AN: The tide is getting ready to turn and now it is going to be Skye that will need Grant's support for a few chapters. Things will also start to heat up for them with their own feelings but I am still undecided on when I get them together. Agent 33 or Kara will make her first appearance in this chapter and you get a hint of the type of friendship she has with Ward and it is for pure comic relief. I am considering going up on the rating because some of the dialogue is going to get very graphic. Especially some of the things that Kara says to Ward and his response to them, especially the part at the very end.


Skye groaned in irritation before she stepped away from Ward, who didn't look happy to see his Aunt either.

"I would say that I am sorry for interrupting you but given the conversation I just overheard, I'm glad that I did," Lily said, grinning devilishly. "Skye, your father and Kara have arrived with Travis, Louise and Christian. Tommy is going to stay with Michael in his apartment above the barn so I am putting him in his room and I brought Kara down here to stay in the extra bedroom."

"That would be the better idea because I think there needs to be some distance between Skye and Cal for right now," Grant commented. "I think I will go in and talk to Kara."

Grant walked into the back door of the cabin as Skye sat down with her head in her hands. Lily sat down beside her and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"You don't have to deal with him if you don't want to. He came here with Travis because the two of them needed to discuss more ways to keep anybody from finding out what happened to Milly. I can be there to represent you and let you tell me what you want to do. You should have a say in what happens."

"No, I have to face him sometime. Thank you for offering though. I will most and likely need to use what you have already taught me in controlling my powers," Skye stated ruefully.

"I will tell them that we can wait until tomorrow morning to deal with this. That way everybody can have a good night's sleep," Lily said, getting up and starting to walk back around to the front of the house.

Skye followed her and watched as she got into the golf cart and drove it back to the main house. She went inside and glanced around the open kitchen/living and dining area before following the voices come from one of the two bedrooms on the ground floor.

When she saw Kara, Skye knew that her father had gotten her face pretty close to what she had originally looked like. She had seen the pictures in her Shield file and uncertainty filled her as she watched how close Ward and the other woman were.

"Skye, now that she has her own face back, I would like to introduce you to Kara Palamas."

Skye slowly walked into the room and shook the other woman's hand. They took measure of each other for a few seconds before pulling away.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm glad you broke through the brainwashing that Whitehall put you through."

"I couldn't have done it without Grant and your father's help. Now what is this I hear about Grant having a sixteen year old son? I met him up at the main house and the last I saw he was having a conversation with Cal about classical composers."

The three of them stuck with the safer topic of Kyle instead of talking about the events of San Juan. Kyle then started to play a song for Kara on the piano while his dad and Skye worked on dinner.


Up at the main house, Lily stepped into the study and closed the door behind her. She turned and faced her older brother and Cal, who were waiting for her.

"Skye wants to be a part of any decisions made on how to keep her part in Milly's death a secret. She is staying in the cabin with Grant and Kyle so that gives her some space."

"She still doesn't want to see me?"

"No but then again she is trying to control her power and, despite the two of them telling themselves they aren't ready for a relationship, fighting reawakened feelings for Grant that finds them almost giving into them in a physical manner everytime they are alone together."

Both men shudder at her reference making Lily roll her eyes at her brother and Skye's father.

"Skye and Grant are adults and neither one of them are virgins. I will tell the two of you like I told Phil Coulson, as much as I think they shouldn't get involved with each other, at least for right now, they are adults. We don't get to tell them how they live their lives, mistake or not, their choices are their own."

"My wife would have liked you, Lily," Cal stated. "She would have felt the same way you do right now. I just wish Daisy would let me tell her more about her mother."

"Give her time, Cal. The two of you might have a chance in the future to have a conversation. Sometimes patience is a virtue," she stated. "Now, given that I have just read your mind Travis and saw the conditions Shield had my nephew in, what do you plan to do about it?"

"Coulson was trying to say that Grant tried to commit suicide three times and that is why they kept him like that."

"So they just patched him and put him right back in that cell after every attempt and didn't try to get him any therapy?"

"That was my take on the situation."

"Now like I said, what do you plan to do about the conditions they put your son in? You fucked up as a father for the first thirty two years of his life and I don't know why but he seems to be giving you another chance. I think you need to talk to him and get his opinion on what he wants to happen in regards to Shield."

"I agree. You could lose your son all over again if you go off on Shield and he doesn't want you to," Cal commented. "I found that out the hard way."

"I will talk to Grant in the morning after breakfast in the morning."

All of sudden all three of them felt the ground shake and Lily turned pale before running out of the room with Louise, who had come flying down the stairs, rushing out the door behind her. Christian and Tommy joined their father and Cal, who had left the study and watched as Lily and Louise got into a golf cart, with Lily behind the wheel. They took off towards the cabin as fast as they could.

"I would go down there and try to help but I think my presence would only upset Daisy even more," Cal commented sadly before going upstairs to the room he was staying in.

"Who's Daisy, dad?"

Travis turned to Tommy, who had asked the question.

"That is Skye's birth name."

"I wonder what she found out that caused her to make the ground shake," Christian stated.

"I hope she didn't find out that Hydra is after Grant,"

"What!"

Both men exclaimed before turning to their father for an explanation.


A few minutes earlier, Kara was sitting and listening to Kyle play the piano while Skye was helping Ward heat up the lasagna and preparing a salad and garlic bread for their dinner. The other woman had got up and walked into the kitchen area and smiled softly at Grant.

"Your son is very talented and has a gift."

"Yes he does and I will make sure he has the life I never got to have."

"Grant, are you worried about what will happen if Hydra ever finds out about Kyle? You know they have a price on your head after San Juan," Kara commented.

"They have a what!"

Grant cringed at the shrill tone in Skye's voice before scowling at Kara, who didn't look the least bit sorry for revealing that little tidbit of information.

"Thank you, Kara for telling her that. Now all hell is about to break loose."

The house started to shake on its foundation as Grant rushed over to take Skye into his arms, attempting to calm her down.

"Skye, do you see Hydra getting past the security measures that Aunt Lily has taken and the spells she cast on top of them? I need you to calm down," he said soothingly.

"Whoa! Is she doing that?"

"Yes she is, Kara. Take a wild guess as to who we have to thank for getting her that upset in the first place."

"I am so sorry; I just thought she needed to know about how Hydra was coming after you. I didn't mean to upset her that badly."

He didn't say a word to his friend before picking up Skye and taking her upstairs and into the master bedroom. He had to get her away from everybody and calm her down.

"Are they sharing a room, Kyle?"

"Yes. They think I don't know because she goes into her room at first but somehow she ends up with Dad before the night is over," Kyle answered her question before shuddering. "Thankfully they haven't done anything yet because I would have heard it if they had."

Kara grinned at the expression on his face and the typical teenage comment in regards to their parents and sex. She was getting ready to respond when Lily and Louise rushed into the cabin.

"Why did you tell her that, Kara?"

"I wasn't aware that she could create earthquakes and I thought she needed to know that Hydra was after Grant," She explained to Lily.

"Where are they?"

"He took her up to his room so he could calm her down."

Louise rolled her eyes at her nephew's words before a breathless moan came from the master bedroom. All four of the people in the lower level of the cabin took one look at each other before bolting out of the house. Until a second later when Kyle rushed back inside, turned the oven off and took the lasagna out of it, sitting it on the counter before leaving again.


Skye let out another moan as another knot of tension was worked out of her shoulders by his hands. She looked up at Grant from where she was sitting on his bed.

"You have magic hands."

"I could make a dirty comment to that but I won't."

Before Skye could respond, the front door slammed and both she and Ward went to the window, watching as Lily, Kyle, Kara and Louise all rushed into the golf cart before Kyle got out, came back into the cabin and was back outside in thirty seconds. They took off up to the main house leaving a hysterically laughing Skye and Ward behind them.

"They thought we were having sex up here."

"Your moans were pretty loud," Grant smirked devilishly at her.

They left his bedroom and went back to the kitchen to finish heating up dinner before starting to talk about Hydra and what it meant for Kyle's safety everytime he left the farm.


Later that night, Kyle and Kara walked into the cabin, saw the lasagna pan covered with foil, as well as the garlic bread in its bowl and a note saying that the salad was in the refrigerator.

"Hydra is really after my dad?"

"Yes. I have a feeling you or Skye won't be alone when you leave this farm until that situation is dealt with."

"I want to learn to defend myself. I don't want anything to do with the battle between Hydra and Shield but I need to know how to take care of myself if I get caught in the crossfire."

"Be in the barn at six in the morning and I will teach you myself," Grant said from where he was standing at the bottom of the stairs, wearing a pair of pajama pants and no shirt.

"When he says six, he means six or you get fifteen pushups for every minute you are late," Skye commented from where she has walked up and is standing beside him.

Kara started to giggle at the look Grant gave Skye for her comment. She had seen Grant's workout routine for herself once he started to really recover from being shot and the man didn't play around.

"Just for that, the two of you get to help me train him."

"Okay," Kara and Skye said at the same time.

"I don't mind helping out but when Ally gets here, I will be unavailable for a week," Kara said, wickedly smirking at Grant, who grinned at his friend.

"Who's Ally," Skye asked curious about why Grant would have such a shit eating grin on his face when Kara mentioned the other woman's name.

"Ally is Kara's girlfriend and hopefully they will get a hotel while she is here because I have been on the other side of the bedroom wall when they are together. Earplugs do not help at all, that is all I will say to that."

All four of them busted out laughing before going to bed for the night, Skye not even pretending to go to her own room and joining Grant in his.