I own nothing.
It's been a couple of hours since her last meal. She tried to think of someway that Qiaolian could come out of this alive but she can't. If Ward threatened Qiaolian's team, then there's no way her daughter will do the rational thing and stay safe. Her daughter would do anything to protect her team, even if that means handing herself over to a madman. Here's hoping she's bringing the fail safe with her to make sure that Ward is done for good.
She started to nod off when she heard a commotion in the hallway. There was yelling and then footsteps approached her room. The door opened and Jerry brought in her daughter who had a black bag on her head.
"You have thirty minutes." he said as he removed the bag and then left the room leaving the two of them alone.
"Why did you leave? You were safe, we were all safe. You didn't have to sneak out."
"He wasn't going to stop. I can't live my life like that. I wanted to protect you."
"I know."
"Did you happen to find my locket?"
Qiaolian nodded, took off her shoe, and pulled out the locket from inside the shoe.
"The clasp is broken though."
"And why was it in your shoe?"
"Just in case Ward decided to take it again."
"Thanks. This was one of my favorite memories that we all had together. It was a perfect day wasn't it."
"Yeah."
"Didn't your Father buy you a matching locket a couple days later because you kept on wearing mine. I know you don't wear it much due to the fact that its a safety hazard and all, but where is it?"
"I left it to Skye."
"That was nice. Did you say goodbye to her and the team?"
"I wasn't going to but she wouldn't have let me go if I didn't say goodbye. I told her what you said to me after Dad died."
"And Coulson?"
"No. If I did he wouldn't have let me leave and I probably wouldn't have wanted to."
"Was your last conversation with him a good one?"
"Not really, since I punched him."
"You always knew how to make an exit, Qiaolian. Speaking of, I assume you brought the fail safe. How long do we have?"
"It'll start in about forty five minutes. After that our window is a short one if we want to make it out alive."
"Think he'll monologue."
"Probably."
"Good, its been a long time since I've heard someone monologue. Here's hoping its a good one."
They sat in silence for the next fifteen minutes before the door opened and they were taken out to their deaths.
"Skye, how much longer?"
"Hard to say. Ward just had to choose a place in the middle of nowhere and its hard to get and keep a connection out here."
"I still can't believe you got a tracker on May." said Bobbi from the driver's seat.
"I have my moments."
They couldn't use the tracker that was on the car due to the fact that it was crushed by May on the garage floor. So after learning what Skye did they were out the door ten minutes after May left. He understood why she left and he even would have done the same thing, so no he wasn't angry. He just wished that she said goodbye.
"Stop the car!" yelled Skye.
"Are we there?" asked Simmons looking outside the window.
"What? No, this is the best connection I've had since we got out here. It'll only take me a couple minutes now."
She and her Mother were brought out in front of Ward a couple minutes ago. He did nothing but smile at them and there was no monologuing whatsoever. Ward can't even be a proper villain. How in the world is he supposed to be taken seriously as a villain if he doesn't monologue. Amateur.
"I guess I'll start then. May this is the last time we're going to see each other and I got to say I'm pretty happy about it."
"Me too."
"Any last words? Let's start with you Mrs. May."
"Oh there are plenty things that I want to say but even at her age I would never say them in front of my daughter."
"Alright. Now May anything you want to say to your Mother. Or how about me, I believe you owe me an apology."
"An apology? You're one to talk. I believe you owe me one for threatening my Mother and betraying my team."
"I already apologized on the Bus and me threatening your Mother is your own fault."
She had to keep him talking, they needed more time.
"You call that an apology. You didn't even apologize, you didn't even own up to what you did. You put the blame on somebody else just like you're doing now. Its not my fault and you know it."
"She died because of you."
"You pulled the trigger. You killed her, not me."
"She wouldn't be dead if she wasn't wearing your face."
"You should have learned to spot the difference! After all you spent weeks together. Are you telling me that just because she was wearing my face you couldn't tell it was her? Because if you did, she'd be alive not dead. Did you even love her?! If you did, you should've known. You should've been able to tell that it wasn't me. You must not have loved her that much."
He kicked her in the ribs after that and she was on her knees with her hands being tied behind her back by some of Ward's men. The same was done to her Mother and then they were soon facing each other. It was almost time.
They arrived at the barn about ten minutes after she told Bobbi to stop the car. They ran out of the car and approached the barn but it was deserted. Mack, Hunter, and Bobbi went to check inside just in case.
"Skye, I thought you said this was the place." said Fitz.
"It is, it is. The tracker is right here. She's got to be here somewhere."
"There's nothing here, Skye. She must have found the tracker and dropped it off here." said Simmons
"She couldn't have gone far though, she must be somewhere in the area."
"Found the tracker." said Mack holding it in his hands while Bobbi held a note in hers.
"What does it say?"
"I told you not to do anything stupid." said Bobbi.
They decided to walk around for a while hoping to find anything. It took a while but she heard yelling and smelled smoke. In the distance they saw a barn on fire and people running out from it. They hurried over there but by the time they got there, the fire was too strong for them to enter.
"Help. Help me." said a man laying on the ground.
"What happened to you?" asked Coulson as he applied pressure to man's wounds.
"He shot me, I wouldn't kill her so he shot me instead." He was having trouble breathing.
"Were there two women in there? Mother and daughter?"
The man nodded.
May and Mama May were here. But where are they now?
"What happened to them? Did they escape?!"
They were all looking at this man with the hope that May and her mother did escape and were alive. The man was having trouble answering and blood started to come out of his mouth. He wasn't going to make it and he knew it so instead of speaking he took his last breath and pointed towards the burning barn.
Thanks for reading.
Oh no. What happened in the barn? Who died? Did anyone survive the fire? I sure hope so. Any guesses on the survivors?
