''You okay?'' Dave's mum asked once he left the room where Fitz was being held in. She was the redness on her son's face and instantly felt anger bottling up inside of her. Dave nodded, slightly ashamed that he allowed it to go this far. ''Fine.'' He replied, not making any eye contact with her.
She grabbed his arm, turning him around and not allowing him to walk away, ''To reach what we want we must stay strong, we must show how worthy we are and what we can do. We are the ones who inflict fear, we do not let out victims do that.'' She calmly explained, giving her son the words of wisdom that stood high in her mind.
''Okay, I get it. I'll show them when the right time comes.'' Dave explained, freeing his arm away from her gently. He turned around and headed in the direction of his favorite room.
''Hello, Jemma.'' He said once he opened the door, though he couldn't see her yet happiness was slowly starting to fill him. Dave opened the door to its fullest, letting as much light in. His gaze automatically landed on her, she was sitting in a corner, backing up as much as she could. Her black jeans were dragged across the wooden floorboards as she backed up slowly.
''Scared?'' Dave asked with a grin, she stayed silent, confirming his predictions, ''Good.''
He approached her with great caution while remembering the speech his mum gave him. ''Jemma, love, if you're going to be any use to us we need you to talk or at least do something.'' Dave explained, however, she just buried her head deeper into her hands, preventing him from seeing her face. She didn't want to see his at all. Jemma felt disgusted whenever his voice reached her eardrums, it was killing her inside, the way he talked and acted towards her, it was all too much.
Dave took another step towards her, his heavy shoe landed on the only creaky floorboard in the room. Jemma's body trembled with fear but she wasn't going to show it, not to him. ''Jemma...'' He teasingly said, longing out her name.
''What do you want?'' She finally spoke up, with great annoyance in her voice which helped her cover up the fact that she was scared beyond her imagination.
Dave lifted his hands up in the form of surrender while the same grin decorated his face. ''Just to talk...'' He paused, ''Maybe something more.''
Jemma stood up, wanting to match his height, it made her feel more comfortable and even. Maybe even stronger. He took another step towards her and he smiled even wider once she had nowhere to move anymore, she was trapped in that corner and he was in control.
Shivers radiated through her body and her breath trebled every time she inhaled or exhaled. Dave was about a meter away from her when she heard a lady's voice coming from the hallway, ''Dave, hurry up!'' The older sounding lady yelled, Dave rolled his eyes, ''Coming!''
He placed a hand on Jemma's cheek to which she reacted by closing her eyes to prevent the useless tears from falling. Dave cupped her chin roughly, making her flinch. ''Look at me, love.'' He calmly said, though her eyes remained closer tightly.
Dave tightened the hold on her chin, ''I said look at me!.'' He exclaimed, only loud enough for her to hear, Jemma opened her eyes, her lip trembled once her eyes which were full of tears locked with his. ''We aren't done here, just letting you know.'' He said with a wink as he removed his hands away from her.
She collapsed to the floor in tears when Dave closed the door, locking her back in.
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May took a hold of Coulon's arm and gently pulled him to the corner of the office, ''We need to hurry, he was hurting Fitz.'' She silently said while looking around, hoping that nobody else is listening.
Coulson nodded in agreement, a serious look still sat on his features, ''I know and I would never ever forgive myself if something happened to them.'' He said, remembering how he gave up hope on Jemma whilst Fitz still held on to it, he found her, and now Coulson is going to find them both. He's never going to lose hope again. Never. Whatever it takes, he's determined to find them.
Mace came back into his office, ''I chose the best men to come with us once we track their location.'' He informed them, earning nods from around the room. Coulson directed his gaze towards Daisy, who was staring intensely at the screen of her computer, hoping to still somehow track them without the call.
''He's being clever,'' Mack pointed out, ''I'm sure he knows that we are trying to trace the call, that's why he always keeps it short.'' He explained
''We need to try and keep him talking.'' May pointed out the obvious.
''How?'' Mace asked, fiddling with his pen once more. He looked over to Daisy who's been quiet for a while now, she turned to Mace, her face all serious, almost unforgiving.
''We do the same he does to us...'' Daisy stated, ''We hurt his family...''
She almost couldn't believe herself for saying this, she would go all the way and do things to the very limit just to get the people she loved back.
Mace sighed, not liking the idea, ''As a SHIELD director I can tell you that this is not the thing we do and not the thing that is particularly allowed to be done.'' He explained, but he didn't see another way to keep him talking on the phone for long enough.
''I don't care.'' Daisy fought back, willing to take things to the very limit, ''It might be a rule but the people I love are suffering. And it might as well be your fault because you are the one who allowed him to go!'' She exclaimed, her fist collided with the table, shaking her laptop slightly.
May nodded in agreement, she couldn't bear not being able to help anymore. Simmons saved her life, it's time she saved hers. ''I'm with Daisy.'' May announced, having completely made her mind up.
''They are nothing more but criminals.'' Mack said, earning a glance from Mace who seemed to consider this for a moment.
''With all due respect, director Mace, don't make this worse that it already is. Let us help them. Let us save our family.'' Coulson tried convincing him with a pleading voice, Mace finally nodded in agreement, after all, Simmons and Fitz did play an important role in this base. They were his agents too and every life is worth fighting for.
Daisy scooped her laptop from the table, and headed towards the cells were Brett and Rick were being held in.
''You sure you are up for it?'' Mack asked, walking beside Daisy.
She nodded without any feeling of hesitation, ''If it means saving the people I love then yes.'' If she lost Fitz and Simmons too she wouldn't be able to live, having to lose Lincoln was hard enough for her, but her team, her family, they kept her going.
They silently entered the room, a grey wall stood in front of the team, blocking Brett and Rick from their view. A swipe was all it took to remove the grey background from their vision, Rick stared at them in surprise, seeing a wall just disappear wasn't a thing he would normally see.
Brett walked towards the team, but an invisible field blocked his way. ''I knew it.'' He whispered silently, ''I still can't believe Dave would do something like this to us...'' Brett spoke up again, loud enough for the team to hear.
''You can cut the crap now.'' Daisy announced, ''We know all about your little plan, see your brother, he didn't hesitate calling us and telling everything.''
Brett chuckled, ''Well, it was a pretty great plan, though I didn't expect him to reveal it so quickly.'' He admitted and sat back down onto the cold floor.
Rick brushed his hand through his hair, ''What do you want from us?''
''Oh, you will be a good encouragement.'' Coulson revealed with a confident voice, leaving Rick astonished.
Just in time, his phone started ringing again, Daisy sat on the chair with her laptop on her lap, she was more than ready.
''May, you may do the favors.'' Coulson said as he slowly reached for his phone laying in his pocket.
Mack and May entered through the invisible field that was keeping Brett and Rick locked up.
''Hello?'' Coulson said while he pressed the loud speaker button as fast as he could. He walked closer to Daisy to see if she would be able to trace the call this time.
''Glad you answered.'' Dave said over the other end.
''Me too.'' Coulson admitted, sounding even more confident than he did last time, ''You know, you seem to be forgetting that we still do have your family. Hurting ours won't do you any good.'' Coulson explained.
Dave took a breath before he continued to speak, ''What do you have in mind?'' He asked, sounding slightly disturbed.
''This.'' Coulson replied, he took a few steps closer to the invisible field so that Dave would be able to hear what was going on better. Mack delivered a strong punch to Rick's stomach, sending him right to the floor. Rick grunted in pain a few times before he rolled on his side, attempting to deal with the pain.
Brett attempted to punch May, but luckily, she was alert and dodged it without getting touched, she locked in his arm behind his back in a painful position, he didn't make a sound. May knew Dave needed to hear it, she pushed Brett's arm even further back to a position where it looked it was about to break, he yelled out in pain and dropped to the floor when May released him.
Mack and May exited the cell which was protected by the field and swiped again, putting the grey wall back up.
''Screw you!'' Dave said and the signal cut off. The whole team, including Mace turned to Daisy with a hopeful look.
''Anything?'' May asked, Daisy nodded slightly, tapping on the table with her fingers.
''This isn't the exact location but it's somewhere around here.'' She said and pointed at the screen, it was in some sort of town a few hours away from here.
''That's enough for us.'' Mack announced, implying that they should leave right now.
''I'll get the men on the quinjet.'' Mace announced and left the room with everyone else behind him.
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