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Someone asked me to write another Dousie one-shot and they gave me a few ideas to work with. I liked this one the most so here we are. Obviously I don't own Agents of SHIELD or any of the characters.

He snapped her neck. Without a second thought Malick snapped Jiaying's neck with the same effort you would put into crushing a bug. Daisy had to watch her mother die in front of her all over again, and there was Nathaniel Malick taunting her. At least, Daisy assumed he was taunting her; she was having a problem even processing his words. All she could see was her mother lying dead in front of her and suddenly she was flooded with memories. Jiaying's death at the hands of her father, wiping her dad's memory, finding out Coulson was going to die and didn't want to be brought back, finding out Fitz had died, Lincoln's death, Tripp's death, and Ward's betrayal.

It felt like all the memories bombarded her at once along with countless other tragedies she and the team had gone through. Space, becoming inhuman, the framework...all of it came crashing into her and it felt crushing. She didn't even know the ground was shaking until she heard Malick's confused voice again. It felt like she couldn't stop, like she didn't want to, it felt good to quake like this. Sometimes Daisy wondered why she didn't let loose like this more often and then she remembered the fear she'd felt when she thought she would be "the destroyer of worlds". She still didn't stop.

Nathanial Malick had backed up and with some small satisfaction Daisy realized she'd seen actual fear on his face and that felt really good. He didn't realize the full extent of her- their powers and she shuddered to think what he would do if he figured out how to quake like this. She could barely control this, how would he? Daisy noticed him run away and she vaguely realized she should stop and run after him.

She tried to stop, she really did, if only so she could go stop him, but she felt out of control. It was like the first time she'd discovered her powers or the first time she tried to control them. Daisy saw May, injured May, trying to come towards her and talk her down. It was hard to hear May, but she saw her name and the word 'stop' escape May's lips.

Then there was another voice and for a moment Daisy thought (she hoped ) it was Coulson on his way to fix things. He could talk her down, he could get her to stop, he would find a solution to the Jiaying problem- oh...oh no. She'd been so stuck in the memories that she'd completely forgotten what this would mean for her future...or lack thereof. If Jiaying was truly dead then she would never meet Calvin and Daisy would never be born and her whole future would be gone-

"Daisy!"

The other voice snapped her back into the present moment and she looked around only to see that not only had the shaking gotten worse, but the building looked like it was going to start tearing apart. Daisy needed to stop, she really needed to stop, but her vision was blurry, her breath was quickening, and her heart was about to pound right out of her chest. She couldn't stop.

"Daisy!"

This time Daisy's head snapped towards the voice, which she had only just realized wasn't Coulson. It was Sousa. Daniel Sousa. The man they'd all but stolen from the past and thrust into multiple different eras the man never wanted to see (not that she'd wanted to see them either). The man she had asked for help multiple times in the time loop. The man had never once seemed phased by any of it (even now she didn't see any fear or hesitation in his eyes). The man she had watched die to help her. The man she had kissed.

She watched with wide blurry eyes as the man took a step forward and she wanted to yell at him and tell him to stop before she hurt him, the way she inevitably hurt everyone, but her mouth couldn't seem to form words. Her throat felt as tight as her stomach. Water dripped down her cheeks, and with a start, Daisy realized she'd started crying.