Out of the Framework, into the reality (Skyeward fanfiction)

Prologue 2: Grant Ward

His childhood was unbearable. Parents who are never home, and when they are they are abusing you, older brother that keeps on molesting you. It was no fun living that life. But one day changed everything for him. He was done with watching his younger brother Thomas suffering, done with feeling the pain. It was time for revenge. He found himself holding a lighter and throwing it in the house his parents and older brother were still in. Next thing he knew he was being detained by the police and locked up in juve.

One day, a man in suit he never saw before came in. His first and only visitor since he has been locked up there. The man just sat down a watched silently.

"Are you gonna say anything? Who are you and what do you want from me?" Grant got impatient and shouted at the visitor.

"Phil Coulson, SHIELD agent. I came here to recruit you."

"Recruit me? Do you even know who I am? What I have done?"

"You are Grant John Ward, 17 year old who set his house on fire with his parents and brother still inside, correct?"

"It's basic knowledge. It was all over the TV. So what do you want with me? Why a sudden interest in a lowlife like me?"

"As I have previously stated - recruitment. I want to recruit you. I want to have you on my team. as of why - potential. So much potential wasted in this cell. I see someone who can become so much more and do good for the first time in his life"

"You know nothing!" Ward yelled at the still man.

"I know your childhood was abusive. You wanted to protect your younger brother Thomas. That is something you can still do, with SHIELD. You can protect Thomas and everyone like him."

"What makes you think I would want to go out of this cell?"

"Just you asking this question. Your pupils are dialated meaning you are interested in the offer. Your posture is slightly leaning forward to indicate you want to know more."

"You want me, an arsenist to go out in the world and save people?"

"I want you to use that past to become aa better person and protect the world. So what do you say?"

"Where's the catch?"

"No catches. You say yes and we walk out of here like you were never in here."

Walking out in the fresh air for the first time in months felt liberating. Next thing he knew he was sent straight to a building on an unknown location. A so called SHIELD academy. He was given a bunk and a schedule saying to be in the auditorium first thing the following morning.

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Grant Ward soon became a killing machine. A specialist in combat, trained for solo missions, able to speak 6 languages, infiltrate wherever. One day the familiar face showed up in his room.

"Philip Coulson, agent of SHIELD, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Ward asked without even turning his back to see who wntered his room.

"I see you were trained well. I'm glad. I'm here to recruit you, again. This time for me. I have a mission that requires a special team of specific people, and congrats, you are one of them. You in?"

"If I say no?"

"You can always say no, but wouldn't it be so much better if you just came along and satisfied your intrigue for the case?"

Ward just turned around and looked the man in his eyes. He could read his eagernes from afar. He went to his bed and pulled a black go bag from beneth it.