Episode 19: The Only Light in the Darkness

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Grant is sitting in the Providence lab, with his shirt off while Simmons works on his wounds. She holds a bandage to a deep cut on his face while the rest of the team (Coulson, Skye, May, Trip and Fitz-Simmons) surrounds him to find out what he knows.

"I'm afraid this might scar." Simmons warns him.

"Upside, you'll look badass, dangerous." Skye comments from beside him.

Fitz leans in and looks at Grant's face closely and worried. "He's gonna be fine, though, right?" he asked.

Simmons moves around Ward pushing Fitz back. "He will if you back up and give me some room."

"So what then?" Coulson asked.

"By the time we got to The Fridge it was too late. It was overrun, Hydra everywhere," everyone missed the very subtle look Skye and Grant shared, even May and that woman didn't ever miss a trick, but when it came to Skye and Grant she wasn't able to catch the subtle things they do, the two of them were trained and living with John Garrett, they needed to make sure he missed things. "We couldn't stop them."

Coulson nods.

"What were they after?" May asked.

"Everything. They took weapons, alien artifacts...Anything they could grab." Grant said.

"I assume that means the prisoners are no longer prisoners?" Coulson asked.

Grant nods and Coulson grimaces and lowers his head upset.

"So...Ian Quin..." Skye trailed off, shuddering at the thought of Quinn.

"I'm sorry. He's out," he watches her closely and sees something flash in her eyes and she looks at him, trying not to glare, he and her father released Quinn, someone who shot her on her father's orders, that was something she wasn't ready to let go of. "They all are."

"And Garrett? Did he get away?" Fitz asked.

"Couldn't stop them from taking The Fridge but I wasn't gonna let Garrett walk. Not after what he did." Grant said.

"Is he the one that did this to you?" Skye asked, she knew the answer and would do the same in Grant's situation, they do what they need to, so they can keep their covers.

Grant nods. "He was one tough son of a bitch."

""Was"? Past tense?" May asked.

"As soon as I had the upper hand I put two in the back of his head." Grant replied.

Coulson's face drops showing surprise.

"Good." Fitz said.

"One from me..." Grant looks over to Trip. "One from you."

"I would've emptied the mag." Trip replied scowling.

Grant nods to him.

"You're all set. Well, I mean, as set as you can be with two cracked ribs and a zygomatic fracture." Simmons said.

"Uh, for those of you that don't know what that is, it's a –" Trip speaks at the same time as he does, their words overlapping. "A hairline fracture to the cheekbone." Fitz gives him a surprised look and Trip smiles.

"Your body needs time to heal. Please take some time." Simmons said.

Grant nods. "Understood. Thanks," Simmons walks away as Skye and Coulson move in closer. "Ah. One small victory," he holds up Skye's hard drive. "Hydra didn't get their hands on this."

"A hard drive?" Trip asked.

"It's all the research our team's ever done, downloaded of the plane and encrypted for safekeeping." Skye replied.

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