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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

[hydraated]

If you're listening to her then it's about sides.

I'm not a goddamn nazi.

[Just a domestic terrorist]

[motherfucked]

No, see

You were the one who brought up HYDRA

So, I'm listening to you, buddy

[hydraated]

[Oh.

What he wants to do is - hit skye (doesn't he?) really hard.]

I was following orders. I was obeying the man who saved my life.

He just happened to be HYDRA.

[motherfucked]

Sometimes assholes can fuck you up

[ This is something Jessica really believes, something that she knows. But it's not an excuse. ]

[hydraated]

I owed him.

You don't - no one gets it. I owed him. It was all worth it he made me what I am today.

[But his justifications stop short.]

what are you getting at? Honestly?

[motherfucked]

Ok, so I don't get it

And I don't, because HYDRA is a bunch of Nazi fuckers

[ There's a pause before she sends this next bit. ]

I'm just nosy, I kind of can't stop reading these things

Which is bad but if you are really a super spy you're way worse

[hydraated]

[you're just going to have to not get it.] Garrett saved my life and taught me how to be a survivor. that's all that's important. It hasnothing to do with some bullshit philosophy.


[God his chest hurts when he says that]

Who are you? How do you know about Hydra?

[motherfucked]

[ Shit. ]

I used to be a superhero.

[ There are like, sirens going off in her head telling her not to say this, but Jessica Jones does a stupid thing once again. Maybe it's pathological. But it's public knowledge back home. She doesn't say SHIELD offered her a job once and she turned it down or that she slept with a SHIELD agent a few times and that was a mistake. Go team! ]

[hydraated]

[Ward is quiet]

And I used to be a SHIELD agent. So what you fought against HYDRA? you have some kind of personal problem with me?

[motherfucked]

Most people have a problem with terrorists

[hydraated]

[He pulls his hands through his hair - before worrying about pulling his hair out and responding.]

It would

better.

It would have been.

[He feels sick.]

I followed orders.