Tilly began to feel nervous. She had never been assessed on her martial art skills before. She knew she was good, but having seen this agent/trainer decimate everyone so far it made her feel uneasy.

"Matilda Grace" the instructor called.

Tilly entered the square mat area hunched over and trying to make herself as small as possible. She felt petrified and out of her depth.

"You're the one?" The instructor asked dubiously. He had been warned that there was a highly skilled martial artist in the first year ranks and was surprised when he was given her name.

"I'm the one what?" Tilly asked feeling stupid.

"The kick ass." The instructor snickered.

This riled Tilly. Another instructor could see Tilly's mood and stance change and stepped in.

"Miss, if you would like to come with me, we will test you privately."

Tilly could hear the snickers and laughter behind her. Clearly they thought she was being given a private test because they didn't want anyone to see her get snapped in half.

Tilly followed the instructor into a room that was off the Arena. Another instructor followed them into the room and closed the door.

"I do apologise about Dan. He seems to think women are weak. But there again, he's never sparred with Romanov. I am Toby the senior practical instructor at Phys Acc. I was warned you were coming, although I did not realise you would be so small."

"Just because I am, for the record, averaged height and relatively skinny doesn't mean I can't pack a punch." Tilly replied with a gleam in her eye.

"I still need to test your ability so you and I are going to spar in this room away from prying eyes."

"Why? Are you scared I'm going to break your staff?" Tilly asked with a smile.

"I'm concerned the other students may become scared of being your partner."

Tilly could sense the second agent creeping into her blind spot. He reached out to grab her shoulder but Tilly was smarter and quicker than he was. She grabbed his hand and twisted it out to the side, which brought the agent to his knees. Tilly then registered Toby coming for her and without blinking an eye she threw the first agent into him and they both hit the door with a large bang.

"Nice move. Where did you learn that?" Toby asked her, getting to his feet.

"If you've read my file you'll know that's classified." Tilly replied.

Even the instructors weren't to know who she really was, as this could cause bias and abuse towards her.

The agent charged her again. Yet again Tilly was quicker and soon had him pinned to the ground while fending off blows from Toby.

"I've seen enough. I would say move onto weapons but you seem to be deadly enough without them so I think, for my instructor's sake, that I will just tick you off." Toby said to her as she performed a move that would have dislocated her opponents shoulder.

Tilly left the room followed by Toby and the agent Tilly had been using as her punching bag. Carl noticed she wasn't sweating, but one of the agents was clutching his shoulder.

Tilly kept her head down as she made her way out of the arena to join the queue for kit.

First she would pick up her navy blue Phys Acc S.H.I.E.L.D suit and the boots she would be expected to wear. Then she moved onto her weapons belt, and her textbooks. She was glad she chose to do this last, as she could now go and find her room to dump it all in.

Tilly got to the stairs and set all of her equipment down so she could fish her room number out of her welcome pack.

204

"No way. You're in 204. I'm in 203." Carl said behind her.

Tilly ignored him, picked her stuff back up off the floor and started climbing the stairs.

"You do know that 204 is a special room number and hasn't been used in 20 years don't you?" Carl told her, falling into step beside her.

"No. I didn't." Tilly replied. If this were true, why was she put in there?

"Yeah. It was Agent Ward's old room. And seen as though he is like a legend around here it's some sort of shrine or point of pride or something to keep it empty."

If that were all true then Tilly just got her answer.

"So why didn't you spar?" He asked.

"They were scared they would break me in half." Tilly lied.

"Really?"

"Yeah. I mean. Have you seen the size of me?" Tilly was playing on what Toby said to her. She wasn't small, but compared to some of the people here she was tiny.

Carl continued to talk to Tilly as she climbed the stairs to find her room. She continued to feed him lies.

Tilly reached her room and found her duffel bag had been brought up. She had a couple of hours before she was due downstairs for dinner so she decided to unpack. She hadn't brought a lot with her due to airline restrictions but what she did bring were civilian clothes for evenings and weekends as well as a couple of framed photographs from home. One of which was of her brother and his wife on their wedding day. She chose to put this in her drawer as no one was allowed to know about him.

Tilly changed into her new uniform and boots and laid down on the bed to see how hard it was.

"Deloris! It's time to go for dinner!" She heard a male voice shout accompanying a loud knock on the door. Tilly sat bolt upright and gathered her bearings. She had nodded off.

She quickly checked herself in the mirror and headed out of her door. Carl was waiting for her.

A/N: To guest... yes Skye and Ward and the gang (and the triplets eventually) will appear in this as frequently as I can make them, but seen as though Skye would be grounded for most of the pregnancy which could get kind of boring I decided to write it through Tilly's standpoint... We will return to the bus after the triplets are born and are allowed onto the bus...