I'm finally back!

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"Coulson, it doesn't have to be like this." Grant pleaded, keeping his weapon steady even though he was freaking out on the inside. He knew this day would probably come, but he knew he would never be prepared for it.

"Yes it does you bastard. Now hand over the girl." Coulson demanded, his trigger finger itching to move.

Grant and Skye shared a look before turning back to the team. "Why would I hand her over to you?" Grant asked cautiously.

"So we can keep you from corrupting her. What did you do kidnap her from her family?" Jemma sneered.

Grant held his hands up in a surrendering way before putting away his gun. "Okay, time out. You guys have got the wrong idea."

"You really do." Skye confirmed, putting down her weapon as well.

"Skye, what would you know about this?" May asked.

"A lot more than you guys know and what you guys are thinking is totally off. Now can you put down the weapons so we can talk about this?"

The team collectively looked at each other and lowered their weapons as a whole.

Mack was the one to address the elephant in the room. "Well, if you didn't kidnap her, where did she come from?"

Skye and Grant shared a worried look before looking back at the team.

"Well…" Skye started to say only to stop when she heard.

"Hey mom, I found my book of…" JJ cheered as she came into the room only to stop short when she sees all the extra people. "What's going on?"

It was then that Fitz started to really look at the three on the other side of the room, the girl in particular. There was something familiar about her. The eyes. The skin tone. The cheekbones.

"Oh my…"

Grant caught on Fitz's recognition and pulled JJ close to him before kneeling down in front of her. "Hey sweetie, why don't you and Skye go to Incredible Edibles?"

"But dad…"

"I'll be fine sweetie. Just go hang out, okay? You have a lot to catch up on."

"Okay." JJ relented.

Without looking at the team, Skye took JJ by the shoulder and guided her out of the room.

"Ward, what is…" Coulson spat at him, while Grant stood back up.

"There's going to be a conference in here in less than 20 minutes. Follow me if you must." Grant strutted out of the room and, of course, the team quickly followed making sure to maintain their distance. From the guy at the desk, they could see that Grant had become someone big in this company, whatever it was.

By the time, they all got back to Grant's office, Leo had put all the pieces of the puzzles together.

"You and Skye have a daughter?" He realized.

Grant huffed as he pressed a button on his desk before turning around to face them. "Yes, we have a daughter together. I've been raising her by myself for the past 15 years."

As soon as he said that, the team started verbally attacking him.

"You bastard!"

"You son of a bitch!"

Throughout their beleaguering, Grant just stood there and took it. He particularly kept an eye on one of the men who seemed to be getting angrier every second he stood there.

All of a sudden, Lance lunged at Grant, ready to attack, when he bumped into something. As he fell back, a green shimmer shone in front of Grant.

"What the hell?" Lance groaned as Bobbi helped him stand back up.

"Like it… new prototype from the ES lab, the next step in keeping our clients safe." Grant smirked as he walked over behind his desk.

"What clients would those be?" Jemma sneered at him. "Murderers? Criminals? Monsters like you?"

Grant sat down at his office desk, folded his hands on his desk and looked at his former team with a stoic look on his face. "Despite what happened all those years ago and despite your beliefs of who I am, I have changed. I'm not the same man I used to be."

May scoffed while rolling his eyes. "Yah right. Once a killer, always a killer."

"You know, I could say the same thing about you May. But, I am not involved hurting people any more. I protect people."

"And which people are they?"

"I'm the head of Security for this company."

"And this company is…"

"This is the Emerald Studios Compound."

"Emerald Studios, you mean, the people who represent Idalia and Euricka, people like them." Lincoln freaked out.

Anyone who is anyone knows about Emerald Studios. This record company represents some of the biggest names in the music industry from the top recording artists to the most in demand choreographers in the game. But, what set them apart from the rest is the fact that all of the stars represented, or the 'Emerald Elite' as they are fondly called, give 10% of their earnings to various charities who support children's hospitals, LGBT programs or even small businesses. The Emerald Elite are truly some of the most down-to-earth people on the planet.

Grant raised his eyebrow in Lincoln's direction. "Yes… Is he okay?"

"Probably not. Why would that matter to us?" Mack asks.

"It is my job to train the personal bodyguards for the Emerald Elite and come up with the security measures for all ES events and affairs. I'm keeping them safe."

"Come on, celebrities don't need that much protection."

Grant frowned at them. "You seem to be forget that most of the Emerald Elite are advocates for different causes, plenty of people would love to shut them up. I want their voices to be heard. These are some of the most generous people in the world. Some of them even take time out of their day just to teach JJ." Grant glanced over at a picture of JJ that he had on his desk. "She's in the right place to get where she wants to be."

"Are you really trying to tell yourself that?" May stated.

At that point, Grant had enough. He jolted out of his seat and slammed his hands down on his desk, which made the team jump. He pointed an accusing finger at them all. "Listen here. No matter what you think of me, there is nothing that is more important to me than giving my daughter every opportunity to be who she wants to be in , this compound is privately owned so you all have no jurisdiction here." Grant straightened back up, fixing his jacket sleeves. "I advise that you get the hell out of here before SHIELD gets blacklisted by the media."

Coulson spoke up. "You couldn't possibly…"

"Do you all remember Viola Yakovna?" Grant interrupted.

"Ya, she was a huge star until the scandal broke…"

"That's the power of our PR team. Now get out."

Afraid what he might do if they stayed, the team filtered out of the room. Well, some of the team.

Coulson stopped in the doorway of his office before turning back around to face Grant. "We may be leaving Ward, but this is far from over." With that, he left

Grant rubbed his hands over his face and sat down back in his chair. After all these years, the team had found him and were threatening to break up his family. He and JJ were super close since he raised her on his own. He couldn't imagine his life without her.

Grant started typing things into his tablet computer and smiled at the image on his screen.

JJ and Skye were in the outside café portion of Incredible Edibles, laughing and sipping on lattes. He could see JJ scribbling things down in her question book every once in a while.

He had imagined this scene for years and to see it finally play out was a dream come true. The family he and Skye never had.

He'd be damned if he let Coulson and the team break them up.

Again, I'm sorry about ho short this chapter is compared to the past ones, but I promise the next one will be much longer and have a lot more going on. I pinky swear!

Shout to LadyCizzle who came up with the OC of "Euricka"! She will be back later in the story.

My recommendation for this chapter is "I'm Not Over You" by Skyeward17. It's a story about Ward being kidnaped by HYDRA and Skye convincing the team to rescue him. I's still in the early stages but it's really good so far. If you are going to take this suggestion, then leave the word "OVER" in a review.

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~ JuicyJams