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"Hey Skye!"
Skye turned around to see her co-commander of the InHuman division, Lincoln Campbell, running towards her. "Hey Link, what's up?"
Lincoln handed her a folder. "I got the report on the new registry protocols."
"Oh great. This is gonna be a lot of fun." Skye sneered as she flipped through the papers. She looked up to see Lincoln gazing at her with adoration. "What?"
"Do you want to go to dinner with me on Friday?"
Skye laughed. "You know that you have been asking me out for 15 years and I have continually been turning you down. Why do you keep asking?"
"Because one of these days you may say yes."
Skye smiled at him. It's not that Lincoln isn't a great guy, but she didn't really feel as if they could be a couple. Her heart just wouldn't be in it… And she knew why. "Well, not today."
Skye started to walk away when over the intercom of the new and improved SHIELD headquarters, New Providence, asking for the department heads, AKA the original team, to meet in the command center.
Skye and Lincoln quickly rushed to the room to see that everyone else was already there.
"What is this about?" Mack questioned.
Hunter went up to the front of the room and started typing things into the main computer. "I finally found Ward."
Skye had to work very hard to conceal the worry from rushing onto her face. Hunter had a personal vendetta against Ward for what happened to Bobbi. No matter what current mission he had, finding him was always still on his mind.
"I caught a glimpse of him in 'Seeing Stars' new edition." Hunter gloated. 'Seeing Stars' was one of the hottest celeb magazines of their time… and usually tween girls read them.
Lincoln snickered. "Wait a second, you read 'Seeing Stars'?"
Leo turned to glare at him. "Not the point, continue Hunter."
"He's going by the name of James Taylor Grant Johnson." Lance announced as he pulled up Ward's new information. "He lives in San Luis-Obispo and he works for some private company."
May smirked. "How convenient of him to be so close by?" May thought about what she just said. "Wait, we moved the base to Clovis, CA, 9 years ago. How come we're just finding him now?"
Hunter pulled up some more things. "Apparently the private company he works for keeps their employees' files wrapped up tight, even the company name is private. I couldn't get much on him, besides his name and where he lives."
"Well, I think it's time we paid him a little visit." Coulson gloated. "Tomorrow, we strike. Everybody good with that?" Everybody started nodding in agreement, except Skye. Coulson immediately noticed. "Skye, what's wrong?"
Skye shrunk back as everybody looked at her. "I'm sorry, I can't go."
"Why not? We have been looking for this guy for years." Bobbi reminded. "Now, that we found him, you're skipping out on catching him, what gives?"
"What gives is my dad's coming into town tomorrow." Skye effortlessly lied. Everybody calmed down at once. Even though, Cal went through the TAHITI process, over the years he had regained some of his memories from before because the serum he had used diluted some of the effects, one of the most prominent was remembering that Skye was his daughter. Every once in a while, they made an effort to spend time together to make up for lost time.
"Are you sure you and your father can't reschedule?" Jemma pleaded.
Skye pinned her with a glare. "Yes, I'm sure. You know his work schedule is tight. Besides catching Ward to me is nowhere near as important as seeing my dad."
"Okay." Jemma relented. "But, we'll tell you all about it after."
"Great." Skye fake cheered before she turned to walk out of the room before anybody saw the look of panic on her face.
"Okay, let's go to the conference room to plan." Coulson boasted before leading the team out of the room.
"Grant Ward, we're coming for you." Jemma smirked at the photo of Ward still on the screen before following.
The Next Day
"Anybody see him?" Coulson asked for the third time in the past 10 minutes.
Right now, he and the rest of the team were staked out in two vans. Coulson, May, Jemma and Leo were all staked out in a "electrician" van that was parked in front of one of the houses in Ward's neighborhood, which was a very nice rich neighborhood they must admit. Lance, Bobbi, Lincoln and Mack were parked in an SUV right outside the neighborhood entrance.
"Nothing here, boss." Mack called. The team was using the DWARVES to fly around Ward's house, in cloaked mode, to catch a glimpse of him before going in to apprehend him.
"It's already 10." Leo complained. "What private company let's their employees come in this late?"
"I don't know," Lance groaned as he popped some candy in his mouth. "Villains Incorporated?"
"Haha," May stated. "Did the techs get any closer to hacking into the company files?"
"Nope. Whoever this company is they're keeping everything pretty close?"
"Got him!" Bobbi announced. "He's coming out of the front door."
Everybody turned their DWARVES to the front door to see the man they knew as Ward dressed in a black suit walked down the path and over to a building separate from the main house, which seemed to be a garage.
"Let's get him." May started to get out of the van, eager to get her hands on Ward.
"Wait a second…" Bobbi started fiddling with her DWARVES controls. "I'm getting something on audio."
"JJ, come on!" Ward yelled back to the front door. "We have to go!"
"Coming dad!" Out of the house ran a teenage girl with black hair. She followed Ward into the garage.
"Who the hell is that?" Lincoln sneered.
"Ward has a kid?" Jemma screamed.
"Or a hostage." Leo countered. "He may be trying to train this girl to become the next him or something. I mean, who in their right mind, would have a child with him?"
"Well, this changes things." Coulson announced as Ward drove the car through his front gate and down the street. "We need to follow him. This is now an "apprehend and rescue" mission. We need to get that girl away from him. Let's move people."
Both vans got together and prepared to tail Ward. Ready to take that girl away from him.
An hour later
"Well, send me the plans of the place as soon as you get them." Grant spoke into his office phone. "Okay, I understand. Thank you. Have a nice day." Grant hung up the phone. "How's the work going, kiddo?"
"I hate Calculus!" JJ complained as she threw down her book in frustration. "I mean, whose idea was it to add letters to math anyway?"
Grant chuckled as his office phone rang again. He pressed the speaker button to answer. "Johnson speaking."
"Hey JT! I gotta woman down here wanting to speak with you." The receptionist from the front of the building, Reggie, informed. "Says her name's Daisy."
Grant looked at the phone in shock. "Daisy Johnson?"
"Yup."
"Um… send her to Conference Room B. I'll be there in a minute."
"Sure thing." The call ended.
Grant stood up from his desk and started buttoning up his suit jacket.
JJ noticed the sudden change in his demeanor. "Everything okay dad?"
"What? Oh, ya, everything's fine. Um, just stay here and finish your Calc." With that, Ward left the room, closing the door behind him.
JJ put down her pencil with a smirk on her face. "And miss a chance to see who is making you so frazzled? Not a chance, old man." JJ glanced up at the air vent above her.
Meanwhile, Grant was quickly rushing to the conference room, after all these years, he was finally gonna see her again. He stepped into the room and his heart stopped. Standing there was none other than Skye, his only true love and the mother of his child.
"Hi." Grant greeted.
Skye smiled at him. "Hey Ward. Or should I call you JT like everyone else here does?"
"Nah, you can just call me Grant. So…" Grant chuckled as he averted his eyes. "Sorry. I'm just trying to adjust."
"That's okay, I just wanted to see how you were doing." Skye shrugged.
"You mean, me and JJ?"
Skye looked at him confused. "You mean, Jennifer?"
"Well, she prefers JJ and tells me that she will never forgive me for giving her a name that doesn't fit her personality."
Skye snickered. "It doesn't?"
Grant chuckled. "No. She's too eccentric for a simple name like Jennifer."
Skye sadly smiled at him. "What's she like?"
Grant took a picture out of his wallet, walked it over to her and showed her. Skye grabbed the picture and held it in her hands. JJ was smiling into the camera, hugging a dog who looked just like Maddie. "She's a lot of things. She's amazingly talented and determined. Sadly, she did take on a lot of my insecurities but if you get her mad she will chew you out."
Skye laughed as she caressed the picture with her thumb. "It sounds like you did a good job with her."
"I like to think I did. She wants to be an entertainer and I truly believe she can do it." Skye smiled up at him, which Grant smirked at her. "What?"
"You kept your promise." Skye started as she gave back the photo. "You've given her everything we didn't have."
"I've tried to, not just to keep my promise, but for her sake. I want the world for her, she's so amazing… I don't want anyone keeping her from achieving her dreams. You can trust me on that."
"I trust you." Skye and Grant just smiled at each other. "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too." Grant admitted.
Skye couldn't hold in her urges any longer. She grabbed Grant's face between her hands and kissed him hard on the lips, a kiss which Grant immediately responded to. He wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her as close as he possibly could. Neither wanted to this to end.
But just as Grant picked up Skye and she wrapped her legs around his torso, they heard a bump in the vents above followed by an "Ow!"
The two broke the kiss and Grant started laughing as he put down Skye. He turned to face the vent. "Okay, JJ. I know you're up there. Come on down."
Then the vent opened and out popped 15 year old girl who jumped on the table, then to the floor to stand next to Grant.
Skye could almost cry at the sight of her. She had grown up so much, her little baby girl was now a young woman. She could see that JJ had her skin tone, hair style and doe brown eyes, but she definitely had Grant's cheekbones and hair color. She looked like a perfect combination of the two of them.
Grant wrapped his arm around JJ and gave her a side hug. "JJ, there's someone I want you to meet. JJ, this is Skye, your mother."
"It's very nice to see you again JJ." Skye greeted with a watery smile.
JJ just stood still for a good while, which scared Skye, but then she ran to hug her mother, a hug which Skye returned whole-heartedly. Tears rolled down JJ's face. "I can't believe it."
Skye cried as well. "You can't believe what?"
"That you're actually here." The two broke the hug. "I mean, I've been dreaming of meeting you for years and here you are, I mean, it's so unreal."
Skye laughed. "I didn't think I was that big of a deal."
"Well, of course you are. Dad tells me about you all the time."
"He does?" Skye glanced at Grant with a surprised look on her face before turning back to JJ.
"Ya. I still can't believe this. I have so many questions. Um… wait right here." JJ ran out of the room with a determined look on her face.
Skye looked at Grant with a confused expression on her face. "Where's she going?"
"She has a book full of questions to ask you. She's been writing them since she was 5."
"You're serious?"
"Dead serious. Now, Skye I know you didn't just come here to check on us."
Skye sighed. "Sadly, I didn't. The rest of the team, they've found your new identity."
Ward's eyes widened in fear. "How close are they to finding me?"
"Close enough." The two turn around with guns out to see the team with weapons raised and Coulson in front. "Now, give up the girl Ward."
AND THAT'S WHY HE'S CALLED CLIFF HANGER!
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My recommendation for this chapter is the movie "Hoodwinked". It puts a spin on the entire story of "Red Riding Hood" and it's super fun. If you think you may take the suggestion, put the word "WOLF" in a review.
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