Summary:
Now the only thought in Ward's mind is Skye.
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Chapter:
Coulson could not do anything else but agree with him:
"Yeah, you achieved a big goal.
Incredibly big, I'm impressed."
And, after a while:
"What do you plan to do, now?"
Ward remained pensive for some instants, then answered:
"You once said to me that nobody is nobody."
"True"
"I plan to save Skye."
"What?!"
"She's a mess.
I damaged her.
Shield damaged her, you and May more than anybody else.
You transformed her into an assassin, into a pitiless killer.
And she let you mold her, because she wanted a connection, a bond…
She wanted to belong to something greater, to a family, and she would have done anything to get that.
She hoped to get that with her parents, all her life, but it didn't go well.
She even tried with Lincoln… but without any big success.
You used her weakness to exploit her, and this is exactly what Garret did to me.
You are not so different, after all.
And at the end, Hive definitely ruined her, altering her head, changing the chemistry of her brain like a drug.
She is now experimenting the aftereffects and going through withdrawal.
But she isn't simply dope sick.
She hates Shield.
She hates you.
She hates me for everything, and in particular for what I had just done.
And, more than anything, she hates herself, for all the evil she committed, that you ordered her to commit.
I've been where she is now, and I can understand her, deeply.
She wants to suffer, now, like she feels she deserves it, in a wicked attempt to make amends for all her sins.
She also wants revenge, against me, because she knows that I killed Hive, although she doesn't know how.
And her greater desire, now, would be to return under Hive's sway.
She craves that feeling!
But it is not possible, not anymore.
…
Hive was the only one that gave her true happiness.
And she somehow loved It, even if she tried to destroy It when she understood she couldn't have It anymore.
It was the only one that made her feel whole, even if that was all an illusion.
I felt all of that, when It possessed me… and I was envious, because I wanted to be the one to give her all that, all she ever wanted, but for true!
But I couldn't.
And I pity poor Lincoln, too.
He's in love with her, but nobody is comparable to Hive, in her heart and in her mind.
Lincoln has been definitely rejected."
Lincoln heard that speech from his containment unit…
He agreed…
He was already aware of everything…
And he had already resigned.
Ward continued:
"Skye needs time, now, and distance.
Please, let her be.
Leave her alone!"
And Coulson:
"But… how can you say all those things?
She had fainted and she was thrown in a containment module!
How could she know what happened?"
"Because she is awake, right now, and she is feeling the loss.
And she knows also who is the culprit for said loss.
I can read her mind.
And she is coming, for me, to punish me."
In that precise moment an earthquake shook the floor and everybody knew that Daisy was approaching.