Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)+1
I never know
by Axolotl7
A fic set at the beginning of series three - May returns but not everything can be forgiven with a simple apology on either side. "The strike snaps her head back despite turning with the momentum at the last moment to lessen the impact. She dances back out of range quickly, shaking her head to shift the haze of pain attempting to burr the edges of her vision whilst keeping her attacker firmly in her sights to counter any follow up. He’s not pursuing immediately. It gives her a chance to spit the blood from her mouth, her split lip stinging as crimson splatters to the mats like the abstract art of a child. No, nothing so innocent. She steps over the splatter so that she doesn’t have to look at it, wiping thoughts of blood and pain and death from her mind as easily as removing it from her sight. As she closes back in on him to continue the fight she tries to remind herself how she ended up here and now with Phillip J Coulson hitting her – no, beating on her…"