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The team didn't see or hear from Skye for an entire week. Skye had spent the rest of that night watching videos of JJ before falling asleep. She woke up the next morning, not wanting to deal with the team at all, so she took some of her accumulated sick days and went to go stay with JJ and Grant to make up for lost time.
While Grant was at work, JJ and Skye did some bonding. They went shopping on Rodeo Drive, had a spa day; heck they even took a surfing lesson together. They really just wanted to spend time together. When Grant as done with work though, the whole family had a Star Wars movie marathon (yes, all 10), started a pizza night and took a weekend trip to Disneyland.
The family was able to spend a lot of quality time together as it was still vacation time for JJ until her studies at the studio continued. JJ and her five best friends were part of a select group at Emerald Studios, who were able to study entertainment arts with the Emerald Elite. The head of the studio himself took it upon himself to home school the six of them. He gave them a few things to do over the summer break but they went back to their real schooling routine in a week.
But sadly, when the week came to an end, Skye did have to go SHIELD to prepare for counseling. Skye acted as a guidance counselor to young students at SHIELD's ad hoc school, the Nicholas J. Fury Institute for Youth, who had transitioned or were thinking about transitioning. These kids were unstable and she couldn't just abandon them and JJ understood that. Her daughter knew about her father's past and she wants them to have access to the resources that he didn't.
So on Sunday morning found herself preparing to go back to New Providence. The new school year was beginning tomorrow for students and Skye had to prepare to meet with her regulars.
She went down to the kitchen to see Grant stirring something up in a pan. She went over to the kitchen jumped up on it. "Hey handsome."
Grant turned back, still stirring. "Hey you." Grant greeting as he turned off the stove.
"What's cooking?"
"Peaches to go with my cinnamon-vanilla pancakes." He replied as he put the last of said pancakes of a plate.
"Ooo, that looks good, can I have some?"
"That depends…" Grant smirks as he walks to the counter and stands in between her legs and puts her hands on her waist.
"On what?" Skye smirked back as she brought her arms to wrap around his neck.
"You gonna kiss the cook?"
Skye chuckled as she brought her lips to his. Grant eagerly responded, adding more pressure. They moved their lips together in harmony as Skye started grabbing at the back of Grant's head to add even more pressure to the kiss. Grant responded by nibbling at Skye's lips, begging for entrance, which she quickly granted.
Their tongues had just started to explore each other's mouth when they heard. "Sweet Lord Jesus! MY EYES!" The parents quickly brought apart and turned to see their daughter, standing the doorway of the kitchen in her running clothes with her eyes covered. Allie sat next to her with her paw covering her eyes as well. "You know if you guys want to start this kind of stuff, can you do it as soon as I leave for my run?"
Grant stepped back to the counter and started to take out the peaches. "How was your run, JJ?"
"Oh no, you don't." JJ pointed at her father as Skye jumped off the counter and sat at the table. "You two don't get to act all innocent after that. If you two really want to do the bing bing that badly after all these years, go ahead, be my guest. Maybe it'll get the stick out of dad's butt. Just don't let me see or hear it and please don't let it happen in this kitchen. People eat here and we don't need sex contaminating the atmosphere." JJ went over to food dispenser in the kitchen and got bowl for Allie.
"You are so much like me, it scares me." Skye mused as JJ sat down at the table.
"I know. Dad said that a lot when I was younger."
"And it still holds true to this day." Grant said as he put the peaches and pancakes on the table before sliding in next to Skye.
"I would hope so." JJ gasped as she put some pancakes on her plate. "Otherwise, I wouldn't be the fun-loving eccentric JJ we all know and love."
Skye smiled as she slid over and placed a kiss on her daughter's forehead. "You're right about that, sweetie."
An hour later, Skye pulled into her regular parking spot in the main lot outside of the Executive Tower of New Providence. It was designed to be just like the Triskelion. When Skye got out of Lola, she could see that the rest of the team's cars were already there.
"Great." She sighed as she moved to the building entrance. When she got in, she was met with the usual security check-in point.
"Hey Agent Johnson." One of the guards at the front greeted as Skye through the body scanner. "Haven't see you here in a while?"
Skye sadly smiled as she put her hands into the bio scanner. "Ya, well I needed a break for a while. Hope you guys managed without me." Skye joked.
"We've been doing fine here ma'am." The guard joked.
"Good." Skye picked up her bag and made her way to her office. Just as she got to her office door, she heard someone call out her name. She turned to see Fitz running down to hall to catch her. She glared at him before walking in and locking the door behind her.
When Fitz finally got to the door, he sighed and went back the way he came. He found himself wandering into the main command center of the executive tower, where the rest of the team happened to be.
When he came in, his wife of 14 years could tell something was wrong. "Leo, what's wrong?"
Fitz plopped down into his chair. "Well, Skye's back."
"She is." Lincoln exclaimed as he popped out of his chair. "I should go…"
"Don't even try to, man. She definitely does not look like she is in the mood to talk. After what happened last week I can't blame her."
"Maybe we were a bit hard on her." May slightly admitted.
Bobbi raised her eyebrow at her. "You called her the worst mother ever."
"Okay, I was a bitch… But it's Ward."
"Exactly," Jemma conferred. "I mean, she literally slept with the enemy!"
"But, she loved him." Mack reminded them. "And it looks like she still does."
"You don't know that." Lincoln grumbled.
"Give it up, lover boy. You didn't have a chance."
"Whatever. But, how we are going to get our friend back?"
None of them had an answer to that question.
Later that night, Skye started to walk out to leave for the night, when she hears someone calls her name. She chooses to ignore and she keeps walking to her car. But when she tried to start the car, the engine just sputtered. Skye groaned. "What the hell?"
"Sorry Skye." She saw Lincoln standing on the passenger side of the car as he held the lightning in his hand. "We had to." From behind him, Skye could see the rest of the team coming out from behind other cars.
Skye rolled her eyes, got out of Lola and took out her phone. She picked a contact out of her lineup and held up the phone to record a voice message, turning away from the team. "Grant, call me when you get out of your meeting. I may need a ride home."
"Skye…" Jemma started.
"No." Skye interrupted. "I already told you guys that I don't want to deal with you right now."
May rushed to the front. "Skye, I'm sorry for what I said. You're not a bad mother."
"Gee, thanks."
"What I mean is that I was out of line."
"You think?"
"Skye, you're right." Coulson interjected. "We shouldn't have tried to insert ourselves in your personal life. But, we've all been a family for so long that seeing you with Ward and your girl, just made us feel…"
"Like we didn't mean anything to you." Leo provided.
Skye turned to face them. "You guys do mean something to mean. You've been my family for so long. But no matter what you guys think about him, I… I love Grant. He's been loyal to me and JJ for all these years."
"How do know that?" Bobbi questioned.
"JJ. She knows everything that happens at Emerald Studios and she knows that Grant does nothing besides work and be a father to her. She says he needs to laid to get the stick out of his butt."
"Wow." Lance gasps. "Your girl's honest."
"Brutally." Just then Skye's phone starts ringing. She picks up. "Hey handsome." She pretends not to notice the cringing faces of her team and went back over to Lola. "Ya, I'm fine…No, I just had a bit of car trouble…I'll be home in time for dinner. Just don't do strict Italian this time…You little…You know I don't speak Italian, Grant!... Okay wait till I teach JJ Chinese…Since when do you speak Mandarin?!...Stop being an adorable father. I'll be home soon, okay.…Bye."
"Ward speaks Chinese?" May asked incredulously.
Skye nodded. "He learned it so he could teach JJ. Since he's been teaching her things about being Italian, he wanted to teach her about Chinese culture as well. So, JJ's trilingual." She looked over to Lincoln. "Now, can you recharge my battery? It's pizza night." Lincoln slowly nodded before he zapped the car. "Thanks." Skye got into the car and started it up.
"Skye…" She looked and saw Fitz standing to her door. "Do you think we could meet JJ? Maybe tomorrow. She could come check out the school, see if she likes it, you know?"
Skye bit her lip in thought. "We'll see." Skye pulled Lola out of her spot and drove home.
When Skye walked into the house, she immediately dropped her keys in the dish by the front door and took off her shoes and made her way into the kitchen.
As she got closer to the kitchen, she could hear her two favorite people laughing it up. She turned the corner and saw Grant tossing around a pizza, while JJ watched in amusement. "Hey you two." She cheerfully greeted.
JJ turned. "Ciao mamma."
Skye frowned. "What did I say about only speaking Italian?"
Grant shrugged as put down the pizza crust. "Non lo so."
Skye glared at him. "Well, keep playing games and I'm going to let the gelato I brought back melt."
JJ jumped and hugged her mother. " NO! MOMMY PLEASE!" JJ looked back at her dad. "Sorry dad. Mom wins this round."
"That's because she plays dirty." Grant teases.
"While that's true, you guys should try to teach me Italian."
"Another day, but now it's pizza time."
The family proceeded to make their large pizza with a section for each of them and small meat lover's pizza for Allie. They brought the pizza into the theater and started watching one of their new favorite shows, Grey's Anatomy. Tonight they were watching the finale of season one and they were very into.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE A WIFE?" JJ screamed at the screen.
"Who dis?" Skye gasped.
The screen went black. "Did not see that coming?" Grant admitted.
"Next season!" JJ screeched as reached for the remote.
"Ah ah ah, no." Grant held the remote out of her reach. "Bedtime."
"But it's only 11."
"Jennifer." Skye warned as she gave daughter a stern look.
JJ looked back and forth between her parents. "Fine." JJ stomped her way up to her room with Allie following behind her.
Grant rolls his eyes at her behavior. "Sometimes I have a hard time believing she's graduating next year."
"Well, she's your little girl." Skye reminded as she climbed to his seat and straddled his waist. She ran her fingers through his short black hair. "She's growing up." Skye buried her face into his neck and nibbling at his pulse point.
"What do you want?" Grant moaned as she started moving her lips up his neck towards his mouth.
"What makes you think I want something?" Skye questioned as she slowly kissed the corner of his mouth.
"Because I know you."
Skye pulled his face close to hers, keeping their lips a breath away. "Do you and JJ want to come and visit SHIELD tomorrow?"
Grant flung his lover of his lap and into the seat next to him. "Absolutely not." He started gathering the trash and bringing it to the kitchen.
Skye followed him. "Why not, I want her to see the school and meet the team."
"Well, maybe I don't want her to." Grant countered as he threw away the trash and started doing dishes.
"Why not?"
"JJ's tried public school before remember and she did horrible in that environment. Also, you know her opinion of the team."
Grant told Skye that when JJ turned 11 he came clean about everything that happened before she was born. Even though he didn't raise her to hate the team for what they did to him, she came to that opinion herself. "I know. But, I wanted her to stay with you so her opinion of you wouldn't skewed by the team. I think the team so have the same chance."
Grant huffed because he knew she was right. "Fine. But, don't expect her to like any of this."
Skye shrugged. "You never know, she might surprise us."
"I don't like this." JJ grumbled as she and her father drove to New Providence. Skye had gone earlier to do her morning meetings with some of her kids.
"JJ." Grant warned.
The 15-year old sunk into her seat. "Why do we have to do this?"
"Because these are your mother's friends. I want you to treat with respect; I don't any lip from you today. Is that understood young lady?"
"Yes." JJ mumbled as they pulled into New Providence, they pulled their car in next to Skye's. By the front of the building, they could see Skye and the rest of the team as they stepped out of the car.
Skye walked over to them. "Hey guys."
Grant smiles at her. "Hi."
Skye brings them over to the group, but Grant lingers back a little. "Okay, this is my girl, JJ."
Jemma smiled at her. "Hi, JJ. It's so nice to finally meet you."
JJ doesn't look amused. "Sure it is."
The team was surprised at the teen's bluntness. They could definitely see Ward and Skye in the kid, as they were not one for conversation when they were mad. Mack stepped forward. "So kid, what do the J's stand for?"
"Names, isn't that obvious? Or are you guys as stupid as you look?"
"Jennifer Melinda Johnson!" Grant yells. JJ winces because she knows she went too far. Grant grabs her arm and yanks her away from the group with Skye following. "What did I say?"
"Dad…"
"No. You heard what I said in the car but obviously you didn't listen. Give me the phone."
JJ's eyes widened. "But dad…"
"Now."
JJ turns to Skye. "Mom…"
Skye sternly looked at her. "You heard your father."
JJ sighed as she took out her phone and handed to Grant, who put it in his pocket. "Now, go over there and apologize." Grant demanded.
The family went over the team. "I'm sorry for my rude behavior…" JJ apologized. "But, I have the right not to be your biggest fan."
The team squirmed a bit before May responded. "So, your middle name is after me?"
"Apparently."
They all stood there for a while before Skye broke the silence. "Okay, well this has been fun. JJ, you want to check out the school? They're more than halfway through the first day by now."
"Sure." Her daughter shrugged.
The family unit started to walk away when Grant's phone rang. He took it out and answered. "James Johnson…Elijah hi. You guys are back in town?" He held his hand over the earpiece. "I gotta take this. I'll meet you at the school."
Skye nodded. "Okay." She and JJ headed towards the school, while Grant went to sit in his truck.
Grant talked on his phone for about 10 minutes before he got back out, only to be knocked out when he did.
"You know Skye's gonna kill us right when she finds out about this, right?" Mack reminds Coulson as he picks up Grant's unconscious body.
"Not if we prove were right about him." Coulson remarks as they walk back into the building, not noticing a young black man, lurking in the shadows.
"So what do you think?" Skye asks her girl as they walk around the school's football field, where a gym class was going on.
JJ shrugs. "It's alright."
Skye stops her. "Okay, what's up? I know that face, because I make that face."
"I just don't want to go to school here." JJ admits. "I thrive where I'm at. I don't want to give it up."
Skye nodded in understanding. "Okay. I just wanted you to se…" Just then, Skye's phone started ringing and she answered. "Hey rookie…THEY WHAT?...I'll be there in 10." Skye hung up her phone. "JJ, you stay right here okay?" Skye ran towards the main building.
JJ wandered around the field before going to sit on the bleachers. The school bell pinged signaling the students to go to their next class. JJ didn't move, instead she hummed to herself a song she heard in the studio. She was truly regretting giving lip now because now she didn't have her phone to keep her distracted till her mom came back.
"Hey!" JJ looked down to see a school security guard standing next to her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"
JJ shook her head. "No. I don't go to school here."
The guard scoffed. "Ya, right." He grabbed JJ by her arm. "Come on, kid."
"Hey, let me go!" JJ demanded as he dragged toward the school doors, trying her hardest to fight his grip. "I said let me go!"
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