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Skye stepped into the room as the door clicked shut behind her, she looked around, taking note of the exits and the people in the room, just in case she needed to make a quick escape, and dropped into an empty seat next to a pale, blonde, icy blue eyed cop who just grunted, in what Skye thought may have been a greeting.
Skye was quite happy to ignore the surly, blonde cop beside her and just stare at her boots, but a voice in her head told her that she really should be taking notice of those around her, feeling them out to make sure that none of them were a threat to her. She attempted to ignore her training considering she wasn't even there in an official capacity as an agent of SHIELD. The sound of someone clapping their hands together got her attention and she quit staring at her boots to look to the front of the room.
“Hello ladies, I'm Ryder and welcome to The Pregnant Wives Support Group, the whole point of this group is to talk about experiences that you and many others like you have with your pregnant wife or partner or whatever is on your mind about the pregnancy or just about how you're feeling in general. These meetings are held every week, but if you are not able to attend weekly meetings, you may come and go as you please, some prefer to come on a monthly basis”
Ryder paused to take a breath before she spoke again. “Some of you may be here to get away for a little while and that's perfectly fine, this is a judgement free zone. If you choose to talk about what's said in the meetings with your significant other that is totally up to you. Now to begin we'll go around the circle, say your name, your partner's name, your profession and your partner's if you wish and if you want to you can also tell us how far along in the pregnancy your partner is” Ryder smiled and clapped her hands together in excitement.
Ryder clapped her hands together once more and beside her, Skye heard the cop, who she had decided to nickname 'Surly' groan and mutter “She's one of those kind of people” Skye snorted and quickly covered it with a cough, when Surly glared at her.
They went around the circle.
There was Emma the sheriff, who's wife, Regina, was the mayor of their small town. They already had a son but it was a long story and that was pretty much all that Emma said on the subject.
Sara, the vigilante bartender, a former assassin, who's wife Felicity, worked in IT and as their tech support while on vigilante business. Sara also mentioned that her wife and shown her that she still had a lot of light left in her.
Beca, the DJ, didn't say much, she wasn't much of a talker, her wife Chloe, the accapella singer was apparently the talkative one in their relationship.
Kate, who worked at The Sanctuary owned by her wife, Magnus.
Jane, the detective, who's wife Maura was the chief medical examiner and the best thing that had ever happened to her.
Myka, the Secret Service and Warehouse 13 agent, whose wife was also a Warehouse 13 agent.
(Skye made a mental note to look into The Sanctuary and Warehouse 13 and find out what they did and possibly the vigilante as well)
Skye stopped listening and really only listened to the important bits, their occupations, filing each one away for later.
Skye tuned back in when she realised that the cop beside her was speaking. Her name was Gail, her wife Holly, was a Forensic Pathologist. She wasn't so grumpy looking when she talked about her wife and what she did for a living, she looked proud.
“Cops must have a thing for medical examiners” She hadn't meant to say it out loud. Across the circle she saw Emma shaking her head, Jane was nodding her head so hard that Skye was sure if she kept it up her head would probably fall off.
Beside her, Gail was glaring at her “And just what do you and your wife do” Gail snapped, “Well, Peck” Skye took full advantage of the name stitched into the cop's uniform and stored it away for later, just in case. “We work for SHIELD, Jemma's a bio-chemist, a genius bio-chemist at that and I'm a hacker, a pretty darn good one” Skye folded her arms and glared right back at her.
They glared at each other until Ryder clapped and broke the tension in the room. “I swear to god, if she claps one more time, I'm going to break her hands and make it look like an accident” Gail muttered and glared at Ryder instead.
“Skye, by the way” Skye murmured, Gail stopped glaring at Ryder who was talking about how good it was to know everyone’s name or at least that’s what Skye thought she was talking about. “What?” “My name” Gail looked surprised but nodded and gave her a small smile of acknowledgment before glaring back at Ryder.
Gail wasn’t the only one who looked like she wanted to break Ryder’s hands if she clapped once more, across the circle, Beca was scowling at her and Sara looked like she was working out how she could do it without getting arrested.
Skye had gone back to staring at her boots after studying the group and was surprised when she heard herself saying “The sex is amazing” Ryder had just asked what they liked most about their partner being pregnant. She really hadn’t meant to say that out loud, there was a chorus of “Amen sister” and “You can say that again” a dread locked scientist whose name Skye thinks might be Cosima, winked at her and Skye groaned and slid down in her seat.
Ryder looked amused and asked her next question, "Do your partners know that you're at this meeting?" the room fell silent and several people looked uncomfortable.
Cosima piped up "Delphine thinks I'm in the lab making like super crazy science" "I told Maura i was tracking down an informant" "Holly probably thinks i'm at the Penny because if I wasn't here, that's where i'd be" "At a gig" "Felicity know's I'm here, i couldn't really say i was out doing vigilante stuff because she would know if i was" "At my parents, picking up the kid" "Helena knows everything, she encouraged me to come" "Magnus obviously knows I'm here, she dropped me off" Several other women muttered that their wives didn't know they were there. Skye felt uncomfortable and squirmed in her seat "I've never lied to Jemma, well apart from that one time but that was different, I told Jemma that i was on Shield business" Skye murmured feeling guilty.
The room fell silent once more, each woman thinking about their significant other and how they would most likely react if they found out that they hadn't been where they said they were.
The silence was interrupted by the door banging open and Ryder telling someone that they couldn't be in here.
"I'm looking for my wife" A very familiar and angry british voice said. Skye jumped up, tripping over her chair in the process and turned to face her very angry wife.
"Jemma"