''What's your biggest regret, Daisy?'' Simmons asked once again, snapping the inhuman out of her thoughts.
Daisy swallowed sharply, not knowing if she should admit to it, she still loved the old Ward. With a fierce nod, Daisy spoke up, ''My biggest regret was Ward turning out to be Hydra...'' She admitted finally, and Simmons only nodded, seemingly understanding Daisy.
''Why?'' Daisy asked in attempts to clear up the slight embarrassment.
''This world...'' She said and looked around, taking in the beautiful views, nothing seemed out of the ordinary in the framework, but Daisy was up to something. ''It's based on our biggest regrets. It took them away, everyone has a more happy life I suppose, except for Fitz of course.'' She explained, and Daisy seemed to understand.
''Now your biggest regret was letting him sacrifice himself?'' Daisy questioned, she could imagine the couple at the bottom of the ocean, arguing between who should live and who should die. She didn't want to think about it any further.
Simmons nodded again, ''Yes, that was my biggest regret. But I'm alive and well.'' She said with a slight smile, though Jemma knew everything about Fitz and Aida, their engagement.
Daisy had so much questions that she almost felt bad for asking, but she knew that if she didn't get them, her chances of understanding the framework further were low. ''But how are you alive in here if Fitz said you were dead?''
A frown appeared on Jemma's face as she struggled to think of any reasons, ''It could be the programming, Aida controls this whole world, it's up to her to decide what happens as long as people here don't know the world is real. You see, before we entered the framework, Aida has programmed me to be dead, but as soon as I-or well the real me- entered, the character that she has created of me does no longer exist.'' Simmons said, pretty proud of her theory that seemed to be correct.
Ward stood back, trying to understand what they were saying. ''I'm sorry to interrupt,'' He said awkwardly, earning a fierce look from Simmons when she heard his voice, ''But is there actually another world?'' Ward asked, still not able to grasp the concept. The framework was something he lived in for his whole life. Daisy knew he was just a program, but she also understood how it felt for him to find out that he wasn't real at all. The feelings he had here were real, but he wasn't. Ward was just a character who was able to feel physical pain and endure different emotions. But the framework isn't living.
Daisy sighed, ''You said that the framework has deleted our biggest regrets...''
Simmons nodded, ''That's right.''
''So if we know what the regrets of out teammates were, we could find them more easily?'' She asked, looking at the scientist for confirmation. Jemma ended up nodding with a smile, happy that Daisy did have some understanding.
The one thing Jemma couldn't wrap her mind off was Fitz. How could he possibly be engaged to an android that had destroyed everything that was important to them? ''I wonder what would happen if we gave Fitz a little visit with you?'' Daisy asked curiously as a smirk rested on her face.
Would he believe it all then, after seeing that Simmons was alive?
''I'm glad to inform you that Leopold Fitz is occupied at the moment, he won't be seeing any visitors anymore, especially you.'' A familiar voice said that sounded so dangerous. Daisy turned around and met threatening eyes that belonged to Aida starring at her.
Simmons swallowed the lump that was forming in her throat when she saw two men behind Aida in black suits, she assumed that they were working for her. Her eyes traveled down Aida's arms, then hands, a black object was tightly wrapped by her fingers. It was pistol.
Daisy and Simmons both knew that if they die in the framework...they would never wake up. Death here meant death in the real world...
Ugh, I just caught the flu :( Thank you for reading though! I want to thank my frequent reviewers such as 'DarknessAndDeath', 'Jules' and 'lizlil' For reviewing almost every single part of this story :) Thanks a lot for bringing such positivity here and there! It's truly awesome!
