12. Ward's plan

"Th-Thank You, for be-believing in me sir.... ev-even after I-I am.... da-damaged this much you still trust me," Fitz said, "Even when I-I was..... um.... pe-perfectly fine not-not... many would have believed me."

"Don't sell yourself short Fitz, I would always believe and I don't think you are damaged, yes you have been injured and are still recovering from it, it doesn't mean you are still not the brightest engineering student the SHIELD Academy had produced," Coulson said as he patted Fitz's shoulder,

"Moreover I also don't want to be the person who doesn't believe in second chances, Up until now I am still angry at Ward for betraying us so much so that I don't want to give him a second chance that SHIELD is known for after all it was those second chances that led to HYDRA infiltrating us but if what you said proves out to be true then I may have not been totally wrong about Ward," said Coulson as he looks around before opening the gate of Vault D.

Standing in front of the Inertial Confinement Laser Barrier, Coulson gave the tablet with the system of the barrier to Fitz who changed the settings to transparent and changed the soundproof to normal.

Grant was sitting on his bed meditating when his passive Observation Haki sensed the arrival of both Coulson and Fitz. Thinking that his plan was working Grant had to bite his tongue from smiling but that didn't help him much as his tongue was rubber as well.

Thankfully before they changed the barrier into transparent Ward was able to control himself.

"Ward!" Coulson called out seeing that Grant wasn't opening his eyes.

Hearing his name called out Grant finally opened his eyes and said "Sometimes you don't come for weeks and now on a single day this is your 2nd visit, am I to assume that you have started liking my company, Coulson"

Fitz was a little surprised to hear Ward joking with the Director of SHIELD and Coulson wasn't even saying anything back to him.

"What!? Not even a remark! It looks like you want to know about the rest of the information I have on Daniel Whitehall!" Grant said.

"No, not now, I am here because Fitz has something he wants to ask from you," Coulson said while pointing at Fitz.

"Ward! I-I need your Brain Scan" Fitz stated.

"My Brain Scan!? Why would you need that!? If you are worried about my head injury then don't worry everything is fine." said Grant though internally he was dancing as he knew where this was going.

"N-No, I be-believe that yo-you were brain...washed by Garret, so-so I need you-your brain scan for..... umm..... ex-experiment" Fitz stated.

"No!, Fitz, I am sorry to tell you but I wasn't brainwashed, whatever I did good or bad was my own decision Garret had nothing to do with that," said Grant while shaking his head.

"Bu-But that's what yo-you believe, ho-how would you know if-if you were really brainwashed or not," Fitz said.

"No, I know because I had the freedom to choose Fitz! Garret always gave me a choice" Grant said.

"Wh-What choices fo-follow him or-or stay in juvenile detention rea-ready to be..... tried by your ow-own family, su-survive in the wild.... .....wilderness and-and wait for him to..... come back or run and become a cr.... criminal on the run, join SHIELD as-as HYDRA agent or die"

"Stop!" Ward shouted as he saw that Fitz was going to continue.

"These- These were not choices Ward, let-let me do you-your brain scan," Fitz said seeing Ward's distraught face.

"No! no I wasn't brainwashed I am not weak enough to be brainwashed Fitz I am not" saying so, Grant laid down on his bed as he covered his head with the bedsheet, "I am tired so I am going to sleep, please go back Fitz, you don't need to do this I am fine"

Fitz wanted to say some more but Coulson stopped him by grabbing his shoulder and said, "This should be enough for you right Fitz!"

"Ye-Yeah, you are right Director, I- I am sorry, I al-almost.... forgot what we-we came here to do today," said Fitz as he bowed his head a little.

"It's alright, after seeing the look on his face even I felt bad for him so it's natural you wanted to help him. Let's go we will come back after you have made a plan of action" saying so Coulson took the tablet which had the system for the barrier and once again changed it back to opaque and soundproof.

Unknown to them Ward didn't cover his head with the bedsheet because he was feeling low but it was to cover his face so that none of them see his smiling face.

'I didn't know it would go this smooth, now all they have to do is bring Skye to convince me and I will follow them' thought Grant while still hiding under the bedsheet, 'Though I don't really love Skye as previous Grant Ward his feelings for her were strong enough that even I have some affection towards her and it's not like I can let them know about it as they all knew how much Grant Ward liked Skye. Hope she comes down fast and asks me to get a Brain Scan!!... Shit! How will my brain scan be different from any normal person I am not sure that previous Grant's memory affects me that much!'

Grant was in a pinch while thinking for a way to get into the good books of the SHIELD, he forgot that he may be able to fool physiologist but how would he fool the technology.

'Maybe if I am going through the worst memories of the life of previous Grant Ward and don't try to temper my will with it, my brain may show some activity different from normal people' thought Grant as he creased his eyebrows.

'Well, this is the only way I can think off right now hopefully it works otherwise my plan may not work, or even if it works the speed at which it will move will become incredibly slow. Fitz if you can prove that I was really brainwashed then I would definitely buy a monkey for you'