Facing Your Past [Book 1]: A Grant Ward FanFic.

Chapter 9 - The Secret pt.1

Turn, Turn, Turn.

Taylor, Skye and Coulson were aiming their guns at May whilst Fitz was behind the closed lab doors.

"Drop the weapon!" Coulson shouted at May.

"Coulson-" May started.

"Drop the damn weapon and kick it over to the stairs, May, now!" He interrupted. She dropped her gun and kicked it like instructed. "Now back the hell up. Over there!" As May moves back Skye and Taylor close in. "Talk. Tell us where you rerouted the plane."

"I didn't set this new course. I swear." May told them.

"Yeah, well, the plane just turned round, for God's sake!" Fitz exclaimed.

"How is this happening, then?" Skye asked.

"H.Q. can override automated control of the avionics, take us anywhere they want. Let me check the instrument panel, and I'll be able to -" May started to defend herself.

"No way!" Fitz cut in.

"You're not going anywhere until you explain what -" Coulson tried to get answers, but May wasn't having it.

"It's not me!" She defended.

"Why did you have an encrypted hard line?" Coulson asked.

"And try to shoot me when we found it?" Fitz added.

"Let's take a breath, huh?" May tried to change the subject.

"Let's not!" Skye spat back.

"It was a dedicated channel...to Director Fury. That's the truth." She confessed.

"Director Fury? I haven't been able to get him on the line for weeks." Coulson sounded pissed.

"You were reporting to him?" Skye practically spat. Taylor felt bad she knew why May was reporting to Fury.

"That's all I can tell you." May told them.

"Oh, just come out with it!" Fitz exclaimed.

"That's all you can tell us?!?" Skye asked.

"I'm under orders! Fury will tell you." May assured.

"What? Was this an order?" Fitz pointed to the lab door where May shot. "To shoot me in the bloody head?"

"Hold on. We're not headed to Fury anymore." Coulson informed them.

"I don't know where we're headed. And I can't get Fury on the line because Fitz cut the line!" May shouted.

"Taylor told me to!" Fitz replied.

"Someone was talking to The Clairvoyant, the real Clairvoyant." Skye defended.

"You were in the walls, Fitz. You want to explain why you were tampering with the plane's SAT cable?" May changed the subject.

"Sure, because that's relevant! Don't try and turn this around on me!" Fitz argued. Coulson keeps his gun pointed at May but turns and looks at Fitz.

"Fitz." Taylor warns. Fitz glares at May.

"I was trying to speak to Simmons at The Hub." He admitted.

"And you needed an encrypted line? What's so secret that you -" Taylor started.

"Well, you tell me! Simmons and I know you two have been whispering -" Fitz points his finger between Taylor and Coulson. "Keeping things from us, about the drug that saved your life. Simmons is just trying to figure out how the whole thing works!" Fitz walks away in anger.

"Fitz. Who is she talking to?" May asked. Coulson, keeping his gun on May, walks closer to the lab doors.

"Fitz, open the door." Coulson orders.

"No way, not until we sort this out. I'm not opening anything." He dismissed.

"Open the door." Taylor cut in.

"We can't get anything sorted until you open the damn door!" Coulson shouted. Coulson focuses on May again. "Skye, get your laptop hooked up to our system. See if you can pull up any SHIELD communications. I want to know where this plane is headed and why."

"Coulson -" May started. She lifts a hand pleading, and Taylor responds by lifting her gun higher.

"You stay put!" Taylor exclaimed. Skye lowered her gun and stood in front of the closed lab doors; she lifted her arms to Fitz to open the door. He opens the door and Skye enters. Coulson turns his head to look at Fitz.

"Now tell me who Simmons is talking to. Cause if it isn't someone, we trust she's in serious danger." Coulson ordered.