Chapter 36
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Unknown to Skye all through the night her parents have woken up and came to check to make sure she was still in her bed, safely asleep, both of them remembering the last time she slept in that room and what happened.
When morning comes Skye is the last one to wake. She gets up and gets ready for the day before heading downstairs. When she does she sees her Mom and Aunt Natasha sitting in the living room but no sign of her Dad or Uncle Clint.
"Where are Dad and Uncle Clint?" Skye asks curious.
"In the office." Melinda explains "Did you sleep alright?" She asks interested.
"Yeah I slept great." Skye answers "Will Dad get mad if I attempt to make breakfast in his kitchen?" Skye asks curious.
"Coffee's ready in the kitchen and Clint went up to the bakery up the road and got pastries, there are still plenty of them left and they taste pretty good." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Sounds good, where can I find plates and coffee mugs?" Skye asks curious.
"Plates are in the high cupboard closes to the widow on the side where the stove is, cups are in the cupboard opposite." Melinda tells her.
"Cool." Skye says getting up and heading into the kitchen.
While Melinda and Natasha are in the living room Clint and Coulson are in the office playing chess.
"Nat asked that I talk to you, she thinks something is bothering Mels, but when she tried to bring it up Mels shut her down." Clint reveals.
"I know something bothering her." Coulson admits "But she won't talk to me either."
"Any idea why?" Clint asks curious.
"No, but if I had to guess I would say it has something to do with what happened." Coulson tells him.
"Do you think she'll be okay when we go back on the bus?" Clint asks worried.
"There's eight days to then, I've just got to hope I can get through to her by then." Coulson tells his friend.
"And if you can't?"
"Then I'll figure something out." Coulson answers "What's going on between you and Tasha?" He asks interested wanting to get the subject of him and Melinda.
"What do you mean?" Clint asks pretending to be confused.
"I saw you kissing last night when I was coming out of the bathroom. You really should close the door the whole way." Coulson comments as Clint and Natasha are staying in the spare room while they are staying at the house.
"We kissed when Mels woke and have a few times since." Clint admit.
"And?" Coulson asks.
"And I don't know, this is me and Nat we don't exactly talk about our relationship, you know that." Clint tells his friend.
"Yeah, I know." Coulson tells him, "You told me that if I hurt Mel I would be dealing with brother Clint well if you hurt Tasha you'll be dealing with brother Phil, understand?" Coulson asks his friend.
"Understand." Clint answers, "You know I think they would kill us before we got a chance." He comments knowing how protective Natasha and Melinda are of each other.
"Probably." Coulson answers amused. "How long are you two planning on staying?" He asks curious.
"Not sure, as long as you'll have us." He suggests.
"That would be a long time, you two are always welcome here, you know that." Coulson tells him.
"Yeah I do." Clint admits, "I'll talk to Nat and let you know." He says "Whose move is it?" he asks realising that they forgot to play when they were talking.
"Um, yours." Coulson answers and the door opens and Skye walks in.
"Wow Dad, no suit. I'm shocked." Skye says between bites of pastries as she notices that her dad isn't wearing a suit.
"I don't always wear a suit." Coulson comments.
"Ninety percent of the time you do." Clint tells his friend.
"So this is what Mom meant when she said you're collection is bigger than what is on the plane." Skye comments before her Dad can make a comment, as she looks around the room and sees a lot of different collectables.
"Yep." Coulson answers.
"You really have a lot of really old stuff." Skye comments walking over and sitting on the lounge near the table that Clint and Coulson are sitting at which is across from the doors. There is another desk over by the window and several book shelves all around the room.
"Yeah, I do." Coulson answers as even though most people don't understand his collection he is quite proud of it.
"So what's the plan for today?" Skye asks curious.
"There isn't really one." Coulson answers, "What do you want to do?"
"Um, I want to stay around the house, I know that." Skye comments, "Um how about Movie marathon, that way Mom can join in as well." She comments.
"That's a good idea but unless you have movies we can't, there aren't any here." Coulson comments.
"Of course I have movies." Skye comments, "But I think we should go and pick some up because we also need movie food." She tells her Dad.
"We went shopping yesterday, there is plenty of food here." Coulson tells her.
"Yeah food, not movie food." Skye tells him.
"What's the difference?" Coulson asks confused.
"Movie food is as much junk as you can eat in one sitting. You've spent the last few months on a plane with young agents, how do you not know that?" Clint asks his friend shocked.
"I think he blocked it out, because after Dad was hurt Fitz and Ward went shopping for our movie snacks and then they dared Simmons and I to eat it all." Skye explains.
"Vomit?" Clint asks.
"No, we were just really really hyper." Skye tells him.
"Right, just as bad." Clint comments.
"Checkmate." Coulson comments.
"Huh, what?" Clint asks as he stopped really playing attention to the game several minutes ago.
"You lost." Coulson tells his friend, "Movies sound good, but don't go overboard on the junk food." Coulson tells his daughter.
"I'll try not to." Skye tells him, "Uncle Clint want to come with?" she asks.
"Sure." Clint answers, "We should drag Nat along to otherwise she'll complain that we didn't get her favourite snacks." He comments.
"No one knows тетя Наташа like you so how exactly do you not know what her favourite snacks are?" Skye asks curious and confused.
"I do, and I get them but then she always complains that I didn't get something she likes." Clint explains.
"You know that she just does that so that next time you will buy more right?" Coulson asks interested.
"I know." Clint answers.
"Come on Kid, let's get Nat." Clint comments part of his reason for insisting that Natasha comes with them being that then maybe Coulson will have a chance at getting Melinda to talk.
"Just let me put this back in the kitchen then I'll be ready." Skye says getting up and leaving the office.
"Thanks Clint." Coulson tells his friend knowing his other reason.
"No need." Clint comments and the pair leave the office.
Ten minutes later Skye, Clint and Natasha have left, leaving Melinda and Coulson the only ones home.
"How you feeling?" Coulson asks Melinda.
"Okay." Melinda answers.
"How are your oxygen levels?" Coulson asks.
"Have a look for yourself." Melinda comments showing Coulson the reader she has on her wrist which is connected to pulse oximeter which is on her finger.
"98, good." He comments reading it.
"Was it Clint's idea for both him and Natasha to go with Skye?" Melinda asks curious.
"Skye asked Clint to go but he suggested that Natasha goes with them." Coulson tells her.
"Right." Melinda comments realising that he likely did that so her and Coulson can talk.
"Look Mel, I don't know what is bothering you, but I know something is. If you don't want to talk about it then okay, I won't push you but when, if, you do I will be here." Coulson tells her, "I've been where you are and I get it. I'm here for you Mel, whatever you need me to do." Coulson tells Melinda not sure what else he can do because he knows Melinda well enough to know that if she doesn't want to talk then there is nothing he can do to get her to.
"I can't." Melinda tells Coulson.
"Well when you can I'm here." Coulson comments becoming more worried because the last time he heard Melinda say she can't talk about something was the last mission she did with Natasha which lead her to resign from field work.
"I don't know when that will be." Melinda admits.
"Mel for thirty years I have loved you, nothing has ever been able to change that, and nothing will." Coulson tells her, "I can see that you're hurting and not just from you're injuries. I said I'm not going to push and I meant that, I'm just going to ask you one more time, what's wrong?" Coulson asks having a feeling that the reason Melinda doesn't want to talk about what is wrong is because she is worried about how he will react.
"I don't deserve what I saw." Melinda admits quietly, just loud enough for Coulson to hear.
"What?" Coulson asks confused and surprised.
"When I died I saw you and Skye, the best thing in my life, the most amazing thing. After everything I have done I didn't deserve to see that." Melinda explains.
"Of course you did." Coulson comments, he always knew that Melinda feels guilt for what she has done but he didn't think it was this bad, "Mel everything you've done has been for the right reasons, you don't deserve to be punished for that." Coulson tells Melinda.
"Yes I do." Melinda answers, "After everything I've done, Bahrain, Istanbul, Jakarta, a hundred other missions, all the lives I have taken in the line of duty, I should be punished." Melinda tells him, "Seeing the best part of my life wasn't what I was exacting." She explains.
"And you don't know how to handle that." Coulson realises as he leans back against the couch and puts his arm around Melinda.
"No, I don't." Melinda tells him
"There are times when I think I know you better than I know myself and I know without a doubt that you are a good person Mel, you don't deserve to be punished for what you have done, even if you feel like you should. " Coulson tells her.
"How do you have so much faith in me?" Melinda asks.
"The same way you have so much in me." Coulson responds.
Melinda doesn't say anything just kisses Coulson. Once the pair break apart neither say anymore but Coulson tries to think of ways he could help and Melinda thinks about how Coulson's words won't stop her from feeling what she is.
Meanwhile Skye, Clint and Natasha are at the local supermarket getting the food for the moves.
"We need to get as much chocolate as we can, its Mom's favourite." Skye tells her Aunt and Uncle.
"We know." Natasha responds. "Normally I would suggest drinks as well but as Melinda can't drink at the moment I suggest we go overboard on the chocolate."
"Sounds good, to the chocolate we go." Clint comments. "Do you know what the best part of this is?" Clint asks Skye curious.
"No, what's that?" Skye answers uncertain.
"That this is all on your Dad's dime." Clint comments with a grin.
"No it's not, I've got my own money I'll pay." Skye comments.
"Skye, Phil gave you his credit card to pay for this, he wanted to use it." Natasha informs Skye as they start to pile the basket that Clint got with chocolate.
"I know it's just, I don't want them to think that I'm using them for their money, I love them and I love that we're finally being a family. I don't care about them buying me things, and I don't want them to think that they have to." Skye admit, after the last few weeks finding it easy to admit things to Natasha and Clint because they don't judge and they often help her and a lot of time make it easy for her to go to her parents to talk.
"Kid they know that." Clint tells her, "They would never think that, ever. They're just trying to be parents." Clint tells her.
"So I think we've got more than enough Chocolate, where to next?" Skye asks curious avoiding responding to Clint's point.
"Savoury snacks." Natasha answers and Skye nods.
For the next half an hour Natasha, Clint and Skye stock up a whole lot of snacks are different drinks for their long movie marathon. As they shop out of habit Natasha and Clint watch every single person around them for any sign of danger, when she realises what they are doing Skye can't help but smile to herself but she doesn't comment.
Over an hour after they left the house Skye, Clint and Natasha return when they do they find Melinda and Coulson sitting next to each other on the couch Coulson still having an arm around Melinda.
"How much did you buy?" Coulson asks shocked when he sees that Skye, Clint and Natasha are holding about four bags each.
"Just what we needed." Skye comments as they walk into the kitchen.
"Everything in here was necessary?" Coulson asks as after exchanging a look with Melinda and following the trio into the kitchen.
"Yep." Clint answers.
"Uncle Clint is right we didn't get a single thing that we didn't desperately need." Skye comments.
"Three bags of Twizzlers?" Coulson asks surprise "Why do you desperately need three bags of Twizzlers?"He asks confused.
"Because we all like the green ones best." Natasha comments. "So to make sure we wouldn't get in a fight about who would get the green ones we got enough for all of us to have them." She explains.
"Right, and the ten different types of chocolate?" He asks becoming more confused the more that they unpack. "Several boxes of each I might add."
"For Mom." Skye answers.
"Of course." Coulson answers wondering why he didn't realise that himself.
"Dad where would I find really big bowls?" Skye asks her father curious.
"What for?" Coulson asks.
"Popcorn." Skye answers.
"Next to the stove." Coulson answers
"Awesome, I'll get started on that." Skye says as Clint and Natasha finish putting everything away.
Twenty minutes later everyone is once more in the lounge room with several large bowls of popcorn. Melinda and Coulson are sitting where they were earlier, while Skye Is sitting in the corner and Natasha and Clint are sitting next to each other on the part of the couch closes to the stairs.
Twenty minutes into the move and Skye and Clint are already in a popcorn fight which, Melinda, Natasha and Coulson are doing their best to stay out off, which escalates very quickly when Clint throws a muffin at Skye instead of popcorn by accident.
"I'm going to get you for that." Skye tells Clint and the pair end up chasing each other around the house.
"Are we sure Clint's not the same age as Skye?" Melinda asks amused.
"It definitely seems like it." Natasha comments.
"Do you give up Kid?" Clint's voice asks several minutes later when he and Skye returns to the living room Clint carrying Skye over his shoulder.
"Never Uncle Clint." Skye responds.
"Then you're not getting down." Clint announces.
"Dad, tell him to put me down." Skye request as she hits Clint and they hear the sound of a camera flash coming from Melinda's direction.
"Clint put her down." Coulson comments though he is clearly amused.
"Ha ha." Skye comments with a grin as Clint puts, well more like drops, her down on the couch.
"You two are children." Natasha comments.
"After everything that has happened the last couple of weeks I think we deserve some fun while we can." Clint comments, "Don't you think?" he tells her.
"Yeah, I guess we do." Natasha admits.
"We have a week right?" Skye asks "Before Uncle Clint and Dad go back to the plane and тетя Наташа goes on her mission for Fury, so I don't know about you guys but I vote we have as much fun as possible." Skye comments.
"I think that sounds like a really good idea." Coulson comment, "But Natasha and Clint might have other plans.
"I think we could spend a few days here, then a few days just us." Natasha comments knowing that while they wouldn't mind spending the whole time with Coulson, Melinda and Skye they should give the three of the sometime alone before they will be away from each other for five weeks. "What do you think?" She Clint curious.
"Sounds good to me, that's if it's alright with you guys." He comments.
"Sounds good." Coulson comment.
"Yeah it does." Melinda answers.
For three days Clint and Natasha stay and while they do the group of five spend almost all their time together, a few times they split into groups but they always make sure Melinda isn't left alone or left out because due to her injuries there is a lot she cannot do and she has to still be monitored. When Clint and Natasha leave the assure Skye that they will be back the night before Coulson and Clint have to report to the bus and Natasha has to report to Fury so they can have a dinner together.
The first morning after Clint and Natasha leave Skye heads downstairs and finds her mother on the couch reading, Melinda has been spending most of her time on the couch because she refuses to do her bed rest in bed.
"Dad In the kitchen?" Skye asks curious as for the last day Coulson has been making and freezing meals for her and Melinda to heat up while he is gone.
"No, garage, doing something to the car." Melinda comments putting her book down.
"Lola or your car?" Skye asks curious.
"Lola."
"What does Lola need done to it?" Skye asks confused.
"No idea." Melinda answers honestly.
"And what is with cooking and freezing meals? Does he think we can't look after ourselves?" Skye asks interested.
"The reason your father had to re model that kitchen in the first place is because I caught the stove on fire, I think it's more he doesn't want us cooking in there than not thinking we can look after ourselves." Melinda explains.
"Ah, right. That makes sense." Skye comments amused. "How are you feeling?" Skye asks interested.
"Okay." Melinda tells her daughter, "How are you?"
"I'm good, I like it here." Skye admits, "It's been fun the last couple of days and even though I love Uncle Clint and тетя Наташа it's nice to spend some time just the three of us." Skye comments.
"Yeah, it is." Melinda admits.
"How is it being back here?" Skye asks interested.
"Hard, but good at the same time." Melinda admits.
"I get that." Skye comments because it's the same for her though she guesses it is harder for her parents.
Melinda and Skye drift into silence until they hear the back door open, "Mel, where did we put the first aid kit?" Coulson voice asks.
"Under the sink." Melinda responds, "Can you go see what the idiots done to himself?" Melinda asks Skye.
"Of course." Skye says getting up and heading into the kitchen.
"What did you do?" Skye asks her Dad curious as she walks into the kitchen.
"Nothing to worry about." Coulson answers, "Just forgot that I had a habit of leaving tools around the garage." He answers as he stands up and Skye notices the blood on his hand.
"Is it bad?" Skye asks worried.
"No it's fine." Coulson responds.
"Maybe you should go get a tetanus shot." Skye tells her Dad, "Just to be on the safe side."
"No need, it's fine." Coulson answers putting a bad aide on the cut.
"Are you sure?" Skye asks worried.
"Positive." Coulson answers.
"What are you doing out there anyway?" Skye asks curious as she walks over and sits on the bench.
"Just a tune up on Lola." Coulson answers as he starts to put everything away.
"Why?" Skye asks confused.
"Because it has to be done." Coulson answers, "You know you can come out and help if you want." He suggests.
"Thanks, but Mom and I have a date with John Travolta." She answers.
"Huh?" Coulson asks confused.
"We decided last night, we're going to watch Grease, Saturday Night fever, Pulp Fiction, and the look who's talking movies." Skye explains. "You should join us."
"I'm good, I've still got a lot to do on Lola." Coulson informs her.
"Come on, you've got a thing for the classics, all of these are classics." Skye points out.
"Have fun." Coulson tells his daughter giving her a kiss on her head before leaving out the backdoor, rather quickly Skye notices.
"Mom what drinks do you want?" Skye yells.
"Anything." Melinda yells back, "Just bring the chocolate." She tells Skye.
"Of course." Skye says going to the fridge and pulling out several of the boxes of chocolate they have left a two bottles of juice.
"So what do you want to start with?" Skye asks walking over and placing the drinks and chocolate on the coffee table in front of the couch.
"I was thinking Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and then Pulp fiction. We can decide later if we want to watch the look who' talking movies." Melinda suggests.
"Sounds good." Skye comments getting up and putting the first movie on before returning to the couch and sitting down next to Melinda.
"Let me guess your father disappeared as quickly as possible when you told him what we were watching?" Melinda asks curious.
"Yep, how did you know?" Skye asks surprised.
"Because when I was pregnant with you, when we were suspended, I watched Grease about a hundred times and used to sing the songs to you, I think he got sick of it." Melinda explains.
"Huh, guess that's why I love it so much." Skye answers smiling at her mother.
"Yeah, guess it is." Melinda comments putting her arm that isn't in a sling around her daughter.
To Coulson's dismay he returns inside just in time for the start of Grease, and when he does he finds Skye and Melinda singing along to Summer Nights.
"Come on Dad, come join us." Skye tells her father.
"I've got to have a shower." Coulson tells his daughter.
"You know we've still got most of the movie left. You can't hide in the bathroom the whole time." Melinda tells Coulson.
"I can try." Coulson comments before heading upstairs causing Skye and Melinda to laugh.
The next day Skye gets up earlier than usually because she and Coulson are going to spend the day going for a drive out of the city.
"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Coulson asks Melinda worried for what she believes to be the hundredth time.
"Positive. My oxygen stats are being measured at all times and will alert me if something's wrong, I have your number, Skye's number, and Clint and Natasha are in the city so I can contact them if something happens, hell I could call Stark if I needed to. I'll be fine, you enjoy you're day with our daughter." Melinda tell him.
"Are you sure?" Coulson ask worried, "We can do it another time"
"Don't you dare, you and Skye have been looking forward to this, go." Melinda tells Coulson.
"If you're sure." Coulson tells her.
"I'm sure." Melinda says.
"See you later." Coulson says giving Melinda a kiss before walking over to the bottom of the stairs.
"SKYE YOU READY?" He yells.
"IN A MINUTE." Skye yells back down as she finishes texting a message to Ward, "Driving with Dad today. Talk to you 2night."
"I'm ready." Skye says walking down the stairs. "Bye Mom." Skye says walking over and giving her Mom a hug goodbye before following her Dad outside "We're taking Lola right?" Skye asks Coulson.
"Of course." Coulson responds.
"So does this mean I get one of my how to drive Lola lessons today?" Skye asks curious and hoping that the answer is yes.
"No, not until you get your cast off." Coulson tells Skye as they get into Lola.
"Well that could be in a couple of days. When Mom and I have to go to the New York office the day after you leave so that Doctor Streiten can check how Mom's going he's going to x-ray my arm and see if how it's healing. I might get this thing off two weeks early." Skye reveals.
"You'll have to wait and see, but you may not." Coulson reminds her.
"I know." Skye responds and Coulson drives them out of the driveway.
An hour and a half later Coulson and Skye are out of the city and Coulson decides to bring up something he's been thinking about since Melinda died that he wants Skye's opinion on.
"So there's something I've been thinking about for a little while that I wanted to talk to you about." Coulson tells Skye.
"Okay, what?" Skye asks confused.
"So it wouldn't be right now, but sometime in the future, likely soon, but maybe not be for a while, I was thinking about proposing to your Mom." Coulson tells Skye sounding more nervous than she has ever heard him.
"Seriously?" Skye ask excited.
"You think it's a bad idea don't you?" Coulson asks worried "I mean we've only been back together a little over a month and we're still trying to work things out and…." Coulson babbles but Skye cuts him of.
"Dad relax, I think it's a great idea." Skye tells her Dad, "You may have only been back together a month but you've been in love for thirty years. You know everything about each other that people who date want to find out. I think it's an amazing idea." She tells her father.
"You do?" He asks.
"I do." Skye assures.
"Good, I wanted to make sure you would be okay with it before I thought about it anymore." Coulson tells his daughter relieved that she is okay it.
"You don't need my permission." Skye tells her Dad.
"Yeah I do." Coulson tells her "You're our daughter, neither me nor your mother would do anything that you weren't okay with." Coulson reveals.
"Well you don't have to worry I am a hundred and ten percent okay with this." Skye assures her father though she is shocked and doesn't really know what to say about her parents putting her in front of their relationship, "So how are you thinking about doing it? Oh do you have a ring yet?"
"No I don't have a ring yet." Coulson reveals though he does have an idea that he is thinking about "And I'm still working on how to do it." He tells her.
"Well it has to be epic." Skye tells her father then realises something, "How did you propose last time?" She asks curious as she realises that she doesn't know.
"Haven't either of us told you?" Coulson asks surprised.
"No, you told me about how you first met and your wedding but you didn't tell me how you proposed." She reveals. "So how did you?" Skye asks eagerly.
"It was the first weekend of we had in months and I made us dinner. For desert I made the Coulson Family Chocolate pudding and on top of the pudding in icing sugar I wrote, 'Will You Marry Me' with the ring sticking out below it." Coulson reveals.
"Wow." Skye says completely shocked, "You really are a romantic." Skye comments impressed with her father's proposal, "But you do realise that you've made it so much harder for yourself, how do you expect to top that?" Skye asks interested.
"I never thought I would have to, I thought it would be it for me, that Mel would be it." Coulson reveals.
"She is." Skye tell her Dad, "It just took you a while to get back there."
"Thanks Baby Girl." Coulson tells his daughter.
"You know you should do the weeding properly this time." Skye tells her dad several minutes later, "You married in secret last time but you should do it right this time, the whole thing." She tells him.
"You're getting ahead of yourself, you don't even know if your Mother will say yes." Coulson points out.
"Of course she's going to say yes." Skye tells him, "There is no way she will say anything else."
"Well if she does say yes we have to have a conversation with Fury before we can do anything. It's against protocol." He reveals.
"Well if the stories I heard while at Agent Hill's base are true, you two are the reason that it's against protocol in the first place so I'm betting that Fury will overlook it." Skye comments.
"You heard about that?" Coulson asks surprised.
"So it's true. You and Mom are the reason that Agent's aren't allowed to be in relationships?" Skye asks surprised as if the whole story of her Mom in Bahrain taught her anything it was not to listen to S.H.I.E.L.D gossip.
"We're the reason that Cadets at the academy aren't allowed to have romantic relationships yes." Coulson confirms, "Officially there is no protocol against agents in the field being in relationship but it is unwritten that if there is any sign of it affecting the job then action will be taken." Coulson explains, "But married agents is another matter, that's why your Mom and I got suspended last time because we didn't disclose our marriage to S.H.I.E.L.D." Coulson explain.
"Does that mean you guys won't be able to work together?" Skye asks surprised.
"It is at the Directors Discretion to choose what happens." Coulson reveals "We may be able to keep working together or we may not, it will be up to Director Fury." Coulson reveals.
"Well he loves you guys so I don't think it will be a problem." Skye comments hoping that she is right,
"I hope so." Coulson says. "Do you remember when I said one day I might need to trust you with a secret?" He asks his daughter.
"Of course." Skye responds.
"I'm trusting you with this secret Skye, no one can know."
"I won't tell, promise." Skye assures her Dad, "When you start to working on rings let me know, and I'll help, if you want." She says uncertain as to whether he would be okay with that.
"I'd like that." Coulson responds and the pair drift into silence.
Three days later Skye is once again up early so that she can say goodbye to her Dad, Uncle Clint and тетя Наташа who are all leaving for the New York field base.
"Look after him for us." Skye says to Clint as she hugs him goodbye.
"Of course, look after your Mom Kid." Clint tells her.
"Stay safe with whatever Fury is having you do." Skye says to her aunt as she hugs her goodbye.
"I'll do my best." Natasha tells Skye. "Memorize what is on this card and then destroy it." Natasha says as she slips a card into Skye's pocket.
"What is it?" Skye asks confused.
"A way for me to always find you." Natasha reveals "If you say what is on that card to an operative from any country, any intelligent organization, then you will be safe and I will always find you." She explains in a whisper.
"Thank you." Skye says before breaking the hug, "If you get hurt while Mom and I are here I will kick your ass." Skye promises her father.
"Noted." Coulson tells her. "I love you Baby Girl."
"Love you to Dad." Skye says back as she hears Melinda threaten Clint.
"I left my credit card on your draws, use it if you need to." Coulson tells Skye, "There are more than enough meals frozen to eat, the instructions are clear." He tells her.
"You don't have to leave your credit card, we'll be fine." Skye tells her father.
"I know, but I want to." Coulson tells her. "Don't be afraid to call me if you need."
"I'll call if I have to." Skye assures her father.
"Do what your doctor tells you Mel. I want my second in command back as soon as I can." Coulson tells Melinda.
"I'll do my best." Melinda tells Coulson and the pair kiss.
"Come on we've got to get going. With traffic we're already going to be ten minutes late for Fury." Clint reveals several minutes later.
"Which means twenty minutes earlier than when he was expecting you." Melinda comments.
"True, but we shouldn't push it." Natasha comments.
"Let's go." Coulson comments and with one last look at his daughter and the woman he loves Coulson leaves Natasha and Clint right behind him.
"It's going to be odd with just us here." Skye comments as she helps her mother back to the couch.
"Yeah it is, but you know what we can do?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"No, what's that?" Skye asks confused.
"Play Grease as loud as we want." Melinda says with a smile and Skye laughs.
"Do you want to continue with Lost?" Skye asks her mother interested as the day before she actually got her mother to start watching it.
"Sure, I want to know what happened to Claire." Melinda reveals.
"Awesome." Skye comments before putting the DVD on.
When they get to the New York field office Coulson and Clint have a brief talk with Fury before heading to the plane. Once they have left Fury starts to brief Natasha on her mission.
"So you want me to become a part of Quinn's lawyer's firm and see what I can find out?" Natasha asks once the briefing ends.
"Yes. We still don't know whether Quinn is alive or dead which means we have no leads on the Clairvoyant. The only thing we do know is that Quinn's lawyer knows something, we need to know just what." Fury tells Natasha.
"Of course Sir." Natasha responds.
"Here's your cover." Fury says handing Natasha a folder, "Good Luck Agent Romanoff." He says before leaving the room and Natasha alone to become who she has to for the mission.
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