My life, my soul and my protector.

The staff was placed in cryonic stasis, making sure that no one could touch and password protected, knowing that Skye was the only one that could hack it Phil was safe in the knowledge it was not going anywhere. He walked back up the stairs and heard the near silent weeping of a woman whose heart was breaking but he had no idea why.

He walked silently across the hall and peered through the door that was ajar, seeing May curled up on the bed, her tear stained face pressed into the pillow he walked across the room, embraced her and let her cry her heart out.

He didn't know what the connection was, all he knew was the woman he loved more than life itself was breaking in two, and he had no idea how to fix it, but he was praying that Fitzsimmons would perform a breakthrough.

Slowly after what seemed like hours the weeping stopped and she looked up at Phil and whispered words he never thought he would live to hear, "I think she is ours, I don't know why Phil, but I swear that she is ours and we have to save her. I'll give anything, Phil—"

** Beep Beep **

*** Sir, can you and May come down to the lab ***

"Well Melinda looks like that might come back to haunt you, we've been summoned down to the lab, lets hope that it is good news."

He stood up and looked at her, even red eyes puffy and swollen lips he would still love her till her drew he last breath. They walked down to the lab both silent in hope and reeling from the fact that May had just told him they may have a daughter together and Skye could be her.

He was desperately trying to work out how it had happened and why she had not said anything before now but first they need to see if they could save Skye first.

"Phil, can you stop trying to read my mind, it's not fair to do that when you know I can't tell."

"How did you know?"

"I guessed, and your answer just proved what I was suspecting."

"Sorry love, I'm just trying to help by letting you feel what I feel for you. See, it will help you, but I won't do it if you don't want me to."

She turned to look at Phil and stared straight in his eyes, his heart shattered he saw the light had gone in her eyes and he was afraid that the Melinda May from Bahrain was coming back through and he couldn't for one moment let that happen. He shoved her against the wall and cupped her face, "Listen to me, we will save her, I promise you we will save her and I'll do whatever it takes but please, please don't shut me out! Melinda, I love you and our daughter. Even if Skye is not biological—"

"Rose."

"What….?"

"I called her Rose, but I thought she had died, that's what I was told…!"

"By who, Melinda?"

"You have to understand, you were with Audrey, I had just come back and recovering from a mission that had nearly destroyed me. I nearly bled to death! I'd been tested on and beaten and I watched someone take a baby away. I still have no idea how the hell they have got hold of my DNA but I certainly can tell you, the world does not need a world full of me. I am unstable as it is, let a lone there being hundreds of me, can you imagine?"

"Oh Melinda, why didn't you tell me before now? We could have found out long before now what the hell was going on and I could've done something…!"

They stood in the hallway in a warm but life affirming embrace, nothing but silence hung in the air and the heavy breathing of two people desperate for answers.

"Come on sweetheart, lets go and see what Jemma has to say and then maybe we can some digging of our own." She smiled a meek smile, he tucked her head onto his shoulder and under his chin they walked together feeding off each other's life.

Jemma had seen all of this from down in the lab but there was no way that she was going to intrude on a moment like this, not when she had the worst news to tell them about Skye. Jemma had been keeping track of Skye and her vitals but something was wrong, her organs were beginning to shut down and it was only through Jemma being a genius and with the help of Fitz that they were managing to prevent her life force leaving her body completely.

"Oh Fitz, what are we going to do? The only thing that I do know is that May, Skye and the staff are all connected and anytime that May is in the vicinity of Skye her vitals stabilise but the question is why…?"

What they had not realised was May and Coulson had walked into the room and heard every word including Skye's organ failure. The colour had drained from May's face and for once in Phil's life he thought she was going to faint and all of a sudden May turned around and sprinted through the building like her life depended on it but it was not hers it was Skye's. She skidded to a holt in front of the glass room, not even broken a sweat or dropped a breath but made faster. She watched through the glass as Skye begun to struggle to breathe, no air was getting into her lungs, even though they weren't damaged and if it was not for the fact that she was unconscious.

May took off her jacket, down to her vest underneath and walked towards Skye, she could hear the gasps as Skye struggled to force the air into her lungs and the monitor controlling her heart was beeping out of control.

She jumped up onto the bed and pulled Skye to her, embracing her as only a mother could and starting chanting, in one of the many languages Melinda May had in her arsenal. Her voice was breaking but she was resorting to test this theory hers. Was Skye's hers? Had she been lied to and set up with the staff?

"Te amo meus puer pretiosus, animam meam, ut tua vi et ambules in terra semel,."

(My precious child I love you, use my life force as yours and walk the earth once more.)

The whole Bus began to flicker and down below the staff glowed orange, the sunset in a staff with life and death at its mercy to choose as it may.

Skye's breathing began to ease and the heart rate returned to a steady beat, May continued to murmur the words in Skye's ear, stroking her hair and holding her close.

The others just stood their feeling in small part a bit useless, but in complete awe of what was taking place, the air around her energised and returned to normal but there sat Skye's protector and now they had to make the connection because May could not sit their forever but the question was how?