A/N: I'm back! I did start writing this immediately after posting the last chapter, but all five courses at uni hit me with assignments and study and I've only been squeezing out a few lines since.

This is the final chapter for this story, as it is now complete! :) If any of you wish to continue it, you are more than welcome to do so!

Thank you to bhut, ima, and the guest who reviewed Chapter 1!

Without further ado, the Epilogue of Up!

Coulson folded his arms for the fifth time in the space of an hour. His impatience was as obvious as his receding hairline; a mixture of a tight and tired expression on his face, the pacing along the floor in the hospital waiting room despite the fact that his left knee was protesting a little at the repetitive motion, and the rumpled clothing.

May was just as restless, her foot tapping on the linoleum floor and her hands twisting around each other. Simmons next to her was sharing a book about parenting with Fitz, their hands between them intertwined. They were both more relaxed than the director and his deputy, utterly focused on the information in the book rather than the happenings in the next room.

The rest of the team was still at the base, except for Bobbi, keeping the organisation running while Skye is going through labour. Bobbi was flying from Afterlife, the designated pilot for Cal and Jiaying.

Inside the delivery room, Skye was struggling to keep her breathing under control. She was much more intently focused on the pain (albeit abated by epinephrine), the contractions to push her babies out, and keeping her powers from shaking the hospital to the ground. Ward, standing next to her beside the bed, was holding her hand with his, and his other was resting on Skye's thigh.

"Are you ready, Skye?" the midwife said, from her position at the end of the bed. "You'll need to push again, soon."

"Have to be." Skye murmured, the strain colouring her voice so much, Ward worried she was going to burst something. She closed her eyes as she felt another contraction, squeezing her belly and she held her breath as she struggled to push the first child out.

"I see it!" the midwife announced. "The crown of its head, it's nearly out."

"Come on, Skye, you can do this." Ward said encouragingly.

"If you say that again, Ward, these babies will have no chance of getting more siblings." Skye bit back, then squeezed her eyes shut as she pushed again with the current contraction. Ward nodded and wisely kept his mouth shut.

"The head's out." The midwife cradled the head as Skye sucked in a deep breath and readied for the next wave. "One more push, okay Skye?"

"Got it." Skye answered, though Ward wasn't sure if the midwife heard. She took a deep breath and repeated the process, straining to push the first child out.

A baby's wail broke through the noise in the room. Skye and Ward looked down at the midwife, who was holding their firstborn in her hands.

The midwife looked up at the new parents with a beaming smile. "It's a boy."

Ward breathed, feeling giddy and light-headed and lost for words at the birth of his firstborn. Beside him, Skye tilted her head back, having no breath to laugh with delight, as her contractions were still coming. The midwife handed the child off to a nurse next to her, who immediately cut the umbilical cord and took him over to the scales to be weighed.

While the post-birth routine was being carried out by the hospital staff, Skye was still struggling to keep her abilities and her breathing under control. Her son still had a twin to pop out after him.

Coulson was still pacing, ignoring his protesting knee when he heard the faint cry from the delivery room. He stopped at once, his head whipping round to face the doorway. He wasn't the only one. May was watching the door just as intently, and FitzSimmons had looked up from their book. Their hands were still entwined.

A nurse poked her head out of the room and looked at the four of them. "The first one's a boy." She said, smiling. Then she withdrew back in.

May locked eyes with Coulson.

"A boy." He said, his face stretched with a wide smile.

"I hope the other's a girl." May said, more quietly. She shared a smile with Simmons.

"Then I can teach her all about science!" the scientist exclaimed delightedly.

"What, only you?" Fitz piped up, a raised eyebrow at his girlfriend.

"Well, of course, you as well, Fitz." She reassured him, and squeezed his hand.

Footsteps had the group looking around to see Cal, Jiaying and Bobbi arriving. The agent looked the calmest of the group, but May and Simmons knew exactly how excited she was.

"What's the status so far?" Bobbi asked as soon as she got close enough to do so without shouting.

"First one's been born." Coulson answered.

"Second should be along soon." Fitz added.

"Well, what is it?" Cal pressed.

"You have a grandson." May replied this time.

Jiaying, who up until this point hadn't uttered a word since they entered the hospital, smiled and turned to Cal. "I told you. Raina's never wrong."

"It's just odd for her to have a vision about this particular thing!" He responded with more gusto than the agents, except for Bobbi, were expecting. She rolled her eyes, amused, and sat down next to Simmons.

"They were arguing about that when they boarded in Afterlife." She whispered to the pair. Their response was cut off by another wail from the delivery room. A faint tremor rocked the building for a moment afterward.

"Is that the other one?" Cal looked like an excitable puppy; it wasn't hard to see where Skye got that particular expression from.

"I'm impressed she held out this long." Simmons remarked to the two on either side of her. Fitz nodded in agreement.

"Wait, that was the first time tonight?" Bobbi raised her eyebrows in surprise. Simmons just nodded, so she and Fitz looked like they were bobbing in tandem. "Really? Not even after the first one?"

"It's probably a mental thing." Fitz murmured thoughtfully.

"What was that, Fitz?" May asked, standing up.

Fitz blinked, looking up at the deputy. "Just that Skye not shaking anything until after the second twin was born was probably down to the mental aspect of knowing there's no more to come."

"Yet." Bobbi interjected.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Agent Morse." Jiaying moved over, Cal following, but his eyes were on the doors of the delivery room. "I think two children at once will be more than enough for two active S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for quite a while to come."

Bobbi just shrugged.

The nurse who informed the waiting room of the gender of the first baby walked through the doors and smiled at the group.

"Please tell me the second one is a girl." May said before the nurse could open her mouth.

The nurse just laughed. "No, it's a boy. Twin boys."

Both Coulson and Cal made similar gestures of Yes! but only one saw what the other did; Cal was closer to the nurse.

"You can go through." The nurse said. "Are all of you related?"

All except Cal and Jiaying shook their heads. The nurse just nodded as if she was satisfying a curiosity, and walked back into the delivery room, followed by the entire group.

Skye looked over, clearly exhausted, but smiled when she saw her parents. "Mom, Dad! You made it!" she said, trying to sit up straighter with one of the babies in her arms. Ward was standing next to the bed, switching his gaze from the agents congratulating him and the doctor, who was weighing the younger of the twins.

"We wouldn't miss it for the world." Jiaying moved to the side of the bed that Ward wasn't occupying and kissed her daughter on the forehead. Cal hovered on the opposite side, shaking Ward's hand and subtly blocking Coulson from getting closer to Skye.

"Boys!" Cal grinned, gently rubbing the older boy's head, covered as it was in a beanie. "They'll be a handful!"

"And that's without activating their Inhuman DNA." May added from the foot of the bed. She gazed fondly at the baby that was now being loaded into Ward's arms. "They won't have to ever do that, will they?" she didn't look up at Jiaying as she asked this, but it was clear to whom she was speaking.

"They'll be tested on whether or not they're of an appropriate temperament to handle the changes, if they choose to follow that path." Jiaying responded. "But they won't be forced into it, none of us should be."

"I wish Raina had given me that choice." Skye said softly. Everyone looked at her, but she was looking at her son in her arms, almost oblivious to the people gathered around her.

"What are you gonna name them, Skye?" Simmons asked, cooing over the youngest.

Skye looked up at Ward, sharing a small smile. "Well, I thought this one," she said, indicating the child in her arms. "Would be called Steven." She paused as she looked up at Coulson, whose eyes had gone wide.

"Please don't tell me the other's going to be called Roger." May interjected, Bobbi echoing the sentiment.

"Why not?" Coulson retorted. "Please do!"

"Why make two references to one superhero?" Cal demanded. "I'm with them on this!" he gestured to May and Bobbi.

Skye and Ward just sat back and watched their friends and family argue over namesakes, laughing to themselves as they had already chosen their second son's name.

"Guys!" Fitz finally yelled, getting all their attention. "I don't think you choose the names."

"Thanks, Fitz." Ward said. "We've already decided this one's going to be called Nathan."

"I like it." May said, after a moment of silence. She looked around at everyone, daring them to say otherwise.

"What are their full names?" Bobbi asked.

"Steven Douglas Ward." Skye answered.

"And Nathan Thomas Ward." Ward finished, settling Nathan as he did so.

"Good strong names. " Cal approved.

"No Chinese names for them?" Jiaying queried.

"I wouldn't know where to begin." Skye laughed, breathlessly.

"How about…Fèn Huī? It means 'exert brightness'."

Skye nodded. "I like that…for Steven?" She directed the question at her husband, looking up at Ward.

"Yeah, that sounds good. May?" He nodded and glanced at the deputy.

May thought for a moment. "Qiáng Jīng. It means 'powerful spirit'."

Everyone nodded and agreed that they were good names for the new Ward twins. Then Cal thought of something.

"Wouldn't it be ironic if their Chinese names were exactly what they become as Inhumans?"

Skye rolled her eyes and shared a look with Ward.

"It's only just beginning." He said.

"I know." She replied, smiling down at Steven. "Can't wait."

A/N: So, what did you think? I know it's the last one, but please let me know! :) Au revoir!