Disclaimer: I do not own Skye, Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward, or FitzSimmons. I only own the variation I have created off of this very popular idea.
I firstly must thank Neeeeeal who, as the author of Turn Back Time, has done such a very interesting and lovely job on their story I wanted to give my attempt of it a go.
However, because I cannot find B.J. Britt's wiki page or his age, I'm going with Ward. But that's not the only reason. It's because with the Hydra plot, I see no room or logical way for this story to make sense. So... It's AUish. Ward isn't hydra. Yay! Because I really did love Ward.
Warning, MAY include Avengers. I upped the rating for my own comfort.
Driving to Target was much easier now that Coulson and May could entertain the kids with the radio. It mostly kept Skye from kicking May's seat, which she greatly appreciated. Just as they began to pull into the parking lot, Skye was singing Applause, with Jemma and Leo smiling at her. May parked the car and as the engine and radio died, Coulson turned to the kids.
"Ok, before we go inside, there are some rules," Coulson says, "No one is allowed to run off somewhere else without me or Mel. Everyone is to be on their best behavior and to be very careful about not getting lost. If you do however get lost find someone who works there and tell them your lost. They'll help you find us."
All the kids nod, slowly unbuckling before they all climbed out of the car. May immediately takes Jemma and Leo's hands while Grant takes Skye's hand and then Coulson's. Making their way through the store, the adults carefully avoiding the big red cement spheres on the parking lot. Once inside. Coulson and May grabbed one cart and watched the kids pair up. Grant took hold of Leo's hand, Leo took hold of Jemma's hand and Jemma took hold of Skye. A long chain of children, with Grant attaching himself to Coulson.
"I suggest we do clothes first," Coulson says as he walked after May, "Preferably the children first."
The kids were dressed in a third pair of hospital scrubs, with navy blue or dark pants and grey shirts. It was better to spot them that way, atleast that was what Coulson claimed. They couldn't dress like that forever though. So May proceeded towards the children clothes aisle, holding her breathe.
May leaned her head back as she sat in the changing room, with Skye first. May had anticipated the four year old to be troublesome and refuse everything, but Skye managed to surprise her. Skye had been attracted to the jeans, the graphic T-shirts and nothing girly. She picked very few skirts, only picking them if they weren't sparkly, were a dark color. And she wouldn't wear them unless she had black leggings with them. Jemma sat on the bench watching Skye mix and match with a smile.
"Ok Skye.." May sighed and took the clothes that Skye had approved of, "Im going to place these in the carriage, but then you need to try on the dress." May had told them both that they needed to get one dress just in case they had to go somewhere fancy.
Skye's smile frown, looking over at the ruby red dress. It's skirt was slightly puffy with shoulder straps and a little belt around her waist that had a red little rose planted right in the center. Skye and Jemma were not what May expected Jemma was so picky with her clothes, wanting to look professional like an adult, while Skye had swarmed the racks like a tornado. Jemma had easily picked out one dress while Skye totally turned the other direction. Jemma had picked a lovely princess like dress with a slightly fluffy skirt that was white but the side fabric on the top, the shoulder lace and the top half ruffles were a beige like color. It looked rather nice on the Brit, and the red dress looked beautiful on Skye when she tried it on.
"Skye you look lovely!" Jemma smiled, "Right Mummy?"
May nods, "She looks like a princess."
Skye pouts, "I don't wanna be a princess though."
May sighed, leaning down and helped Skye redress into the clothes that she entered the store in, "No one says you have to be, but you did look lovely in that. Your Prince Charming will definitely fall in love with you in that. Both of you."
They smile, Skye taking Jemma's hand and leading her out of the stall and towards the carriage, "Hurry up Mel! We gotta go get Jemma pretty clothes!"
Skye had practically dragged Jemma across the entire aisle and showed her all the science shirts she found. May held them up to Jemma more then confident that they'll fit without a check, helping them get several shirts with fish skeletons and beakers full of chemicals. Skye's two favorites for Jemma was this white tshirt with a DNA helix along the top horizontally with it under blue saying "Checks itself before it wrecks itself." And the second was black that said "Stand back I'm going to try science" with a stick figure in the middle. They were able to convince Jemma to get some nice jeans and leggings with the shirts.
Suddenly, a pair of arms attached themselves to May's left calf. Turning, she saw Leo smiling up at her and clinging to her. Coulson and Grant stood, the latter helping Jemma and Skye look through socks.
"Mum! Mum look at the shirt Dad found!" Leo says, Coulson holding a grayish shirt that said, "Future Engineering Genius." May stared at it, going through the clothes and looking at all the robot designs, khakis and jeans for Leo.
"I couldn't help it," Coulson whispered, placing all the clothes he had collected with the girls clothes, "I got them some dress shirts and pants."
May nods, watching all the collections of socks, underwear, and clothes pile up. "I want to wash everything before they wear it."
Coulson nods noticing something, "Mel... Where are the pajamas?" The Asian woman facepalmed, causing Coulson to laugh.
"you start shopping for your own clothes, and I'll watch the kids." May nodded in agreement, turning and strutting off to the woman's aisles as Coulson turned.
"Come on kids, while Mel gets herself some clothes, let's go look at pajamas."
I'm sorry I can't really fit the whole trip into a chapter, I feel like I'm running on and on. Don't worry :)
Thank you for the suggestions and reviews. The next chapter will come soon promise! I'm doing my best.