AN: I might not be as big a fan of Fitzsimmons as I am Skyeward but I am a fan of Fitzsimmons being a couple, it will just be a slow burn, especially given her remaining resentment towards Ward. Fitz and Mack are going to be friends in this story, nothing else. He will have his own romantic problems coming up in future chapters.

I was told that I hadn't really had Skye confront Coulson and May about her feelings for Grant and let them know how strongly she loves him in this story. I looked back over previous chapters and found a small part where Skye tells May to mind her own business but nothing was said after that. I will try and fix that.

Clues as to who killed Sue will come out, especially anybody who had the strength to do it in future chapters, starting with this one.

Tommy smiled as he watched his boyfriend, Michael walk over to him, with glasses of champagne in his hands. The five feet eleven inch tall man had the shoulders of a linebacker but needed them for his job as lead supervisor at the farm. He handled all of the day to day tasks for Lily and made sure that everything went smoothly when his boss wasn't there.

"Here you go," Michael said as he handed him one of the glasses.

"Where have you been?"

"I had to step out to talk to call the farm and talk to James. One of the horses is about to deliver her foal. I told him to call the vet and I will be leaving here soon to join him. How was your dance with Dr. Simmons?"

"Fitz cut in halfway through it. Hopefully they will get their act together but I have my doubts, especially given her attitude towards Grant."

"Your brother is a good guy; he just had some bad breaks with your parents and Christian and made some bad choices. Then you have that bitch ex of his causing trouble for him and Skye, he isn't having an easy time of it lately. I can see why Dr. Simmons is angry at him but when it starts to affect a friendship that they were just starting to be fixed again, maybe she needs to let Fitz have his opinion of Grant and not act like he has to have the same one she has."

Before Tommy could respond a woman's scream echoed throughout the room. The two men ran from the room and to the front of the crowd that had gathered to find Louise being held by their father, she was visibly shaking.

"That poor girl, I wanted her away from Grant and our family but nobody deserves that," Travis said quietly.

"What happened, dad?"

"Somebody threw Sue off of the top of the stairwell and the impact broke her neck and killed her."

A wave of grief and sadness just about engulfed him as he thought about the younger sister that he would never get to know. He had lied to his biological father, Tommy had cared that Sue was his sister but hadn't liked what she was doing to Grant and Skye.

The sight of Allison Ridgefield screaming out in grief and trying to physically attack Grant brought Tommy out of the daze he had been in. He rushed over and pulled the blond off of his brother, taking her out of the room.

"He killed my best friend!"

"Shut up! We don't know who killed her yet and if you act like that again, I will sedate you."

Ally saw that Tommy would do what he said and wisely shut up.

Lily stood with Cal, Coulson and May at the bottom of the stairs as they watched as a detective with the Winston Salem Police Department examined the scene. The way Sue's neck had twisted upon impact had made the four people that were used to seeing things like this cringe.

"I know you didn't do this Cal because you were standing beside me upstairs but whoever did that had to be pretty strong. They will want to point the finger at Grant because of their history; we need to know where he and Skye were," Lily stated, watching as Patrick McCallister came down the stairs and took in the sight of his daughter's body.

"As much as I hate to say this, Ward didn't kill that girl. I saw the argument he and Skye had with Sue and that they came back into the room together and he didn't leave her side even after Louise found the body," May said.

"I hate to ask this, Lily but is Patrick capable of murdering his daughter? He is too calm right now."

Lily turned from watching Patrick before facing Cal, who had asked the question.

"All I can sense is his grief. He might not be showing it outwardly but his heart is breaking right now."

Skye stood there in Grant's arms, watching from a distance as Tommy kept an eye on Allison. It had been everything she could do not to use her power against Ally when the woman had attacked Grant. She glanced over and saw Kyle standing beside his grandfather with Elena in his arms and felt something from the boy that scared her. She knew Kyle had been working out with Grant and had developed some significant shoulder muscle in a short period of time and given how tiny Sue was and the fact that Kyle was the same height as his father; he could have easily thrown her over the railing in an effort to protect his family.

"Could Kyle have done this, Grant?"

"I don't know, Skye. He was pissed as hell the day she threatened us and he sees you as a mother figure. I need to talk to Kyle and find out where he was at the time Sue was killed."

Judge Monroe walked over to them and stood by them, watching all of them with inquisitive eyes.

"I think given the circumstances, I will allow you to go back to the hotel room you were staying in for tonight and have the police come and talk to you in your room in the morning. After that, you can head back to the farm," he calmly stated.

"I know they will want to speak to me because of my past history with Susan and my ties to Hydra. I would assume that my father has told you about my mother?"

"Yes, he did. I am taking care of it. The problem is over."

Grant felt a chill fill him at the older man's words and took in the strong shoulders of the judge and wondered would Lily's godfather really have done something like that to protect her family.

Mack stood with Kara, Fitz and Jemma as the four of them watched the police coming up and down the stairs and questioned the various people that had attended the party. They were also talking to hotel employees, particularly the ones who handled the surveillance cameras.

"Maybe they can go on and arrest Ward for this because we all know that he did it," Jemma commented.

"Shut up!"

Fitz and Kara's voices rang out at the same time. Mack grimaced in disappointment at Jemma and knew that she had just ruined any progress that she and Fitz had made tonight.

"Grant didn't do this. He has been with Skye all night long and she wouldn't be still with him right now if he had killed his ex in front of her," Kara snapped at Jemma before walking away.

"Jemma, you need to stop or you are going to lose him for good," Mack whispered quietly in her ear before following Kara.

"I'm sorry, Fitz. I shouldn't have said that. The thought of him being free makes me crazy. He bloody hurt you and took away who you were. The only thing that healed you was some magical connection with his aunt."

"Jemma, I don't think you should contact me on Skype for a while. I can't listen to the same stuff everyday anymore."

Fitz walked away from her and tears filled Jemma's eyes as she watched him leave the room. A comforting hand touched her shoulder and she turned to see Grant and Skye standing there. The one who had touched her had been Grant and not Skye, who looked just as angry with her as Fitz, Mack and Kara had been.

"Leave me alone, Ward. This is your fault."

"Yes it is but you need to ask yourself a question."

"What's that?"

"Do you really want to lose Fitz? That is what is starting to happen because you expect him to feel the same way that you do about everything and that isn't going to happen."

"Did you kill Sue?"

"No. Skye and I had a confrontation with her right before it happened and then we walked away. When we left her, she was still alive."

"Now I have to go and talk to Fitz and see if we can fix the damage done to our friendship."

"If he tells you to leave him alone then you will do it," Skye stated, firmly.

Grant and Jemma both felt the tremble beneath them and looked at each other before the former went over to the woman he loved and took her in his arms. He then saw two men walking over to them, everything about them screaming that they were cops.

"Baby, you need to calm down. There are two police officers that want to talk to us and we don't need you shaking the ground around them," Grant whispered in Skye's ear.

Jemma waited until the two of them started to talk to the police officers before slipping away from them and taking the elevator to the room that Fitz was staying in.

Ten minutes later, Coulson and May watched as Skye walked away from where the police were talking to Grant before walking over to her.

"I know he didn't do this but you shouldn't be caught up in this, Skye. You need to come back to Shield where we can protect you," Coulson stated, ignoring May's groan of agitation.

"Oh like you protected me when you abandoned me in that cabin for 'real' Shield to come after me?"

"Skye…"

"No, Coulson. I'm talking now. Lily and Louise, while not being inhuman like I am, know about controlling power that was born inside of them. They have helped me more than those damn gloves Jemma gave me and I am gaining control over my power. But why do I think this is about my relationship with Grant and not my powers?"

"Skye, his involvement with that woman has gotten you pulled into the middle of a murder!"

Coulson's raised voice turned every eye in the room on them. He glanced over at the young woman he loved like a daughter and saw the anger burning in her dark eyes.

"I love you like a father, Coulson but you need to stop right now. I love Grant and I always have. I pushed it down inside after finding out he was Hydra because it hurt too much to deal with it and so I let anger take over instead of the hurt and pain I was in over his betrayal. I let May teach me how to internalize it because it made it easier and guess what; I ended up with fractures in my arms for my trouble. The best thing for me is to stay away from Shield and make my life with Grant and his son who, despite the fact that I am ten years older than him, I love as if he was my son. If you love me, you will accept my choice and let me be happy."

Skye walked away from Coulson and May, who glared at her longtime friend before walking away herself.

AN: Drama ensues as the mystery of who killed Sue begins.

After seeing the episodes where Jiaying is still alive, I am unsure if I want to bring her into this story but I really like her on the show. In just two episodes, she has truly made a difference in Skye in regards to her attitude towards her father and has no hesitation in calling her out on being self-righteous. Her biological mother seems to have been what she needed from the start.

I know that is an unpopular opinion because a lot of people like May as her mother figure but as seen in last week's episode, May never properly dealt with her own demons from Bahrain. She had no business advising Skye on how to deal with her anger at Ward at the end of last season. It was going to end badly as evidenced by the fractures in Skye's arms from using May's methods to control her powers.

I am still unsure if I want to bring Lincoln into this because I feel like he and Skye were pushed at us in his first episode to hide the fact that Mike Peterson was coming back as well as the fact that Jiaying was still alive. I don't see all of this 'he is so good for her' talk from a small minority of fans. He has only been in two episodes and they only had one scene together in his second. He also repeatedly lied to her in his first episode and don't even get me started on their first scene where she wakes up naked under two strips of cloth with needles sticking out of her body, that was creepy as hell. If they really wanted us to take Lincoln and Skye seriously as a pairing, they would developed them more in this latest episode before bringing Ward back and interacting with Skye again, which will most and likely happen in next week's episode given the promo photos that have come out.