"Speaking"

Sign Language

"Both"

Clint guessing what a word is, (insert word here?)

missing word, ... (three dots per word)

Clint woke up that morning to the vibrating of his pillow. He slowly got up and went to take a shower. After a quick shower he grabbed his hearing aids and walked over to one of the other beds to wake up Lucas. Lucas had just arrived the week before, so Clint decided he would get the first, technically second, shower of the day.

"Hey Lucas, time to get up," Clint said as he shook him awake.

"What … … morning (alright?)," he said with a huge yawn.

"Ya, you get first shower today," Clint told him. Lucas looked at him in confusion.

Clint tried to enunciate more, he knew that he got caught on the "s" a lot, "First shower."

Lucas nodded his head in understanding and got out of bed, he knew if he didn't someone else would get his place.

"Wake up Mark after you get out," Clint reminded him as he entered the bathroom. Clint then left him and headed down the hall to the next room. This room was for the younger boys. He opened the door and walked. As he approached the first bed, he leaned down to wake Kyan.

"Kyan, time to get up, you get first shower today." His tiny eyes flickered open as he yawned."

"Do I … … go … school," the boy whined, "It's … first (date?), … … skip, … not … … … to … … important today." Clint missed over half of that, but he assumed from what he got the boy didn't want to go to school, he never did.

"Yes you have to," he signed and spoke.

Why, the boy signed. Kyan had been here for a while and knew some of the simpler signs.

"It's the first day, everyone else would already know where everything is, also, dropping out is not an option in our situation if you want to get somewhere in life. If you want a job you have to work for it," Clint answered. Kyan finally gave in and got up to take his shower. Clint left and walked to the stairs, where he slid down the rail to the first floor.

Ms. Heim saw him and proceeded to scold him, "How … … do I … … tell you, … … ... the (road?), … could … your(shelf?)." He must have had a look of confusion on his faces because her next words were two that he could recognize easily.

"… … … hearing aids," she told him. He realized that why he did indeed grabbed them that morning; he had not yet put them in. He did so and she spoke again.

"I said, don't (f?)lide … the rail, you (would?) hurt yourself."

"Okay, sorry," he apologized. They both knew he wasn't sorry and that he would keep doing it. They entered the kitchen, and as Ms. Heim made toast, Clint poured the rest of the kids a glass of water each and sliced some apple. Soon after Lucas came down and started to set the table. Both Kyan and Mark arrived soon after and started to help him. Clint was glad for the help because Ms. Heim's home for boys had eleven kids in it and making meals for all of them was always a pain. Eventually the table was set, the food was ready, and all the boys were present, so they dug in.

When everyone had finished their breakfast, the boys in between the 10 and 13 walked to the bus stop. Clint took the younger ones to their stop, and when the bus arrived he gave them all a rushed goodbye and ran to his bus stop. The bus arrived just as he got there and he got on, showing the bus driver his bus pass and chose an empty seat. He watched the scenery go by as the bus traveled on, and three stops later, a girl with bright red hair stepped on. She sat on the empty seat next to him and started to sign to him.

You ready, she signed.

He signed back a, yes.

Did you get Coulson again? she asked hopeful. Coulson was his interpreter last year after McGarrett, who sucked, was fired at the end of his freshman year.

Ya, thank god, Coulson rocks, he signed back enthusiastically. They both liked Coulson a lot, and were more friends than students and interpreter. After that the just signed back and forth talking about various things until they arrived at school.

When they did arrive, Natasha left to get their schedules as Clint headed to the office to meet Coulson. The walk wasn't very long, so Clint quickly reached the office and met up with Coulson.

"How was your summer," he signed and spoke.

Clint replied with a quick, good, and they carried on walking to the tree that Clint always met up with his friends at.

The tree came into view and they walked the rest of the short distance to reach it. Tony was already there fiddling with something, and Bruce was reading a book.

"Hey Birdbrain, Agent," Tony spoke and signed. There was no actual sign for the word birdbrain, so Tony had taken to mashing the two together and declaring it as birdbrain. It was the first sign he learned.

Hi, are Steve and Thor not here yet, he signed with practiced ease.

"Hey slow down, we're still learning," Tony spoke and signed much slower.

"Sorry, just wondering where Steve and Thor are," he signed slowly and spoke to for added bonus. At around that time Natasha came over and sat down on the grass.

"They're coming just grabbing their schedules," she replied. She then handed Clint his schedule which he looked at, and then handed to Coulson so he had a chance to figure where the two of them would be going for the year. He looked at it and then handed it back.

"You have science first," he teased.

"I know, don't remind me," he groaned. He then felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around to face the other way. He realized it was Natasha, and that Thor and Steve had arrived.

"Hey guys," Clint signed and spoke. The two said hello and the group conversed for a while. Suddenly everyone was standing up and Coulson was getting his attention.

First bell, time to go, he signed. Clint said good bye to all of his friends with plans to meet up at break if they didn't see each other before then, and headed off with Coulson to science with Mr. Decker.