Mei was happily dozing off in her room when she heard the sound of someone running down the hallway. It was an odd sound to hear in a usually silent secret base, especially since it was supposed to be calm now that the little war was over. It wasn't nice when it wasn't calm, it was quite annoying actually. Especially when it was eleven o'clock at night.

The running never did cease though, it just continued until it got somewhere down the hallway. There was the sound of a door hitting a wall. The frantic Fitz voice was what made her finally get up to go investigate.

As she trudged down the hallway, following his voice, she wondered why she always got up for this. It wasn't as though she wanted to be here. The sourced was down in Coulson's room, which confused Mei. She walked through the door to see Fitz standing there, waving his arms around like a lunatic as he spoke what seemed like a millions words per hour. Coulson simply stared at him, looking stunned.

Mei looked back and forth from Fitz to Coulson before speaking. "What's going on?" she asked as she stepped further into the room. She was ignored by Fitz as he kept speaking, Coulson simply glanced over at her, but his eyes said I don't even know.

"We need to find Jemma!" Fitz yelled. Where's Jemma? Mei thought. "That… that thing ate her! Get Mack! Call May back! We need everyone on this!" Fitz continued to yell. Mei stared at his back in shock. Something ate Jemma. What thing would eat a human sized Jemma?

"Mei, how nice of you to join us," Coulson said when he could get a word into the seemingly one sided conversation. Fitz turned around to look at her.

"Mei can help too!" he yelped. Mei stared at him in shock. She was helping? In what world did they even want her help?

She also really didn't know what was going on besides a vague statement that Jemma had been eaten. So really, Mei wanted to know what she was helping with before she agreed. "It would help if I knew what was going on?"

Fitz sighed in a way that seemed to say come on Mei, get with the program. Geez, "The blob thing are Jemma!" he yelled at Mei.

"Way to be technical, Fitz." Mei said sarcastically before the words fully sunk in. Jemma actually had been eaten? This wasn't some stupid joke? And if it was true, which by his panic it obviously was, would she even still be alive? "We need to get her!"

Coulson sighed and rubbed his face with his hand. Mei could tell he was tired. "First we need to sleep so we can actually think about how to approach this."

Mei shook her head. "We need May," she replied as she started to turn and leave the room. "I'm going to phone her-"

"Nobody is phoning anybody," Coulson stated as he looked at the two who froze in their spots as they had gone to leave. "May does not get to know what is happening. Nobody is going to know what is going on besides us until we figure this out. Got it?"

The two sighed but nodded in defeat. Silently, Fitz and Mei filed out of the room. Once the door was fully closed and the two were outside of Mei's room, Fitz turned to her. "You're phoning May, right?"

"Your girlfriend. You phone the dragon and let her know that her vacations is over." Mei suggested to him. "Because I am not going to be the one to ruin her vacation, or face her wrath. No matter how much I would rather her be in this stupid jail like building than out there with her ex."

Fitz rolled his eyes as he thought that Mei wasn't taking this seriously. Mei walked inside her room and shut the door, ending the conversation.

With her beanie on, Mei held up her ID to the door scanner and waited for the heavy doors to open, permitting her to leave. With everything going on, people trying to figure out what had happened to Jemma without alerting May or Skye, Mei was getting a headache. And while there was the fact that she didn't want to go outside to the animals, she also didn't want to stay inside and become a caged animal herself.

All that she could hope was that the stupid fox would piss off and leave her alone.

Of course, not every wish she ever had would come true.

Well, look whose back.

"Yeah, not like I really have a choice," Mei snorted. "Out here with you or inside in the quiet war zone." She felt weird talking to it now. Her hair was shorter (she felt like she should lose the power of talking to animals if it was short) and it was almost to the point where she could wear shorts and tank tops. It wasn't warm enough for that though, but at least she didn't need a sweater.

Really, it wasn't cool enough to have a huge impact on how she felt, but Mei still involuntarily shivered. "Look, no offence to you but I want to know why you talk. And I don't want some snide, cryptic answer. I want it straight."

Even I don't know.

Mei let out a large sigh, even making a sound with it. "That was a horrible answer."

Find out yourself.

"Coulson?"

Coulson was sitting in his office at his desk. He was still trying to adapt to only having one hand that he could use, and Mei could tell that it was hard on him. She needed to ask him a question though, even if that meant interrupting what seemed like lots of concentration.

"Coulsonnnn" Mei tried again as she dragged out his name. There was still no reaction. "Fatherrr." She said in an obnoxious voice, her pitch going in slightly higher.

That was all it took to make up look up and over at her in shock. "Can I go to New York?" Mei asked as though she was asking for a new phone. "You can send someone to fly me there, or I could maybe take commercial air. Or we could even get a hold of Tony and if he could he could send someone. Please? I need to get outta here."

Coulson seemed to think about it. While the look that he was going to have a heart attack for what she called him had passed, he now had the look that he was thinking very hard about this. His options were sending her away from all the chaos, or keeping her here around all the chaos. Honestly, he was just too tired to argue with her at that moment.

"If you set up everything, you can go."