Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters used. If I did SkyeWard and FitzSimmons would have already been canon without all these heartaches.

Phil Coulson watched his daughter get up the stage to receive her diploma. It feels like it was just yesterday when he first held Skye Coulson and now he is watching her receive her PhD for Computational Science and Engineering.

He couldn't be more proud of her achievements.

17 years ago Director Fury assigned him to protect an 084, to keep it safe and hidden from the system including Shield. No one besides him and Fury knows about it. He accepted the assignment with no questions and no hesitation thinking it would be an ancient alien weapon of some sort but little did he know that the 084 would turn out to be a small, cute and chubby baby girl.

He can still remember the day that Fury assigned him this mission 17 years ago.

"I have a new mission for you." Fury announced as soon as Coulson entered his office. "4 months ago I have sent agents to investigate about the report of an 084 at Hunan Province in China. However the response team failed to communicate with Shield so I had implemented a retrieval operation for the 084 led by Agent Linda Avery and Agent Richard Lumley along with 3 other combat operatives. The retrieval was a success however it was reported that the initial team and the entire village were murdered by unknown assailants." Fury continued pausing only to give Coulson the mission file.

Coulson read over the file and paused in confusion.

"Yes, the 084 is an infant girl believed to posses mutant powers. The team was meant to turn her over to Shield, however one by one the agents involved in the mission were being killed. Agent Avery fearing for the child's safety decided to deliver the baby to Saint Agnes Orphanage. She made arrangements with the foster care system to not keep the child in one place for too long. 2 weeks later Agent Avery was killed while Agent Lumley has gone missing."

Coulson never met Agent Avery or Agent Lumley in person, he only knows them by their reputation.

"I had let it go because I thought that the arrangement was fool proof until a rich couple decided to adopt the girl. The orphanage has approved of the adoption before we were able to stop it so instead I've planted an undercover agent to act as the girl's nanny. As expected a group of unknown men killed the couple inside of their home while the agent managed to safely escape with the child child is now back at St. Agnes but she's is no longer safe in the hands of a group of nuns. It is best that Shield takes over the protection of the girl once more."

"This is the only complete copy left of the mission file regarding the girl." pointing at the file in Coulson's hand " I have redacted some information to level 10 clearance; most info is completely wiped out of the system. I deemed it best to keep the girl hidden from the system including Shield's."

"Why?" Coulson asked confused as to why Fury is keeping this information from the organization that was meant to protect her.

"Because I do not trust Shield. There are only a few people that I fully trust and I can count them in one hand. Once the Council get a whiff of the girl they will not hesitate to use her as a lab rat to be experimented on. That is not a life meant for a child. I am fully convinced that that was part of the reason why Agent Avery decided not to turn the child over to Shield and I will not allow Agent Avery's death be in vain."

"Sir, if I may ask, what exactly is my mission in this?" Phil asked.

"Your mission is to adopt the girl and keep her protected at all times."

That was the day when Coulson's life has changed dramatically. No one, not even Shield, knows exactly why Coulson suddenly adopted a baby out of nowhere and as far as anyone is concerned he adopted the baby girl out of loneliness.

In the 17 years of raising Skye, Coulson never found out why that she turned out to be an 084. Fury believed that she possessed powers but she never shown even a hint of unnatural ability within her. Both Coulson and Fury continues to hope it stays like that forever because they know more trouble will come her way the moment her gift, if she even has one, was revealed.

"I did it!" Skye squealed as she happily run towards her father's waiting arms.

"Yes you did. I'm so proud of you Skye." He said as he embraced Skye tightly.

The father-daughter duo went off to celebrate the momentous occasion by going to their favorite steakhouse.

Skye just finished with her dessert when Coulson handed her an envelope.

"What's this? I'm not in trouble again am I?" She jokingly asked seeing the Shield logo printed on the letter envelope that was addressed to her.

"Just open it." Coulson smiled reassuringly, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

With shaking hands Skye opened the letter trying to remember anything she had done to Shield recently. As far as she can remember the last time she hacked into Shield was when she sent Sitwell an email, a fake love note from Agent Hand and that was 5 weeks ago.

Skye's a great hacker, some may even say that she's one of the best there is, and she often hack into different government databases including Shield's. Of course she never touched their mission files, even she knows her limits. She often just mess with their system like making their centralized speakers play Aqua's I'm a Barbie Girl on repeat for a whole week much to the annoyance of Nick Fury and all Shield Agents. She almost always received a warning letter from Fury but there never was any Shield logo from any of them.

She did try to hack into Tony Stark's database 2 days ago but he was able to detect her and sent her hundreds of computer viruses that fried her laptop. Surprisingly, although not really, Stark has better firewall protection than Shield as it was the only system that she had failed to hack into.

But shouldn't it be a Stark's logo in the letter and not Shield's?

Skye took a deep calming breath and begun reading the letter.

Dear Ms. Skye Coulson,

Congratulations!

On behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into our Science and Technology Program. As you know S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy for Science and Technology is a highly exclusive program for the best and brightest scientific minds.

W e were impressed by your overall qualification, skills and abilities and therefore you were chosen among thousands of outstanding applicants worldwide.

Enclose with this letter are the information and documents necessary for your official enrolment into S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy for Science and Technology.

Sincerely yours,

Agent Anne Weaver

Director

S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy

Science and Technology Division

Skye looked up at her father in surprise. Coulson has always been protective of Skye and she never taught that he would even thing of letting her to join Shield.

Of course she dreamed of following her father's footsteps and become a super secret agent like him. She always thought that it's very badass but every time she asked him if she could join, he answer is always a definite no. He often says that it's too dangerous for her. Quite odd coming from a man who lives and breath Shield but she surmised it as his overprotective father instinct. Although at times she feels as if there is more into it.

"I thought you said joining Shield would be too dangerous. What changed your mind?"

"Shield SciTech trains Scientist, Doctors, Engineers and other technical fields who mostly work in the background. I figured that it's a lot safer than being a field agent or working at Stark industries especially with everything that's happening with Tony Stark. Besides Maria's right you could be a great asset to Shield. I've seen firsthand what you could do with just a phone and a laptop. I can just imagine what more you could do with Shields resources."

Skye was ecstatic that she's finally joining Shield. Sure she may not become a badass crime fighter like Clint and Natasha and she may not be able to become like her godmother and idol Melinda May, one of Shield top field agents who can take out hundreds if guys at once at least before she transferred to admin department for reasons that her father never told her. But she's finally going to enter her father's world and saving people.

She can't wait for the adventures she's sure to experience at SciTech.