Deke leapt and his body soared over the atmosphere for a moment before he began his plummet.
Daisy braced herself; she had to do something.
She froze.
Terrified to do what she thought she could, she did nothing.
Deke's body hurtled to the ground. Finally, he felt free of the burden he'd caused everyone- Bobo, Nana, Mr. Mackenzie, Ms. Rodriguez, Daisy, everyone.
His body landed onto the pavement with a sickening crunch. Bones shattered.
There was no reprisal.
Daisy stared at the broken bones of what used to be her classmate.
"Deke's really dead, isn't he?" she realized
"Yeah." Grant Ward materialized behind her, his hands on her shoulders for support.
"Should we be sad about that?" Daisy wondered aloud
"Nope." he shook his head.
As Grant guided her away from the carnage, Daisy looked back one last time. She could've saved Deke. She knew that.
She had powers. Nobody knew that.
God, what would people have thought about her? Grant would've broken up with her. Phil and Melinda would've disowned her, and they weren't even her real parents. Isn't that why her parents left her for adoption, because she was some sort of freak?
Meanwhile, the sports medicine team rushed to the site to deal with the body.
Don't worry, the football game only got postponed, not canceled.
END
A/N - the actual show's finale essentially made me give up on a lot of dreams. The end result is that romantic love is a sham, and that couples we root for never get together because the powers that be think that a sensitive, funny, caring guy is a joke, and that in order to be a sought after suitor, you shouldn't have anything that makes you weak, including feelings of inadequacy.