But we're not family. Not yet. We weren't there. You don't know me. I had a family, and I lost most of them. I didn't mean to throw it back in your face, but I'm not like the rest of your team. I was just getting used to being an agent and working for you. You can't have that relationship with me when you don't know me. It was too much, too fast. You expected something I can't give you yet. And we can't be a family if you won't defend me. You keep skipping over that part. You claim you treated me like family, but you never said anything, as far as I can tell, when someone treated me like shit. How is that being a family?
There could be a group of people who have been through some of the same things, a group of friends, or family for you. It's different than it was before. It has to be. We don't have the same things to fight here. Our social circles are all bigger. That doesn't mean I don't care about everyone, it just means that it's different. When you say this is a team, I picture the SHIELD I knew, and I want to know what we're fighting, because that's why we were a team before, right? We had the same goals. So what do we have here?
You said you worked with him. I assumed that was why you trusted him, so don't throw that back at me because that's not fair. It sounded like you were trying to insist to both of us that we should trust him just because you do, because you were familiar, but that's dismissive of what we've been through. Someone working for SHIELD used your intel to hunt me and my friends down, Coulson. Someone you trusted. That kind of information has already been used against us. I thought you understood that already, but it felt like you didn't. It felt like you just wanted us to go along with what you wanted because you wanted it.
I don't think you're right about that. I do understand those feelings, even if it's not about SHIELD yet. Because I had that with the other inhumans instead. They're always going to be part of me, and I lost everything too. I lost my friends, my community, the only place I'd ever felt like I could really be myself, and the way that feels is never going to go away. I'm sorry that I've dismissed SHIELD here. I wasn't trying to dismiss SHIELD in general. I've been trying to figure out my own footing here, and who you wanted me to be. SHIELD itself physically doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean the bonds don't. I wouldn't try to dismiss those. I just didn't know who I was supposed to be to you, or who you were trying to be to me. That's why I've questioned it, not because I was trying to dismiss SHIELD or its impact on all of you, but because I couldn't figure out what you were trying to do here, and I honestly wanted to know what we'd be doing if we were going to be a team here.