GWEN? GWEN?? You're alive right? This was some terrible nightmare where I passed out into some weird haze for the past few days and you're alive?

sent one minute later

IF YOU DON'T TEXT BACK SOON I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE DEAD

sent two minutes later

GWEN I'M SERIOUS TEXT ME BACK RIGHT NOW

So what was the point of that? Really.

Dunno and don't care if it was a dream or not. Rather not go through that again, thanks.

If I ever thought I was cut out for the hero thing?

I'm not. I was deluding myself. That was the single stupidest thing I've ever



no, this is. not. appropriate.

I'm here. I wasn't. But I am now. Look, I'm. I'm so sorry.

I don't know how you guys do it. How anyone does it. All the stories I've heard? About people here coming back from being dead in their worlds, or just, I don't know, recovering, or bouncing back from it or something? It's just unreal. I. No. Still inappropriate. I'm done. Here. I'm done here. Right now. With this.

Please tell me we're done with whatever was going on? Please?

You're kidding me. [There's almost a laugh because really, this is ridiculous. And then there's silence, because he's plucking the com piece from his ear and shoving it into his pocket.] Best equipment SHIELD can make and it stops working...

[And now he's talking normally.]The best story anyone can tell me is that I'm fictional. Really? Because I find that really hard to believe, and I've seen a lot of things.

I don't know what kind of joke this is - and if it is a joke, and if it's FitzSimmons or Skye, someone's going to pay, I swear - [There's a sigh.]

I need someone to fill me in on what's really going on.