Skye wander back onto the bus after a weekend away. They had landed in some random place but it happened to have a spa so she was happy. She had tried to convince Simmons and May to join her, but both were busy. Simmons had some sort of conference she couldn't miss with Fitz and May need to oversee repairs to the plane. She didn't even bother asking Ward or Coulson if they wanted to join her. Coulson had paper work to fill out and the spa wasn't really Ward's thing. Ward had dropped her off on his way to whatever he was doing that weekend. Today she had simply got a cab back as she had finished early and didn't feel like hanging around the spa.

The bus was quiet, more so than Skye was expecting. Normally even if people were busy there was still noise, machines clanking and humming. Today it was completely silent. The lab was empty which was unusual but she guessed Fitzsimmons might be upstairs. Heading up that way she was curious to why none of the team had come out to welcome her back. Normally everyone would come and say hello if you had been away for a while.

Walking past the kitchen she still couldn't find anybody. The silence was beginning to worry Skye. It was never like this. She was on her guard when she walked into the living room, even so she still froze in shock at what she found. Shaking her head to clear it she reached for her phone and speed dialled the first number.

"Ward. Get back here now!"

Ward had hurried back to the bus after getting Skye's call. His head was filled with scenarios of what had happened. The team had stayed on the bus so nothing should have happened but Skye's voice sounded worried.

Pulling up beside the bus and hurried inside. As he quickly moved upstairs he noted that there were no signs of a struggle. Reaching the living room he found Skye and what appeared to be a bunch of children.

"A bunch of children got on the bus?"

"Look closer at them Ward. They aren't just any children."

As he did what she said he grasped what she was talking about. He recognised these children, he knew them as adults. Fitzsimmons were now children of about five and were currently having an argument. May looked about six and was watching the fight with avid interest. But most weirdly of all, Coulson, his boss, was a baby about two. This was weird.

Turning back to Skye he asked,

"What happened?"

"I don't know. I came back and found them like this."

"OK. Just keep an eye on them for a minute, I need to make a call."

It turned out his call was to Shield, which had caused the director to come out to see what was happening. Skye normally would have been nervous meeting him, but she had her hands full dealing with her teammates. Apparently although they looked like twins and as adults got along extremely well, child Fitzsimmons didn't like each other very much. They were continually fighting, with words more than physically. This kept upsetting Coulson who she was trying to rock to sleep. May just sat there at watch what was happening. She was as hard to read as her usual adult self.

Ward was stood talking with the director, which was fine with Skye. She wanted nothing to do with him. He was scary. Passing Simmons to Ward she balanced both Fitz and Coulson on her hips, trying to sooth both. Ward looked panicked for a second before beginning to imitate her. It settled Simmons quickly and allowed Skye to join the conversation.

"The video has been wiped so there is no way to know what has happened." She spoke.

"The scientists don't know what has happened either. It is going to take further investigation. Unfortunately that means you have to stay and look after the children. We can't let them loose in the rest of Shield as it will cause panic. That's why I'm enacting protocol delta 249." Ordered Fury.

"Of course Shield has a protocol for this. It has a protocol for everything." Skye muttered.

Ward shot her a warning look before asking,

"What does that entail sir?"

"You will be set up in a house where you can look after them. Other members will check in with you from time to time. Oh and you will have to pretend they are your kids and you are a couple. Only outside the house of course."

All Skye could do was blink. She had to pretend to be a couple with Ward? Oh this was going to end badly.

The house they had been given was nice, very simple apart from the fact it only had three bedrooms. It was decided that Coulson, Skye was going to have to start calling him Phil, should sleep in a cot with the adults. May and Jemma were going to share a room, with Fitz having the other room. Ward was going to sleep in the living room as Fitz's room wasn't big enough for two but Skye had put her foot down. There was no way he was leaving her to look after the baby. He was sleeping in here with her. They were both adults.

"Skye I have no idea how to look after kids, never mind a baby."

She could hear the panic in his voice and felt for him. He had never had a normal childhood.

"Don't worry we'll do it together. I'm not an expert you know. All we have to do is bathe them, fed them and stop them killing each other when they are bored."

He didn't look convinced. To be honest neither was she. Normally she would leave Leo and Jemma together but now if left alone for two minutes they were fighting. Her boss was a baby. May she couldn't read. They really needed to wash them and put them to bed.

Oh god! She has going to see her teammates naked! She was never going to be able to look at them again!

"Come on tonight we'll do it together." She grabbed Phil and headed to the bathroom, leaving Ward to follow behind her.

Well this was a disaster. Water was all over the bathroom. Ward was covered in more bubbles than had ever ended up in the bath. He looked slightly stunned by it all. It was very cute. He was currently putting Phil into his PJs while trying not to wake him up. He had fallen asleep while in the bath.

Leo was currently playing with some of the toys Shield had brought along with the clothes. May was playing with him, liking the superhero toys. Her favourite appeared to be Thor. Which left Skye having to deal with Jemma. She didn't want to wear the PJs Skye was holding but they had no other ones. They only had a small collection of clothes, as Shield didn't deal with children very often. The first task tomorrow was to go buy more, something Skye wasn't looking forward to.

"I know Sweetie but I don't have any with puppies on. I only have these rabbit ones. Can you just wear these today until I can get you some new ones?" Skye pleaded. She wanted to get them all to bed. She needed time to process what had happened and how they were going to cope.

Eventually Jemma gave in but only if she could pick her new clothes tomorrow. Handing Leo to Ward she gathered Jemma and May and led them to their room. Hopefully they would go to sleep quickly!

Ward had got both Phil and Leo to sleep relatively quickly which surprised him. He had a strange feeling holding the baby. Like he had missed out on something. Shaking his head he continued moving around the kitchen, preparing a small meal for him and Skye. They hadn't had time to eat anything earlier and he had a feeling they were going to need all the energy they could get to look after the kids.

Spying a bottle of wine on the counter he headed over to it. That would also help. Seeing the note attached to it he read it.

Thought you might need this. Help will be along soon. Fury.

Fury had left them wine?

He wasn't going to complain. He opened the bottle and began searching for glasses. He had a feeling Skye was going to need a drink. She had a much tougher time getting the girls to sleep; she was still up there with them.

He had to say he was glad Skye was with him. He didn't think he could cope without her. He had no idea how to deal with kids, but she just took it all in her stride. He had to admit he was curious how she would have looked as child. Adorable he bet, she would have him wrapped around her little finger. She already did really.

"Finally." She said coming down the stairs.

"Here have some food. Also I thought you might like this as well. Fury left it for us." He handed her a huge glass of wine before picking up his.

"Oh thank god. I think this may kill me, Grant."

She only used his first name when she was worried. Moving towards her he pulled her into a hug.

"Hey like you said we'll do this together. You are doing fantastically. Without you I'd be a mess."

She nodded against his shoulder before moving to sit down at the breakfast bar. As they began to eat Ward couldn't help but think that so far they had had it easy. Tomorrow would be the real test. He hoped Fury's help would come soon, he had a feeling they would need it.

So here you go. If anybody has anything that the kids or Skye and Ward should do let me know.