Falling For Captain America/(COMPLETED)[1]

9/can i give it a try??

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The sun had only just begun to shine yet all the avengers and Ella were up. No-one slept well the previous night and it had nothing to do with the late night movie watching. Each person was worrying about the article and whether people actually agreed with Mr Bates. Ella and the avengers had gathered in the meeting room in the tower and were now waiting for Fury's arrival to discuss the matter at hand yet Tony was less than pleased at the idea of letting the director of SHIELD into his home.

"It's like letting an outsider into a top super secret clubhouse. You just shouldn't do it!" He exclaimed from where he was sitting at the head of the table. The room was very vast, 3 of the four walls were made up of windows with a massive table in the centre of the room where all the avengers and Ella were currently sitting.

"Technically Ella is an outsider, you let her in. Pepper too." Clint reasoned

"They don't count they're family."

Steve and Ella shook their heads as the pair continued to talk about what features a super secret clubhouse should have. They were sat at the other end of the table. Bruce was reading that morning's newspaper hoping not to see another article like the one from yesterday. Natasha had elected to wait for Fury to arrive before escorting him into the meeting room.

They waited at least another 10 minutes before Fury walked into the room; he was wearing his SHIELD uniform, black coat and all with a briefcase in one hand.

"Avengers" He greeted curtly, ever the professional.

"Let's cut to the chase and you can explain what's going on here, Nick." Tony replied placing a hand on Fury's shoulder.

Fury glared at him menacingly before looking pointedly at the hand on his shoulder. Tony smiled sheepishly before removing it, "its Director Fury to you Stark. She is not an avenger and doesn't have clearance to be present during this meeting." He finished pointing at Ella.

"Ella is Tony's sister and a part of this too." Steve replied with authority.

"He's right. Ella lives here too so she deserves to know if this is anything to worry about." Natasha added. Ella stared at her in shock as to why the red head was defending her presence in the group.

"Besides I will only tell her later anyway, Pepper too." Tony cut in.

"Fine but Miss Stark is your responsibility." Fury relented. The avengers nodded in agreement.

"First off I feel I should inform you that Mr Bates has been on SHIELD's radar since the battle of New York. He is a main supporter of a group of hero haters." Fury started

"Hero haters?" Bruce asked

"It's no surprise. The world has changed, we can't cover thing up the way we use to, especially not since Stark declared himself as Iron Man." Fury explained

"Hey! I saved people, they wanted to thank me." Tony defended

"You gave them a target. You gave heroes a face and therefore gave people someone to hate. You are all people with remarkable abilities, not everyone is okay with that."

"So you're saying there are people out there who would prefer it if we didn't help protect them?" Steve asked

"I'm saying the world needs you, whether people see that or not. Most do, however a small group of individuals don't see things that way. These hero haters are worried about what would happen should your abilities end up in the wrong hands. "

"But the avengers are heroes. New York wouldn't even exist right now if it wasn't for them!" Ella cut in

"I completely agree Miss Stark but not everyone does." Fury replied.

"So this Simon Bates guy is apart of this group?" Natasha asked getting everyone in the room back to the subject at hand.

"They call themselves Lumia. According to their website they plan to enlighten the public on things they should know but don't." Fury said reading from a file in his hand.

"What kind of name is that?" Tony burst out laughing, "The avengers is way cooler!" Everyone glared at him.

"They started off with conspiracy theories, ramblings but it seems they are upping their game. Bates isn't alone in this; he is a college drop out. We haven't been able to identify the masterminds or locate Bates."

"Hold on, you said they had a website right? Is Bates in charge of it?" Ella asked

"Yeah we believe so but no one has been able to track it down to a source." Fury explained

"Can I give it a try? Hacking is kind of my thing and I want to help."

"You really think you will be able to find this guy's location when not even my top computer specialists could?" Fury demanded

"Well I am a Stark; we have a knack of doing the impossible." Ella challenged causing Tony to smirk and everyone in the room to give a small chuckle at her fiery determination.

"Fine, see what you can do." Fury relented handing her over a file with the relevant information on it. She nodded as she flipped open the laptop in front of her and began tapping furiously on the keyboard. Fury's doubt made her more determined to find this guy and prove the director wrong.

"What's the plan?" Clint asked

"If Miss Stark can find him I think we should pay him a visit and see what we can find out." Fury replied

"I'm in!" Tony agreed

"You're sitting this one out, Stark. Captain Rogers and Agent Barton will go, we want to talk to this guy not threaten him."

They sat around for another hour and a half discussing different approaches to handling Simon Bates as Ella worked. She started at the website and worked backwards. She was hacking her way through the firewalls to find the IP address, from there locating the computer and therefore Bates would be simple. The firewalls were unlike anything Ella had ever seen. They were complex with layers of encoded data to deal with. The key was to find the holes in the firewall, everyone had to have at least one fail safe and if Ella could find it then she was in.

"I got it!" She exclaimed after another hour. The announcement cut off everyone's conversations.

"Atta girl!" Tony called standing behind her to look at the computer screen.

"Where is he?" Steve asked

"Mexico, south east. I can send the coordinates to the jet."

"This is stupid can't you deal with this guy the old fashioned way?" Tony asked Fury

"What would you have me do Stark? Send in my best people to silence him?"

"That's an idea!" Tony replied

"That's illegal!"

"What's your point?"

"Enough. Rogers, Barton, flight leaves at 6, don't be late. You can take the quinjet. Miss Stark...Nice work." Fury said before leaving the room