[He blinks when Coulson kneels, watching him with a certain amount of trepidation. He gives a soft snort, because he's pretty sure that SHIELD would ditch him the minute he wasn't useful. Maybe not Fury directly, but the Council had pressure, there were budgets to balance and after this whole thing with Loki... he'd be more useful as a scapegoat than a broken sniper.

Wouldn't surprise him if a few of his past crimes, the ones that had supposedly been wiped out, made a reappearance.]

I don't have anything outside SHIELD. Burned those bridges a long time ago.

Human nature doesn't change just because of the surroundings.

[If he wasn't useful, then no-one had a reason to stick around. Another lesson he'd learnt long ago.]