"Another inhuman has appeared, no more than a few blocks from your current location, Daisy."

"No need to tell me, I can hear him flipping out." It was true, whoever had just changed was yelling at the top of his lungs, trying to understand what was happening to them.

ATCU wouldn't have any trouble finding this one, it sounded like they wanted to be found. Well too bad for them, S.H.I.E.L.D found this one first. Or at least that's what she told herself as she rounded the corner.

The newly transformed inhuman was sitting in the corner of the alleyway, clutching his head painfully. "I have eyes on the target." She said into her comm, slowly making her way toward the boy. He looked younger than she'd expected. Maybe fifteen or sixteen tops.

She couldn't make out much of physique. He was keeping himself well covered with the worn hoodie he had pulled over his face. His hands however were not those of a human.

'Oh God, Raina.'

"Hey kid, what's your name?"

"Stay away from me!" he screamed, not looking up at her, he kept his head down, probably scared he would frighten her with his new appearance.

"Hey! It's okay. You're gonna be alright." Daisy tried again, catching his attention this time. He looked at her with burning amber eyes, glowing in the shadow of his hood. "I'm not going to hurt you. I'm here to help."

She extended her hand, but he flinched away from it. "Go away! I don't need your help!"

"Look, you're scared, you don't know what's happening, your world just turned upside down. I get that. I've been where you are, you don't have to be afraid, I'm here to help. What's your name?" She took a small step forward, making sure to leave some distance between them, she still had no idea what this kids gift was, or if it would hurt her.

"I-I..." He seemed more calm now, but Daisy didn't really notice as she took in the scaly texture of his hands and the bruise like coloring. Starting out black on top and slowly transitioning from purple to brown to a faded yellow on his palm. "What's wrong with me?"

"Nothing's wrong with you, you've just changed a little." She said, sitting next to him, a risk or not, this kid had physically changed. He didn't even recognize his own body anymore. "Look, I'm part of S.H.I.E.L.D. Were here for your protection. We have people just like you, who are going through the same thing."

"There are others that look like this?" He asked, raising his hand, she would have leaned away from the clawed hand, but feared it may offend him.

"Not exactly, we all have different gifts." The field agent explained, thinking of her own powers, she noticed Lincoln standing at the alley entrance, probably waiting for the go ahead to call the containment room. "Now that you've calmed down, can you tell me your name?"

He looked up at her, a small smile forming on his lips. "Caleb."

"Nice to meet you Caleb, my name's Daisy. Now I'm going to need you to follow my instructions, we need to get you somewhere safe." She smiled as well, waving for her teammate to get the transport.

Caleb looked mildly confused, but unlike before he kept his calm and nodded, a look of curiosity lighting up his eyes. "What's your power?"

The female inhuman smirked, standing up as the containment room landed a few yards away. "I'll tell you back at headquarters, for now get inside."

He frowned like any child that would rather be told now rather than later, but did as she instructed, going to enter the box. Daisy personally liked to think of it as a flying elevator of sorts.

"We've got company." May said over the comms.

"Friendly?"

"Not from the look of it."

"Great."

"What's wrong?"

"Caleb, just get in, I'll see you soon." Daisy promised, gently pushing the boy into the transport room with her gift. After the containment box flew back up into the sky, she turned to where Lincoln was coming toward her. "May is it ATCU?"

"Can't tell. You should come back now though."

"Alright." She turned, ready to board the cloaked quin jet.

"Skye?"

She felt her body freeze before she could even think of correcting the person who had called her. That voice... There was no way. It was impossible, it couldn't be.

'Aren't you a sight for sore eye.'

Daisy didn't know what to do. She felt like her muscles had shut down. He was supposed to be a rotting corpse of Maveth. She had been there to see the portal close, how had he slipped through, and how was he alive? She couldn't even look back to see f it was really him, or if she had lost her mind.

She felt Lincoln put his hand on her shoulder, sending a small jolt of electricity to get her body moving. "Daisy, come on." He tried to pull her toward the jet, but instead she turned on her heel, gun drawn and ready to fire.

It was him, he was there. Yet the look on his face wasn't one she could recognize. Ward had never looked at her in such a way. It was so dark, and it quite literally sent chills up her spine. How was he alive. Coulson had crushed his chest, he should be dead on the alien planet, not here looking at her like that.

"Daisy!" It was Mack's voice this time, and she felt herself being pulled back before she could pull the trigger, and before Ward could say anything more. She was on the quin jet now, still staring straight at where Ward had been before her.

Her knees knocked and she found herself crumbling into the arms of her teammates. What was going on, this had to be a trick. Did Hydra make a new mask, like Kara's. Was someone pretending to be Ward? No, there was no way. That was the real Grant Ward. She didn't know how, and she didn't know why he was only now making his appearance. It had been almost three months. She only knew one thing.

"Coulson has one hell of an explanation to give." She finally said, finding her voice, now that Ward was no longer right in front of her.

'Skye?'

That new tone of voice, she didn't like it, it almost made her think it wasn't Ward. But it had to be, there was no way anyone wearing one of those face masks could pull off Grant Ward.

"Daisy, get your head in the game. There's still work to be done." She looked up at Mack, finding her voice had once again left her. What could she say, they all had seen him right? She wasn't just imagining him was she?

"Coulson." She forced herself to walk up to the director. "Why the hell is Ward still alive?"

"Daisy, please, just go check on Caleb. We're all a little confused as to what is happening at the moment." He said, trying to turn her toward the containment room.

"You said you killed him. Fitz saw you kill him. I didn't see him exit the portal."

"Skye, please. We'll figure this out. Right now though, there's a little boy who doesn't have the slightest idea what happened to him and he needs your help."

Knowing he was right, Daisy allowed herself to calm down. She was happy in a way, if Ward had survived, maybe he was seeking redemption, figuring that this was his last chance to make things right. She really hoped it was, yet she couldn't show how much she really wanted him back. He could still be a danger to the team, she had to accept that she couldn't allow her feelings to interfere with what would happen now.

"Caleb?" She knocked on the glass, smiling when the hooded inhuman popped up right on the other side of the glass. Maybe he was younger than she thought.

"Where am I? What is this thing?"

"You're inside a box, it's made to hold people like us. It protects us from you and also protects you from yourself. You're on our plane heading back to base. We've got a few hours if you want to take a nap."

"Am I going to be like this forever?" She wanted to tell him he wouldn't, that he would be able to return home, but she didn't even know the extent of his changes inside and out.

"Hey I know this is a lot to take in, but you're going to be alright, I'm going to be here for you every step of the way." She said, placing her hand flat against the glass. "You're going to make it through this."

"Daisy?" He raised his hand to lay against the glass as well, right over hers. "Thank you, I don't want to hurt anybody."

"And you wont. I promise."

His lips tugged up into a smile, and it was then she noticed the jagged teeth. She didn't let her expression change, that could have ended badly. She just smiled back, holding his gaze.

"I think I will take that nap... It's been..."

"A crazy day?" She offered, her smile more playful. His broke into a grin as he nodded, going over to the cot inside the box. "I'll wake you when we land."

Daisy waited for him to close his eyes, before she turned her sight on the command. Everyone was gathered there, all discussing the recent discovery.

"Perhaps the one monster that was possessing Will's body survived and took Wards?" Mack was saying as she leaned against the way, not far from them.

"That would make sense, it needs a host body to survive." Fitz agreed, Simmons was standing not that far from him, her focus of her hands. She obviously wasn't comfortable with the topic. "We basically handed it a new body."

"Great, so that means Hydra succeeded." Lincoln was frowning as he stared down at the video feed from the camera on the street, Ward was looking directly at her, even though the electric inhuman and Mack had been standing closer to him.

"And every inhuman is in greater danger than they were with just Lash and ATCU after them." Coulson finished, frowning down at the image as well.

"He's alive." She found herself saying, she remembered hearing his heartbeat in the alley, it was one of the few things she had been able to focus on while looking at him.

"No, it's not possible. Coulson collapsed his chest, crushing his heart." Fitz argued, everyone else looking toward the female inhuman.

Coulson, May, and Lincoln all shared the same look. They were wondering if she was in denial. She was after all still in love with the Hydra agent. Could they really believe her.

"I could hear his heart beat. Ward wasn't dead."

"That's impossible. The creature has only ever taken on dead host bodies." Fitz disagreed.

"How do we know. We hardly know anything about it." She said, keeping her face clear of emotion. She needed them to believe her, she knew what she'd heard, regardless of the way she felt toward the man.

Ward was alive, his heart beating stronger than ever. Whatever was possessing his body, it hadn't killed him. If anything it had save him. Healed the wounds Coulson had inflicted.

"Even if Ward is alive, that thing controlling him is more dangerous. We need to figure out a way to kill it once and for all." Daisy got the feeling Coulson didn't plan on removing it from Ward before he killed it.

"Fire. Fire was the only thing that worked on Maveth, we just can't give him a body to control after words. Perhaps-"

"We could seal Ward in a chamber, burn him to ashes. Lock away the remains?" Simmons finished for her partner. They grinned at each other, before launching into a conversation of what they would need and how long it would take to assemble such a thing.

"Why not use the monolith's case?" She offered, noticing the surprised look on Coulson's face. "That's large enough to hold him, right?"

"Of course! We'd just need to create a-" And the two scientist were back to talking in their higher I.Q. language.

Daisy got up from her spot at the wall, planning to go back to check on Caleb, but Coulson stopped her outside the control room.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just going to check on Caleb."

"Sk-Daisy, that's not what I meant." He was giving her that look again. She really wished he wouldn't, cause it always made her put on her mask of indifference. "Are you okay, Lincoln said you just kind of froze."

"I'm fine. You probably would have froze too. I mean we thought he was dead." Though she was silently happy he wasn't. Even if everyone else was planning to kill the creature and Ward together, she was making her own plan to save him, if the opportunity presented itself. She really hoped it did.

She didn't want to have to watch him die, even if he was unforgivable. Even if he had killed so many people and tortured their lives, she couldn't find in herself to hate him again. She still loved him, monster and all.

'I'm not asking for forgiveness. I just want to help you.'

The director forced on a small smile, looking straight into her eyes. "You probably wouldn't tell me if this was going to be a problem, but when it comes to Ward, I have to consider all the risks. So I have to ask, will you be able to take him in, if you see him again?"

Yes, she would. She wouldn't dare risk the teams safety for her own selfish reasons. Even if she did love the man. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if someone ended up hurt because of her. "Yes, I would take him in."

"Good." Coulson went to go back inside the room, but just before he opened the doors, she decided she'd tell him of her plans.

"If I found a way to remove the creature without killing him and was given the chance to act..?" She left it open, not even looking back at him. She wasn't sure she was ready to see what Coulson thought of her hopes to save Ward.

"If the opportunity presents itself and there are no risks. I'll consider it."

She moved before he'd realized, pulling him into a hug. He would at least let her try. That was the best news she'd gotten all day. Realizing he was kind of awkwardly hugging her back, she released him.

"Thank you.. Sir." She couldn't hide the nervous chuckle as she stepped away from him, running to the cargo hold.

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Enter Ward! Yeah I know he only had one line, for the present anyway. This was the only way I could think of them finding out that he made it through the portal though.

Also the new inhuman Caleb, completely mine, I originally planned for him to be taken out by Lash, but thought that would be just a little too cruel. So that's my first OC, hopefully my only OC, but who knows.

I hope you enjoyed, look forward to more moments between "Ward" and Daisy. I promise they will be longer than this. Just give me a little more time.

For a disclaimer, I don't own Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, just this fanfiction and now Caleb.

Any who, I hope you enjoyed! I'll try to upload again soon! Please review, favorite, follow, and all that.