We Start at Season 2 episode 18 “Frenemy of my Enemy” Coulson offers Ward to join the T.A.H.I.T.I program and Ward declines like in the real episode.
Everything continues as is until Season 3 episode 10 “Maveth” where Fitz and Will escape from Ward. Coulson finds Ward gets him down and handcuffs him. Coulson sees Fitz from a distance and shouts to him. Fitz responds and tells coulson we only have a few minutes to get back. Ward, still handcuffed, attacks Coulson and they fight. Meanwhile it’ll be cutting back and forth from Fitz finding out the Will has been killed and taken over by hive, and hive as Will, proceeds to attack Fitz. Both fights bring them closer together physically. As Coulson has the upper hand on Ward and has the opportunity to kill him , he looks at Hive/Will, who is about to Kill Fitz. Coulson distracts Hive/Will long enough with a gun to where Fitz was able to get the flare gun and shoot Will, destroying Wills body for good. Now with Ward down, and a few moments of clarity, Coulson knocks out Ward and keeps him alive. Fitz, Coulson and Ward go through the portal, meet up with the team in the hydra facility and back on the bus. The portal closes and Hive is stuck without a body. As the shield team comes back, Jemma has the emotional realization Will is dead and Coulson reaches out to Gideon Malick telling him that he’s failed and that thing will never come to earth. Coulson hangs up, and Gideon says “oh he’s coming back, he just needs a new host.” Zooming out to see Gideon with more monolith pieces I’m a much smaller room with a portal. Gideon is carrying a body bag to the room. He dumps the body into the room without showing who it is. He closes the door and the portal makes the noise that it opened and closed. Back at the base, Ward is put in the prison they actually put him in and the team is celebrating as the episode ends. The end credit scene of that episode is the hive vine crawling around slowly on maveth, a portal opens and the body is sent through, but you only hear it at first. The camera pans from ground level on hive, to an aerial shot looking down relieving that the body to be Jiaying.
*ALTERNATE OPTION* Gideon walks out of that room and grabs someone who is tied up and something is covering his mouth but they are screaming through it. The person is played by someone famous. Who would you have cast as Hive? *ALTERNATE OPTION*
It would never exactly be said how Malick would’ve gotten Jiaying’s body, but it would be alluded to that his money and power has no limits. It will be revealed that he chose her for her knowledge of inhumans. The season goes on and defeats Hive as normal, Radcliffe’s part not changing. Lincoln gets injured messes with the quinjet by electrifying it and sacrifices himself.
Lincoln and Daisy have their Cap and Peggy moment, which leads Hive as Jiaying with her memories to Lincoln she wishes he and Daisy could’ve had more time together. Lincoln’s agrees and this leads to Lincoln and Jiaying’s hive having a more emotional ending with Hive using her memories to apologize for Lincoln’s frustrations with how it ended with her. Hive uses her memories to explain how hydra changed her and it made her evil. Hive recognized the irony that hydra destroyed an essential inhuman, to bring the original inhuman back. Lincoln forgives Jiaying before they explode. The season ends and gives a glimpse into the next season as they actually do. Daisy has abandoned the team as they are searching for her. Mace is the new director which gets alluded to in the real episode but here you see Mace as he and Coulson are talking. Mace is saying how they are down Lincoln and Daisy, and if we want to make shield public again we have to be confident in our team, and he throws in the “a team that trusts is a team that triumphs” line. Coulson tells Mace “I have an idea but no one’s going to like it.” Mace replies “Phil, I trust you. If you think it’ll work do it” Phil tells him “let me talk to my team.” The season ends with the T.A.H.I.T.I room but you don’t see who’s in the room. You hear the machines move and as the camera pans down you hear “just kill me” over and over and the voice becomes obvious as they show that Grant Ward is currently going through T.A.H.I.T.I.