Chapter 8: 8. Apologizing to Fitz
"It was SUPPOSED TO FLOAT!" Grant shouted the last few words as he fell onto his knees.
"What!?" asked Fitz as he released the oxygen back in the Inertial Confinement Laser Barrier, he promised Coulson that he won't kill Ward, so he won't kill him and he wanted to hear what he meant.
"The medical pod was supposed to float in the ocean Fitz!" Ward said as he took a deep breath then looked at Fitz and continued, "We were flying 60 feet above the ocean, the whole bus was filled with Hydra Agents including Mike Peterson, Garret had ordered to kill you but I couldn't and the moment I saw you and Jemma enter the medical pod I had already decided to drop you in the ocean as that was the only way to save your life, otherwise Mike or any other Hydra Agent would have shot you dead. I thought that the medical pod would float in the air and with you inside you would be able to make something like a beacon to ask for help, believe me, Fitz I didn't know that the pod would malfunction and you would drop at bottom of the ocean. The engineer of the pod didn't do his job correctly or this wouldn't have happened"
"You-You could only think of that way!?" Fitz said pointing his finger at Ward, "Ok, then when I asked you to let him die why-why did you save him!?"
"I didn't Fitz I can to save you and Jemma When he gave me the order to kill you the others were already coming after you I knew this was the only chance I had to save you and Jemma so I left Garrett and came after you, and for the first time in the 15 years of my life that I have known that man I prayed that he died Fitz, I prayed," Grant said with emotions clearly in his voice.
"Then-Then how did he-he?" before Fitz could complete his sentence Grant understood what he wanted to say.
"How did he survive!? It was Raina, she used GH.325 drug to save him along with the centipede serum that he had in his system he became a super soldier" Grant explained.
"Why!? Why now!? Wh-What do you want from this!?" asked Fitz
"I don't want anything Fitz and I only spoke about this because I really want to apologize to you that's all" Grant stated.
"So you didn't wanted to kill us but save us and this happened, and you want me to forgive you for that" Fitz said, "Ok I will then tell me about my injury if you can even understand what it is then I would forgive you"
"Through the deprivation of oxygen, you suffered damage to the temporal lobe of your brain, and are having many difficulties with words and the use of your hands," Grant said at once shocking Fitz once.
"H-How did you know!?" asked Fitz in surprise he knows that he told Ward about Hypoxia but he didn't tell him that his temporal lobe was injured which was the reason for his condition.
"I just know Fitz!" Grant said.
"No-No tell me how did you know!?" asked Fitz as he walked close to the Inertial Confinement Laser Barrier, "You want my forgiveness than tell me"
Coulson who has just been joined by May we're standing in front of Vault D watching the live surveillance of Fitz and Ward's conversation so when the two saw Fitz reaction May couldn't control herself and said "Fitz is becoming agitated let's end it here"
"No! I want to see how did Ward knew about this as well as I haven't told him about this and he wasn't the type to study biology so how did he know" Coulson said as he placed his hand on May's shoulder stopping her.
Seeing that the Director had already made the decision May had to stop.
Grant stared at Fitz standing just 3 to 4 steps in front of him he sighed and spoke"2 years after taking me out from the Juvenile detention, I was still living in the Wyoming wilderness. Whenever Garret would come to meet me he would see my progress and if he wasn't satisfied then he would beat me, one day he gave me a task to raid one of the cabins nothing hard for me as I had already done that before quite many times but it was different this time as I had to beat the cabin owners before raiding it, as I was living in the woods for 2 years already and that too just as a teenager, I was arrogant and proud so I directly rushed without making much of a plan. So even though I completed the mission it took me a lot of time and I was badly beaten seeing which Garret wasn't pleased and decided to teach me a lesson"
"No!" Fitz said in shock.
"Yes, he grabbed polythene and wrapped it around my face the moment I dropped the things from the raid, I was surprised because of the attack and tried to tear it open but then he grabbed both of my hands with one hand of his while the other kept the polythene tightly around my face. After that he started lecturing me about my weaknesses, how I went without a plan and without understanding my enemy all the while keeping the polythene over my face. As I was starting to lose consciousness he explained what was happening and said 'Do you feel the death gripping on you kid, this is hypoxia if I don't take it off your face then the temporal lobe of your brain will be injured and you will start having difficulties with words and your hands then you would be useless to me' saying that he removed the polythene from my face. Since it was one of the teaching sessions of Garret I didn't forget about it that's all" explained Grant.
"Even after he did all that to you, why did you still followed him, Ward!? Why were you so loyal to him!?" asked Fitz
"Because all of that he did to me was to get rid of my weaknesses Fitz, if I had weaknesses then I would be a useless person and Garret didn't needed a useless person with him he needed someone strong who could help him,"
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