AN: Thank you to the 'lovely' guest reviewer who told me that my story was unrealistic, that Lily was a Mary Sue and that I need to quit writing. I have learned in ten years of writing fanfictions and my own original stories that you can't please everybody and some people go into guest mode to spread hate like the cowards they are. I deleted your hateful review and any others you send to me because I don't have time for childish nonsense.

I apologize to any of my readers who were offended by me saying that but I received a very hateful review and I felt I had to respond to it. I have reached my limit with the haters in this fandom and have decided to speak up.

Later that afternoon, Skye was at the window of Christian and Anna's room standing with the latter as they watched two women with blond hair step out of the limo. One was about her height with shoulder length hair and a slender frame that was holding hands with Kara, so she knew that this was Ally.

Skye had never felt insecure about herself before until she saw Susan for the first time. The other woman that Grant Ward had loved was a tiny blond about five foot tall, waist length hair and a classically beautiful face that reminded Skye of an old fashioned cameo she had seen one of her foster mothers wear.

"Skye, you have nothing to worry about while she is here," Grant said as he came behind her and wrapped his arms around her.

Anna quietly left the room to let her brother-in-law calm her friend.

"Grant, she is here for a reason and I don't believe for one minute that her best friend pressured her into coming."

"Even if that is true, she is wasting her time."

Skye turned in his arms and they shared a tender kiss, their arms wrapped around each other. They were so lost in each other, neither one of them noticed Cal step inside the room.

"They are here and Lily wants the both of you downstairs to greet them."

Skye reluctantly pulled away from Grant, took his hand and started to walk out of the room before her father's hand on her arm stopped her.

"Skye, your mother would be very proud of the woman you have become, just like me, Agent May and Coulson are. Grant and his son love you very much and the three of you have become a family. Don't let jealousy cause you to make a mistake that you will regret."

Skye smiled at her biological father before all three of them left the room and went downstairs. As they went out the front door, Skye was taken aback at the hatred that Ally stared at her with while Susan stood beside her friend without an expression on her face.

"Skye, this is Allison Ridgefield and Susan McCallister," Kara smiled reassuringly at Skye before speaking again. "Ally, Sue, this is Skye, Dr. Zabo's daughter."

"Oh so you're the bitch who shot Grant," Ally snidely stated.

"Allison, that is enough," Susan snapped at her friend.

Kara led Ally back to the car where the two women were soon heard arguing. Sue walked over to Grant and Skye, hugging him and shaking her hand.

"I apologize for Ally. She had some little fantasy in her head of her best friend being with Kara's best friend and she has a tendency to act like this when she doesn't get her way."

"Like a spoiled brat," Kyle said.

Grant turned to his son with a fierce look before facing Susan again.

"Sue, this is my son Kyle."

"You have a son?"

"I found out about him a month ago and he has been living with me ever since."

Sue quietly took that in before walking away to talk to Anna, who she had seemingly met before.

"That took the wind out of her sails," Louise whispered to Thomas as they stood watching what was going from right inside the house.

"What does that mean?"

"It means that Sue isn't overt with her intentions the way Ally seems to be. She is sneakier and plays the peacemaker card until it is the right time to cause trouble."

"Are you or Aunt Lily going to stop her?"

"No. I want to see what she does first besides this will be the first challenge to the two of them being together. They either handle it together or fall apart."

"How did Kyle take the wind out of her sails?"

"She didn't picture being a stepmother to a sixteen year old in her little fantasy of a life with Grant."

A few hours later, everybody was sitting around the table in the dining room, eating and quietly talking. Lily and Travis sat at each end of the table while Grant sat between his Aunt and Skye with Kyle on the other side of her. Across from them was Sue and Ally, who had stopped glaring but the latter still made her dislike of Skye very known.

The tension in the air was so thick that everybody felt like they were going to choke. Lily and Louise shared a loaded look as the two witches knew what was going on but decided to sit back and watch it play out.

"So what do you do for a living, Skye?"

Susan's question came across as innocent but Grant glared at her, knowing what she was up to.

"I work in computer technology and have been working with Mr. Ward and Lily on updating their computer systems for their businesses."

"She is brilliant and an asset to this family," Travis said, smiling reassuringly at his son's girlfriend.

"I guess she has more skills than shooting someone when their back is turned and walking away," Ally commented.

"I think it is time to go back to our hotel," Kara said, standing up from the table and pushing her chair in.

"I agree," Sue said, glaring at her friend and standing up too.

It didn't take long for Kara and the other two women to leave the house. The limo was heard going down the road.

"I am going to slap that catty little bitch before this is all over," Anna commented.

"Before everybody leaves, I need to talk to all of you about the phone call I just received. It was Judge Monroe's office. He is coming here in a week to visit the farm and we are having a formal party that night at the Marriott all of us stayed at in Winston Salem. He wants Grant there so he is allowing you to leave the cabin to come to the party but you have to be back here by midnight," Lily said.

"Why is he doing this now?"

"We all knew that he would be making visits to see how everything is going," she answered Louise's question.

The family quietly left the dining room while Cal stayed back to talk to Lily, who was still sitting at the table.

"How are you feeling?"

"I am fine, Cal. I wish everybody would stop asking that," she bit out before realizing how harsh she sounded. "I'm sorry for sounding so harsh but my family is driving me crazy asking me that question and it caught up with me."

"I understand," Cal said. "Whatever happened was a good thing because I have been down to Mr. Fitz's lab and he is working on so many things down there. It is like his brain is trying to make up for lost time."

"His mind will be needed for what's to come."

Later that night, Skye couldn't sleep and just laid there beside Grant, watching him. She had forgotten that her former SO was aware of everything around him and wasn't expecting his eyes to open.

"Skye, you need some sleep."

"All I can see is Sue and Ally sitting across from us looking like the fashion models in the magazines and that one of them would be accepted more in your family's social circles than I ever would."

He pulled her into his arms and held her to him, running his fingers through her dark hair.

"You are what this family needs, Skye. My father, who was one of the biggest snobs on the planet, loves you and defended you. My son told me that he wants you to be his stepmother. I love you."

"You love Sue too."

"There is a difference, Skye. I loved her for helping me stop thinking about you at a time when I was so angry with you, I couldn't see straight. The difference is that I loved her but I am in love with you. That little display Ally made at dinner and when they arrived is going to come back to bite her because I have never seen Kara that angry. I don't think she and Ally are having the romantic reunion that she was planning."

"I don't trust Sue. Something doesn't feel right about her little 'sweet and innocent' routine."

"I know. She has an ulterior motive and I will find out what when I talk to her tomorrow although I have a feeling finding out about Kyle messed up her plans."

"Why?"

"Sue doesn't want children."

"She won't give up, Grant. She will try to make you think that she has changed her mind about that."

Grant realized in that moment that words weren't working and that he had to show her how much he loved her. She was the one he wanted, not Sue. He kissed her tenderly, losing himself in her before holding her tightly to him and rubbing her lower back until she relaxed enough to go to sleep. He lay there planning out his next move before falling asleep too.

After lunch the next day, Skye sat at the dining room table in the main house, helping Lily go over plans for the party when Louise walked in carrying a white wicker basket. It was filled with different colors of daisies and other flowers that had obviously come from a florist.

"These just arrived for you, Skye."

She smiled, knowing exactly who they were from and picked up the envelope but not before smelling the flowers. She pulled out the card from the envelope and smiled at the words written there.

'I don't care if your name is Daisy, Skye or even Mary Sue; the only one for me is you. These flowers aren't as beautiful as you are but I hope they make you smile. I love you.'

She giggled at the cheesy words he had written but fell even more in love. Grant Ward was many things but he wasn't a poet but she loved how his words made her feel.

"You helped him with this," she said, looking at Louise and Lily.

"Everything but the card, he wanted that to be from him," Lily said. "Did it work?"

"Yes."

Right when she finished speaking, Kara came into the room with Ally and Sue right behind her. Lily put on the expression that Skye knew was her 'I don't want you here but I'll be polite' face and watched Sue closely.

"What are you three up to?"

"Kara was going to give us a tour of your farm, Ms. Ward. If that is okay with you of course," Sue said, sounding so sweet it would give a person a toothache.

"I have no problem with that. You can go anywhere but Mr. Fitz's lab. He is running experiments down there and we wouldn't any of you to get hurt," Lily said, fighting not to roll her eyes.

The three women walked off but not before Ally bumped the table and caused Skye's flowers to fall. If Louise hadn't of been there to catch them, they would have been destroyed.

"Aunt Lily, I swear that I am going to slap that bitch before she leaves. Are they really staying for the party or can we make them leave before then?"

"I'm afraid not. Susan's father is friends with Judge Monroe and the two of them are leaving with him when the party is over."

Skye didn't say anything; she just sniffed the flowers once again before getting back to work. She ignored the fact that her powers were slowly building up and it was taking every technique that May, Lily and Louise had taught her to control it.

Grant was standing in the lab with Fitz, Mack and Tommy, holding a ring box in his hands. He handed it over to Fitz and watched as he opened it, shock on his face.

"Is this what I think it is? Isn't it too soon for that?"

"Yes it is, Fitz. That is for later when or if the time is right. I need you to keep it safe while my ex is here, I don't want anything to happen to it especially since Ally is with her. She has a problem of stealing things that don't belong to her."

Fitz took the ring box and opened the safe that had been installed behind a picture of the Avengers that Coulson had given him.

"Tommy implied that there is a gift you are giving Skye tonight. What is it?"

"Thomas, you talk too much," Grant shot back at his younger brother.

"This is making up for all of the times I never got to give you hell over dating, big brother." Thomas said, smirking.

"You are aware that payback is a bitch right? What if I tell Michael what you called your blanket when we were little?"

"You wouldn't dare!"

Fitz closed the safe harder than was needed and made Mack, Grant and Thomas turn to see what was wrong. The latter two were confused as to why he had gotten angry so quickly and for no apparent reason, while Mack grinned, knowing exactly what was going on with the engineer.

"So what are you getting Skye," Fitz asked, acting like he hadn't just had a very noticeable fit of anger.

"There is a necklace and earrings that go with that ring and I am giving her one of them tonight and the other the night of the party, so she can wear them. I can't make up my mind which one."

"Ward, why are you doing all of this?"

"Sue being here has made Skye insecure and jealous. It isn't helping that Ally attacks her every chance she can get and Sue is playing the 'sweet and innocent' act. She is far from it," he responded to Fitz's question. "I have tried telling her that she is the one that I am in love with and it isn't working so after talking to Kara, I am going with romantic gestures. Adele is helping me by cooking dinner for us down at the cabin while Kyle is spending the night at the main house where Adele and Lily will most and likely be watching him and Elena closely."

The door to the lab flew open and Louise stormed into the room, her long dark hair flying falling out of the neat bun it had been in. She looked mad as hell and Grant had a sinking feeling that he wasn't going to like what his older sister had to say.

"If something isn't said to Ally about her attitude, I am going to hex her ass!"

"What did she do?"

"She saw the flowers you sent to Skye and purposely bumped the dining room table. The only thing that kept them from being destroyed was I used my magic to grab them."

Grant didn't say a word; he grabbed his cellphone and called Kara. His caramel eyes hardened in fury as he gripped the phone tight in his hand.

"Tell Sue that I need to talk to her, now! Ally's immature games had better stop, Kara."

He hung up the phone and left the lab, ready to do battle.

"The last time he got that pissed was when Skye's now ex-boyfriend showed up and she slept with him. He ignored her for days after that but this is worse," Fitz commented as they all worried about what would happen.

Kara, Ally and Sue were standing on the porch of the cabin as Grant drove a golf cart from the direction of the lab and parked it. He got out and stormed up to the porch, the angriest Kara had ever seen him.

"How fucking old are you, Ally? Skye and I are in a relationship and your little fantasy of you and Sue dating best friends and that big double wedding are not happening. In fact, if you don't cut it the fuck out, you will lose Kara."

"Grant, she will apologize to Skye and the comments will stop. I promise," Sue said, walking over to him and attempting to touch his arm.

Grant stepped back from her, knowing exactly what she was up to.

"I don't know why you are here, Sue. We broke up before I left Miami and this little 'sweet and innocent' routine isn't working. My life is here with Skye and my son. When the time comes, I plan on marrying Skye and having more children with her."

"I didn't mean to cause trouble, Grant."

Sue walked away with tears in her eyes as Ally glared at him before following her. Kara sat down in the rocking chair by the front door of the cabin and cradled her head in her hands.

"We argued for hours over her immature display last night and she still won't accept that things won't go her way. Neither one of them were who we thought they were, were they?"

"I knew that Sue wasn't the sweetheart she appeared to be. Now Ally surprised me and I am sorry that me breaking up with Sue has caused you pain."

Grant sat down beside his friend and hugged the crying woman comfortingly.

AN: The next chapter will be the romantic dinner that Grant has prepared for Skye. Thank you to Serenity Shadowstar for helping me with the idea for a part of the upcoming chapters. Your ideas have been a treasure to read.