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Who: Lance Hunter and yourself, should you choose to engage!
Broadcast: yes
Action: Marsiva
When: no time like the present!

[ the comm seems to be haphazardly leaning against something, and the image you get is crooked. a sleeping man, who almost instantly awakes with a start. no scream, mercifully, he's quite over screamer videos, and besides, it wouldn't really be that surprising under the circumstances, now, would it? his eyes dart around the room, his feet flying off the cot and touching the ground. the moment he speaks, his accent undeniably and unapologetically identifies him as an englishman. ]

Not again - [ he groans, looking around him. the first time he was knocked out and kidnapped happened because he was foolish, he trusted a friend when clearly he had overestimated the bond, bloody spies, he's had his fill of bloody spies. but this time - he has no idea what happened. one minute, he's in a pod, sailing to freedom and the next - he's in this bed. he must not have deactivated something. do they have a blasted tracker beam on these things? so paranoid! ] Oi, @therealshield, you forgot to paint your eagle - I'm gonna have to deduct your merits - [ no answer. the room really doesn't seem like anywhere his previous captors kept him in, and that's rarely a coincidence. he gets up, and the comm seems to slip off whatever it was leaning against and end up in a new position, one that shows the back of the man, as he walks towards a window. ] ...you have got to be joking.

[ and a moment later ] Bloody aliens!

[ the man comes in and out of the frame, as he's clearly examining his surroundings, before he heads back to check on what he's got by his cot, and notices the comm. picking it up, you now get a close up of his face - ] Little red light - you're either going to explode or - [ that sure looks like a camera, doesn't it? he holds it directly in front of his face. ]

Take me to your leader.

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One thing I know about people - you can do a million things right every day of your life, but all it takes is one wrong to turn them against you.

[ he's had so many happy times with bobbi and mack. none of them mattered when he discovered their secret though, did they. nor did they matter to him, when he sensed something was being kept from him. and those are people he loves, not strangers on a television set. people turn against those exceedingly easily, all it takes is one wrong word caught on camera. and he knows a lot of wrong words. ]

I'm not sure you're really giving people enough credit. Not everyone is going to turn on you just like that.

[ maybe it's the fact that fitz is more trusting a person than he should be, but he simply doesn't believe that it's so easy to make someone turn on someone else. especially if there's a sense of trust there, friendship, something. and while there isn't any between them and the audience, something about the way hunter said it makes fitz think that maybe that's not what he's talking about anymore. he may not be as socially adept as simmons has always seemed to be to him, but he can pick up on things ]

[ will he still believe that, when he tells him the truth of ward? would he even believe hunter? he isn't sure how to handle this fitz, it took a long time for their bond to build the first time around, but that was due to injury. here, fitz is as healthy as anyone which should make things easier - but in honesty it just makes things more difficult because hunter doesn't really know him this way, either. there's no one here to vouch for him. what cause does fitz have to believe him over ward? ]

No, not everyone. But enough people would, if you ignore the signs.

[ that's just it though. fitz has no reason to believe anything hunter says against ward. the last fitz knew, ward was still on their side, still a good friend. ward is still very much a part of their strange little chosen family. hunter is just someone who claims to know him, says they become friends eventually. what reason does he have to trust hunter at this point? especially if he speaks against one of fitz's friends ]

You don't sound like much of a trusting person.

[ ... ]

Tell me again where you fit in to the team? Just out of curiosity.

[ because they are a team with a lot of trust (or at least that's how he sees it). someone like hunter just doesn't seem to fit in with them ]

I'm still alive, aren't I, mate?

[ wouldn't be here if he trusted easily, not in their line of work. he's not going to lie to fitz, that's the last thing that would build trust, it also won't keep him safe. but the truth is tricky. ]

When Hydra came out of the woodwork SHIELD fell. You were short staffed, recruited from unusual sources, as it were. I joined as a mercenary. Director did recently offer me a more permanent position - unfortunately a teammate I trusted enough to question without a gun to his head shoved me in the trunk and whisked me off to the Loony Boat to keep their dirty little secret before I could accept. I was making my really rather impressive escape when [ gesturing around him ] aliens happened.

So am I.

[ and he's a trusting person.

the words come out a little sharper than he intended, but a part of him feels like hunter is speaking out against fitz's more trusting nature. hunter's lack of trust may have kept him alive, but fitz's trust in people hasn't gotten him killed.

but then, coulson's trust in garrett almost killed both him and may. those other shield agents trusted the people who worked alongside them and were killed by those they trusted.

fitz doesn't regret trusting his team though. it's trust that got them back to the bus after every mission ]

What secret was worth betraying your trust?

[ and as an after-thought ]

Some of the aliens here aren't so bad.

[ well then. he should probably let it pass, for the moment, how close a call it was for fitz. that's not a talk for video chat. but it's hard to swallow it down - he just wants to shake him into remembrance.

he's tired of this already. ]

They were covering up an alternate SHIELD that means to either assimilate us, or break us apart. They don't trust the director, which, it's not that I don't see their point he's an odd fellow to say the least, who makes some questionable choices - but that's when we question him, not start a coup. That's the thing about spies, Fitz - they're incapable of trust, which makes them impossible to trust. It's why I like you, none of that double meaning nonsense.

Tell me about these aliens? How many of them are there? [ fitz may not think they're so bad, but that doesn't mean hunter is going to trust them. ]

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