lost (Hawkeye)

Chapter 17

Clint's view:
I took a seat in front of the girl, next to Natasha, and took a closer  loook at her. She looked exactly like the picture we had of her, only sadder and more beautiful. She looked up and they looked eyes. His breath was taken away, as he looked into her sea green eyes. He had never seen such eyes beffore and he could have sworn, they always changed a little, if you looked at them long enough. I cleared my voice, putting on my professional face again, I had to work and my boss was sitting outside If I wanted to keep my job, which I was planning on, I better concentrated.
"I'm Clint, and this is Natasha. " I pointed at me and afterwards at Natasha. In the end I felt kinda stupid, since it waas obvious, that I wasn't a Natasha...Eventhouh Natasha liked to tease me with my feminine side (Which is not very distinctive, I mean c'mon, I like the colours pink and purple, but I'm still a testosteronbomb...) .
"Seems as if you are not Ms. Harper, but Ms. Jackson. And you're Persephone Jackson. " Now she looked surprised. "Well, that's what I was trying to tell you the whole time,   but how do you know that?"
"We have a record of every human being in the world. " When I said that, she grinned slightly. And muttered something under her breath that sounded like "not everyone", but it was too quiet to understand.
"Anyway, we have a few questions for you about your past. " Persephone looked at Natasha. "Where do you go every vacation?"
"I'm going to a camp to meet my family. "
"Mother's side?"
"No, my dad's. "
"In the file it says 'Father disappeared at sea'. " She smiled slightly when I said that.
"Yes, he was gone, but I met him again when I was 12. "
"Why did you blow up the St. Louis?"
"I didn't, there was an old woman with her dog that had explosives around its neck, and it went off and I fell down there. "
"Ou fell? That's probably 100 meters. "
"Actually it is 142 meters high, but I'm good at swimming. " Said she and shrugged her shoulders.
I raised my eyebrow. Being a good swimmer would save her from drowning, but would not prevent her from turning into a human pancake.
"Why did you kidnap his mother and how did you win a duel with an adult?"
Now she laughed softly "I didn't kidnap my mother, my mother, two friends and I were kidnapped. On our escape, I ran into the kidnapper and we dueled, it was probably just luck. It was everywhere on the news. It's a surprise, that you haven't heard of it." 
"You were gone eight months, where were you?"
"I was kidnapped by one of my aunts. "
"What aunt kidnaps her own niece?" Natasha raised her eyebrow.
"Oh, I have a strange family, many of them don't like me, it's been often fought over the decision whether to kill my friends and me or not." Sounds as if she has some serious family issues...We tried to dig deeper, but it was as if we were talking to a wall, she shut down completely. Therefore we changed the subject.
"What's that necklace around your neck?" The necklace was one of the first things I noticed. It had many different balls with differentt symbols.
"It is a chain from my camp, every year there is a new pearl that summarizes the most important events of the summer. " Said she and turned a ball in her hand.
"What do you actually do to make money? Are you studying?" Natasha was suddenly back on a completely different subject.
Persephone looked at her sadly.
"I wanted to study marine biology, but something came up. And with money, if there's one thing I don't have to worry about, it's money. "
"You mean your family is rich, where did they get their money? Are they bounty hunters, assassins? Or are you part of a mafia?"
"Bounty hunters?!"Persephone laughted. "No, I don't know how they earned the money, probably from inheritances.But I can assure you, they're neither bounty hunters nor part of the Mafia. "
I nodded slightly.
"Persephone, who is". . . , I was interrupted before I could speak any further. "Not Persephone, please I don't like the name, call with Percy". Again I nodded and saw Natasha doing the same.
"So. . . Percy, who's your father?"
"He has many names, but I can't tell you, names have power and you shouldn't say all names to everyone. " Said she and looked at us apologetically. Natasha gave me a sign to follow her and so we got up and walked out of the room. "I think you heard everything. " she said to Director Fury. He nodded and sent Tony off to test her knowledge.

Tony's view:

So now it was my turn. I walked into the room and looked at Percy, she looked nice, a little wild but like we would be getting along well. I sat down in front of her and looked into her eyes. They were impressively green. "Is that your real eye color?" I asked her promptly and she looked at me in surprise. Then she rolled her eyes. "Yes, they're real". I cleared my throat. "You probably know who I am, but if you don't, I'm Anthony Stark, billionaire, playboy, philatropist and. . . "
"And genius" She finished my sentence and grinned. "You got it". I winked at her. "But you can call me Tony, everybody does that". She nodded. "Okay, I'm here to test your knowledge. SInce you knwe who I was, I assume, that you  know the most important things. Sooo what languages do you speak?"
"I am fluent in English, Latin, new and old Greek". When she said Latin, I looked at her with surprise, and she just laughed. "My father is Greek and he wants us to learn Greek. Besides, other members of my family are very traditional Romans, so for some reason they only speak Latin. I nodded slightly impressed. "Well, um what's 20-7?"She rolled her eyes and looked at me like I was  stupid, which kinda offended me, nobody was allowed to look at a genius as if he was stupid. "13. You know, I'm not good at school, but I'm not that bad either, Leo. "
"Leo, who is that?" Grief was reflected in her eyes. "He was one of my best friends, he's a lot like you, always laughed and made jokes no matter how dangerous the situation was. He could build anything out of metal, he built a living dragon and a flying ship. He was just brilliant. He's the reason why I know of the 'great Tony Stark' he would never shut up about you."
I already liked that boy. That was when I noticed a mistake. "Hey, why 'was' it's supposed to be 'he is just brilliant" I witnessed how the sadness filled her eyes, making them darker. Instantly I knew I messed up. Internaly I was scolding myself for being that tactless. Pepper would kick my ass, if she knew, that I brought a young woman at the edge of tears. She was starring into nowhere, completely absend minded.
"He died a few months ago, it was an accident, I couldn't do anythin to prevent it." She finally said with a broken, hoarse voice. "Hey, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." I said in a soft voice,  trying to calm her . She wiped away her tears and looked at me again. "It's Alright, you don't have to be sorry, you didn't know. " Her voice still trembled slightly, but she smiled kindly at me, to which I replied. "I think I have to go again, next comes the Captain, who will practice a little physical with you. " I waved goodbye to her and walked out the door. Happy, that I was able to flee from any more emotional drama.

Percy's view:

As promised, the captain came next, Nico had told me pretty much everything about him. I didn't look at him when he came in, I didn't want to look at him, I didn't want to see Jason. When he cleared his voice, I knew I had to look at him, instantly  I turned pale. That resemblance was overwhelming, but if you got closer, there was hardly any resemblance. "Are you okay, ma'am?" he asked me. I just nodded and followed him along the way to the gym. Once there, I changed and stood next to Steve. "Okay, are you doing any sports? He asked. "I know a lot of fight techniques, I can fight with a sword, a dagger and a spear, I swim and I go jogging. He looked pretty impressed. "Well, show me what you got", he said, pulling me into the arena. I stood in my fighting stance and looked at him. I was searching for a weak spot or a twitching muscle that might reveal his next move.
"Is there anything else coming or are you just looking at each other?" Tony called us from the corner. I had to smile slightly when Clint answered. "Bro, first rule: find your enemies weak spot, never heard of it before?"
Tony answered laughing "Looking for weak spots? I'd rather use the surprise moment. C#mon even drt is more exciting than that." I saw the captain's shoulder tighten slightly, and shortly afterwards he hit my stomach with his fist. He was fast and strong, very fast and very strong, but so was I. I ducked and tried to pull his legs away, but he just jumped over my leg and hit my shoulder. When he hit me, I fell to the ground groaning, but I knnwew I had to keep on fighting, so I immediately stood up again and jumped over him with a leap. Arriving behind him, I kicked him in the back and he tripped forward, asecond after, my fist connected with his stomach, which made him gasp quietly, learning forward to get some air. Oops, I guess I was wrong about my strength. I ducked under his arm and hit him in the side. He swirled around to me and I had to take a blow in the stomach that threw me two meters behind, I laid on the mat, gasping for air, every single ounce of air vanished from my lungs. After some time I jumped up again and threw him over my shoulder. Taken by surprise, he was too late to react. As soon as he was on the floor, I sat on him and took his arm, pulling it towards me. He tried to get out, but I kept pushing him down. He knocked and I got up. "You're pretty good, Steve. "You're good too, where did you learn to fight like that? Rarely anyone can beat me. " He said, gasping slightly. "I think you should take a look at your rib, it may have been broken earlier. " I said apoligizing, he just shook his head. "It takes a little more to break the rib of a super soldier." I smiled up at him. "We should fight together more often." He just nodded and smiled at me politely. When we got to the others, they looked at me in amazement. "How long have you been fighting?" Natasha asked me. "Since I was 12. "You beat our capsicle." The admiring voice of Tony came out of the corner. "You have to show me how you did it." I just nodded. "You're gonna live in the Avenger Tower for now until we know if you can be trusted or if you're a threat. CLearly the prison would be a waste of your talent. If you   are to be trusted, we might even consider to recruit you as an Avenger." Fury told me, wile the others were nodding in unison. Realising, that I had no  other chance than to obey I nodded and went to pack my things. Seems as if it takes longer than I thought until I see my mom again.