Coulson was happy to hold his daughter too. Daisy visited him in his office and got a full update on everything before going to get the few things she had from her quarantine room.
"Daisy." Said a raspy voice behind her.
It was Fitz, and he looked scared.
"What is it?" Daisy couldn't take any more right now.
"I, I need to tell you that, uh." He seemed to be struggling with the words again. "Your DNA. I switched your new samples with the old ones."
Daisy felt like someone punched her in the gut.
"The new one's are different?" Daisy asked.
"Drastically. But let's not tell anyone just yet." He said. "Not with the way Simmons is acting."
Daisy nodded and cried, leaning in to hug Fitz.
"There's something very wrong with me." Daisy sobbed.
"No you're just different now." Fitz tried to soothe her. "And there's nothing wrong with that."
Daisy almost immediately returned to training with her mother, it helped take her mind off things. They sparred with Natasha occasionally taking May's place.
Things were interrupted when an operative in Portugal reported a familiar face landing. Lady Sif was on Earth again. As familiar faces, Coulson and May went to meet with her. But she appeared to have no memory of herself. She just kept repeating Kava.
Daisy found a video on Twitter of Lady Sif fighting what looked like a human but was holding his own against the Asgardian. In the video, he used some kind of weapon on her before throwing her off a pier.
They took her back to the bus where the rest of the team waited. Daisy and Bobbi would be going to handle witnesses, May and Coulson would try to help Sif remember, and Fitz and Hunter would handle forensics. Natasha had to stay at the base, this mission was too high profile and she still couldn't be seen.
Bobbi and Daisy found evidence the man was at the hospital, and May and Coulson found out he needed nitrogen. They began to search for him.
They did find him but he instigated a fight with Bobbi and ran. By the time May and Coulson found them Daisy was under a fallen shelf and Bobbi was knocked out on the floor from being thrown.
"Daisy!" May felt like she just dug her daughter out from the rubble in Puerto Rico.
Everyone ended up being okay.
"The guy was blue, like he just tested some Willie Wonka gum." Daisy described her encounter.
Daisy's theory is that he was Kree, and Sif said if a Kree was in their world it wasn't good. But him being there did give them clues to what Sif had forgotten. Kava meant keys in Kree. They all wondered if maybe she was hunting him.
May managed to find a city named Chavez that meant keys in English. It was a city in Portugal that was the sight of a Hydra dig, when the obelisk was originally found in 1945. That was their next stop.
But Daisy asked to sit this out.
"Are you alright?" Coulson asked.
"I'm fine, that alien just knocked me for a loop." Daisy assured him.
"Is this really about being hurt?" May suspected something.
"I promise." Daisy lied.
She wasn't okay, back at the hospital the gun in her hand had come apart on her. She couldn't control whatever was going on with her and she didn't trust herself on a mission.
They managed to wrangle the Kree and put him in the cage on the bus, where he plead with them to understand that he was there to help. Sif accused him of attacking her to which he said she had attacked him and he took her memory to keep her from following him.
They all landed back at the base.
"Hey, how'd it go?" Natasha asked when she saw Daisy.
"We caught a color changing alien." Daisy attempted humor to put herself at ease.
Natasha knew something was up with her lately but didn't want to push.
"I'm sad I missed it. Your parents are worried about what the government would think about an Avenger working with SHIELD." Natasha groaned.
"I get it. If anyone found out you would probably have to leave." Daisy pointed out.
"We wouldn't want that would we?" Natasha smirked before following May and Coulson into the common area to question the Kree.
In the middle of grilling him, he managed to wrangle his weapon back and return Sif's memories to prove his good intentions.
He spoke of terragensis, Kree invading planets and altering species to fight their wars. This caught Daisy's attention. Apparently the experiments failed except for on Earth, where they had to be shut down.
The Kree was there because an ancient signal had been triggered when the diviner released the mist from the terragen crystals. He described the transformed beings as abominations, and that he had to put a stop to it before the Kree empire learned and invaded again.
In Chavez, they found a crate which would supposedly hold enough diviners to create an army. But it was empty.
Coulson told the Kree he knew who had changed, her name was Raina but they couldn't find her.
"We don't know much about her transformation, Daisy witnessed it but didn't see much." Coulson explained.
"You were there?" Sif rounded on Daisy who looked terrified. Natasha stepped closer to her, concerned.
"What did you see?" Sif demanded.
"I didn't...nothing." Daisy stammered.
"Were there others with you? The changed may not be visible, but buried inside." The Kree explained. "You must understand. These creatures are abominations, weapons, even if they don't know."
The whole place began to shake. Natasha grabbed Daisy by the wrist.
"Daisy? You want to talk to us?" May approached cautiously, seeing the terrified look on her daughter's face.
"Daisy," Coulson approached cautiously, "What's doing this?"
"I am." She managed to say.
Sif tried to grab at her, Daisy jerked away and backed to the windows. A moment later, they shattered. Coulson covered May while they watched their daughter struggle with herself.
"Hand her over! I'll take her to Asgard it will be safer for all of you" Sif said.
May and Natasha stepped in front of Daisy, guns raised.
"We will do no such thing!" Coulson said.
"The weapon has been activated it needs to be eliminated before it kills someone." The Kree said.
"My daughter is not a weapon!" Coulson spat back.
"No one is saying she chose this but she is dangerous." Sif tried to reason with them.
"I don't want to be this way." Daisy added.
"Imagine what will happen if your powers grow. It may not stop at glass, you could bring down buildings, tear continents apart!" Sif raised her voice.
"I can get a handle on it!" Daisy said.
"That's not what you were designed to do, you were designed to destroy. Which is why you must be put down." The Kree said darkly.
"Yeah well that sounds a lot like killing to me." Fitz accused from behind them.
"This is not your concern." The Kree turned to him.
May took advantage of his distraction and grabbed her daughter, running like hell.
"Fitz we need bambino!" Coulson said to the young scientist.
"You want her you go through me!" Natasha stepped in front of the Kree.
There was no way in hell they were taking her away. She meant to harm and didn't ask for this. Besides, all she needed to do was distract him long enough for Fitz to get the gun that could take him down.
May took Daisy to the basement cell and closed the barrier, shutting everything out.
"What the hell is-?" Ward, who was now back in his basement cell, tried to say but May iced him immediately and dragged him to a corner.
"Daisy," she kneeled on the bed with her daughter, "look at me. We can do this, you can do this. Control yourself emotions, focus."
"I can't stop it. Everyone is at risk." Daisy sobbed.
May stood up.
"Focus on me, just me." She said.
Suddenly, Sif's sword cut through.
"Agent May, release the girl." She demanded.
May turned around and got ready for a fight. She would go toe to toe with a god to protect her daughter.
"Mom, she'll get through." Daisy said.
"Ignore it." May told her without looking away.
After a few more moments, Sif broke through and everything happened so quickly.
May tensed for the fight, Sif took a step toward her, and Daisy took an icer off her leg holster. She turned it on herself and tipped over, unconscious.
"Daisy!" May gasped, hurrying over. She examined her carefully, brushing hair out of her face. When she was satisfied, she picked Daisy's head up and sat down, placing it in her lap and running her finger's through her daughter's hair.
"She harmed herself." Sif observed.
"Even though she knew it meant giving up her freedom." Coulson and Natasha came in aiming guns at her.
"Or to save the rest of you." Sif said.
Coulson convinced her to leave Daisy there, and when she left he nodded at May who rested back against the padded walls and breathed deeply. She almost had her daughter taken away for what felt like the hundredth time.
Coulson and Bobbi took the Kree and Sif to go home, while May and Natasha stayed behind. Together, they managed to get the young woman up to medical and wait for her to wake up.
"Do you think we can handle her?" Natasha asked May.
"She's my daughter, I don't care." May said without looking away from Daisy.
"I wouldn't have let them take her, but we need to be prepared. I've been around powered people, they can't always handle it at first. I think if she can get control of it, she could be amazing." Natasha observed.
"She won't be an Avenger." May said.
"What if that's what she wants?" Natasha asked.
May sighed. "I love her, I can't imagine sitting by watching her take the risks you do."
"May, you trained me. Do you think she couldn't handle herself?"
May actually let a tear loose.
"I lost over twenty years with her."
"I'm sorry. This is the wrong time."
May sniffed. "Let me know if she wakes up." And she walked away.
An hour later, Daisy groaned and began to stir. When she realized she was awake, she gasped.
"Hey, hey it's okay." Natasha was immediately at her side and getting her attention.
"You're safe." She assured the woman.
"Everyone else?" Daisy asked with frightened eyes.
"They're fine. I promise." Natasha soothed.
Daisy sat up slowly.
"I'm sorry." She began to cry.
"No, it's not your fault." Natasha ran hands up and down her arms.
"If I had just stayed out of that city..." Daisy really began to sob.
Natasha sat on the bed next to her and pulled her in. Daisy clung to her shirt sleeves and let it all out. Natasha held her to her with a hand in her hair.
"I'm going to get you some tea." She said once Daisy calmed. Daisy nodded and pulled her knees to her chest.
When Natasha came back to an empty room she panicked. She set the tray down and took off.
"Where's Daisy?" She grabbed Fitz.
"She went to the bus." Fitz explained.
Natasha quickly made her way to the bus and slammed open the door to the cage.
"What are you doing?" She asked the young woman.
"Keeping everyone safe." Daisy answered.
Natasha saw the bag and the personal things strewn about.
"Okay, I'll be back." Natasha closed the door.
When she returned, she had her own bag and a mattress.
"Okay, no." Daisy told her. "I'm dangerous."
"I don't care." Natasha deadpanned.
She moved her mattress to a corner and set her bag down.
That night was Daisy's first nightmare. Barely three hours into the night, Natasha woke to the room shaking and a sobbing Daisy turning over and over in her bed.
"Daisy." Natasha shot out of bed.
She ran over to the bed and grabbed Daisy by the shoulders.
"Wake up, you're okay."
Nothing.
"Daisy!" Natasha shook her and she finally woke up. "The room was shaking." She simply said.
"I'm sorry." Daisy said. "I just..."
"I know." Natasha brushed hair out of her face. "It's alright, I'm right over there if it happens again. Go back to sleep." She kissed the young woman's forehead and went back to her bed.
Barely four hours later it happened again. Natasha dragged herself back out of bed and walked over. Knowing gentle waking wouldn't work, she shook Daisy again.
"I did it again." Daisy couldn't look at Natasha. "I'm sorry. You shouldn't let me wake you up."
"I chose to come in here." Natasha stated. "Do you want your mom?"
"No. She's done enough. So have you. Go back to your bunk, Nat."
"I'm not going anywhere. Lay down." Natasha pulled her blanket back.
Daisy was so tired she complied. Natasha pulled the blanket back over her. She stayed for a few minutes, brushing through Daisy's hair with her fingers until she felt like the other woman could go back to sleep.
Around three in the morning, May couldn't sleep and checked in.
What she saw surprised her. She didn't know Natasha had opted to stay in there. She opened the door and saw a sleeping Daisy on one side and Natasha on the other. Both were clearly exhausted, neither budged when the door opened. May smiled to herself and closed the door.