Set right after s01e11.
COMPANION.
He could still feel the sting of the gash right above his brow. However, it could not mask the mocking hollowness he could feel in his gut.
He simply was not the same anymore.
She didn't knock when she came in. She simply stood there, with her back against the door, watching him.
Then his pleas echo in her mind once more – Please, let me die…
In her silence, he doesn't notice her come in, partly because of the fact that he was lost in the depth of the unanswered questions and half-truths that continue to plague his mind.
She slowly walked to the spot in front of his desk. He lifts up his head and their eyes meet. She offered him a small smile, yet he could feel that there was something that she was holding back.
But he gets the message, that in the dimness of his office, he was not Phil Coulson, the team leader, in the same way that she was Melinda May, the pilot.
He was a man who lost his life.
She was a woman who lost herself.
And she was going to be there for him.
