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Pacing back and forth across the carpet of her bedroom, Skye bites her bottom lip between her teeth, wringing her hands together tightly as her brows furrow together. Her eyes flit occasionally over to where her cell phone sits on the small table by her door.

"Why haven't they called yet? I just need them to call me already so I can know."

"What you need is to be patient, Skye," Natasha says from her place sitting at Skye's desk. She's leaning back casually, one leg crossed over the other, an amused smile on her lips.

"Natasha's right, Skye," Bobbi says over video chat on Skye's laptop. "They'll call when they call, right?"

Skye tilts her head back and groans, briefly glancing over at the laptop set up on her desk. "Yes, I know. But they said that they'd call in a week. It's been a week, right? At least, I think it has. The days have honestly kind of been blurring together lately."

Natasha raises an eyebrow at her. "You do know that when they say a week there is usually a window of a few days for when they'll actually call you back, right?"

"Yeah, I guess. But it's making me really, really anxious," Skye complains, falling down onto her bed and covering her face with her hands. "If I didn't get the part, I just want to know about it already!"

"I'm sure you got the part," Bobbi tells her. "You're a great actress and I know for a fact they saw that in your audition. That's why you actually went in for a chemistry read this time around. I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before when you were going in for said chemistry read so I don't see why you're still so worried about it."

"Maybe somebody else was better than I was during their chemistry read," Skye worries, completely glossing over what Bobbi said. "Maybe they thought they liked what they saw with me, but then someone else went after me and did a whole lot better."

"Well, I'm sure they're just—"

Natasha gets cut off by the loud ringtone coming from Skye's cell phone.

Skye immediately jumps into action and goes over to her phone, checking the caller ID. "It's Shield Studios!" she exclaims, immediately hitting the answer call button and holding the phone up to her ear. "Hello?" she says into the phone. "Yes, this is she." She listens intently to what the person is saying on the other end of the phone, trying to keep her breathing even and her emotions in control. "Yes. Of course. Thank you, bye." Hanging up the phone call, Skye sets her phone back down on the table and then looks up at Natasha and Bobbi, doing her best to keep a straight face.

"Well, what did they say?" Natasha asks her eagerly, sitting forward slightly in her seat.

Skye's silent for a moment longer, biting her lip between her teeth again as she wrings her hands together.

"Don't just leave us hanging here, Skye," Bobbi speaks up. "What did the studio say? Did you get the part or not?"

"I got the part," Skye tells them both, a wide grin quickly growing across her face.

"You did?" Natasha's eyes go wide, a smile starting to grow on her face as well.

Skye nods her head. "Mm-hmm. That was one of the producers for the movie, Phil Coulson, I think. He said he wanted to tell me himself instead of having someone else do it."

"Skye, that's amazing." Bobbi grins, exciting for her best friend. "This is huge news!"

Skye grins back. "I know. This is going to be one crazy, yet amazing, adventure for me."

"And you're going to completely rock this," Bobbi tells her. "As you do with every other project you're in."

"You guys really think I'll do a good job with this?" she asks, biting her lip between her teeth once again and looking between the two women.

"Of course we do," Natasha tells her. "You are very talented, and you're going to prove that to everyone who's working on this movie, as well as to everyone who's going to see it once it's finished."

"I really hope you guys are right about this."

"We are," Bobbi assures her.

Skye smiles at her best friend and then takes a deep breath. "Well, I think I'm going to call my parents and Lincoln now so I can tell them the good news."

"That sounds like an excellent idea," Natasha says, standing up from her seat and grabbing her bag off the floor. "Tell them I say hello."

"Will do."

Natasha gives her a small wave as she makes her way out of the room and to the front door of the apartment, no doubt off to meet with the new mystery man in her life that she still hasn't told her anything about.

Skye turns to her laptop, sitting down in the chair and scooting to the edge of it. "What about you, Bobbi?" she asks her friend, resting her forearms against the top of the desk. "Want me to tell mom, dad, or Lincoln anything when I talk to them?"

Bobbi shakes her head. "Nah, you don't have to. I actually just saw your mom at the store yesterday and we talked then. She misses you."

"And I miss her too. But I really can't afford to fly back home all the time. And wasn't I just home for Christmas?" she asks with a slight tilt of her head.

"Yeah, but this is your mother we're talking about, Skye."

She nods with a small laugh. "Right, of course. Well, I'm going to go so I can talk to my family. I love you, and I'll talk to you soon."

Bobbi smiles. "Love you too."

Skye smiles back and then ends the FaceTime call, immediately going to her contacts to find Lincoln's name. She clicks the call button and leans back in her chair, waiting for the call to go through. She never knows if he's ever actually going to answer her calls. Sometimes he won't just to be annoying.

"There's my favorite girl." Her brother smiles through the camera when the video call connects, the video skipping for just a second as it catches up. "It's been too long."

"Pretty sure we just talked on the phone last week," she reminds him.

Lincoln shrugs. "Yeah, well." He takes a deep breath. "So what's with the call?"

"I have some really important news and I need to tell you, mom, and dad at the same time. Can you get them?"

"Yeah, one sec." Lincoln leans back in his chair and turns his head over his shoulder. "Mom! Dad! Skye's on FaceTime!"

She quirks a brow at him. "You know you could have just gotten up and gone to get them, right?"

Lincoln shrugs. "Eh."

"Well, there's our movie star."

Skye smiles at the older blonde man walking into the frame, a smile on his face when he sees her. "Hey, dad."

"Hi, sweetheart. How are you?"

"I'm good. Where's mom?"

"Right here."

Skye's smile grows just a little at the older blonde woman stepping into the frame. "Hey, mommy."

"Hi, sweetie. How are you?"

"Good. I actually have something I want to tell you guys. It's pretty exciting."

"Is it actually exciting? Or are you just tricking us and it's really something completely boring that only you think is exciting?"

"Hush, Lincoln," their mom scolds him. "Let your sister speak."

Skye smiles. "Thanks, mom. Anyways, this actually is exciting stuff. I just got a call from Shield Studios and they told me that I got the lead female role in the new movie they're doing."

"Wait, aren't they one of the biggest film studios in the U.S.?" Lincoln asks her.

Skye nods. "Yeah."

"And they wanted you for their movie?"

Skye nods again. "Mm-hmm. I had a couple of regular auditions before the final chemistry read with the guy who has the lead male role. And apparently, they think that we have some kind of unique chemistry that will be great on screen or something like that. I kind of blacked out a little after they told me I got the part."

"Skye, honey, that's amazing," her mom tells her. "We're all so proud of you."

Skye beams. "Thanks. I'm really excited. But also really nervous too."

"Why?" her dad asks.

"Because I've only ever done indie films or had small parts on a few TV shows here and there since I graduated. I've never done anything this huge and so high caliber before. I'm just a little worried that I'll completely tank and the movie will flop at the box office and no one will ever want to hire me again."

"I'm sure you're going to be fine, sweetheart," her mother says. "You're a very talented actress, Skye."

"Natasha and Bobbi told me the same thing earlier."

"And you should definitely listen to them."

Skye smiles into the camera. "I promise that I will."

"So who's the male lead?" Lincoln asks. "Anyone I'm a fan of?"

She smiles apologetically. "Sorry, Linc, can't tell you that. They haven't officially released the casting info yet so I can't say anything about it to anyone."

"Well, then how do you know who it is if they haven't released the info?"

She lets a small smile grace her lips. "Because he told me. We met at the chemistry read before we went in and he told me he'd already been cast but they weren't telling anyone else yet until they cast the female lead."

"So we have to wait for the official press release to find out like everyone else? That sucks."

"That's Hollywood."

Hearing his phone ringing from its place on his desk, Grant stands from his bed and walks across the room, setting his laptop off to the side as he does. He picks up the device and glances at the screen to see the familiar number for Shield Studios written across it.

"Hello?" he says into the receiver, holding the phone up to his ear.

"Hello. Grant Ward?"

"Speaking."

"Hi, this is Phil Coulson."

"Oh, yeah, hi, Mr. Coulson. How are you?" he asks, moving back to his bed and sitting down on the edge of it.

"It's just Phil, and I'm doing very well. You?"

"Can't complain," Grant replies with a small shrug.

"Great. So I wanted to talk to you for a minute about the movie."

"What about it?"

"Well, I'm happy to say that we've finally cast your leading lady for the movie."

Grant smiles. "That's great, Phil. Who is it?"

"She's a lesser known actress, done mostly indie films in the past couple of years, but we definitely think she'll be the perfect fit for this role. Her name is Skye Campbell, though I believe she's usually billed as just 'Skye'."

Grant can't help the small smile that forms on his face at hearing the name, immediately placing the face he remembers from first meeting her. "Oh, yeah. I think I remember her."

"You do?" Phil asks him.

He rubs at the back of his neck. "Yeah, I uh, we met right before the chemistry read started, and she was one of the standouts for all the ladies I read with."

"That's great. And I'm sure she already knows who you are. We're about to call her and let her know she got the role, but I figured we'd call you first to let you know."

Grant nods. "Well I appreciate it, thank you." He shifts in his spot. "And uh, I know you guys don't typically do this, but uh, I was wondering if there's any chance you could give me her cell phone number. I just want to call her sometime in the next couple of days and congratulate her on getting the part. But I totally understand if you can't do that."

He can almost hear Phil smiling through the phone. "Well, typically we don't do that, but I'm sure I can make an exception just this once since I know you won't abuse having her information. I have a few things to take care of once I get off the phone with you, but I'll send the number to you as soon as I can."

He smiles. "Great, thanks, Phil."

"No problem. I guess I'll see you when we have our table read. Clint should be getting your full script to you soon."

"Awesome, thanks so much, Phil."

"No problem. I'll see you soon."

"Yeah, bye."

"Bye."

Pulling the phone down from his ear, he ends the call and tosses it onto his bed, turning his head to look at the dog lying curled up in his own bed in the corner of the room.

"She got the part, Max," he says to his dog with a smile on his face. "The girl I told you about from the chemistry read, she got the part. I was really hoping it'd be her. I think she can definitely help make this movie into something great. I know I'm supposed to be the big star and everything, but I think this movie is seriously going to showcase her abilities. I mean, if our chemistry read was anything to go by, she's amazing. And obviously, Phil and everyone else thought so too. I don't know why she hasn't been cast in anything huge before, she's so talented." Grant pauses briefly and just watches as Max lies completely still in his bed, except for the slight wagging of his tail.

Grant sighs. "You probably don't even care about any of this, do you? What about a walk?"

Max sits up quickly at that, looking at Grant eagerly with his tail wagging behind him.

He chuckles. "I figured as much." He stands from his bed and nods his head toward the door. "Come on." He moves out of the bedroom and down the hallway toward the front door, Max trotting happily beside him.

Reaching the front door, he slips his shoes on his feet and then grabs the leash off the hook on the wall, bending down to clip it onto Max's collar, tugging on it quickly to make sure it's secure.

"Alright, boy," he says as he stands up and lets out a breath, "you ready to go?"

Max bounces slightly on his front feet and lets out a bark, eagerly trying to pull Grant toward the front door of the house. Grant laughs quietly and then reaches out to pull the front door open, grabbing his keys and shoving them into his pocket as he does.

Making his way out the door with Max, he closes and locks the door behind him, stepping down off the porch and onto the sidewalk.

Hearing his phone ringing in his pocket, he reaches in to pull it out, smiling when he sees his sisters' smiling face on the screen.

Hitting the answer button, he holds the phone up to his ear. "Hey, Mandy"

"Dougie!"

Grant winces at the shriek and then sighs. "Is that really necessary?"

"Aww, come on, Grant. You'll always be little Dougie to me. Even if you are some major Hollywood actor/heartthrob now."

Grant laughs quietly. "Thanks, Mandy."

"Anytime, baby brother. So, what's new with you? Any good projects you're working on?"

He rolls his eyes at the question. "Mandy, you know that I'm not allowed to tell you the details about what I'm working on before they're actually released."

"Don't be like that, Grant. I'm your favorite sister; I should be allowed to hear all the stuff about your upcoming projects before the rest of the world does."

"First of all, you're my only sister. Second of all, I'm sorry. I really can't tell you anything because I don't know much yet myself. They're keeping most of the information held pretty close to their chests."

"But you do know something. Because you're working on a new project that is going to be amazing."

"You don't know it'll be amazing, Mandy. It could completely tank at the box office."

"Even if it does, it'll still be amazing because you're in it."

"Thanks."

"You're welcome. Now spill everything you can about your next project."

Grant chuckles and glances around quickly to make sure no one is within earshot. He quickly tells her the little that he knows about the project, glancing around once more to make sure that no one is around to overhear. The last thing he needs is information about the movie getting leaked because he can't deny his sister when she asks.

"This is so exciting, Dougie. Do you have a leading lady for this film? Or are you flying solo?"

"I do have a leading lady, actually," he says with a slow nod of his head. "But I don't think you'd know her."

"Why don't you tell me her name first?"

"Her name is Skye."

"Is she kinda short, long brown hair and brown eyes?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, I love her."

He furrows his brows. "You know who she is?"

"Yeah. She mainly does indie films, but she's been trying to branch out and do more stuff recently. I follow her on Twitter and Instagram."

"Huh. Well, she's the female lead for the movie."

"That's so awesome, I can't wait to see how she's going to do in it. She's pretty talented from what I've seen of her. Also, she's pretty cute, so good luck not falling for her."

"I'm not going to fall for her, Mandy."

"Uh-huh. You said the exact same thing about that spazz Lorelei, and then you went and dated her."

Grant groans at the reminder of one of his more questionable choices in women. "She wasn't a spazz, Amanda; she was just a little...intense. And you know it wasn't like that at all. It was just a publicity stunt for the film."

"Yes, I know. I just love to tease you about it."

"Yeah, okay. Well, I can promise you that I'm not going to fall for Skye, okay? She's really nice, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to fall for her."

"Whatever you say, baby brother. Just know that I will not hesitate to say 'I told you so' when you inevitably fall for and marry her."

Grant smiles. "And I completely believe you. I need to go now; I think Max is getting jealous that all my attention isn't on him right now. But I'll talk to you later, okay?"

"Yeah, alright. I love you."

"Love you too." Pulling the phone away from his ear, Grant hits the end call button and slides his phone back into his pocket. He looks down at his dog. "There, you happy now?" Max lets out a bark.

Grant chuckles and shakes his head. He begins walking forward. "Alright, come on. Let's finish our walk."

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*DrLincoln: What's the point of having a famous sister if she can't give you all the top-secret details earlier than everyone else in the world gets them?

*Skye: *DrLincoln they're TOP-SECRET for a reason, Linc. And your handle is still dumb. You're not a doctor yet.

*DrLincoln: *Skye I will be one day.

*CallMeBobbi: You're not alone at all *DrLincoln. I thought that being friends with *Skye was going to have way more advantages and benefits than it really does.

*Skye: *CallMeBobbi *DrLincoln I hate you both.

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