Oh, MAN, I just came up with another AOS AU that I may have to write. It would be a season 3 AU, where Ward has his Hydra team growing.
Coulson sends Skye in undercover.
There is SO much potential here! After everything that happens with the Afterlife, Skye would have a perfectly plausible reason for turning on SHIELD. And it would be so much fun to reverse their roles – Skye the one “living the lie” while Grant is struggling to find his place in the world. But he would also be really hesitant to really trust her, keeping her at arm’s length while on a tight leash, just in case. And of course it would get dragged out when SHIELD realizes there’s a much bigger fish to catch than Grant.
I swore I wasn’t going to start any new stories till I finished some of what’s already going. But this one is really persistent. Okay. I’ll push to finish Truce and at least update one other before I let myself run with this one.