TRIP | WARD
I considered it after he told me he was the Clairvoyant. If we hadn't been in the middle of an op where there would have been questions if he hadn't come back, I probably would have. And then I got distracted by Skye being all right, and... it was too easy to fall back in line, let the anger simmer to the point that he could easily put a lid on it whenever I tried to argue again.
Except that's not how Coulson played it. That entire year. He risked the entirety of Grand Central Station to make sure Mike walked out of there alive. He went directly against orders so that Fitz and I wouldn't die in the field because we went in not knowing we had no extraction. Mission, agent, we were all worth the risk. Maybe I was naive to think he'd still be playing it that way with people who weren't me.