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chapter six

(April 6th; 2017
Zephyr One; Classified)

    LEITH SHOULD be used to everything going to shit by now; they try to fix one thing, it ends up worse than it had before. They try to save Eli Morrow, he ends up getting taken by Lucy Bauer.

     And now seeing the dead agents at Momentum Lab, Leith was dragging his hands across his cheeks and into his overgrown strawberry blonde curls, grabbing and tugging in his stress. He had made the decisions in that mission to the prison━he couldn't help but blame himself. What could have he done better? What could have he fixed? Changed? It was like he was going over his and Jemma's argument all over again.

     Speaking of Jemma, she still hasn't replied to his text. Perhaps she was so angry she had left him on open, but he knew her too well. She was too nervous to leave something on open; always feeling like she had to finish the conversation. Whether it be a simple 'okay', or a smiling or thumbs-up emoji, her leaving with nothing said was completely out of character. It only made him worse. What if her lie detector test went wrong? And if her's went wrong, what about Clara's?

     "Lucy Bauer was here," May said over comms, showing them her view from the visual of her glasses, "but she's long gone." Fitz told Leith they stemmed from Deathlok technology━the original Deathlok technology; or at least the Cybertek eyes they came across before S.H.I.E.L.D. fell. He had taken the glasses he first manufactured for Ward all those years ago and turned them into this crazy-smart headwear.

      The Cavalry walked the distance of the room and Fitz quickly stammered a, "W━wait━Hold━" he pointed to the screen. "Uh, Agent May, can you go back and give me another look at where the cables connect to the chamber?"

      "Sure."

     She back-tracked and Fitz tapped his fingers against his bottom lip, eyes narrowed in thought as he examined the sight. Then, he nodded as if what he had suspected was correct. "Yeah, okay, that's━that's━that's definitely different from before. Uh━there's a number of pieces missing. She must have taken them."

      Coulson sighed, "She already has the book, the power cells ... my guess is she's trying to replicate the experiment and reverse the process. Un-ghost herself."

     "Is that why she took Eli Morrow?"

     "He's part of her original dream team," shrugged the old Director. "Maybe she needs him to do something she can't."

     "What? Show her face without scaring children?"

     Fitz propped his elbow up onto the back of the chair, lips pursed. He glanced back at Leith and Coulson. "The Momentum facilities are controlled by us now, so she needs a new place to work."