A Miracle Starts With a Beat of a Heart

Chapter 1

How do you move on from saving the Earth from mass destruction?

Well? The easy answer would be to celebrate. That seemed to be easier said than done for SHIELD. The agency was working on getting themselves back on their feet. The world had watched them fall over four years ago. The world watched them be reinstated into the world in 2017 only for them to fall again a couple of months later thanks to Aida. To be reinstated a third time was risky, so everything needed to be done just right when the time came.

It's also not easy when you lose your own. Phil Coulson, the heart and soul of the agency, was dying, and his team had finally come to terms with it. By request, Phil was spending his last moments on Earth in Tahiti with Melinda May. It was definitely unfortunate that the two of them had been friends for thirty-plus years and only had just admitted their feelings to each other after they find out he's dying.

They also lost Fitz, the love of Jemma Simmons's life. When Talbot had tried to lift more gravitonium from the Earth's crust, he created his own quake that caused the building to fall on top of Fitz.  Thankfully, due to their time travel excursions, there is another Fitz out in space, having no idea he had already helped save the world. They were about to go on a mission to find him.

That's just what Daisy was training for when her alarm woke her that morning.  She woke up every morning at five a.m. sharp, just like she did back when May was her S.O. It was these stressful times that Daisy wished May was still here, but she knew May deserved this time off to be with Coulson during his last days. 

Daisy, tiredly, wiped the sleep away from her eyes as she sat up in her bed. She squeezed her eyes shut, a headache with slight nausea immediately causing her pain, but it passed as soon as it came. She shook her head as the pain passed, not worrying too much about it. It was happening a lot lately, but she just assumed it was due to her stress and trying to get ready for the space mission to find Fitz.

She got up and started looking through her workout clothes. She picked out a comfortable pair of leggings and a sports bra. She looked at herself in the mirror as she adjusted her sports bra to fit comfortably. She tilted her head as she examined her own body. Was she gaining weight? She was starting to feel a little bloated, but that was probably because she had been eating like crazy. Sure, her inhuman genes made her eat a little more than the average person, but it seemed to be getting out of hand. Daisy made a mental note to stop stress eating so much. Why has she been so anxious lately?

Daisy shrugged it off before heading to the gym. It had only been a few weeks since they returned from the dystopian future and almost experienced the end of the world. Things were still trying to calm down from that while also getting ready for new missions. Jemma and Mack were hard at work with Zephyr 1 to prepare it for space travel.

"You're up early," a voice said as Daisy entered the gym. Elena had given her a smile from where was with the punching bag. Since the almost-end-of-the-world, the two have made up. It was done very tearfully, but they made up nonetheless.

Daisy returned the smile. "May practically conditioned me to get up this early."

Elena chuckled. "Mack told me about a time you didn't want to get up, so May poured a bucket of ice water on you."

"Yeah, not my best move after May chose to be my new S.O." Daisy walked over to the treadmills to start a nice jog. Elena must have noticed something because she eyes Daisy with concern. "What?"

"Are you alright?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" 

Elena shrugged. "You've been acting a little different."

"Well, I am pretty stressed. Between the world almost cracking apart to losing Fitz but not really to saying goodbye to Coulson, it's all been a lot."