AN: Thank you to Serenity Shadowstar for their help in the idea for and helping me write part of this chapter. A lot of this dialogue in the first part was theirs or inspired by what was sent by PM to me.

To the guest reviewer who had issues with my story once I brought Kyle in, I'm sorry that you feel that way. There is a purpose for bringing him into this story in that there is someone that Grant loves and wants to protect other than Skye. To show him that he can be a good father unlike what he told Lily in an earlier chapter.

Grant felt the earth shake under his feet as soon as his fist came out of the side of the house and glanced over to see Skye clenching her fists and her dark eyes filled with rage. He rushed over to her side, holding her face gently in his hands so he could look into her eyes and get her to focus on him.

"Skye, you need to calm down before you cause damage to the house and the others around us. It's okay, I am not surprised that my mother did this, Aunt Lily will handle her."

"No it's not okay, Ward! None of this is okay, not by a long shot. I am so sorry for how I have treated you this past year," she said, tears falling from her eyes.

Grant wiped a few of them with his thumb and felt a sense of dread go through him at the determination and fire in her chocolate colored eyes. He hadn't seen that since before she was shot. Skye was going to do something that could get her into a lot of trouble or get herself hurt or even killed in the process.

Before he could respond to that look in her eyes, Skye walked away from him and into the house, pulling her hair out of its bun as she went.

"Kyle, stay with your Uncle while I go find Aunt Lily. Maybe she can stop Skye from doing something stupid."

"Do you think she is going to go after Mom?"

"I know that is what she is going to do, Tommy."

Grant rushed into the house and found his Aunt walking away from the front door from where Coulson's team had left five minutes earlier.

"Skye has already gone out the door and is getting ready to take a cab to the airport," Lily said quietly.

"You just let her leave," Grant exclaimed. "She is going to get herself killed! We might not have the best relationship right now but I won't survive if anything happens to her, it nearly killed me the last time."

"Did Skye cause that earthquake," Kyle asked his father, in awe at what had just happened.

"Skye has a power that she hasn't learned to control yet. That is why she is with me and not Shield, Kyle. There are things you need to know about your own family history that I will tell you about after this is over. A lot her power is tied into her emotions and despite the anger and hurt that Skye and your father have towards each other right now, they love each other deeply. They have a lot of healing to do before anything other than friendship happens between them."

While Lily explained to Kyle what is going on, Grant ran out the front door to stop Skye from leaving and doing something that might get her severely injured or killed. She was getting into the cab and he rushed over to grab her arm.

"Skye, don't do this. Going after my mother isn't worth you getting hurt or killed over. Neither am I."

"She sold her own child and hurt so many people with her actions in the process. You may not think so but you are worth fighting for and she deserves this and more for the hell she put you and your family through," she leaned up and softly kissed him, caressing the scar on his wrist with her fingers. "Take care of Kyle; the two of you need each other. That boy has a gift that needs to be nurtured, make sure he does something with his music. I love you, Grant Ward. I was just so angry and hurt at what you did; it was easier to lie to myself than to admit it."

She pulled away from him and quickly got into the cab before Ward could stop her, closing the door behind her. He watched as the cab went down the road and turned back to see Lily, Kyle and Tommy watching from the doorway.

"What is going to happen to her, Aunt Lily," he asked, his voice shaking and his eyes wet with tears. The answer he might get to this question scared the hell out of him.

"There are three ways that this ends for her. One, she accomplishes what she is planning and nothing happens to her. Two, she does what she set out to do but drains so much of her power she falls into a coma. Or the last one, she also accomplishes making your mother pay but falls and is severely injured," Lily stated.

"I have to stop her! She can't do this because the guilt I feel about what happened to Fitz is nothing compared to how I will if she is hurt because of me."

"You can't help her. She has made her choice."

Grant's voice was bitter as he responded to his Aunt's comment. "What choice was that?"

"She did it for you, dad. I saw how she looks at you when she doesn't think anybody else is looking. She loves you and it hurt her just as much as it did you to find out what your mom had done."

"There is nothing that can be done to stop her. You just have to be there for her when she gets back here."

"If she comes back," Grant said before walking out of the house and towards the beach.

"Should we call Coulson and let him know what is going on," Tommy asked. "Maybe he can stop her."

"Coulson will lock her up for her 'protection'. So no, the less he knows about this the better."

The three of them went silent lost in their own thoughts as the stress of the day washed over them.

Skye sat silently in the back of the cab, pushing buttons on her tablet to set up what she needed to take care of Millicent Ward without getting into trouble.

Her guilt at how she had treated Ward and anger at herself, Shield and John Garret ran strong through her. That was nothing compared to the raw fury coursing through her veins as she thought about what Grant's mother had done to him. How she had sold her own child off to be abused and controlled by a sick piece of crap like John Garrett. She didn't deserve to live.

Later that night, Skye stepped out of the car she had rented and started to walk a mile down the road towards the remote mansion Ward's parents were staying in. When she got a quarter of a mile away, she let herself feel the anger that she was feeling towards Millicent Ward and the earth started to tremble. The house in front of her started to shake and crumble to the ground as a woman's terrified screams shattered the quiet.

A huge hole opened up in the ground and the pieces of brick and lumber fell into them as the screaming stopped. Skye felt her body start to get weaker and thought about getting back to Kyle and Grant and the shaking stopped. She caught her breath for a few moments before turning around and walking back towards the car.

As Skye got into the small sedan she had rented under a false id, she took a deep breath before texting Lily on her cell phone.

'It's done. I am on my way back.'

'Are you okay?'

'Yes. Tell him that I am staying in New London overnight and taking the ferry across in the morning.'

'Go to the airport, turn in your rental car and I will have a private jet bring you back here.'

'Ok.'

Skye started the car and drove south towards Boston. She went to the airport and found that Lily had already taken care of everything and she was led to the plane that was waiting for her almost instantly.

Grant was standing on the upper deck of the main house, watching the moon shine down on the bay. His right hand wrapped in gauze from where he had punched the house.

He knew that Skye was okay and that she was on her way back but until he saw her with his own eyes, the anxiety he felt wouldn't go away.

"The two of you have a lot to talk about once she gets back," Lily said as she joined him on the deck.

"I don't think either of us is ready for a relationship no matter what we said to each other earlier. Like I told dad the day Gramzy died, the first move is hers."

"I think she just made it, Grant."

Lily's cellphone rang and she groaned in irritation when Travis' picture showed up on the screen.

"I have a feeling he now knows what has happened tonight."

Grant didn't say a word; he just watched Lily answer the phone and heard his father's voice loud and clear.

"Milly's dead. A sink hole appeared under the house and it fell into it. She was crushed to death by the falling debris. We really should have had the structure of the house inspected before we bought it."

"Yes we should have," Lily commented with the same serious tone Travis had; only her eyes showed her true feelings about the death of her sister-in-law.

Lily walked away continuing to talk to Travis about what had happened that night while Grant followed her. He then checked on Kyle, who was playing with a laptop in his bedroom before leaving the house and walking into the guest house.

The sight of Skye standing in the middle of the small living area made him stop short and stare at her for a moment or two, before she moved into his arms being held against his chest tightly.

"Are you sure that you are okay?"

"I slept on the plane, I'm fine. She won't hurt you again, Grant. It's done."

"Skye, what if Coulson figures out it was you that did it? He could come here and take you back to the base in order to 'protect' you."

"He might and I will have plenty of people to back me up if he does. I love him like he was my father but I have to figure out what my next step is on my own. He also knows that Lily is the only one besides my father that can help with my powers and I don't want to deal with him right now."

He gently kissed her on the forehead before looking down into her eyes again. "I don't see Aunt Lily letting Coulson take you out of here either. You saw what happened the night Gramzy died. I still haven't figured out if it was Lily or Louise that cast the spell that threw May into that wall. It wasn't both or it would have knocked her out."

Skye yawned deeply as she was trying to respond to what he had said. "I don't think I got enough sleep on the plane. Can I stay here with you?"

"Skye…"

"I don't .want to be alone tonight and all I want right now is to sleep and for you to hold me. That is all. I know that we have to eventually talk about what happened by the cab but not right now"

"Okay."

Ward led her to the small bedroom where one corner of the room was completely with a king sized bed; a small dresser went along the wall across from the foot, with a door to the bathroom beside it. He opened the drawer and handed her one of his t-shirts and watched as she walked into the bathroom before he pulled off everything but a t-shirt and a pair of boxers. He slid into the bed, pulling the thin blanket over him and propped up against the pillows to read while waiting for her.

The door to the bathroom opened and Skye stepped out, the white t-shirt falling to mid-thigh and crawled up beside Grant. She lay down on the pillow beside his and started to fall asleep. He put his book down, turned off the lamp that was on the wall above him and moved down to where his head was lying on the pillow, letting her make the first move.

It was only a few seconds before she turned on her side and buried her face into his chest. Grant turned to face her and wrapped his arms around her, letting her relax against him. The warmth of her body helped him fall asleep too.

Lily and Tommy were standing out on the deck, watching as the lights went out in the guest house. They were both worried about Grant and Skye and the fact that they were once again sharing a bed.

"What did Dad say?"

"They are convinced that it was damage to the structure of the house and not caused by an earthquake. Who is going to believe that there was an earthquake in Boston, Massachusetts?"

"So Skye won't get into trouble?"

"Your father is going to make sure she doesn't. He likes Skye and thinks that once they get things worked out to where they can have a relationship that she is good for Grant and seems to already love Kyle."

"Has Louise been told what is going on?"

"Your father told her everything about the money and what Skye did. Her response was 'that she beat me to it'," Lily quietly said. "Does it say something bad about all of us that we aren't grieving for Milly and we didn't stop Skye from going after her?"

"It says that she burned her bridges with all of us and that she killed any affection that any of us had for her. The only thing that worries me is how this will eventually affect Skye. I know Grant has said that she has crossed people off for Shield but this was the first time she willingly used her powers to do it."

"You are a good man, Thomas Jacob," Lily said, hugging her youngest nephew. She didn't care if he wasn't related by blood because in every way that counted, this compassionate young man was her nephew. "Are you ready to see Michael when we get to the farm the day after tomorrow?"

Thomas blushed and walked into the house to get away from his Aunt's embarrassing question. Lily watched the moon over the water with a sense of longing for a romance of her own before walking into the house and locking the back door behind her.