AN- I'm sorry this is so late, I've been overloaded with coursework and uni application stuff but I finally have a few months of freedom to be able to write and finish off a lot of the fanfics that I haven't finished. This one shouldn't go on past another chapter or two so it will be over fairly soon. The ending might seem a little rushed (because it is) because I didn't want to try to drag it out and rewrite most of what happened in the show. But I hope you like what I'm doing with it anyway.

Skye opened her eyes, having closed them when Gordon surrounded her with bright blue light. She first saw Kate, who was grinning widely with a woman that seemed strangely familiar to Skye. She had the same eyes that Skye had been seeing for years, having seen them in her reflection. The woman took a few steps forward, a look of disbelief radiating across her face.

"Daisy?" She whispered, hesitating to reach a hand out to touch Skye's face.

Skye nodded, remembering the name Cal had told her back in San Juan. She wrapped her arms tightly around the woman, never wanting to let her go. This is how she wanted to be reunited with her parents, with a tender smile, not by following a trail of corpses. She wanted to hold on to the moment forever, but she had to release the woman in front of her, there were a lot of questions she wanted to ask.

"Oh, my Daisy, you're so beautiful and strong." She smiled, having spent a few moments looking at her daughter. "I'm so sorry that I couldn't find you."

"That doesn't matter." Skye shook her head, being unable to stop herself from smiling. "I have so many questions, and so much to tell you." She grinned, unable to hold back her excitement.

"I'd love to hear all about it." She smiled, gesturing for Skye to follow her to one of the small houses.

…

Skye felt like she was in a dream, as she told her mother all about SHIELD and her life before, and as she heard all about her mother and the life she would have had. She also spoke of her time in the Kree temple and her friend's reactions to her newfound abilities. She couldn't shake the feeling that she'd said too much as her mother's tender look darkened slightly, though only for a moment.

"I think you could help me Skye, a friend of yours came here just before Kate, I'm sure she'd love your help." Jiaying smiled, changing the topic from SHIELD. "Perhaps you'd come with me now." She smiled, before leading Skye out of her home and out to a boarded off house at the furthermost edge of the village. Inside was a dark room, sparsely furnished. Sat on the floor, appearing to be meditating was a figure covered in thick tines. "I'll leave you to speak with her." Jiaying smiled before leaving Skye in the dark room with the figure.

"I'd always believed that I was destined for something greater." The figure spoke after a few moments of silence. "I hurt a lot of people trying to unlock my gift, and this is what I became." They sounded eerily familiar to Skye. "Of course you'd be the one to stay beautiful, but I won't be here much longer to need to stay pretty."

"Raina?" Skye asked, taking a few steps closer to the woman. "If I'd seen you a few weeks ago I would probably have been very angry." Skye commented, moving to sit with the woman. "But I'm not angry about my powers anymore."

"I'm glad you like them." Raina smiled, keeping her eyes firmly shut. "I'm quite fond of mine, despite my outward appearance."

"What can you do?" Skye asked, curious as to what Raina had received.

"I can see things that haven't happened yet." Raina smiled, before opening her eyes to reveal the eerie yellow catlike eyes that hid behind her eyelids. "And I have a lot to warn you about, before my time is up."

Skye narrowed her eyes, unsure of whether to trust Raina.

"You may not believe me, you won't want to when you hear what I have to say, but you'll believe, in time." Raina spoke cryptically, moving to retrieve a notebook containing many drawings and rushed paragraphs. "This is everything I have seen since I left that temple. Most of it is unimportant, but I need you to remember what I'm about to say."

Skye nodded, taking the notebook from Raina.

"You cannot trust your mother, what she is planning will kill a lot of the people that you love." Raina began, ignoring Skye's protests. "You cannot let her find SHIELD, I'm not sure how but if you don't stop her a lot of good people will die. And you cannot let her reach a ship. I'm not too sure about that one, but I know that it will end badly."

"I'm just supposed to trust your word?" Skye asked, laughing slightly. "I have no reason to believe you."

"This is my destiny Skye." Raina explained, her voice level. "The thorns that protect the rose. Or in this case the daisy. We all have a purpose, our powers are given to us to create balance in the world. I didn't receive mine on the roll of a dice, and neither did you. We all have a purpose and mine is to help you."

Skye was still skeptical of Raina's claims, but she kept the notebook and stood, heading toward the door.

"You'll believe." Raina called after Skye stopping her in her tracks. "When your mother cuts my throat, that's when you'll believe."

Skye simply shook her head and left Raina alone in the dark.

…

"I believe her." Kate shook her head, ignoring Skye's scoffs. "I don't have the same past with her that you do, but I know that she was in a bad place when I got here. It was when I got here, when I began talking with her that she realized the amazing gift that she was given."

"She has done too much to hurt me and the people that I love for me to just blindly believe her." Skye protested, still clutching Raina's notebook. "She has no reason to even tell me anything because she doesn't care about anything."

"Then ask her." Kate suggested, sat watching Skye pace across the room. "Just talk to her again and maybe you'll understand."

Skye nodded to herself several times before rushing out of the room, leaving Kate behind once again to stare out of the window. Skye rushed through the village, struggling to find Raina, who wasn't in her room. After asking Gordon, Skye was informed that Raina was speaking with Jiaying in her office. Skye hesitated, unsure if she should go, Raina's final words echoing in her mind, but she pushed the words aside and continued to find her mother and Raina.

"SHIELD needs to be destroyed, you once believed that." Skye heard her mother speak, stopping just outside the door.

"I did." Raina replied. "And now I know that you cannot succeed. I've seen many futures, and the only ones I want to see are where SHIELD still stand."

Skye moved closer to the door, keeping out of sight as she watched the exchange.

"I am not the only person who will die to stop you." Raina informed Jiaying, taking a few steps closer to the desk at a slow measured pace as she continued speaking. "She arrived here only recently."

"No." Jiaying scoffed, taking a step back.

"You will be the cause of her destruction and in those flames, you will burn too." Raina growled, staring down Jiaying who looked to be at the point of breaking. She turned to walk away but Jiaying stopped her, tugging her close, holding a knife to her throat.

"I won't kill Skye, but I will kill you." Jiaying spoke coolly, cutting deeply through Raina's neck before letting the small woman fall to the ground, soaking the carpet in a deep red. Skye's eyes grew wide. Raina had warned her, had promised her that Jiaying would kill her and that Skye would believe, and it was true, everything Raina had said was true. Skye backed away from the door and ran back to the small room she had left Kate in, unsure of how to act next.

She pulled her phone out of her pocket, dialing the number for the phone Tony had been amazed Loki knew how to use. She held the device to her ear, eager to hear his voice.

"Lady Skye." He answered his phone, his voice immediately soothing Skye. "How has your trip been so far?" He asked, his smile evident to Skye despite the fact she couldn't see him.

"It's been interesting." Skye began telling Loki about her mother and Raina, detailing her conversations with the two before telling him about the murder she had witnessed. "What do I do?" She asked, almost begging.

"Find out what she's planning and let us know what we can do to stop her." Loki spoke, the first time she'd ever heard him speak with such force. "We need to know what she's planning, so get that first. Try not to get caught and stall her if you can." He took a deep breath. "Good luck Skye."

"Thanks." She smiled before hanging up, remembering the notebook in her hand. She flicked through the pages, finding pieces of Jiaying's plan in the pages. From what Skye could understand, SHIELD would be on a boat, maybe an aircraft carrier, and she had to find out where. She also knew that it had something to do with crystals like the ones that changed her and Kate and that her mother will advance on her with a gun.

She sent Loki pictures of the pages she thought were important, leaving out the one where she was being threatened by her mother. Maybe this was what Raina was talking about, for them to win she had to die. She had to be killed by her mother. Before Skye could think about it any more she saw that most of the inhabitants of Afterlife were gathering on the outskirts of the village, gathering around Jiaying who was yelling over the crowd.

"We will destroy SHIELD. Those who belong with us will become inhuman and the rest will die." Skye heard her yell. "We have already allowed some of their people our gifts and now we will draw out the rest of our kin and destroy those who would see us bleed and die."

Skye rushed forward, suddenly at the front of the group with ther mother smiling at her. "Daisy, join us." She beckoned, a hand extended to her daughter. "Help me protect our people, we could do great things together, we could live in peace."

Skye felt disgusted by her mother's words, when her mother killed Raina she had the same look on her face, a power hungry smile that made Skye want to recoil. "No." She spoke, taking a step closer to her mother. "They may not have handled my change well, but they know that I'm still the same, they've apologized and they've changed too. SHIELD isn't a threat."

"Yes, it is." Jiaying nodded to one of the Inhumans in the group and he stepped forward, grabbing Skye by the arm and dragging her to a nearby building, throwing her inside and locking the door. Kate rushed over, trying to pull the door open but she was quickly apprehended and thrown in with Skye. The man who had grabbed them raised his arm and a glowing blue light surrounded the walls, stopping them from being able to escape.

Skye felt helpless, watching as dozens of Inhumans were transported from the village, all following Jiaying in her attempt to destroy SHIELD, of course Skye couldn't do anything to stop them, Raina had already tried and been killed for it. Kate was desperately trying to break them out of the room but it appeared that Jiaying's thugs had done a very good job of barring all of their escape routes, using an energy shield to hold them back.

"Down!" Kate yelled ecstatically, beginning to move the furniture from the middle of one of the small rooms. "We can go down and tunnel our way out. Between your earthquakes and my elements we should get out pretty easily." Kate took several deep breaths, focusing her energy on the empty space she had created on the floor. With a large rush of energy, a large portion of the floor and the dirt underneath it blew out, filling the air with a thin layer of dust.

Skye couldn't help but grin and began helping, making the hole bigger and the earth underneath it easier to separate. They continued their work, not making their hole too deep, they only needed to get a few feet under the walls. When they managed to break out, they saw that the village was empty and the sky was turning a dusty red, the sun as setting.

"I need you to save them." Gordon suddenly appeared in front of the pair. "Jiaying will get everyone killed if she has her wish. "Stop her and save them."

"Why have you suddenly changed sides?" Kate demanded of Gordon, preparing some of her energy in case she needed to fight him off.

"Because she has been killing our people for years." Gordon spoke hollowly. "Raina wasn't the first, but she will be the last. Anyone who poses a threat to Jiaying's control is killed, though not by their throats being cut. She can drain the life from a person, that's how she stays young and healthy. She steals the life force from Inhumans." Gordon offered a hand to the pair, his voice suddenly sincere. "Trust me, I'll take you to her."

Skye didn't hesitate to take his hand, but Kate did, her eyes calculating. "When you've taken us to her, go to the Avengers and tell them were we are. We'll need all of the help we can get."