Hey guys! I literally can't believe that this is the last chapter. I feel weird ending this fic, I guess I just got used to writing a new chapter every day and it's become such a big part of my life that it's odd for it to be over! I hope you like it!

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May and Phil had been acting weird all week.

It had started right after her therapy session with Jay. They all had walked Jay downstairs and Skye had said goodbye to her before her parents asked her to go hang out with Nattie and Trip while they asked Jay something. She had slowly walked into the living room and hadn't heard their distant voices until she was sitting on the couch between her siblings. She tried to listen in on their conversation but they kept their voices too low for her to hear. She had sighed, snuggled close to Nattie's side, and focused on the t.v., effectively forgetting about her parent's strange behavior.

It had carried on throughout the weekend and into the week.

On Saturday, May had taken her and her friends to the castle playground and it had been super fun. Fitz had brought his ball so they had played soccer for a little while before playing freeze tag with some of the other kids that were around. Every time she had looked over to make sure May was still there, her mom was talking on the phone. The first time she looked over, May was sitting on the bench and talking calmly. The second time, May looked more engaged in her conversation. She was waving her hands around and pushing her hair out of her face. The third time, May was up and walking around.

When they had finished playing, Skye had ran over to May, and once her mom saw her running towards her, she said something into her phone and quickly put it away. Skye thought that that was weird but she was having too much fun with her friends to really care. May had smiled at her and hugged her tight, so she knew that May wasn't mad at her, and that was good enough for her.

On Sunday, some stranger had come over to their house.

Skye had been sitting at the table doing homework with Phil while Nattie and Trip were over at their friends' houses. He was helping her with her math when the doorbell rang. May sprang up from the couch and quickly made her way over to the door. Skye looked over to Phil and he gave her a clueless look, so she just shrugged and went back to trying to solve her subtraction problem.

She got distracted when she heard the door shut and an unfamiliar voice get closer to her. She set her pencil down and turned around in her chair to see what was going on.

May was walking next to a nice looking lady. She looked kind of old and wore big glasses. The stranger was smiling and carrying a clipboard with a giant stack of paper on top of it. She didn't know what they were saying, but she saw May point out the living room and the stranger looked around and inspected everything closely.

She watched as May walked towards them, "…and here is our dining room. Over there is our kitchen."

Skye stood up from her seat and made her way over to May. She grabbed onto her mom's leg and tugged on her hand. She didn't want to talk in front of the stranger but she really wanted to know what was going on so she hoped that May understood her silent question.

May looked down at her, "Hey sweetie, this is Mrs. Jefferson. She's going to be looking around our house."

Mrs. Jefferson leaned down and held out her hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you Skye."

Skye reached forward to shake her hand and wondered how she knew her name. She figured that May had told Mr. Jefferson about her and that made her feel happy. She took her hand back and waved.

Mrs. Jefferson looked around, "I really like your house, would it be okay if you showed me around? I think you would be an excellent tour guide."

Skye looked up at May and her mom gave her an encouraging nod. She grabbed onto May's hand, took a deep breath, and nodded, "Okay."

Skye tugged on May's hand and pointed at the table, "This is our table where we eat all our food. I do my homework here too even though it's not really fun, but mommy and daddy help me with the hard stuff."

Mrs. Jefferson nodded, "That's very helpful of them. Do you like your school?"

Skye grinned a little, "Yeah. My teacher is super cool and my friends are awesome! Two of them live next door so we play all the time." She couldn't help but brag a little.

Mrs. Jefferson smiled and Skye walked into the kitchen, "This is our kitchen."

Mrs. Jefferson walked around and inspected everything, she even wrote some things down on the paper on her clipboard. She looked out the kitchen window and pointed, "Is that a playground?"

Skye smiled, "Yeah! My daddy and brother built it for me!"

The older lady smiled at her, "Well that was very nice of them."

Skye nodded and watched as she kept looking around the kitchen.

Skye glanced up at May and the older woman just smiled back at her. She shrugged and led them out of the kitchen and up the staircase. She watched as Mrs. Jefferson inspected all of the pictures on the wall and Skye made sure to point at the picture that Phil had just hung up of her, Nattie, and Trip at Natasha's dance recital. She really like that picture.

Skye turned towards the playroom and opened the door. She walked inside, "This is our playroom."

Mrs. Jefferson walked into the room and smiled, "This looks like a fun room! Do you play in here a lot?"

Skye nodded, "Yeah, I play games with Nattie and Trip and I like to color in here. We have a bunch of crayons and coloring books."

Mrs. Jefferson nodded and walked around the room. Skye noticed that she did that a lot.

They finished with the playroom and Skye pointed out her sibling's rooms before leading them into her room, "This is my room."

They stepped into her room and Mrs. Jefferson looked at her, "Is it alright if I look around?"

Skye nodded and followed the older lady as she walked around Skye's room. She felt kind of nervous about some stranger looking at all her stuff, but Mrs. Jefferson never touched her things and that made her feel better.

Mrs. Jefferson stopped in front of her dollhouse and Skye looked at all her dolls lying around it. She stooped down and picked up Alice and held the doll to her chest. Mrs. Jefferson smiled at her, "You like dolls?"

Skye nodded, "Yeah."

The older lady pointed at all the dolls lying around, "Would you mind introducing me?"

Skye's eyes lit up and she jumped at the opportunity to introduce her dolls to someone who was interested. She held out Alice, "This is Alice. My sister gave her to me and she's a ballerina. Alice lives in the dollhouse with her family but she sleeps with me at night."

She sat down on the floor and Mrs. Jefferson sat next to her. May stayed by the doorway and watched them.

Skye picked up Perrie, "This is Perrie. She's Alice's best friend and she likes Nattie a lot."

She carefully picked up all of her dolls and introduced them to Mrs. Jefferson. She told her their names and some things about each doll. Mrs. Jefferson seemed genuinely interested in hearing everything she had to say and Skye found herself enjoying their conversation.

She set down her last doll and Mrs. Jefferson smiled at her, "You have a lot of beautiful friends here Skye. Do you like living here?"

Skye jerked her head up to look at the older lady and scrunched up her face at the random question, "Yeah, I love it here."

Mrs. Jefferson tilted her head, "I saw your picture over there on the wall. The one with the house that said you were safe here. Do you feel safe here?"

Skye picked up Alice again and held her close to her chest, "Yes. I love it here and I love my family and I never want to leave."

Mrs. Jefferson was asking weird questions and Skye looked over to May. Her mom didn't seem to be phased by the odd questions so Skye decided to shake it off. When she looked back, Mrs. Jefferson was smiling at her. She stood up and Skye followed her, "Well, I think I've seen everything I needed to see."

They both made their way over to May and Skye reached up. Her mom picked her up and cuddled her close before Mrs. Jefferson's voice caused them to look over, "Here you go. Just fill these out and send them in and you should get a phone call shortly after. If everything's in order, this is the last step in completing the process."

May took the papers that Mrs. Jefferson offered her and folded them over so that Skye couldn't see what they said. Skye didn't really know what they were talking about, but then again, she never really knew what grown-ups were saying anyways.

She set her head on May's shoulder and tuned out their voices until they walked downstairs and said goodbye. May brought her back to the dining room and joined Phil in helping her with her homework. She pushed her visit to the back of her mind so that she could focus on her dumb math homework.

Things went back to being relatively normal for the rest of the week. Skye would sometimes catch May and Phil talking and they would stop when she got close to them.

On Tuesday she was watching Spongebob and wanted a juice box, so she made her way into the kitchen. She stopped short when she saw her whole family in the dining room, sitting around the table and talking to each other. They had all stopped when they spotted her. She couldn't help but feel left out, even when they all smiled at her and talked to her when she joined them.

Her family was acting weird and she didn't know what was going on and it was driving her crazy. She talked about it with Jay but that hadn't really helped. Her therapist had just told her that everything would be alright. Yeah, because that was helpful.

It was Thursday night and Skye couldn't take it anymore. She knew her family was hiding something from her and the longer their strange behavior went on, the more nervous and upset she got. What if they were mad at her? She didn't remember doing anything bad, but maybe it was something she couldn't remember. What if they were getting tired of her? Skye's tummy felt like it had a giant knot in it when she thought about that.

She finally exploded when she walked into May and Phil's bedroom to ask them a question about the t.v. remote. They had been talking and had stopped short when she walked into the room. They both smiled at her but she knew they were hiding something.

She crossed her arms, "What's going on?"

Her parents glanced at each other before smiling at her. May pushed a strand of hair behind her ears, "Nothing's going on sweetie."

Skye wanted to believe her but she knew that May was lying. May never lied. Skye felt tears start to well up in her eyes, "You're lying!" She stomped her foot and couldn't stop her tears from falling, "You're lying to me! I know something's going on! You're keeping a secret from me!"

May and Phil looked at each other again and Skye started talking before they could say anything. This whole week, her nervousness had been building and Skye really needed to know what was going on, "Did I do something wrong? Are you mad at me? I don't think I did anything bad, but I'm sorry if I did! I didn't mean to!"

She sniffled and angrily ran a hand over her cheeks. She didn't know why she was crying but her tears just made her feel more helpless. She didn't like this feeling.

Phil held up his hands, "We aren't mad at you Skye. We're sorry, we just… You're right. We were lying to you."

Skye sucked in a breath. She knew it.

May motioned her forward and Skye cautiously climbed onto the bed, "So… I didn't do anything wrong?"

May breathed out a laugh, "No baby, you've been perfect."

She sat down across from her parents and crossed her legs, "Then what's going on?"

She saw May gave Phil a helpless look before she let out a big breath and her shoulders sagged a little, "We're sorry we've been hiding something from you, but it's not bad, I promise."

Phil was nodding along to what May was saying, "We were going to tell you tomorrow. Wanda and Pietro were going to be on video chat and we were going to make your favorite dinner…"

Skye scrunched up her face. She was confused. She felt relieved that her parents weren't mad at her but she was still confused, "What?"

May took a deep breath, "Skye, we love you so much. You know that. And we wanted to ask you if you'd like to be a part of our family? Officially."

Skye paused and processed what May had said. She was still confused. She stared at May and raised an eyebrow, "I thought… I already was?"

May and Phil both laughed, and while they both sounded nervous, it was genuine. Phil reached forward and pulled her close to them. He pressed a kiss to the top of her head, "You are sweetheart. You definitely are. What we're saying is that we would like to adopt you."

Skye jerked her head up to stare at him, "You want to adopt me?"

May nodded, "We would like that very much."

Skye felt a slow smile spread across her face. May and Phil wanted to adopt her! They weren't mad at her and nothing was wrong, they had just been acting weird because they were trying to adopt her and wanted to keep it a secret until tomorrow.

A thought suddenly crossed her mind and she sat up straighter, "Will anything be different?"

May glanced at Phil, "Not really, everything would stay exactly the same except we would be your parents on paper too."

Skye felt herself start to smile again and slowly stood up on the bed. She looked down at her parents, "You want to adopt me and be my mommy and daddy forever, for real?"

They both nodded and smiled at her. She couldn't believe it. Well, she could believe it. This family had felt like hers for awhile now. She had gotten so comfortable around them that it hadn't really crossed her mind that they could take it a step further and adopt her. She was happy to just live in the moment. This was one of the best things that had ever happened to her.

She started jumping up and down, "Yes! Yes, yes, yes!"

She could hardly contain her excitement and tackled Phil when he held his arms open for her. She launched herself at him and he fell back and she landed on top of him. He started tickling her sides and she shrieked with laughter. She wriggled around until she could crawl off him and hid on May's lap. Her mom wrapped her arms around her waist and Skye held them against her. She felt May press a kiss to the top of her head and hold Skye close to her, "We're so happy Skye."

Skye's cheeks were starting to hurt from smiling so much but she didn't even care, "Me too."

She saw Phil sit up and grabbed onto his hand and May rocked them from side to side. They all sat contentedly in silence until she saw Nattie and Trip poke their heads into the room.

Natasha stepped inside, "We heard loud voices and laughter. We're assuming everyone's alright."

Skye nodded excitedly and she heard Phil say, "Skye said yes."

Trip smirked as he made his way over to them, "Of course she did, how could she not? We're awesome."

Natasha nodded and both of them climbed onto the bed and joined them. Nattie reached forward and brushed Skye's bangs out of her eyes, an action so familiar that it was immediately comforting to her, "Welcome to the family маленькаяigh звезда."

Skye's couldn't stop smiling and suddenly she thought of something, "I have a last name now."

She never thought she would have one of those.

May squeezed her arms tighter around Skye's waist, "You sure do."

Skye looked around at her family and couldn't believe how incredibly lucky she was. Never in a million years did she think that she would have her own family, let alone one that she absolutely loved, and here she was surrounded by two loving parents. She never really wanted brothers or sisters, but she had managed to acquire the four most amazing siblings she could have ever asked for. She had imagined that this would happen to her, dreamed of it mostly at nights in the orphanage, but she never thought it would actually happen.

She didn't know what she did to deserve all of this but she wasn't going to question it. Her family was smiling at her and they loved her and they wanted her.

She felt Phil reach over and run a hand over her hair, "Welcome to the family, Skye Coulson."

What'd you guys think? Skye finally got her family :)

Thank you so much for reading! I'll start posting to the one-shot collection soon so if you have any prompts, send them in! You can do that here or over on my tumblr page! Also, if you have any ideas for other fics, I'm always open to hearing them, so send them my way! :)

Wow, I can't even believe that this fic is over! I hope you guys liked reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! I don't know if I'm completely done with this universe so maybe in the future I'll write a sequel with Skye being a little older, who knows? Thanks guys! xx -Ariel