4. Training Begins

Hello my lovely readers, I hope you enjoyed last chapter, poor gentleman like Steve getting all flustered. Anyway, I own nothing but Dita so as always, enjoy, review, favourite and follow.

A week had passed since Dita's first words and already her vocabulary had become very advanced. She could have whole conversations and she was learning new words every day. Fury monitored her progress with Steve and finally agreed she was trustworthy enough to leave her cell, providing Steve was with her.

Steve visited her one day bringing new clothes for her to wear. "Come on, we are going to the gym to train. I bought you some more, suitable clothes for training, oversized t-shirts are going to get in the way for what we are doing today".

Dita stood up and waited for Steve to open her cell before following him through the mansion to the gym. When they got inside Steve handed her the new clothes and not worrying about Steve seeing her naked, she stripped off in-front of him. Steve blushed and looked away quickly.

"You know, when you're not wearing clothes that's considered private. It's called being naked and you shouldn't show anyone your naked body, unless, your married to them or something. Or dating, in this time it's probably more acceptable to get naked in front of someone you're dating" Steve stuttered, trying to make conversation to take away the awkwardness from the situation.

"Done" she piped up.

Steve turned to face her. She had changed into plain white shorts and a tight white vest top. She was barefoot as usual. With her having no bra on, Steve tried desperately not to let his mind travel to think of lust filled thoughts, but it was hard not to. It was made harder when he knew Dita had no idea about Steve's "crush". She was oblivious to it all, which made it easier for Steve to make his feelings seem more transparent.

"Great, you look great. I mean I'm not stood there ogling you but you look good, not sexy, I mean you do look sexy but I wasn't going to say that because it is rude, and ok, you don't need to know all this so, let's just start by seeing what you can do" Steve stuttered again.

Steve led Dita over to one of the punching bags he used almost every day and stood back to see what she made of it. Dita pushed it, and saw it swung about. She giggled and wrapped her body around it as she swung around.

Steve rolled his eyes and pushed his hair back. "No, no you punch it".

"You try this, it's fun" she replied.

"We are not here to have fun, we are here to train" he said.

She grabbed his hand and pulled him over, urging him to join her on the swinging punch bag.

"Alright, one swing, then we have to train. I don't want Fury to see you as a lost cause" Steve smiled before joining her on the punch bag. He blushed again as she placed her hands above his as they held on together, laughing as they swung. Unfortunately for them, the bag couldn't take both their weight and collapsed, causing Dita to fall on Steve as they landed.

She pushed the bag out of the way so there was nothing separating her from him as she lay on him. They both laughed loudly and Dita sat up so she was straddling him. When Steve felt his arousal grow again he stood up quickly, practically throwing Dita off him.

"Alright, show me your skills, enough playing around now" he said rather sternly.

Dita was not as good with the punch bag as Steve was, showing that with strength, Steve was always going to be stronger than her. However, her endurance levels were good, she could train for long periods of time without stopping.

Hawkeye watched them from a distance as Steve practised boxing with Dita. She was an extremely fast learner, she was learning to be stronger every minute and she learnt defence tactics very quickly. Steve noticed she picked up on fighting skills a lot faster than her speaking skills, Fury really had built her to be a weapon. Steve didn't want to see her turned into Shield's personal destructive robot. He wouldn't leave her to be used in such a way.

Hawkeye walked over, bow in his hand. "You should see if she's agile or not? If she's going to be an assassin, she needs to be able to move like one".

He aimed one of his arrows at the top of the gym and shot it so it stuck into the wall, high above the beams at the top of the gymnasium. "Climb to claim the arrow back" he told Dita.

Steve held her back gently. "Isn't that a little dangerous, there is no clear way up there" he said.

"That's the point, she needs to find a way up there" Clint said calmly.

Dita smirked and moved out of Steve's grip slowly. She stepped back away from the wall and took a running start towards it again before scaling it and jumping swiftly back onto one of the ropes that was holding a punch bag up. She climbed the rope as swiftly as a cat would and then somersaulted onto one of the beams high above. The young woman then swung from beam to beam until she reached the arrow.

Even Clint, who was known for his serious nature, couldn't hold back a smile as Dita grabbed the arrow and jumped from wall to wall until she reached the ground once more. As she strode over to Clint and Steve, she pushed the arrow back into Clint's hands and crossed her arms as she stood next to Steve.

"Good?" She asked.

"Very impressive Dita, well done" Steve smiled widely.

"Yeah, good, good. Just, make sure she works on her stealth skills with Natasha when you get the chance. She can climb things well but she needs to be able to do it quietly if she wants to be good at her trade" Clint said as he walked away.

"Trade?" she asked.

"Job, it's what you're going to do for the rest of your life. What we made you for" Clint called back to her before slinking off back to one of his "nests".

Dita's smile faded at Clint's words. She turned to Steve.

"What am I?"

"What do you mean? You are human, like me, except you're a girl" he answered her.

"No, I am different?"

Steve paused, Fury hadn't told him what to tell Dita if she asked about her origins, he wasn't sure if honesty in this case, was the best policy. He didn't want to confuse her when she had already made such progress.

"You are different, you are unique, but you will learn all the things we know, and then you won't feel so different. I promise you, everything will make sense soon" Steve assured her. He then did something that he wasn't prone to doing, but in the moment, when he could see Dita was upset, and looked rather lost in the world she was in, he wrapped his arms around her.

The hug was long and sincere. After a moment Dita returned the action and wrapped her arms around Steve's muscular body, burying her head against his chest. She had no idea what he was doing, but she liked it, he was warm, and surprisingly soft and his huge muscles just made her feel safe and protected. After a minute, Steve pulled away.

"That was a hug Dita, it's used as a greeting, or if you are friends with someone, like we are, you do it to comfort someone" Steve said.

"We are, friends?"

"Yeah, of course we are. Now come with me, I think Bruce is here, Dr Banner. He needs to check up on you, give you some shots. Don't worry, I will explain everything to you later, you have done enough training for today".

She followed Steve back to the labs, where Steve had first laid eyes on Dita.

"Bruce, it's good to see you again" Steve grinned as he shook hands with Banner who had been cleaning his glasses while searching some files on one of the lab computer screens.

"Likewise Captain" Bruce looked over at Dita. "hi there, I'm Bruce Banner, pleased to meet you miss?"

"Dita" she replied and hugged Bruce suddenly. Bruce was too shocked to hug back and just stared at Steve in disbelief.

"Yeah, she does that now I think, sorry. Bruce this is Dita, she is Fury's, project" Steve said the last part quietly, not wanting to upset Dita too much.

"Oh wow, this is project Aphrodite. You call her Dita now? Wow, she is amazing, already advanced so much in a week. I came as soon as I could to see what all the fuss was about. But really she goes beyond the expectations I had" Bruce smiled as he pulled away from the awkward hug.

"Pleased to meet you Dr Banner. Steve has told me about you. I trust your trip to Hong Kong was successful?" Dita asked.

"Uh yes it was. Thank you Dita. I really am very pleased to meet you, everyone has already told me so much about you but you are doing fabulously well for such a new human" Bruce grinned.

She smiled and nodded, not entirely sure of what Bruce was talking about. Steve patted Dita's back gently. "I will leave you both alone for now. Bruce if you want to, check her over. Fury said that was what you were going to do first when you got here".

"Oh yes, sure, we have to make sure nothing is going haywire in that body of yours Dita. Follow me please" Bruce said before taking her to one of the medical rooms. Dita stared back at Steve as she walked with Bruce, she had grown rather fond of going anywhere Steve went and wondered why he hadn't followed her this time.

Bruce made Dita sit down on the edge of one of the medical beds as he cleaned a needle.

"So, are you enjoying life here at the mansion?" Bruce asked her slowly, he had no idea what she could or couldn't understand.

She nodded eagerly.

"Who is your favourite person here?"

"Steve" she smiled.

Bruce got the needle ready. "This is going to hurt a little bit, I'm sorry" he told her. As he injected her she stared at the needle in curiosity, but she didn't flinch at all. Bruce had to admire her pain threshold, but then she probably had been designed to take pain well.

"Why is he your favourite?"

"He doesn't treat me differently from others. He treats me the same as everybody else here. I like that" she replied.

"The others treat you differently? Badly?"

"Not always, sometimes they talk like I cannot hear them, that hurts me. Mostly they just treat me, differently, like they are afraid of me or they don't know what else to say. Steve doesn't do that, he talks normally to me, I learn new words that way. He doesn't talk to me like I am stupid, or like I speak a different way from others. He's just, him" Dita smiled, her gaze staring our blankly into the distance as she thought of Steve.

"I think someone has a crush. Don't worry I won't tell him. Besides, the others treat you differently because you are so new to us all. You see, you are the first human that was bred from this thing called DNA, rather than two other humans. You don't need to learn about reproduction just yet though, there are other things Fury considers more important for you to learn. Don't worry about the others Dita, they will come around soon enough. They are just not used to you yet." Bruce smiled faintly at her as he injected her with another shot.

Ten minutes later Bruce had done everything he needed to with Dita. He reported to Fury that Dita was perfectly healthy and fit. He walked her back to the dining hall where some of the team were sat eating and arguing amongst each other.

"Well hey there lab rat" Stark smirked.

"Don't call her that Stark" Steve frowned.

"Take it easy capsicle it was just a joke" Tony smiled as Dita sat next to Steve and took a roast potato off his place to eat it herself. Steve put his plate in-front of her so she could eat the rest.

"You make another joke like that at her expense and I will tell her that hissing at you is ok again" Steve said quietly.

Dita smiled at Steve before sticking her tongue out at Tony.

"Hey Dita. Next training session is with me, on my turf, then after that we get you kitted out in real clothes and then maybe you could help us on a mission, small scale one of course, we can't let you handle the big leagues yet" Natasha said.

Dita shrugged. "Sounds good to me".

Thanks for reading chapter four guys, next chapter Dita finally starts to really become an avenger and gets her "signature look" of course. Hope you enjoyed it, and look forward to see what happens next. Until next time readers