"Seriously?" Dennis huffed as he lay on the ground. He had challenged Tayen to a sparring match… over an hour ago. Five matches later and he still couldn't beat her.

"What?"

"We're the same belt level yet you still manage to take me down in less than a minute." He explained as she helped him up. "How?"

"Well, I get a lot of spare time. I guess it's just all about practise." She shrugged as she wiped her face with a towel.

Dennis had taken Tayen out of her quarters for today, something he did on occasion but mostly done for research purposes. Did she ever realize? Yes she did.

"One more round." He challenged after Tayen sipped from her bottle.

"Are you sure? You were getting pretty sloppy after the fifth round." She smirked. His response: attack her.

He charged forward trying to get her in a headlock. She just ducked and scooped on of his legs up. From there she twisted his calf, causing Denny to go in the same direction and land on his stomach. Tayen mounted him, locked his head in an armguard and lightly squeezed. His tap out signalled her victory.

"Had enough yet?" she asked as she got off of him.

"Just help me up." He groaned. As the two began to straighten themselves out, Tayen went over to the weapons rack to grabbed her training sword.

"We're still going hand-to-hand." Denny protested.

"I know." She said as she started slicing the air in front of her. "I'm just waiting for you to catch your breath." She thrusted her weapon forward, stabbing her make-believe enemy.

"Look at you all pro with a sword." He snickered. Tayen pivoted on her toes and brought the edge down on his bicep. As he fell she nicked his calf and ended by placing the tip of the sword under his chin.

"I'd say you have a better shot against me with long-range combat." Tayen teased. Denny opened his mouth to say something but closed it once his eyes focused on something in the doorway.

"Can we help you?" he asked as he got to his feet. Tayen turned around to see Wanda and Pietro at the door as if they were observing.

"Sorry, we were just exploring more of the facility." Wanda apologized.

"Ah, you're some of the volunteers right? You got here a few days ago." Denny realized.

"And apparently we're able to walk around." Pietro said. Although Tayen was putting her sword away and her back was to him she could still feel his eyes on her.

"Well you'll be working with us a lot so you should get familiar with the area… if you live that is." Tayen spun around and smacked him in the back of the head after he said that. The twins however just laughed and walked towards the mats.

"Do you think you can teach us a few moves?" Pietro asked Tayen. She saw Wanda's mouth twitch into a smirking smile for a split second, but she waved it off.

"Depends." Tayen answered. "How comfortable are you with being thrown around?"

"If it's not for battle and for training purposes, I'm okay with it."

"Good. You might want to shed off a layer, it's going to get pretty hot." She said before she registered those words. Pietro just laughed and she heard him mutter a little "I bet."

"Come, I can teach you some other stuff." Denny told Wanda as he led her to the target area of the room.

Tayen was wrapping her knuckles when she started to focus on Pietro. He swiftly stripped off his sweater and threw it to the side before stretching his upper body. She observed how toned his muscles on his back and shoulders were. When he faced her she suddenly realized how she must've looked; all sweaty, her ponytail barely holding her hair back.

"Come, you should wrap your hands before we get started." She snapped herself out of distraction. She handed him the bands and tried to hold in her laugh as he tried to figure out how to wrap his knuckles properly.

"Here." She took a band from him and began to wrap his knuckled. Every now and then his fingers would graze the back of her hand. Tayen couldn't figure out whether it was his warmth, the smooth yet calloused parts of his skin, or maybe even the length of his fingers, but Tayen was just really fascinated by Pietro's hands.

"I think we're ready to start." He interrupted her thoughts. Tayen didn't even realize that she was practically stroking her thumb along the skin of his palm.

"R-right." she said and dropped his hands. She took a few steps away to give him some space. "So did you have anything in mind? Or did you just want me to show you something?"

"What's the fasted way to take someone down?" he asked.

"That would be sweeping out the legs." She stepped forward. "Grab my shirt with both of your hands." He struggled to find a place to grab her, so she took his hands and placed them to grab close to the neck of her shirt… just barely grabbing her boobs.

"Okay, I'm going to grab your wrists, pull you in and step behind you. Then I'll lunge forward and push you with my shoulder, but sweep my right leg back to take you down." She explained.

"Will it hurt?"

"Only if you don't keep your head from touching the ground." Without any warning she did exactly what she said she would do, taking him down on his back. At the last second she stumbled her footing and almost landed on top of him, but she regained herself before she did. Pietro looked at her in astonishment of how swiftly she took him down.

"Whoa I wasn't expecting that."

"You didn't see that coming?" she laughed and helped him up.

"Actually, no." he chuckled. "Show me again."

"You have to grab my shirt again first." Pietro obeyed and Tayen began the maneuver step by step and explained at the same time. When it came to the actual take down, Pietro grabbed her wrist causing him to bring her down with him and she landed on him.

"Hey you aren't supposed to do that." She laughed and sat up.

"You didn't see that coming?" he teased. She laughed again and let go of him, putting her hands on his abs without realizing. When she realized what was happening, she was straddling Pietro with her hands on his abs and his were on her hips. The two looked at each other for a bit… in that position before they came back to reality.

"It's your turn to take me down." She said as she got to her feet. She helped him up and took a hold of his shirt. She looked up at him and did something she normally hated to do but didn't mind with him, make eye contact.

Ivan Sonnata, one of the main researchers of Patient Luma as well as Dr. Kogen's main assistant, ran through the halls of the facility with his findings in his hand. He searched for Dr. Kogen, wanting to speak with him urgently.

"Dr. Sonnata, are you alright?" Marie asked him just before he was about to bump into her.

"Have you seen Dr. Kogen at all" he huffed.

"I believe he's speaking with Dr. List at the moment." She said.

"Perfect. Where are they?"

"Dr. List's office in the east wing."

Ivan quickly mumbled a thank you and ran to find the two doctors. He had made a break though in the Luma case. He just needed the approval of both doctors for him to continue researching. As he neared the office, he slowed down and composed himself before stepping in.

"Dr. Kogen?"

"Ivan, I'm sure whatever you have to tell me can wait." Kogen responded as he inspected the mind serum tubes.

"Sir, I know I've never given the best incites, but this time I can promise that you'll want to speak with me on the Luma case." Ivan sped through.

"Dr." List said. "We will continue this again, I believe it really is urgent."

"Sir, with all due respect, you want to hear this too. It involves your scepter experiment." That statement was what got both leaders to completely stop what they were doing. They set down what was in their hands and turned to Ivan.

"What's going on Ivan?" Kogen questioned. Ivan turned on the tablet he had and accessed the surveillance files.

"Take a look for yourselves." He said as he turned the screen so they could see. Ivan was showing them surveillance footage dated two days ago, yesterday and today. All the footage showed Luma, but accompanied by the same two people. If they hadn't known of Luma's case then the three could have easily been mistaken as workers at the facility, or friends. Dr. Kogen took the tablet and tried to locate the importance of this footage.

"Incredible right?" Ivan smiled. The two doctors were still looking at the footage.

"Dr. Sonnata, what are we looking at here?" Kogen demanded as if he received useless information like always.

"Do you notice anything different, sir?" Ivan asked.

"I see that she's interacting with the two same people in each scenario."

"Shes starting to trust other people, more precisely the Maximoff twins."

"Are they a part of the experiment?" List asked.

"Yes, your experiment. And I encourage the both of you to allow Luma to stay a part of this experiment."

"Sonnata, I know you're trying to build up a climax, but just get to the point." Kogen bluntly said. Ivan then took the tablet to reveal the dates and times of the footage.

"Each scenario is five hours apart at least. One is even the next day." He explained. Then Dr. Kogen slowly began to understand.

"The mind serum." He looked down at the tubes on the table.

"Her last does was given over 66 hours ago and she is still managing to go along her day without fighting us." Ivan concluded. The doctors continued to observe Luma's actions on the screen. She looked comfortable, almost happy.

"Remarkable." Kogen gasped as he further examined Luma's calming behaviour. "What do you propose?"

"Keep Luma on the scepter experiment." Ivan pleaded. "It's clear that the interaction with the twins is key to keep her on our side."

"Even so, I want her in check at all times." List demanded. "This girl is a spiria, and there's no way of telling what she can do when she has to opportunity to bond."