Chasing the tesseract

Chapter 3

I stand across the street from 177A Bleecker St. Cars drive past and people rush past as I cross the road and head for the door. Reaching for the knocker, I slam it hard against the door. After 3 knocks, the door disappears and I fall through into the front hall of the building. It's dark with only one large window as a source of light. Cabinets are scattered around the room, each one holding a different relic.

"Okay Wong. You've got me here now what do you want?" I shout as I make my way towards one of the cabinets, looking at it closely. It looks as though there's some sort of blade in there. I go to touch the glass.

"Wong isn't here." I jump, grabbing my knife from my pocket and drawing it. I turn to the window and see a shadow. I point the knife at the shadow as it nears me. As it gets closer, I notice that its a man. He has dark hair and wears a red cape that floats in the air, the cloak of levitation I assume. Around his neck hangs the eye of agamotto. I narrow my eyes at him as he stops floating in the air and lands on the ground. He eyes my knife before taking a step backwards. "You can put the knife away Abi."

"No. I think I'll keep it out." I argue as I push it closer to him. He flinches away, his eyes not leaving the blade. "I like the way it makes you uncomfortable." I chuckle as I tilt my head to the side smirking at him.

His eyes finally leave the blade and he looks up at me. "Do you have to be so rude?" he mumbles as he steps away from me and takes a seat on a chair in the corner.

"Yes I do."I put my knife back in its place before following him  to the far corner of the room. I watch as he takes a seat and looks at me without saying a word.  I walk up to his chair, leaning down so that my face is inches from his. He looks directly at me, swallowing hard. My warm breath against his skin makes him uncomfortable as he shuffles in his chair. My thumb brushes against his hand as I place my hands on either side of his chair."Who are you and what do you want?"  I stand up, smirking as I step away from him. This is going to be fun if he keeps acting like that.

"My name is Doctor Stephen Strange." he says as he sits up straight, clearing his throat. "And I have some questions for you." He stares at me, watching me as I watch him.

"What if I don't want to answer your questions?" I comment, sitting on the corner of a nearby desk and pulling out my blade. I begin twirling it around in my fingers, watching as his attention is drawn to the blade. I smirk to myself as I watch him rub his palms together and shuffle in his seat. His forehead glistens as sweat droplets gather and fall down his face. Does a knife really make him this uncomfortable?

"You're going to answer his questions Abi." I stop spinning my blade around as I turn to see Thor stood behind me. He too has changed clothes from the ones he had on earlier and now carries an umbrella. My guess, that's actually Mjölnir. He comes and sits on another chair that's not far from the one the wizard sits in.

"Have you been following me?" I ask him. He must have been following me because how else would he know I was here? He looks away from me, avoiding eye contact, instead looking around the room at all the old relics.

"Yes he has." comments the wizard, drawing my attention back to him. He sits there, a smile on his face as I glare at him.

"I didn't ask you." I grunt as I raise my blade again in an attempt to threaten him. He looks at the blade before turning his attention back to me, a smirk on his face. Did he just ignore my threat?

"And I didn't ask to bring you here yet I still had to." declares the wizard. He looks directly at me, waiting for my response. A smile tugs at my lips as I stare at him. Have I finally met my match?

"Then who did ask you? My mum? My brother?" I laugh as  I watch his smile disappear and be replaced with a sulky face. I've won this round then. Abi, One. The wizard, Zero.