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*September*

Rolling over onto her side, Skye picks her phone up off of the nightstand next to her and then lies on her back again, holding the phone up in front of her face.

She unlocks the device and goes into the shell program, immediately finding Grant's contact. She hits the video call button and waits for the call to connect.

A second later, Grant's smiling face fills up the screen, "Hey, beautiful."

"Hey," she smiles back. "What are you up to?"

He shrugs, "Not a whole lot. What about you?"

"I was just taking a breather," she tells him. "Did a lot of working out today and it kind of took a lot out of me."

"You have to be careful," he reminds her. "Don't try and do too much at once. You can actually get sick by exerting yourself too much when training."

"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, I'll try and be more careful in the future."

"Thank you. So, why are you calling?"

Skye shrugs, "I just wanted to talk to you. And see Jess, too. I can't believe she's already six months old."

Grant lets out a sigh, "I know. It's pretty crazy, huh? She's growing up, Skye."

Skye closes her eyes and shakes her eyes, "No, don't say that. She's still my baby."

Grant chuckles, "Alright. I'm sorry. She's playing on the floor right now, do you want to see her?"

Skye raises an eyebrow, "What do you think?"

Grant smiles and nods, "Right, sorry, my bad. Give me one second."

Skye sits up in her bed as the camera shifts and then her screen is filled by an upside down image of Jessica lying on her back on her blanket, a few different toys surrounding her.

"Hi, baby girl," Skye smiles, causing her daughter to tilt her head and look up at her.

Jessica smiles wide when she sees Skye on the screen. "Ah!" she reaches a hand out above her head, trying to reach Skye. She slowly rolls herself over onto her stomach and reaches out again for Skye.

"I miss you so much, Jessie," Skye smiles. "You are getting so big, I can't believe it."

After a moment, Jessica uses her small arms to push herself up onto her knees.

Skye gasps, "Grant, did she just…?"

"Yeah," Grant peeks his head into the frame, "she's been doing that a lot recently. She usually just goes back onto her stomach, though. I think she's trying to psych herself up to actually do it, you know?"

Skye nods, "Yeah, that's makes sense."

A second later, Skye gasps again, "Grant! Look at her!"

Grant turns his head to see Jessica slowly making her way across the floor on her hands and knees, stumbling ever so slightly.

"She's crawling," Skye grins. "Grant, she's actually crawling."

"I know, I see her. Wow. This is amazing." He brings his face back into the frame, "I guess seeing you made her want to crawl to you," he smiles.

"Yeah, maybe. I'm just so happy I was able to witness it," Skye smiles.

"Me too," he smiles back. He looks at Jessica, "Papá está tan orgulloso de ti."

"I don't think I'll ever get tired of that," Skye says with a smile on her face.

Grant turns his head to look at her, "Get tired of what?"

"Hearing you talk to Jess with so much love in your voice. Especially when you talk in Spanish to her. It's even sweeter than when you talk to her in plain old English."

"You really think so?" he asks her.

Skye nods, "Mm-hmm. It's very sweet and very fatherly."

Grant chuckles, "Well thank you very much."

"You're welcome," she smiles.

*October*

"Hey Skye, your phone went off a couple of times but there's nothing showing up on the screen."

Skye turns her head around to see Mack standing in the entryway to the common room, holding her cell phone out to her.

Skye lets out a sigh of relief, "Oh thank goodness. Where was it?" she stands up from the couch and walks over to the other agent.

"In the gym." He casually crosses his arms in front of his chest and furrows his brows, "Is there something wrong with it? Like I said, nothing showed up on the screen when it went off."

"Oh, yeah, it's probably just a small glitch in the programming. Nothing I can't fix with a few quick key strokes," she says.

"Right," Mack nods his head.

"Thanks, again, Mack," Skye smiles at her friend. "I don't really know what I'd do if I lost this thing," she waves her phone in the air briefly. Then she turns around and walks back over to the couch, sitting down and unlocking her shell program. She smiles when she sees a few new texts from Grant.

Happy Halloween, Skye. Hope none of your upcoming cases are too spooky.

Jess and I are just going to stay in tonight and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters. It's not like she'd really remember going out anyways. Next year for sure we'll take her out.

Also, do you like her costume? A picture is attached to the message, showing Jessica sitting up on the couch, dressed up to look like a ladybug.

Skye smiles wider at the photo, typing back a reply She looks absolutely adorable. Good choice of a costume.

Thanks. But I can't really take the credit here. It was Kara's idea.

Well she made a great decision. And remember to be nice to the kids that come to the door tonight.

I know, Skye. I did fine last year, I think I'll be okay this year too.

You better be. I'm going to go now, but I'll talk to you soon.

Okay, bye.

Bye. Give Jess a kiss for me.

Will do.

Closing out of the program and locking her phone, Skye sets it down and turns her head to see Mack still standing in the doorway looking at her.

"What?" she asks.

"Nothing," Mack shakes her head. "You've just seemed a bit different lately ever since you got back from your vacation. Almost like your whole world is in that thing," he nods his head towards Skye's phone.

Skye lets out a laugh, "Well that's a bit crazy, Mack. I may be a huge tech geek, but this is just a phone. I'm not some crazy person who thinks that their entire life is on a piece of tech and that if they don't have it they'll die."

Mack furrows his brows, "Didn't you just say that you don't know what you'd if you lost it?"

Skye pauses. "Well…yes. But only because I like to know where all my tech is at all times. Plus, I don't like the idea of someone possibly getting a hold of any of my tech; it worries me what someone might do."

"Alright," Mack nods. "I get it. All I'm saying is that sometimes it seems like you'd rather be somewhere else."

Skye gives him half a smile, "Well I can assure you that I have nowhere else I need to be."

*November*

"Wow, I still can't believe that that actually happened," Joey laughs as everyone sits around in the common room, telling each other stories from previous missions or their childhood.

"Well it did," Coulson nods his head.

"That's pretty crazy, boss," Joey chuckles, lifting his beer to his lips.

"My mom grounded me about a month after that happened," Coulson explains.

"That's it?" Hunter exclaims. "My mum would've grounded me for a year if I'd have done something like that."

"But then again, you were always getting into trouble," Bobbi interjects. "Your mom's told me stories," she shrugs at his questioning face.

Hunter goes wide-eyed, "Are you serious? I can't believe it."

"Relax, Hunter," Bobbi rolls her eyes. "Your mom is a sweetheart, you should be glad we get along."

"Well you didn't have to grow up with her," Hunter grumbles.

Skye's phone going off pulls everyone's attention to her.

"Sorry," she smiles sheepishly, pulling her phone out of her pocket. She unlocks it, goes into the shell program to see an incoming call from Grant, and then stands up from the couch. "This shouldn't take too long; keep on with the bonding, you were on a roll," she smiles at them and then holds her phone up to her ear once she reaches the door.

"Grant?" she says into the phone when she steps out into the hallway. "What's up?"

"Hey, Skye. So um, I have to tell you something that's really important but you have to promise me that you won't freak out when I tell you."

"Well I can't exactly promise you that because I don't know what it is you're going to tell me."

"Are you sitting down?" he asks.

"Grant…"

He sighs, "Fine. I brought Jess to the hospital about an hour ago and we're still here."

"What?!" she shouts. She lowers her voice and turns her back to the door when she sees everyone looking over at her out of the corner of her eye. "Why did you wait an hour to call me? And why the hell are you at the hospital?" she asks through her teeth. "And don't you dare say that it's just nothing, Grant Douglas Ward, because it's obviously something if you took our daughter to the hospital."

"I didn't call you before because I didn't want to worry you if it was just nothing."

"Well it's too late for that because now I'm worried. What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, necessarily. She just has an ear infection."

Skye eyes go wide, "An ear infection?"

"Yeah. She's been a little cranky the last couple of days which is weird for her because she's usually pretty calm, and she didn't want to go to sleep when I put her down for her nap earlier today. When I was checking her over she was feeling a little warmer than usual too. I thought it was just because the house was a little too warm and that she'd cool down after a couple of hours of being in the living room with the air conditioning turned on. After dinner I checked her again and she felt warmer than she did before, and she was really cranky but also super clingy. So I brought her to the hospital and they said that she has an ear infection and that it should go away in a few days."

"I'm coming back," she tells him.

"What? No, Skye. You don't need to do that. Jess will be fine, I promise. The doctor said that this is a pretty common thing among infants and we shouldn't worry too much about it. We just have to give her some antibiotics and wait it out. This will all go away on its own time."

Skye frowns, "Still, I don't like not being there while she's sick. Especially because from what you told me she's having a really hard time. And if I'm not there then I'm just going to worry way more than I usually do."

"I know you will, and that's one of the things that makes you such a great mom. But you'll see her soon and when you do I'm sure she'll be all better and more than happy to see you again. You're still planning on coming by next month for Christmas, right?"

"Mm-hmm. I did promise you that I'd be there no matter what."

"Yes you did. I'm going to go now so that I can check on Jess."

"Okay. Will you give her a giant kiss and hug for me?"

"I promise I will. I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah, okay. Bye."

"Bye."

Hanging up her phone, Skye lets out a sigh and runs one hand through her hair. She slides her phone into her back pocket and turns towards the common room. She stops in her tracks when she sees everyone looking at her.

"Um, hey guys," she waves awkwardly.

"Is everything okay?" Coulson asks her.

"Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't everything be okay?" she moves towards the couch and sits back down.

"You sounded a bit anxious on the phone," Simmons tells her.

"Oh, that. Yeah, um, that was just an old friend of mine."

"Do you need to go?" Coulson asks her.

She takes a deep breath and shakes her head, "No, she'll be fine. Besides I'm seeing her next month around the holidays anyways."

"You are?" May asks.

Skye nods her head, "Yeah. She's going to be in the area visiting some family and we haven't seen each other in a long time. So I'm going to go and spend some time with her."

"As long as you aren't gone for too long," Coulson tells her.

She gives him a tight smile, "I'll be back here January 1st."

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