Prologue:
"Lincoln, Daisy's asking for you." Mack said.
"I'm trying to give her some space." Lincoln said.
"She said she has information that might help us stop Hive, but she also said that she'd only tell you." Mack said.
Lincoln took deep breath before saying "I'll go see what she wants."
"You wanted to see me?" Lincoln asked Daisy.
"Given what I've been told about Hive's plans, well, do you remember when I told you I had a vision of the death of a member of our team?" Daisy asked.
"Of course, why?" Lincoln asked.
"I think I finally figured out how to prevent it." Daisy said.
"I'm listening." Lincoln said.
"Soon you guys are going to employ a quinjet to send Hive and his inhuman compound into space. And when you do, you have to make sure that he can't use Ward's memories to pilot the ship back to earth by frying the manual controls, leaving it to autopilot. It's the only way to make sure that we're changing the outcome." Daisy said.
Lincoln nodded and said "I'll keep that to myself until the moment comes."
"Good, now I guess you'll go back to ignoring me when I need you the most." Daisy said.
"Daisy, you don't need me, you never did." Lincoln said, finally telling her what Hive had put in his head.
"What are you talking about Lincoln? What's going on with you?" Daisy asked, finally coming somewhat out of her traumatized state.
"During the mission to capture Hive, he told me that I could never give you the same feeling he did. Happiness, feeling whole. And he's right. It's what I've felt for a long time." Lincoln said.
"Lincoln, I was happy when I was with you. Before this mess with Hive started. I kept thinking that maybe I'd finally found someone I could love. And as for what I felt under Hive's sway, I'll admit it was happiness, but not the same as what I felt. It wasn't natural. And I never want to feel it again. Please Lincoln, you have to believe that." Daisy begged.
"How do I know that I can give you something that Hive couldn't have?" Lincoln asked
"First off, stop comparing yourself to that monster. Hearing you talk like that makes me think that you're one who's been possessed. And second off, you already have given me something that Hive never could and never will be able to give me. Love. That's what you gave me. It's because of you that I know what love really feels like. And it's something I never want to lose. Please, don't let me." Daisy said.
Lincoln then opened the door to Daisy's cell and stepped into it.
"You believe me?" Daisy asked.
Rather than responding, Lincoln kissed her.
"I love you." Daisy said when they broke apart.
"I love you to." Lincoln said, right as the alarms sounded.
"Go check it out. I'll be right here." Daisy said, though her voice sounded different, more confident.
"I'll come back to check on you." Lincoln said as he hurried out.
After the battle, Jemma was patching Lincoln up in the medbay on board the Zephyr, patching his wound from his fight with Hellfire.
"How did you know how to kill Hive without sacrificing yourself?" Jemma asked.
"You can thank Daisy. She had another vision of the future that told her how to stop Hive. She told me to fry the quinjet's manual controls before I got off in order to make sure that Hive couldn't retake control of the jet after we launched it. She's the real hero of today." Lincoln said, right as said hero walked into the medbay.
"I assume you're going to read me the riot act for leaving containment before I was cleared?" Daisy asked.
"Honestly, I would've done the same thing. We all would've." Jemma said.
"Yeah, it's just, when he told me he couldn't reconnect with me, I got so angry with him for all the pain I was in because of what he did to me that I had to try and kill him." Daisy said.
"But now he's gone and he can't hurt anyone ever again." Lincoln said.
"I think that the part about that I like the most is that it means we never have to see the face of Grant Ward ever again." Daisy said.
"That is definitely a bonus." Jemma agreed.
"You changed the future Daisy. Because of you, no one at SHIELD died on board that jet." Lincoln said.
Daisy smiled and tried to feel good about it, thinking that maybe she would get better.
"Now that we've changed the future where you died, maybe we could start thinking about a future for us." Daisy said.
"I'd like that." Lincoln agreed and Jemma left to give the 2 some time alone.