Shield continues to follow the bad guys, which means only one thing. Field job.
"May do you copy?" She hears Coulson repeat himself again. She has a clear shot at the target and she needs to remind him of that. "I have a clear shot!" She says and starts to feel little breathless.
"Back away!" Coulson says now more serious. He'd be damned if he let her shoot the last person who could give them answers. May cringes as she puts the rifle on the gate of the rooftop. Still holding a clear shot on the target.
"Agent May! I'm ordering you to back away!" She hears his order as she covers her chest with her hand. Her heart beating rapidly in her chest as she starts to see black dots drowing her vision.
"AGENT MAY DO YOU COPY?!" Skye's startled, when he yells and Hunter who's just turned on his comm on the field, spills his coffee to the ground. He takes his iPhone and texts to Skye with large capitals. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!
May's eyes close and she falls to the ground unconscious as Director Coulson waits impatiently for her reply.
Skye types fast on her laptop. His eyes widen, when he sees May's signal disappear. "May?!" His voice shocked and yet desperate that she might have done something unthinkable. Skye runs next to him laptop in her arms. "What happened?" He hears worry in Skye's voice.
"She must have taken out the comm." He mumbles, because it wasn't May at all. She stops using the comm, when the job is done.
"She wouldn't do that." Skye says nervously, thinking the same he did. "No. You're right. She would never do that. Anyone got a visual on May?" He asks from everybody on the field.
Hunter looks around as Trip looks up to the rooftop from his newspaper. "Anyone?" They hear him ask again, but sounding a bit more concerned.
"Trip?" Hunter asks casually as he tries to remain his cover and takes a sip of his coffee. Trip looks up again. "Negative. How you want us to proceed?"
Coulson turns to face Skye. "Skye, Find her. You guys proceed as planned."
Skye nods and opens a map, where she sees every shield members locations by phones or other devices and no one knew of the program except Coulson who wanted Skye to program it after Fury named him Director.
She finds her quickly and realizes May is still on the rooftop. "Director." She gets Coulson's attention and he comes beside her. She points her laptop screen. "May is where she's supposed to be."
He doesn't know what to say anymore and Skye looks up to see his unreadable face. "What do we do?" She has no idea what he is thinking.
"Nothing." He says and walks back to the center of the room. She's taken back it and that's it for her. This is the second time he has given the expression that he doesn't care for May anymore or did he ever?!
"We have no idea if she is okay or if she's held at gunpoint or-" She raises her voice to him and he turns back to face her. This time his facial expression showing he's surprised by her say back and it silences her for a short moment.
Coulson motions with his right hand, which clearly reads what-the-hell-was-that-Skye. She sighs and comes to stand in front of him.
"You said it yourself. To her actually. We protect our own." She mimicks the last sentence with his voice. "I thought it meant we care about each other, because we're a team or more like a family. So why-"
He sighs and hears Hunter say target is on the move. "Follow." He says and turns off his comm. "Skye. I need to trust her." He says with a softer tone.
"But what if something happened to her?" Skye asks the question he's been trying to put his mind off from and now he needs to say to her what he's been thinking of May, when he worries of her.
"She's a fighter, Skye. She can take care of herself."
Skye shakes her head negatively. "I don't mean that. I mean she-" She stops talking, because she had sworn May to not say a word about her to him.
Coulson widens his eyes to make her continue. "Skye. She what?" He furrows his brows now getting serious, when he thinks back what she had tried to tell him few days earlier. He swallows and starts to piece the puzzle together one conversation after another.
She couldn't be. She looks fine. She is fine.
Unfortunately he can't turn off his mind of thinking otherwise and he needed to hear it. "Is something wrong with May?" He asks just above a whisper and it makes Skye raise her head a bit higher. Her eyes showing the concern that she now saw in his eyes.
Coulson does care. He does worry about May and it makes her smile slightly, but concern never leaves her eyes. She needs to tell him about her, even though she's gonna get it from May. Her life could be in jeopardy and she can't risk it. No matter what the punishment could be from her after telling him this.
"I have noticed her being absent minded, being on her own not even bothering to come listen fitzsimmons or me babble our own stuff and-" Coulson starts to feel more and more worried after every word she says.
Skye exhales after babbling it all fast. "Few days ago I went to her and she- She was exhausted and-" He looks down to the floor as he tries to remember few days back. Back to the moments he had with her before all this.
"She was shaking." She stops talking and he looks up to meet her eyes. "Are you sure?" He asks now hoping she was mistaken. "Yes. She blamed it on having too much tea, but I know she wouldn't tell me something like that unless she had a reason to say it."
He nods. "Cover up the real reason." He continues for her turning to stare at the big screen on the wall.
"Exactly. I'm worried she can't sleep. What if she was too exhausted out there and blacked out? She's May, but she's still a human being and humans can't function wihout sleep." He hears her words, but they're muffled.
It all made sense now. May wasn't protecting someone like he had guessed. She was protecting herself. There's also no way her mother is involved in this. She wouldn't want her to worry, because she's the person that taught her to be a survivor and that made her an excellent fighter.
Skye's right. They need to get to her. He no longer cares if she tells him off after all this. He turns on his comm. "Trip. Plan B."
Trip stops in his tracks and takes his iPhone to look busy in the streets. "Sir?" They didn't have a plan B. They had a plan G.
"Go to May. Check if she's okay." He says with a lower voice and Trip puts the iPhone on his ear as he starts walking back. "I'll do that." Trip says and notices a beautiful woman walking forward who heard him so he winks at her and she blushes.
"Trip, remember the camera. We need to see she's okay." Skye adds and Trip smiles. "Yes, Ma'am." He says jokingly and Coulson turns to face her with a lifted eyebrow. Skye rolls her eyes and shakes her head.
Okay. May's not okay and Coulson is starting to realize how serious it could be.