Grant faced down the blond in front of him and didn't back down from her glare. He knew exactly who her sister was and that if Kyle was his son, his family had never been told about the boy. That Lisa Decker had no right to act like the innocent victim.

"I should remember her because I lost my virginity to her right before I was sent to military school when I was fifteen. If Kyle is sixteen years old and the fact that he looks almost exactly like me when I was the same age, then the odds are pretty good that he is my child. My question is why am I just now finding out about him, Lisa?"

"Tami wouldn't tell us who his father was until right before she died when Kyle was five and she left him to me. I didn't tell your family because I was afraid they would take him from me. My job has transferred me to the London office and I can't take Kyle with me, so now it is your turn to take care of him."

Skye watched Kyle as all of this was going on and recognized the look his eyes. It was one of hurt because nobody seemed to want him and the person who had raised him was seemingly throwing him away. Her compassionate heart went out to him because she had been there after every foster family had sent here back to St. Agnes.

"Skye, take Kyle upstairs to the room that Grant was staying in before he moved to the guest house," Lily calmly stated but everybody could see that she was very pissed off. "Lisa, you can leave now. Our attorney's will have papers ready for you to sign in the morning giving me custody of Kyle."

The woman stomped off and left, not even bothering to say goodbye to her nephew. Lily walked over to hers and placed a gentle hand on his arm.

"If I would have known about him, he would have lived with me and mom. Your mother wouldn't have had any access to him."

"What do I do, Aunt Lily? There is a sixteen year old that is most and likely my son and I don't know what to do."

"Talk to him, Grant. Get to know him. He probably has some questions about you and I can see that you are curious about him."

"That's another thing. How do I explain my past to him? He will be ashamed of me before I can even get to know him."

"If he asks about your past, be honest with him. You know from personal experience what happens when you lie to someone you love, don't make the same mistake with him that you did with Skye and your former teammates. We will take him to the farm with us and he can stay with you in the cabin."

Skye led Kyle up to the second floor and to the bedroom he would staying in, watching as the boy sat down on the bed, staring at the wall.

"I have been where you are at, Kyle," Skye said, walking over to him.

"I don't want to talk about it," the boy sullenly said to her.

"That's another trait you share with your father," Skye said, sitting down beside him. "It used to take me being an annoying pain in the ass to get him to talk to me."

"She raised me and didn't even say goodbye, she just threw me away to live with a family that I don't know."

"It's royally fucked up, that's for sure."

Kyle grinned at that vulgar statement before turning to see Grant standing in the doorway, watching the two of them silently.

"I'm going to go downstairs and leave the two of you alone to talk," Skye said, getting up off of the bed and walking over to where Grant was still standing. "Go easy on him; he is just as scared as you are."

Grant watched her walk down the hall before stepping into the room and closed the door behind him.

"Did you know about me before today?"

"No. Your mother never tried to tell me and wouldn't have been able to find me if she had."

"Why?"

Grant sat down beside his son and told him everything from getting sent to military school to his own house arrest that would start as soon as all of them got to the farm in Virginia. The boy quietly took in his new found father's words before starting to speak.

"Do you regret any of the bad things you have done?"

"Yes, I do, especially the ones that caused pain to people that I really cared about, especially Skye, Fitz and Simmons."

"I can see why you are in love with Skye, she's hot."

Grant started to laugh at his son's words before calming down long enough to comment.

"Yes, she is but she also was one of the most compassionate and caring people I had ever met and a free spirit who saw things differently than I did at the time. I am partially responsible for killing that part of her and I have to live with that."

"I don't think it is completely gone, she just buried it to keep from getting hurt again."

Kyle's stomach started growl from hunger and Grant turned concerned eyes to him.

"How about we go downstairs and find you something to eat? Besides your aunts and uncles will want to officially meet you, just be careful around your Uncle Christian. Your grandfather is down there too but I don't know how he will act around you. This won't be an easy adjustment for either one of us and knowing my father, he will want a DNA test done to prove that you are mine but all I have to do is look at you to see it."

"Why?"

"You look exactly like I did at your age. I will show you some of your great grandmother's picture sometime."

They got up and walked downstairs, ignoring the blatant stares from the people who knew the family and Shield agents wondering who Kyle was.

A couple of hours later, the house had emptied of its guests leaving the Ward family and the Shield team behind. Skye could see Kyle staring at the black Steinway baby grand piano sitting in the corner of the living room with longing.

"Do you know how to play?"

"Yes. I have been taking lessons since I was five. Aunt Lisa paid for them because she said I had a gift. Do you think they would mind if I tried it out?"

"Show us what you can do, sweetie," Lily said gently as she walked up to her great nephew.

Kyle slowly got up and walked over to the piano, lifting the lid and sitting down on the black bench. He started a few warm up notes that quickly grabbed his new family's attention before he started to play the opening of Billy Joel's 'New York State Of Mind' and had now brought every eye in the room towards him.

A soulful baritone voice beyond his years started to come out of Kyle's mouth that had Grant watching the boy in shock and made all conversation in the room stop. By the time he had finished playing the last note, Kyle jumped in shock at the applause that greeted him.

"I think I know why Lisa left him like that," Grant quietly commented to his aunt and the others around him. "She can't afford the education he needs to enhance what he can already do with music."

"We'll make sure he gets it," Travis stated, shocking his sister and children. "That boy is a treasure that your mother would have destroyed if he had been with us."

"I wouldn't have let her hurt him the way she did your children," Lily fiercely stated.

"Mother is to be kept away from him, she lost any right to be a grandmother after the crap she pulled on us as kids," Grant said before walking over to where Skye, Jemma and Bobbi were surrounding Kyle, in awe of his talent. He didn't know what to say to this young man that was his son but thought about what he would have loved for his own father to have said to him.

"Great job, son."

"Thank you," Kyle responded shyly.

"Why did you call him son, Ward?"

Grant turned to face Coulson, who had asked the question, a look of confusion on his face.

"He is my son, Coulson. I was sixteen when he was born and his mother never told me about him before she died. His aunt told me today before leaving him with me. So if anything happens to him because anybody with a grudge wants to come after me, there will be hell to pay. I will make sure of it," Grant said before motioning for Kyle to follow him.

The boy followed his father out of the room and a shocked Philip Coulson turned to his team, especially Melinda May.

"Any ideas you had of trying to capture Grant Ward, despite his deal with the US Government is over. That boy will not get caught in the crossfire."

"Were you planning on breaking the law and basically kidnapping Grant back into Shield custody despite the deal his family worked out for him?"

Skye's voice was full of hurt and anger as she looked at her SO and the woman she had thought of as a mother.

"He doesn't deserve that deal and should be made to pay for his crimes."

"What gives you the right to set yourself up as judge and jury, May? I know that up until a week ago I had the same attitude you did until I found out just what he has dealt with in his life. That man didn't stand a chance in hell of stopping John Garrett from brainwashing him after that mother of his and Christian got done hollowing him out. He has made peace with Christian because he was treated the same way by his mother but I don't see him ever forgiving her. After seeing the horrible way she treats him, that woman is the one who deserves your anger. She set the whole thing in motion by being a miserable excuse of a human being who wanted to make her husband and children just as miserable as she is."

Skye stormed out of the parlor while Lily stood up, glaring at Agent May.

"I think your team needs to be made aware of a few things that have happened over the past few days."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"My nephew is no longer Shield's problem. The federal judge has put him under my custody on my family's farm in Virginia and he can't leave there for a year unless it is under an extreme emergency."

"Why was he only given house arrest?"

Lily turned to face Fitz, who had asked the question. She didn't see any anger just curiosity.

"Some new evidence has come up from his past that has made the judge have some sympathy for him. He also has to be back in the cabin that is a mile away from the main house by five o'clock every evening and up at five every morning to work ten hours a day on the farm. This will not be an easy sentence for him; he will work his ass off for the entire year."

"He deserves worse than that," Simmons muttered to herself.

"It isn't up to any of us what Grant deserves, the judge that his case was assigned to has made his decision and all of us have to live with it," Coulson said reluctantly.

The discussion continued on as various members of Coulson's team had questions while Skye watched Kyle and Grant toss a football around the backyard. The sound of the back door opening made her turn to see Tommy come out the backdoor. He was the only other member of the Ward family besides Lily and Grant that had stayed after the reception was over.

Louise had returned to Boston and her job as a therapist with a specialty in dealing with abused children. It seemed to fit given the abuse she had experienced as a child. Travis had left with Christian and Anna to head back to Washington DC to continue with helping get his eldest son's career back to what it was before.

"Your team members are giving Aunt Lily hell over Grant being given house arrest. Lily is handling them like a pro," he said. "As much as my mother favored me over my other siblings, I have hated her for a long time. I watched as she babied me while treating Lou, Christian and Grant like crap. You're right; the blame for this is at her feet. There is something else that Grant doesn't know about and he will be very hurt and pissed off when he finds out."

The two of them didn't hear Kyle and Grant come walking over to the deck just in time to hear the last part of Thomas had said.

"What am I going to be pissed off about?"

"Mom paid John Garrett five million dollars a year to take you from the juvenile facility and do what he wanted. As long as you were out of her way, she didn't care."

The sound of a fist hitting the outside of the house drew the attention of everybody in the house and made the three out on the deck with Grant gasp in shock. His fist was bloody as he pulled it back out the hole he had made in the siding.

AN: The emotional hits just keep on coming for Ward. I am waiting for a review telling me to stop and that he has had enough, lol. Skye has her own issues too so that is why I am keeping them friends for now because they are going to need that friendship with each other more than a romance.

I have some ideas for the relationship between Kyle and Ward because despite how they are getting along now, that will not always be the case. If anybody else has any ideas, let me know in a review or a private message.