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"Hi, Mrs. May. I thought you were Melinda." says Coulson with his head still in the flowers
"I gathered. Where is my daughter?" asks Mrs. May as she silently observes the rest of the team
"She went through the window." says Skye
"Always impatient, Qiaolian is. Bathroom is the first door on your right. Phillip, the flowers look lovely. I know exactly where to put them."
Coulson follows Mrs. May to the living room while the others line up at the bathroom door.
"How was the drive?"
"Good. Not alot traffic." Coulson replies hoping that May appears to recuse him from the impending conversation
"She told you then."
"Told me that you might be angry with me. Not in so many words but yes."
"I'm not angry. Was I upset that I had to drive over 500 miles to pick her up? Yes. Did it give me another reason to convince her to leave SHIELD? Yes. So am I angry with you? No."
"Told you. Hello Mom. Where is everyone?" says May walking up behind Coulson
"Bathroom."
"What's with the door?" asks May sitting on the red leather couch behind her
"State of the art. Face recognition." answers Mrs. May as she sits on the couch across from May
"Why doesn't it recognize me then?"
"When was the last time you visited me? Anyway the man who installed it just uploaded my picture. Technology and all that. Maybe one of them can do it for me." says Mrs. May as she points to the others who have finished with the bathroom.
"Oh I can help with that. Unless you have pictures of May here, its going to be very difficult to get her to take a picture. I think she's camera shy. No idea why. I mean if I looked as good as she does at her age…not like I know how old she is anyway or when her birthday is. I mean what if I want to celebrate it or something. It must be in the genes right. I mean you must have turned a few heads back in the day. What? Why is everyone staring at me?" says Skye as she nervously chuckles which results in a slight shaking of the cabin.
"That I did. You must be Skye and I do have pictures just not recent ones. I tell you what, before Andrew gets here how about I tell you how I met Qiaolian's father." says Mrs. May not phased by the rumbling
The others nod and May just rolls her eyes and hopes that the evening is relatively painless.
"Okay. Guys this is my mother, Mrs. May. Mom meet Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Bobbi Morse, Alfonso Mackenzie, and you know Skye. Oh and Lance Hunter."
"You're the mercenary aren't you?" she asks and Lance just nods
"Not much of a talker are you? Qiaolian will show you to your rooms since you're spending the night. Dinner will be ready in an hour. There is a patio out back and walking path that leads to a lake if you want to run around outside and play tag. Be on time or you don't eat." says Mrs. May as she gets up and walks to the kitchen.
May leads the group up the stairs, that have pictures of different places and May at different ages on the wall leading upstairs.
"How'd she know about wanting to play tag?" asks Simmons
"She has cameras everywhere except for the bathrooms I believe." says Coulson looking to May to correct him but she doesn't say anything.
Once they reach the top of the stairs, May puts her bag down outside a door and faces the team.
"The room at the end of the hall is my mothers'. This is mine. Those two are yours, guys and girls. They both have a full bathroom."
"What about me?" asks Coulson as the others walk into their rooms.
"Couch. Downstairs." says May walking into her room as Coulson follows
"But my back. I can't sleep on a couch. Why can't I sleep in here? Your bed is huge?" says Coulson now pouting at May
"Fine." says May laying on the bed closing her eyes
"Thank you" says Coulson as he does the same.
Once settled the others decided to go down to the patio and walk to the lake. The patio is paved with gray stone and in the middle there is a fountain with a koi pond.
"This place is really beautiful." says Bobbi as they walk down the path towards the lake.
"And peaceful. A very nice place to retire. You're taking this whole don't talk thing seriously aren't you Hunter." says Mack as Hunter just nods and looks around trying to find the cameras.
"I don't want to anger her and get extra duties." he whispers
"What the matter Skye?" asks Simmons who with Fitz slows down when Skye stops walking.
"I think I made a bad impression. Why didn't anyone stop me? Then I shook her house."
"I thought you would stop on your own. Also I don't think she noticed the shaking."
"You were nervous. Its no big deal." says Fitz
"I just wanted her to like me. Especially since I want to try to call her Mama May."
"Skye, it will be okay. Can you really not tell us what was on your list or was that just to tick off Hunter?" asks Simmons once they begin to walk again.
"It was rule number three actually. The first rule is I get three questions to ask Mama May. May probably doesn't want me asking a million questions trying to learn about her childhood. The second one is no sneaking around the house looking for pictures to bring back with me. Like I would do that right guys." she finishes and looks around and finds FitzSimmons walking away from her at a fast pace.
"It smells good Mrs. May. Do you need any help?" asks Coulson as he walks into the kitchen
"You can set the table, Phillip. How is she?"
"Tired. Worried how the night is going to go." he answers as he walks towards the cabinets that holds the plates
"The others, they don't know."
"Only Bobbi knows. I told her it will be fine but she thinks otherwise. Did you tell him?"
"I told him that someone needed his expertise. He'll help the girl though. It'll be okay." she says reassuringly
Dinner, story time, and a visitor in the next chapter. I may post the next one later tonight. We'll see.