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When Grant was moved past Fitz, he avoided looking at Grant's eyes, which made Grant felt a little better. After moving into a better equipped medical room, Grant's life did not get any better. In fact, it became worse. The side effects of the surgery started to surface. First, he had a fever over 105F and the doctors could not figure out the reason, nor could they cool his off. He felt he was a steak being fired on a pan. A lot of people came to visit him and some of them were holding his hand and talking to him. However, he was too ill to recognize any of the visitor or hear their words. He never believe in any religion, but he must be in the 19th floor of the hell now, an unknown floor only for killers like him. Then he could not breathe well even with the help of mask. He felt like drowning and he could really understand why FitzSimmons hated him that much. Not matter how he tried to give them a fighting chance, he did send his precious friends down to the bottom of the ocean. He knew he was dying, but at least he did manage to save a lot of lives. Dying for saving other was the best result for him now.
Then fire and drowning all disappeared. He was sitting at a beautiful Prairie. He lied down at the grass and smell the sunshine. He wanted to stay here when a gorgeous lady approached him.
"Hello Grant, how do you feel now?" She smiled warmly.
"I feel excellent and I really like this place. It is so beautiful and bright."
"I am glad to hear that. Now, I need to ask you a question. Do you want to stay here forever, enjoy the beautiful sunshine with me?"
Grant almost wanted to say yes, but then he felt he forgot something very important. However he could not remember what he forget, no matter how hard he tried.
"Let me rephrase my question. Do you want to stay here, enjoy the beauty of this place and let go every miserable thing in your life? Or do you want to go back to your current life, where you could not walk and have to work hard to redeem yourself."
Grant hesitated. This life here was so tempting. Nice weather, beautiful lady and he could go anywhere he wanted. The original life, on the other hand, was dark, hopeless. He was restrained by the wheelchair and he might never be able to correct any of his mistakes. His very existence already caused emotion hardship for the team he cared the most. If he decided to stay here, the team would forget him and his wrongdoings one day. Time would be the best way to heal their wounds if he did not stay and made things worse. Sorry for choosing the easy way out again. Bye my team.
Grant was ready to say yes when he heard Skye screaming on him.
"You idiots, come back to me. Yes I fucking hate you; but it is only because I love you so much! I almost lost you twice. Do not put me through this again, please. I want you alive, no matter what! Just come back!"
"This is the first time a human voice reach here. No one has done this before. That is fascinating. I am more interested in you now."
"What is this place? What do you mean?"
"This is the LIMO, a place between Heaven and Hell. I picked people who interested me the most and gave them a choice to stay here forever. Once you are here, you can do whatever you want to do and never die. Since it is not a part of human world, no human should be able to come here unless I say so. If you want to leave, you can pass through that black door and you will be back. But make your choice wisely. If you leave, the next time you die, you will go directly to hell or heaven. Heaven has a bunch of rules to obey, or they will kick you back to hell. The pain you experienced before coming here was just a small fraction of hell. Do you want to sacrifice all the good things here just for a few more years in that dark world and someone who claimed to love you, but happily turned you to the abusive brother? Think twice before you act. You only have one opportunity to make the right choice."
Her words were persuasive and everything she said were correct. However he found it hard to say yes. He was waiting for a determined moment. Maybe he wanted to hear Skye one more time before he decided to stay here forever.
"Grant, please! I l lost my father already; do not make me lost you too. Specialist or not; handicap or not, evil or not, I love you. I want to be with you for the rest of my life, so do not abandon me like this."
"You are crying to believe a man like you would cry. Let me tell you a secret. You only have 30 seconds to make decision; otherwise the black door will disappear and you will stay here forever. If you want to go back, let me give you a final advice. Your life will be hard and you will face so many obstacles that you may lost hopes sometimes. Since you turn down the best opportunity for after life, stay away from death as long as you can."
Grant stood up and found the black door fading. He immediately run towards the door and managed to open the door before it completely disappeared; then he fell into a bright channel and soon he hit something very hard and passed out.
The next time Grant woke up, everyone in the team were standing close to his bed. Skye was even holding his hand. He glanced around the whole team and tried to recognize everyone's expression. Fitz and Simmons were standing on the opposite side of his bed and they both had the indecipherable faces. Coulson seemed to worry about him. May had her usually cold face. Trip was angry and also worried. There were a few new people that he could not recognized the faces, but all of them looked anxious.
"Grant, we almost lost you in that surgery. We may still hate you, but we do not want you die. Do you understand me? Death is not permitted and this is an order!"
"Grant, in case you did not hear me, I love you no matter what you think you are. I thought I hated you, but my heart was ripped out when I saw you lying in the surgery room and losing your life. I almost went crazy when thinking about losing you. Never ever put me into that spot again, will you?"
" You need to get….. better before I can…..give you proper …punishment."
"Do not break Skye heart again. My promise to kill you is still valid"
"Agent Coulson, I told you the room could not handle so many people. My patient need rest and all of you are banned from this room from now on until he can be transferred to ordinary room. Now leave the room or I will kick all of you out!"
"Agent Skye, why none of your field agents appreciate my hard work? My team spent 12 hours to save Mr. Ward and I do not want to do that again. Mr. Ward, you will be better. My team will help you from now on."
"Grant, take some rest and I will stay with you here."
With Skye firmly holding his hand, Grant finally fell asleep.