Chapter three, how they trained me
I had been with SHIELD for weeks and they were trying to get me to talk, but not in the same way my doctors used to. The doctors used to try to force me, believing that my gift was a lie or a delusion. Here they believed me, because they had seen others like me before. Other people with gifts, even though they were nothing like mine. So Coulson tried to get me to talk, but kept saying that I should stay quiet unless I felt ready.
Until that moment, May had volunteered to also teach me how to fight. It gave her something to do and she said she liked my silence, since she was quiet as well. She only spoke when she needed to give me instructions. In the beginning it felt awkward and uncomfortable, but I got used to her silent way of communication and even grew to appreciate it.
Meanwhile Fitzsimmons tried to teach me some basic science, I didn't care much for it. But I liked being in the lab with them, they were really nice and they discussed with the two of them so often that I didn't even need to talk. Plus Fitz was kind of cute, if you liked the nerdy type which I didn't usually, I wasn't sure if I even had a type since it was never an option. Still not an option now.
And finally we had Ward teaching me war stragies and Skye teaching me some basic hacker skills. Overall I had turned into somekind of group project, but I didn't protest. Partly because I couldn't and partly because I didn't want to. Okay maybe a little less teaching would be nice, but these people took me in and cared enough to teach me what they viewed as useful skills in life. I only had that with my parents, but I hadn't seen them since they send me to the institute about three years ago. In the beginning they had come to visit a couple of times, but eventually they just didn't care enough anymore and I didn't blame them. I wouldn't want a monster as a child either.