Hello people! I am back.
The next day
Daisy was coming home from a week-long mission. When she got back to the base she knew something was wrong. It was quiet. It was never quiet. She went through the base, looking for someone. She didn't find anyone in the lab, which was odd, because at least one of Fitzsimmons were in the lab at all times. Well, all decent times and even then there were exceptions. She went to Coulson's office, to find no one. She went to May's room and saw the two of them, Coulson and May, asleep on the bed. Daisy was embarrassed to see two of her superiors in bed together. They weren't doing anything besides sleeping, but it was still embarrassing. She went up and shook Coulson's shoulder.
"Hey," She said, "AC? You awake?"
Coulson stirred.
"What?" He asked, yawning and sitting up. "What's going on?"
"You fell asleep," She said. "What are you doing in May's room?"
He looked at May, as though surprised that she was there.
"I was," He began, looking as though he was trying to remember. "I was making sure she was alright."
"Is something the matter with May?"
Daisy looked at May. She was flushed and she was… shivering?
"She's sick?" Daisy asked.
How could the famous Melinda May get sick?
Coulson nodded.
"She caught the Flu from- from Jemma."
It sounded like he was going to say something else, but he caught himself.
"What's going on? I leave for a week and May and Jemma get sick?"
"That's what-" Coulson began to say, then collapsed into a coughing fit. "Happened."
"You sound terrible," Daisy grimaced, "Is everyone else sick?"
"I'm not sick," Coulson protested.
"Yes, you are. Is anyone else healthy?"
"There's Mack and I'm not sure about Hunter."
"Great," She muttered. "Only three of us are still in operation."
Back to the future
"Where did you go when you traveled in time?" Ward asked Lily.
"I went to your base," Lily said.
"Jemma said you were there 13 years ago. Why did you go there?"
"I didn't mean to. I was thinking of a story mommy told me."
"Which story?" Daisy asked.
"The one where everyone got sick while you were away."
Daisy thought about it. If Lily had gone back to that time, was it possible that she had gotten everyone sick?
"Lily," Daisy said. "Was anyone sick while you were there?"
"No," Lily said. "Just me."
Daisy pulled her husband aside.
"I think I know why everyone was sick when I got back," she said.
"Why?" Ward asked.
"Because Lily got them sick."
"Really?"
"Yes. And that would explain a lot. Like, why everyone was acting weird around me afterward."
"Let's not tell her that she got them sick," Ward said. "She might feel bad about it."
"Okay."
In the Past
Daisy was making sure everyone was comfortable. She had the help of Mack and only Mack as Hunter got sick from Bobby. Hunter was hating every second of being sick.
"I can't believe you did this to me!" He moaned to Bobby.
"Quiet down," Bobby said. "You're making my headache worse. And anyway, you didn't have to stay by my side when I got sick. This is on you."
Daisy smiled as she walked past the bickering pair. She missed having someone to bicker with. Interrupting her thoughts was a scream from May's room. She raced to her mentor's side.
"No!" May was shouting. "Don't take her! Don't take Charlotte!"
"May!" Daisy yelled. "It's okay. It's just a dream. Wake up!"
May woke up crying.
"Hey. It's okay," Daisy said, holding May in her arms.
"Daisy?" May asked when she had finished crying.
"Yes, it's me."
"You're back?"
"Yes."
There was a pause.
"Do you want to tell me who Charlotte is?" Daisy asked.
May looked like she was going to start crying again.
"If you don't want to, that's fine."
"No. I need to. I might as well tell someone."
Daisy sat down on the bed.
"A little more than twenty-five years ago," May began. "I began feeling sick. I kept throwing up and feeling dizzy. I found out later that I was pregnant."
"You were pregnant?" Daisy asked, incredulous.
May had been a mother?
"Yes. I told no one but the father and eventually Fury. He gave me a few months off so no one would know I was pregnant. I gave birth to a healthy baby girl who I named Charlotte."
"Who's the father?" Daisy asked.
"Coulson."
Daisy's mind was reeling. May and Coulson had been a couple? They had had a daughter?
"What happened to Charlotte?" Daisy asked.
"A couple months after I gave birth, Charlotte was taken."
"Taken? By who?"
"I don't know. It could have been Hydra. It might have been any enemy of Shield."
"And you never saw her again?"
"No. Never."