A/N: Here's the next chapter! For the next few chapters it's August at this point! Enjoy!
**Three months later-August 4th**
Skye awoke with a start after having yet another nightmare. In the last month she had been having the weirdest dreams, but Simmons had told her not to worry about it due to the fact that dreams during pregnancy were common once women entered their last trimester. She was seven months pregnant at this point and she felt huge. She got up and walked down the hall of the bus to the bathroom where Grant was getting ready.
"I'm so fat! I just want this baby out of me!" She groaned, placing a hand on her swollen stomach as Grant smiled at her.
"Not fat. Just pregnant." He said, placing a hand on her stomach and feeling the baby kick.
"Will you still love me if I don't lose the baby weight after I give birth?" She asked, looking at him with worry in her eyes.
Grant sighed, "Skye, I would love you even if you weighed 300 pounds." He said, kissing her on the lips before pulling away as Skye's phone rang, "Just ignore it."
Skye rolled her eyes, "It might be important, Grant." She answered, remembering the text she had gotten the night before as they had left France.
Skye picked up her phone as Grant left to let her get ready.
"Hiya! I've got some fantabulous news! But you can't tell anyone until next month, okay? I'm not even supposed to tell you." Emily exclaimed, too excited for eight-thirty in the morning for Skye's liking.
Skye sighed.
Emily was like the sister she never had and the two had been constantly texting and calling each other the last few months.
"Okie dokie. I swear on Asgard, now what is it?"
Silence on the other line for what seemed like hours before Emily responded.
"Okie dokie! The first thing: Maria's pregnant! We found out yesterday. I think i'm possibly more excited than Maria is..Maria's pretty happy about it too...I think. I was the one that suspected she was pregnant so i'm the only one that knows aside from her. So I told you because, I mean, I had to tell someone, plus, you're not gonna see Maria anytime soon anyway."
"Seriously!? No freaking way! Does Steve know?"
"No. You, me, and Maria are the only ones that know. She doesn't want Steve to know yet though because everyone's gonna be leaving for a mission to either Ukraine or Russia in a couple of weeks..the eighteenth I believe and she doesn't want him to worry about her or something like that. I don't think Natasha and Clint are going on the mission though, so it's gonna be hard to keep them from suspecting something."
"So she's gonna tell him when they get back? I'm surprised she isn't listening in on this conversation."
A sigh on the other end of the line.
"Because we're in the hospital, i'm in the bathroom, which brings me to the next piece of oh so fantabulous news_" Emily started, only for Skye to cut off.
"Say fantabulous one more time and i'm gonna drive down there and shove your head through the wall."
"Okay. Fine...anywho, Natasha had her baby at four this morning! You got my text last night telling you that she had gone into labor, right? Oh of course you did! She and Clint named her Zaria Alianovna Barton...she gave the baby her middle name. Clint suggested it. But she's the cutest thing! I'll send you a picture later! Shit I should get back! I've been gone for too long!"
Skye nodded in understanding, forgetting the teen couldn't see her.
"Tell Tasha I said congratulations! And I won't tell anyone about Maria, don't worry. Bye." Skye said, but she barely got the last word out before Emily had hung up.
Skye walked...no...skipped out of the bathroom, having forgotten what she went into the bathroom for, running into Grant, literally, as she entered the kitchen.
"What're you so happy about?" Grant asked, smiling at her as he made breakfast.
"Well, Natasha had a baby girl early this morning! Dad already knows. Emily's gonna send me a picture!" She exclaimed, only telling him and FitzSimmons half of what Emily had told her.
"Tell Emily to say congratulations for us."
Skye nodded enthusiastically, "Already did! Dad's heading down there soon because he feels bad that he couldn't be there when she had initially gone into labor because we were just leaving France. So he's going to visit today. I think he just left. He said we could come, but..." Skye started to rant, but trailed off for Grant to continue.
"But none of us really know them that well."
"We know them and we're friends with them, but not too close with them." Simmons added.
Skye shook her head, "I just told them none of us wanted to over whelm them...Emily says they understood." She explained, her phone buzzing indicating that she got another text.
She opened the message, "Aww! That baby is so cute! Doesn't she look like Natasha?" She asked, showing the image to Grant and FitzSimmons.
"Yes, she does. But she's got Agent Barton's eyes." Grant said, placing a plate of chocolate chip pan cakes on the table as Skye typed a reply.
Cute! Tell them if they ever need a babysitter, i'll happily do it!
~Skye
Skye put her phone down and sat down at the table.
"Who's our baby going to look like?"
"She's probably going to inherit her looks from her mother." Grant said, putting an arm around Skye's shoulder and kissing her on the cheek.
"Maybe. Maybe not. One thing is for sure though. She's going to have your eyes." Skye said, putting her head on his shoulder.
"Maybe. Maybe not." He said, mimicking her and smirking.
"We're eating, you know. Please refrain from all the kissy faces during breakfast. Thank you." Fitz said, taking a bite of the pancakes while Skye rolled her eyes.
"We should do something today." Simmons said, taking a bite of her pancakes.
"We could do the nursery today. Finish making Skye's old bunk into a nursery." Grant said as May joined them.
"Oh yeah, kind of off topic, but no one explained to me what waterboarding is." She said, sitting back and crossing her arms.
Agent May spoke, "Water boarding is a form of water torture used on suspected terrorists, mostly. The person who is being tortured is usually at an incline with a cloth covering their face and the one doing the torturing pours water on their head and it simulates drowning. HYDRA did it to Emily and Agent Hill went through it several years ago. It was...a year after Maria joined SHIELD and less than a year..about six months after Romanoff joined, and from what she said, it took months to get Maria used to water being poured over her head again. I have no idea how Emily is coping."
"That's terrible! Is Maria alright now? What about Emily? She seemed fine when I talked with her this morning."
"For the most part. From what I was told, Maria had to be slowly weaned to take a shower again. It started out with washing her hair in the sink, then when she got used to that, soaking in a bath...getting her hair wet in the bath, then she was finally able to shower. Took about a year or so. Water boarding has life long psychological effects, as you can probably guess. Now she only freaks out or gets pissed if someone pours water on her and gets her wet without her permission." May explained, shrugging before she finished up her pancakes and washed her plate off, heading back to the cock pit.
Skye nodded, "Still pretty horrible to go through."
Everyone else nodded in agreement before finishing their breakfast and heading to gather the supplies to finish the nursery.
A/N: Let me know what y'all think! Please review :)