Kara was watching as Grant talked to the police and worried that they would try to pin Sue's murder on him without bothering to investigate. She was so wrapped up in her own thoughts that Bobbi coming to stand beside her in a floor length red evening gown with spaghetti straps crisscrossing her back and going down her shoulders to the sweetheart neckline.

"Do you think he did this?"

"No I don't," she shot back.

"Kara, what's wrong?"

"Did you think that I would never figure out that you were the one to turn me over to Hydra?"

"Kara…"

"Don't bother trying to justify what you did, Bobbi. I don't give a damn that it was for the greater good. That only works if I had agreed to being captured and not somebody forcing me into it. I still have to live with the scars of what Hydra, Melinda May and you did to me. Dr. Zabo is working on fixing my face now that Fitz helped me get rid of that damn mask but that doesn't make the emotional scars go way," she bit out. "Don't worry, I didn't tell Grant that I am starting to remember because my surrogate big brother has more important things to worry about."

Kara stormed off past Lance Hunter, who was glaring at Bobbi.

"Were you the reason that Kara was taken by Hydra?"

"Lance, I had to do things that I am not proud of in order to make Hydra believe that I was one of them. What happened to Kara was one of them."

"You need to apologize to her, not just for her but for yourself too. That's the only way that this will end without bloodshed. Grant Ward will try to kick your ass and most and likely mine because I will go after him when he does."

Lance walked away from his ex-wife and over to the bar to get a drink. Bobbi left the ballroom and down the hall to the Skywalk. She watched the traffic pass by on the streets of Winston Salem. She was so lost in her thoughts that she started when Coulson walked up beside her.

"The both of us seem to be doing a very good job of pissing people off tonight."

"Kara figured out that I was the one responsible for her being taken by Hydra. I stand there and let May talk shit about her when I am the one who deserves it. I was trying to do something for the greater good and messed up another agent's life in the process. I don't know if I can do this anymore Coulson?"

"Bobbi, we are spies. As much as I have been sitting on my moral high horse this past year, I have lost sight of the fact that telling lies and keeping secrets is part of the game. I condemn Grant Ward for being Hydra and calling him a murderer but didn't have a problem when he did the same thing for me and Shield. All of us are murders and for us to sit in judgment over him only makes all of us look like hypocrites."

"Is this change of attitude about Skye?"

"Yes, she is so angry with me for continuing to condemn him for things that we are all guilty of," he stated.

"I bet it had to be hard as hell for May to tell the police that Ward didn't kill his ex, especially given how quickly it would get him out of Skye's life."

"The catch to that is that when they saw the surveillance footage and found that he didn't kill Sue and that May lied, she would face perjury charges. Besides Skye was with Grant at the time and we would lose her to him even more than we already have."

Coulson walked away leaving Bobbi to her own thoughts, not sure if he had helped her figure out what to do in regards to Kara and Lance.

Melinda felt like somebody was glaring at her and looked around the room to find Louise Ward watching her. She knew that in a physical fight the woman wouldn't present much of a challenge but Louise's magical abilities would give her an advantage.

"You might want to stay away from Louise, Agent May," Lily commented as she walked over to where Melinda was standing.

"Am I correct in assuming that she was the one who cast the spell that slammed me into the wall?"

"Yes, you are. She wants a piece of you so bad and all of it because you hurt her little brother. He was her baby for his first three years and followed her wherever she went until that rabid bitch sent her to boarding school. She didn't even wait until after Louise had been gone twenty four hours before Milly beat that baby with a hairbrush until his legs were covered in bruises and a cut on his thigh that took a long time to heal. It even left a scar."

Melinda closed her eyes in horror as she remembered seeing that scar on Ward after one of their hookups. She now regretted telling him that everybody had trauma at some point during his imprisonment.

"Skye did the world a favor, didn't she?"

"Yes, she did."

"How come Ward's brothers and sister aren't as affected by what their mother did?"

Lily ruefully laughed before turning to face Melinda, a look of derision in her dark brown eyes.

"What makes you think they weren't affected? One of the things that my family does best is pretenses and putting on an act to deflect from what is really happening to us; Christian can't stay faithful to his wife and tries to manipulate others into doing his dirty work for him. Louise was a recovering alcoholic because I am pretty sure she has gone back to drinking to deal with finding out what her mother did to Grant and that the rest of us kept it from her. Tommy developed a pretty significant addiction to heroin in his teens and overdosed three times before his senior year in high school. After an entire summer of rehab, he fought hard to get his act together and did what was needed to be done to get into college and med school. I hope nothing happens to make him start that shit up again because we might lose him this time."

Melinda felt like throwing up at the affects their mother's abuse had on Grant Ward's family. No wonder he didn't know how to deal with other people and made some pretty crappy choices because his family was seriously fucked up.

"Coulson knew and didn't stop what was happening. All of this was in Grant's shield file," Lily said, delivering a final blow meant to emotionally wound the usually stoic specialist.

May didn't say a word; she walked away as Lily grinned to herself, knowing that she had just driven a wedge between Coulson and May. Maybe the woman would stop being his faithful little soldier since Hydra had come out of hiding.

"You did that on purpose," Travis commented with a grin as he walked over to his little sister.

"You're damn right. The reason I won't let Louise kick Melinda May's ass like she wants to is because knocking Shield off of their self-righteous high horse works so much better."

"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer," Travis smiled deviously.

"Exactly," Lily stated.

AN: This is a short chapter and the next one will get back to Skye and Grant. This was mainly filler and set up for some storylines that will start in the next chapter. I have tried to write this chapter several times, erasing several drafts of it before deciding on this.

Lily will be Coulson's worst nightmare because she has the Ward's family trait of knowing how to play people like a fiddle. She also has a low tolerance for hypocrisy and isn't afraid to call people out, something which is desperately needed on Agents of Shield. My least favorite thing in the world is where one person is vilified by others for things that they are guilty of doing too, which goes for real life and on fictional TV shows.