“More than you’d think,” Ashe says. “And yes, Fury is very good at half-truths but that is his job. Do you know some of the other parts of his job? Keeping his people safe. Keeping his promises. Trying to keep the world from falling apart.” Ashe doesn’t like liars - hates how emotions vs. expression confuse her senses, how she can sense someone isn’t being entirely honest but not know what the truth is - but at the least: Fury will keep them safe. Fury will keep his promises. Fury won’t let the world fall to chaos or the tight control of HYDRA.
Ashe shrugs. “You have a point. SHIELD and HYDRA are, in a way, twins. Both have their politics. But here is the counter: everything is flawed, everything is fallible. All we can ever do is make the best decision we can under the circumstances. I chose SHIELD so I could help people with the powers I was given. I left after the leak because I refuse to have anything to do with HYDRA. I came back because I trust Fury’s promise that he won’t let HYDRA in again. You and your sister chose to sign up to HYDRA because you wanted to make yourselves heard, then left HYDRA to fight the Avengers, then left Ultron because you would not see him destroy the world, yes?”
Ashe taps her fingers on her leg. “We all have our own agendas. We may not even mean to make them into agendas, but they become other aims and goals - I do not doubt that you would leave the team for your sister without much hesitation. Not an agenda, necessarily, but something that comes before the Avengers. We all have them and yes, as you say, they make everything more complicated. The world is complicated. Do you think it can be made otherwise?”
“The world would not fall apart without SHIELD. Not to the extent it has. Evil grows to meet good. One doesn’t exist without the other, and they fight until they are even. One will never beat the other, not permanently. They will only grow larger and larger until the world is destroyed. Is the only way they will be satisfied.’ Pietro was growing tired of hearing about good and evil. He’d been on the side of both, and he knew they weren’t as different as they wanted to believe. Pietro would be on whichever side was best for Wanda and the people of Sokovia. “Shows they are not all that different, yes?’
He sighed. “I do not work for the Avengers. I work for people, and I work for Wanda. Is not complicated. Things become complicated when people are made to pick sides. You say I am on the side of the Avengers, and HYDRA wants me dead; I am on the side of HYDRA, and the Avengers wish the same. Sides are what hurts people. Thinking yourself better than another because of who you call a friend.” He lets out a bitter laugh. “Sides murder families.”