Chapter 35

Sorry if this chapter seems a little random, but I sort of didn't know how to wrap it up in a sense. Anyway this is the second last chapter, so I hope you guys enjoy.

Skye took some alone time that night. She slept in her bunk sweetly, knowing that she was back with her team. Coulson on the other hand woke up at midnight, the strange urge to draw coming into his hands. Coulson walks downstairs and grabs a knife; he begins carving into the floor. Melinda hears him.

"Phil." She says. "Come on Phil, wake up we can't do this again." But he continues to draw. "Phil" she urges. But Coulson stayed in his trance not paying attention to anything May was saying. This was odd. May shakes Coulson, hoping this will open him up. "Coulson come on, snap out of it."

"Don't you see May, I'm drawing the center of the universe, I can't stop." His words were clear, but also high and unknowing. Coulson was becoming more and more like Garret.

Unlike the usual times when he snapped out of it after hearing May's voice, he wasn't snapping out like he usually did.

"Crap Phil, you're really losing it."

"No May, I finally see. What Skye's become, I can see others becoming it. I can help and see." He continues to draw.

May realizes that this wasn't the same Coulson that she knew. He'd been losing it since day one, but this was worse than she could have thought. She needed to tell the team.

May tells Triplett to put the plane on auto pilot, and gets Simmons and Fitz. May didn't wake Skye, after the experience she'd had, she thought it best not to wake her, and Ward wasn't exactly a team member anymore. She brought the trio down to the lab.

"Fitz, Simmons, and Triplett I need to tell you something that's long overdone, and that I should have told you long ago. But with Skye, I couldn't really find the words to say it." May takes a deep breath. "Coulson was injected with GH-325, and slowly his mind has been deaerating. It's a side effect of the GH-325 drug. He's been keeping it under wraps for now, but from the beginning he's been hiding this from all of you. But it's too late now. You see Coulson can't control it anymore, I think after finding Skye he didn't have a reason to hold on anymore."

Fitz and Simmons try to wrap their heads around what May was saying. "I don't understand, what's happened to him?"

"He's become like Garret." Ward says entering the lab. "Hasn't he."

May bites her lip, irritated that Ward had come in on their conversation. "Yes, he's lost it. He thinks he's drawing a map to the universe. He doesn't know how to handle things, his mind isn't the same."

"So he's crazy." Triplett confirms.

May nods hesitantly.

"I was hoping that you two could find a cure." Simmons looks at Fitz, her eyes making contact. "Do you think you could pull up the samples for the drug? Perhaps there's a cure for his madness."

"Actually Fitz and I have been studying the drug for the past while." May raises an eyebrow. "After the whole Hydra thing sort of, settled into our minds. I continued to study it, and I thought it would help jog Fitz's memory." Simmons twirls her thumbs.

"We might be able to find something to help, more easily then you think." Fitz confirms. "You see Simmons and I found something in the drug, that we realized shouldn't react well with the brain. We're not sure on the compound since it doesn't even seem from this earth, but if were able to find a substance that could block the compound…"

"It could cure Coulson." May realizes.

"Will get started." Simmons says grabbing some substances from the chemistry fridge. Fitz follows after.

"Triplett, help me move Coulson into the cage. He's delusional now, and I don't know where that will lead him." May looks at Ward. "If you want to help regain our trust you can help FitzSimmons in whatever way you can." Ward crosses his arms as May and Triplett go upstairs to fetch Coulson.

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Skye wakes up to Coulson sitting on the end of her bed. "Coulson…." Skye mumbles, rubbing the sleep out of her eye. "Is something wrong?"

"I can see it Skye." He mumbles.

"See what?"

"The universe, it's at the palm of my hand. It's reachable from every direction." He uses the knife to doodle on the wall in Skye's bunk. "And you Skye, your apart of the evolution now. The alien who saved us, he can show us the way. You are a part of their very species, their linage." Was this a dream? What was happing?

"Coulson I don't understand, but I think you should go back to bed. You're scaring me." Skye touches Coulson's arm. He blinks.

"Skye?" He says quietly. "What am I doing here?"

"Thank goodness Coulson, you were scaring me there. I thought you'd gone crazy." He blinks, as he looks to the drawing. May enters Skye's bunk, ICER in hand.

"Coulson you're sick, and I need you to get away from Skye." Coulson backs up.

"May wait it's me." May frowns. "I don't know how, but Skye snapped me back."

May looks at Skye. She realizes something. Skye was never affected by the drug. No matter the reason she wasn't affected. Maybe if Coulson had some of Skye's blood in him. "Triplett stay with Coulson, Skye come with me to the lab." May grabs Skye's arm and pulls her downstairs. Skye winces, and May notices. She let go. "Sorry it's just I don't want to lose Coulson, and I can't let something happen to him."

Skye nods, understanding her concern. Skye follows May down to the lab. "Simmons, I found a way to try and heal Coulson. Skye isn't affected by the drug for whatever reason, so maybe she could help?" Simmons goes wide eye.

"Of course, Skye do you mind." Skye shook her head. She lifts the sleeve on her jacket, revealing the bandage covering her burns. She unwraps it so Simmons can get a sample of her blood. Simmons and Fitz flinch though as the burn is revealed again under her skin. They still hadn't heard the story on how Skye got her injuries.

Simmons inserts the needle in Skye's arm taking some blood. "It's nice to have you back again Skye."

Simmons puts the blood sample in a device. "Fitz, look at this." She uploads the compound to the computer, and combines it with the research. Skye's blood showed healing immediately in Coulson's cells. "Fitz, do you think we could make a cure."

"I think we could." He agrees. May breathes in relief. Coulson was going to be okay now. He would be okay.

Okay so this was somewhat a last number chapter, the next chapter is the epilogue, which will wrap everything up in a nice little bow. I hope anyway. So happy for the people who have stayed with me through reading this, and I hope I can finish off the story nicely.