, it doesn't change the fact that the previous Grant's feelings affect him at some level as well.

Skye herself has started interacting with Ward more and more after the day in the interrogation room on the Bus. She also comes to him from time to time to learn the Arc shot from him but since Grant doesn't have that many carved bullets he couldn't teach her that.

They have also started to play battleship regularly just like Ward plays poker with Fitz regularly.

Right now Grant was walking towards the weapon supply when he heard Hunter, Mack, Skye, and Tripp all talking together sitting in the lounge room. He knew Coulson and May had just returned from a mission in which they obtained some painting. Grant obviously remembers which mission it was, since it showed the closeness between the two most level-headed Agents of Shield, and in this mission, May electrocuted Kara Palmas's face. So the two of them were busy doing some paperwork and decompressing. As he was deciding whether he should enter or not, he heard Hunter started talking.

"It didn't work out because interspecies relationships are hard, I was a human while she was a demonic hell beast" Hunter complained.

Grant smiled, when he had first watched this episode he thought what type of women his ex-wife was only to be surprised later on when he found out who she was. He peeked around the corner to see who else was listening. Mack and Fitz were sitting on the opposite ends of the couch. Fitz had his feet up on the coffee table while Mack absentmindedly played with a soccer ball.

Hunter was sitting on a single easy chair with a beer beside him, Skye leaning across the bar while Tripp was mixing drinks next to her.

"He doesn't like her" Mack explained to Skye, rather unnecessarily in Grant's view.

Tripp seemed to share his opinion, "You don't say" he said drily as he poured vodka into a glass of what looked like cranberry juice. He the. slid the glass over to Skye who nodded her thanks and took a sip.

"She's pure evil" Hunter insisted.

"Oh, I don't know," Skye said teasingly, glancing at Grant standing halfway hidden in the doorway. Caught he had to come in with the rest of the group. He gripped Fitz's shoulder as he passed, aware that he was quiet. After the talk with Coulson about Jemma, Fitz had started to become more and more silent if it wasn't for Ward's therapy he would have stopped talking completely.

"What do you mean?"