crack my heart

time of silence,time of mourning.

(3rd persons p.o.v)

Skye and cherianna is still inside the isolation pod they awaken from the dream. sky rubs her eyes and flips onto her back and only to see someone sitting in a chair just outside there  pod .it's Coulson sitting in the chair, Skye looks over at him while cher sits silently stairing ahead at a wall. ''I haven't been able to sleep either.''he says Skye sighs and sits up on her bed facing Coulson. ''I keep thinking Trip is gonna come see us. Make fun of us for being stuck in quarantine, call us a goldfish or a hamster or something. And every time I wake up...'' sky says full of sorrow Her voice breaks as tears fill her eyes.''I remember all over again.''she continues looking down sadly. 

''I just can't believe he's not coming back. He should not have been down there.''she says cher's eyes fill with tears remembering the look on his face before she was cocooned. ''You three went in for a good reason.'' he says She looks up at him with unbelieving eyes.''To prevent HYDRA from starting a cataclysm.''he continues  ''He was trying to save us.'' cher said her voice breaking from the amount of dryness in her throat and sadness ''He may have saved all of us.'' Phil said watching as cher turns back to staring at the wall with a dead look. 

He stands up from his chair and walks to the glass separating them.''The Obelisk triggered a massive earthquake. Imagine how much worse it could have been if he hadn't destroyed it. He died a hero.''he said Skye nods sadly.''Once medical clears you both, we'll get you out of there. You'll just be stuck underground, like the rest of us.''he continues trying to cheer them up to trigger a little hope.it didn't work. ''How's everyone doing?'' sky asked ''Just trying to keep busy.'' he started   

May hitting a punching bag very hard on The Bus.

''Everyone deals with it in their own way.'' 

Mack welding something in the shop portion of The Bus. May moving toward Mack 

''When you sign up for this kind of life you accept that loss will be part of it, but you never get used to losing one of your own.''

Mack has stopped welding as Fitz walks over to him handing him a towel with a sad smile. Mack wipes his face off then takes the wire brush Fitz hands to him.

''Especially when it's a good man like Trip.''

Bobbi boxing up Trip's things. She has his wallet with S.H.I.E.L.D. ID in her hands looking sadly at his picture.

''It happens too much. And over time, it makes it harder to let people in.''

She picks up a photo of Trip with a woman who appears to be his mother. Bobbi looks at the photo with tears in her eyes as Hunter appears behind her with a drink in his hand.

''Sometimes, just makes you want to pack up and run.''he finishes  

Hunter turns away leaving Bobbi to it.

''Is that what you want to do, run?'' cher asks looking at her leader he nods sadly at her  ''Sometimes. You?'' he asked ''all the time but you can never really run long from this life it always finds a way to creep back in somehow,someway''she answered with no emotion in her voice but her eyes are a dead give a way sky sniffs and looks around her cell. ''Couldn't if I tried.'' she answered coulson She gets off the bed and starts to pace. ''How long did it take for Mack to get out of quarantine?'' she asks curiously ''He cleared pretty quickly. Whatever took over his system is gone, but he's pretty shaken up.'' he answered truthfully 

''And Simmons, is she back?''cher piped into the conversation Coulson shakes his head.''Net yet.'' he said the tunnels inside the alien city, there are many people working in Hazmat suits. They are moving bits of rock and studying the tunnels.

''She has a team documenting whatever they can in the tunnels, cleaning up.''

As Coulson speaks there is a person in a Hazmat suit pushing a wheelbarrow. There are rocks inside the wheelbarrow, but we can also see a hand and a part of Trip's face.

''But it's slow going with no electricity.''
The wheelbarrow passes by Simmons and she sees Trip's face, her voice is shaky when she speaks.''Be careful with that.'' simmons speaks She looks around with tears in her eyes.
''This area is finished.'' she said finally  
Another worker in a Hazmat suit spray paints a large X on the wall next to her.

''She'll assess the structural integrity of the place and if possible, blow one of the vertical shafts under the ocean floor, flood the city with water.'' 

''And drown it for good.''sky asks ''Hopefully, the bedrock wasn't too badly damaged by the quake. The temple collapsed on itself. It's a miracle you're both still alive.''he said Skye looks down and away from him, almost looking guilty.''Did you find Raina's body yet?'' cher asked with a hint of anger in her voice ''There's a lot of rubble to dig through, but not yet. Whatever gas came out of that Obelisk hit you, too. That's why we're being extra cautious. It's hard to make sense of all this.'' 

''What? What – no. No it isn't.''sky said frantically She stops pacing and looks at him. ''We lost. We failed.'' she said feeling helpless ''Skye, don't say that.''phil said firmly ''It wasn't because of HYDRA. It was because of us.'' she continued ''Don't blame yourselves''he said softly yet firm  
She gets angry and begins to yell at Coulson. ''If we didn't go down there you could have blown the place!''cher yelled ''That was one battle, this is a war.''phil tried again to calm them 
''And Ward and my father –''sky continued getting cut off by phil 

''Skye.''

''The rotten core at the center of everything!''

Coulson hits the glass hard getting her attention. ''We did not fail! Trip prevented a disaster and Whitehall's dead. We cut off the head. And while HYDRA scrambles for a new one, I will crush them! I'm gonna make somebody pay, whoever the hell it is.''shouts at them