Chapter 5
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Quite a few hours after she fell asleep Skye wakes to a sight that makes her smile. FitzSimmons are asleep together cuddled up together. Ward is sitting near to them looking like he fell asleep with his arms crossed and her parents, Aunt and Uncle are huddled together so close that it is hard to tell who is who. Being as quite as possible Skye reaches for her phone and takes a picture of each of the groups for later, knowing that she can tease Fitz and Simmons about their position and wanting to get several copies of her parents, Aunt and Uncle printed.
Knowing that she can't let this opportunity pass because none of them would Skye looks around for something that she can reach to wake them up. She is trying to think of something to do when she spots something that Clint gave her, "Thank you Uncle Clint." Skye thinks to herself as she reaches over and grabs a can of silly string and an air horn.
"Don't even think about it." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Why not?" Skye asks with a grin.
"Because everyone else will feel the need to retaliate." Melinda tells her.
"Bring it on." Skye says spraying her parents, Aunt and Uncle with the silly string as she uses the air horn.
Once she has sprayed her parents, Uncle and Aunt Skye starts to spray Ward, Fitz and Simmons who are awake and trying to figure out what is going on.
"You really shouldn't have done that kid?" Clint tells his niece.
"Why not?" Skye asks standing up on her bed.
"Because of this." Clint says standing up and trying to grab her but Skye jumps, but that part of her plan doesn't go exactly to plan as Melinda managed to grab her and steal the silly string out of her and she starts to spray her.
"You gave this to her didn't you?" Melinda asks Clint once she has covered Skye in silly string.
"Maybe." Clint says and he runs out of Skye's bunk Melinda right behind him.
"How you feeling?" Coulson asks Skye curious.
"I'm good." Skye says with a smile as they hear Melinda angry voice of "Don't you dare Clinton."
"Um, I don't know about you guys but I kind of really want to see what is going on out there." Skye says leaving the room, Fitz, Simmons, and Ward right behind her.
"It's been years, a lot of them, since they did this." Natasha says to Coulson with a grin.
"I know." Coulson responds and the pair leave the bunk both wanting to see what their partners are doing to each other.
When Natasha and Clint exit Skye's bunk they see Melinda and Clint having what looks like a stand-off. Melinda having the silly string in one hand and a very large spray bottle of water in the other while Clint has a can of spray hair paint in one hand and a can of spray whipped cream in the other, both of them are holding the bottles threatening and clearly waiting for the other to make a move first.
"Do we try to stop them?" Skye asks her father and Aunt.
"No, you stay back and out of the way and hope they don't drag you into the middle" Natasha explains.
"Or use you as a Shield." Coulson adds.
"I've never seen this side of Agent May before." Fitz comments surprised.
"Not many people have." Coulson comments, "She hasn't acted like this in a long time." He reveals a smile clear on his face.
"Why are we fighting each other?" Clint asks Melinda with a smirk.
"Oh crap." Coulson comments knowing what is coming.
"You're right." Melinda comments and Skye, Fitz and Simmons don't think they have ever seen Coulson and Natasha move as fast as when they do in that moment.
"Aren't we meant to be the younger immature agents?" Skye ask amused as four grown adults run up the stairs all trying to avoid being sprayed with different stuff.
"Supposed to be, but I don't see it." Fitz comments.
"The next time any of them try and give us a lecture on how we are behaving I am reminding them of this moment." Skye comments as the four of them walk over to the kitchen.
"Please do." Simmons requests.
"How are you feeling?" Ward asks Skye worried.
"Better, a lot better." Skye responds, "I'm still pretty weak but I'm better than I was." She tells him.
"Good." Ward tells her, "You've got to stop scaring me like that." Ward says as he gives her a kiss.
"I'll try." Skye tells her boyfriend when they break apart.
"So breakfast?" Fitz asks.
"How about we all get changed and if you're feeling up to it go out for breakfast." Simmons suggests looking at her friends thinking that it might be best for them to get out of the aim of fire.
"That sounds good." Skye says and the others nod and everyone except for Skye heads to their bunks. Skye heads to the stair and just yells, "WARD, SIMMONS, FITZ AND I ARE GOING OUT TO BREAKFAST." She yells before going to her own bunk to get ready.
Twenty minutes later, Fitz, Simmons, Skye and Ward are leaving the plane to go for breakfast, leaving Melinda, Coulson, Natasha and Clint alone.
Melinda, Natasha, Clint and Coulson are all on the floor in Coulson's office laughing hysterically as they realises just what they have done and how ridiculous it is. All of them are covered in silly string, cream, paint and all of them are wet. Coulson's office having seen better days.
As Simmons, Skye, Fitz and Ward leave they find Tony parking his car.
"Where are you four off to?" Tony asks seeing them.
"Escaping the war zone by going to breakfast." Skye answers.
"What do you mean?" Tony asks interested.
"Mom, Dad, Uncle Clint, тетя Наташа and silly string, water, cream and spray paint. You wouldn't believe me if I told you the rest." Skye tells her Uncle.
"Please, tell me more." Tony requests.
"Dad's office, you'll find them in there." Skye tells her Uncle as she gets in the passenger seat of the car.
Tony is confused by his nieces words but as he knows that whatever is going on he can't resist seeing it so he makes his way up the office and is shocked by the sight that greats him.
"Are you all very high?" Tony asks amused when he sees them.
"What do you want Tony?" Natasha asks being the first of them who could stop laughing.
"To talk business, very serious business, but I guessing that's not going to happen." Tony comments, "What the hell happened?" He asks torn between amusement and shock.
"We all fell asleep in Skye's room, Skye woke us with silly string. I chased Clint with it because he gave it to her and things kind of escalated." Melinda explains.
"Yeah, I'll say it did." Tony says looking at the four of them, "Where does the cream come into this?"
"It was the closes thing that I could spray." Clint explains, "You know its things like this that caused Fury to stop assigning us as a team in the first place." He comments.
"I think the international incident we caused was part of the reason." Melinda comments.
"And the drunken incidents." Natasha adds.
"And the pranks that were pulled on other agents." Coulson adds.
"How do any of you still have a job?" Tony asks standing over the four surprised by their actions.
"Because we're amazing at what we do." Natasha tells him.
"And Fury likes us." Melinda adds.
"Sometimes." Coulson corrects.
"Most of the time." Clint corrects
"You are amazing, all of you." Tony tells them, "You all put on this stoic, all business, tough agent front and yet here you are covered in paint and cream and silly string, dripping wet like it is no big deal." He tells them.
"That's because it's not, we used to do it a lot, haven't for a while though." Coulson comments and Melinda reaches out and grabs his hand because she knows that the reason they haven't done something like this in a while is because of her.
"Lay down Tony, everything makes sense when you're laying down." Clint comments.
"I repeat, are you sure you're not high?" Tony asks amused though he does lay down between Coulson and Clint.
As soon as he lays down, Melinda sprays him with the silly string, Coulson with the paint, Natasha with the water and Clint with the cream.
"Should have seen that coming." Tony comments though he doesn't sound mad. "You better hope this comes out of this top."
"Relax, It will." Natasha assures him and the five friends just lay in silence.
Away from the bus, Skye, Ward and FitzSimmons are sitting at booth at a dinner waiting on their breakfast that they have ordered.
"So you guys we're pretty close this morning." Skye says with a grin to Fitz and Simmons.
"No, we weren't." Simmons says quickly a blush appearing on her face.
"Well the picture I took says otherwise." Skye smile though it looks slightly forced something which Simmons realises.
"Are you okay?" She asks worried.
"Headache." Skye answers.
"Maybe we should go back." Ward says worried.
"No need, I'm okay. Plus some food will do me good." Skye assures him.
"Are you sure?" Ward asks worried.
"Yeah, I'm sure." Skye tells him, "And because of that amazing doge of the question, I'll drop the subject." Skye tells her friend and when Ward and Fitz aren't looking Simmons mouths "Later." To Skye and Skye responds with a nod.
An hour and a half later, Skye, Ward and FitzSimmons return to the plane to find Melinda, Coulson, Clint, Natasha and Tony all cleaned up and sitting around the table eating.
"Is the war over?" Skye asks curious walking over to them.
"The war is never over kid, we've just called a truce." Clint tells her.
"And how long do these truces usually last?" Skye asks interested.
"Depends." Clint answers, "The last one lasted a while." He comments.
"Right." Skye says deciding not to question any more as she senses the tension in the room at Clint's comment.
"Oh Dad, I've been meaning to ask when me and Mom were at home we found a box that said 'for May on her twenty first birthday' on the top. Mom said that I shouldn't open it until you're home so I was wondering if we could go to the house and have a look? If you don't mind." Skye asks her Dad.
"I would like that." Coulson says, "I haven't added to it for a while." He comments.
"What made you start it in the first place?" Skye asks curious assuming he had a reason.
"It was something that Howard Stark suggested I do." Coulson comments and Tony almost chokes on his coffee.
"It was, I forgot that." Melinda realises.
"You knew my father?" Tony asks shocked once he is no longer choking on his coffee.
"Yeah, I did. Not well, but I knew him." Coulson comments.
"How?" Tony ask shocked.
"He founded S.H.I.E.L.D, he kept checking in on things right up until he died. We met more than once." Melinda answers.
"Pretty sure he was scared of you." Coulson tells Melinda.
"No he wasn't." Melinda tells him, "He told me I reminded him of someone he knew, would never tell me who though." Melinda explains.
"And he told you to do something for Skye?" Tony asks shocked trying to comprehend it.
"Outside the conference room after Skye was born…." Coulson begins to say but Skye cut him off.
"Hang on Conference room? Don't you mean delivery room?" She asks surprised as she sits down next to her father.
"No." Melinda answers, "As you know your father and I we're suspended when I was pregnant with you. Two weeks before you were due Phil and I had a meeting at S.H.I.E.L.D with Fury and Howard showed up as well." Melinda explains. "I don't remember why, do you?"
"I don't think so." Coulson answers. "But I think it was to tell me off for not having a bachelor party." He says uncertain but pretty sure that that was the reason.
"That sounds like Dad." Tony comments trying to grasp the fact two of his very close friends knew his father.
"I had been having contractions but I had been ignoring them. My water broke in the meeting and Howard went to get Dr. Streiten. Once Dr Streiten deduced that you we're coming to fast for me to be moved Howard and Fury left the room. You we're born in an S.H.I.E.L.D conference room." Melinda explains.
"Wow, that's surprising." Skye comments not sure what else to say but at the same time realising that it fitting.
"When I came out to tell Fury and your father that I had a healthy baby girl he pulled me aside." Coulson says looking at Tony, "He told me that being a father is harder than any job or operation you will ever do and the only guaranty is that you will screw up, that you will do more things wrong than right, but you will love the child more than you thought possible, more than they will ever know. He told me to start a box for my daughter to give to her on her twenty first birthday just like he did for his son, a box full off all the memories you have, everything you want your child to know but would never be able to say or show, I took that advice." Coulson explains.
"Excuse me." Tony says getting up and walking out of the room clearly emotional.
Without a word Skye gets up and follows right behind him, while Coulson silently berates himself for mentioning Howard Stark so carelessly.
A minute later Skye finds Tony sitting on the platform above the Cargo Bay.
"I don't really feel like company." Tony tells Skye.
"Doesn't mean that's not exactly what you need." Skye says sitting down next to her Uncle, "I get it Uncle Tony, I'm finding out new things about my parents every day, it know how it messes with your mind." Skye reveals.
"This is different." Tony tells her.
"How?" Skye ask
"It just is." Tony tells her. "You're parents, Fury who knows who else, they all knew my father better than I did."
"Welcome to the club." Skye tells her Uncle, "There are a lot of people who know my parents better than me."
"The difference is that you can get to know them now. I'll never get that chance with my father." Tony reveals.
"Yeah you do, just not in the same way as me." Skye tells him, "You get to know him through Fury's eyes, through Mom and Dad's, I think that maybe Uncle Clint and тетя Наташа might have met him if they did then get to know him through there's, and the box Dad talked about, do you have it?" Skye asks curious.
"Yeah, in a whole bunch of my Dad's stuff. Never opened it though" Tony answers as he always assumed it was full of things that he did to disappoint his father.
"Open it Uncle Tony, get to know your Dad in a way he wanted you to." Skye tells her Uncle the pair drift into silence.
"You know the 'Other people know my parents better than me club' isn't the only one we are both apart of." Skye tells her Uncle several minutes later.
"Oh yeah, what other club are we a part of?" Tony asks curious.
"From what I know a very, very small one, Children of S.H.I.E.L.D agents." Skye tells him.
"Huh, guess we are." Tony realises, "Think it gets us anything special?" He asks curious.
"Don't know, maybe Fury will put up with more from us." Skye suggests.
"He doesn't in my experience." Tony comments.
"Just think for a moment about everything you have done Uncle Tony, and about how Fury has reacted." Skye tells him. "Do you really think you haven't had more chances than most would get?" she asks curious.
"Huh, you might be right." Tony comments once he thinks about it. "So, Iron Man and Electro-Girl: Children of S.H.I.E.L.D." Tony comments.
"That makes us sound like bad ass heroes." Skye comments with a small smile.
"I've told you Skye, you are a bad ass hero." Tony tells his niece.
"So are you Uncle Tony." Skye says giving her Uncle a hug.
"You know maybe it means that one day we'll get to inherit S.H.I.E.L.D" Tony comments.
"It would be cool if we did." Skye comments then realises something, "When I was in the hospital after Quinn took me, Hill told me that I was born apart of S.H.I.E.L.D, that I was protected and apart of S.H.I.E.L.D no matter what I choose to do, maybe that's what it means." Skye guesses, "That we're apart of S.H.I.E.D's legacy." She comments.
"Make sense." Tony comments, "Especially if you think about what has happened to us." He tells her.
"What do you mean?" Skye asks interested.
"Somehow even with everything we have done, everything that has happened to both of us we found our way to back to S.H.I.E.L.D. without even realising it." Tony tells his niece.
"Huh, you're right." Skye comments and the pair drift back into silence, Tony having his arm around his niece as they do.
Twenty minutes after they left the kitchen Skye and Tony return.
"I'm sorry Tony, I shouldn't have mentioned that I knew your father so carelessly." Coulson tells his friend.
"It's okay." Tony assures him, "But I want to know, did you two ever meet him?" He asks Natasha and Clint.
"Once." Clint answers, "Right after I brought Nat into S.H.I.E.L.D, he gave me a lecture." He explains.
"I never met him." Natasha answers.
"Tony I only met your father a few times, but from what I know there are two living people who knew him pretty well and they are Fury and Steve, if you want to know more about him, ask them." Melinda tells Tony.
"I'll think about it." Tony responds not sure if he is going to talk to them or not.
"Kid, you alright?" Clint asks concerned as Skye grabs onto the table
"I'm fine." Skye says as she sits down next to her father, not letting go of the table until she is sitting down.
"Are you using your father's definition again?" Natasha asks curious.
"Maybe." Skye responds, "Where did Simmons's go?" Skye asks curious.
"Her bunk." Melinda answers.
"Right, I've got a conversation to finish." Skye says getting up with difficulty and walking over to Simmons's bunk, she would have fallen over if Natasha wasn't by her side catching her before she could fall.
"You should rest." Natasha tells her niece.
"I want to talk to Simmons fist." Skye responds and Natasha helps her Simmons's bunk.
"So what's going on with you and Fitz?" Skye asks her friend, her sister, once Natasha has left the two younger woman alone.
"I don't know." Simmons tells her.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Skye asks confused.
"Things have been different lately and I think there is something more but I don't know how to bring it up." Simmons reveals, "What if I bring it up and he doesn't feel the same and it ruins our friendship. How did you and Ward do it?"
"First me and Ward are different." Skye tells her friend, "We didn't have the friendship that you and Fitz have. We didn't have as much to lose." Skye tells her friend, "You like Fitz right? You want to be with him."
"Yeah, I do." Simmons confirms.
"You might have to be prepared to risk you're friendship if you want to be with him." Skye tells her friend, "You've got to decide for yourself if you can handle that. Do you think Fitz is you're true love?" Skye asks her friend.
"You believe in true love?" Simmons asks surprised as it seems out of character.
"I never used to." Skye admits, "But when I see my parents and Uncle Clint and тетя Наташа together I think that maybe true love does exist." Skye admits. "You and Fitz remind me of them." Skye admits.
"We do?" Simmons asks surprised.
"Yeah, you do." Skye answers. "You should talk to Fitz, talk about what you are both feeling and decide together what you want to do."
"I'll try." Simmons tells her friend, "So how are things going with you and Ward?" She asks curious.
"Things are good." Skye tells her friend.
"But? I'm sensing that there is a but there." Simmons realises.
"Grant is great and I really liked him but he had a thing with my Mom, and that makes thing slightly odd." Skye reveals, "I don't want it to affect what is going on with me Grant because I really like where this, where us, are going but I can't help thinking about it." Skye admits.
"Is it something that you can get past?" Simmons asks curious.
"It is something I want to get past." Skye tells her.
"That wasn't my question." Simmons tells her.
"I know, honestly I don't know if I can get past it." Skye admits, "But I want to, I want to be with Grant" Skye tells her friend.
"I know you do." Simmons tells her, "I guess you've just go to try and see what happens." Simmons responds and the pair drift into silence.
An hour later Coulson goes to check on his daughter and finds her asleep next to Simmons.
"She okay?" Coulson asks Simmons concerned.
"She's okay." Simmons responds.
"Come get me if anything changes." Coulson request and he heads back out into the living area where Tony and Clint are sitting, both Ward and Fitz are downstairs playing games on the screens in the lab and Coulson isn't quite sure where Melinda and Natasha are.
"So what was the business you wanted to talk to us about Tony?" Coulson asks curious.
"The kind of camera's you want for when Skye is at the academy." Tony responds.
"Right, what have you got?" Coulson asks sitting back down and the three men begin to discuss exactly what will be the best surveillance method.
After Natasha helped Skye to her bunk she and Melinda left the plane in one of the cars that are on standby.
"So this morning, it's been a while." Natasha comments from the driving side having beaten Melinda to the car meaning that she got to drive
"Yeah, it has." Melinda confirms.
"What brought it on?" Natasha asks curious as it was nice seeing that side of her friend again for the first time in a while.
"I told Skye everything." Melinda reveals.
"Everything?" Natasha asks surprised.
"Bahrain and Istanbul, I told her." Melinda reveals.
"Wow, and it helped?" Natasha asks surprised.
"Yeah, it did." Melinda confirms.
"I'm glad." Natasha tells her friend the pair drift into silence as they speed along country roads neither sure where exactly they are going.
"You know after this morning Clint is going to retaliate." Natasha tells her friend aver several miles of silent driving.
"I know." Melinda responds.
"Well I was thinking that we should act pre-emptively before he gets a chance." Natasha tells her friend.
"What are you thinking?" Melinda asks interested and Natasha begins to explain her plan, the more she explains the bigger the smile on Melinda's face get.
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