Agent Simmons flinched and hissed in pain Bobbi wrapped her ribs tightly.

"Sorry. Broken ribs do hurt for a while and you've got three of them."

"Don't forget the two that are cracked." She managed a small smile at her friend and sat still as the woman finished.

"Or the concussion and the bruising to your kidneys." Agent Morse looked sympathetically down to where the biochemists hands were clenched tight to bed rail. Bobbi fixed the bandages in place before helping to ease the small woman back to the raised bed.

Once Hydra had gone into the portal the team had been able to take the base back fairly quickly as Ward was the only real threat in the Hydra gang anyway.

Simmons had been, reluctantly, taken to the Hydra med base in the castle for medical treatment, with a quinjet and the rest of the team standing by for when Fitz and Coulson came out of the monolith portal, to take everyone home. Jemma hadn't wanted to leave but had been all but pushed to the med wing.

"Yes, who knew telepathy could be used to squeeze your kidneys from the inside."

Bobbi tucked her in gently and gave her a stern look.

"Now I know that you know how serious bruised kidneys are so I'm going to need you to stay in this bed okay."

The biochemist nodded sullenly down at her lap but Bobbi dipped her head lower to catch the scientist's eyes.

"I'm serious Jemma, no matter what happens when they get back from that portal you have to stay here."

Simmons nodded with grim understanding. There was a high chance that Ward, with Hydra, would bring back the inhuman back. There was also the possibility that Fitz would bring back Will. Or that no one would come back at all.

"And Jemma…..I know a thing or two about torture and….. if you ever want to talk, I'm here."

Simmons took her hand gratefully.

"Thank you Bobbi."

Both woman looked towards the door as noise broke out from down the corridor and Daisy appeared in the doorway.

"Bobbi we need you. Now. It's bad."

Bobby immediately started grabbing her gear, replacing her gloves with new sanitary ones.

"What is it? The inhuman? Did you get Will back? Who's hurt?"

The girl shook her head. "No Inhuman and we got Will he's okay. We have everyone accounted for and Ward and the other Hydra agents are all secured but…."

Simmons sat up in her bed and took in Daisy's panicked appearance. A few small tears in her suit and layers of dust most likely from the opening of the portal. She was also covered in blood.

"Is that blood? Daisy, who's is it?"

Daisy looked at Bobbi desperately and Bobbi raised her chin and looked at Simmons. They all knew whose blood it was.

Simmons immediately started throwing her blankets off and getting out of bed, cringing as she did so and almost crumpling to the ground as soon as her feet touched the floor.

Agent Morse hesitated towards Jemma but gestured to Daisy instead.

"Don't let her get out of bed! I'll take care of him Jemma!" She sprinted off down the hall leaving Daisy to gently wrestle the determined doctor back to bed.

"Jemma, let them take care of it. He'll be okay." Daisy actually had no idea if the beloved engineer would be okay or not. When everyone had been spat out of the monolith portal he had been thrown out of that swirling grey pool and thrown lifeless to the ground. Blood had quickly smeared and pooled around him and he hadn't moved.

Mack and herself had quickly detained the Hydra agents and a smug looking Ward after only a brief fight where daisy pretty much just threw everyone into the walls, being sure to slam Ward against the cold, ancient stone extra hard to wipe that smug smirk of his face.

Mack went to secure them all while Daisy turned around to see Coulson crawling towards the downed scientist. Rolling the man over, supporting his lolling head, before pushing his hands onto the fast bleeding bullet holes in Leo's chest. The man that Daisy supposed to be Will sat leaning against a wall with his hands over his mouth just staring at the Scotsman.

Mack had finished with Hydra and started yelling orders into his communicator and Daisy knelt down beside Coulson to put pressure on the chest of one of her closest friends. Coulson's hands were shaking, with pain, fear, or anger Daisy didn't know but the Director started rambling.

"The inhuman wasn't there, just this huge Hydra symbol and an old city and time was running out and we had already been looking through all the locations Simmons and Fitz's data had given us and Ward was getting desperate and Will said the Inhuman was drawn to blood and then Ward just….He just shot him."

Daisy pushed harder, sending silent apologies to the unconscious scientist, as warm blood leaked from under her fingers, smearing everywhere.

"It's okay we'll get Ward for what he did but we have to help Fitz. We have to get this bleeding stopped."

Coulson's hands were limp now as they slipped from Leo's chest, smearing even more red on himself.

"I should have stopped him, I should have protected my team."

"Coulson!"

Mack put his hands under the Directors arms and gently dragged him away from the bloody mess, sitting him against the wall next to Will, before kneeling down next to Daisy.

"Looks like Coulson hit his head and he could be in shock from all this. I'll radio May and Hunter to help with hydra and these guys." He gestured towards the stunned Director and Will.

"And Daisy, I need you to go get Bobbi okay, she can fix this, she can help Fitz."

She had nodded and reluctantly moved her hands away to allow Mack's big, steady ones to cover the holes instead. Tossing one last look over her shoulder the agent started sprinting down the halls.

She had only just managed to wipe the still-warm blood off her hands and onto her pants before entering the doorway of the medical bay.

Now she was trying to get Simmons back to bed without hurting her but the woman was determined.

"Daisy, let go, please! I have to be with him, I have to see him. He needs me!" She was crying and Daisy could no longer stop her own tears because Leo's blood was getting onto Simmons and after everything that they had been through it wasn't fair.

The biochemist was determined and broke from her hold, running as fast as her battered body would allow, winding through the halls and corners, Daisy following close behind, to finally arrive to the worst sight she could imagine.

Fitz was laying on the floor, face pale under his scruff, making the bruises and blood stand out far more painfully against his ashen skin. His kind, smart eyes were closed and his lips, the lips that she had finally tasted just a short time ago, were tinted blue.

He was leaving her, even after he promised to come back. Daisy was calling at her from behind and Bobbi was yelling instructions at Mack while trying to do a hundred things at once in order to stabilize her patient. She could see Will sitting against the wall and spared a brief moment to appreciate that Fitz had saved him, had gotten him out alive but now Fitz was….

Kneeling down beside him, taking one of his cold limp hands from the floor she pressed his palm to her cheek, her tears trailing down his fingertips as she cried.

"Fitz, please don't go, you did it. You got everyone out just like you said you would but you can't give up okay? We can finally stay together, finally be Fitzsimmons again."

Her voice was cracking but she pressed on, trailing a hand through his hair before trailing her fingers down the side of his face, his cheeks, stubbled jawline and his neck where his pulse fluttered weakly under her shaking fingers.

"After everything Fitz, you… you always chose me. Every time. You said you couldn't lose me again and now you're leaving. In that pod, in the ocean, when you said I was more than your best friend….I didn't know how to respond but now I do. Fitz I choose you. I know it's complicated and everything's messy but our whole world has always been one big mess and I choose you."

"You said you'd show me how much you loved me in that pod and you saved my life and now you need to show me again. Just stay with me Fitz, don't go where I can't follow."

The Biochemist sobbed over her best friend's body and her whole body was screaming at her to get off the floor and lie down. Daisy was still trying to tug her away from Leo but she was determined to stay.

"His hearts stopped!" Bobbi called out and everything crumbled.

Simmons started screaming and Daisy finally got rough enough to pull her away, the engineers hand dropping from hers to smack onto the ground.

Bobbi and Mack struggled to help Fitz and Jemma watched on in horror. Daisy, finally letting go of Simmons, raced towards Leo and told everyone to step back. She placed her hands over the man's chest and closed her eyes on concentration.

Jemma was just screaming Fitz's name at this point but Daisy concentrated on her hands. The vibrations she could feel around her were shut out of her mind until she could feel nothing but the pulsing vibration of life from the man she considered a brother. She let her powers focus and gather and unleashed them in a controlled jolt, making Fitz's chest leap onto the air in a bloody arch before smacking back to the ground with a sick wet noise.

Placing her fingers against his neck Daisy sighed in relief, fresh tears wetting her cheek.

"He's alive."

Bobbi and Mack went back to their work while Daisy came back to Simmons and gathered her up in her arms. Her sister cried as she clung to her, barely getting any words out between her sobbing.

"Thank you, thank you. You saved him."

Daisy nodded and leaned back to wipe both hers and Jemma's cheeks.

"He's gonna be okay but we have to let them work. Let's get you to a bed okay?"

Jemma still didn't want to leave.

"No, I need to stay. He could-"

"No Jemma, you're hurt too and you need to rest."

Holding the woman close, the inhuman lifted them both from the floor, leading Simmons away from the messy sight of Bobbi and Mack getting Fitz onto a gurney.

Simmons hated leaving him but her body was exhausted and in bad shape. The crying was hurting her ribs so much she could barely breathe and she knew she needed to get to bed before she passed out.

Taking one last look before they turned the corner the biochemist prayed Fitz wasn't right about the cosmos.