How you holding up? It's okay to be nervous you know.
Me? Nah, I don't get nervous anymore.
Okay. Well, I'm just saying if you are...
I mean it's not like my comfort zone, but I'm good. I'll just tell the truth, I'm good at that. You?
You don't talk much about your childhood, do you? The foster homes? Bouncing around. I imagine a lot of times you felt you had to perform to convince people to like you.
Only at the places I wanted to stay. Why are you asking?
Because if you enter every room thinking you have to do a song and dance, eventually everything becomes a performance. And believe me, I know how it feels putting on an act full-time.
Yeah, you do, don't you?
Anyway, I know it's not an act with you. Coulson's been saying since day one that you're the real deal, and I've learned to trust his read on people. So...
He believed in me before I believed in myself. You too, you know. That's why he still wants you with us. He keeps saying you're trying to do the right thing.
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