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

Chapter 10 - The secret Pt.2

Turn, Turn, Turn.

The team are still shaken by the fact that they just learned that their organisation that they all had dedicated their lives to by the one thing they all feared, especially Taylor, not that she'd show it. Coulson is patching up May's arm in the next room. Whilst Taylor and Ward converse about their situation.

"Do you seriously believe that Hand is the clairvoyant?" Taylor asked her S.O. "Hand of all people?"

"You're agreeing with Garrett for once. Wow, that's something I'd never thought I'd say." Ward teased.

"I'm serious though. I really don't think it's her. She's just paranoid that it's someone close to her. People go mad when they're paranoid." Taylor argued.

"Who do you think it is?"

"I have a hunch I just hope I'm wrong." She replied, looking over to Garrett.

"No, you don't think it's Garrett? Do you?" Ward asked.

"Well, it'd make sense. He's level 8, high enough clearance to see our next steps. If anyone was HYDRA it'd be him." Taylor explained.

"No, he can't be. I know you've never liked him but I'd know. He was my S.O. there's nothing about him that I don't know." Grant covered for him.

"Ten bucks says you're wrong. But it's just a hunch. Maybe I'm wrong. But it's not Hand." She tells him, trusting her gut.

"How do you know that? It'd make more sense than Garrett. It'd also explain how there was no extraction for me and Fitz." Ward concluded. Taylor just rolled her eyes, knowing he was right. Ward got Coulson and May caught up with the situation.

"They stop firing. No clear shots through the windows." Ward told him.

"They want to preserve the aircraft. A surgical strike team is next." May added.

"Fitz cut the hydraulics on the cargo ramp. They'll have to pry it open." Taylor informed.

"That won't hold them long. We need to plan to get out of here with whatever we can take with us." Coulson spoke up.

"About that." Ward and Taylor said at the same time. They walked down to the lab; Skye tapped away on her laptop. Ward stands in front of the monitor going over all the stuff they've acquired this past year.

"The 0-8-4 specs, Asgardian weaponry, portal creation, Donnie's weather machine. If they get their hands on Gravitonium in The Fridge-" Ward got cut off by Coulson.

"It's below The Fridge. No records."

"Okay. But on the off chance we'd give them the designs to weaponize it. The drug from TAHITI, sir? All here. If HYDRA's really about to seize this plane -" Ward explained. Coulson looks at Taylor and Skye.

"We should wipe the system." Coulson finished.

"We're backing it up on this hard drive to keep our edge." Skye explained.

"Then do it. Scrub the plane clean." Coulson ordered.

"It'll take some time." Taylor warned. Garrett enters carrying a large bag.

"We're working on buying you some." He said. Taylor offered him a grateful smile and got to work. Garrett and Fitz walk through the lab as they watch them go.

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Garrett is leading Fitz, Ward, Taylor, Skye, May and Coulson through the hallways inside The Hub.

"It's called a mouse hole. It cuts through anything, really. I designed it a year ago and submitted it for testing, but it never reached distribution." Fitz explains the device that they just used to escape the Bus.