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[hydraated]

[Ward's throat still feels like shit and a half, but he's managed to process the following. He's no longer in jail (that's a plus), he's got super powers (he's unsure if that's a plus or minus) but he arrived and avoided the network for a few days out of fear of breaking the damn thing. He's decided long since then that he can't let Skye intimidate him.

She's here. And she's been here for awhile. She has home team advantage.

The only problem is they have a record of him. This whole registering thing was crap - what was the point of being given a second chance if he really couldn't leave Grant Ward behind? For the first time he wants to.

So time to test the waters. He's been to the ceremony, he's been sworn in, he's had a dramatic reunion with the woman he'd thought he cared about.]

New arrival here. Roomba salesman and repairman. Anybody else get a completely shit job? I know nothing about Roomba's.

Assuming Roombas here are the vaccuum robots. Y/N?

Also feel like shooting myself in the foot here, but is there some kind of a "so now you have super abilities" support group? Any help or advice appreciated.

[Reading over it two or three times he nods, satisfied that it's not incriminating, that it's blaise enough that even if people decide to ask him questions he can think up enough to talk about without screwing up.

He'd been in worse situations.

His roommates might have noticed that his doorknob on the outside was significantly bent and someone has been closing doors in their apartment very, very quietly.]

Comments

[hostage]

Then stick to messing with the grownups Adolf

[hydraated]

...I'm not a nazi.

[Ward isn't stupid. He puts two and two together fast. Only one person knows that. Only one person could have told him this. Put two and two together and then...

There's a cold feeling in his gut that he shoves away. Hard.]

She doesn't know what she's talking about when she tries to understand big things. You'll have to watch out for that.

[hostage]

Don't talk about Skye like she's an idiot because I know she's not

But hey if you want to talk about it face to face I'm totally game

[hydraated]

Has skye told you about me?

I mean has she told you what I do for a living?

The moments we shared?

[hostage]

Eat me

[hydraated]

[Just like Garrett taught him. Find the pressure point and push]

Never forget that before she met you she was, in essence a spy.

Ask her what that entails. I mean how well do you really know her?

[He can play this. Oh hell yes he can play this and there's that familiar tingle that says he's alive again and Free and there's nothing better then that.

Even with the cold punch in the gut that hasn't left him. It eats away at the rage that's been building inside him for the months he's spent in his own little box]

I'm a monster. I admit that.

but she learned from me

[hostage]

[Maybe this tactic would work on, like, an ordinary person who wasn't a meth kingpin and a murderer and stuff. But since Jesse knows he's about a thousand times worse than Skye could ever be?]

I don't give a shit

[hydraated]

ask her the time we had to seduce a guy for work.

[hostage]

Still don't give a shit

[hydraated]

Can I get a name or do I just call you don't give a shit

[hostage]

Go fuck yourself Aryan Youth

[hydraated]

[His mouth curls into a sneer.]

Skye will hurt you in the end.

[hostage]

[Not as much as he'll hurt Skye. Ha ha ha. Ha.]

Go eat a tub of ice cream and write about it in your diary

[hydraated]

What the hell does that even mean?

[hostage]

Means you're being a whiny little bitch and maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself because she thinks you're disgusting

[hydraated]

[He stares at the screen]

...Did your mother drop you on the head as a kid?

[hostage]

Oops did I get a little too close there? Maybe you could be less obvious about it if you'd stop talking about Skye for like ten seconds

[hydraated]

I could care less about her, I'm asking about you and your mother

[hostage]

You don't care about Skye so much she's pretty much all you been talking to me about

Yeah OK I totally buy that

[hydraated]

[are you trying to get him mad Jesse]

Do you really have that much of a death wish.

[hostage]

Maybe you don't wanna be threatening people when you don't know what their powers are

[hydraated]

Enlighten me

[hostage]

Nah

More fun to see the look on your face

[hydraated]

Is that supposed to impress me?

[hostage]

I don't care whether it does or it don't you're the one who's gonna look like a damn fool