My Psyche and I are one

May was sat still holding Skye and listening to the steady beat of the machine ensuring that Skye's heartbeat was returning to normal. May had decided there and then that she was not letting her go, whether she was her own flesh and blood or not, there was a connection between them, of that she was certain.

Her job for now was to protect Skye and keep her alive, regardless of what the others would say, but in the middle of her internal debate she felt a set of arms embrace both her and Skye. She jumped slightly and turned her head staring into the bluest and most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, Phil Coulson, the psychic, the protector and the love of her life was standing behind her and Skye ensuring that they felt his aura of security and his love but also showing May that no matter he was going to be there, she need not torture herself any longer.

Phil knew that no matter what the outcome was, he didn't want to spend another day without her in his life and if Skye turned out to the be theirs then so be it, they would grow together as a family but even she wasn't he would make sure that they both knew they belonged there and that they were loved above anything else in the worlds they knew of.

Jemma and Fitz were watching the exchange and their minds were going a thousand miles on hour trying to work out the connection between the two females. Jemma was still waiting for the results of the DNA test, everything else had shown there was nothing distinctive that could connect the two females but she was damn sure that there was something.

Suddenly she heard a murmur a voice that sounded like it was in the distance, but in her mind as well, she looked at Coulson and realised that he was not the one doing this or at least he wasn't giving that impression. Unless May was hiding something she knew it could not be her as she had shown no signs of psychic abilities throughout the time they had been together.

May went to get up and the minute that she released Skye, the monitor set off beeping at rapid speed as though Skye could sense and actually tell that she was not near May. May immediately sat back touching Skye's bare arm easing the beeping that was rapidly becoming louder each time. Jemma was consciously studying the effects that were taking place and knew right there and realised that she was looking at this completely the wrong way, if it wasn't in the blood that it had to be in the psyche instead.

Jemma was thinking hard and fast, she walked straight up to Coulson and pulled out a strand of his hair, "Ouch" Coulson looked at her as though she had lost her mind but she race to the machine in the lab and started a second DNA test.

Within a space of five minutes the machine started going crazy as it returned its results and Jemma was one step closer to bringing Skye back around.

She ran through the doors with an idea in her head, praying that her genius IQ was correct. Jemma was having the feeling that Skye was psychologically attached to Coulson but biologically attached to May and that is why when they started to move away the heart monitor would start racing. Something in Skye was trapped and she was trying to tell them that she wasn't gone but just lost and that she needed their help in order to get her out, but the question was how?

Jemma was 100% sure that May and Coulson were her parents, the staff had done a number on Skye's psyche and now they had to go and find her before her organs failed completely. It was feeding from her life and it was the contact with May that seem to be doing the trick and giving her the strength that she needs but May could only hold on for so long, so what do they do now?

She came upon the scene that would be forever engraved on her heart, Coulson, May and Skye were all sleeping embraced within each other spiritually and psychically aware that they were in close proximity of each other, but she knew that Skye could not hold on forever and something would have been done and soon.

'Jemma what is the matter?' Jemma's eyes shot up from the floor and met Coulson's.

'You can talk to me this way if it something that you do not want people to hear.' Coulson was using his psychic ability to communicate with Jemma, to ensure that May could hear what was being said.

'Well sir, it seems that there is something wrong with Skye's organs and psyche. Whatever May did with the staff it seems as though it is taking Skye's life force, but the fact that she is touching May, is what is sustaining her for now because she is feeding off her, almost like an energy vampire. She also can sense that you are there, sir. She is reaching out to you and we need to go in and get her. First though, we need to think of a way to sustain Skye without her taking May with her.'

Coulson was looking at her and knew that they didn't have long and he was thinking hard and fast, the sweat had beaded from his brow and his arm were going numb from holding May but she looked so beautiful and he would not move her if he didn't have to.

'What about the other Mays?'

"What, sir?"

'Shhhhh' she then realised that she had been talking out loud and said it again it her head.

'What sir?'

'What about the other Mays the staff had created? Would they be able to sustain her whilst May and I go and bring our daughter home?'

Jemma's eyes widen as she realised that somehow Coulson knew, why she was surprised she didn't know as between May and him, they knew everything that took place on the Bus.

'Yes, they are an exact biological replica of her but they won't sustain her for as long because they don't have her personality and her will to fight, but in combination they would buy you 1 hour, maybe 2 at most to go and bring her home.'

'May, May come on darling wake up…!' May stirred and sleepily opened her eyes to see Phil and realised that something had happened.

He just looked at her, pecked her on the lips and whispered, 'Lets go bring our daughter home.'