SHIELD fic rec

Only Happy When It Rains by eedmund
Grant Ward/Skye; romance/humor; rated M; 4028 words
Summary:Ward finds out that Skye is only 4 hours away and it's Valentine's Day. Surprise road trip? Of course! This is post "An Honest Conversation" (and, consequentially, s2e10) and relies on the backstory therein.

Ward had never once cared to celebrate Valentine's Day. Pink hearts and naked cupids, cut roses and cheap chocolates, and sticky, putrid poetry; it was an absolute waste of time and resources. If Ward could self-induce a coma at 11:59 on February 13th and come out of it without the throbbing hangover on the 15th, he would. Or, rather, he would have before this year.

This was the year that Ward realized Valentine's Day had some strategic potential.