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“Daisy, don’t!” She can hear Coulson yelling through comms, but she runs back into the collapsing building anyway- she blasts at a falling rock, watching it crumble before her, before she heads down the hall. She finds Piper half-hidden in rubble, and manages to pick the unconscious agent up, hefting her in her arms and dodging another falling wall as she heads back towards the entrance.
She manages to get out just as the rest of the building falls in on itself, and Mack and Jones come to take Piper from her, bringing her to the med truck where Jemma’s waiting. Daisy bends over, hands on her knees as she struggles to catch her breath, lungs heavy with dust. She’s straightening up when she sees Coulson and May heading her way.
She prepares herself to be yelled at, so when instead two arms wrap around her, hugging her tightly, she gasps, caught off guard.
“Are you okay?” Coulson pulls back to look at her, scanning her up and down as May grips her forearm tightly, worry creasing both of their faces as Daisy’s lips part.
“I’m- I’m fine,” she replies, voice hoarse with the dust, and May hands her a bottle of water as Coulson gently touches the skin around a cut over her eye that’s bleeding.
“I’ll go get Jemma,” May says, squeezing Daisy’s arm once more before she goes to find the scientist, and Coulson guides Daisy over to sit against the back of an SUV, making her drink more water.
“I thought you’d be mad. Or disappointed,” she says after a moment, and Coulson looks up at her, forehead creasing. “You told me not to go in.”
“You got Piper out, and you’re okay. I worry about you, but I know you’re capable,” Coulson’s hand is soft as it touches her cheek, and Daisy ducks her head. His finger is soft under her chin until she looks at him, and he simply smiles at her. “You could never do anything to disappoint me, okay? You make me proud every single day.”
“Thanks,” Daisy whispers, lower lip trembling as she smiled, and Phil reached up, hugging her tightly as she buried her face in his shield jacket.
“Always, kid,” he whispers back, and she clutches him just a little tighter.