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You Can Quote Me on That

"I detest what you say but I will defend your right to say it" Voltaire

~ Submitted by VampireKaira

You Can Quote Me on That

To say that Skye was outspoken was an understatement.

She always said what was on her mind, no matter what people thought about it.

It was that type of attitude that drew Grant to her in the first place. The senator's son was tired of his parents trying to set him up with "proper" young girls for their public image. He didn't want some girl that was gonna agree with everything that he said and be anyone he wanted her to be.

He wanted a girl that was not afraid to be herself.

That's what he was telling his best friend, Leo Fitz, when he met Skye, who was a waitress in the diner they were eating in.

"Aw. The spoiled prick complaining about his many options." Skye sneered as she poured them more coffee.

Grant looked at her, bewildered by her statement. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me. Be lucky you have options. Some of us have none." With that, Skye walked away.

Grant turned back to Leo. "Can you believe her?"

"I hate to say it but she has a point."

Grant groaned when he realized his best friend was right. That led him to standing outside the diner til closing time when Skye was locking up.

"Hey."

Skye whipped around and glared at him. "If you are here for an apology, you can forget about it."

"I'm actually here to apologize to you."

"Come again?"

"Sadly, I hate to admit that you're right and I'm sorry if what I said offended you."

Skye crossed her arms and looked at him skeptically. "What's your game?"

Grant shook his head. "No game. Just wanted to say that." He then turned around to go to his car when heard Skye call for him to wait. He turned back around to see her walking up to him and she put something in his hands.

"Maybe you're not such a prick." Skye walked away.

Ward opened his hand to see a piece of paper with her number on it with a winky face. He smiled.

This led to the start of their relationship which had been going on for about six months by the point he introduced her to his family.

Now his younger brother, Tommy, and sister, Danielle, loved her… His older brother, Christian, and his parents on the other hand found her a "pain" when she talked about how politicians needed to listen to the people instead of industry.

They called her an out-of-control, uneducated excuse of a woman in private.

But when they said it to her face one night, which caused Skye to leave the dinner table at his parents' house with Rose following her, that's when Grant had enough.

"You know what she's right." Grant snapped as he stood at the table. "You guys care more about your money then the people who you're supposed to represent. You are the ones who are out-of-control."

Grant left the table and went to find Skye. He found Danielle comforting her in the gazebo in the backyard rose garden. He told his sister that he had this and she went back inside as Grant sat by Skye.

"I'm sorry." Skye started only to be interrupted by Grant.

"Don't be. You have nothing to be sorry about."

"But your parents…"

"Who gives a fuck about what they say? I may not always agree with what you say, but I will always defend your right to say it."

Skye smiles at him through her tears and cuddles into him as he kisses her forehead.

Turns out, his parents did actually listen to what Skye said, but they never actually said thank you for her advice… until the wedding day a year later that is.

You Can Quote Me on That

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