𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑
I'm hoping you weren't heaven sent 'cause only hell knows where you've been

"WE'RE not monsters!" Daisy shouted at Coulson as they walked the halls. "You can't just lock us up in some ice prison because you don't know what else to do!"

"No one's talking prison," he simply stated, "And, technically, it's a gel matrix."

"They're putting people in stasis!" She told him, completely angry at the fact that he was allowing ATCU to do this to those like her. If he's willing to do that to others, is he willing to do it to her?

"Think of it as a medically induced coma, a way to hit the pause button until we find a better solution," he told her, shaking his head.

"A better solution"," she repeated with a scoff. "What does that mean?"

"The ATCU's looking for a cure. I'm not suggesting that's for everyone, because it's not, but some people might want to—"

Daisy interrupted him, "We are not a disease!"

"I didn't say that you were."

"You can't just expect people to go through that kind of change and immediately have a handle on it. Do you even know how scared I was at first?" She asked him, crossing her arms as she felt the anger rise.

"No." He shook his head. "But you've got to admit, things are getting out of hand."

She nodded. "I know."

"People are changing in uncontrolled environments—"

She sighed. "I know, but everyone deserves a chance to be who they are."

"That's where you're wrong." Daisy turned to Dr. Garner who had been with them the whole time. She lowered her arms down to her side and clenched her hands into fists. "You're being seduced by your own experience. Just because you learned how to control your powers doesn't mean everyone else will. I mean, what if a person's hurting themselves or those around them? What — what if they can't stop?"

"Take Lash," Coulson suggested, "If putting a bullet in that monster's head doesn't do the trick, then what?"

"That's not fair." Daisy threw up her hands, "That's one guy. Most Inhumans fall somewhere between me and him."

"And that's the message I'm hoping the president and his advisors will hear when I meet with them today," Coulson told Daisy as she paused on the staircase they were currently walking up.

"The President of the United States?" She asked in disbelief.

"It's off the books, but the global community's coming together to discuss the future of enhanced people. We're meeting at Norad in Colorado," Coulson informed us as we walked towards his office.

"But S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't supposed to exist," she reminded him.

"That's why I'm going in as a consultant for the ATCU."

"So Rosalind Price—"

"Arranged it, yes." Coulson took a seat at his desk. "We're taking Zephyr One, picking her up on the way."

Daisy sighed and crossed her arms again, "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"We can't afford to miss it," He told her, "That's why I want you to talk to Rosalind before the meeting. Win her over to your side of things."

"Could be a real start toward legitimizing S.H.I.E.L.D." Daisy looked to Garner as he informed her, "But it might help if you can present a successful Inhuman case, one that's not an extreme on either side."

"Joey Gutierrez is due for reassessment," she told them, biting down on her lip.

"I'd be more than happy to check in on him, see how he's progressing."

She nodded at Garner. "Couldn't hurt."

"I agree," Coulson stated, smiling lightly.

"I can send you my report while you're in the air," Garner told Coulson with a smile.

'Thank you for your help on this." Daisy smiled at Garner.

He nodded at her. "It's what I'm here for."

"MAY?!" Daisy walked towards May and pulled her into a hug. "Hi. Oh, my god! It's good to see you."

"I — I got to go," May stuttered out which made Daisy worry.

"Go where?" The younger of the two asked, tilting her head.

"I, uh, need to talk to Andrew."

"He's doing a psych eval on one of the new Inhuman recruits," she informed her, furrowing her eyebrows in worry and confusion.

"I checked the containment room," May stated, her eyes wide,

"He's not..." Daisy shook her head, 'No, he's at a training facility off-site."

"Where?"

DAISY stood straighter and crossed her arms as Dragon lady, and some of her minions came around the corner.

"Never been on a flying base before. Guess I can cross that off my bucket list." She smiled, looking to Coulson. "So, where does the tour begin?"

"That's actually up to Daisy." Daisy glared at Coulson as he looked back at her, "She's gonna show you around."

Rosalind gave her a smile, so Daisy forced one right back at her.

"I appreciate you showing me around like this."

Daisy ignored her and gestured to the box that they had put Joey in when they rescued him, "We built this module to help those in transition. It's made out of adaptive material, so it can contain all sorts of powers. It's also bulletproof, which comes in handy when people like you shoot at people like me."

"And you really think this is more humane?" She asked her, rolling her eyes.

Daisy crossed her arms. "Our goal is to observe people, educate them, and, yes, it can take time, but—"

She interrupted her, "We don't always have that luxury."

"But throwing people away like they don't even exist is the answer?" Daisy retorted, following her as she walked away.

"That's not what we're doing," Rosalind said, shaking her head.

"Sure as hell looks like it," Daisy spat, growing angry again.

"Well, it's not that simple."

Daisy scoffed and walked up to her. "Just admit it. You're afraid of people like me, afraid of our power."

She nodded. "Absolutely." She looked Daisy in the eyes, "Do you even know your own strength? Could you take down this plane, for instance?"

She shook her head. "I wouldn't do that."

"But if you wanted to?" She tilted her head at Daisy, "You could kill me right now. Mankind's scary enough as it is. Some psycho gets a gun, and watch out. But now people are their own weapon."

"Not everyone is like—"

"Some" is enough. That's all it takes."

"You only see the terrible things," Daisy huffed out, trying to keep her anger under control.

"That's not true," Rosalind stated, tilting her head.

"I protect people!" Daisy shouted at her.

"It doesn't matter."

"How can you say that? "It doesn't matter?" So, saving people doesn't matter? You'd rather people die?!" Daisy fired at her, her lips curling up, and her eyebrows were furrowed together.

"Because for every Daisy Johnson, there's a Lash, and it's ignorant for you to think otherwise."

Daisy shook her head before running off.

"LINCOLN?" Daisy asked in shock as she turned around to see Lincoln with Mack, approaching them. "What are you doing here?"

"Where'd you find him?" Coulson asked, also surprised.

Mack gestured to Lincoln who Daisy had pulled in for a quick hug. "He came to me. He's got intel on Lash."

"She ATCU?" Lincoln pulled back from the hug and pointed at Rosalind.

"We're working together now." Daisy rolled her eyes at Coulson's words.

"Yeah, we all want to catch that thing," Rosalind told Lincoln who also rolled his eyes.

"Well, Mr. Campbell." Coulson looked to Lincoln. "You've come this far. What do you have to say?"

Lincoln looked to Daisy and she nodded. "Those of us from Afterlife, we were trained to blend in."

"Afterlife?" Rosalind asked, confused.

"I'll explain later," Coulson told Rosalind who nodded her head at him, something flashing through her eyes as she looked at him.

"And yet that thing keeps finding us, killed most of my friends," Lincoln continued, glancing over at Daisy.

"Lincoln gave me names," Mack spoke up. "I checked them against the bodies we could identify."

Lincoln nodded. "That's how I knew Lash was using Jiaying's ledger to find us."

"Her ledger?" Daisy questioned in confusion, thinking back to her mother.

Lincoln gave her a look, "She kept a genealogy of Inhumans. She was the only one allowed to use it, until..."

Mack continued, "Until S.H.I.E.L.D. recovered it. And there's only one person I know who had access."

"Dr. Garner?" Mack nodded, "But there's no way. It's not possible."

"I didn't want to believe it, either."

Daisy held up her hand in shock. "So you're not.... just saying Andrew has the ledger. You're saying—"

Mack nodded. "I saw May access his flight logs this morning."

"I talked with her," Daisy spoke up, "She was upset, but I thought that she—"

"She and Andrew are missing," Coulson informed them, interrupting her, "I just got word."

"Oh, God." Daisy covered her mouth in shock, her heart beating fast against her rib cage.

"Reroute the plane!" Coulson shouted, "New York. Pull all the satellite footage from the Cocoon. We need to find them."

"Yes, sir."

"Andrew wouldn't hurt her," Daisy told Lincoln, shaking her head.

"He's killed dozens of us."

"Yeah, well, what if he doesn't know what he's doing once he turns ... he — he blacks out or something?" Daisy asked him, stuttering over the words. She wanted to deny it, but all the facts were right in front of her.

"Inhumans can't change form," Lincoln told her, seemingly closer to her than he was before. "That's not how it works."

"I saw it myself!" Daisy informed him.

Lincoln grabbed her hand, the one she was flinging around, to calm her down. "No, what I'm saying is, it's temporary. He won't always be able to shift between monster and man. He's still in transition. Becoming Inhuman."

"And when that transition's complete?" Coulson questioned.

"He'll stay Lash, permanently. The man you think you know is disappearing, if he's not already gone."

"CONTAINMENT module's secure," Mack told Daisy over the ear piece.

"Copy that. Hall team's getting into position." She walked down the hall, getting into position, listening in on Coulson talking to Garner.

"This doesn't have to go down badly. I'll make sure you're taken care of. I understand the position you're in ... I do. And I don't envy it. But I am trying to help you," Coulson was trying to defuse the situation.

"We've got an outbreak on our hands," Garner sneered.

"What the hell does he mean by that?" Lincoln's panicked voice questioned.

Daisy tried to calm him down, "Calm down. Coulson knows what he's doing."

"You sure about that?" He asked harshly.

Garner was trying really hard to get Coulson to understand. "I'm simply trying to sort the good from the bad. You gave me this job."

"That's a pretty poor interpretation of a therapist. Look around you. We're in some abandoned building, May's tied up ... you're not okay."

"I know how it looks, but I have a moral responsibility! You'll see, soon." Garner chuckled. "I'm doing you a favor."

"He's insane," Lincoln told Daisy through the ear piece.

"That's not true. He's just sick."

"The beast's gonna come out, and you can't control it," Lincoln warned her.

Mack's angry voice then came through the intercom, "Don't make things worse 'cause you got an axe to grind."

"He's not just gonna let us take him. He's gonna defend himself," Lincoln informed them, probably huffing

"Do not engage," Daisy told Lincoln firmly, "We move on Coulson's order."

"I've only killed those who deserve it," Garner said and then electricity crackled, alerting Daisy that Lincoln had showers up to where they were.

"Who the hell made you judge, jury, and executioner!?" Lincoln shouted, and they could basically hear the anger and rage in his voice.

"What are you doing?"

"You've got to get him out of here, now!" May shouted, her voice desperate and angry.

"Lincoln..."

That was the last thing Daisy heard before she started running.

"Could use a little help here!" Mack shouted into the ear piece as she was making her way downstairs.

"What's your twenty?"

Daisy picked up her speed as she heard gunshots. "No!" She heard Coulson shot and then a scream. She looked up, seeing Rosalind falling, and quickly held up her hands, a sound wave emitting from her hands, hitting Rosalind in the back, but instead of her flying upwards like Daisy expected, the wave was used as a cushion, lowering her to the ground.

Daisy let out a huff, lowering her hands to her side as she shook them out before running towards Rosalind. She held out a hand and she grabbed it, sitting up. "Thank you," She breathed out as Coulson came running towards us.

"I didn't know you could do that." Coulson looked to Daisy in surprise, his eyes wide.

"That makes two of us," Daisy told him, swallowing thickly.

"Where is he?"

"No idea. But we got to get him to the containment module..." She looked to Coulson with worries eyes. "Now."

"I'll get him to where he needs to go," Lincoln told her through the ear piece.

DAISY stood beside Coulson, looking at an unconscious Garner as he laid in the containment module. Rosalind was telling May about what they could do for him, "If we put Andrew in stasis as a human, it'll slow his transformation, giving us more time to find a cure. Now, I can't pretend to understand what you're going through, but for what it's worth... if I had the chance to save someone I love, I'd take it."

May turned to Daisy, and rose a brow. "What would you do?"

Daisy started fumbling with her fingers as she was surprised that May would turn to her for this sort of thing. "Well... it's a temporary solution. I think we can all acknowledge that. But Andrew helped me. So I'd — I'd do whatever it takes."

May nodded. "Do it." She then walked away.

Daisy looked over at Lincoln and smiled, and he smiled right back at her, something shining in his eyes.