Blood was everywhere: on her clothes, her hands, her face. It wasn't her own blood, it belonged to the woman strapped to - what appeared to be - a make shift operation table. She had cuts of varying deepness all over her body.

"Please, please, just stop! You don't have to do this!" The woman screamed.

Sage looked down and saw her right hand push the steel scalpel a little deeper into a groove in the woman's chest, causing her to let out a shriek, before roughly pulling it out completely.

"Tell me where my daughter is, Agent Avery, and this will all be over." Sage heard herself reply. Only, it didn't sound like her voice. The voice belonged to a man. She caught a glimpse of her reflection in the metal surface of the bloody scalpel and realized she wasn't - herself. She was her father, Calvin Johnson.

Movement from the corner of her eye caught her attention and she saw her mother enter the abandoned warehouse. She looked the same as she always had to Sage, except her scars were more pronounced - less faded. "Cal. We need to leave soon, more S.H.I.E.L.D agents will be here any minute."

Sage watched as Jaiying's gaze shifted to Agent Avery. She had never seen such a look of contempt, of unadulterated hatred cross her mother's features before. "Did she give you any information?"

"Not yet." Calvin sneered, "but she will." Sage saw her right hand grasp the woman's wrist and squeeze. She felt and heard the crunch of the bones breaking.

"Enough." Jiaying said over the woman's cries. Calvin immediately released Agent Avery's wrist and took a step back as Jiaying approached her. She placed both of her hands on the woman's cheeks and looked into her eyes. "We know you're the one who took Daisy. We found her baby blanket in your car. What have you done with her?"

Agent Avery averted her eyes and clenched her jaw in defiance. Jiaying sighed and turned towards Calvin. "We don't have the time to break her. The team S.H.I.E.L.D sent will be here soon." Sage felt herself take a step forward, but she stopped when Jiaying held a hand up.

"No, I've got this. I could use the snack." Sage watched as Avery's pale skin began to take gray tone, darkening with every passing second. The agent's mouth hung open in a silent scream as Jiaying literally drained the life from her...

Sage jerked awake, gasping for air. She sat up, taking deep breaths, as she tried to regain her bearings. She took note of her surroundings. She was in her bed, inside her room, located in the house she shared with her mother.

It was just a dream.

A memory?

The twenty-year-old sighed. She wasn't sure what to call the night terrors she experienced sporadically ever since her Terrigenesis. Three months ago, she was gifted with, what her mother called, psychometry. If she concentrated on an object long enough she experienced its history. She could see its past users and feel all their emotions and sensations. The more emotionally charged the object was, the stronger the connection, the stronger Sage was sucked in.

After Sage emerged from the mist, it took a month for her to figure out what her powers were. She was looking through her father's old first aid kit - the only thing she had of his - when she was sucked into a memory of him piecing her mother back together with it. It had not been pleasant to say the least, and her mother, horrified, took the kit away from her. It was too late though, other memories associated with the medical tools - specifically, the scalpel - had drifted to her in the following months.

She never told her mother the things she knew.

With a shaking hand, Sage threw off her duvet and headed for the kitchen. Having lived in this house her whole life, Sage navigated it with ease - even under the cover of darkness. The house was small with just two bedrooms, a bathroom and kitchen. Cozy was the term Sage always associated with it. It was the only full-time living quarters in the Afterlife.

Once she arrived in the kitchen, she poured herself a glass of cold water from the sink and gulped it down. She nearly dropped the empty glass when the lights suddenly turned on. Sage turned from her position leaning against the sink to see Jiaying standing in kitchen entryway.

"H...Hey, Mom. I didn't think you'd be home for a few days."

"I know, my meeting with the Elders ended earlier than expected. After two weeks, we actually managed to finally -" Jiaying paused, giving Sage a once-over. The girl was tense and avoiding eye contact. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just had a nightmare. The usual." Sage, shrugged.

Jiaying took a seat at the kitchen island and gestured at the empty stool next to her. Sage followed the unspoken command and joined her mother. "The one where your father finds me after Hydra?"

"Um, yeah." She lied.

"I'm sorry you keep having to see that."

"I'm sorry you had to experience it," Sage replied, honestly. Jiaying placed a hand on Sage's shoulder in comfort - well, it was meant to be comforting, but Sage flinched - the events of her nightmare still on her brain.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"Do you ever miss him?" Sage asked suddenly.

"Who?"

"Dad." Sage shook her head, "I mean Calvin. Do you miss him? It's obvious he loved you. Since he, you know, diligently pieced you back together with his bare hands and all."

Jiaying shook her head at her daughter's language, before tilting her head slightly in thought. "Sometimes," she eventually answered. "But your father isn't the same man he was when we first met. I'm certainly not the same woman."

"Is that why you never told him about me?"

"Mostly." Sage bit her lip and nodded slowly.

"Have you gotten anything from the baby blanket yet?" Jiaying asked, changing the subject.

Sage hesitated. "Not yet," she lied for the second time that night. At Jaiying's frown, she continued. "Look, Mom, it's not as easy as it seems. I don't just touch the object and poof! It's more complicated than that. Plus, the blanket is from over 20 years ago."

If Jiaying was surprised by the outburst, she didn't show it. "I'm well aware, but so was your father's first aid kit and you tapped into that just fine, without even meaning too."

Sage released an audible breath. "Mom…" Three knocks in rapid succession on the front door halted her words. Jiaying gave her a look clearly stating that is this talk wasn't over before getting up to answer it.

"Gordon? It's late, what is so important that it couldn't wait until morning?" Curious, Sage walked over and joined Jiaying in the doorway. She'd never seen Gordon so out of sorts. The usually shakeable man was breathing heavy and... smiling. Why was he smiling?

"Jaiying, I just heard that you were back. A lot happened while you were away. It's Daisy. Cal found her and she's gone through the Change. She's… she's here."

Sage's mouth dropped open in shock. Oh, no.

Jaiying's eyes darted from Gordon to Sage back to Gordon. Her face shifted from a look of confusion to bewilderment and finally, to crisp determination. She charged forward, beckoning Sage to follow her. "Show us," she demanded.

Author Note:

Hi Guys! Thanks for reading this first chapter. I realize that I've raised a lot of questions. But they will all be answered in due time! This story will follow along with the last few episodes of Season Two, but I will be adding a few twists and turns :).

Let me know what you think so far! I will try my best to answer any questions without spoiling!