Simmons stares down at her hands in front of her, examining the lines and marks on her hands, thinking of how she hadn't been able to stop them shaking for so long after the incident. "There were five of us," she says. "We were handpicked to be part of Agent Coulson's team for varying skills that we might be able to offer. It was all going so well," she says, as if disbelieving how it could all fall apart so easily.

"Except when that message went out summoning Hydra from the underbelly of S.H.I.E.L.D., it turned out that one of ours was Hydra," she says. "And he sunk my partner and I to the bottom of the ocean in an attempt to kill us. It's Fitz's ingenuity and Director Fury's presence that have let me be here today, but it's not without its costs. What Ward did..." She shakes her head, the anger welling up in her as it has since it happened. "I'm sorry," she says. "This is a lot for me to put on you and we've only just met."