Chapter Ten (One Choice)

"Mother of monkeys!" Fitz exclaimed as the screwdriver dropped from his grasp.

Simmons looked at him, "Are you ok?" she asked. "And why did you yell about monkeys when dropping a screwdriver?"

"Yes, I'm fine." Fitz muttered, picking the tool back up. "And I couldn't think of anything to yell at the moment and that was the first thing that popped into my head."

"What are you doing anyway?" Simmons asked, coming to sit down on the couch next to him.

"Trying to fix up the DWARFs." he said. "They need a little bit of tuning up, but I keep dropping everything. That isn't like me."

'He must be having some motor skills problems.' Simmons thought to herself. 'There's no telling what else could be wrong with him. He's developed a really bad temper, he is forgetting all the small things, and it seems to take him longer at tasks that were once simple to him.' She took a breath. 'Ward, what did you do to him?'

"Ya'know Ward got what he deserved." Fitz said. "He got what was coming to him."

Simmons looked in surprise at the man, "Fitz, no one deserves death, not even him."

"You sure?" Fitz asked, raising an eyebrow. "Criminals everyday get sentenced to death row and Ward is no better than those prisoners. He tried to kill us, Jemma. Could you ever forgive that?"
'His attitude towards Ward has changed drastically.' Simmons thought. 'He went from being in complete denial over Ward' betrayal to saying that he deserved his death.'

"Ah, I don't know, Fitz. I don't know what to think." Simmons said. "I really thought that he was our friend and when he went to Garrett's side like that, I didn't know what to believe. But I don't think that he deserved a fiery death like that. Yes, he should be in jail, but not a death like that."

"Well it's better that he's gone." Fitz said, placing aside the DWARF. "He can no longer bother us. Jemma, no one likes him anymore. Skye absolutely hates him, May hates him, Coulson hates him, and I'm pretty sure that Triplett doesn't like him either."

"Fitz, like I said, I don't know what to think. I don't totally like him. Actually, I really don't like him. I'm just saying that he didn't deserve to burn in an explosion like that."

"Well I'm saying he did and that's that." Fitz said, getting up and walking off.

Simmons stayed on the couch, watching Fitz go. 'What hasn't changed about him?'

Ward, after several hours of walking, finally found a small town on the foothills of the mountain. He found a small diner and went in to get something to eat.

After he ordered, he started to dig around in the bag that Raina had given him. There were clothes, a credit card with no telling how much money on it, a few other items, and a phone. Ward picked up the phone.

Strange, this looked like his old phone. But he had lost it after joining back up with Garrett several weeks ago. He turned it on and was surprised to see that it was his old phone. Raina must have found it and put it in there.

There were several missed calls from Skye on there from several weeks ago. It had to be several weeks ago because there was no way that Skye would be calling him now.

The waitress brought him his food, a burger and some fries. He thanked her, but he didn't eat it. He kept staring at the missed call notifications on his phone. He was temped to press the call back button, but he knew that Skye wouldn't answer anyway. Why should she call her anyway? She had no use for him and probably thought he was dead, killed in the explosion at the prison caused by Al-Kor.

But he had to find her and keep her from her so-called father. He didn't know where they were and his only contact with her was sitting right in front of him taunting him.

He took a deep breath and picked up his phone. His finger hovered over the call back button, hesitating to press it. After a few unnerving moments he gulped and pressed call back. What was the worst that could happen anyway?

Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. Fitz's mentality about Ward has changed drastically and Ward makes the unnerving decision to call Skye. What's the worst that can happen? Marvel's Agents of SHIELD will return in a chapter. Keep reading and PLEASE review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.