Title: Life On The Bus

Author: Debra

Rating: Mature

Summary: Sequel to A Different Life. Skye and Grant Ward are assigned to a Mobile Unit with a brought back from the dead, Phil Coulson as their boss. How will they balance their small family with being able to do their jobs?

Author's Notes: This story will follow the events of the series but Ward will not be Hydra because John Garrett wasn't a part of life in this story as explained my previous story, A Different Life.

Disclaimer: The known characters in this story all belong to Marvel and ABC television.


The days after Phil Coulson's death and finding out that Tommy was alive had been a hectic one for the Ward family. All of them had to work together to help him get acquainted with the changes that had happened in the close to twenty years since his supposed death, fourteen of which had been spent a captive of a psychopath, posing as a Shield agent.

Tommy had told Grant a story of being abandoned in the woods in Wyoming; the training to knock any weakness out of him and the beatings that came with it. It had taken Steve Rogers and Thor to contain Grant and keep him from going to the Fridge and putting a bullet into John Garrett's brain. That's how furious he was.

Lily had gasped in shock and turned pale as a sheet before passing out into Clint Barton's arms. After she had come to, Lily had told Skye that was exactly what she had seen in her vision of Grant's future if she hadn't of saved him. Grant had been the victim of the beatings and other tortures that hateful man had come up with and with him the conditioning had worked in a way that it seemingly hadn't with Tommy

A year had passed since then and a lot of things had changed for the Ward family, along with the Avengers and Shield agents close to them.

Natasha was now working with Steve Rogers, going on classified missions that only Fury knew about. There was still some questions about what was going on with them because every chance she got Nat was trying to set him up on dates and he kept turning them down.

Clint had spent a lot of time with Lily at his farm before getting back into missions six months earlier. Lily had gone back to the family home but was letting Travis and her mother handle things that she usually did because after Milly's betrayal, the former needed something to take his mind off of his shattered life. The only good thing that had come out of it was his children turning to him more even Grant, who was still reeling from Coulson's death.

Louise had a baby boy that she named Philip Nathaniel after Coulson and her grandfather. Christian divorced Abby and married his high school sweetheart Anna and he was happier than he had been in a long time.

Caleb had been officially adopted by Grant and Skye but still went to see Christian and Anna. He wasn't allowed anywhere around Abby, who had been given what had been allowed in her prenuptial agreement and told to stay away.

Seven months after Coulson had died; Skye gave birth to a daughter, Camilla Grace Ward. She had a headful of dark hair, her daddy's amazing cheekbones but the rest of her was Skye. She was the light of her parent's lives.


Five months after Camilla was born, Skye cuddled into Grant as he slept beside her, wanting to savor her time with him. He was leaving for a mission in Paris in a few hours and she would have to go back to the van that the members of the Rising Tide thought she was living in.

Given her grandmother's rules about how pictures of the younger generation of the Ward family were not going to be allowed in any way shape or form, the press had stayed away from her, Grant, Louise and now Tommy and the little ones. The only one that had been in the press was Christian for obvious reasons and that had happened only after he had started to build his political career. That had helped a great deal with both her and Grant being Shield agents.

Skye had been undercover for the past month, after her ex Miles had been arrested by the FBI for hacking into their system. So Shield, knowing that she wouldn't want to be away from her husband and children had set them up in a penthouse apartment in Los Angeles, while she pretended to live in a van and speak out against Shield.

"I know you are awake," she heard Grant murmur sleepily as he wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him, her head lying on his bare chest.

"Cami will be waking up very soon wanting to be fed so I figured I might as well stay awake," she said softly. "I like the time I can spend with her early in the morning before Ms. Fletcher takes over the rest of the day."

"I know you can't wait until your undercover mission is over so you can be with Cami and Caleb. I'm just glad that there was a level eight agent who has experience as a nanny and can protect our children from anybody that might want to hurt them."

"Especially if any our enemies realize that our son is the biological son of a US Senator and our daughter is not only a witch but also an inhuman."

"I'm glad Aunt Lily ignored Director Fury and actually looked into your past. She and Cal seem to have come to an understanding that he might not have if he would have had to deal with Shield."

"I am glad that after having Cami I could see where Cal was coming from. If somebody ever took Cami and Caleb from me and killed you, I would lose it. There would be hell to pay."

Her mom had found Dr. Cal Zabo, Skye's biological father a few months earlier, against Nick Fury's express wishes. One of her visions of the other timeline had made her decide to do this to prevent any pain that it might otherwise cause. She had never allowed Shield to affect her decisions for her family and she wasn't about to start now.

Cal had come with Lily from China to the penthouse that Skye and Grant were living in and had met his daughter. He had gently explained what had happened and when it got to the part where he told her what had been done to her mother, Skye was in tears clinging to Grant like he was her only lifeline.

Of course, they had allowed him to meet Cami and the man had fallen in love with his granddaughter at first sight. He also seemed to adore Caleb after realizing that despite the fact Skye hadn't given birth to the boy, he was just as much her child as Cami was.

He had also explained to them about the Diviner and had told them that only Skye and one other person he knew could touch it. So it was decided that they would wait for Skye's powers to be activated after she knew more about her past and spent more time with her biological father.

"The same goes for me, Skye. The three of you are my world," Grant said, kissing her gently.

The kiss deepened and he flipped them over until she was lying under him. Her hands went into his thick black hair as he set her body aflame with open mouthed kisses down her throat, hands reaching down to pull her nightgown off of her body. The rest of their clothes soon followed as they kissed and touched every inch of the other's body that they could reach.

When he finally entered her, they moved slowly together, savoring every moan and pleasured filled gasp that left their lips. They had been together so long; they knew what made the other cry out the loudest in ecstasy. As they both reached their climax, their names were called out as they collapsed together on the bed, still connected physically.

When they finally caught their breaths, Skye and Grant's focus was pulled from each other to the sound of their crying daughter through the baby monitor on their night stand. He pulled out of her and got out of the bed, pulling his discarded pair of pajama pants on.

"I will go and bring Cami to you."

She smiled as he left the room, admiring the muscles on her husband's upper body. It wasn't long after that Grant came back into the room, their crying daughter in his arm. Skye felt her heart melt at the tiny tears falling down her cheeks.

"I changed her diaper but she's hungry and wants Mommy."

Skye took Cami from Grant and lowered the bed sheet covering her chest and felt her child latch onto her left nipple. The feeling of her child at her breast never got old and felt a rush of love for the infant in her arms.

"It never gets old watching the two of you like that," he said before sitting beside her and gently kissing her before kissing Cami on her forehead.

They sat quietly watching their child and enjoying each other's presence, not knowing that their lives and the lives of their young family was about to get crazy.


AN: I hope I did okay with the love scene. I am not very good at them and feel self-conscious writing them but I felt that it was needed in this opening chapter of this story; to give Skye and Grant a sweet moment together before they get pulled into the craziness of their life on the Bus.