The next morning, Mac knocked on the door and walked in to find Julia curled up in the corner, wrapped in the blanket, reading fablehaven. "morning Alphonso." she said. He smiled, "you can call me Mac."
"ok, if that's what you prefer."
"so how's the book?"
"it's pretty good. Have you ever read it?"
"no, what's it about?"
He sat down next to her blanket ball and she started explaining the book to him. Julia captivated his attention as she explained what happened.
"so now they just woke up and no ones there. That's where I'm at."
"wow, that sounds really cool. Your a really fast reader."
"well, I had to have something to do. So what do you do Mac?"
"I fix all the machinery."
"so a mechanic?"
"ya, and a lot of other things, but it's pretty boring stuff."
"ok. Well I have a question for you."
"sure"
"why does agent May think that I'm a threat?"
"well, agent May doesn't trust a lot of people. I'm not even sure if she trusts me. She just has a hard time trusting new people, especially after what happened."
"you mean what happened with Ward?"
"how did you know that? Tv?"
"no. You can tell how everyone here feels around certain people."
"by their heart beat or something?"
"no, just normal people reactions. When i was with certain people, they were calm but when everyone came together, half were more stiff. You could see that ward was out to one side and when he spoke, some tensed up. A sign that they don't completely trust him. Why's that?"
Mac took a deep breath. "ward was an agent, way before I was part of the team. It turned out that he was part of hydra. He tried to drown Simmons and fitz. That's why fitz had a speech problem, he had a lack of oxygen when they came back up."
"did Simmons have it?"
"no, fitz made a breathing contraption for her so she could survive. Ward killed a lot of people and he tried to bring Skye to hydra to her father."
"so ward was part of hydra? Why did coulson let him back in?"
"coulson thinks that ward proved himself that he could potentially be a good agent again. Some us have forgiven him and tries to give him another chance."
"but the others are still holding a grudge. Understandable. I would have a hard time forgiving people who tried to kill me"
"anyway, I should get back to work." Mac stood up and started walking to the door. "Mac?"
"yes."
"come back ok? It's nice to be able to talk to someone. It's been a long time since I have."
"well I'll try. Maybe I'll send someone else to come and talk to you."
"thanks."
He looked up at the camera and said "ok, let me out May." and the door opened.
Julia looked at him shocked and realized that may had been listening to all that they had said. She curled deeper into her ball and opened up her book again.
Skye, fitz and Simmons were trying to find something on the spiders of the world. "do we have anything?" asked coulson. "no. I asked my connections from the rising tide and none of them have heard of them. They're no where on Any data files."
"we checked everything. We can't find anything." finished Simmons.
Coulson looked at the screen and clicked to zoom in on the camera in the room that Julia was staying in. "so, the only resource that we have, is her."
"she won't tell us anything more then their name, remember" said Skye.
"yes, but she is starting to warm up to some people" said May as she walked in.
She rewinded the footage and showed Mac and Julia talking. They heard her asked Mac the questions and some were a bit shocked. "well, maybe if we can send someone in and try to get her to talk to them about them, then maybe she'll give us some information. Mac" he called.
"ya?"
"you have a good relationship with Julia. Do you think that you could get her to tall to you about the spiders?"
"she talks to me but she talks to me about books and things, she won't talk to me about that. She needs someone to relate to. She relates to me because I said it looked like a good book. She needs someone thereto talk to but won't just ne there to ask her questions."
"I have a plan."