Captain America: The Phoenix

6. The Avengers Compound

In the corner of the long room in the quinjet, Steve walked back in through the automatic doors, seeing Quinn's small silhouette standing by the window, looking out at the early morning daylight. He walked through, stopping once he was standing beside her.

"Her vitals are steady. Dr. Helen Cho is prepared to run some tests on her as soon as we land."

"And I'm assuming that's pretty soon," she said as the large Avengers 'A' came into view. Looking down at it, still high up above it, she could only wonder what it was like in there. The kind of technology that she could never even imagine.

They were on the ground in no time, the two of them walking out to the front of the quinjet where Agent Hill was standing by once more. Upon touching down smoothly on the landing strip behind the facility, the exit ramp of the jet opened up, the pale azure glow of the early morning engulfed them all. In front of her, slightly in the distance, she could see the entire facade of the Avengers facility.

Then she walked down the ramp, her feet touching down on the damp grass. The Captain tailed her, watching the back of her head turn back and forth to study the building from side to side. Then he stood beside her.

"Well, what do you think?" He asked.

"It looks a lot bigger from down here," she muttered, eyes focused on the building's intricacies.

"And it feels even bigger from inside," he said before continuing his walk towards it.

She walked just a few paces behind him, another voice coming up just beside her.

"Miss Rivera, I'd like to conduct a debriefing with you later, if you wouldn't mind," Agent Hill said, in a straight forward but still polite enough voice.

Quinn's brows furrowed together, "about what, exactly, Agent?" She asked as they continued their walk, nearing what looked like a large garage-like opening, the enclosure of it sliding upward. "I thought Captain already told you everything you needed to know?"

"Well, we like to have as much information as possible on file for people who join the team. Believe it or not, it comes in handy," she told the young lady.

Quinn let out a small chuckle, still unaccustomed to hearing a sentence where she belonged to a team. "I thought you people knew everything?"

"Not when our subject is an expert at covering her tracks."

Quinn wanted to give herself a pat on the back just for that statement, a proud smirk quickly making an appearance on her face.

"Everything you already know, is everything that you need to know, Agent—?"

"Hill," the woman responded, stopping just shy of the entrance of the impeccably clean white entry room of the building.

"Right," Quinn said, giving a polite, end-of-conversation nod before walking in after the Captain.

The building was similar to modern hotels that she had pulled off her heists in, luxurious and futuristic in a way. There was a lot of glass and marble in that garage area, a few rare, top of the line vehicles that Quinn had only rarely seen in the nicer parts of her own city. They passed through, walking into what looked like a large room, grey walls, shrubbery and chairs near the windows. Then she passed a grey wall, the large, almost gaudy, Avengers logo protruding from it.

The Captain looked over his shoulder at her, noticing her eyes in awe of the place around her.

"Tony Stark funds this place for the Avengers to stay and train." He informed her.

"Is Stark single by chance?" She asked, under her breath as she looked around the room.

He let out a short chuckle at this as he pressed the elevator button, "I don't really know the status of Tony's relationship, although I believe he's a little old for you."