X marks the spot

World's End

A lone car made its way down a broken road. The one driving, her bloodied hands coated the wheel. She only focused on what was ahead, not looking back. Forcing herself not to. She knew that they weren't being followed. Well out of range of their attackers at this point. It was her passenger that she was worried about. An older woman whose frozen gaze was only on what was ahead. She hadn't moved, or spoken. Hell, the younger woman wasn't even sure if her mother had blinked since they had escaped the clutches of...her now longer absent father.

She finally looked back, this time actually turning back in her seat. She saw her brother with his hand dangled off the seat. The other hand that she had placed on the wound now went limp. He was unconscious. Or... No, he couldn't be. They'd gotten this far. They'd get all the way. Wherever that was.

She checked her fuel gauge. Seeing it starting to enter the dangerous level. She could keep going. Keep driving into what seemed like the abyss. Just an endless road that led to nowhere. Or maybe that was the sick joke here. They hadn't thought about what came after this road. It just kept looping to give people the illusion that they could escape. After all, she was dead.

Christ that was morbid.

Wait...

She looked back at her brother for a second, before back to the endless road. Escape. That was what they needed to do. They couldn't escape this way. That much was known. But... Well – they could escape in a different way.

"Katie!" Her mother yelled, the daughter acting quickly. Swerving the car around 180 degrees. Slamming back down on the accelerator. The world behind her turning into the abyss. One part of the road disappeared, the back tires barely keeping contact. But, after a quick gear change, they held on. Thank god. Or, whatever the equivalent to that here was.

"Go, go, go. GO, FUCKING GO!" Bethany escalated in volume. Katie went full throttle, only barely ahead of the void that was chasing them. "You telling doesn't make this go any fucking faster!" She screamed back at her mother. Changing gear again, only to find that she was already at the max. "SHIT!" She cursed. However, there seemed to be someone looking out for them. As, when they crossed back into town, the deletion seemed to stop. They were safe. For how long? Who could say.

"Oh, thank god." Daisy sighed in relief. Coulson turned to look at the agent. "What is it?" He asked, turning away from looking at the youngest agent still in that digital hell. "Katie made it back with Aaron. I managed to get them back in the city." Daisy explained, continuing to type on her keyboard. "Are you sure it'll work?" Coulson asked, he hated to be the one doubting its chances of working. Him of all people, the man in charge of the three agents still in the framework, just wanted them out so that they could all be reunited again. But, he had to be the one who had to ask the question. The one that made Daisy pause, even if for only a second. She still paused. And Coulson knew. It wasn't even a question she had considered. A possibility she had considered either.

"They'll make it, they have to." The first part was to Coulson, the second being directed towards herself. Trying not to set her hopes up only for them to be knocked down like bowling pins. "Come on, Katie. You've got this." She said softly, fully putting her faith in her sister to realise what the symbols meant and to help get thei Katie's brother, her best friend out of the place.

The 'f' word was a scary thing.

Aaron's monitor then beeped like mad. The two jumped and looked at the boy with alarm. They sent the look to each other as well. Neither knew what to do. The only thing they could do was watching as the beeping continued to grow and grow in speed. Jemma came rushing in, her alarm on her pad going off. "Oh no. No, no, no, no." Jemma's words didn't instil faith in the other two of the boy's chances. "Simmons, what is it?" Coulson asked the only doctor they had. "He's been injured there, somehow. I'm not sure how." Jemma looked at Daisy, but Daisy nodded. She was trying to be reassuring. She didn't want to go through this pain again. This loss, again. She didn't want to be back to square one...