Alexa problems (PJO/Avengers crossover)

Chapter 21 : The Truth

Sorry that it has been so long. It probably will start taking me longer to update with school and all my activities start in the fall. This chapter I think is the most important one I have written so far.   

So much Foreshadowing. 

"Did you see what I just saw, or am I going crazy?" Clint asked, staring at the now blank screen of what used to be playing footage of Percy. The Avengers had gathered around the small table in the common room while I had flown around the tower once in search of Percy. Apparently they found the situation just as confusing as I did.

"A boy and his Newfoundland just jumped out a window and disappeared." Bruce said, looking a little greener around the edges as he cleans his glasses nervously on his shirt.

"So I guess the world is going crazy, not me." Clint muttered not so quietly under his breath. Next to him I snorted internally.

You have no idea, I thought, High school mutants, super soldier serums, and you and me a couple guys with some pointy sticks and things that go boom.

"The kid didn't jump out of the window." Cap's voice came from across the table, breaking me out of my pessimistic thoughts. Though his words were spoken softly they captured the attention of the room immediately.

"The intruder on this creature disappeared," Steve spoke again. Steve's brows were furrowed with confusion, but he seemed sure nevertheless. "and I don't think that thing was a dog."

" It's final, Cap's gone off his rocker." I announced to the group, trying to laugh off Steve's comment, but as I thought back on the previous event it was hazy and distant. It was like trying to recall a memory from years ago, not minutes. My brain said Percy jumped out a window, and it seems like the others thought so too, but I couldn't recall what window you jumped from, nor any glass falling to the floor as he crashed through it.

Looking around the table, I could see similar scrunched expressions of confusion on both Bruce and Clint's face, yet Natasha seemed completely fine with this new information.

"I'm not so sure Tony," Bruce spoke up hesitantly, "Maybe Steve saw something we didn't."

"You really believe that he saw the dog disappear, while everyone else saw it jump out the window." I replied, because there was no way. I needed something to be at least the tiniest bit sane. But as I looked around the table everyone seemed to agree with Bruce. I could feel myself starting grasping at straws. "If they really did disappear in the window would it be broken."

"Right..." I turned one of the corners of the room where I had installed one of Friday's sensors, hoping that my voice didn't get away with the desperation that curled inside.

"Friday, pull up a photo of-" My words were cut off by a jingling tone coming from my phone. It was the sound that always accompanied a call. Around the table the Avengers sent me looks of varied degrees of annoyance. They're not gonna like this very much. I thought, not feeling the slightest bit of guilt as I stood up from the table.

"Duty's calling" I announced, trying to keep a air of confidence and calm as the phone in my pocket continued to ring, because there were only three people who could be calling right now. Pepper, Rhodey, and Peter.

Pepper was in a meeting with some important but snotty businessmen right now. Rhodney was also in a meeting, but with the military, so neither of them would be calling right now unless absolutely necessary. But if it was Peter... If it was Peter then something was wrong.

Peter never called, he still sent brief updates about interesting patrols every once in a while, but those were always through Happy, and he never ever called because he was in trouble. There have been times or Friday would send me an alert that Spider-Man had been gravely hurt, and I would ask Friday to notify me if his condition got worse, but he never called.