A/N: I don't own The Avengers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,or Thor. Also, the time line has been skewed to allow for the preceding oneshots. Everything from Captain America: the Winter Soldier forward is a year after it happens in the cannon, except Steve met Sam, and Sam joined the team (sort of) before WS. R&R!

They had spent the past year looking for him, and he had been right in front of them all along. It was Garrett; he was the Clairvoyant. He was someone they had all trusted with every fiber of their being, and he had been playing them the whole time.

As these thoughts ran through the mind of Agent Phillip J. Coulson, his fists hit the punching bag with great force each time. He was so focused on letting out his anger, he missed the figure walking up behind him.

"Dad, don't do this to yourself, please. He had us all fooled, and I think Trip might be just as angry as you are. Garrett may have saved your life in the past or whatever happened between you two to make you trust him, but he took the lives of Trip's friends. He's gone now, and he'll pay for what he did; I'll have Mom make sure of it.", Skye told him.

"Did I ever tell you how happy I was when the two of you agreed that, even though she's just a little older than you, your respect for Darcy is great enough for you to call her that?", the Level 8 agent asked the Level 1 agent.

"You've mentioned that a few times. But, the real reason I came down here, we have a major problem that neither Trip, Fitz, Tony, nor Bruce can fix.", she said.

"What happened?", Phil asked.

"Well, Jemma ran those blood samples Tasha sent, and we found out that Tasha is pregnant. Yeah, it's supposed to be impossible, I know; but it's true. Jemma ran the tests three times more when I asked her too, and she'd already run them five times each. Add that to the fact that without S.H.I.E.L.D., Bruce could be in danger right now, and Jemma's a complete mess!", Skye explained, shocking Phil.

"I-I-I'm going to be a grandpa?!", Phil managed to get out.

"Yep, and I'm going to be an aunt! But, Dad, until I find Tasha, I think Bruce's safety should be our first concern. I have the backup laptop doing a facial recognition software scan for her, so until it goes off, I've got nothing on her. Anything I can actually do to help us?", she replied.

"You can go and collect everyone's badges. I'm going to call Darcy and ask her to have Tony increase security. Since every record of every member of our family is on its own flash drive in the safe at home, I want you to erase "every" record of this team. We're going into Odyssey Protocol, making us ghosts.", he answered as he hurried up to his office.

"You got it!", she called over her shoulder as Jemma walked up behind her.

"Is he okay?", the scientist asked, trembling.

"Jem, my dad just went to call home to get Tony to increase the security if he hasn't already. He's Tony's best friend, and he's married to one of the nation's top scientists. Bruce is safer now than he ever was before. Keep calm, and it will all be okay. Just breathe, and hand me your badge. Dad's orders, not mine!", Skye emphasized the last part of her statement.

Jemma nodded, took a deep breath, took her badge out of her pocket, and slid it across the table to Skye. The dark haired girl smiled sadly at the auburn haired girl, looking just passed her to see Fitz and Triplet.

"Jemma, send them in. I need their badges, then I have to get May's badge. And, if you're that worried, call him.", Skye said, and Jemma did as instructed before hurrying to the lab to call Bruce.

Fitz and Trip eyed Skye wearily as they stepped into the room, watching as she pressed a button on her computer to start erasing any trace of the team. The middle Coulson child sighed softly before looking at the two men.

"Coulson asked for your badges. He said they are the last things we want to get caught with, so hand them over.", Skye demanded, holding out her hand.

"What's that?", Fitz asked, pointing at her laptop as he handed over his badge.

"Don't freak out, but I'm erasing any trace of all of us. Really, I'm not; but the only other copy of any of our files is kept under lock-and-key by a rather snarky, pain-in-the-ass friend of mine. He's one of the most loyal people I know, and he trusts very few people, which I am one of, as is Coulson. If you ever meet him, make sure you never betray him. He won't like that, and he will make sure no one will like you. Got it?", Skye told them, and both men nodded.

"If there's anything you'll need from me, I'll be in the lab with Fits and Simmons.", Trip said briefly, and he and Fitz left back for the lab.

Skye hurriedly made her way to the cockpit to get May's badge, and the woman gave it up surprisingly easily. The badges in hand, Skye made it up the stairs and was in her father's office before he had even finished his phone call to Darcy.

"Is that Mom?", she asked him.

"It is, and she says, 'Hi!'", he replied, holding the phone away from his ear.

"Hey, Mom!", Skye said cheerily, but softly into the phone.

Skye remained silent until Phil's phone call was over, knowing not to interrupt an important phone call between her father and step-mother. Once he had hung up, Phil looked at his only daughter with a look of plain relief.

"Tony had the security upgrades done before I could even ask. Steve and Sam are okay, but Steve wants to find Bucky, who happens to be Winter Soldier. Maria made it to the guest apartment level, and she will be masquerading as S.H.I.E.L.D. leader-turn Pepper Potts' employee. S.H.I.E.L.D. is going underground, the way it was intended to be. All of the academies are going to be largely unaffected by us going underground, but we have to flush the Hydra agents out first.", Phil said, taking the badges from her.

"It all seems so simple, yet so difficult. Should I run a facial recognition scan on Bucky too? I think Steve would want the help.", Skye replied, and Phil smiled at her.

"Bucky won't be found until he wants to be. He and Nat are different in this. Nat doesn't want to hide because she has a family now, she has Clint. Bucky wants to hide until he knows who he is, why he's here, and how he can return to any semblance of normality.", he explained, and she nodded.

"Here, take it. It's not like I had it that long anyway. I'm going to go check to see if Tasha's popped up yet.", Skye replied, leaving the room, eager to find her sister-in-law.

As Skye started down the stairs, she heard a faint beeping. She turned around and reentered the room, her eyes catching on a golden flash from the safe.

"Dad, is that your badge blinking?", she asked, and Phil turned to look at where Skye was pointing.

Sure enough, it was his badge. A set of coordinates blinked before going solid, and Phil gaped.

"Do they all do that at some point?", Skye asked.

"Not to my knowledge, and I've been at S.H.I.E.L.D. since I was in my early thirties. Your uncle recruited me into the army when I got out of school, and then to S.H.I.E.L.D. once I was at the CIA. He gave me this badge, meaning he knew about this. He's leading us somewhere. Tell May to meet me in the Opps Center.", Phil said before closing the safe, his bade still in his hand.

That night, while May flew the BUS to the coordinates on Phil's badge, the man himself woke to a light tapping on his bedroom door. He opened the door to reveal a teary-eyed Skye, who clung to him tightly the second she saw him.

"Nightmare?", he asked.

"Yeah.", she mumbled back.

"Well, c'mon then. We both need to get some sleep.", Phil said as he led his daughter by the hand back to the bed.

"G'night, Daddy.", Skye mumbled, and then she was out.

Phil smiled at her, because it was rare that Skye was ever this clingy and innocent. Usually when she had nightmares about Quinn shooting her, she was at home and usually went looking for ice cream and/or her older brother. Only then would you have a difficult time telling the difference between 23 year-old Skylar Coulson and 2 year-old Emma Rogers.

Just before 5:00 A.M., Phil's door opened again, and he groaned as he realized he would have to explain his family to Melinda May.

"What the hell, Phil?", she hissed.

"She had another nightmare. Generally, when a girl gets scared, she runs to her father before anyone else. Usually, Skye goes to find her brother, but as he's at home trying to locate his wife and unborn child, she has me. Skye is my biological child, Melinda. The only person on this plane other than the two of us, who knew that is Simmons, and she only knows because her second cousin in the best friend of my youngest son's godfather. We all live in the one place, so when Jemma goes to visit Bruce at Christmas, she bunks with Skye.", he said quickly, and May nodded slowly.

"I came to wake you because we'll be landing in about an hour and a half.", she said and walked away without another word.

Once she was gone, Skye spoke up.

"So, that makes it more people on this plane who know even a half truth than people who know no truth about the family."

"Yeah, but I don't really care.", was Phil's only reply.

"Hey, Dad, before we land, can I call Ward?", she asked.

"Go ahead, and use your training to see if you can tell what his location is.", he answered, and Skye hurried off, still clad in her Captain America pajamas.

"Hey, it's me.", Skye said into the phone.

"Hey.", Ward replied.

"Just calling to let you know Grant Ward no longer exists. Coulson had me erase any trace of us.", she told him, silently adding, "outside of Tony Stark's secret hard drives."

"Okay. Who am I now?", he asked.

"Whoever you want to be.", Skye answered, and Ward let out a laugh.

"The next time I see you, I might even be Tom Brady.", he said.

"Ah, supermodels and fame. Always the quarterback, right?", she asked.

"Sure. Hey, I've got to go. Agent Hand wants us to get moving. I'll talk to you later.", Ward told her, but Skye could hear the snigger from somewhere behind him.

"Sure.", she said, listening closely, hearing Garrett's voice behind him saying something along the lines of "-you hate the Patriots!" and Ward laughing along with him.

Then the line went dead. Holding back tears, Skye ran straight to her father, wrapping her arms around him. Unsure about what had occurred, Phil just held her like he normally did after her nightmares.

"Daddy, Ward is H.Y.D.R.A. I heard Garrett laughing in the background, and then Ward laughed with him. I listened as hard as I could, and he's on Garrett's side. I could tell.", she whispered into his chest, but Phil was still able to understand the muffled response.

"If he is H.Y.D.R.A., we'll catch him and end this. Now go get ready, we'll be landing sooner rather than later.", he said softly, and Skye nodded before walking towards he bunk to grab a change of clothes before going to get a shower.

While Trip, May, and Jemma were tiring of the trek through the icy tundra of Canada, Skye, Fitz, and Coulson showed no signs of being even the slightest bit weary. Each time someone even mentioned stopping, Fitz chewed them out for it, insisting that they trust Phil. Finally, they came to the where the coordinates led.

"There's nothing here.", Skye whispered, and May started telling Phil it was a trap.

Phil grew angry, and he threw his badge with all his might, prompting the turret gun to pop up. It fired a few shots, but Phil stepped out into the clearing anyway.

"I am Phil Coulson, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.", he said, and the doors opened.

A small, portly man walked out, and he smiled before leading them all inside. Skye eyed the man, Agent Eric Koenig, not sure if she could fully trust him. Her suspicions were proven true when he forced them all to take polygraphs after Ward showed up. It took Skye every ounce of self-restraint she had when it was her turn.

"Name?", Koenig asked.

"Skye, just Skye. No last name.", she said, and the censors luckily did not go berserk.

"Any other names?", he asked.

"Well, at the orphanage, they gave me the name Mary Sue Poots. I got rid of that as soon as I could.", Skye said, using every technique Natasha had taught her over her sporadic visits to the tower over the past year to blend the truth of her name at St. Agnes' with the lies of her full name.

Koenig asked a few more questions before congratulating Skye and presenting her with a lanyard to replace her badge. Skye took it and made her way into the hall.

"I did it! I passed the test and got a lanyard. You're the only one left.", she chirped, not letting on to what all she knew.

Ward, however, was able to pass the mega-polygraph and was given his own lanyard. Skye went back to work on her secret mission of trying to prove Ward to be H.Y.D.R.A. as Phil took Simmons, Fitz, and Trip with him to locate Marcus Daniels, an escaped, gifted convict of the Fridge. With her father gone, and no other family around to protect her, Skye's training was truly being put to the test. Ward was trying to get her to believe he truly loved her, and Skye was trying to convince him that she suspected nothing and truly loved him. The difficult part was convincing herself that she had not fallen in love with him over the past several months.

'Natasha's first lesson was not to let your real emotions show for even a millisecond. Someone with skills like Ward could tell you were faking instantly.' she kept reminding herself, but it was no easy task. She hated what he had done, how he had lied to her and the team. She could not stand how he had lured everyone, especially her own father, into a false sense of security. She wanted to kill him, destroy him, herself. Well, almost.

There was still that part of Skye that was unwilling to kill another human being. It was the part of her that believed everyone had some level of humanity to them. Natasha told her it was the one thing that proved, without a doubt, that Skye was indeed Phil's daughter. Phil would/could kill, and had killed, another person, but he preferred taking prisoners alive; he much more preferred justice to be done, for there to be punishment for the crime. Skye found she preferred that as well. And she had figured out the perfect punishment for Ward.

Skye had set the trap as best she could. After Ward had forced her onto the BUS, after Phil and his "splinter team" went on their mission with the drop plane and after May's departure, she sent a single encrypted text message to Tony, the only person she knew would be in a position to help her. Then, she gave a fake location to Ward, so she could set her plan in motion by pretending to unlock the hard drive. He did not understand why she would pick the small diner in L.A., but he would never understand a lot of things about Skye.

"So, how long is this going to take?", he asked for about the fifth time.

"It'll only be about fifteen more minutes.", she told him, her eyes briefly darting over to the police officers at the bar.

Ward looked at them as well, but he was far more anxious and impatient.

"Hey, what's the longest you've been deep undercover?", Skye asked, preparing to psyche Ward out to the fullest extent of her plan.

"Sixteen months, about five years after I got out of the academy.", he said, and she cut him off before he could begin his next sentence, honestly not caring about what he had been doing.

"It must be hard, living a double life like that.", she said casually, "Gaining someone's trust and then betraying them like that and all. I don't know how Garrett did it: all of that time he spent as your mentor, only for him to lie to your face and betray you like that."

"It was hard to accept, but we have bigger problems to deal with now.", Ward replied, growing more anxious.

"If you had one more moment with him before you shot him twice in the back of the head, what would you say to him? What would you tell him if he was sitting right across from you? Would you tell him he's disgusting? Would you tell him he's a disgusting, backstabbing traitor?", she asked, preparing to show him her laptop screen.

"Skye, they're starting to clear the place out. We've been made.", he said gently, but the only Coulson daughter was having none of it.

"No, we haven't been. I tipped them off.", she said, showing him her screen.

The cops came over to them, asked them to get up and put their hands on the back of their heads. Ward went into attack mode, and Skye packed up her computer and the real hard drive, putting the fake one she created as part of her plan in the real one's place. While Ward fought more officers, she bolted from the diner, doing anything to get away until one of her family members arrived. She jumped into a police car and sped down the street, only to be met by Deathlock.

He grabbed Skye and pulled her from the car, knocking her unconscious in the process. When she woke, she was on the BUS, handcuffed to the staircase on the cargo hold level.

Deathlock and Ward were arguing. She flat out told them she was not giving up the location for the hard drive. She gave up the fake hard drive's access location and password only after Deathlock nearly killed Ward. Then, they locked her in the interrogation room for "safe keeping." Skye was sure her plan had failed when the door swung open to reveal her father.

"Daddy, I'm fine, but the real hard drive is in my bag, which Deathlock has.", she whispered to him, and he smiled.

"He doesn't have your bag, Skye.", Phil said in a slightly louder whisper.

"Then who does?", she asked.

"I do, darling.", came a familiar voice from beside her.

"Loki! Where did you- You didn't!", she quietly exclaimed.

"Deathlock has been temporarily frozen just outside of Los Angeles. I pretended to be him in order to rescue you. Once we heard of the plan, and found Agent Hill and your father, we made one of our own. Now, shall we get going?", the adopted son of Odin replied.

"Can you transport large items, or can you only do that with people?", Skye asked, and Phil smiled as he caught on to her train of thought.

"We can indeed take Lola, but only if we hurry!", Loki stated, catching on as well, and the group of three rushed down to the cargo bay. Phil opened the hatch, and he and Skye jumped in. Ward came barreling onto the catwalk by the stairs, and gaped before beginning to open fire. Loki blocked the shots before waving his hand to send Lola, along with her passengers, to the garage at Avengers' Tower. Ward started aiming for the god of mischief, but one flash of golden light later, Loki was gone.

"Damn it! Garrett is going to kill me for this! At least I have the location and password to unlock the damn thing!", he screamed to himself.

The magic around them slowed, and the swirls of color stopped. Phil went to work inspecting Lola, searching for any dents or bullet holes. The second Skye realized where they were, she ran to the elevator and asked J.A.R.V.I.S. where Clint was.

"Agent Barton is in his bedroom, Miss Coulson.", the cool British voice replied.

"What's he doing in his room?", she asked.

"He seems to be reading. Shall I send you up?", the AI asked.

"Yeah, but don't tell him. I want to surprise him.", Skye said, and the elevator rose, not stopping until she was on her brother's floor.

Walking into his bedroom, she saw him going through his wedding album, not a book. Holding back tears of her own, Skye plopped down beside her brother and wiped away his tears.

"Clint, I found her.", she said softly, and he sat bolt upright, his blue eyes locking onto her brown ones.

"Where?", he asked.

"She's hiding out at the beach house. The facial recognition software turned up a hit this morning, and I meant to tell Tony in the encrypted text I sent, but I was kind of in the midst of saving my own life. Did Jemma tell you?", she replied.

"Yeah, but it was only because Dad had her call me once they were somewhere safe. I can't believe I'm going to be a dad! I mean, this was supposed to be impossible! I just wish the world hadn't gone to hell in a hand basket right as this happened. God, now I feel like one of the parents whose child was born on 9/11. How can you bring a child into a world in the shape ours is in?", Clint asked.

"You rely on you extremely weird family to help you, that's how. Reggie's pregnant too, so how do you think she and Bruce feel? Grant it, she only found out last month, but you get the point.", Skye answered, and Clint hugged her to his chest.

"What would I do without my wise baby sister?", he asked no one in particular.

"Get the same answer I gave you from our father or step-mother.", Skye answered confidently.

He chuckled before saying, "I love you, kid sis."

"I love you too, big bro.", she whispered into his chest, finally feeling safe again.

After a few minutes of no noise, apart from their breathing, Clint spoke.

"Do you want to go with me to get her back? If we take the Bifrost watch, we can be home before dinner time."

"Let's go talk to Dad first; but as long as he approves, I'll go.", Skye answered, and the two went to the elevator.

"J.A.R.V.I.S., where's our father?", Clint asked the AI.

"He is on the commons floor with Agent Hill, arguing.", came the AI's cool voice.

"Thanks, J. Send us up?", Skye called out, and they were off.

On the commons floor, the brother and sister found their father arguing with their "Aunt" Maria. Neither was yelling, but the arguing was evident.

"Phil, just drop it. We're done for at this point. If we go underground, we have no more pull. Just get Ward for what he's done, and get Garrett too. After that, we'll figure something out. I think S.H.I.E.L.D. is finally finished.", she told him.

"Not a chance, Maria. S.H.I.E.L.D. is who I am. Without S.H.I.E.L.D., I wouldn't have a family. I'm intent on restoring the agency's good name.", he argued back.

Clint cleared his throat, and both turned to face the two siblings.

"Yes?", Phil asked.

"Oh, it was nothing, Dad. We were just wondering if we could go to the beach house for the afternoon. We'll be back by dinner time.", Skye said, and Phil let out a laugh before rolling his eyes.

"Skye, this is so not the time for this.", he responded.

"Dad, she's not messing with you. We honestly intend on going to the beach house. That's where Skye's program found Nat. I have to go find my wife and unborn child. I'm going no matter what you say, but Skye wasn't going to go until you said it was okay.", Clint stated, and Phil nodded.

"If Skye has as much as one scratch or bruise on her when you get back, I'm taking away all weapons.", Phil declared, and he walked away, still arguing with Maria.

"Was that the go ahead for us to leave?", Skye whisper-asked her brother.

"I think so. Let's get going before he changes his mind.", Clint said, and the two rushed off for the family's private plane.

A few hours later, the two Coulsons landed the red Ford Mustang convertible, which Tony had given to Clint as a birthday present, in the driveway of the beach house. They entered as quietly as they could, and were about to head up the stairs when they heard her voice.

"Whoever you are, drop whatever weapons you have and get out of here before I open fire. I'm not afraid of you!", Natasha called out, and Skye outright laughed.

"I would hope your husband and sister-in-law wouldn't scare you, of all people, Nat!", she called back.

Natasha's once slim form made its way down the stairs, and Clint simply smiled at her appearance. She was wearing maternity jeans, a white flowing tank top, and gray flats. Her small baby bump was something that, while not expected, was not a bad look on her. Other than the pistol in her hand, one look at Natasha, and you would have no idea she was an assassin.

"Take a picture. It'll last longer.", she said with a smile, and Clint took out his StarkPhone and snapped a picture of her.

"I believe I just did.", he replied as he placed his phone back in his pocket.

"How did you two find me?", the redhead asked.

"I had nothing to do with it. Finding you was all Skye.", Clint admitted, and Natasha turned to the younger girl.

"After Jemma told me about the test results, I knew I had to find you. Between the world seeming to crash and burn because of something in our own shadow and my SO turning out to be H.Y.D.R.A., I needed my big sister.", Skye said, her sincerity pouring out through her doe-like eyes.

"I'm glad you found me. Wait, Ward is H.Y.D.R.A.?", Natasha blinked a few times at the realization.

"Yeah, and he tried to shoot Lola. Dad about had a cow! Loki was able to block the bullets, so she's fine.", Skye responded, and that set Natasha off even more.

"Get me back to the tower. I may be in no condition to kill Ward myself, but I can still help find his ass. No one shoots my family and gets away with it!", she hissed, and the brother-sister duo felt it best not to argue and do as instructed.

A/N: Okay, so this actually was longer than I anticipated, but I knew I would end this chapter when I felt the chapter was over. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you stay tuned in for more! R&R!