Hey guys! So here's the sequel to You Can Trust Me, my kid!Skye AU fic. If you haven't read that, I would highly suggest that you do so you have some background information. This fic won't be as long as the YCTM and it won't be updated as frequently because of my workload and because I want to give each chapter the attention it deserves :) Honestly, I have no idea how I updated YCTM every day, like that was insane! I hope you like it!

Thank you so much for reading and as always, I own nothing (I wish I did) and all mistakes are my own xx

In this fic, Skye's now 12!

It was the middle of the night when Skye was woken up by the ringing of their doorbell. She groaned and considered just rolling over and going back to sleep but then she heard an unfamiliar voice talking downstairs and she sat up in bed. She was pretty sure they weren't supposed to be having guests at this time of night.

Throwing the blankets off of her, she rubbed her eyes and tiptoed out of her room. As she neared the staircase, the stranger's voice got louder and Skye heard her mom's voice as she responded.

Peeking through the staircase railing, she could see that there were two strangers rather than one. There was a tall lady with red streaks in her hair talking to her mom and dad. The lady looked tired and a little upset and Skye strained to listen to what she was saying, "It would be a personal favor. I know her grandmother and I don't want to see her put into a group home, which is where she would end up if you guys can't emergency foster her."

Skye could tell that this lady was trying to guilt her parent's into doing something and Skye could tell her from experience that that hardly ever worked.

She watched as her parent's had one of their silent conversations before her dad let out a deep breath, "Of course she can stay with us."

The lady looked relieved and gave her dad a smile, "Thank you."

Her mom said, "The guest room is a mess right now and there's stuff all over the bed so it won't be habitable until tomorrow, I'm so sorry."

The lady waved her hands, "That'll be fine, right?"

Skye focused on the person that the lady was talking to and noticed that it was a girl. She kept glancing around the house and tried to look like she wasn't listening to what the adults were saying but Skye could tell that she was. She looked like she was the same age as her and the girl had an uncaring look on her face.

The girl shrugged and the lady gave her a stern look before turning back to her parents, "Thank you so much. I really, really appreciate this."

"Of course." Her mom focused on the girl and gave her a smile, "Tonight you can sleep on the couch. It pulls out and is very comfy and tomorrow we'll get you settled into a room. How's that sound?"

The girl just shrugged again and her mom nodded, "Are you hungry? This paperwork might take a little bit and I can fix you something."

Rather than shrugging again, the girl studied her mom for a few seconds before nodding sharply.

The group walked towards the kitchen and out of her line of sight.

Skye stayed where she was and thought about what she had heard. She knew that emergency foster care was only for kids who needed a place to stay until their social worker was able to find a long-term placement for them. This girl would probably only be living with them for a couple of days.

Either way, Skye was kind of excited to meet the new girl. Maybe they could be friends.

Standing up, she tiptoed back towards her room but veered off track and snuck into Natasha's room instead. Even though Natasha only went to college a few hours away, her sister was still super busy and couldn't visit too often. Her whole family was home for fall break and Skye was trying to spend every moment that she could with them.

Her sister's room was dark but Skye was so familiar with it that she didn't need to see to be able to get around.

Natasha's room hadn't changed much through the years. Her walls were still dark blue, all of her furniture was still white, and posters still covered her walls, but there were subtle differences. The mirror over Nat's desk still had photos covering the edges except now Skye was in some of the pictures, smiling brightly next to her sister or making silly faces with Bucky, Steve, and Clint. Her sister had hung up all of the pictures she had drawn her throughout the years on the back of her door. Starting at the top of the door were the drawings Skye had made when she had first moved in and at the bottom of the door was the card she had drawn Nattie for her birthday a couple weeks ago. Skye pretended that the door embarrassed her but she was secretly pleased that her sister had kept everything she had given her.

Skye made her way over to the bed and cracked a grin when she saw her sister. Natasha was lying on her back, diagonal across the bed. There were highlighters strewn around her head and a heavy textbook was lying open on her chest. Her mouth was slightly open, one arm was hanging off the side of the bed, and her blankets were crumpled around her feet.

Carefully picking up the highlighters and textbook, she set them on the bedside table and climbed into bed. She shoved Nattie's feet over so that she had room to lie down and pulled the blankets over both of them.

Cuddling into her sister's side, she decided to wonder about the new girl staying with them tomorrow and let sleep overcome her.

Skye woke up slowly. She stretched her arms and legs before opening her eyes and blinking them a few times. The ray's of sunshine peeking through the trees and filtering through Nattie's window casted her room in soft blue hues.

Sometime throughout the night, Natasha had turned onto her side and had wrapped an arm around Skye's waist. Grinning a little, Skye stayed in bed for a few more moments, reveling in the feeling of being so close to her sister, before squirming out of Natasha's tight grip and quietly exiting the room. She didn't bother stopping in her room to get dressed, she just padded down the stairs in her soft pajamas and made her way to the kitchen.

She walked past the couch, stopped, and backtracked until she was standing in front of it.

The couch was pulled out and made into a bed. There were a bunch of pillows and blankets strewn about it and Skye probably wouldn't have been able to tell that someone was lying there if she hadn't spotted the dark hair peeking out from the top of a blanket.

It was then that Skye remembered the girl who was going to be staying with them for a little while.

She tried to study the girl but all she could see was her hair.

Silently, she stared at the sleeping girl until she heard footsteps coming down the staircase and saw her dad appear. He glanced between her and the girl before whispering, "Let her sleep Skye, she had a late night."

Skye looked back at the girl for a moment before following her dad into the kitchen. She pulled herself onto the counter and watched him pull out the ingredients needed to make pancakes. Quietly, she said, "Who's that?"

Her dad mixed all the ingredients together in a big bowl and said, "That's Raina. She's going to be staying with us for a little while."

"For how long?"

Plugging in the griddle and turning it to the right temperature, her dad waited for it to heat up and pulled himself onto the counter next to her, "We aren't sure. Her grandma's in a coma and she'll stay with us until she wakes up."

Skye knew that sometimes people didn't wake up from comas. She didn't bother asking what would happen to Raina if her grandma didn't wake up, she knew what would happen.

They were both quiet for a few moments before Skye broke the silence, "Is she going to stay in Wanda and Pietro's room?"

Technically, their old room was now the guest room since they both had their own apartments in town but Skye could never think of it that way. Even though most of their stuff wasn't in that room anymore, it was still theirs.

Her dad waved his hand over the griddle and hopped off the counter when he was satisfied that it was hot enough, "Yeah, I cleared everything out of there so she can move in when she wakes up."

Skye nodded and looked back into the living room. Raina was still hidden under the blankets and Skye knew how disoriented she would probably be when she woke up in an unfamiliar house, "I hope her grandma gets better soon."

Her dad reached over, gently patted her knee, and handed her a bag of chocolate chips, "Me too sweetheart."

She took the bag of chocolate chips from him and slid off the counter so that she could stand beside him in front of the griddle. He poured the pancake batter and she sprinkled chocolate chips over it until her dad sighed and plucked the bag out of her hands, "That's too much chocolate Skye."

She grinned and snatched the bag back from him, "Dad, there's never too much chocolate."

He just sighed and flipped the pancakes over.

They got through half of the batter before they heard footsteps heading their way. Skye looked behind her and was surprised to see Natasha walking towards her. She was never up this early. Her sister paused to examine the sleeping girl on the couch. When she entered the kitchen, she pointed back into the living room with her thumb and raised an eyebrow, "We've got a stowaway in the living room."

Skye grinned and held out the bag of chocolate chips so that Nattie could reach her hand into it and pull out a handful of chocolate. Her sister shoved the chocolate in her mouth and her dad sighed again, "Could you at least eat an apple or something?"

Natasha rolled her eyes, reached over to the fruit bowl and grabbed a banana, and waved it around in front of her face before peeling it open, "No but seriously, who's that?"

Sprinkling some more chocolate chips over the pancakes on the griddle, she looked over her shoulder at Natasha, "That's Raina. She's staying here 'til her grandma wakes up from her coma."

Nattie's face sobered up a bit and she looked back towards Raina, "Oh, poor kid."

It was silent for a few moments before her dad cleared his throat, "Yes or no to bacon?"

That caught Natasha's attention, "Dad, I've been eating campus food for the past few months. You think I'm gonna say no to bacon?"

Skye laughed and watched as her dad moved towards the fridge to grab the bacon. Natasha came over and stood beside her and bumped her with her hip, "Did you sneak into my bed last night?"

Handing Natasha some more chocolate chips, she shrugged, "Yeah, how'd you know?"

She had snuck in when Nattie was asleep and had left before she had woken up. She knew that her sister didn't mind when she slept with her but she could always tell when Skye had snuck into her room. It was freaky how she always knew.

Natasha made sure their dad wasn't looking at them before popping the chocolate into her mouth, "Cause you're a little furnace. I could tell when you left."

Skye was about to respond but her dad interrupted them, "I saw that! Skye, stop giving your sister chocolate. It's too early for that."

She huffed and Natasha groaned but they listened to their dad.

They all joked around with each other and went back to making breakfast. They were nearly finished when May walked into the room.

Her mom made her way towards them and kissed she and Natasha on the forehead before giving their dad a kiss.

"You both know about Raina?"

She and her sister both nodded and their mom continued, "Let's try to make her as comfortable as possible, okay?"

They nodded again and their mom gave them both a small smile, "Thank you."

Not bothering to wait for Trip, he wouldn't be awake for a few more hours, they brought all the food into the dining room and sat down. The rest of her family started piling food onto their plates but Skye hesitated. It felt a little weird to be eating when there was someone sleeping in the other room, "Should we wait for Raina to wake up?"

Her mom glanced at her, "She got here very late last night, I don't think she'll be waking up for a few more hours."

Skye shrugged and pulled another plate in front of her before stacking some pancakes and bacon onto it, "I'll save her a plate just in case."

Bringing the plate into the kitchen, she covered it with some tin foil before setting it in the fridge. Sitting back down in the dining room, she dug into her breakfast.

They all talked quietly so as not to wake Raina and finished their breakfast.

She helped bring all the dirty dishes into the kitchen and went to work rinsing them off. Her mom excused herself to go take a shower and her dad followed her upstairs to go get dressed.

She was washing the dishes while Natasha was drying them and they didn't even hear Raina walk into the kitchen until she cleared her throat. They both jumped and turned around quickly to see Raina studying the kitchen with an unimpressed look on her face.

Raina was pretty, Skye thought. Even in her pajamas and with creases on her face from her pillows, Raina looked cool and poised. Her dark hair was a little messy but her brown eyes were sharp and when they focused on Skye, she held Raina's stare.

Both girls studied each other for a few seconds before Raina put a hand on her hip and raised an eyebrow, "Who're you?"

Let me know what you thought! Since Raina only ever talked about her grandma, I decided to make her Raina's primary caregiver. Idk if that clashes with her cannon character but since this is an AU, I think it'll be alright :) It was a kind of short chapter, I plan on making the rest of them longer, but I was just re-introducing everyone and this was kind of an introductory chapter.

Reviews are greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for reading xx -Ariel