Roads not taken
Their mouths hung open.
“You’re dead…” they said to each other, pointing.
“How are you here?” she asked, still in shock. “You died…”
“I could say the same for you…” he replied before noticing Scott “Who’s this guy? No… wait… you’re that repair tech from the basement, aren’t you? What was it, Ripley? Ridley..?”
“Riley”
“Whatever.”
Lincoln turned back to Daisy.
“I don’t care how, I’m so gald you’re here.” He put his arms on her waist and drew her close. “I missed you so much.”
“EHEM!” Scott fake coughed.
“Something wrong?”
“Um.. Yeah… You’re getting a bit handsy with my girlfriend.”
“Your girlfriend?” Lincoln asked, confused. “But… I… We…”
Daisy took a step back and gave him a teary eyed look.
“Lincoln I’m sorry, but we’re not here to rescue you.” she said, “We’re from a different earth. Our Lincoln died over two years ago.”
“So you’re not… my wife?” He said, dumbstruck
Daisy shook her head no.
Lincoln sat down on a planter.
“You, our… he… god Seven was right, this pronoun stuff is aggravating. The Lincoln that Scott and I knew sacrificed himself to save the world” She told him “He died killing Hive. He was a hero.”
“What’s a Hive?” Lincoln asked, looking up.
“Let’s backtrack…” Scott said “Planet Maveth? Ring a bell?”
“Sure, that’s where Jemma got trapped for six months. You helped Fitz bring her back.”
“Did Ward and Hydra try to go back?”
Lincoln looked at him like he was crazy ‘Yeah, why is all this so important?”
“What happened to Ward?”
“Colson brought him back; he stood trial and was sent to prison for the rest of his life. What’s that got to do with anything?”
“Our Coulson killed Ward,” Daisy told him “He crushed his chest. the… thing that was infesting that astronaut took Ward over and you… you died killing him…”
“I died, killing that ‘It’ thing?”
“Believe it or not, it was actually our prototype?” Scott said
“Our Prototype?”
“Scott’s an Inhuman two” Daisy said. “Hive was the first Inhuman.”
“No kidding.” he said, looking the other man over. “What can you do?”
Scott held put his hand and pushed it outward, casing Lincoln to topple backwards.
“Point taken.”
A loud crash of thunder echoed. The storm was getting closer.
“We’re gonna need a place to crash, it seems.” Scott said.
Scott called back to the Zephyr to confer with others. Fitz and Jemma were shocked to hear they found another Lincoln. They estimated the storm would take a good six to eight hours to pass. Scott then talked Barry through moving the plane into a hanger for shelter. Once it started to rain, Lincoln led them upstairs to the director’s office, where he’d been camping out.
“How long have you been here?” Daisy asked
“About 6 months. I think. Lost track of days ages ago” Lincoln said “Not that I care. Every day without you I…”
Lincoln lowered his head let out a sigh.
“What happened?” She asked.
“You… My Daisy was… killed. Had her neck snapped by a Kree.”
“You went into the future?”
“You guys went two?” Lincoln asked, confused.
“They did” Scott added from the window. “I was out, missed being blown to bits and didn’t see hide nor hair of any of them for almost a year.”
“We found ourselves in the Lighthouse when we got back. I was wandering the building when I found this weird looking computer.”
“OH GOD DAMN IT!” Scott screamed.
“What?” Lincoln asked in a panic.
“We’ve got two of those already on our plane.” Daisy said. “Wait, if you’ve got one, why are you still here?”