The thing about Skye
She was born with a devil shaped hole
Daisy used to have many regrets. She used to be lost. Hollow. Always searching for something. She thought she found it when she was given that SHIELD badge (for all of a day before everything went to hell and there was no SHIELD anymore). She thought she found it when she was standing before that mountain in Afterlife, watching it literally move as she willed it (the mother she'd been searching for her whole life at her side).
Both instances, there was still that hole, seemingly smaller, but always present, always aching.
She can pinpoint the emptiness so clearly now that it's gone. This is what she's been looking for. Him. This connection.
She loves her old team, she truly does. She loved them more than anything before now; she would have burned the world for them. Maybe that notion should have been the hint that the nuns might have been right- maybe she was born with the devil in her, or at least a devil shaped hole.
Maybe Hive is the devil. But he filled the hole. She finally feels it- that whole body and soul connection. Her insides are finally still. The anxiety and uncertainty of herself is finally gone. She knows where she belongs, where she has always belonged, and what she's been aching for her entire life.
So maybe he's the devil, and maybe she loves her old team that she once might have burned the world for, but she knows her place and purpose now. SHIELD was just another foster family (admittedly the best she ever had) on her path to find her true family. She wishes she didn't have to fight them.
But she knows them. She knows Mack. Knows Coulson. They don't understand, won't let her go, so she will fight them. She loves them, but she'll also likely be the one to kill them- because they won't ever stop trying to get her back. And that knowledge hurts (both that she will be the one to kill them and that they won't let her be happy- won't believe it is real). But even those ideas don't hurt her as much as just existing did before she was finally whole.
A/N: As requested, some of Daisy's thoughts under HIVE. It was weird trying to keep Daisy still Daisy while under his influence.
~Silver~
