Chapter 12. This night. Black Lab.
"Why are you so sure Fitz?" Coulson asks, looking at the boy who starts to sign at Ward.
"He says, I know that because one of the new sensors I put on Alicia's shoes shows me the same lectures I already register outside of the Playground" Ward answers, trying to not collapse in front of them
"Leo, that's why Alicia makes me put new cameras outside?" He signed something to Ward making him gasp "You little devil, it was your idea!" He just smiles at her with pride.
" Let me understand" Coulson says walking close to them " You both knew about that possibility, and knowing that, you let me taking all of you out from home?"he asks surprised.
"We don't have any op... op..."
"Yeah... option, I know..." he sighs " So?"
"The lectures are the sa... sa..." Fitz try to answer
"The same of that base?" Skye asks and the boy nods "Woow, that's weird"
"Not so weird... but, we have a bigger problem here Sir..."
"Stop that Ward, you're not part of this team!" Coulson yells at him, and regret it instantly because his sad look.
"Let him talk!" Fitz says angry
"Thanks... our problem is... H.Y.D.R.A knows where the Playground was"
"How they can know?"
"Don't look at me! I didn't do anything... usually, they send someone to put trackers into the cars, or sometimes in the people" Ward says.
"We can't go back home" Fitz talk back
"Yes..." Skye said sadly "And May will kill you when she wakes up"
"Yeah..." Coulson answers holding his head "We deal with it later... what do you suggest to do?" He asks to Fitz.
The engineer taps Ward's shoulder and signed him fastly.
"No!" He answers and the boy keeps signing to him.
Next to them, Skye and Coulson contemplate both men talking in silence: Fitz looks so confident, so strong, showing them one part of his personality they never see. The girl only can look at her former S.O. He was trembling and sweating a lot, barely focusing on Fitz's words, Ward looks thirsty and disorientated she walks to them, and touch him in the arm. Ward jumps and walks far away from the girl, shaking entirely and breathing quickly
"Ward, are you OK?"
"We need to go Sir, they can send a second team to find if we survive" he said trying to distract her
"Fine, put the weels up, fly cloaking... we'll see where we can land later"
"We know where..." the young man says
"Leopold Fitz I said no!"
"We not have any... any..." Fitz stutter fastly.
"Any option, I know guys..." Coulson "What you suggest?"
"You're not going to like it..." Skye sing
"Where we're going?" A.C. asks almost yelling.
"My safe house Sir." Ward wishpear.
"May will kill me"
"Sir, coming with me is your safest or only option, why H.Y.D.R.A will search your team, in one of their own agents houses?"
"Perfect cover A.C. You can't deny it" Skye said and he gives her 'The look' "and we have to remember, two members of our team are badly injured" she answers poking out her tongue to him
"And one of them is our only doctor" Fitz suggest.
"Fine, wheels up in five, and Ward this doesn't mean..."
"I know"
"You Agent Smart Ass, put him a tracker, I wan't to know where he is all the time"
"Already done" Leo says
"God help us" he said looking a Ward and making him a nod.
"Yes Sir, wheels up, go out and take a proper sit" Ward says, turning his back to them almost crying, begging to a deaf God for his salvation.
"Thanks" Fitz says afer a few minutes standing in silence outside of the cockpit's door
"What?" The pilot says scared
"Thanks, for save them... us today"
"No matter what Coulson says, It was my job"
"Is not, today... that was... a choice... thanks"
"Go see Ali"
"Yes Sir." He answer smiling giving him a military salute with the wrong hand.
"There are things I have done, there's a place I have gone...
There's a beast and I let it run...
Now it's running... my way"
"Where are we?" May asks slowly "Are we flying?" She said trying to get up, but the headache stops her " Answer"
"We're in the B.U.S, yes, we're in the air"
"Who's in my cockpit?" She asks "Phillip!"
"Ward..."
"What?!"
"Hey, slow down, " he said, putting her back in the bed " You're badly hurt dear, and looks like they had everything under control"
"Wait, what?"
"Short long story?" She nods " We walk directly to a set up, Fitz has suspicions about that and, when we're under attack, he calls Ward and make him take the plane, flying them to the base, rescue us and now, we're going to Ward's safe house"
"Fitz orchestrate all this unveliebable rescue?"
"Yes..."
"And Ward is walking free?"
"Not so free... Fitz put him a skin tracker before sending him with the dogs to find us in the base"
"They're working together?"
"Looks like Grant was working for Fitz..." he answers, and for weird that can sound, it was close to the truth " I hate to recognize this, but Alicia was right, Ward was trembling when we're together..."
"Anxiety?"
"Looks more like panic, or both" they stay in silence for a while, until they fall asleep next to each other on the bed.
At the old lab's table, Alicia was asleep just like the last two hours. Fitz had her hooked up to a machine, checking her vitals. After all, those months, finally he can see her like she really was: Just another broken girl like every one of them. But at the same time she was a strong woman, who has to live hiding herself under her profession, under the work. He was scared, right now he can't know how she'll react when she wakes up.
"There are things I regret, to can't forgive, you can't forget.
There's a gift that you sent, you sent it...
My way..."
After a few hours flying, Ward finally he decided to put the autopilot and go to sleep.
He just walks out of the cockpit and the walls start to feel more and more over him, breathing hardly he run directly to the cargo bay, hiding himself in a dark corner between the cargo door and one of the Vans. He knows this time, anything can stop the attack and simply let him come.
Matilda sits in the entrance, and barks to every noise around them, protecting the boy .
Skye walks to the gym, but, Kala finds her in the middle of the way. The big dog guided her to the cargo bay, she was scared when Matilda gets up and barks angrily, she tries to walk and see what was happening, but the dog doesn't let her give another step "Crazy thing" she said and finally goes to the gym. One hour of punches to the sand bag later, all the tension of the day was falling over the young hacker. She collapses into the mats crying uncontrollably.
Who try to kill us?, why? These are the questions running in her head, but there's another question in her heart... Why, after being a prisoner, why Ward comes to the rescue?.
After the explosion, she feels all lost. When the door and the debris fall over her, she wasn't hurt, but she knows... that was her end, and the only thing in her mind was Grant Ward, his eyes, his smile... the way his hands wrap her when she was learning to fight, his voice reading her in the middle of the sleepless nights. Then, she remember her words to him, "I didn't hate you" that time she say that, just for say it, but it was the truth... he can be a spy, a traitor, but she can't hate him but at the same time, she can't stay with him. She misses him a lot, and that broke her heart.
"So take this night,
Wrap it around me like a sheet, I know I'm not forgiven, but I nee a place to sleep.
So take this night, and lay me down on the street
I know I'm not forgiven, but I hope that I'll be given... some peace."
Finally, all calmed, Ward walks to the gym, he wants to punch the frustration on his body, in one single day he was played for one engineer to watch a mission, and later to kidnap a plane, rescue his old team and now, he was taking all of them to his own house. Today he almost lost the woman he loves, the same woman who hates him with all her heart.
"There's a game that I play, There are rules I had to brake,
There's mistakes that I made...
But I made them... My way "
Once he gets in, he heard a noise. He recognizes the sound of her cries in every part of the world. Forgetting the panic running through his veins, he runs to her, holding her body against his own cradling her like a child. They fell asleep like the last night in his Vault, with the small difference, Skye knows what she was doing, she wants to feel him close, she needs him, only him. For this night, she was tired to fight... only for this night.
"So take this night, Wrap it around me lie a sheet.
I know I'm not forgiven, but I need a place to sleep.
So take this night and lay me down on the street,
I know I'm not forgiven, but I hope that'll be given...
Some peace...
Some peace...
Some peace..."