Skye is unsure what her college plans are and her brother is starting his internship at a hospital across the country. It's the first time she can remember that she's being left behind without him.
Or the one where Skye and her brother, Steven are the children of Phil Coulson and Melinda May. They also don't know what their parents do for a living until the battle of New York happens.
Agents of Shield/House/Avengers AU
Yes, I know another new story. I am still working on the other ones but this is a result of binge watching House on Netflix for the first time while it got mixed with last night's episode of Agents of Shield in a dream. Please let me know what you think.
Chapter One
Skye normally slept facing the wall on most nights. The comfort of being near it was assuring that it prevented her from falling off the bed. It wasn't until she rolled over to the other side that she forgot that she wasn't alone. In the bed with her, covered in most of the blankets, was her girlfriend, Jemma Simmons. The girl was sleeping peacefully and Skye wasn't about to wake her, yet.
Carefully not to move too much, Skye positioned herself to see the alarm clock that sat on the side table near where Jemma's head was laying. It was only 8:53 which was far too early in Skye's opinion for summer vacation but she couldn't go back to bed. Her thoughts were keeping her up still.
"Skye, sweetie, go back to sleep." She heard Jemma mumble burring into the side of Skye.
"I can't, Jem."
Jemma sighed and opened her eyes to look up at her girlfriend. She blinked a few times but instantly knew was bothering Skye already this morning.
"Steven leaves later today."
Skye wasn't the only child in her family. She had an older brother who was leaving to go half way across the country to pursue his doctor career. Steven Nicholas Coulson was six years older than her. He wasn't her biological brother but they instantly had that bond after their parents had brought her home from the orphanage as a young two year old child. He was the one that nicknamed her Skye after they both went through the solar system phase together. Since then, she had preferred that name over the one she was given by her real parents, Daisy.
"I know, everyone is going to miss Steve." Jemma responds.
That was true, everyone loved Steve as everyone called him except for Skye and their parents sometimes. He was always polite and always tried to live up to his namesake. Steve was named after Captain America and their uncle Nick. Two people, their father, Phil always looked up too. You could say he was the better one between him and his friend, Clint Barton who he had been friends with since childhood. Both were practical jokers when they got together. Clint was three years older than Steve though so when they did get in trouble, it was easier for Clint just to use Steve's puppy eyes.
"I don't know if I want him to go yet." Skye says running her hand across Jemma's hair.
Her girlfriend buried her face more into Skye once more and then sighed.
"He won't be alone, you know. He'll have Clint with him."
"That's assuring, Jems."
Jemma lets out a small laugh. To be honest, Skye was kind of right. You could never know with Clint. Steve was smart enough to know better but when he moved up grades fast like he did, he had trouble making friends. He was lucky enough to make one of Clint.
Before Jemma could respond to the comment, Skye was holding a finger to her mouth, quieting her for a moment. She looked at her girlfriend confused for a second until she heard a sound of something crashing.
"What was that?" she whispered.
"I'm not sure." Skye responded as she slipped out of bed and towards the door.
Jemma watched quietly as Skye tip toed towards the door and opening it slowly so it didn't make a sound.
"Barton, careful with the pans!" she heard someone hiss. "You're going to wake up mom and dad."
Skye shook her head and looked back at her girlfriend who was now getting out of bed herself. She immediately smiled at the sight of Jemma who went to bed wearing one of her t-shirts and shorts.
"It's Steven and Clint." Skye explains. "It sounds like they're in the kitchen."
"What are they doing?"
Skye shakes her head once more unsure exactly what her brother and his friend were up too.
"I think it smells like pancakes and bacon?"
Jemma smelled the air near the now opened door. It kind of did smell like that.
"Maybe they're making breakfast for us?" She answers hopefully.
"Steven is lucky he can cook." Skye says crossing her arms before Jemma runs her hand across them. "I can't even do that to save my life."
"Well soon he'll have the cute doctor that can cook thing down." Jemma says a little too dreamy and then stops once she realizes that Skye was giving her the look.
"Would you like to date my brother?" Skye asks as she walks towards the bathroom across the hall with Jemma following.
"No, I'm hurt that you would ask that."
Skye gives a smirk. "You did have a crush on him when we were younger."
Jemma had met Skye when they were in the fourth grade. She had just moved to California with her family and her best friend, Leo Fitz who was adopted by the Simmons' after his mother had passed away. Jemma was the one that had to persuade her parents into taking him in even though her brother, Lance didn't like that idea. But eventually just learned to accept that it happened and Fitz had no other family to take care of him.
During the beginnings of Skye and Jemma's friendship, the older girl developed some sort of feelings for Steve but that had changed after a while of trying to ask him out and Steve declining each time. Eventually feelings had changed towards Skye after the younger girl came out her freshman year of high school. That was another story.
"That was a long time ago."
Skye finishes brushing out her hair and then looks back at her girlfriend.
"So it was."
When they both exit out of the bathroom, Skye runs into something hard only to realize it was just her father trying to come and use the bathroom himself.
"Sorry dad." Skye says looking up.
Phil Coulson is already dressed in his typical suit for the day. Most of the time he worked from home for a security company but today was one of those days. He had to go into the office later after lunch for a couple hours. He had hoped to make it back before Steve and Clint's flight had to take off later tonight.
"It's alright, Skye." Phil says with a smile. "Morning, Jemma."
"Good Morning, Mr. Coulson." Jemma responds back.
They move out of his way so he can step in front of the mirror to brush his hair. Well what he had on head since his hair was still growing back from the last trim he had.
"Is mom up yet?" Skye questions her father.
"She's downstairs already." Phil says. "Your mother caught onto your brother's antics when they started. She didn't make it down until Clint dropped a pan."
Of course she did. Their mother, Melinda May-Coulson knew everything before they were even going to do it. It was like she had some secret ability to do so.
Skye doesn't respond to her father as both her and Jemma head downstairs to see what huge mess Clint could have made while cooking with Steve. When they get down there, the table is already set with plates and silverware. Her mom is cleaning up a mess of pancake mix on the counter while Steven is finishing up with the bacon.
"Clint, you forgot the peanut butter." Steve tells his best friend.
Clint was in the dining room finishing setting the table by putting the syrup on the table but pointed to his ear. He was deaf in one so it made it harder to hear.
Steve put down the fork he was using for the bacon and quickly signed over to his friend the same sentence he had said before.
Clint just signed back 'okay'.
Skye walked up to her brother and wrapped her arms around his back once he went back to finishing up the bacon.
"Hey Skye." He said not even bothering to look at who it was.
"How did you know it was me?" she asked.
Skye let go of her brother as placed the rest of the bacon on a plate so it could go on the table.
"Well it's certainly not Jemma." He says with a chuckle.
"I would hope not." Skye says seriously.
Steve grabs the plate and they both head towards the dining room where Jemma is talking to Clint at.
Skye takes a seat next to her girlfriend just as Steve sits down next to Clint waiting on the pancakes that Melinda was finishing up and bringing over. Phil is the last to make it to the table just fixing his cuff links on his suit.
Their father kisses their mother on the cheek and then sits down before grabbing his own pancakes.
"So today's the big day." Phil says directing towards his son and Clint.
Steven smiles as he smears on the peanut butter that he had Clint grabbed earlier.
"I'm excited." Clint says with a mouthful of bacon.
"Clint, not with your mouthful." Melinda tells him.
Skye and Jemma both laugh at the comment but immediately get the scolding of Melinda too.
Steven finishes up with his pancake and looks over at his father.
"I'm excited too, looking forward to interning with Dr. House."
Eventually Phil starts asking Steven and Clint and bunch of questions to the amount where Skye tunes them out. She's not ready for Steven to leave and she doesn't realize she had tuned them out until Jemma grabs a hold of her hand. Skye gives a brief smile to her girlfriend who does so back.
They all arrived at the airport around three for the five o' clock flight, Steve and Clint were supposed to be on. Well all of them except for Phil who was running behind still at the office. He had contacted Melinda and told them he would meet them there. Guess he got stuck in a meeting with a new client.
Steven tightened his backpack as they walked through the airport. He decided that it would be what he carried on the plane while Clint had his. He turned his head slightly to look behind him where his younger sister was walking. She and Jemma had been following them hand in hand toward their terminal. His mom had stayed back just a little bit to wait for Phil.
Eventually they had all found a seat near the window to wait until their plane was ready. Steven took that chance to take a quick nap since he was up a little early. He realized that eventually when he and Clint would start their internship, they might not get as much sleep as they used to.
It was close to getting ready to board when Skye was nudged by Jemma. She was on her phone lost in a game not paying attention to the time. Steven was just now waking up once again. He noticed that his dad was sitting next to him while his mom was across sitting next to his sister.
The flight attendant announced their flight and when they were allowed to board. Clint and Steve were somewhere near the middle of the plane. Both of the boys got up and grabbed their bags so they could get in line. But before they could do so, Skye immediately latched onto Steven for a hug.
"You'll call right?" Skye questioned.
"Of course. I'll even make sure to Skype if you want." Steven answered.
"Okay." Skye sniffled not realizing she started to have tears in her eyes.
It was the first time since she was adopted that he would be far away from her for a long period of time. Even during college, Steven was still home throughout the week since they didn't live that far away from Stanford.
Jemma was the one that started the big family hug after hugging both the siblings. Clint had followed and then shortly after Phil and Melinda. They all stayed like that for a few minutes until the flight attendant called their flight number once again.
Steven managed to get out to the big family hug first and grabbed Clint so they could head towards the plane. They waved good bye and then entered the tunnel to the plane.
Who knew the start of that adventure would begin something Steven and Skye never would eventually imagine happening.