Grant Ward has become Hellfire, bringing him back to his old SHIELD team. Updated 5/15/2016: Everybody is in the lab, except for May, at one point or another. Lots of conversations are had, and a message to an impatient specialist is sent. TRIGGER WARNINGS: suicide attempts, child abuse, psychological abuse, brief mentioned threat of rape. Grant Ward redemption story, AU.

What will the team do when they must depend on the person that ruined their family in order to put that family back together? Skye has been taken and the new recruits are MIA. Can Ward and The Team stop bickering long enough to bring home the person that means the most to them? Slow Skyeward burn. First AoS fic. Rated M for later chapters. I own nothing.