A Miracle Starts With a Beat of a Heart

Chapter 36

Daisy was filled with pain and anger. First, Nathaniel tortured her for her powers. Then he goes ahead and just kills her mother and kidnaps her best friend. She could feel the vibrations surrounding her body, her control still going a little haywire at the moment. She soon felt two very familiar vibrations coming towards her, but she stayed still.

She knew May and Daniel were coming towards her, but she made no effort to face them. She couldn't. She felt like she just let her mother die. Why didn't she do anything? She had to push those thoughts back and remind herself that Nathaniel was the one who killed Jiaying. He was at fault.

Daisy felt May and Daniel bend down next to her. Daisy turned to May, not feeling the emotional strength to look towards Daniel. "He killed her," she cried to her pseudo-mother. "He killed my mom, May."

"I know," May said soothingly. "It's going to be okay though. We'll get through this. I promise we will."

"Wait, she's your..." Daniel started, not knowing exactly the connection of Daisy to Jiaying. Daniel looked to May, and the older agent nodded. "Oh, Daisy, I'm so, so sorry. I just have a question. How are you still here if we're currently in a time before you were born? Shouldn't you not exist anymore?"

Both Daisy and May raised their heads, realizing what was going on. "Maybe..." Daisy began. "Maybe Deke's whole multiverse theory is right. Maybe this is a completely different timeline."

May nodded, rubbing Daisy's arm with comfort. "Come on," she said, getting up from the ground. "I'll have Coulson and Mack take care of Jiaying when they get back with Kora. We should get a tracking going on Z1 pronto."

"They're bringing Kora back with them?" Daisy questioned. She had only known the woman by name, but now she had a chance to a face-to-face.

May nodded. "Like I said, we better get down to tracking the Zephyr."

Daisy nodded, pushing all of her emotions down. She knew it was unhealthy, but she had to focus on the mission at hand.

They went to the control center and booted up all of the monitors. Daisy was still completely out of it. It was one of those moments where she could literally hear her heart pounding in her ears. Well, more so than usual with her powers. Her breathing was hitched, not knowing how to react at the moment. She felt numb. It was like her mind just didn't know how to properly react to trauma anymore. All she cared about now was getting Jemma and Deke back to safety and away from Nathaniel Malick and a younger John Garrett than what they dealt with last.

It was one of those moments where every little movement and every little sound was perceivable to Daisy. She noticed how in high emotion moments, her powers caused her to be hyper-aware of every little thing in her surroundings. She could hear May's typing and the little sounds the monitors made.

They were soon able to track the Zephyr as Daisy stared at the screens. The beeping blip on the screen suddenly disappeared out of thin air. What? Where did they go? If they couldn't track the Zephyr, how were they supposed to save Jemma and Deke? The screen displayed 'telemetry lost'.

"What the hell just happened?" Daisy spoke up.

"They disappeared," May answered. "Dropped off satellite."

"Did they jump?" Daniel asked. "I thought the time drive wasn't working."

"They didn't jump." There is no way Nathaniel figured out a way to fix it on his own. They wouldn't just leave them behind in 1983, right? Daisy needed to get back to Nadia. She needed to get back to her baby girl.

"How do you know?"

"They didn't jump!" Daisy insisted, still answering solely on her emotions, which were still very, very high at the moment.