Chapter 28
Skye's POV
"Daisy, if you change the song one more time I'm going to lose it" Mum says from the drivers seat where she looks slightly frustrated which is surprising she normally hides her emotions better. I turn the music off on my phone and turn in my seat so i'm facing her. I had just realized that she had pretty much stopped calling me Skye.
"You don't call me Skye anymore, well sometimes but not a lot" I say and she takes her eyes off the road for a second to look at me.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to. I can stop if you want"
"What, no I didn't mean to stop it's just that I hadn't noticed until now that you call me Daisy most of the time. I like that you call me Daisy" I tell her I wasn't ready for everyone else to call me Daisy yet but I liked that she used my birth name.
"Okay" Mum says smiling a little. "We're here" She says as we pull up to the house I turn in my seat and pull out my phone and see that there is an internet connection in the house which pretty much conformed my fears. I lock the doors before Mum has the chance to get out.
"Be nice to Grandma" I tell her and she looks like she is about to argue but I stop her "Be nice" I tell her getting out of the car and going to get my bag from the back.
"How much clothes did you take?" Mum asks grabbing my bag instead of her own.
"All of it" I say switching bags with her. "I needed different outfits incase Grandma decides to comment on what I was wearing" I try opening the door but it's locked I look over at Mum and she hands me a key with a keychain in the shape of a Daisy.
"Sorry, I have been forgetting to give this to you" she says as I take the key "I went and got it cut the other day when Trip and I went on a supply run"
"So it's.."
"It's yours It would be hard for you to get into your house if you didn't have a key" Mum says. I turn and unlock the door to 'my house' and grin, I had never had a house that I could say was mine before.
May's POV
"Hey Grandma" Daisy says as she walks in to the living room giving Mum a hug. I stop inside the front door dropping my bags and look around to see that the house had not only been cleaned but, also had new furniture in it. Daisy turns towards me nervously biting her lip obviously having known this was going to happen. I walk over and give Mum a hug too, noticing that the TV had been updated. I stop myself from sighing, wanting to be upset but, I was grateful that she had done it would have been hard for me to fix things from the base.
"Well Melinda, what do you think?" Mum asks.
"It's nice Mum" I say approving of the new furniture in the living room especially the new recliner. "Thank you" I tell her.
"Don't worry, Everything else except the kitchen and Daisy's room is exactly the same" She tells me walking away towards the stairs gesturing for us to follow. "The house has been cleaned of course, and I found a cleaner for you and have done the appropriate background checks" I mumble a thanks knowing better to argue at this point especially with the looks Daisy was giving me. I was more upset that she had changed Daisy's room I had kept it the same for over two decades. I knew that it was stupid to want it to stay the same, it wasn't even my choose anymore it was Daisy's room, she had told me she had never had a bedroom of her own before, except her Bunk on the Bus and her van, which I don't think counts, and I wasn't going to stop her from having this room.
"I did exactly what we talked about on the phone, Daisy" Mum says, and Daisy looks over at her in shock.
"When did we talk about it on the phone? You said you wanted to fix the living room and kitchen last time we were here" Daisy says, and I smirk glad that I wasn't the only one Mum was able to trick in to answering questions without realizing it. Mum just opens the bedroom door and walks into the room leaving us to follow. I smile when I see that she hadn't changed the room much, the crib was gone replaced with a double bed and the changing table had been replaced with a desk. All the other items had been moved just enough to fit the bed and bedside table. I look at Daisy who was smiling but, still looked really confused as she said thank you to Mum who was going back down stairs to check dinner. Daisy looked round the room one more time, playing with her locket.
"I…we never talked about this. How did she know that I wanted it to stay the same"
"I don't know Daisy, It's just what she does, I leaned to stop questioning it" I tell her.
"But how could I not notice" Daisy asks as we begin walking downstairs to the living room.
"I don't know" I say and am about to say more but, the front door opening causes both Daisy and I to turn around to face the door. I was about to prepared for a fight when I realize that Mum has just continued to set the table unfazed. "Mum, were we expecting someone" I ask, instantly relaxing when I see the look on her face it was the same look I imagine is on my face when someone mentions Andrew.
"Is Melly and my Granddaughter here yet?" I hear Dad yell, Daisy spins round to look at me. Dad comes in to the dinning room "Melly" he says loudly wrapping me in a hug.
"Hello Dad" I say hugging him back, I hadn't seen him in over a year, I ignore the way Daisy's face lights up at hearing me be referred to as Melly. "Bookworm, come here" I say pulling away from Dad and dragging Daisy over noticing how tense and nervous she has gotten.
"You look like your mother" Dad says, giving Daisy a hug she stands awkwardly before returning it. "It is good to see you again and know you are safe" He tells her.
"Um….You too" Daisy tries, playing with her locket again.
"It was supposed to be a surprise that you were coming, you weren't supposed to walk right in" Mum says glaring at Dad and I back up out of the line of fire. Daisy does the same in the opposite direction.
"Well, I'm sorry but I have been waiting to meet my Granddaughter and I wasn't going to wait any longer then I had too"
"Where is…." Mum starts but, Dad just walks out of the dinning room, coming back with shopping bags and follows Mum back in to the kitchen as she tells Daisy and I to sit down. I am about to question why they have shopping bags now when she called us earlier and told us to hurry up but decided against it.
"So your Dad is here" Daisy says nervously.
"Don't worry, He has been waiting to meet you, I'm sorry I wasn't expecting him to be here I was going to ask you if you wanted to meet him next time we had some time off. I guess Mum had other plans but, don't worry he is much easier to get along with then Mum is" I tell her and she nods looking less nervous.
"So….Melly" Daisy says with a smirk sitting down across from me, after Mum yelled for us to sit down again, leaving the top ends of the table open for Mum and Dad.
"Shut it, Bookworm only he can call me that" I tell her giving her a fake glare which she just laughs at.
"Sorry, it's nice I like Melly she's nice acts more like my Mum instead of Agent May" she says.
"You do realize there is only one of me" I tell her confused, she just shrugs.
"Not really you act different depending on who is around. Not so much now, but when I first found out you were my Mum it was like there were two of you the strict Agent that didn't seem to like any one and the person that would tell me about the pranks she played on our Boss" she explain and I can see her point. Before we can say more Mum and Dad come in carrying food.
"So" Dad says looking at Daisy "You Mum says you prefer to be called Skye"
"Just the people at work, you can call me Daisy if you like" she says and I can guess that I have a stupid smile on my face.
"Well, You can call me Grandpa if you like"
Skye's POV
After Mum and I had finished the dishes we were all sitting in the living room when Grandpa, It felt weird saying that I think to my self having never thought I would be calling someone that, pulls out some playing cards.
"What do you three say we play some poker?" He asks looking between the three of us. Grandma and Mum sigh and roll there eyes in perfect sync before saying no, then it's Grandpas turn to sigh. "What about you Daisy?"
"You just want to try and beat her because you cant win against Melinda and I" Grandma says, getting a glare from Grandpa but it does not have the same effect as Mum or Grandmas glares.
"I don't really know how to play poker so you would defiantly win" I tell him and all three of them turn to look at me.
"You don't know how to play poker?" Mum says in an over dramatic fake shocked voice. I just shake my head no, and she leans forward clearing the coffee table in front of us.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"We are going to teach you how to play poker" Grandma says, with Mum and Grandpa nodding in agreement. I look between the three of them smiling a little, it felt nice spending time with my family. It was also a little scary every time I felt like I had family in the past, it ended with me getting sent away. I still had that fear that I would be sent away which was stupid because, I had no where to be sent back to.
"You ready, Bookworm" Mum asks, breaking me away from my thoughts, I internal shake myself as I look up to see them all patiently waiting to begin the game.
"Yeah, I'm ready" I say picking up the cards from in front of me. Realizing that the three of them along with the others back at the base might be my good fit after all.
May's POV
I groan again as Daisy wins another round of poker, she grins as she hands out more cards. We had been playing for at least two hours now and after quickly picking up how to play the game Daisy then proceeded to beat all of us, even Mum and I had never seen Mum lose a poker game before.
"How are you doing this?" I finally snap I had been playing this game with Mum and Dad since I was a kid, and even though Dad isn't a spy he is still impressively good at this game none of us should be losing to someone that up until an hour and a half ago didn't know how to play.
"Doing what?" Daisy asks innocently.
"Winning" Dad says in a monotone voice that seems to have made Daisy nervous again as she plays with her locket.
"I don't know" she shrugs "Beginners luck"
"You are playing with two spies beginners luck doesn't count" I tell her.
"Well…. I can tell when you are lying" she says pointing at me, and it takes a lot of my training not to react to what she just said because, I have been lying to her since Coulson told me about the carvings. "And I'm just guessing with you two" she says gesturing between Mum and Dad. Dad sighs getting up and muttering about losing while, he walks in to the kitchen.
May's POV
A few hours later Mum and Dad had gone off to bed and I knocked on Daisy's bedroom door. I could hear her talking on the phone inside, I had been waiting to give her the birthday present I had gotten her feeling nervous, I have never been good with gifts.
"Trip I have to go…..Yes I am reading the book you gave me…..Good night" I hear Daisy say inside and I knock. "Come in" I open the door walk in closing the door behind me Daisy is curled up in bed with her phone and a book beside her.
"So, was you birthday alright?" I ask not knowing if she enjoyed it. I could then tell by the way her eyes lit up that she had.
"Yeah, it was….amazing thank you"
"Here" I say handing her the first bag I had been carrying "Happy Birthday" her eyes widen as she takes the bag but still holds it out.
"You don't have to….You already bought me stuff this afternoon" I push the bag closer to her.
"Open it, you might hate it I suck at giving gifts" Daisy hesitates for a few more seconds before pulling out the tissue paper from the top of the bag. She pulls out a large picture frame first one that holds five pictures. In the centre is one of my favourite pictures of us when we first did Tai Chi, in the corners there is also a picture of Daisy and Coulson next to Lola. Fitzsimmons and Daisy in the lab together then two pictures from the day she was born, one of Nick, her and I and the other of Daisy and her grandparents.
"There is more" I tell her when she just stares at the frame for a long time. She looks at me before digging back in to the bag pulling out the new e-reader I had got her. "I don't know if it's any good. It's just I noticed that your one had a crack in it and"
"No, it's great thank you but…." She says nervously but, I can tell by the look on her faces that she actually likes it.
"Daisy, you better not start talking about money again" I tell her, and she still opens her mouth to argue but, I ignore her pulling out the last thing from her and handing it to her in it's little box. She takes it from me and slowly opens the lid to reveal the three coins connected by a red string, in the form of a triangle.
"What's this?" she saks taking it out of the box, to look at closer.
"I got it from my Mum on my sixteenth birthday, she got it from her Mum on her sixteenth birthday, and she got it from her Mum and so on and so on" I tell her and she looks up at me before carefully putting it back in the box suddenly scared that she would break it.
"I would have given it to you but…" I trail off both of us know why she never got it until now.
"What's it for?" She asks still looking at it.
"I don't remember the exact meaning of it. You would have to ask Grandma, but I like to think that it would be able to protect you" She just raises an eyebrow as she looks up at me. "Yes, I know it's just coins but, most May agents have it at least one point in their life and nothing too terrible has happened"
"Thank you"
"Your welcome, I still owe you twenty-five birthdays" I tell her and she rolls her eyes.
"No, not just for today although today was…amazing" Daisy stops seeming to think about what she is trying to say. "When I started looking for my parents I didn't expect to find them. I definitely didn't expect for you to do any of this. You could have just….I don't know ignored me I guess, but you actually treated me like your daughter"
"You are my daughter"
"Yeah, I know we did a DNA test" she smirks and I roll my eyes "I just meant that as soon as you found out that you were my Mum, you started acting like it. You didn't leave or…get rid of me or anything" She says now looking at her hands that are sitting in her lap.
"I promise, I'll never leave you again" I tell her, wishing that I hadn't left her when she was a baby. Wishing that I had been there to protect her.
"I know"
"So you ready for tomorrow?" I ask a few minutes later as she begins opening her e-reader.
"To beat Grandpa at golf"
"Yeah, but it's not as easy as it looks you know" I tell her confused by her smirk.
"Yeah I know" was all she said before her attention was fully on the e-reader.
"You weren't mad at Grandma" Daisy says yawning, putting the e-reader and other gifts away.
"I wish she had at least told me but, it was nice of her and I appreciate it. Plus, you have a bed that you can fit in now"
"Yeah, and it is a lot softer then the ones at the playground" she tells me as she gets under the covers to lie down.
"Yeah it is" I say getting up, I laugh when I notice the monkey that Fitz gave her is sitting on the pillow at the other side of the bed. "Goodnight Daisy" I say closing the door and turning off the light.
"Night Mum"
I wake up suddenly silently groaning I sit up and look at the clock 1:00. I sigh rubbing my eyes trying to remember the dream that woke me up. Then I feel the panic again as I remember and get up and run to Daisy's room. I stop in the door way as I see Mum inside fixing her covers before walking out and closing the door.
"Don't worry Qiaolian, she is safe now" Mum tells me placing a hand on my shoulder. I swallow the lump before answering.
"Thank you Mum" I sigh Mum nods.
"Go get some sleep. Nothing will happen to her"
"Goodnight Mum" I say as I walk back to my room feeling calmer, now that I had seen that Daisy was alright. Knowing that Mum was here helped too.