Elemental Problems

Blinded

It had been a week since the incident and Simmons was frustrated. The girl that had become her little sister, was shot by a man whom Simmons wanted to kill, resuscitated by her own powers, and was now lying in a cocoon-like structure that wouldn't let Simmons go near her. She felt frustrated and useless.

The only thing that she could monitor was the constant pulsing of the little ball of fire that resided right above Elizabeth's chest. Occasionally, she would hear the flow of water indicating that Elizabeth was hydrated at least.

Everyone would stop by regularly to check up on her and take Simmons spot by Elizabeth, allowing the biochemist to go eat, or take a nap.

Simmons was looking through a microscope at a liquid, that one of the agents dropped by after his mission, when Fitz came in holding a scanner looking device.

"I got it!" He exclaims going into the room where Elizabeth's structure was.

"Got what Fitz?!" She says, hoping that he wasn't going to get near it.

"I made a scanner that monitors the, um, the v-vitals from afar. All I have to do is point and BAM! we can make sure that Elizabeth is alright!"

"Oh Fitz that's brilliant."

"Ok so let's set it up here, so no...no one can get in the way and interfere with the readings..." He says hooking up the scanner. "Got it! Now I just p-press this button and it will send the readings to my laptop aaaaand....." He draws out, as he presses a button on the scanner and a few on his laptop, "There!"

Fitz turns the laptop so both Simmons and him can see it. On the screen was a series of numbers and graphs. Of course, both of them understood it.

"Fitz! This is amazing!"

"What's amazing?" Came May's voice from behind them. They turn and see her along with Skye and Coulson.

"Fitz created a scanner that can monitor Elizabeth's vitals and temperature so we can make sure she is still alive and healthy."

All of them gave Fitz a warm smile, including May - who had become more open to showing how she felt since coming back from her vacation. Fitz grinned and tapped a couple keys on his laptop and showed it to them.

"This is a thermal outline of her body. Everywhere s-seems to be the same temperature," He said then added quickly and quietly, "Even the place where she was shot."

"Good work Fitz" Coulson says, clapping him on the shoulder. Fitz huge grin seemed to grow even larger at the compliment.

"It was n-nothing, Sir."

"It's something Fitz." Skye says with a smile.

"Ok guys, why don't we all head to bed, it's really late." Coulson says looking at his watch. 12:42 it read.

Voices of acknowledgments came from the younger members and May just left the room, turning around to look at Elizabeth one last time before heading out.

They all headed to their bunks and as soon as their heads hit the pillow they were out.

(-)

Fitz woke up to the sound of beeping coming from his laptop. After a couple of seconds of just staring, confused, he jumped up and ran to it, realizing what the beeping was.

He typed in a couple of things and looked at the thermal image. Nothing. Elizabeth wasn't there.

He ran out of his bunk and went to Coulson's office, which was the first place he could think of.

He burst in and Coulson looked up from his paperwork. "Fitz?! What's wrong."

"Um- uh, i-it's, um" He stutters out quickly.

Coulson gets up and walks over to Fitz, "It's what Fitz?"

"It's Elizabeth! She's gone!"

"Oh! Come on let's go!" And with that they ran to get to the lab. They passed by bunkers, some opening to show sleepy agents. Simmons, Skye, Bobbi, Hunter, Mack, and couple others. May stepped out of the gym probably just getting ready for her Tai Chi routine.

"Fiiiitz" Skye says, "Turn that damn beeping off."

"Guys, it's Elizabeth." Coulson says rushing past. That seemed to wake them up as they sped off after the two.

When they got to the lab the structure that had held Elizabeth was open. And she wasn't in the med pod.

"Split up and search the base." They all split in pairs. Skye with Coulson, May with Simmons, Fitz with Mack, Bobbi with Hunter, the Koenigs were a pair, etc.

Everyone went to different places. Eventually May and Simmons found her, in May's bunk, again, in the same position she was in the first day she was there. May got the others and they stepped into the room.

"Why is always my room?" May whispers to no one in general, not complaining, just curious. At her voice, Elizabeth's head shot up but she didn't face them.

"Guys?" Came her voice that wasn't quite like they remembered.

"Elizabeth?" Simmons says stepping forward and reaching out.

Finally she faced them and stood up. Most of them gasped. Everything about her had changed.

She had grown taller and you could see the muscles from beneath the too small of shirt, that was still covered in blood. She was no longer the cute, lanky kid she was a week ago. Her dirty blonde hair had turned a whitish-grey color. But what surprised them the most was her eyes.

Gone were the bright, deep green, lively eyes that they had all grown to love. Her eyes were milky and glazed over. What she said next almost broke their hearts.

"Guys? Where are you?" She said, her eyes wide and her head whipping back and forth. Elizabeth was blind.

The only one who hadn't seen them was Simmons who was standing to her right and a little back. Simmons engulfed her in a hug. Elizabeth tensed but relaxed as she heard the british girl's voice. "Don't scare me like that again." Simmons looked at the rest of the team. "Why are you guys staring at her like she's grown an extra head?"

Fitz whispers in her ear. "Her eyes." Simmons looks at her eyes for the first time and lets out a small yelp.

"Oh my." Simmons says hugging her again. "I am so sorry, Elizabeth!" You could hear the sadness in her voice.

Elizabeth awkwardly returned the hug the best she could. When she pulled back Skye and Fitz tackled her into another hug. She let out an 'oof' and began to fall down to the ground with the two on top of her. Her eyes turned into their familiar yellow and their descent was stopped. Skye and Fitz stood up and mumbled apologies.

"It's all good." She says after she straightened up.

Coulson gave her his huge, dad-like hug and said, "Glad you're back."

Elizabeth chuckled, "Oh come on guys, you can't get rid of me that easily."

A/N- Hello my sweet angels, hope you liked this chapter. It's the longest of all of them so far.