I sit cross-legged on the metal mattress with the wall chains. A knock comes from the door but I ignore it. "Open up Princess..."
"Go away." I tell them.
"It's only Green Guy..."
"I don't care." I shout back. The door opens up and he comes in.
"Why aren't you training? You know it's going to take longer if you don't practice..."
"I know."
"You had an argument with your Dad, didn't you?" He sits on the bed beside me.
"He is not my Dad!" I protest.
"Yeah, yeah."
"Why did you do it?" I ask him.
"Do what?"
"Smash up his experiment?"
"I didn't..."
"Yeah, yeah...why did he do it then?" I rephrase.
"Because it was wrong. I didn't like seeing it, it made me mad. To see a little baby in a bubbling container. You should've been with a loving family. Not in a container waiting to be changed into a man."
"Yeah, thanks...What did you expect to happen after to smashed me up?"
"I don't know. Some part of me hoped you'd...just shrivel up and die. The other, I wanted to think you were still human. That you could lead a normal life with a family and a pet."
"And when I couldn't?"
"I made Stark take you here."
"So you thought this was the best place for me?"
"No, I thought this was the safest."
"So the best?" He shrugs.
"I've known Fury for years, I knew he'd keep you safe."
"You did what you thought was best. And that was taking me to another lab. I was tested on from a young child. I longed to leave. I wanted a family. They hurt me, in ways you couldn't imagine!"
"I had no idea he would do that." He shakes his head.
"I was harmed physically from the day I was brought here. I was put close to death more times than you've had hot dinners! How dare you tell me this was the best place for me!"
"Calm down."
"No I will not! I refuse to calm down! You can't tell me to calm down! You have no idea how much I've been through!"
"Yes I do!" He shouts. "If you think for one second I don't know what you've been through, you are so wrong! I thought about it every single day for the past thirteen and a half years! I thought how wrong I was! I'm sorry Cleo, but if you want to survive in this team, you have to make friends and not enemies!" He stands up and leaves. "Because we need you in this team. You and your father."