"SHIELD. Its spies, double crossing, all that, it was that before us. HYDRA were always on the inside. They just never figured it out until they came out of the shadows." Into the light. The whole thing was ridiculous, that HYDRA had hidden that long with all of their Hail Hydra cut off the head crap. But they had. Because mostly of people like Garrett, Alexander Pierce, and people on the ground like him and Rumlow. Even though the other guy was an idiot.
He wasn't quite sure what had happened to him after the Triskelion, no one was talking.
He laughed when Peter explained his story. Not cause it was shocking, but cause it wasn't. It was entirely believable.
"I wish I was shocked by Radioactive spider bite. But I've seen way too much to not consider that entirely possible. And let me guess, you use it to help people."
Like Peterson had wanted to do, like the Avengers did, all of it, it had gotten fairly commonplace. And even the kids age didn't phase him. Grant had been surrviving in the wilderness, learning to be strong. It was probably sad the only thing he didn't understand about Parker's story was missing his parents.