Chapter 28
AN: Thank you so much for the support. Hope you like this chapter.
November 29th 2008
A month has passed since Melinda and Daisy returned home and ever since they have been adjusting to being home, something which Daisy is very glad about, and Melinda has not only been adjusting to her new job in Admin as well as attempting to avoid answering Natasha's question.
For Kora, after spending so long away from Afterlife, longer than she has ever been gone before, it has been rather strange for her to be back. However, Kora has gone straight to helping a young nineteen-year-old by the name of Lincoln Campbell with preparing for his transition, and is now helping him adjust, and learn to control, his new electric abilities.
Reminding her so much of herself when she first got her abilities Lincoln, his eyes growing blue, is sitting in the corner of the transition room, his arms around his legs, looking terrified.
"It's hurts! Something's wrong! I'm wrong!" Lincoln exclaims.
"No Lincoln, there's nothing wrong with you," Kora assures him in a gentle voice as she walks towards him.
"I almost burnt everything down! I can't get control! I could have killed someone!" Lincoln exclaims, and as electricity comes out of him Kora realizes that he is struggling even more.
"But you didn't," Kora assures him. "And I believe you can get control," Kora assures Lincoln as she sits down next to him.
"You don't know what it's like! This power is so strong, so distractive, It controls me," Lincoln admits.
"I know exactly what it's like," Kora assures him. "I'd like to tell you a story, if you're willing to listen, about what happened to me when I went through the mist, the journey I took, who helped me get control and how I ended up how I am now," Kora admits. "When I'm done, if you'd let me, I'd like to help you because, Lincoln, I do know what you're feeling right now. I know I can help you learn the control you need so you're not afraid, so you never think you're wrong, just like I did," Kora says, and she sees Lincoln nod. After seeing Lincoln nod Kora starts to tell Lincoln her story in hopes that it will help him.
December 24th 2008
A month has passed since Lincoln went through the mist and ever single day Kora has been working with him; helping him, supporting him.
It is Christmas Eve and due to Daisy and Melinda having been gone from DC for so long they are throwing a big Christmas party at their apartment.
"This is going to be really fun," Daisy says, with a grin.
"Yes, I think it will be," Melinda confirms.
"Aunt Kora and Uncle Gordon are coming from Afterlife too right?" Daisy asks her mother.
"I believe so," Melinda admits, as she hasn't heard otherwise.
"Cool," Daisy says, with a grin, and as she does the door opens and Phil walks in, the second the door opens, as she knows exactly who it is, Daisy runs towards Coulson. "Cols," Daisy says, with a grin, as she basically throws herself into Coulson's arm.
"Merry Christmas Daisy," Phil says, as he kisses Daisy's head and the two of them break apart, once they break apart Phil walks over to Melinda, and gives her a quick hug as well. Melinda can feel how glad he is to see her.
As Phil and Daisy break apart, and before Daisy has a chance to close the door Kora and Gordon, who teleported into a nearby storage closet, are walking up as well.
"Aunt Kora, Uncle Gordon," Daisy says excited as she runs towards them and hugs them both, feeling beyond glad to see the again.
An hour later Bobbi, Mack, Natasha, Clint, and Maria have all also arrived at Melinda and Daisy's apartment. As she looks around Melinda realizes that, even though she can only feel their emotions faintly, everyone is having a great time, or almost everyone. Looking around Melinda realizes that Kora is just standing in the kitchen, not really joining in the celebrations. Not being able to help but wonder what is going on Melinda walks over to her sister.
"You okay?" Melinda asks her sister, and Kora knows there is no point in lying to her sister as she can tell.
"I've been working with a new Inhuman," Kora reveals. "His name is Lincoln. He's not much older than Daisy, was at Afterlife about a year before going through the mist, had a tough life, he's got electrical powers. And Mellie, he reminds me so much of me when I first got my abilities," Kora explains.
"You're worried about him," Melinda realizes.
"More like worrying how he's doing," Kora admits. "Can you feel that?" Kora asks curious, purposely lowering her voice so none of the agents hear as while Melinda is close to her she isn't touching her.
"Faintly," Melinda answers, then frowns. "I feel something else, it's faint, and familiar, but I can't quiet identify it," Melinda reveals, and Kora is pretty sure if Melinda could feel it she would be annoyed about not being able to identify what she is feeling. So, taking pity on her sister, Kora reaches out and puts her hand on Melinda's arm.
As soon as Kora touches her arm Melinda realizes why the feeling is familiar,
"You love him like a son," Melinda realizes, as what her sister is feeling towards Lincoln is what she feels toward Daisy, and Bobbi.
"Yeah, I do," Kora confirms.
"I can feel how desperately you want to help him, and as someone you've helped recently, I know you will; I know you're the best person to," Melinda assures her sister.
"Thanks Mellie," Kora says, with a slight smile.
"It's snowing!" Daisy exclaims, looking excited. "We should go outside," Daisy says.
"We really should," Bobbi says, looking almost as excited.
"Are you kidding? It's freezing," Mack comments.
"It would be fun," Clint comments.
"Let's go," Melinda says, ending the conversation, and everyone heads outside together.
For the next hour or so six shield agents, and four Inhumans pay in the snow together, having snowball fights, and just having a great time. Because everyone is so happy Melinda doesn't even have to be touching anyone to feel their happiness.
March 27th 2009
Three months have passed since Christmas and in that time, Kora has continued to work with Lincoln, while Melinda has continued to adjust to her new abilities and being around a lot of people.
It's a Friday and Melinda has been called to Daisy's school. As soon as she got the call Melinda headed to the school as fast as she could, if she was capable of being concerned, she would be extremely so. Once she gets to Daisy's school Melinda is taken straight to the principal's office where she sees Daisy sitting in a chair across from the principal.
"Daisy, are you alright?" Melinda asks her daughter, in a perfectly even voice which if Daisy hadn't gotten used to she would find extremely strange.
"Yeah, I'm fine, Mom," Daisy reveals, looking like absolutely nothing is wrong as she doesn't feel bad about what she did.
"Ms May, if you'd take a seat, we have to have a serious discussion," Daisy's principal reveals, and Melinda sits down next to her daughter.
"What's happened?" Melinda asks, as she knows that she wouldn't have gotten called in for no reason.
"Daisy decided to use her computer class today, and school resources, to hack into the personal, school, medical and child protection records of another student, and realized the not only to the police but the news," the principal explains.
"Because she's not okay! Her foster home is hell! She wouldn't have survived there much longer, and she wanted to get out of there," Daisy exclaims. "Jade is glad that I did it," Daisy explains.
"Which is the only reason you are not in more serious trouble," The principal informs Daisy. "But Miss May, this is an extremely serious, just because you will not face legal consequences does not mean there will be no consequences, in fact there will be and serious ones at that," the principal explains.
"Am I to understand that another student has been abused, Daisy, with the students permission, obtained the required information, released it to the relevant people, and she is being punished for it?" Melinda asks, wanting to make sure as even without emotions that doesn't seem right to her.
"Daisy accepted systems and databases that she shouldn't have, she did not have permission to do what she did," The Principal explains.
"Why do I need permission to help someone in need?" Daisy asks curious.
"She is right, Daisy did a good thing," Melinda admits, and the principal realizes that they are not going to agree.
"Be that as it may I have no choice but to suspend Daisy for three days," The Principal explains.
"You do actually," Melinda responds. "Daisy, let's go," Melinda says and the two of them head out of the principal's office.
Not long after they left the school Daisy and Melinda arrive back at their apartment, and even though she figures she's not going to have much of a chance of getting there Daisy starts to head to her room.
"Daisy let's talk, sit down," Melinda tells her daughter, and Daisy walks over and sits on the couch, while Melinda walks over and sits down across from her. "I meant what I said to your teacher, you should be proud of what you did," Melinda tells her daughter.
"I am," Daisy answers. "Jade needed help and I could help her, there was no way I wasn't going to," Daisy admits, and as she does Melinda realizes something.
"Have you hacked into systems like this before?" Melinda asks her daughter and Daisy looks down at the ground. "Daisy?" Melinda asks.
"Since I got back from the island, I've been doing a lot of hacking," Daisy admits.
"Why?" Melinda asks, knowing her daughter well enough to know she would have a very good reason.
"You work every day to protect our people, I want to do the same thing," Daisy admits. "There are groups online, other hacktivists who think they're doing the right thing by getting information out to the public; I'm trying to be apart of those groups so that I can make sure none of that information is about our people," Daisy admits.
"Daisy that's dangerous," Melinda tells her daughter, and as she does, she realizes something. "And also something that I'm not going to talk you out of," Melinda realizes.
"May I?" Daisy asks, lifting her hand a little, as she figures that the best way to explain to her mother why this is so important is for her to feel it.
"Sure," Melinda says, with a nod, and Daisy reaches out and touches her mother's arm, as soon as Daisy touches her Melinda can feel her daughter's stubbornness and how important this is to her.
"Mom, what I can do matters. I can help protect our people from threats they don't even know exist, I want to do this," Daisy admits.
"You tell me if there are any legitimate threats, and you just stay online, you never meet anyone in person," Melinda informs her daughter.
"I can agree to that," Daisy says, with a nod.
"Good," Melinda says. "I am proud of you," Melinda says, before hugging her daughter.
July 2nd 2009
A little over three months have passed since Melinda gave Daisy permission to Hack as a way to protect their people. Ever since Daisy got permission to hack she has continued to do so and has started to make some connections.
It is the morning of Daisy's fourteenth birthday, and a lovely summers day, unlike her last birthday Daisy gets out of bed the second she wakes up and hurries out into the living room where her mother is already doing Tai-Chi.
"Morning Daisy," Melinda greats.
"Morning Mom," Daisy responds.
"Happy Birthday," Melinda says, with a slight grin.
"Todays going to be great," Daisy says. "Cols is going to be here, and Bobbi, Mack, Uncle Gordon, Aunt Kora, it's gonna be incredible," Daisy admits, grinning from ear to ear.
"It is," Melinda confirms, and as she does the door opens and Phil walks in.
"Cols," Daisy says hurrying over to him. "Hi Cols," Daisy greats.
"Happy Birthday Daisy," Phil says, before hugging her.
"I'm really glad you're here," Daisy says as she feels Phil kiss her head before they break apart.
"What do you want for breakfast?" Phil asks his daughter. "I brought supplies to make anything you could want," Phil admits, as after missing Daisy's birthday the year before he is determined to make sure this birthday is incredible.
"Dutch chocolate pancakes?" Daisy asks curious.
"Yeah, I can do that," Phil confirms, walking into the kitchen, causing Daisy to grin, and to her absolute joy Daisy is able to spend her entire fourteenth birthday with her entire family.
31 August 2009
Over nine weeks have passed since Daisy's fourteenth birthday and ever since she has just been having an enjoyable summer with her family.
It's the first day of school, but because it's not just any other first day at school Daisy is just lying in her bed wide awake. It is officially the day where Daisy starts high school, and she would be lying if she said she wasn't nervous.
While she loves anything to do with Computer Daisy still has times where she struggles to concentrate, and because of that school isn't always fun for her. As she lays in her bed Daisy hears a knock on the door.
"Daisy are you awake?" Melinda asks through the door as her daughter is normally out of bed by now.
"Yeah, I'm awake," Daisy responds, and once she does Melinda walks in and sits down on the edge of her daughter's bed, purposely not touching her as she wants to give Daisy the option of revealing what she is feeling.
"Would you like to talk?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"I'm scared," Daisy admits. "I just don't know what to expect," Daisy admits.
"I don't either," Melinda reminds her daughter. "But I do know that you can handle it," Melinda assures her daughter. "You have been through so much and have handled everything that's been thrown at you," Melinda tells her daughter, and Daisy smiles. "This is just high school, and I know you can handle it," Melinda explains to her daughter.
"Thanks Mom," Daisy responds, smiling slightly.
"As scared as you are, you really don't want to be late, so how about you get ready and we'll stop in at the diner for breakfast," Melinda explains to her daughter. "And then you pick what we do for dinner," Melinda explains.
"I'd like that," Daisy responds, and once she does Melinda gets up and heads out of the room, allowing Daisy to get ready.
Hours later Daisy has not only survived her first day at High School but has loved every second. As Melinda knew how nervous Daisy was she invited Coulson, Bobbi and Mack over and the five of them are having pizza together.
"Her names Laura and she's soo cool!" Daisy says excited. "A stamped on the foot of a jock guy who gave me a hard time and not only did she laugh, but made it clear to him that if he went to a teacher that it would be his word against ours," Daisy says, with a grin. "And then we were in every class together, and sat together at lunch, and she loves computers too!" Daisy says excited. "I think I made a new best friend," Daisy reveals.
"I'm really glad, Daisy," Bobbi says with a grin. "Told you you'll be fine," Bobbi teases and Daisy throws a cushion at her.
"Mack, later in the semester I need to make something for shop class, can you help?" Daisy asks curious.
"of course, you don't have to ask," Mack assures her, honestly feeling glad that Daisy is so happy.
"And Cols, you'll help with history, right?" Daisy asks, looking at him.
"You know it," Phil assures her. "I'm really glad you had such a great day," Phil admits.
"How about you tell us more about your classes," Melinda suggests, and Daisy does just that.
March 7th 2010
Six months have passed since Daisy started school and due to her friendship with Laura she has enjoyed High School a lot more than she thought she would. As Phil has been busy working over the past few months Daisy is glad to be able to spend a Sunday with both her parents.
"He can't be that bad," Daisy comments, looking amused.
"He is," Phil confirms. "Not only did he refuse to say the cover story I wrote for him, but he publicly outed himself as Iron Man which has caused the public to ask a whole lot of other questions about the things that really go on in the world," Phil admits.
"It's not overly surprising that he did that, right?" Melinda asks. "You met Howard, you know what he would be like; it's realistic to expect his son is the same," Melinda reminds him, as she only met Howard once but as far as she knows Phil met him more than once.
"I was hoping he'd be different," Phil admits. "And Fury is hinting that I'll be baby sitting him again soon," Phil says, looking annoyed and Daisy can't help but grin.
"You have the coolest job in the world, and you're complaining?" Daisy asks, honestly not sure if she can believe that.
"Maybe a little," Phil admits, looking sheepish.
"Our lives are so strange," Daisy says with a laugh, and as she isn't sitting too far from her daughter Melinda can feel her joy and can't help but smile too.
1 August 2010
Five months have passed since Daisy laughed about how strange her life is and in that time she has turned 15. It is a Sunday morning and Daisy is pacing back and forth in the living room while Melinda is just sitting on one of the kitchen stools just drinking her cup of tea.
"She's still coming right? There hasn't been an emergency at Afterlife?" Daisy asks her mother.
"Not as far as I know," Melinda answers, and as she does there is a blue light and Kora and Gordon appear.
"Aunt Kora, Uncle Gordon," Daisy says thrilled as she hurries over and hugs them both, and after a few moments the three of them break apart.
"I'll be back in a few days," Gordon reveals, before taking several steps back, and disappearing.
"So, I want to hear all about how school's been and what you've been up to," Kora says as she puts her arm around her nieces shoulder, as it has been a while since they have seen each other as Kora couldn't make it to DC for Daisy's birthday.
"And I want to hear all about Afterlife," Daisy admits. "Are you still helping that Guy with Electrical powers?" Daisy asks curious.
"Lincoln," Kora corrects. "In some ways, but he's doing really well, he's gone back to his life, even thinking about med school, and I'm proud of him," Kora admits and once she does she, Daisy and Melinda proceed to catch each other up on what's been going on in their respective lives, and all three May woman are very glad to be back together again.