Own Nothing

Darcy stared at the video of Simmons getting pulled into the Statue with sadness as she tried to rack her brain to figure a way to get her out. It's been weeks and no one would let her back near the thing. She's gotten stronger since then, she's bonded with over half the team, and it's weird and even a little crowded sometimes. But she's stronger and she wanted to try again. She sighed and wiggled in her chair until she was slouching in it as she played the video from the beginning again. She put the sound on silent, she couldn't stand to hear Jemma screaming another time.

"It's killing you to watch it again Love." Hunter stated as he leaned against the door of the conference room. Darcy glanced up at him and paused the video as Jemma was being swallowed by the statue and sighed. She turned back to the screen and shut it off, she covered her eyes and rubbed them. "Hey, it's not up to you alone to get her out. We're all looking to find her."

"If I was just stronger, if he would just let me try again." She breathed. "I know I can find her." She leaned forward on her hands, elbows propped up on the table as she looked at the wall ahead of her. "I need to know what I am."

"How is the Tai Chi and mediation with May going?" He asked her. "Before training every morning?"

"It's good, she thinks I need to work on meditation with staying put and not going places, which I do, sometimes. I only sometimes go off places when I need Mental Health days." She rolled her neck back. "I'm also thinking about asking Bobbie, about extra weapons training."

"I could help with that. I am a mercenary." He replied.

"I know, but mending bridges goes both ways and I can't keep telling the rest of the team to forgive them if I don't show them I didn't."

"But you weren't ever mad at them." He stated. "We know that."

"I was hurt that you were hurt." She sighed. "There is a difference. Besides, Mack hated me from the start. I'm different, alien." She smirked. "I think Bobbie just didn't know where I stood." She shrugged. "She probably doesn't like me macking on her man."

He snorted. "Only man you 'mack' on Love, is Fitz. Have you told the poor lad that you love him yet?"

She blushed. "He's told me several times and I do love him. And I know that he feels it, that he knows it. But saying it is different." She sighs and thinks back to Jemma's screams and she knows that Hunter can hear them too because of their Bond. "But until I know what I am and until I can get his best friends back, I don't want to make any promises to him that I can't keep." She looked over to him and smiled sadly. "What if I'm something so horrible, that you guys can't stand me anymore?" She hummed to herself sadly. "One problem at a time, and right now, Jemma, she's the priority, my feelings don't matter. I can't risk hurting any of you."

"You're hurting him by not telling him." Hunter stated. "Just saying Love. You should talk to him."

Darcy sighed and stood up. "I'm going to find Bobbie. See if we can schedule a time." She tucked her tablet into her arms and walked out of the room. "Don't worry so much Hunter, it'll work itself out." She kissed his cheek in passing.

"You want me, to train you in weapons?" Bobbie asked her when Darcy found her in the gym ten minutes later.

Darcy nodded as she watched her hit the punching bag. "May is teaching me hand-to-hand and close quarter combat. Skye is covering guns. But you're an expert in other weapons, batons for one thing." She nodded towards the two sticks. "I know that you don't exactly like me and that's fine. You didn't betray me, I wasn't a part of the team and I know you apologized to them and they've forgiven you. And I would like to apologize for forcing you to keep me a secret."

"Why are you telling me this?" Bobbie stopped hitting the bag and faced her. "Hunter can easily teach you."

"Because this team is your family." Darcy stated evenly. "And I'm trying everything I can to get Jemma back and Coulson isn't letting me in that room again anytime soon. So I am trying to get stronger, I'm working whichever way I can. She's your friend, help me to help her." Darcy pleaded. "Please."

Bobbie stared at her and hit the bag one more time. "Fine, but I'm not going easy on you. Go change, we're starting in five minutes."

"Thank you." Darcy smiled and raced from the room.

"If you're going to continue this rigorous routine, then you need to up your calorie intake." Coulson stated as Darcy was making breakfast smoothies for her and Skye. She glanced at him before grabbing a jar of peanut butter and dropping two spoonful's into the blender before blending it. "That isn't what I meant."

"I haven't been hungry lately since all this training, and I haven't been weighing myself actually." She replied honestly with a shrug. "Maybe since I'm getting stronger, getting more in tune with my powers, into what I'm really am, I'm getting less human." She whispered the last part. "I might not need to eat. I haven't needed to take any headache meds in the last two weeks."

"I've been monitoring." He replied as he poured himself a cup of coffee and she stopped the blender. "Skye keeps a records of your vitals and we send it off to Dr. Cho with the Avengers."

"Because I wouldn't trust the ones here?" She asked him as she poured the smoothies into tumblers with an arched brow.

"Because she has a security clearance for Thor and the Avengers, and you're that level." Coulson replied as he stepped forward. "You haven't been using your mental links lately, is something wrong?"

She shook her head. "Sometimes, I like hearing your voice." She smiled at him. "Besides, if it is a conversation that I trust we can have in the open, then I like to do so. It isn't like I can't alter people's perspectives of what they're hearing." She shrugged as she sipped her drink before putting a lid on it. She washed the blender and put it away. "I'm stronger anyway, than a few weeks ago."

"No." He firmly stated. "Hunter told me about your conversation and you watching the video again. You're not going back into the room."

She turned and glared at him. "Are you saying this as the Director, my boss, or as my Bonded?" She asked him. "Because ever since you became one of my Songs, you've been a bit protective over me."

"Cautious Miss Lewis." He replied.

She snorted and rolled her eyes, she grabbed the smoothies and faced him again. "At least one of my Songs is around me at all times, at least, and if not then I'm with May or maybe Bobbie. I'm lucky if I'm with Mack alone, which is never. I'm never by myself, even here at the Playground, in my own room. The bathroom, sure. But Skye, Fitz, or Lincoln are waiting for me when I get out. It's a little much. I love you all guys. But it's a little crowded."

He gave her a look and sighed. "I was under the impression that for these Bonds to take that we had to remain close to you. It has seemed to cause an annoyance."

She snorted again. "Look Coulson, the Bonds are set, they are there, because I feel them. Surely you do too?" She looked at him. "How about tonight, we have a family meeting, talk about this, because this is really stressful for me with trying to get Jemma back and figuring out new stuff every day."

"Tonight, pancake dinner."

She smiled at him. "Find the chocolate chips this time please."

"Myths and Folklore Miss Lewis." He returned her smile.

"So what are we doing today?" Darcy asked as she bounced on her feet as Skye and Lincoln readied themselves on either side of her. May and Fitz stood off to the side with monitoring equipment and a safety glass protector screen.

"We're going to see how well you work in the field using your powers." Fitz stated loudly.

Darcy frowned as she looked over at her two Songs next to her. "So what? Are we working together or attacking each other?"

"Today we're going to tag team and do two to one." May stated. "Lewis, since you're so worked up on seeing much you've gotten stronger, you'll be the one."

Darcy sighed. "Alright." She rolled her neck side to side. She looked down at her heart rate monitor, she never could keep it steady at a low rate like Skye so it bounce around a lot. "Dr. Cho is going to love this." She muttered.

"She's aware of the testing and she's awaiting the results." Fitz stated behind the glass. "Are you all ready?"

Darcy gave her Songs one last look and they nodded in reassuring smiles and she nodded to Fitz. He gave a thumbs up and they were off. Darcy ran out to avoid the shakes and the electricity. She raced the side and pulled out mental images and made them life like as much as possible and watch from the side lines as Skye and Lincoln battled with the MI Darcy's. She smirked as one of them landed a punch on Skye and she felt it and it knocked Skye back a foot. The other one was playing with Lincoln, jumping away from his small electricity like she was jumping rope and the real Darcy tried not to laugh. That MI Darcy jumped down and kicked out and knocked him on his back and held him there. She was doing well, she made life like images that could confuse her enemies and make them fight the images. It made Darcy think back to her lessons to Ward with sadness just for a brief second before focusing again on the battle.

She felt a tickle in the back of her mind, like she was falling asleep, a darkness washing over her. She could see her MI's swaying slightly and she frowned. She looked down at her feet to see a dark pool of almost graphite liquid that remind her of the Statue. She jumped awake, alert and her mind raced and her body began glowing a bright green color and she lurched forward. She turned around to see the shadowed corner, a pitch black darkness that shirked away from the glow of her light. Her heart raced as she glowed brighter and the darkness seeped away from her mind and back into the corner of the wall. She could hear screaming but it sounded so far away in the room as she watched the liquid of the statue fade away. What did it want?

"Darcy?" Skye screamed as she raced towards her. She stopped at her side and the glowing subsided and Darcy turned to her. "What was wrong, why were you glowing?"

Darcy looked alarm at her and turned to look at the others confused. "What do you mean?"

"Darcy, your nose is bleeding." Skye stated as Lincoln raced over to hand her a towel, she handed it to Darcy and helped her cover her nose. "You really don't remember glowing this time, you were staring right at something."

Darcy shook her head as she held the towel to her head. "Maybe we can watch the video?"

"We tried that." May stated from behind them. "You don't remember from watching that either."

"But maybe we can see what she saw that was threatening." Fitz stated. "She obviously saw something that threatened her."

"When was the last time she glowed like that?" Lincoln asked. "Wasn't it when she tried to get Dr. Simmons out?"

May, Skye and Fitz gave each other alarming looks over Darcy's head. "Lincoln take Darcy to the infirmary and make sure she's okay, then get her to her room to rest." May ordered.

"We're supposed to have pancake dinner." Darcy stated as he led her out.

"There's no possible way for it to get out unnoticed." Coulson stated as they watched all the video feeds from the Statue room and the practice room. They watched from right before Darcy glowed, her body going rigid and looking alarm and lurching forward. Her body glowed brightly but they couldn't see what she was seeing.

"Maybe it got out on another level." Fitz stated and they all turned and looked at him. "Listen, I know it sounds weird, but Darcy's powers operates on a telepathic level and now she's stronger, she has more Bonds that made her stronger. She's more of a threat."

"You think the Statue attacked her telepathically?" May asked as she looked at Coulson. "Is there was for any of you to look into her mind and see what she saw?"

"I don't any of us tried." Skye whispered. "But if whatever she is keeps wiping her mind because she can't handle the truth, what makes you think it'll let us handle it?"

"You're the one with alien blood." Coulson stated. "And one of her closest Songs. Are you a romantic one?" He looked at her.

"Ew no." She looked at him. "We're like sisters."

"Just wondering." He replied. "You and Fitz are the closet ones to her and honestly I think with you two and Mr. Campbell, she would've been just fine. She feels a little claustrophobic right about now."

"She tell you this?" Skye asked him, voice sharped but her eyes showed concern.

"When she was making smoothies." He replied. "She wanted to talk to us over pancake dinner tonight, she thinks that we as a whole, the whole team, not just the Bonded ones." He gave May a look. "Are being too cautious and over protective of her and she wants some breathing room." He gave Fitz and Skye and look. "A little alone time would be nice too when she's using the bathroom."

Fitz and Skye blushed and looked down or away. "She could've told us." Fitz stated.

"She will, later, at dinner." Coulson stated. "But we need to figure out why she felt threatened in our home." He stared up at the screen. "And if she's safe here or not?"

Darcy sat on the floor of her room as they all ate breakfast for dinner in there. "I can't believe you talk. You sung like a canary Coulson." She glared at him.

"We're technically the Songbirds, matching leather jackets and everything." He smirked at her. "I made your pancakes with extra chocolate chips so you would forgive me."

"I'm lost here, what did he sing?" Hunter asked.

"I would like to put a motion on the table." Darcy stated. "To be able to walk around the Playground without actively having a bodyguard. We've integrated the new S.H.I.E.L.D and I have yet been attacked and neither have our wonderful two Inhumans which I would like to point out did not have bodyguards on them."

"Skye is a field agent and Mr. Campbell and her are both in the Index." Coulson stated. "You have been attacked, just not by one of us."

Darcy glared at him. "I will make you eat your words." She warned him.

He smirked playfully. "Carry on."

"I motion to have some freedom and breathing room." Darcy finished.

"You do know we work and live here too, you'll still see us." Lincoln stated. "Even if I leave or the team goes on a mission, there is still going to be someone here watching you."

"Yea and Skye will be on the Bus monitoring me. I have a lanyard and I promise not to sneak off to go see the Statue that I keep bugging you about." She gave Coulson another look. "But guys. We're Bonded, we're in each other's heads, and I can feel your thoughts, feelings, and urges, everything all the time." She stared at everyone one of them. "Sometimes, I just need to be alone, to my thoughts. I've spent years alone, it's hard for me to be around this many people all of the sudden."