Coulson decided to start a team of powered people.

"Like the Avengers?" Natasha asked.

"No." Daisy said firmly. "Jiaying was right about one thing, people like me need to be kept a secret."

"Agreed." Coulson said.

But it wasn't that simple. The terragen crystals Skye quaked into the ocean wore away into the water and spread. The most common way of people accidentally ingesting it seemed to be fish oil capsules. They tried to recall them but they couldn't track down every single bottle.

People began changing. Some new organization was going after the new inhumans but they didn't know who it was. The only good thing was they weren't Hydra.

Coulson managed a picture of who they worked for and it came back as a match for several different aliases with all of them working for the government.

And to add on, the monolith had swallowed Simmons. They knew it could liquify and solidify at random but now they knew how dangerous it was. The door had been left open, Simmons had been in the room, and it had swallowed her up in an instant. They did everything they could think of, but no one knew what happened to her.

Fitz drove himself crazy, searching the globe for answers. Natasha stayed on base most of the time, she couldn't be caught out in the open. Daisy wasn't sure why she stayed, she could easily go back to Avengers tower. But she didn't want her to leave either.

Daisy wanted to track Lincoln down and bring him in. Their newest intake was a hot mess. She followed her dad down the hall trying to talk him into it when they ran into Natasha.

"Oh good. Nat, remember Lincoln? Doctor who understands inhuman biology? We should find him right?" Daisy said.

But Natasha found herself distracted by Daisy. She was walking around in a black tank top and had grown so much as an agent, and Natasha for once found herself dumbfounded.

"Nat!" Daisy snapped her out if it.

"Right. Yeah I think it's a good idea." She agreed and went back to her paperwork.

She did manage to find him at the hospital he worked at but had a run in with what she could only describe as a monster. A huge blue man, similar to the Hulk but it destroyed things and went after Lincoln. And it was capable of killing.

Lincoln and Daisy tried to stop it but it wasn't effected by their powers and nothing happened when Mack shot it. But Lincoln still ran and wouldn't come in.

She returned to the base with Mack to a worried May. Apparently while she had been at the hospital, her father had been taken by the woman they were looking for.

A few hours after they returned, the president made an address regarding the new alien transformations.

Daisy sat on a couch next to Natasha, with the other woman holding her hand while a government agency for containing "alien threats" was announced. May put a hand on her shoulder to help ground her more. This was scary, the government was hunting inhumans and calling them a threat.

Daisy was sitting down with Mack discussing the inhuman team when Bobbi and Hunter burst in.

"Fitz broke into the containment!" Bobbi screamed.

Fitz had officially gone off the deep end and was in the room with the monolith. The loss of Simmons was too much for him.

Mack dragged him out while Daisy screamed for them to close it. Her, Bobbi, and Hunter did just in time for it to liquify again.

"Dammit Fitz!" Coulson said as he walked in while attaching his prosthetic arm. "I already lost Simmons to that thing i cannot afford to lose you too."

"I'm sorry but I can't give up." Fitz said from the floor.

But with that mistake Fitz was able to prove the rock was a portal. It carried sand back that predated the earth by a billion years.

So Fitz went to work on getting her back.

Daisy was questioning Ward one day when she casually mentioned Simmons being gone. He had been helping, she thought he deserved some update on what was going on.

"Hang on, I've heard about that thing. I wasn't deep in with Hydra but I know they've had it in their possession before. You said it took Simmons away?" He asked.

"Yeah to some old planet, according to Fitz. He thinks-"

"Let me go." He cut her off.

"You're not serious." Daisy laughed.

"Implant a tracker, a kill switch, whatever. I'll get back in with Hydra undercover. Minimal contact, I'll find out what I can."

"You ARE serious. My parents will never go along with this."

"You can talk them into it."

"And you think I will."

"You're starting to talk to me like a normal person again. Have a speck of faith in me."

She brought up his suggestion to May and Coulson. May reacted like she expected, her dad didn't.

"Absolutely not."

"That's not a bad idea."

They spoke at the same time. May gave Coulson an astonished look.

"You can't be serious."

"If we can track him and take him out at any second, why not?" He shrugged.

"Impressive. So it's come down to this?"

"For Ward, yes."

"I'll get Bobbi on it." Daisy was amazed. She headed straight for the lab.

"So, a tracker and a kill switch." May crossed her arms.

"Don't tell me you think it's a completely horrible idea."

"If anything, I get to zap his ass."

Coulson smiled at her.

"Where would I be withiut you?" He asked.

"You'd be without your right hand too." May joked.

"I thought arm jokes were off the table."

"Not for me."

"Only for you. I mean it Melinda," he stepped into her personal space. "I dont know where I'd be without you."

For months now he thought they had been getting closer. Back to where they had been over twenty years ago. If he was honest with himself, he never had stopped loving her.

"Phil." May couldn't look at him, but she held a hand out to stop him. "I can't." A single tear went down her cheek.

He steped back and sighed.

"Fine, but I'm never going to give up. I'm always going to want you back."

And with that he left her standing alone in his office.

May made her way to the gym to work out her frustration. She began beating away at a punching bag, losing herself in the beat and her heart rate increasing. Until she heard a voice behind her.

"Mom!" Daisy yelled but it didn't register properly.

May swung hard behind her. Thanfully, her daughter ducked.

"Hey!" She said. "What's going on?"

"Nothing." May lied.

"That's not nothing." Daisy pointed to the sizable dent in the bag.

"Don't worry about me, Daisy. I'm fine, I promise." She assured her daughter before leaving.

Daisy sighed. Something was bothering her mother. She knew May wasn't the most open person but she wished she would try to be, at least with her.

"May just stormed out and now here you are." Natasha pointed out when she walked in. "Family drama?"

"She won't tell me anything." Daisy said.

"That's how May is with everyone. Don't take it personally."

"I'm her daughter. And an adult." Daisy countered.

"She probably doesn't want to worry you. Come on, I want to spar. You've been so busy with the powered team thing I don't believe you're staying on your toes." Natasha gave Daisy that smirk that tended to make her stomach flip.

The two of them went at it, pinning each other occasionally and leaning very close when they did. They didn't realize what they were doing but to anyone looking in, it would be obvious. Sure enough, Hunter and Mack were walking by and saw them flipping and swinging.

Natasha stopped to correct Daisy on a stance and move, pressing into the other woman's back as she did so.

"Now when do you think those two will stop beating around the bush and get down to it." Mack shook his head and crossed his arms.

"Maybe another decade and they'll slightly acknowledge it." Hunter said. "That's May's daughter and the Black Widow. I wouldn't count on any openness anytime soon."

"Its obvious to everyone but them."

"Everyone, really?" Said a voice behind them that made them jump.

May had showered, calmed her emotions, and come back to apologize to Skye.

"We were just..." Hunter stammered. May just gave them a deadpan stare. She wasn't happy about them standing around discussing her daughter's personal life.

"Maybe we should bring Romanoff into this discussion, see what she thinks." May suggested.

"Hunter didn't we have inventory again?" Mack suggested.

"Right. Apologies Agent May." Hunter said.

The two of them took off as fast as they could without running away in fear. May shook her head but looked in the window. Natasha was smiling anf flirting, something she usually reserved for targets. But Daisy wasn't a target. May had seen this a long time ago but she knew Nat and her daughter. Both were stubborn and scared of anything remotely resembling affection and caring from another human being. But she wouldn't interfere. Besides, she had her own issues right now.

An ex-husband and father to her daughter who had essentially proclaimed his feelings for her that she would happily reciprocate if she were her old self and if their daughter's feelings weren't at stake. She wasn't who she was all those years ago, and she didn't want to get Daisy's hopes up if it didn't work out.