Chapter 22
May's POV
"Why hasn't he woken up?" Simmons asks as she moves closer and grabs hold of Fitz's hand. Skye stops pacing around the room and sits down beside her.
"He will when he is ready Simmons" Skye tells her.
"It's been nine days. He should be awake" Simmons says as tears start to roll down her face. "He shouldn't even be like this it's my fault" she cries burying her head in the blankets of the bed.
"It's not your fault Simmons" I tell her.
"He gave me the air because…" the rest of what she was going to say is muffled in the blankets but, Skye and I know what she means, this is not the first time we have had this conversation with her.
"because he loves you" Skye finishes, and I look at her shocked hoping she had a speech of some kind prepared, because if she didn't this would not end well. "but, Simmons you love him too. Maybe not in the same way" she continues getting up to kneel in front of her. "You both care about each other and protect each other. Like when you were infected with the Chitauri virus and Fitz went running in to the lab to help make the vaccine" Skye tells her.
"Anti-serum" Simmons mutters.
"Or when you shot someone because you thought he was in trouble. He might have given you the air thing" Skye says, and I see where she is going with this.
"But your the one that got him out. You could have left him down there but you didn't" I finish for Skye, and she gives me a small smile.
"But" Simmons starts but, Skye and I cut her off.
"No buts" we both say.
"Is that what we sounded like?" Simmons asks, looking at her hand that is still wrapped tightly around Fitz's.
"Sound like" Skye corrects, she looks like she is going to say more, but the beeping of machines cut her off, as Fitz wakes up. "I'll go get the doctor" Skye says as she runs from the room.
Skye's POV
I had been pacing out side of Coulson's office for more than fifteen minutes waiting for him to get off the phone. Now that I didn't sit with Fitz for hours a day I had a surprising amount of time to fill. Which I usually spent alone on my laptop, now that Fitz was awake he spent most of his time in physical or speech therapy with Simmons stuck to his side. M and Trip were usually running around the base doing things for Coulson. Which meant I was left, trying to find out what these stupid patterns meant. Tried of pacing I stop and lean against the wall next to the office door fidgeting with my locket.
"How long have you been out here?" Coulson asks as he steps out of his office.
"I don't know" I tell him "but, I need to ask you about those photos"
"Skye, I told you it's need to know" he tells me, again.
"Coulson, I need to know. I can't find anything about them and I have nothing to go on" I snap, I was getting frustrated not finding anything.
"It's need to know" he says and I am really tempted to hit him. "Where did you get that locket?" he asks before I can say anything else.
"A friend at the orphanage. Why?" I lie, confused by the topic change.
"Just wondering, May has one similar to it" He then turns away and walk down the hall. Leaving me stunned standing outside of his office. I tuck the locket back under my shirt, hoping that he does not figure out that they are almost the exact same.
May's POV
"Do you need something?" Coulson asks, when I walk into his office after doing inventory with Trip.
"Just giving you this" I say handing over the many list we had made.
"Thank you" he mutters and sighs looking over them.
"Have you seen Skye?" I ask, since I had not seen her since we trained in the morning.
"She was here earlier why?" he asks, I just shrug not bothering to think of an excuse to see her. "Did you know she has a locket similar to yours" he ask.
"Yeah, I've noticed it she always has it on" I tell him, wishing I had told Skye to make sure he didn't see it.
"Oh, I had never noticed" he says opening a medical file that I am guessing belongs to Fitz. "Have you ever thought about having kids?" he asks suddenly, and I am momentarily stunned. I just shake my head hoping that it will be less of a lie then if I said it out loud. "I called Fitz's Mother with another update today. It was horrible having to explain to her what was happening to son" It is worse to hear it. I think to myself.
"There you are" I say when I find Skye in the Bus. She is on her laptop and does not respond, she just continues to look at the screen and play with her locket moving it back and forth across the chain.
"Hey Mum" she when she sees my leaning on the door, but continues working. "What have you been doing today? I haven't seen you since training" she says still typing but, sounding interested.
"Inventory with Trip. What have you been doing Coulson mentioned you went to talk to him?" I ask.
"Working on this mostly" she tells me then she stops typing, to ask "Has Coulson been acting strange around you, or asking random questions that don't really have anything to do with what you're talking about" she asks.
"Yeah, he asked me about having kids but, he was looking at Fitz's medical file and told me that he had called Fitz's Mother again today. So it wasn't completely random. Why do you ask?" I tell her, having noticed Coulson's strange behaviour today but, I thought it had to do with him having another episode last night.
"I was trying to talk to him about something but he just changed the topic, started asking about my locket. I thought he was just trying to avoid answering my questions but, there seemed to be something more to it" she tells me, turning her attention away from her laptop to a folder on the table.
"He is probably just tried" I tell her, more concerned about what she was asking questions about. "What did you want to know, maybe I can help"
"Maybe, he said it was need to know" she say turning on the bigger screen we used to use for debriefs and pulling up some pictures. "Do you know anything about these? They have been driving me crazy" she says. I feel my heart stop seeing the patterns on the screen, that Coulson had been carving.
"Daisy, where…where did you get these?" I ask trying to control my breathing. Scared that she was going to say that she made them.
"Coulson gave them to me, asked me to try and find information on them. Mum are you okay?" she ask walking over to me looking worried.
"Yeah, I am fine, but I can't help you Coulson has not told me anything about it" I lie and can feel the rage still left over from the Berserker Staff start to build up inside me.
"Are you sure?" she ask.
"Yeah, I am fine" I tell her clenching my fists behind my back so she can't see. "I have to talk to Coulson, you just reminded me of something I forgot to tell him about the inventory" I am already on my way to Coulson's office before she can say anything. I don't bother knocking I just storm into the room and take the phone out of his hand telling who ever was on the other side that he would call them back.
"May what are you doing?" He ask, shocked at my outburst.
"What are you doing? Why did you give Skye those photos. I told you that it could hurt her but you did it anyway" I yell, and I see Billy walk into the room before turning around, and running down the hall.
"Yes, I did I need to know what it means. I need to know how to stop it" He says and I resist the urge to punch him.
"So you go to Skye? You could have gone to Billy or another agent that knows how to use google, but instead you go to the one other person in this base that has the GH-325 in them. Why would you do that?" I ask taking a step towards him, he quickly takes a few steps back looking a little frightened. If it was any other time I would be upset that he thought I would hurt him, but right now it is very possible that I could hurt him.
"Why do you care so much, May?" He asks quietly already taking a few steps backwards like he is anticipating an attack.
"Because I will not let you hurt my daughter" I scream…. Oh no