Louise came storming into the house, not paying any attention to the tremors shaking the yard, and walked into the sitting room where her father, Lily and Cal were still sitting. Her fists were clenched and her dark eyes stormy as she looked at Travis.

"Did that raving bitch beat Grant with a hairbrush the night I left for boarding school?"

"Where did you hear that?"

"I overheard Tommy telling Fitz about how Christian had told him about it when we were kids," she bit out. "No wonder she wanted me gone, she knew with my powers that I wouldn't let her hurt Grant or Christian. I knew that she had done something for them to be living with Gram and Grandpa and how withdrawn he was but nobody would tell what she did."

"You would have killed her, Lou. I wanted to when I found out and your grandmother told me no. I hated it when Milly played the judge like a fiddle and got them back," Lily gently said.

"You never protected me and Christian from her," Louise said to her father. "What made you decide to grow a pair and help Grant that night?"

"He was screaming so loud after she got done with him and it took me thirty minutes of rocking him to calm Grant down enough that he would go to sleep. The bruises on his legs were already starting to turn black and blue, there was one place on his upper thigh where one of the bristles on the brush had cut him and he cried out in pain everytime he moved even after he went to sleep. It had to stop and I knew that my parents were the only ones who could."

"What changed to make you help her get them back instead of testifying against her and making sure she never hurt them again?"

Travis turned to face his still furious daughter and his emotions started to get the best of him. He felt Lily place a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"After your grandfather left with Grant and Christian, she held a knife to my throat and told me that if I didn't help her get our sons back, she would kill me then go over to your grandparents' house and kill everybody there; that Lily would be first to die to prevent her from using a spell on her. She was crazy and scared the hell out of me."

"That bitch wouldn't have gotten out of her car before I stopped her or anybody else she sent. I would have seen them coming even if I had been asleep."

Louise watched her aunt and knew that her powers had always been stronger especially her ability to see what was coming. She suspected that Lily knew exactly who Tommy's biological father was but had chosen not to say a word because of the pain it would cause.

She walked over, grabbed the bottle of scotch and a glass, filling it full before drinking some. The burn going down her throat lasted a moment but the warmth that filled her body, made her drink some more. This was not meant to be a sober night for her and it wasn't like this was the first time she had used alcohol to dull the pain of her childhood.

Grant woke up and glanced around to see that he and Skye hadn't made it back to the bedroom after eating. They were lying on the floor in front of the fireplace after making love there. He grinned as he remembered every moment of being with her. He would always want her.

"Good morning," she said sleepily before leaning over to kiss him. "What time is it?"

"Three o'clock. I have to be up in two hours to work on the farm," he smirked at her. "I won't be a lot of use to Michael today. You wore me out last night."

"How about we go for round five in the shower? Or are you too worn out to try it?"

Skye had stood up while speaking and was rushing up the stairs to their bedroom. Grant quickly stood and followed her, finding her already in the huge shower and the water already running down her body. She looked breathtakingly beautiful.

Grant opened the glass door and stepped inside, wrapping his arms around her and lowering his head to kiss her. He went stiff as a board when her fingers traced the scar that was on his right thigh and knew that the inevitable question of how he got it was coming.

"Did you get this from one of your missions?"

"No. I have had that since I was three years old."

"You remember something from that long ago?"

"Despite what I told my family, a person doesn't forget their mother beating them with a hairbrush because she was drunk and didn't want to deal with a heartbroken little boy that was missing his sister."

Tears filled Skye's eyes as she took in what he had just told her and wrapped her arms around him. Her heart went out to the vulnerable little boy that had only wanted his older sister and had been abused by the one person who should have been a source of comfort to him.

They quickly dried off and made their way back to the bed, falling asleep in each other's arms as she gently caressed not only the scars from the gunshot wounds she had given him but the one his mother had put on him.

Later the next day while Grant was giving Kyle a defense lesson, Skye stepped into Fitz's lab. She saw her friend sitting there, talking to Jemma on Skype and the tension between them. They had never recovered from Fitz's not telling her about Skye's new abilities and it broke her to see them acting so formally with each other.

Fitz broke the connection after a few moments and turned to face Skye, who had tears in her eyes.

"I know that I hurt you when I left with Lily but I had to go, Fitz. The past six months had been a living hell with everybody else looking at me like I would hurt them. I have found my place here and I am so glad you came here too."

Fitz walked over and hugged her the same way he had after he had figured out that she had been changed.

"I understood because of how everyone was acting towards you. Now that I am here, I can help you and everybody else. I have been given a gift and I plan on paying back what I have been given," he responded before taking a good look at her and figuring out that something else was wrong with Skye. "What's the matter?"

"Grant told me about something his mother did to him when he was three years old and he still has the scar from when it happened."

"Tommy told me about how their mother beat Ward with a hairbrush on the night Louise went to boarding school. No child should ever have to go through what he did but Tommy didn't say anything about the scar."

"Grant told me that he let his family think that he blacked out what happened but he remembers it; all because he missed his older sister who had been more of a mother to him than his own."

"I hate to say this because it sounds so bloody judgmental but if you believe in some religions, she is roasting in hell right now."

"I think she would have paid for it if I had left things alone. Mr. Ward was in the process of divorcing her and putting her in jail. Grant didn't want Kyle anywhere around her and the other three, if they ever have children, didn't want her around them. It sounds like the rest of her life would have been miserable."

"Do you regret doing that to her?"

"Some days I do but then I hear stories of the things she did to her children and I change my mind. Do you think that makes Lady Siff and the Kree that she chased here right about me? Am I a monster?"

"You are Skye and in no way shape or form a monster. You have something really shitty happen to you and despite a lot of pain in getting it under control, have finally started to accept it and learn to deal with it."

"He's right, Skye. I think what I did when I betrayed the team changed you more than your new found power ever did," Grant commented as he walked over to where Skye and Fitz were standing. "Just remind me to never piss you off enough to shoot me again."

Fitz grinned at Ward's comment while Skye groaned and laid her head on his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on the top of the head.

"Grant, how you can joke with her about that make me wonder if you have lost your damn mind! The bitch shot you," Sue stepped into the lab, her blond hair pulled into a ponytail and her tiny frame wearing a red tank top, blue jeans and a pair of blue Skechers with a red stripe going around them.

"Now this is the Sue I know. The one who showed her disdain for anybody she feels is beneath her social standing," Grant snapped back at his ex. "What the hell are you doing in here? Aunt Lily told me that you aren't supposed to be in Fitz's lab."

"It seems to be the only place I can find you to talk since you run here like a damn coward everytime I show up," Sue stated, her hands on her hips and glaring at the arm Grant had around Skye's waist.

"That should give you a clue that I don't want to talk to you. We said everything we needed to in Miami when we broke up. I don't why you have changed your mind and have decided that you want me back but that isn't happening."

"You might change your mind after you hear what I have to say," Sue smirked wickedly. "I know about Skye being an inhuman and that she can cause earthquakes. What would happen if I let the investigators that are trying to figure out how your house in Boston collapsed know about that little fact. Think about that, Grant because if I can't have you, I will make sure this bitch goes to jail for killing your mother."

Before anything could be said, Sue goes slamming into the wall and a furious Louise steps into the room. She walked over to where a stunned Sue stared at her in shock.

"Did you forget about the fact that the women in this family are witches?"

"She killed your mother, Louise. How can all of you accept her like this?"

"She did all of us a favor! That woman was an alcoholic and abusive pain that abused her husband and children. Skye did what she did after all of us found out that our mother paid Grant's kidnapper to take him and make his life hell. So it wouldn't take much for even the most mediocre lawyer to get her off on temporary insanity charges."

Louise looked like an avenging angel standing over Sue with her long dark hair flowing down her shoulders and her five foot eight height only enhanced by four inch heels from the black pinstripe business suit she was wearing.

"You are no longer allowed on our farm and after I tell Christian about this, any hope your father had for getting his help with the highway project is over. Get your dumb ass up off of the floor and leave," Louise turned to face Mack, who was standing there watching everything in shock. "Mack, escort Sue to the gate and make sure she leaves, tell the security guard that she is no longer allowed here."

The four remaining people watched as Mack led Sue out of the lab before Louise walked over to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of scotch. She was getting ready to pour herself a glass of it when Grant's hand came down on top of it.

"Don't let all of this affect your sobriety, Lou?"

"You're too late, Grant. I got drunk last night after I found out that the rest of you have been keeping a big secret from me."

"Lou, you would have killed her! They couldn't let that happen."

"I knew something was wrong with you when I came home for Christmas that year and everybody acted like I was crazy. I wasn't stupid, Grant. I knew something had happened when they sent me to stay with you and Christian at Gram and Gramps house and wouldn't let any of us see mom."

Louise tried to move his hand from the top of the glass and Grant pulled it off of the counter, handing it to Skye.

"I am seeing if Aunt Lily will take you to a meeting. You fought too hard for over ten years to stay sober to let all of this destroy your life."

Louise started to cry and laid her head on her little brother's chest as Grant held his sobbing sister.

"Another family secret had better not come out, Grant or I will fucking lose it."

Skye and Fitz watched as the siblings held each other and felt badly for them. The latter hoped that Sue would not really do what she said she would because all hell would break lose.

AN: This story is set six months after the events of What They Become so as the new episodes air, I might incorporate what happens into this story the way I did with Skye and Fitz's stronger friendship. Given that we haven't seen Ward yet, which is a stupid move on the writers' part, that bond between Skye and Fitz has been my favorite part of the last two episodes.

I have noticed that I haven't really showed any flaws with Lily, and that is about to change. One will show up in the next chapter when she finds out about Sue's threats.