"Okay, where is she?" Tony says a little bit angry now that he knows she is the reason his quinjet went down. He bursts into the medical wing along with Clint who was the last to be carried back. They both stand shocked when they don't see anyone in the wing. They trade confused looks and then go to find everyone standing around the dining room table a few minutes later.
"Someone roast some marshmallows? Why does it smell like a campfire in here?" He asks and Wanda moves to the side so she's not blocking his view of her. "Why is she not in the medical bay?" Tony asks like everyone else has lost their marbles.
"She needed water so I brought her here automatically," Sam explains.
"Can you talk?" Clint asks and Amnesia opens here mouth but closes it again when Sam answers for her.
"No, she can't. At least not really. We believe it's because she's been hooked up for so long, she's never needed to know so she doesn't. Do we know how long she's been hooked up?" Sam asks setting a protective hand on her shoulder. Clint takes a file he put with his quiver and throws it on the table noticing the tree-like burn marks on it.
"What happened?" He asks nodding to them.
"There was an incident with a glass of water," Vision says.
"How much do you remember?" Natasha asks without looking up from a paper from Amnesia's file. She scrunches her brows frowning before reaching up to Steve or Sam to answer.
"I don't know what that was," Sam states blinking at the images she had show him. She frowns and shows him again begging him to understand. She remembers her mother selling her to Hydra, and screaming as the woman walked away without looking back, she was about two. "She remembers her mother giving her up," Sam finally iterates. "You were young right?" He asks, looking down at her. She nods then looks to Nat to see if that was what she was looking for.
"It doesn't say when they hooked her up," Nat murmurs and Amnesia reaches out for Sam again, showing him the image he's looking for but zeroing in on the date on a newspaper proclaiming Hitler's election.
"Febuary 27, 1933," Sam states.
"How old were you?" Clint asks looking disgusted and Amnesia doesn't understand that it's her he's disgusted with so she leans back trying to shield herself from him using Sam.
"He's not angry with you, he's angry with the people that have used you all your life," Wanda says meeting Amnesia's still vivid neon green eyes. She nods not particularly believing her but leans forward a tad and raises her hand parallel to the floor, adjusting the height to show how tall she was.
"No birth date in here either," Nat murmurs.
"Are we not going to talk about how she turned my table into a Lichtenberg figure?" Tony asks and Amnesia reaches up to Sam and shows her a picture of the German scientists harming her, the message is clear, Tony isn't giving her any good vibes.
"What was that? Why does she keep doing that?" He asks noticing the exchange.
"I figured she just had Sam whipped," Nat says not looking up from the file.
"It's how she communicates. She puts an image into your mind. A memory I believe," Steve answers and Amnesia reaches up to Sam.
"She can control electric signals, what she's doing is giving off small controlled sparks of electricity and piecing together her memory in our head. Something to do with nerve endings, I'm pretty sure she stopped paying attention after that," Sam says chuckling at the end when Amnesia's message gets a little fuzzy because she didn't care what the scientist had to say after that.
"Is Amnesia her real name?" Sam asks Natasha.
"I don't know, there's nothing else in here, I think it's the name they gave her."
"Why's she called Amnesia then?" Steve asks. Amnesia reaches out for him this time instead of going through Sam. She thinks she knows the answer to this one but she doesn't like it. The schematic for the machine that was wired into her is truly horrific and she wouldn't wish anyone to bear the knowledge that it existed. Steve's eyes light up in recognition, this machine must've been what they used on Bucky, but Amnesia interprets it differently, and sees a man wanting to use it.
"Nine," she snaps. "No," she repeats in English.
"Look she's better at pouting than you are," Rhodes says elbowing Tony in the arm as they all watch this occur awkwardly.
"I'm going to take her to the medical wing, probably should've done that when we first arrived anyways," Sam says trying to ease the awkward tension in the room as Amnesia stares down Captain America and he stares back wondering what he did wrong. She allows Sam to pick her up and breaks eye contact with Steve, instead meeting Tony's eyes as she leans down, connecting her hand to the table and sending another current through it so the table is almost completely covered in the black tree-like designs, she takes her hand off before it can reach Natasha or her file though.
"Did she just?" Tony asks in shock as Sam leaves, laughing while carrying Amnesia to the medical wing. "She is grounded," Tony decides and Wanda snorts then goes off on her own.
"SAM!" Amnesia yells from her place on the floor as she glares at the DVD player in front of her. She had just finished watching the first Harry Potter movie and the DVD player disc tray was not opening. It's been about two weeks since she's arrived, and in that time she's learned to walk, although she's very wobbly and prone to fall down at any moment, and she can speak short sentences. Most of her day is spent training, learning simple things she was never taught, the rest is spent catching up on the world. She was taken by Hydra because of her unlimited brain capacity, she decided to fill her brain with knowledge that won't hurt people, which caused her to watch the Harry Potter series while reading A Tale of Two Cities.
"What? What's wrong?" Sam asks running into the room expecting to see some form of destruction.
"It's broken!" She mutter pointing to the DVD player. He sighs and goes over, presses the open disc tray button gently and waits a few seconds before pressing it again and holding the button down until it finally opens.
"See you just have to be patient," Sam says mocking her. She glares at him, pouting but puts the disc away and puts the second one in. "Where's the popcorn?" Sam asks hovering as Amnesia gets up and catching her as she stumbles on her way back to the couch.
"What's Pop-corn?" She asks saying popcorn slowly as to not mispronounce it.
"I'll be back," he says going off to make some.
"Whipped," Steve says as he walks into the room.
"What do you mean by that?" Amnesia asks Steve as he sits down.
"Uhm...that he does whatever you want him to," Steve says struggling to find an answer.
"Why?"
"Because...because he likes you, and he wants to help you."
"What does that mean?"
"He cares for you," Steve says struggling to explain and blushing profusely.
"Why are your," Amnesia pauses motioning to her cheeks because she doesn't know the word, "all red?" She continues.
"Aww the captain is blushing," Tony yells as he walks through the room headed to the kitchen.
"What does that mean?" Amnesia asks.
"He's embarrassed sweetheart," Tony says poking his head out and Amnesia just keeps frowning because she doesn't know what that means either. "FRIDAY, remind me to get Forget-Me-Not some sort of smart phone," Tony calls out after he sees her confused face.
"What's a smart phone?" She asks Steve quietly as she picks up her book and sets it on the arm of the couch, opening it to her previous page.
"You use it to communicate with people far away."
"Is it electronic?" She persists while reading her book.
"Yes, didn't you want to watch the movie?" Steve asks wondering how she's concentrating on the current conversation, the movie, and the book.
"I am," she says glancing up at the screen when the title screen pops up after all the previews. "Could you press play?" She adds nodding to the remote next to Steve. He nods and does so after figuring out how
"I'm just wondering how you can focus on that old English and the movie at the same time," Steve says.
"Did you know that the average human brain can phy-sic-ally concentrate on seven things at once. That's if the human is smart and trains to do so. Me, I'm above average, when I was hooked up to the computer system, I was translating computer code and sending it off sometimes without even knowing it. There were other computers and they were sort of like training wheels, meant to keep me balanced. I don't need training wheels anymore and this...old? English is a change from those numbers. I've never seen as much ones and zeroes ever in my life and I doubt you have either," Amnesia explains. "Don't even get me started on binary codes, more interesting but I've never felt more slow."
"Well, you're getting better at speaking Buttercup," Stark says.
"You keep giving me nicknames and I don't und-er-stand any of them," Amnesia says back.
"You seeing that speech therapist too?"
"Yes."
"I should pay her more."
"No you shouldn't, she doesn't help with German or Russian and she reminds me of Slova."
"Who's Slova?" Tony asks and Amnesia holds out a hand he sighs and walks over taking it, he's about to raise it to his cheek but is caught off guard when she gets the image to him without the extra help.
"I learned a lot that first week," Amnesia explains.
"All right, I've got the popcorn, extra butter," Sam says walking in and sitting between Steve and Amnesia.
"Butter?"
"Well, we know she's not American," Sam decides aloud after taking a handful of popcorn. "What do you think Steve?"
"Dark hair, brown eyes, possibly Italian? Do you remember your first language."
"Bulgarian?" She offers uncertainly. "Maybe Romanian?"
"Probably Romanian then," Stark decides. "Well, see you later. Welcome to the world outside of the medical wing."
"He irr-itates me," Amnesia says absently when he leaves.
"He irritates us all believe me. Try some popcorn," Sam says offering her the bowl. She glances at it and Sam's knowing face then takes a piece and swallows it like a pill looking at him for approval. "No! No! You've got to chew it, savor the taste," Sam scolds. Steve rolls his eyes and grabs a piece of popcorn from the bowl and tosses it in his mouth. Amnesia observes and follows his example.
"So what do you think?" Sam presses.
"It's okay?" Amnesia offers.
"What do you mean okay?" Steve asks bewildered.
"I don't really have much to compare it to. I've only ever gotten my energy from an IV."
"You've been here for two weeks!" Sam shouts.
"Been in the medical ward for two weeks, they kept me on an IV while they made sure I was healthy enough for this world."
"Now that's just cruel, Steve, you up for pizza?" Sam asks.
"I heard pizza?" Wanda asks walking into the room. "Hello Amnesia nice to see you out of the medical wing."
"Hello Wanda," she replies cheerfully.
"Amnesia is even less caught up on the world than you and the Captain combined. I am educating her, starting with pizza," Sam states.
"No!" Amnesia suddenly yells, looking down at her book.
"What's wrong?" Sam asks worriedly.
"Sydney Carton dies!" Amnesia says her eyes watering.
"Spoiler alert," Sam says raising an eyebrow.
"He was my favorite, and he loved her and he gave up everything for her and didn't want a thing in return! That's so unfair," Amnesia murmurs, returning to reading. "He deserves better than all of them."
"I'm going to go order the pizza," Sam says cautiously as everyone remains staring at Amnesia startled by her outburst.
"You're still reading it though?" Steve asks.
"I know I hate it," Amnesia mutters. He chuckles and lets her return to her book, instead focusing on the movie, and the two kids piloting a flying car.
Later they leave her to go to sleep in her new quarters with the promise she could decorate them however she wanted. However, after learning how to operate the various appliances in the bathroom, she sat on her bed glaring at the lights. They didn't have any buttons or levers on them and despite how high she could jump, which wasn't that high, she could not reach the light to find the off switch. With her temper rising at the glowing bulb it finally burnt out in a shower of sparks. She smiled slightly and let her head hit the pillow falling to sleep rather quickly, leaving everyone else in the compound to wonder how all of their power suddenly dissipated.