The thing about Skye
Her emotions are suffocating
May doesn't feel anything. Not since emerging from that temple and the other dimensional plane. She is… numb isn't quite right. She is empty.
May knows who she is, knows what she does, knows who she cared about before- it's just… at a distance now. Everything doesn't feel quite real; she's an empty vessel- until she's suddenly filled with a panic and confusion that May knows she's never experienced before, until she feels disoriented and needs to run- escape, until she feels wonder at a hunk of metal she doesn't even know the purpose of.
May is empty, until she is suddenly filled with other peoples' emotions (eventually hers slowly emerge, so subtly that sometimes she's not even sure she's really feeling them half the time or just imagining it based on what she knows she should feel).
It's undeniably the feeling of curiosity, though, that makes May reach out toward Daisy and touch her wrist. An old curiosity that's always wondered just what is going on in the young agent's head.
A suffocating wave of emotions floods May's system, unlike anything she's ever felt. An intense anxiety and fear and dread buried to the deepest part of May's soul. May wants to crumple under the intensity, wants to curl up in a ball and hide, or flee, or- or something . It's so overwhelming, May yanks her hand away and the resulting emptiness that follows after the emotions fall away is somehow emptier than it ever was.
May is empty compared to the emotions of Daisy, and May stares hard at the younger agent who stares right back with the same expression as ever that doesn't even touch on what's under the surface.
May wonders how she can even function. How she can look so… okay (May has always known that she isn't really okay, but she never imagined her to feel quite like this- quite so intensely overwhelmed by merely existing).
May only lets go for a second, before some unfathomable force makes her reach back out again. Daisy watches her intently, nervously, as May's fingers once more wrap around her wrist but, this time, instead of flinching back, May pulls .
Daisy falls against May and all those overwhelming, suffocating, feelings actually get worse . But there is also an indescribable longing and ache that is both awful and- May needs more . No matter how tight May squeezes the other girl, it's not enough (even if some of the anxiety eases, the dread is always there, lurking, like it's just waiting for something awful to happen).
May loves Daisy. May has loved Daisy for years now, and wishes that it's Daisy who has the empathy powers so that she can see just how much May and everyone else loves her. So that this lingering doubt would be washed away and she could see just how not temporary it is- and truly believe it.
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~Silver~