Skye lay in her new bed in Providence base unable to sleep. She scrolled through her phone doing anything to keep her mind off of everything that happened the past few days. Literally anything. Trolling Reddit and Facebook, binge-watching the Walking Dead, reading the latest news in Hacker's Weekly- anything. But none of that was working. Then she remembered what her dad was doing when she woke up from the coma.

She pulled up the file marked 'Daisy' on the tablet Coulson gave her. Hundreds of photos appeared. She liked seeing how things were. Even though it was hard knowing that everything would go to sh*t not long after these pictures were taken, it was nice knowing that there was a time in her life that she actually had a family.

She scrolled through all of them, admiring each one of them. But she found one especially comforting.

It was a picture of Coulson laying down on the couch with her laying on his stomach as

they both slept. May must've taken it. She loved it. It was real, something she drummed up in her head. All her life she thought there wasn't anyone who ever cared for her but really she had two people who cared about her more than anything. And now that they've found each other again that hole in her life had been refilled.

"Aww that's cute.", said a voice from behind her. She turned around and it was Ward.

"Grant!", she got up to hug him but he backed away.

"Easy, easy, I think I've got a couple of broken ribs."

"Oh ok. Let's have Simmons take a look at you."

He put his arm over her shoulder and they made their way to the lab.

"I'm afraid this might scar.", Simmons said as she examined the cut on Ward's face.

"Upside you'll look badass, dangerous.", Skye said happily.

"You dig the bad boy look don't you.", Ward commented.

"I can't resist it."

"Leave the cut.", Ward said to Simmons.

"Ahem. Can we get back to SHIELD now.", Coulson said; desperate to change the subject.

"Right, so uh… by the time we got to the Fridge it was overrun. Hydra everywhere. We couldn't stop them."

"What were they after?", May asked.

"Everything. They took weapons alien artifacts. Anything they could grab."

"So I'm guessing that means the prisoners are no longer prisoners?"

Ward nodded his head as he tried to stand up.

"So… Ian Quinn..", Skye asked with her voice shaking.

"I'm sorry, Skye.. He's out. They all are."

"And Garrett? Did he get away?"

"He was one tough son of a bitch."

"'Was', past tense?"

"As soon as I had the upperhand I put two in the back of his head."

Coulson had the most shocked look on his face out of the entire team.

"One for me…',He looked over at Trip.

"I would have emptied the mag."

Trip showed a sense of relief on his face. Ward recognized this and made the same face, only it wasn't real.

"You're all set. Well, I mean, as set as you can be with two cracked ribs and a zygomatic fracture.", Simmons said as she finished applying the bandages to Ward's torso.

"Ah, for those of you that don't know what that is, it's a-"

Trip joined in and they spoke in unison.

"A hairline fracture to the cheekbone."

Fitz looked up and Trip and gave him a surprised look. Everyone in the room besides Simmons realized what just happened. If everything weren't so heavy at that moment, they would have laughed.

"Your body needs time to heal. Please take some time."

"Understood, thanks."

Simmons gathered her things and walked out of the lab to put them away.

"Ah, one small victory.", he pulls out the hard drive from his pocket. "Hydra didn't get their hands on this."

"A hard drive?", asked Trip.

"It's all the research our team's ever done, downloaded off the plane and encrypted for safekeeping."

"We should probably back it up now that we're in a secure facility.", Ward suggested.

"First, Skye, I need you on threat assessment. Pull up a list of all the inmates at the Fridge. I want to know just how bad this is.", Coulson ordered.

Ward slightly sunk into his chair when he realized that it would take longer for her to unlock the drive.

Skye sat at a table in the dining room looking through the list of inmates as May, Coulson, Trip and Ward waited for her report.

"This is really, really bad. Quinn is the least scary of the bunch and he shot me… twice."

"Quinn won't get to you Skye. Not again.", May assured her.

"Quinn's more of a sociopath. A lot of those inmates are full blown psychopaths. Violent, impulsive."

"And some with superpowers, lovely."

"Is Marcus Daniels on the list?", May asked.

Coulson shot a look back at her. Skye typed in the name and turned around the screen to show a man's mug shot.

"That's him.", May said.

"Melinda? A word?", Coulson said walking into the hallway. May followed.

"What?", she said as he closed the door.

"What are you doing?"

"You know damn well what I'm doing. Audrey's in trouble. We have to save her."

"I know but I didn't expect you to be this eager."

"Why? Because she was your girlfriend? She and I were friends too you know."

"Oh yeah. I just thought that you'd be…. Maybe you'd think it was…"

"That I'd think it was awkward? Phil, my entire friendship with Audrey was awkward. She knew you and I used to be together and had a child and we still hung out."

"You're right. She didn't seem to mind it. We have to help her."

"Thank you.", she said, "By the way you never told me what happened between you two."

Coulson smiled and let out a little laugh.

"She could tell I wasn't fully in the relationship. And she wasn't wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"I guess you and Daisy left too big a hole in my heart. A hole that couldn't be filled with anyone else. I cared about her, yeah, but she wasn't what I needed and I wasn't what she needed."

"So she broke it off?"

"Yeah.", he had a slight frown on his face but his face brightened up when he looked back at May. "But I'm glad she did, cause now I've got you and our little family is back together. The hole is filled again."

She laughed at his metaphor and pulled him into a kiss- a long, deep kiss.

Skye walked into the hallway looking down at her tablet.

"Hey guys- a guy in Portland, Oregon said a man with light absorbing powers-", she cut herself off when she looked up and saw her parents making out. They quickly pulled away from each other and tried to play it off as if they weren't doing anything. "Oh god.", Skye said as she turned around to go back into the dining room.

"W-w-wait.", Coulson said as he reached out for her arm. "What were you saying about Portland?"

"A police report says a man with light-absorbing powers attacked a fisherman. That has to be Daniels, right?"

"Right. Let's get on it.", Coulson said gesturing for the three of them to re-enter the dining room.

"Ok. But for the record, you guys should try to keep your relationship more discreet when we're on a mission."

Coulson scoffed.

"Really… you're telling us to be more discreet? What about you telling Ward how hot he looks when he has bruises when we're trying to debrief him."

"Oh yeah… carry on."

They walked into the dining room to rejoin the rest of the group.

"Ward. The plane you flew in on. Is it operational?"

"Yeah. Do you need me to pilot?"

"You heard Simmons, you stay and get better. I'm gonna take a splinter team out and start going after the inmates on that list, starting with Mr. Daniels. I think I know where he's going. Skye, you stay here and search for where the inmates fled to after they escaped."

"Ok, but that'll take time and more computing power than my laptop. I'm sure Koenig has some sort of-"

"Do it. Trip, you'll come with me, May and Fitzsimmons to take care of Daniels."

"No, you're not. Absolutely not. You can't leave. There are protocols.", said Koenig in reaction to Coulson telling him that he was leaving.

"Since the entire agency is pretty much collapsed, maybe now's not the right time to stand on protocol."

"Ok fine, then forget protocols. What part of secret base don't you get? Fury said to let you in and you show up with a bunch of people?"

"Agents!", Coulson corrected.

"Whatever. The point is, they know where this place is now, and I don't know know them."

"Hydra just released the entire population of the Fridge into the wild. There's gonna be violence. People will die. And I still consider it my duty to be the shield that protects them."

Koenig sighs and puts his hand over his chest.

"Moving speech, truly. But nobody leaves until they go through orientation."

"Orientation?"

#pheels

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