Jiaying was in shock at how quickly Lily figured out her secret and felt the pain in her wrist as the other woman's grip tightened on it. When she moaned in pain, Lily quickly dropped her wrist.
"I apologize but I can't stand lies and half-truths," she quietly stated. "What was all of this 'human criminal' bullshit if you knew my nephew might be Inhuman like his mother?"
"Millicent Coleman's parents brought her to us when she was fifteen years old to see if she was eligible and we found her to be prone to irrational anger and cruelty. She assaulted one of her fellow candidates over nothing. We were afraid of what she would become with all of that anger inside of her."
"Why was my brother never told about this?"
"Millicent never told us that she had children so we never knew about them until recently. I assume she wasn't going to let her children go through the mist if she couldn't. She came across as petty and selfish enough to do that."
"You got that right," Lily muttered under breath. "Now how do we test my nieces and nephews to find out if they are eligible? I am assuming that Kyle will have to be tested as well."
"Yes. We would have to take everybody to Li Shi to be tested if they wanted to be considered."
"We will call a meeting here in the main house when my housekeeper and her daughter are going shopping."
The sound of the back door slamming and a loud argument between Elena and Adele made Lily, Cal and Jiaying leave the office. The sight of sweet Elena in her mother's face made Lily gasp in shock before she realized what had happened.
"Elena Maria, I suggest you stop screaming at your mother and go to your room!"
Elena turned to say something hateful to Lily when she saw the rage burning in the eyes of the woman that had helped raise her. She quickly rushed into her room, slamming the door behind her.
"Adele, what happened?"
Cal walked over to the housekeeper, placing a gentle hand on her arm.
"Elena and Kyle decided to sneak into the training room and have sex. They walked out this morning where Mr. Grant, Skye, Kara and Lincoln saw them. Mr. Grant is dealing with Kyle while Elena is about to be grounded for the rest of the summer."
Lily walked out the door and saw Lincoln and Kara fixing the fences that Grant was going to be working on and saw the golf cart beside the cabin was gone.
She pulled off her fashionable sandals she had been wearing and put on a pair of socks along with her sneakers and walked down the hill to find out from Kara and Lincoln what was going on. She was focused on her task, Jiaying and Cal following her didn't register in her mind.
"Where are Skye and Grant?"
"She took Grant out of here about ten minutes ago and they got into the golf cart heading somewhere in the lower part of the farm. Kyle said something to set off his Berserker rage," Kara said as she continued to hammer nails into one of the pots as Lincoln held it steady.
"I think I have an idea where she took him. Did Kyle leave the cabin?"
"No, he is still in there."
"When Grant and Skye get back, tell them that I need to talk to the both of them. Kara, call Louise and Tommy, tell them that there is going to be a family meeting tomorrow night. I will call Christian and Travis. But first I have a sixteen year old boy to deal with since I am technically his legal guardian," Lily stated before storming down the hill to the cabin.
"I kind of feel sorry for Kyle, given the mood she is in right now," Jiaying said before walking back to the cabin she and Lincoln were staying in.
Kara watched her for a few seconds before turning to face Cal, shocked at what she had just figured out.
"You need to tell Skye that her mother is alive because if she or Grant figures it out on their own, all hell is going to break loose," Kara commented to Cal.
"What if she hates me for lying to her?"
"Cal, I'm pretty sure she will be pissed off especially after you told her that she was dead but she has the right to know the truth," Kara said gently.
Cal walked away and down the hill towards Fitz's lab where he had been working with the younger man on a project that they weren't telling anybody about. He didn't notice the fields of growing vegetables and other crops planted nearby, he was so wrapped up in Kara had warned him about.
He finally had some sort of relationship with his child and it could all be gone because of a decision not to tell her that her mother was still alive.
Kyle watched as his Aunt Lily came down the hill toward the cabin and knew that he was in trouble. He had purposely said what he did to piss his father off and instead set off something inside his dad that wouldn't have pretty is Skye hadn't of been there.
"You are in so much trouble, Kyle James Ward."
Kyle slowly turned to face his furious aunt and accept the lecture coming his way.
"I just came from my house where the sweet little girl that I helped Adele raise was screaming at her mother. I get it, Kyle. I was sixteen years old once and wanted nothing more than to do everything my parents and older brother told me not to. Taking cheap shots at your father isn't the way to do it."
"Is this because of something he touched when he was a Shield agent?"
"Skye or Fitz could tell you more about that than I could but yes. Coulson didn't do a damn thing to help your father and had no problem using the anger it brought out in him."
"I hate Shield."
"I hate them too but that has nothing to do with the fact that you and Elena purposely defied her mother and your dad. You are grounded for the rest of the summer and Elena is leaving with her mom in a week instead of staying the rest of the summer and leaving with me."
"It's not fair, Aunt Lily," Kyle whined as he sat down on the couch.
"Life's not fair, Kyle," she retorted, sitting down beside him. "People come and go from our lives and for now, you and Elena can't be together. Besides you were leaving to stay with your grandfather in Richmond at the end of the summer so you and Elena wouldn't have been together anyway."
"She is the only person that has made my Aunt leaving me with all of you easier."
Lily put an arm around her nephew's shoulder, wishing she could help him and wanting to strangle Lisa Decker at the same time.
"Your aunt thought this was what was best for you but the way she did it really sucked. All of us were strangers to you and getting to know your father and his girlfriend all at the same time. I know it isn't easy."
"So does that mean I'm not grounded," Kyle commented with a smirk.
"You aren't getting out of trouble that easy," Lily said. "But all of us will make more of an effort to talk to each other before things get out of control again."
Grant watched as Skye swam in the pond and smiled at how much fun she was having. She was the best thing that had ever happened to him and was getting him through dealing with a teenage boy that wanted to push every button he had.
"Did you think about the fact that we might need dry clothes or are we going to have to ride back to the cabin without any clothes on?"
She grinned at his question before floating across the surface of the water, her hair trailing in the water behind her.
"There's a bag in the golf cart that has a change of clothes for the both of us. I planned this out and was waiting for the right time to bring you out here."
She stood up and walked over to the bank, sitting down on his lap.
"You scared me, Grant. I had to get you away from Kyle and calm you down. Nobody wanted to deal with what the Berserker staff did to you and especially when we ignored what Lorelei did to you. I apologize for my part in that but it is also what is making the final steps into forgiving you difficult. You are so wonderful with Kyle most of the time and the love you have for Louise, Thomas, Lily and even your dad and Christian that makes me love you more. Then something happens to bring that anger out and it scares the hell out of me."
"It scares me too. I almost hurt my son and if you hadn't of pulled me out of there, I would have done something to him that I would have regretted."
She gently kissed him before they stood up and went over to the golf cart. They silently put on their changes of clothes before getting into the golf cart and riding back up the hill towards the cabin.
