Chapter 48- Epilogue 18 years, 6 months later

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AN2: THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER EVER. I would like to say thank you so much to all of you who have stood by me, I know it has been a long road and I am so thankful for all of you who have stuck with me it means so much more than I can put into words.

After a small break I will continue the Missing Moment Series, I just need a break from this universe for a while.


First I would like to say how much I am against this assignment. Introducing yourself and your family is an assignment you give fifth graders to do, not high school juniors, but because I can't afford to have my parents called, again, which is so unfair because all I did was help out some kids who were being bullied, but I'm off topic. My point, which I do actually have, is that I'll do it, the assignment. Though I do it under duress and wanted to make my objection clear.

My name is PJ Barnes, well not technically, that's just what everyone calls me. My full name is Phillip Clint Steven Barnes, I am named after my Grandfather Phil Coulson and my parent's two best friends Clint Barton and Steve Rogers who were the Man of Honour and Best Man respectively at my parents wedding. Now you may be wondering why I am called PJ when I don't actually have a name starting with J in my name, well the J stands for Junior as in Phil Junior because I'm named after my grandfather.

Now my family is quite interesting, I'm the grandson of Phil Coulson and Melinda May and the oldest child of May Skye Philippa Coulson-Barnes who is called Skye by everyone except my grandmother and James Buchanan Barnes who is called 'Bucky' by everyone except my mother. I have two brothers, three sisters, seven aunts, eleven uncles and thirteen cousins. Now you might think that that is a big family, something which is odd today, but something which is even odder than that is that with the exception of three of my Uncles, two of my aunts, and three of my cousins we all live together, and that we call ourselves a family even if we're not all related by blood. The members of my family I live with are the ones I'll talk about in this report because they are who I consider to be immediate family, which is what we all consider each other to be. An example of that is that even though my grandparents are only grandparents to me and my siblings by blood all of my cousins' call them Grams and Gramps too.

I guess I should start by talking about my parents, who happen to be the greatest parents anyone could ever want, though I'm bias and don't admit that to them as much as I should, they met way back in two thousand and fifteen and were friends for a while before they started to date. Dad says that Mom saved him and Mom says that they saved each her, it's hard to get a clear answer, though I do know that they love each other and were married a year before I was born. Neither of my parents had an easy childhood and they both wanted a large family, which is why I have three sisters and two brothers.

I could tell you a hundred stories about why my parents are the greatest, why they are the most amazing people I know and why they are my heroes, but in a sixteen hundred word essay I just don't have enough words to do them justice so instead I'll continue to explain about the rest of my family who are also pretty great.

I turned seventeen last week which makes me the second oldest of the 'kids' as we are referred to by our parents and grandparents, though I personally feel insulted by being called that, but what are you going to do? At sixty three days older than me you have the oldest of the 'kids' and one of my two best friends in the world Robin Melinda Barton, Robin is the daughter of my Uncle Clint and тетя Наташа, that's Russian for Aunt Natasha and yes Robin's dad is the same Clint who I am named after. Due to the fact that Robin is in this class and has to write an assignment herself I'll let her talk about herself and move on to my other best friend. He is someone else you know; Colin James Robert Potts, who is forty two days younger than me.

Colin has an odd family situation, even by today's standards. He has a mother, Aunt Pepper, but he also has three fathers; there is Uncle Tony who is Dad, Uncle Steve who is Pops and Uncle Bruce who is Pa. Personally I think Colin is lucky because his Dads are awesome. I remember when we were younger Colin asked his mom who was his biological father. I don't remember why he asked, I think we just learnt about genetics, or he wanted to know, or something, I don't remember it's not important but what Aunt Pepper said next is. She said that he has three fathers, that he always had three fathers and that he always will, and personally I think that Colin is lucky and I don't understand why people don't approve, because I know that the only people that Colin's parents love more than each other are Colin and little sister, which is pretty great, but I'm getting off topic.

I figure going from oldest to youngest is the easiest way to go which brings me to my fifteen year old sister Rebecca 'Becca' Natasha Melinda Barnes and our cousin, Robin's little sister, who is also fifteen Anastasia 'Nastya' Phil Barton. If you didn't know any better with how close they are you would swear that Becca and Nastya are twins, I swear it's like they can read each other's minds. Nastya and Becca are technology experts and I think there is nothing they can't do when it comes to technology. They tend to spend a lot of time with Uncle's Tony and Fitz who are also tec geniuses. Nastya and Becca are pretty cool, they often helps Colin, Robin and I get out of trouble which is great and the best part is that it's never suspected that they helped and they never dob us in.

After Nastya and Becca the next oldest at fourteen are Colin's little sister Sarah Susan Pepper Potts, Uncle Sam and Aunt Sharon's daughter Peggy Samantha Carter-Wilson and Uncle Fitz and Aunt Jemma's daughter, Annabelle 'Belle' Skye Fitzsimmons, now there is an interesting story behind Belle's last name. Before her parents were married, long before they were dating they worked together and the worked so well as a team that 'FitzSimmons' was often used to refer to both of them instead of their respective last names so after they got married they decided to just combine their name so they become Jemma and Leo Fitzsimmons, though Uncle Fitz is mainly called Fitz rather than Leo.

The first thing you need to know about Peggy, Sarah and Belle is that they are geniuses, I swear they could be at collage if they wanted to, but they didn't want to leave home quite yet so instead they are doing external college courses. Something which I don't envy because I've seen some of the work they do and even though I'm three years older than them I don't understand what they do, but they do so that's all that matters.

At thirteen you have the trouble makers of the family, although I guess trouble makers isn't the right way to describe them, pranksters is a better way. The rest of us fondly refer to them as the Trouble Trio which consists of my younger twin siblings, James 'Jamie' Leo Bruce Barnes, Jemma 'JJ' Antonia Pepper Barnes, yes JJ doesn't have a second J name in her name but like me the second J stands for Junior in JJ's case Jemma Junior, and my cousin Gabriella 'Gabby' Maria Triplett-Hill, who is the daughter of my Uncle Tonio and Aunt Maria. Gramps says that Jamie and JJ get their pranking ability from Grams. For a long time I was never sure whether to believe that or not until I realised that within a few days of Gramps saying that he would be pranked, and Grams, Gabby, JJ and Jamie never seem surprised. That observation has lead me to one conclusion, Gabby, JJ and Jamie are good pranksters but Grams is the master.

The next oldest is my youngest sister Georgie Maria May Barnes and our cousins, Gabby's little brother, Marcus 'Mark' John Triplett- Hill and Belle's brother, Malcom 'Mal' Leopold Fitzsimmons, all of whom are Ten. Mark, Georgie, and Mal are the most quite out of all of us. All three of them love to read and to learn new things and they love to cook with Grandpa. Personally I think they notice more than the rest of us, because they seem to always be there when you're upset and need a hug, I'm still trying to figure out how they do that.

The youngest of all of us 'kids', the babies of the family, are my little brother Carter Samuel John Barnes and Belle's and Malcom's brother, Simon David Fitzsimmons both of whom are eight. Carter and Simon love to play sports, you'll often find them playing baseball with Gramps, Uncle Sam and Uncle John, who lives with us but who isn't married nor does he have children, but he is also amazing Uncle and really cool. If they are not playing baseball then you're likely to find them with my parents, Uncle Steve and Uncle Tonio playing basketball. Carter and Simon are the youngest of all us which means we are very protective of them, something that I am positive that as they grow up they will be more annoyed by.

My name is PJ Barnes and this is my family; I know it's unusual, and big and complicated, and we also have our issues, but I also know that it's the greatest family in all of the Nine Realms

"Oh look I'm over the word count and I haven't mentioned what my parents or family do, such a pity." PJ says to himself sarcastically once he finishes typing.

"Does that mean you're finally done?" A voice says from the doorway and PJ turns to see a tall red head leaning against the door frame with her arms crossed across the chest.

"Not all of us do our work the second it's assigned like you do." PJ comments turning back to his computer.

"And just because you leave things to the last minute is no reason to be a tool to me." The girl responds.

"What do you want Robin?" PJ asks his cousin.

"My Dad, your Mom and Uncle Tony are about to be pranked by JJ, Jamie and Gabby, I thought you would want to know." Robin explains.

"How do you know?" PJ asks surprised.

"I overheard them and convinced them to tell me." Robin explains.

"You mean you threatened them." PJ realises, knowing his cousin.

"Same thing." Robin tells him with a shrug. "You coming or not?"

"Depends, what are they doing?" PJ asks curious.

"No idea." Robin admits, "Once I knew that they were pranking I thought plausible deniability was best." She admits.

"Good choice. I'll be right out." PJ tells his best friend.

"You better be." Robin tells him before turning and leaving the room.

One Robin leaves PJ turns back to his computer and adds a few more words;

And I wouldn't want to change a single thing.

"PJ, COME ON!" Robin's voice yells.

"I'm coming." PJ yells back and he presses save before getting up and leaving his room, with a smile on his face, eager to see what his siblings and cousin are planning because knowing them it is going to be something great and like he said in his report he has the greatest family and unlike most other seventeen year olds spending time with his family is his favourite thing to do.

The END

AN3: I mean I this time, this is the end. I will continue the missing moment's stories at some point but there will be no new stories.