A/N: Hey guys! Here's the next chapter! Enjoy!
Skye and Grant awoke with a start, stiff from sleeping in the fetal position for most of the night.
The two of them exchanged a confused look upon seeing Coulson passed out at the foot of the bed on the ground, snoring softly.
"Did we kick AC out of his own bed?" Skye asked, looking at Grant as he shrugged and lay back down in the bed, pulling the white comforter back over his head.
Skye was about to nudge him when a voice startled her from doing so.
"Let him sleep for another hour or two. And yes, you did kick me out." Coulson said, getting up and reaching over Skye to pick up a half asleep Lili, who moaned in protest.
Skye sighed and threw the comforter off of her and hopped out of bed, quickly putting on a sweater as she left the room and headed into the kitchen.
Throughout the morning, Skye and Jemma worked to get Lili ready, as they were both girls, trying to efficiently get the child dressed once they had woken up…jumped on…Grant and kicked him out of the room, forcing him to go get ready himself.
"Lili, can you please get dressed for us?" Skye asked, holding out the white capris and the purple shirt to her, causing Lili to cross her arms and shake her head, her knotted hair whipping around her face as she did so.
"Why won't you get dressed? You get dressed for your parents and Uncle Phil; why not me and Jemma?" She asked gently, brown eyes looking into the child's bright blue ones.
Lili said nothing except letting out a huff and sitting down on the ground, attempting to self-consciously cover hair bare, pre-pubescent chest.
She's five…she shouldn't even be self-conscious at this age! Skye thought, sighing once more, losing the last ounce of her patience.
Jemma put a gentle hand on Skye's shoulder and gently helped her up off the ground, taking the purple shirt out of the other woman's hands as she knelt down to the child's height.
"Lili, you don't have to feel self-conscious about yourself, love, we're all girls here. Now, what is the real reason you won't get dressed?" Jemma asked gently,
"It's too girly!" Lilith exclaimed, pointing at the sparkly, pink flower on the front of the shirt.
"Then why did you pack it?"
She shrugged.
"My Aunt Pepper bought it and I didn't wanna hurt her feelings. So, I make her happy by wearing it from time to time."
"Lili, I'm sure your Auntie Pepper wouldn't be hurt if you told her that it wasn't your…how do American's say it? Your style? You are obviously a tom boy and like more…boyish colors, such as camo, am I correct?" The bio-chemist asked.
"Uh-huh. I like blue, red, green, black, and white."
"Well, if you get dressed for me and Skye…you and be in the lab with Fitz and I and we will bring you shopping before you have to go back to your parents. What do you say?"
Lilith thought for a moment, scrunching up her face as she always did when she was thinking.
"No."
Jemma pursed her lips in annoyance, also beginning to lose her patience, until she got an idea.
Skye smirked at Jemma, obviously having the same idea.
"Well, if you don't get dressed we'll have to bring in the cavalry"
Lili looked confused as the two left, their foot steps fading for what seemed like eternity until she heard them once more, and the bedroom door opened to reveal Melinda.
"Why won't you get dressed Lilith? You have to if you want to help us."
Skye and Jemma waited outside the bedroom door, hearing Melinda's calm voice before it eventually turned into a shouting match and muffled screams from Lili, and what sounded like a scuffle as a lamp was knocked off the bedside table.
The door opened not five minutes later, allowing for Skye and Simmons to burst into hysterical laughter as Lili came stomping out of the room, scowling, wearing her purple shirt and white capris, her blonde hair pulled into pink tails.
"What-what did you do?" Skye asked, trying to catch her breath as she clutched her side, which hurt from laughing so hard.
"Well, I tried to compromise with her. Then we started to yell and she tried to run. I had to hold her down and cover her mouth and dressed her by force, which I actually managed to do without hurting her." May said, shrugging as the three of them went down the spiral stair case and May returned to the stick to continue flying them to Germany.
This was going to be a long mission.
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