Disclaimer: I own only Pips and Sophie and have had only three hours sleep so I am sorry.

Sports

After Pips father left, Sophie tried to avoid things that reminded her of him. That meant that Sophie kept Pips away from people that smoked, from smoke salmon and from Arsenal supporters. In fact football was kept off the TV at all times because Pips didn't care about it and Sophie decided that there were much better role models than footballers, or their WAGs.

It wasn't all sport though, there was Wimbledon every year that Sophie and Pips would go to and watch the rest whenever they could. There was also the pentathlon which Sophie made sure Pips was enthusiastic about. Pips grew up believing it was the pinnacle of humanity, being able to defend one's self and survive better than the next guy. Pips loved it, even as a young child she would sit and watch the various rounds and bet with her mum about who would win.

On top of all that there were the Olympics of course which were very important in the Coulson household. Should there be any event in which Great Britain was competing in, mass cheering and support must be displayed. Sophie wanted pips to feel British, like she belonged there because she did not belong in America. Sophie did not believe that by living in England Pips would grow up and marry Prince William, nor did she think that she would become a Lady or Duchess. She just wanted her to have a place that was properly home, even when she wasn't there.

Sophie needn't have worried, when Pips moved with Phil to New York she became even more English. In her first week there she drank more cups of tea than she would have done in a month. She also began to follow with passion any England/GB competitions, in any sport at all. Football however, or in the states 'soccer' was left alone in a dark corner to sulk. She started to appreciate baseball thanks to her uncle Phil, and Captain America. She didn't exactly understand it and thought inside that it was just professional rounders but if it was good enough for the Captain.

There was the Beijing Olympics during the period when Pips lived with Phil, it should have been spectacular and the beginning almost was. Phil had managed to negotiate some time off as part of 'cultural experience' and it certainly would be an experience because it would have been the first time Phil and Pips had ever been on opposing sides.

Things didn't always work out; Phil had to go on a mission, a three week mission to a classified location. Pips was not happy and she made it painfully clear but Phil had to go. She rejected his offer to record the whole thing and try to not find out any results; she said it wasn't that much of a big deal.

Phil was going on a dangerous mission and Pips didn't want him to be distracted.

He was going to take her that was what he had said during their penultimate phone call. They had fought about it because Pips thought it was a ridiculous waste of money and with Phil's line of work they wouldn't even make it to the airport. They argued over it but not the normal shouting and screaming of a usual family tiff, this was a Coulson fight. That meant they never raised their voices or insulted each other and also that there were a lot of spat out 'fine's that were far from the truth. It was a rather calm fight but it was the biggest that they had ever had.

Pips forgot all about it when she found out he had died. It was just sport, she didn't even realise it was that time of year until she had broken up for summer and Stark told her to pack her bags. She didn't believe him, or trust him, but when Barton and Tasha repeated the same instructions she did. Or at least she picked up her go-bag from behind her bedroom door because old habits die hard. Nobody told her where they were going until Stark's private jet landed at Heathrow and Pips just knew. Sure once you've seen one airport you've seen them all but there was a sense of depression coupled with the smell of tea and cigarette smoke that screamed home. She didn't know who had planned it but they had tickets to at least one event each day including the Pentathlons, the entire equestrian and the Saturday athletics. According to Pepper, who had joined them to make sure that they didn't accidentally cause a public relations scandal or kill someone, they were using reserved spaces for international VIPs and apparently the Avengers qualified. Pips had the time of her life leading her ragtag group (made up of scientist spies, a super soldier and a space god as well as a baby sitter) around London the proper way, and if Tasha was to force Stark to buy tickets to a ballet whilst they were there even better.

It wasn't perfect because Phil wasn't there but the Mail's headline of 'Super Soldier Switching Sides' with the picture of Cap wrapped up in Pips Union Jack was pretty cool, Phil would have loved it.

Thanks and sorry that this is still late, I was recently given season 9 of Grey's anatomy and season 1 of Bones so have a lot of things on my plate. The next prompt (I will try so much to have it up today) is Legacy.