A/N: Hey guys! Here's the next chapter! I hope y'all like it. The beginning is some what humorous...in my opinion anyway. Enjoy!

Simmons came up stairs moments later after leaving Skye and Grant to talk in the lab to see Maria and Emily were both wide awake. She smiled at the two of them and placed a bottle of vicodin on the table to the left of the black leather couch. Taking two pills out, she gave one to each of them.

"Oh no, Maria's taking pain pills." Emily said, half joking half serious.

"What happens when she takes pain meds?" Fitz asked, coming out of the kitchen with a bottle of water and joining them, almost not wanting to know the answer.

"Picture a more annoying, female version of Stark." Coulson said, coming out of his office after ending his call with Director Fury before heading into the kitchen.

"Is there even such thing as a more annoying version of Stark?" Simmons asked, looking confused.

"Give it ten minutes and she'll be so crazy that you'll think she's on drugs." Emily said, lying back down only to groan in pain, the vicodin not having taken it's full affect as she sat up once more.

"If you two need anything, let me know." Simmons said, smiling sympathetically before she returned back down the stair case while Skye and Grant came up.

"Grant, now you have a reason to braid hair!" Skye exclaimed, a teasing edge to her voice as Grant rolled his eyes.

"No."

"But why?" Skye whined, tugging on his hand.

Grant sighed, "I don't know how, Skye! And I don't braid hair. Period. I'm not going to braid our daughters hair, besides, don't you know how?"

"I can't braid other peoples hair."

"What're you guys arguing about?" Maria asked, her eyes still droopy with sleep as she leaned up on her left hand, her head and every other part of her body screaming in protest.

"Skye wants me to braid our daughters hair because she can't braid other peoples hair. I'm a guy, first of all, and I don't know how."

"I can show you!" Emily exclaimed, jumping up and almost skipping over to her sister, grabbing her and pulling her into a sitting position with ease.

"Maria, i'm using you as my lab rat!" She said, earning nothing but a thumbs up in response.

"So, we'll start easy with a regular braid! First, you divide it into three sections, equal sections, and you take the right strand and bring it over the middle strand, and the left strand is brought over the middle strand and you repeat. Never bring the strands under each other though or else it won't work." She explained, braiding her sisters hair like there was no tomorrow as everyone watched in awe at how fast she could braid someones hair.

"Teach them how to do a waterfall braid!" Fitz said excitedly, receiving confused looks.

"What's that? I can do basically every braid except that one...what is it?" Emily asked, green eyes looking at the engineer with curiosity.

"Oh i'll show you!" He said, putting his water bottle down and heading to the other side of Maria, who glared at him as soon as he touched her, which he ignored.

"You separate the hair into three separate strands, basically like a regular braid, but you drop one of the strands and then pick up the same strand from the bottom...or the top, it depends on what ya want to do with the braid." He said, finishing up the braid.

"I like how Maria is on her phone and laughing." Skye said, noticing how Maria was giggling like a school girl.

"That's just the pain medicine working it's magic...usually she refuses pain medicine for this reason, but she must've been in a shit load of pain if she took it from Simmons." Emily explained, tying a pony tail around the braid and then going back to lie down on the couch.

"Hey, Emily?" Maria asked, giggling when Emily gave her a 'what the hell do you want?' look, "Do you wanna build a snow man?"

"No, Maria." Fitz said, slowly backing away from her.

"See? She would have never admitted that she liked Disney movies...or quoted them...if she didn't take pain meds or something." Emily explained, watching in amusement as Fitz sat down on the arm of the couch while Maria reached up and pet his head.

"I'm scared." He said, getting up and moving to sit by Emily.

"At least we're in the air so she can't drag us shopping with her. She's done that before." She explained, bending her legs upward so her older sister would stop poking them, "Can you stop poking me before I tell everyone that nickname I gave you? I know you told me not to tell any other SHIELD agents."

Maria only laughed in response and started singing Disney songs.

"What nickname?"

Emily looked at Maria and rolled her eyes, "Well, when I was a baby Maria took me to the aquarium in Chicago where we lived, and they've got whales there. I guess I thought the whale was a hippo because I called it a hippo and then I looked at Maria and called her mama. So her nickname is hippopotamama. It's like hippopotamus, but with mama at the end. I can't call her that in front of other agents though..or Stark."

Skye burst out laughing, "Ha! That's great!"

"Guys...Agent Hill is kind of scaring me, now." Fitz said, unaware that Emily had taken out her cell phone and started recording a video of Maria.

"I thought Marco took your phone?"

"Well, I have..had two. One was for work and emergencies, but when Marco took me I dropped it so that one's destroyed, and he didn't think i'd have this one which is for friends and family and stuff." She said, watching in amusement as Maria got up and limped over to Fitz, hugging him tightly.

"Hey, Em, send me a copy of that video."

"Oh, i'm posting this on YouTube too. I've got ya covered." She said as Simmons came back up from the lab.

"What's going on?"

"How much vicodin did you give Agent Hill?"

Simmons sighed and groaned, "Ohhh I don't think I took her weight into consideration. Speaking of which, i'm gonna have to have a stern talk with the Avengers and their father about that." She said, watching as Maria continued to sing Frozen songs after Simmons took Fitz out of Maria's grip.

"This is actually pretty entertaining." Skye said as May came in from the direction of the cock pit.

"Oh no, is Hill on pain meds?" She asked, shaking her head at Maria as she added, "I'd give her morphine next time."

Simmons nodded, "Should someone call Steve or text him and let him know that Maria's awake?" She asked, looking at the group.

"I will. What's his number?" Skye asked, taking out her phone and preparing to type a message.

"Just use Maria's phone." Emily said, grabbing Maria's phone only for her to grab it back from Emily.

"No! That's my phone!"

Emily rolled her eyes, "Now I feel like the older sibling," She started, sighing as she added, "Use my phone, Skye."

Skye nodded, putting her phone in her back pocket and taking Emily's phone.

"What about the video?"

"Already saved and uploaded to YouTube. Maria and Director Fury are gonna kill me when they see it though. Although I suppose there are worse things...like the video of Maria getting drunk at Tasha's twenty-ninth birthday party last year."

Skye shrugged as she scrolled through the contacts in Emily's phone, stopping at one in particular.

"Whose Sam?" She asked, looking at the girl.

"Steve's friend...i'm slowly in the process of moving out of my dad and his new girlfriends place and living with Sam on the weekends."

"Why? Doesn't he live in DC?"

"No. He moved to New York almost three months ago. I danced with him at Maria's wedding. His place in DC was too big for him, I guess. My dad still has a pretty bad temper at times...mainly when I break the supposed rules. He's not physical but it get's emotional. I love my dad, but it pisses me off sometimes. So, Sam asked me if I needed a roommate. Don't worry, Maria knows...and Steve...and my brother."

"Why not just stay with one of them then?" Skye asked, sitting down beside Emily as Simmons stood silently off to the side.

Emily sighed, "Because Danny is married and has a family of his own, and if I stayed at the tower, Pepper already has a lot of people to feed and i'd just be another burden."

"I highly doubt that's true." Simmons said, giving a soft smile as she gave Maria a sedative to get her to sleep and calm down before heading back to the lab with Fitz.

"But still! As of last month, half of my wardrobe is at his place. Plus, my dad and his girlfriend think I have a social life on the weekends, and the neighbors are kind of cool and bad ass, so it works."

"I'm surprised that Maria agreed."

"Oh believe me. It wasn't easy, but i'll tell you that story later. It was basically, Peter and MJ our neighbors, Sam, and every other person to convince her that it was alright. She mainly didn't agree because she didn't know him that well. Not as well as Steve does."

"Could the reason she didn't agree be because he's like..forty?" Skye asked, crossing her arms and raising an eye brow at Emily.

"He's not forty!"

Skye laughed, "Then how old is he?"

Emily sighed and grabbed both of Skye's shoulders.

"Okay...picture Anthony Mackie...got an image? Good. Now, subtract ten from Anthony Mackie's age...about thirty-five, and that's how old he is." She explained, letting go of the hacker and sitting back down next to where Maria was passed out.

"Ooh...is he cute?" She asked, rolling her eyes at the look Grant shot her, "What? Am I not allowed to ask my friend about boys?"

Grant didn't answer.

"Dude...Sam's almost an exact replica of Anthony Mackie. Of course he's cute! I'd date him."

Skye looked at her curiously, "Why don't you? The age difference?"

Emily sighed and got back up, "The age difference isn't the problem, I mean, it's only eight years, the same age difference as you and Grant. No one in my family really cares who I date as long as they aren't too big of an age difference. I think that's because my dad married my mother when she was my age before the rules changed...yeah...age of consent is a factor too. I don't know if he'd feel the same way."

Grant sighed, "I'd say go for it if you like the guy."

Skye nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I felt the same way about Grant, but if you really like the guy, then go for it, I mean, age is just a number, right? Will people look down on it? Yeah, but it wouldn't be any of their business...people still look at Grant and I weird when they see us together because I look pretty young myself, but you are at one of those ages...and heights...where people either think you're young for your age or you look older than you actually are."

"Yeah, people usually think that i'm in my early twenties...I think the fact that I look and act a lot like Maria and the fact that i'm 5'8" play a factor." Emily said, shrugging as she sat back down.

Skye nodded, "That's probably true. But seriously, don't wait until it's too late to tell him how you feel...but don't tell him right away because you did just break up with Ryan and Sam might think he's being used as a rebound." She said, looking back at the phone before she scrolled back to Steve's contact and sent him a quick message before handing the phone back to Emily.

Emily smiled, "Technically, Maria broke up with him for me."

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