Grant Ward - Prey

Part 3

I probably shouldn't have asked Hunter to tell me everything, cause when he did I flipped. He told me he got married to Bobbi, divorced and now it's complicated between them. He told me where he really went to work. He was in the Special Air Service and travelled around fighting. He then joined another team before finally joining S.H.I.E.L.D.

"No invite" I frowned and he looked dumbfounded.

"Really? You're mad at not having a wedding invitation when a whole bunch of other stuff has been chucked on you. I mean, It's not like Hydra's after you or anything" He rolled his eyes at me making me punch him gently on the arm.

"Well you did tell me you tried to kill the guy" I trailed off watching his expression and he grinned a little but soon dropped it.

"Shame I missed. If he was dead you wouldn't have been in any danger now. It's my fault" He gave me an apologetic look and I shrugged at him.

"It's your job Lance, you kept him away from me for years and I'm thankful for that. It's just a shame it happened now" Hunter's eyes got bigger as if he had realized something. "What?"

"Why now" He asked himself, pacing back and forth. "More like how did he find you" He started walking off and I jumped off the bed following him.

"Uh, Hello!?" I shouted after him but he turned walked into a room and shut the door behind him. A woman came along, looking closer I could see she was Asian and she didn't look like she wanted me here. I walked up to her trying to enter the room but she blocked my path. "Um, my brothers in there"

"I don't care, you're not a shield agent. You can't go in there" She said bluntly and I studied her. She seemed so serious unlike the rest.

"Uh...Are you May?" I asked her and she nodded slowly. "I'm Jess" I smiled at her but she remained blank.

"I know who you are but that doesn't change a thing" She gave off some bad vibes, I really didn't want to get on the wrong side of her so I left. I had no clue where I was walking to but anywhere would be better than standing in front of her whilst she death glared me.

I walked down a corridor with a side bit, Fitz was in there rummaging through some paper as if he lost something. He glanced up at me but shifted his gaze quickly to the paper again. He seemed sad, worried about something. 

"Hey Jess" A deep voiced beamed from behind me. I turned around to see Mack strolling towards me. "Daisy wants to see you. She's in her room, I'll take you there" He walked past me and led me towards Daisy's room in which I followed him. "Must be tough on you right now" He commented and I nodded at him. "We haven't had a good year either. Well, we never really have good years working here. The main thing is, we all stick together as a team"

"You are a team" I shrugged and he smiled at me.

"We're more like one big family" I could understand that. Working with each other here and saving each other must bring them closer everyday. At least I knew my brother was in safe hands.

"Must be nice" I whispered thinking about how I had no family now. Well, I have Hunter but it seems he has a new family. I don't mean that in a nasty way but he never tried to contact me. The thought of him being an agent shot back into my mind and I wanted to facepalm myself. He couldn't keep in contact to protect us...Even though he couldn't protect mum and dad but no one could.

"We're here" He stopped at a door and knocked on it. Daisy quickly opened the door and pulled me inside, waving Mack off and shutting the door on him.

"Uh, Mack said you wanted to see me" I watched her carefully and she nodded pointing to a chair. I walked over and sat on it staring at her confused. 

"We need to talk about the cafe" She whispered walking over and sitting next to me. And here I was thinking we were going to have a nice girly chat. "Ward was very close to me, I know how he can behave, how he can manipulate people"

"Coulson explained that he was in shield for a while" She shook her head at me and looked down at her hands. 

"We had a little...Thing" She looked up trying to study my face, probably trying to see if I was going to judge her. "Soon after, real soon after I found out he was Hydra" 

"You didn't know. You couldn't help it. The man's attractive" I shrugged and she looked like she was about to smile but dropped it before it could even try to appear. 

"Did you know he tried to kill Fitz and Simmons?" She asked and I felt my own heart stop beating. He tried to kill his team? Surely he felt some sort of emotion towards them. Surely, working with them for that time he would of developed some kind of caring feeling for them? "He's evil and he wants to do something to you"

"I gathered" I whispered feeling fear creep back into my body. 

"We won't let him, Jess" She took my hand in hers carefully. "Ward's trying to destroy us. He's trying to destroy everything we have. We won't let him take you" She was speaking to me like a friend, it was quite nice to have someone like this in my life. "Plus, Hunter would kill all of us if anything happened to you" She gave me a little grin and I nodded smiling back. 

"That man can be annoying but he sure as hell can protect me. Especially from what I heard, what he had to give up and what he must have felt all that time"

"Downside to the job" She sighed. "Just know that if you're ever in danger. Shield will be there to protect you" I felt a lot safer now. I had agents protecting my back, how cool was that?

"What if Ward comes after me, what if he finds us here. You'll all be in danger"

"We're always in danger. He won't come here, he can't find us here. If he does by some miracle, I'll make sure he doesn't even look at you before I get rid of him" She smiled and there was a knock at the door. "Ten bucks say it's Hunter" She looked at me playfully and I shook my head.

"No fair, you've been here longer than me. You have a better chance" She laughed and walked to the door.

"Yes, but I'm not that good that I can see through doors" She shrugged and opened the door, low and behold my dear brother was standing there, fist in the air frozen as he was about to knock again.

"Don't scare her with your powers Daisy" He stormed in and I looked at her confused, She just glared at Hunter.

"She doesn't even know! I thought it'd be too soon. Especially with everything going on"

"Uh, powers? Do I wanna know?" They both shook their heads at me and I stood up nodding. "I don't think I can handle any more information" 

"We need to go" Hunter told me, I stood there waiting for answers. "I'm taking you to a safe house. You can't stay here" He grabbed my arm and began dragging me off. I quickly waved goodbye to Daisy as I left the room with him.

"We're going to a safe house?" I raised an eyebrow and he nodded. "You sure that's a good idea? I think we'd kill each other" I laughed to myself quietly but Hunter stopped walking.

"I'm just dropping you off there. I can't stay. I need to find Ward and end this so you can go back to your life" It felt like he just stabbed me. Go back to my life? What life? Where my parents are dead and where I won't see my brother. The only time I can see him is if I'm in danger apparently. I didn't want to go back to my life without him because I didn't know what I could do without him. I needed someone by my side to help me through this, we both had to grieve together and support each other.

"So you're going to kill Ward and then dump me on my own again?" I asked feeling my eyes water. "Hunter, I want you to be in my life. You're my brother for God sake. I need you right now"

"My job needs me Jess. If I stop doing my job more people die" He could see I was hurt, I could see it in his eyes. "I'm sorry. We need to go" He began walking again but this time he didn't drag me. I followed him slowly trying to think of something. Something that would let him be apart of my life again whilst he does his job. I couldn't join shield, I was weak...Especially at this moment in time. My brother knew best though, if he tells me I need to go to a safe house then I need to go. The only thing that scared me was that I was going to be completely alone for who knows how long. I'm not sure I could cope.