Jemma | Gabriel.
It doesn't but it's something to build on.
I've run into organisations like them before, they are always bad news and only ever care about their own plans. They don't care who they hurt in the process as long as their plans come to fruition. Especially if what they were after was a rare resource, not that I'm calling people resources but the point still stands.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. With her ability you only need to touch someone or something and you get information and memories associated with them/it. And with your own innate ability and hers that means you can acquire someone's ability without doing them any harm at all. But that way you have to learn how to use it through trial and error rather than knowing it completely right from the start.
I don't think anyone particularly likes being lied to. I can't say I'd ever react that badly but I did threaten to kill someone who had lied to me and my team for the better part of a year. And getting a shard of glass in your skull would kill most people but then as we've already established you are not most people.
Your support system was what made it stick. You had people helping and it was because of them that you finally managed to change your life for the better.