AN: I apologize for this but after working hard on the last chapter, to only get one review made me feel awful. I have seen people do the thing where they say they won't update until they get so many reviews and I promise that I will never do that. I don't like forcing people to give reviews but it is disappointing to put a lot of thought into a chapter and get only one review.

Thank you to EmmaJMcGhee for your review and your concern for Lily. Your question will be answered in this chapter.

This chapter will give a bit of development on Louise, Ward's sister. She is the only one who can answer questions about what happened to Lily because she is also a witch. Fitz will also be affected by what happened at the end of the last chapter and it will be explained in this chapter too.

A few hours later, Travis sat in a chair at his sister's bedside watching her sleep. He was holding her hand and memories of holding her on the day she was born went through his mind.

He had been nineteen when his parents had told him that they were having another baby and his reaction had been less than favorable. That is, until he held that tiny baby in his arms and she had him wrapped around her finger.

Of course, when he had sat back and allowed Milly to abuse his older three children had taken a lot of the hero worship out of his baby sister's eyes. Everything with Grant only made it worse. Lily had been furious with him for years. They had only recently started to heal the damage that had been done after the death of their mother and finding out that Milly had sold Grant to John Garrett.

"How is she doing, Mr. Ward?"

Travis turned to see Leo Fitz standing there, unable to take his eyes off of Lily.

"She will be okay, Fitz. Whatever happened took a lot out of her and she needs to rest. How are you doing?"

Jemma and Tommy had both taken Fitz down to the Emergency Room where tests had been run on his brain and hand. When he had come back with a clean bill of health and it appeared as if there hadn't been any brain damage was when Louise realized what had happened.

"How about we go and see what Louise has to say about what happened maybe that will ease your mind, son?"

Travis led the quiet young scientist down the hall to one of the conference rooms. Everybody wanted to know what had happened and that was the only place big enough to fit a group of people.

In the conference room, Louise sat at the head of the table, watching as the rest of her family and the Shield team start to come into the room. She smiled as Grant pushed Skye, sitting in a wheel chair into the room and placing her beside Louise while he sat down in the chair beside her.

There had been a ten minute argument where for once the people who cared about Skye actually agreed on something. They thought she should stay in her hospital bed and let them tell her what happens. It seems Skye won.

Nerves filled Louise as she thought about what she was about to say. She had never been as comfortable with her magic the way her aunt had been. They had developed their powers within two years of each other because of the same age difference between them. Lily had been more like her sister than an aunt, the same thing with Christian who was five years younger than Louise. It was only with Grant and Tommy that Lily was able to be an actual Aunt to them and take care of them, well as much as that rabid bitch that was her mother would let them.

She ran her fingers through her thick dark hair and felt a comforting hand on hers. Louise smiled over at her little brother and despite the fact he was now thirty two and a father, all she saw in her mind was the adorable infant she had first held at ten years old. Grant had been her little shadow for three years until that damn mother of hers had sent her to boarding school, right around the same time that her powers kicked in. The laughing and happy child she had left that August was gone by the time the holidays came around. Her sweet little shadow now had them in his eyes from the tortures his mother had started to put him through.

Before Louise could start the meeting, the sight of Fitz sitting between Grant and Mack made her wonder what was going on? She noticed Jemma Simmons glaring at Grant and knew that the death threat that the younger woman had said to Grant was going to have to be addressed. It was time that certain people at Shield knew that Lily wasn't the only one who would now fight for her brother.

The conditions of the cell they had put her brother in, after seeing it in her father's head, pissed Louise off and she would now fight for Grant in a way that she couldn't when she was younger. The only thing keeping her from going after Skye was the fact that her brother was the happiest he had ever been at being with her, the love she had for Kyle and the fact that Louise could sense the remorse Skye felt for her part in everything.

"I think everybody knows why we are here," she started to speak as every conversation in the room stopped. "What happened to Lily and Fitz when she touched his shoulder was called the 'healing touch'. It can't be controlled and when it happens it is because the powers that be have decided that the person in need of it was pure of heart. The only consequence is the effect it has on the witch that was used to deliver the 'gift' to the one deemed worthy. It will significantly drain her magical core to the point she needs to rest long enough for the core to recover. It takes a lot of the witches power and energy for it to work."

Louise turned to face a guilt-ridden Fitz and reached over to hold his hand.

"This isn't your fault and she will be okay in a week. You have been given everything back that was taken from you because of the actions of others. Someone up there thinks that your gifts are needed in the war that is coming. Something is coming that Hydra will want badly and Shield will do anything to protect it."

"Do you have any idea what it is?"

Louise looked over at Coulson, who had asked the question, and tried to find the right way to say it without giving away what it was. The only person besides Louise that knew was unconscious and that was the way it needed to be for a while.

"No. It is just a vision of a battle over whatever this is and lives being lost on both sides of the battle."

Everybody got up and left the room, well except for Cal who walked over to Louise, a knowing look on his face.

"It's a baby. My Daisy is meant to be the mother of the baby girl that will carry on your family's 'gift'. So with Daisy's power and given how powerful you and your aunt are, that baby will be what Hydra wants and because she is Daisy' child, Shield will protect her with everything inside of them."

Louise made sure that no one had heard what Cal had said and nodded her head in acknowledgment of his words.

"I know that Skye has to recover from being shot but now that they aren't fighting their feelings for each other, the visions have gotten stronger. All of us that love Skye and Grant are needed to protect that baby and Mr. Fitz is going to play a big part in that. That is why he was given everything he lost back to him."

Cal and Louise walked out of the room and went towards Lily's hospital room unaware of a sixteen year old boy listening to every word. His eyes were filled with anger and a resolve beyond his years.

'It is time to have a conversation with Aunt Lisa and find out if this is why I had to be with my father's family.'

Kyle walked down the hall and pulled out his cellphone, waiting for his aunt to answer.

"Tell me the truth, Aunt Lisa. You are a witch like my Aunts Lily and Louise, aren't you?"

Kyle listened to his aunt's words and a rage built inside of him at the lies the one person he had trusted in his life as he finally was told the truth. He then walked down the hall to where his father was having a conversation with Skye as he helped her back into her bed.

"I need to tell you something, Dad."

"What's wrong, Kyle?"

Kyle could hear the concern in Skye's voice and looked at the both of them, worry in his eyes that they would reject him.

"Aunt Lisa is a witch and she left me with you for a reason that wasn't the one she told everybody."

"What the hell!"

"It seems that my mother's family is related to the witch that put the curse on the Ward's. Their goal was to send me here to learn how to fight from you to help in the battle that is to come and to protect my baby sister when she is born."

Skye and Grant exchange a look where it is obvious they know exactly what is happening before the former started to speak.

"That is why when Lily told us that you were meant to be the father of the next generation witch, the thought of anybody but me having that baby pissed me off. I was still mad as hell at you but wanted to rip the hair out of any other woman that dared to have your child."

"The question is do we tell Lily and Louise that we know what their secret is," Grant inquired.

"We will when Lily wakes up because you can't keep a secret from her and making sure she recovers is the most important thing. Now we know why Fitz was granted that gift but what will it cost him to be healed the way he was."

Grant and Kyle went silent at Skye's words and they each knew deep down what that cost could be.

Fitz and Mack were walking down the hall towards Skye's room when he was stopped by a furious Jemma Simmons.

"What the hell are you doing, Fitz? Did you forget that Ward tried to kill us?"

"Jemma, you don't understand what happened to me when Lily touched my shoulder. I could see into her head and everything that she knew, I knew. We have to bloody let go of the anger we have towards Ward because Skye loves him and they are going to need all of us for what is coming. I was given a gift."

"I won't do it. I told that wanker I would kill him and when I get the chance, I plan to."

"Jemma, do you really want to cross Louise Ward? She is as powerful as her aunt is and while Lily is unconscious, she is now her family's protector and she knows what you are planning."

"I don't care."

Jemma turned around and walked away from Fitz, angry tears falling down her cheeks.

"Turbo, she is really going to get hurt if she keeps up her grudge against Ward."

"Louise won't hurt her; she just won't let her touch her brother."

"I wonder if Lily Ward is going to be different after she wakes up because you are starting to freak me out."

"I am freaking out too, Mack. I'm afraid that my time with Shield is coming to an end because of my changed opinion about Ward and what happened."

"If you have to leave, I will follow you because you need someone to watch your back."

"I think my place is at the Ward farm and helping Lily."

Mack watched Fitz and worried about his friend. Whatever happened when he was healed not only fixed the damage that had been done but also changed Fitz. Whether it was for a good or bad reason remained to be seen.