Watching the fire in the sky from below
The Director comes rushing in, looking battered, but no worse for wear. I stay at the door where she left from. The broken one, as I feel the rumbling of the shuttle about to take off. My hand is still there, knowing it’s useless to pound on the door anymore, she can’t hear me.
My partner is going to…
“What in the hell happened here?”
I turn to him, and see his look of realization. “Daisy?”
I nod. When I feel the shuttle taking off, suddenly I have this urge. This urge to go out there. To see if she actually would…I barrel past him, and out the door. I ignore the way the halls seem to spin, and the bone deep ache in my muscles from being thrown around by Daisy. I run past the others on our team. May, Fitz, Simmons, Lincoln…I hear their pattering footsteps, even over my own eating distance.
We all get out there, and I can see the cloud trail that she left in her wake. It’s night out, I think I can still see her.
“Oh, no.” Simmons breathes. “You weren’t able to…”
And then it explodes, and my heart hammers to a stop. No. No, no, god please, no…
“Oh!” She says, her voice full of shock. “You did it!” She cheers, looking at me. I can feel her eyes on me, but I can’t take mine away from where Tremors…
“Yes!” Fitz exclaims.
“Well, you could have just said something. You had us worried.” Phil chimes in amusedly.
“Mack.” May seems to be the only one to think something is wrong.
“I didn’t do it. Tremors, she…” I finally look away from the explosion in the Sky. She started out as Skye in S.H.I.E.L.D. and now she would end up as part of the sky forever, her last act as S.H.I.E.L.D. I look at Coulson.
His eyes slowly widen, and he quickly glances up at the sky again, this time in horror.
“She told me to say she was sorry.” I ground out, tears in my eyes. I’m going to destroy this son of a bitch. Ground him into the dust, cure him from the Inhumans. I will save them, like she would have wanted. “And she gave me this.” I unlock the phone that had the password that was…me. I show it to Coulson. “A way to defeat ‘Zombie-Ward’, she said.”
Jemma makes a heart breaking noise she tries to hide behind her fist. I can see as Fitz takes her into his arms, and she goes willingly. May’s hand clenches into fists, and her eyes harden around the edges. Lincoln…
“This doesn’t make sense.” Lincoln interjects.
“It’s Skye-Daisy, Damnit.-She sacrificed herself, so we could do what is right.” Coulson whispers hoarsely. “Even if I don’t want it to make sense, it does.” He concludes.
“No. No I mean, Daisy said that she heard Raina predict she would be the one to lead all of the Inhumans.”
“She did, and her team broke apart.” Fitz chimes in, a little brokenly as he continues to hold his partner. Would…I never would be able to comfort Daisy again. I wouldn’t ever be able to tell her thank you for opening my eyes about all the Inhumans. And she went up there to die, thinking…thinking that we all needed protection from her. That I was right, about everything, even though I couldn’t have been more wrong.
“No. She only led three of us. She…Raina had the gift of future sight. She wouldn’t be wrong.” Lincoln insists. “But she is.” He looks dejected. Daisy had been his…his reason for being with S.H.I.E.L.D. His good friend that still helped him through his struggles.
Everyone is silent for a moment. Maybe. Maybe…maybe she was right. Maybe… “Maybe Tremors…doesn’t die. Maybe this makes her stronger. She did end up fighting off Hive’s mind control long enough to do this. Maybe she’s…” I let the thought trail off. I don’t know how, but maybe she’s coming home again.
“If so…Let’s clean up the house so it looks nice when she gets back.” Coulson says, and we all know he’s referring to Hive. “Or, at least as much as we can.” Like getting the thing that will destroy Hive ready.
Somewhere deep in my bones, I have a feeling…that Daisy will be back. She has to be. And when she does come back, she’s going to be pissed. Not with just Hive, but with herself. I’ll-we’ll be there for her when she does come back. I’ll fix what she thought-what she thought because of me. And while we’re all doing that, she’ll be saving the world, and her Inhumans.
I’ll be waiting for you, partner.